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I have a Playstation Dualsense controller, and I use it mainly because of its gyro I installed DS4Windows in order to convert the gyro input into mouse movements, and basically use this as mouse aiming in D3 the controller is otherwise used quite conventionally ... the left thumbstick controls horiz...

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I swear by injectd3 , its the only way that I play D3 now ... the most important thing for me was the FOV adjustment I started playing D3 on my widescreen monitor and i felt so nauseated, i didnt know why until i turned on the cockpit view - the fov was super zoomed in and most of the upper and lowe...

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how flexible is the robot animation engine in the Descent games... can they recreate freely rotating but connected geometry such as this

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Personally I love the way you actually convince the CED that you're not terrorists... by doing some things that one might call acts of terrorism . Blowing up a weapons factory, decimating their army to deliver evidence, destroying one of their allies' most powerful pieces of machinery in the Provin...

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You are forgetting that the day they get greater than 100% efficiency on any system, then we'll die within a year or two at the very most. Let me explain: At 25 degrees there is already a tonne of heat energy. Your 120% effecient machine then takes that heat, and heats it up, consuming very little ...

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okay so i've just found this site http://mcquarrie.wikidot.com/ thats the station mentioned as you play through the Venus levels in Descent 1 and heres another one, seems to be taking it more seriously http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/organization-military-roleplay/ced-expediator-dreadnaught-recruiti...

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its like the whole 'no one wants to mess with the PTMC' vibe that she introduces in the opening cutscene... but anyway, speaking of Jerry, the scariest thing in the scene with him isnt the Old Scratch or the music , but the eye on the door... did anyone notice that as well?

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i suppose thats what your operating procedures are going to be like when you are trying to stealthily insert the Pyro without tipping off PTMC ... after all they know full well what happened to Jerry 3 months ago...

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one thing that i still cant get over is how the screens show the cat picture in level 14...

its almost like it is the one thing that the Descent universe gets right about the internet, or something...

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You should set your windows speaker configuration to match what you are actually using. So if you have a 5.1 system wired up and are using it out loud set it to 5.1, or if you are using headphones set it to either stereo or headphones. If you have it set to 5.1 but don't actually have a physical 5....

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I hated the 3D sound in D3, irritated the heck out of me -- sounds are created stationary, ie. you move away from the laser sounds when shooting while moving. Gives you false position readings for other ships as well. really? i thought only D1 and D2 had static sound, and D3 had proper realtime sou...

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about the gravity... its strange that in D1, they had a better sense of true zero gravity , since the levels had arbitary up directions which changed between different parts of the level, and yet according to the storyline they are all set on planetary bodies which should cause them to exhibit gravi...

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well on one hand you could call it a poorly written storyline, but i'd rather call it a 'loose' storyline i do wish that more popular modern games can have loosely written storylines like this and engage players through the interactive elements question, is it possible to alter gravity in a D3 level...

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and whats the deal with the Red Acropolis way of thinking, anyway... first you break into a PTMC facility, then you break someone out of a Novak prison, and then you go to the lab you saw in the beginning cutscene and apparently interfere with an active investigation according to the radio dialogue,...

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so im just trying to get positional audio to work in D3 .... i have found 2 options so far, SRS audio sandbox ....using D3's directsound 4 channel output and using the SRS filter to create virtual surround sound this is basically like a 'virtual sound card' , affects all the sounds on my computer an...

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yes, the xbox360 controllers are much more comfortable to use the sticks on... but they only seem to sell the really expensive and marked up genuine controllers where i live, and all of the 3rd party controllers are still following the PS2 dualshock design... dunno if the other controller designs ar...

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and yeah, if they want to make a throwback level on level 10, at least get the level arrangement right.... unless this isnt actually the same mine that you went through in D1 level 1? just one which just happens to have the same starting room and the downward curving corridor, and what appears to be...

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whats with D3 and those class 1 drones from D1 anyway? when i first came across them on the homunculus, i thought it was a nice touch... when i got to the moon level, getting into the ruins of the first level as also interesting, somehow there was a surviving class 1 drone which was also turned into...

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the limitation of my config is that you can only fire primary OR secondary weapons, not both simultaneously, so things like shooting missiles while charging up the fusion cannon become impossible... unless your particular pad can be held properly with only 2 fingers in each hand, and still let your ...

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any of you have D3 installed on W7, with a surround sound audio setup ? and using directsound mode , not directsound3d or EAX for those of you using creative soundcards with alchemy does D3 output to all the channels or is it only stereo? i only have headphones, just tried SRS audio sandbox and SRS ...

