[Stealth]

well since Microsoft doesn't publish Windows 95 anymore, does anyone have a link where i can download it?

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Level 7 pwned

let me guess.  wasn't Level 7 the last level of the Descent Demo?  Yeah, i spent so many hours playing that level, i still know it like the back of my hand.  i don't know anyone that knows that level as well as me  we should play it sometime


Oh, and if you ever want any Descent game (1, 2, 3, Freespace, Freespace 2) rather than post a topic and getting in trouble with the administrators and Gamespy, rather just send me a PM

[Fineus]

Yeah, Descent Level 7 was the mid-point between the first half of the game and the "proper" part of the game that got progressively harder. It featured the first boss you fought against that used smart missiles for weapons and what have you. There was also an excess of shields and open space which made it a laugh.

[Stealth]

that was the easiest boss ever.

in the end, when i mastered the level, i could beat that ***** with level 1 lasers and 6 concussion missiles

[Fineus]

I never said it was hard, just that I enjoyed it

Actually, the one that really got to me was the level 4 boss of D2 (I think it was 4). It fired flash missiles and ended up pinning me with them so I couldn't see where the hell I was supposed to go to avoid it.

[Stealth]

well yeah, i never said it was hard either, i'm just saying that i mastered the map

yeah, Descent 2 had some pretty unique bosses.

[Deepblue]

D3 owns. Period.

[Stealth]

oh hell yeah it does!

i'm still mastering the slide up/down left/right controls... i've never really used them in Descent 1 and 2, because there's not many open spaces in D1 and D2, but D3 is a lot different.

[mikhael]

You know, I've got D3 sitting here, never installed. Was it good?

[Deepblue]

Yes. Especially for multi-play.

[Nico]

Rebuttal originating from the wisdom of mikhael
Thou know, I've got D3 sitting here, never installed. Was it good?

It was bloody excellent. I never finished it, tho, coz I got sent to a secret level at some point, and that stupid secret level I could not beat ( it was full of "accelerating" areas, you know, you enter a corridor and bloooof! you're catapulted at high speed at the other side... where frag missile and gauss turrets await you... at the begining,  was smart, I was dropping mines and stuff, but hell, there was not enough of those so I ran out of 'em ).

[Bobboau]

I remember that level, was a bit hard to get out of,  there was like a key you had to get and it was in some no dicript place, and guide bot was about as useless as... a pooh stick

[Nico]

Mmh, I remember trying playing it on multi when I was on dialup
I could never play, I was dead BEFORE I respawned, every time Now THAT was lag
Too bad, coz I owned when I was playing D1 on local network

[Setekh]

Hmmm, I need a good game to distract me during the Easter break. I'll see if I can borrow D3 from a friend of mine.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Nico


It was bloody excellent.

I might install it then.

Am I correct in assuming the engine allows for full six degrees of freedom (pitch, bank, yaw, strafe left/right, strafe up/down, forward/reverse)? If so I'll have as much fun programming the stick and throttle for it as I will playing it.

[Bobboau]

yup, that's Descent's trademark, controles so complex it takes longer to set up your stick than it does to play the first level (literaly) I didn't like were the cutscenes went, but the game it's self was great for the most part. I think the bosses were too easy especaly the last one, I liked D2 better in this respect especaly,
in D2 the boss levels were an extention of the boss, and you were freak'n terifyed of the boss by the time you got to it, usualy I steaked out near the entrence of the boss areanas and just lobbed guided missles at them untill I saw they were in a good atack position, then I'd jump at 'em and unload as much ordenence as I could before ducking back out and seeing the wall that was behind me explode in a huge collom of fire

one thing you'll be happy about no more theifes on every level, I hated those things in D2, like a little mini-boss that was always my first priority, kill the theif, now there is only one particularly memorable instance with a theif bot in D3, you'll probly find it interesting

[mikhael]

I have absolutely no idea what you just said.

[Nico]

The thief bot. A darn thing that hunts you down ( Now THAT is AI ) through the whole level, slips behind you, and steals a handfull of your equipement. Which can be very annoying if it's the energy to shield converter, for exemple

[Fineus]

Of course, when you kill it you get most/all the stuff it stole back.

I always found the cheat to make the Guidebot crazy quite cool - it started firing Mega Missiles at everything it saw. Usually taking you out with it.

[ChronoReverse]

You know, the people who are saying they can beat the Level 7 D1 boss easily... what difficulty level is this?

*has yet to beat the game on anything other than Rookie and Trainee