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Suncho

...because they split in 1995 =) I would recommend reading this article: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991008/descent_01.htm Descent was developed by a small group of programmers and artists at Parallax Software in Champaign, Ill., headed by Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog. After the successful c...

Suncho

Yeah sorry man. =/

Don't give up hope though. It's not a simple matter to get Descent back, but that doesn't mean it'll never happen. =)

Suncho

1.5.151: #6: I am having a problem in Multiplayer where as soon as I press the f8 key, the typing area instantly appears then disappears. This makes it so I can't type anything. It seemed only to be happening after playing for a little while. I haven't narrowed down what I did to cause it. But the f...

Suncho

What is a Multicast UDP/IP netgame and how does it differ from a normal UDP/IP netgame?

Suncho

I'd like an option to view the D1 credits and the Vertigo credits.

EDIT: On the Load Game and Save Game screens, it would be neat if there were some sort of indicator as to whether they are D1 or D2 games.

Suncho

Version 1.5.151: If you're on the main menu and in windowed mode, d2x grabs the mouse as soon as the automatic demo starts playing. This is annoying if I'm trying to do stuff in other windows. EDIT: #2: I think I mentioned this before, but on the main menu, the scroll down arrow doesn't do anything ...

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http://www.koolbear.com/Descent/past/descent3net/tournament/oldtnews0499.htm#41st%20Round%20Is%20Another%20Close%20One LOL. I won via lame: 1) *Suncho 16[16] 17[17] 16[16] 1[1] 19:18 minutes 2) *RadDaddy 16[16] 16[16] 13[13] 0[0] 18:57 minutes 3) *wacky 14[14] 15[15] 19[19] 1[1] 19:36 minutes 4) *Sp...

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And I'm guessing that if Descent 3 sold well, we would've seen Descent 4 go into full production. Maybe. I guess we'll never know. I remember Volition launch a Descent 4 site with preliminary information on Descent 4 and from what I recall, Volition had an agreement with Interplay for Interplay to ...

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Hmmmm... Interesting. I wonder why Interplay didn't make a Descent movie. Does anyone have more detailed information on this apparent Descent movie? Interplay started running into financial difficulties in 1999. Eventually they were acquired by Titus and then the whole shebang sank. If Descent 3 ha...

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A trademark is just a catchy name for something. So you could use the name \"Descent\" to make a video game, but it couldn't use any ideas, content, code, media, gameplay... etc. derived from the original Descent series to make your game. So you couldn't have a guy flying around with a pyr...

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Interplay is not dead. Parallax is not dead. Volition is not dead. Outrage is dead. Hope that cleared things up for you guys. =) Oh, and Interplay did release the tracks. Technically, Parallax is dead. Parallax became no more when it split into two companies. Volition and Outrage. Outrage and Volit...

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Interplay held the copyrights for the D2 tracks, and I believe those are no longer valid. You'd be wrong. Copyrights take 75 years to expire. Parallax did not hold the copyright to the Redbook music nor did they actually own the trademarks on the box and manual designs. ;) Basically yeah, but I don...

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I am...hmm... Shocked? Surprised? This is actually news to me, and it's years old! :P So Interplay dropped Descent 100%. That means that the only remaining holder is Parallax(possibly Volition). Hmm...that means that good 'ol Matt/Mike could do up D4 on their own and publish through THQ perhaps. Ve...

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Version 1.5.150:

CTRL+F7 appears to do the same thing as F8 now (send a multiplayer message).

Suncho

What are we talking about?

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1.5.149 I can no longer move after loading a saved game. The ship doesn't hover or anything. All I can do is shoot. I can semi-confirm this. I tried saving a game in d1 level 1. Then I loaded that game from the in-game menu and I couldn't move. Then I exited back out to the main menu to try to load...

Suncho · 1.5.149: We're detecting the tracker, but we can't see each other's games.

1.5.149: We're detecting the tracker, but we can't see each other's games.

Suncho

1.5.148: #1 If I try to host a game on the tracker, the bar fills up: http://upload3.postimage.org/29471/0018notrackers01progress.jpg and it says no trackers are available: http://upload3.postimage.org/29475/0018notrackers02message.jpg But, if I press escape while the progress bar is filling up, I c...

