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Sweet, can't wait!

Oh, and go ahead and check out the level, please. I spent dwo days non stop making it so some psychological gratification would be nice

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I'm one of the guys who consider the retro-ness of Descent part of its appeal. I even play it at 320x240 from time to time. So I fully understand the OP's stance.

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Ace you say? Props to you, Wolfie. I have only completed it on Hotshot so far, and even that took a ton of saveloading. The levels were the best I've ever played, though. Only the finest gems from TEW can equal this stuff.

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Don't download the exe, just click the name of the file underlined in a broken line, it'll let you download the file directly. I use speedyshare because it lasts. As for your levels, I think they'd fit really well, but you'll do what you want, I guess. Don't make a rushed decision. Music would be aw...

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Ok guys, Sedna's done. http://speedy.sh/hbeuP/sedna.zip It turned out disappointingly small for the 876 segments it contains, blame my inexperience and lack of direction. Still, when populated with robots, it will constitute several minutes of play easily. I think it will be a good way to close off ...

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Ok, I cut down on some cubes and got from 842 to 795. I wonder if I can keep it under 900 for the whole thing, as I still need to make the entire yellow key area and the entry to the red key area. I suppose this can easily be done with 100 blocks. Here comes the challenge, huh.

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Please provide me with a step by step instruction of how to mount a CD in DOSbox and make it recognizable by Descent. I remember being able to do it long ago, but I forgot. I want to run D2 this way to get a taste of the Sound Blaster 16 generated MIDIS, the discrepancy between the awesomeness of th...

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Avder wrote:
Xfing wrote:The worst robots have to be the green versions of the Class 1 Heavy Driller. Firing all those homers at you and whatever.
God I hate those things. Glad parallax never used em anywhere.

It's probably because they're mostly redundant with the Super Hulk. And owerpowered as f'k.

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> 900 cubes is non-standard anyway - probably best not to do that unless you want it to be only playable in one or the other. I don't know if XL will let you load standard D2 levels with that many cubes, and those people who use DOSBox are going to be totally SOL. Ok, point taken. I'll totally let ...

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The worst robots have to be the green versions of the Class 1 Heavy Driller. Firing all those homers at you and whatever.

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Actually, DLE has a built-in limit where the level is converted to D2X-XL automatically once you hit the old vanilla D2 cube limit. If you want the thing to be playable on both source ports, you'd either need to keep the levels under 900 cubes or learn SDLDevil. ^^;; Oh, good to know. Well, I'm at ...

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Well, point taken. If it still bothers me, I might use a secondary texture break around the grate or the switch, but I suppose it wouldn't be that bad after all. :P I did get started on a Brimspark level, but inspiration for side areas and whatnot ran kind of dry so I've put it on hold for a while....

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I also noticed that neither in Counterstrike nor in Vertigo Parallax didn't even try to align those detailed, hard-to-align textures on geometrically advanced walls. Just took a peek at Fold Zandura and goodness, there are texture breaks at every seam. Descent 1 was handled way better in that regard...

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I have to say that L3 redux was quite adequate.

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Yeah, that's pretty much the scheme I had on mind. And well, if you REALLY want to have a lava room for the sake of old-school D1 atmosphere, go ahead. :P I understand that sometimes as illogical or incorrect as it may be, the original D1 atmosphere and style on some levels is very endearing and ha...

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I had no idea this was primarily meant for D2X-XL. I downloaded the first version I saw and it worked fine in Rebirth.

And yeah, this set is masochistically hard.

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To be honest, I'm not sure if I can even unlock all the secrets in Tycho Brahe on a single run, let alone some custom level sets that are even harder and more creative.

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Actually as long as the player gets the vulcan on the right side of the catwalk right away or not at all, and never backtracks after heading through the blue door, he will have only activated two of the matcens, one time each: the two triggers in-line with the first two doors the player uses once h...

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Actually, I think the correct texture scheme would be achieved by using the D1 Mars textures, as you already said, some D2 textures (that I can already imagine which ones more or less), some of the D1 pinkish ones, and I would put out the lava completely and instead put some contrasting D1 Whitish ...

