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DarkHorse

Well, I'll call it. Not going to happen.

The only way Interplay titles are going anywhere is if they sell them.

DarkHorse

Double-posting, so sue me. There's 23 robots in total, of which 7 of them have been built so far. So I'm just about a third of the way through, which is nice, because it's looking like a very long list. Then there's six bosses, which have a different concept behind them. Can't complain though, it is...

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Done. I put the gun(s) on top, but hopefully you like how it turned out. The three dots in front will light up at different times, all of them being on the same eye animation.

Called it Sapper.

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Planning to add modula, but haven't come up with a concept for them yet.

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Bolas, replacing the Sidearm.

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Another pair of robots, Juju and Sprite, replacing the Green Spider and Hornet respectively.

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Online petitions are always meaningless, particularly in this case. The best news you can hope for is someone buying the Descent IP, but it's simply not in the same league as Fallout. I'd be surprised if many developers even remember it.

DarkHorse

I could draw a shield orb in five minutes. It doesn't mean I have the funding to make a Descent game.

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In between finishing levels, I built a robot to replace the Diamond Claw, entitled Mantid:

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That's plenty to run even Descent 3 on. These games are old, after all.

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Wolf - any point in me doing a custom cockpit, should I get the time to put one together after the levels and robots are done? It adds a bit to the filesize, but in the days where people are downloading 200MB files on a regular basis a 640x480 bitmap is going to seem pretty microscopic.

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It shouldn't be too difficult to strip robots and powerups from the level. Are you running DLE-XP through Dosbox? I don't think you should need to, unless you're running Vista and it's somehow incompatible, though that would surprise me.

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They're procedural textures. Far too bright and shiny, but back in that period of time all the Descent artists were into the bling.

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rofl

See MPEG artifacts at high resolution! I like it.

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It'd take some time to model that in Bryce - if only the textures weren't so gaudy. I don't recognise that name. A callsign might have made things earlier - though honestly the only artist I know of who made Descent models using Bryce was Kuman, and that's not him. Midgard did some work using Bryce ...

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Still haven't completed my first one, though I have all the cubes in there. I want to tweak them a bit to make it more cave-like, and then I have to finish texturing it. Levels 2 and 3 are complete, though, and level 4 is completed all the way up to the red door. Beyond that it needs texturing and I...

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Sure. It's a collaborative work, so I don't even have to do all the robots - I'll just keep working on them until the list is complete. The working title of the one above, if you're interested, is Terapinner. This one is Meson, replacing the Fox Attack Bot. http://www.povterminal.net/gallery/scan/me...

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Yes, I got a fairly comprehensive list via PM. That one is replacing the Seeker.

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First example - a gauss bot.

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Plasma cannons aren't feasible in anything like the form exhibited by Descent 3 either, and lasers simply don't work like that in real life.

It's a game. You have to leave reality behind at some point, and the fact is the Napalm is a fun weapon.

DarkHorse

I'll replace the lot if I can. Seriously, when you spend most of your time modelling for modern games the stuff in D2 takes an hour per bot at most.

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And a few robots.

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I'd get Gwen's rose offhand.

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Aus-RED-5 wrote:provided it can find the financing.

which it can't.

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D1 I'd have to pick level 19.

D2, Anthology has just surpassed everything else.

D3, level 14 has always been my favourite.

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TIGERassault wrote:So you're saying that people pirate movies because they don't have $10?

Pirates usually watch a hell of a lot more than one movie.

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Duper wrote:bought it the other day after i saw that Battletech mod.

love the game for the same reason Foil stated.

I'm working on that mod and don't even have the game yet.

DarkHorse

I'm sure you also know I'm involved with the Ice Hellions, haven't played MW4 since November and can't stand bevel and emboss.

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Seen AT1 before. It's quite an impressive undertaking, but unfortunately it still looks really bad compared to today's games. Hopefully with Mektek behind it that might improve, but they've got some pretty rubbish texture artists as well so I'm not holding my breath.

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Why would you want to run the OEM version when it's open-source now?

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Lunar eclipses aren't too rare, there was one just earlier this year.

There was an annular solar eclipse as well, but the best place to view it was Antarctica.

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MS apparently isn't good enough to be evil.

They want Epic? They can have it. Same as Yahoo, that's past its use-by too.

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Three levels mostly done, haven't taken the time to finish any particular one. The themes I'm going for vary from standard D2 to... something weird.

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Both IE7 and Firefox. Some sites still don't work properly on Firefox, and some of them get utterly broken on IE7.

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I suppose it depends on the difficulty level, took me about three hours on Ace, never actually completed it on Insane.

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With massive franchises like Unreal selling poorly even when they're very good games, I don't think there's much chance of Descent making a comeback on the PC. MMOs are doing alright, RTSs are doing fairly well, but the FPS genre seems to be migrating to consoles. Halo 3, an XBox 360 title, sold spe...

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Used to play D3 on Win95. I'm on XP now, but it's been a while since I've done anything with D3 - not to say it won't happen again, it's just looking unlikely. I'd probably be horribly rusty, since I haven't played D3 competitively since well before PXO went down.

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ALSO this is not a requirement, but if anyone has spare polymodels lying around, a few new robots to the line-up wouldn't hurt either. And would be a nice change of pace to the standard. But then again, its only a request to have new robots for this set, so it won't hurt it any if no new robots wil...

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Looking at how relevant Yahoo is now, I'd say it's wasted money.

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3/14.

Obviously I'm living in the dark ages. I usually would have missed #9, but I started counting which ones applied and which ones didn't. Hehe.

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