Suncho

Does D2X-XL differentiate between missions using the mission name listed in the msn file or the name *OF* the msn file? Basically, I have some MSN files that have the same name, but different mission names listed inside. If I put these in separate subdirectories of the missions folder, should they l...

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Diedel wrote:If I fixed it, I probably figured it first. ;) I could have rattled my computer first, murmuring some 'abracadabra', but I am afraid that wouldn't have helped. :P

I'll be more direct. What was causing it?

Suncho

We had a 4-player game today that lasted a good while. I don't know if anyone got disconnected. I didn't.

By the way, there are even D1 missions that have the same name as other D1 Missions:

Example:
Athena by Spaz
Athena by Luke Schneider

Suncho

Yeah, that always happens if you play in one of those totally overplayed, decade old, flat, boxy, anti-Descent groundpounder style crap levels! :evil: :twisted: :x :P We had to play D2 because Neo didn't have D1. ;) Edit: D2:CS loading bug reproduced and fixed now (will be available in v1.5.147). W...

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I'm not trying to outsmart you. I was asking if he had the same problem on other games. If he doesn't, then we might be able to figure out a work-around or something. I'm just trying to help. If I wanted to outsmart you, I'd just go in there and fix it, but I can't outsmart you because I'm not as sm...

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Bug in 1.5.146: When I have the controls menu up and the last person leaves a multiplayer game, the menu turns orange. We were in Burning Indika (D2) and playing via UDP/IP on the tracker. We tested it and it happened every time. Before: http://upload3.postimage.org/25794/0017orangemenu01normal.jpg ...

Suncho

Good idea.

Suncho

1.5.146:

Still can't load Descent 2: Counterstrike. I'll try messing around with it.

I can see trackers now! Yay! Daily Suncho games at 4:00pm CST are back on for tomorrow. =)

Suncho

Did he have the same problem with other games?

Suncho

If it would help, I could make a thread solely for the commandline bug, to see if I can hunt down the cause. Might be a program or something, would only really be able to tell with several people confirming the same problem and listing stats on their machine and proggys... My D2X-XL doesn't run fro...

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Bug for 1.5.145 Loading Vertigo on works on "Start New Single Player Game" now, but broke Descent 2: Counterstrike in return. Can't restore the saved games either. Verified, I get an "Error in Mission File" when I try to start a Descent 2: Counterstrike game. It won't play multi...

Suncho

Diedel wrote:No auto pause with new menu style. Press Alt+P or the Pause key in-menu.

Why not?

By the way, the D2X-XL history page on the website is blank.

Suncho

Diedel, are you on the descent-source@warpcore.org mailing list? One guy just posted something there: Hello My problem with other sourceports is that I can't use OpenGL. When I am in the game, the display flashes very fast, probably at the refresh rate. That means I am seeing the image being drawn, ...

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Jonathan Paskiewicz wrote: Hey! Descent II: Vertigo Series won't in D2X-XL!

Try starting it from "New Game" instead of "New Singleplayer Game." There's a bug that won't play Vertigo if you try to start it from "New Singleplayer Game."

Suncho

Very nice. Can't wait to try this. =)

Suncho

Awesome. Is there a list somewhere of the internal trackers so I can add them through the ini file?

Suncho

I suggest that there not be any hard coded trackers. I think all trackers should be specified through the command line options (ini file). For the past 2 days, there have been no trackers available, and I'd like to be able to test each tracker individually (by modifying the command line options). Al...

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np. I just wanted to make sure you weren't ommiting D3 support for the wrong reasons. =)

Suncho

Nope, this is just going to be a launcher for D2X-XL, ATM... D3 already has its own launcher, and the command lines needn't be changed often. D2X-XL on the other hand, has so many features and configurable options via the INI / commandline that a launcher (which it lacks) would be very useful. I th...

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Really? I'm still deciding on how I'm gonna do it... turns out that custom controls are being a PAIN, so I think I'll make it work first... then I can tweak the UI later. Either of these would be an option. I'd prefer to have a plain-jane windows default-looking interface that doesn't have any extr...

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I prefer the look of the first one.

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Jeff250 wrote:
Brebs wrote: Add option for the keyboard controls to be the original speed - they are unplayably fast Sad
I can confirm this.

Did you try turning the keyboard ramping up?

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