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Actually screw the break. I started working on the Sedna level. It's one of the reddest objects in the Solar System, so it'll look a lot like Mars and Io Sulfur Mine, I suppose. Less lava, though. And I'll play adventurous with some D2 textures, which normally wouldn't be done in a D1-style level. B...

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I mean a run where - if you insist for a no-death run - you would only load at the beginning of a level. Treat is as one level-one checkpoint. The later levels are pretty large and hard, so I imagine this would get frustrating real fast.

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Legitimately means without saveloading?

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Alter-Fox wrote:Same. I wouldn't have bought Fraps if I knew windows movie maker could record.

Actually I never gathered that Fraps was supposed to be BOUGHT. Thought it was freeware

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I thought the Movie Maker was for editing movie footage, not for recording it. Oh, we learn stuff all the time

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Good to know that I'm not the only one who thoroughly enjoys D1 midi music. Pumo will also be hoppin' in, so that makes three of us

BTW what did you record it with?

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Hardest D1 level? From my experience that'd have to be Secret 3. From the normal levels 19 is very tough. 12 was also quite shocking to me. 26 goes without saying, but those Fusion Hulks can actually be outwitted quite easily. I don't think toning down the difficulty for Descent would be a good thin...

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It indeed is! Great job, Sirius

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Sadly, I will have to take a break before I make any more levels. Real life and all that. But when the PIG's ready, I'll convert what I have, and maybe fill all the levels with robots already.

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LightWolf wrote:Where's the .HOG?

You don't need the .HOG, just put the rl2 and mission file in your "Missions" folder and you're good

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Well, first we need to HAVE the levels. And yes, this does sound like an interesting easter egg. Clumping together segments from all the previous levels is a novel idea. Still, we'll think about it later. EDIT: I just came up with a descriptive design guideline. The D1 levels should feel like D2 is ...

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Fixed, check out that same post again. IMO, the things that still need to be somehow taken care of is the switch which isn't even on the wall and the secret door that opens up when you've grabbed the red key, on the way to the red doors. Something has to be done to better the alignment in that door ...

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Well, as I said. Level 1 runs perfectly fine, I didn't even have to shorten anything. The Automap is subtitled Solar System 1: Lunar Titanium Mine. However, the level's empty - except for the player, the reactor and one keycard. K-station on the other hand, is completely filled. Maybe I need to tink...

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Yep, that much's already established. I will never approve this set's release without D1-style planetary briefings xDD

But you're right, we can definitely cut down on the name lengths. I'll think of the way soon.

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Yeah, it does. But with our names it will be a bit impractical, so I'm looking around to find out if there's another solution.

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What version of Rebirth are you using? I'm using 1.11.62 and renaming levels is not a problem. I know it was when I first started building for The Outer Reaches last year, but it has been fixed since and I think it might at least help to have two or three different versions to alternate between if ...

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Is it possible to do it the way it was done in Counterstrike? I mean like when the automap reads Zeta Aquilae 3: Wenl Mine But the end-level tally reads only "Wenl Mine Destroyed". When reading the data in the Mission tab in DLE, it also only says "Wenl Mine". Is this some kind o...

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OK, after checking the official list at dateiliste, and now that we're claiming, I think I will go for 'Baloris Prime 4: Velino B'mocileew'. I wanted to go for 'The Cauldron', but I see Alter-Fox is apparently making that level already. Yeah, he said he would at least. But that was ages ago! I'm no...

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If you're good at making puzzles then by all means go ahead. Secret levels have to be tricky but contain goodies and robots that are not so likely to kill you. You have played D2 and Vertigo, you know the way. The level names etc will stay for now. I will probably have to shorten some of the names s...

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I do have Zandura II clamed. However, if you wish, you can take on the secret level. Well, thanks for informing me NOW. Better late than ever I guess :P As for the other thing, it's pretty much as NT said. Everyone who contributes levels does so only because they're nice enough to do so, no one is ...

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I don't think a challenge level would work for this set, nor is it particularly needed. In the case of TEW it worked because of all those new boss ships. There's not much reason to make the player look at those 10 old bosses for the THIRD time. Oh, and please don't get started on "We should cha...

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