• ohmecha@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Descent taught me how to fly using the numpad. I think I had A as thrust, Z as reverse, 8/2 as pitch, 4/6 as yaw, 7/9 as roll, 1/3 as horizontal strafe, and +/- as vertical.

    Descent also taught me how to use dial up for multiplayer.

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    1 year ago

    Played a ton of Descent with my CH Products Flight Stick Pro, which is since long gone. Not sure I could play any other way.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t get it. Why bother with such poor quality textures? D1 was my favorite of the series, but I feel like the d1x project probably did more for the appearance boost (been a while since I played it though!)

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    1 year ago

    I think the lighting on the original was quite good, enough that adding raytracing is only adding a tiny bit more.

    What it really needs is upscaled textures tbh.

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    1 year ago

    One of those games I owned a demo of, but was never able to control properly. But, boy, was it cool! As a kid I messed around with it, but didn’t see more than one or two levels.

    I still think about it from time to time, that’s the lasting impression it had on me. I never imagined, there would be an update or remake!

    Thank you for the memories!

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      1 year ago

      A good joystick or even gamepad can help a fair bit with the control. Keyboard sometimes felt… complicated

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    1 year ago

    So cool, I had this on PC back in the day, but the PC really wasn’t powerful enough to play it properly, it was so jerky. Can’t wait to try it on a modern computer, thanks for the link!

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    1 year ago

    Will this run on a steam deck? I had it back in the Weezer win 95 dialup, wutang CD-ROM mansion days.

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    1 year ago

    One of the true childhood nostalgia games for me.

    Sometimes I’d hear people talk about other games with Descent in the title (I think it was Descent: Freespace?) I’d think “Wait … that’s not the Descent I know of”

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    1 year ago

    This was such a unique game. It was like a merge of a tight corridor first person shooter and a space combat simulator where there is no “up”. I haven’t seen anything like it since.

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    1 year ago

    Damn I used to play the hell out of this game. I remember the controls being very difficult to figure out, but once you did it was awesome.