This is relevant to my interests.
The dev team on this is like an all-star cast from the original Descent community back in the '90s. And I *love* how they're using an updated cube engine.

Also it's multi platform, with on-release-day Mac & Linux support promised! Anyone who's read the other thread I've been posting in lately can guess how I feel about that. 😀

I don't have a Kickstarter account and am slightly annoyed that I'd need to make one just to back one thing, but I might just do that!

xjas wrote:

This is relevant to my interests. The dev team on this is like an all-star cast from the original Descent community back in the […]
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This is relevant to my interests.
The dev team on this is like an all-star cast from the original Descent community back in the '90s. And I *love* how they're using an updated cube engine.

Also it's multi platform, with on-release-day Mac & Linux support promised! Anyone who's read the other thread I've been posting in lately can guess how I feel about that. 😀

I don't have a Kickstarter account and am slightly annoyed that I'd need to make one just to back one thing, but I might just do that!

Well, I would highly encourage you do to so. I really want to see this succeed! I recently more than doubled my original pledge amount.

Looks like it might not get funded though.

MrEWhite wrote:

Looks like it might not get funded though.

Which is why I'm here, soliciting your help!

Also, they're releasing a playable teaser tomorrow. I will update this post with the download link. They're pushing it out to the press with the hopes that it will generate enough interest to fund the project.

The first gameplay shootout that appears in the video looks so much like Descent 3 😁 😁

The playable teaser has been released:
http://playoverload.com/playable-teaser/

I've backed! This looks much more like classic Descent than Descent: Underground which has the official name.

I've played the teaser a bit, everything is cool. The original game's mechanics and level design principles are all there, but somehow the pacing felt more slow-ish - although maybe I shouldn't have maxed out the graphics settings.

Backed.

Digi edition + soundtrack backed.

I probably have more hours into Descent 1 & 2 than any other game out there.

Pledge upped to $90 suckas. That's like $120 in my local dollars and I haven't even played the preview yet.

If this gets kickstarted it will be the single most expensive game I've ever bought or probably ever will buy. I dare you all to make my wallet regret that.

So I tried the teaser ... on my Pentium 4. 😜 First impressions:

- It's a proper Descent game. I remapped all the controls to my old scheme and the flying felt *right* at home. Even though I was playing with the keyboard I had no trouble getting around.
- Some of the AI is SCARY good even at this early stage. The first time you get lunged at by one of those buzz saw things...
- They'd better give me my automap in the full version. 😎
- It looks awesome. I could tell it was a cube engine, like D1 & 2, and I love that, but it looks *really* nice already. I had virtually all the gfx options turned up and it was fully playable, if you consider 20~30 FPS playable. See above about me running it on a 13-year-old P4 that came out when Descent *3* was still kinda-current.
- I instantly recognized the style of level design. If you were at all into the Descent modding scene when D1 & D2 were hot shit, you *know* the significance of having Luke Schneider on board as the designer.
- I died. On easy. 😜 But yeah, it's 4 AM and I was playing with the keyboard.

xjas's overall score: 10 out of 5 angry robots. I *want* this game to be.

This looks much more like Descent than that other kickstarter: Descent: Underground. That one seems to focus more on the multiplayer, while this one focuses on the single player. I hope it makes a final surge, but I'm not sure it is going to make it.

Ok this prototype is very nice.

xjas, how did you manage to get the demo playable on a P4? It seems like my Q6700/HD4870X2 combo is not enough for it 🙁 It feels like 10-15FPS and the screen goes black with greenish yellow dots from time to time...

I have to admit I'm never comfortable with 6DOF shooters. Even a full HOTAS setup doesn't really solve control problems in such game. I usually use throttle for forward and backward movement, stick for pitch and roll, and rudder pedals for yaw, but I still couldn't find ideal controller axis for lateral movement, either vertically (up down) or horizontally (left right). Until now, I've been using hat for such movement, but it isn't very comfortable nor precise.

It should be noted that no real-life vehicle has Descent-like freedom of movement though.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

I have to admit I'm never comfortable with 6DOF shooters. Even a full HOTAS setup doesn't really solve control problems in such game.

I totally feel the same way, but it is possible. There is a guy on Youtube which plays totally awesome, and he uses keyboard only! You can see his control configuration here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk_EKluatPM

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

It should be noted that no real-life vehicle has Descent-like freedom of movement though.

That's why it's so amazing. It would be a totally awesome thing if it existed. The ultimate vehicle. 😀

A ROV have the same movement options when its submerged in water. They're controlled with a HOTAS style setup.

RacoonRider wrote:

xjas, how did you manage to get the demo playable on a P4? It seems like my Q6700/HD4870X2 combo is not enough for it 🙁 It feels like 10-15FPS and the screen goes black with greenish yellow dots from time to time...

I dunno, it just ran fine. It's a 3 GHz/800 FSB with hyperthreading, 2GB DDR and an AGP HD3850.
The machine is my "arcade cabinet" and uses a big SDTV for display via s-video, so it's running in 640x480. I selected "medium" shadows in the launcher but all the in-game graphics options are on/full.

Maybe 20-30 FPS was a little optimistic, but certainly getting 15-30. My original Descent 1 & 2 machine was a 5x86/100 for a long time so this is faster than that. 😁