I felt the need to come on here and express my incredible thanks for everyone involved in this project.
I bought the original Descent Freespace game when it first came out because I loved the original Descent and Descent II games so much. Obviously I was shocked to find that this was NOTHING like those games. I bought a joystick and had an incredible experience. Freespace 2 blew me away when it came out, but for some reason I never completed it. I don't know if it was timing with college or what but it had always been a regret. Bored at the house recently I thought it might be fun to try and see if the old game would still work and I even repaired the old flight stick whose plastic gears had broken and capacitors had dried up. I believe it was a post on these forums that helped me get the force feedback drivers working for the stick in Win10 too. Then I fell into the rabbit hole which is this community. I can't believe that this game has had the textures redone so wonderfully, the cinematics enhanced, the incredible content created, work involved, ETC. What an amazing community. I dug out my old disks and finally played through Freespace 2 completely (what a weird ending).
Thank you so much to everyone that has made this possible. I know I am WAY late to this scene but I am so blessed to have rediscovered the game in the brilliance that it has been enhanced to. I never post on forums but I had to express my thanks since this really blew me away. I can't wait to try some of the cool MODs that are out there... but I might have to play through the first game again (also I never did play Silent Threat either).