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i found a thread somewhere which said that to fix the terrain rendering distance dropping back to 40 , you have to reduce the terrain detail to below 26... that thread is on descentbb.com , and the terrain detail was referred to as 'texture slider' , but it fixed it for me... abit of extra roundness...

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i've started a new thread about me finishing D3 , i seem to be the only one starting threads so i thought its better not to spam with new threads and post in here instead

but i do want to post on my new thread more often now

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okay before i start... this was the umpteenth time i had the game crash when i was getting killed by a blackshark missile... is the missile so powerful that it rips the in-game spacetime fabric and crashes the game? one thing that i remembered D3 for was the colours... and thinking about it now that...

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yeah the optional generators were quite a challenge, especially when it was spawning the fusion mechs... but the last one in the row was gyros and it was quite a nice relief funny, the tubbs ignored me and just kept patrolling, and it was the patrolling plasma squid bots which opened fire on me and ...

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left stick = lateral movement (slide vertical and horizontal) , push down = afterburner right stick = pitch and heading, push down = flare L1 , L2 = forward and backwards R1 , R2 = primary and secondary fire d-pad left and right = banking those are the basics.... everything else is miscellaneous it ...

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since nobody else is posting a new topic on the single player forums i thought i'd add another post here instead im on D3 level 12 , PTMC Proving Grounds... i destroyed every single robot which came of the robot generators near the beginning of the level, and for the rest of the level, almost all th...

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so i have been thinking of the 'bittersweet' cheat effect in D2 where the level gets all wavy and stuff, its kind of the same effect that D3 used for the microwave since D2 had a bigger emphasis on liquids than D1 , like having entire chapters dedicated to water and lava, i was wondering if the 'bit...

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im also having a problem where the terrain rendering distance keeps getting reset to 40 for some reason also, i've played around with the sound settings... my laptop has a Realtek sound chip, and i found a program called '3d sound back' to enable directsound3d in windows 7 .... well, if i use direct...

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interesting, never knew that D3 had bumpmapping ... apparently its abit buggy tho, people are saying that objects seem to randomly go between bumpmapped and not also, using direct3d makes the game run too slow for me ::edit:: just did some testing... it seems that if i run it with direct3d, somehow,...

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the level involves alot of mouse-aimed vauss cannon use ...and i've only just realized that the vauss cannon and sniper rifle shoots differently if you use the mouse to fire vs the joystick if you are using the pyro ship , shooting the vauss with the mouse would only cause the left side to fire... ...

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the guidebot in D3 definitely isnt as reliable as it was in D2 ... it kept getting stuck at walls, the further you let it get away from you, the more likely it is that it will not be able to get back to you plus it has a stupid habit of getting right in the middle of your view so it gets shot by you...

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ohh dear it looks like i might have stumbled across some bugs in D3 ... assigning the 'use inventory item' key to a joystick button , if you hold the button down it behaves like you let it go immediately, so you have to bind it to a key on the keyboard to use the energy shield converter properly and...

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didnt D1 and D2 had limits on how many different textures they could have in each level? that was why i thought it was a technical limitation but i really did prefer the D1 levels to the D2 levels, well at least the water, lava and ice themed levels anyway... i dont know how many people see having t...

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good point, but then again if he was so worried about the ship why did he send the self destruct code to the warp core in the first place.... anyway,i think that they were more interested in the show than in the storyline, something like pro wrestling... hence they had a more and more defined role f...

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i just want to add... im trying to play D3 and there is no force feedback, just as the topic starter said , 'joystick 1' and all that

difference is im on win7, and im using a logitech rumblepad 2 ... the force feedback definitely works in Windows

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well what can i say, finished D2 at last, 13 years or so after i first laid my hands on a 486 or pentium computer and had my first experience of the guidebot and the thief back then dualshock controllers didnt really exist, but now with the 4 axes and 14 buttons it makes combat maneuvres much easier...

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my preferred method of dealing with the thief is to hang around in an open location, and when it approches me, i afterburn towards it, when i am close enough i shoot a mega missile... if the thief tries to go through a door it will get hit, but if it turns a sharp corner it would miss, so careful se...

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Thiefbots- the trolls of Descent 2 and 3 :P There was a thiefbot in D3? I guess it didn't have the same effect, since I don't even remember it. theres one in the second level heck theres even a Super Thief in one of the later levels... i only vaguely remember fighting it with my Sidewinder Force Fe...

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im afraid that with my ping times to the USA , the only real type of gaming i can do is turn based

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Isaac wrote:They're mostly thief bots.

good thing in d2x-xl you get the option to disable thief bots

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