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Moon

that was vague, up to challenge the old ones 'how?' in difficulty, puzzles? what? I can't quite put my finger on it. I just never was hooked to play on, most of them looked rather dull to me so some day I just gave up trying out new ones. I actually wasn't referring to your levels since I haven't p...

Moon

Well, I never found those 3rd party level sets up to challenge the original ones. So I hardly ever played them through let alone make tips on them.

I'm still waiting for someone with time and skills to convert D1+D2 levels to D3 keeping as much of the original look as possible

Moon

TechPro wrote:I could give you a "step by step" to get every single powerup in that level... but truly that would ruin all the fun for you.

Especially since this has been up for ages on my level 24 page

Moon

Yeah, I've always liked to see some Descent speedruns like the Quake Done Quicker guys released. Unfortunately playing keyboard only I'm not up to the challenge...

Moon

I know because it makes this \"you're hitting something invulnerable\" sound when you hit the boss with these weapons.

Moon

The level 20 boss is invulnerable to Vulcan/Gauss so you gotta use energetic weapons, Phoenix wears him down pretty fast. Mercuries do damage him but far less than Smart Missiles e.g.

Moon

Maybe I didn't make myself clear so I'm trying it again. Apart from the fact that level *designers* should have thought of such exploits as the Smart Missile/Phoenix Cannon/Guided Missile technique to open doors from the wrong side, using markers to keep open doors, themselves (or were they in fact ...

Moon

You can also shoot a Smart Missile through it in the right angle and the blobs will open the door just as a guided missile could do. However, the way intended by the level designers (who obviously did not read my tips pages so they did not deactivate the regular door opening mechanism from the other...

Moon

Didn't work for me, had to do a complete reinstall of both D3 and Merc. Weird, cause this version was the one I'd made a backup of on DVD to stop scratching my original D3 discs even more thanks to the cheap packacking...

Moon

Is it still this complicated even with Ubuntu?

Moon

Error
Unable to load level file
d3merc.d3l

Weirder and weirder. I haven't moved any files around but this message pops up.

Moon

Damn, thanks for pointing that out. I completely forgot I'd lost my Mercenary demos due to a harddisk crash or something. In case you guys are up to it you might find em on the wayback machine. Gonna check out tomorrow if/when I'm gonna put them up again.

Moon

I also really enjoyed the D2 Maximum levels. Gonna put up tips on em anytime soon...

Moon

Ohmster, a pm instead of asking me in three posts about my URL would have been sufficient. Especially as I'd already set up my url as a sig in a.g.d.

Besides, sigs are deprecated here on the DBB due to morons abusing them.

Moon

I am, due to Diedel releasing new versions all the time it runs fine on my machine.

Moon

I remember, this was a tough one but using markers as explained in my guide will get you all the goodies.

Moon

Helpful to ANYONE who like me cannot pinpoint ones location in the mine from looking at a screenshot of some walls in a dark mine.

Moon

Hiya, Ohmster. You said you've been to my page in a.g.d. There's been a demo of this switch for ages, check my D2 how-tos.

Moon

Moon wasn't really being indicative of being helpful in his first post. I said that if a screenshot of some spot somewhere in the mines isn't enough (which IMO definitely is) then you can check out a map screenshot or a demo which will lead you to the alternate exit. Excuse me but how much more ver...

Moon

Dude, paste your pointless screenshots all over this board, see if I care.

Moon

In case a screenshot won't be enough for you to determine whereabouts of the alternate exits just check my map screenshots and/or demos.

Moon

Well that's weird cause this boss has no weak spot. You don't need to hit him in the head but anywhere on his hull will be just fine. And with the abundance of Megas, Cloaks and Invulns in this level it's almost impossible to get killed by him before having a chance to finishe him off. Check my demo...

Moon

I'm quoting from my page: At first you should go to the armory which is hidden behind an energy center and locked by a forcefield. To disable it you got to shoot 7 \"buttons\" in a certain order: 5 - 3 - 2 - 7 - 4 (enumerated from left to right); if you shoot the wrong ones just use the sw...

Moon

Jonathan Paskiewicz wrote:Stop Brag! I tried destroy it with Mega and Black Shark! Show me how do that!

I've just dug up a demo (recorded on Rookie) from my old Descent CD that I hadn't put online before. Check out:

Moon's Descendarium - THE single-player guide to Descent 1-3

It's linked from the demos page.

Moon

I've killed him with Black Sharks and Megas, no biggy. The Avault guide sucks, btw.

Moon

I hope this is the right thread to use. OK, I've taken a look at the descent.tex.ger and found a few typos. Where should I upload the corrected file to and when can we set game to use german language? Or is there a switch I've overlooked? As well, I would like to translate the movie subtitles to ger...

Moon

I've successfully used the free \"TestDisk\" to fix a a busted partition table from a BartPE CD. Since I wasn't sure it would work I used \"GetDataBack for NTFS\" to copy all data over to another drive. This tools is worth it's money.

Moon

NighTTripper wrote:How do I change them to another set of mines or weapons?

By reading the manual that comes as pdf on your Descent 3 CD?

SCNR.

Moon

Yep, that was it. Thanks.

Moon

Moon, please register on SourceForge.net if you haven't already and create one bug ticket per bug in the D2X-XL project there, alright? :) I did before posting here but I could not activate my account. I've contacted them to solve this problem but it may take a while... I hope I'll get the distinct...

Moon

Which program version do you use? Most recent is 1.8.53. Gosh, you're cranking out versions like crazy! Great, I was on .32 when I had those problems and now on .55 almost anything seems to be fixed except: when doing a screenshot I don't get a message about it pressing a markers number in automap ...

Moon

Alternatively you can use the german hotfix packs covering almost any patches released after SP2 from www.winhelpline.info.

Moon

Since when and by whom is using a Mega considered cheating?

Moon

[]V[]essenjah wrote:What this all really comes down to in the end for me is this:

Nice speech you got there, however you WILL go where Microsoft tells you to. Their dominance leaves little room for choice and I doubt any of those hardcore gamers will be able to resist the new games coming out on Vista only.

Moon

Luckily for me a complete reinstall of D2 from my original disk + Vertigo + D2X-XL did the trick, great! However, there are a few issues: setting screen resolution to 800x600 starts the game as such even though the pilot selected in the d2x.ini has a screen resolution of 1280x1024 which should overr...

Moon

D'oh, I confused the Descent 1 version for PSX with the Descent Maximum version which has D2 levels and thus is unplayable for me. Whenever I do anything besides turning and banking in any level - like moving, firing and stuff - D2X-XL crashes back to the desktop with 'getting joystick calibration v...

Moon

I guess I'm getting old. A week ago or so I read about someone who extracted the levels from Descent Maximum (Playstation) and converted them to use in D1. Can't remember the place where I read it and can't find it when using Google. Maybe some of you guys does? TIA!

Moon

Yeah, of course double TAB works. I just wish it could be fixed. Not that the D3 automap is of too much use anyway

Moon

I've installed these drivers and everything looks good. Except for when I get back from automap I'm still back on the desktop with part of the Descent window hovering in the upper left corner.

Moon

Depends on how you count them. The section close the reactor has two secret doors one of which hiding a mech that when blown up boosts your laser to level 2. http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/4038/d1l01secretshi6.th.png BTW, in case any of you is lost you can check out my page listing all Alternate...

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Mercenary won't start. Anyone seen this error yet?

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Descent Maximum Conversion