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There is another active project, DXX-Rebirth, that tries to recreate the original experience of Descent and Descent II as close as possible (i.e. it does not re

There is another active project, DXX-Rebirth, that tries to recreate the original experience of Descent and Descent II as close as possible (i.e. it does not really mod the games). http://dxx-rebirth.com/ http://dxx-rebirth.com/

sp332 5y ago
There's also Overload, which has some of the Descent devs on the team and got some hardcore fans to extract data on original bullet movement speeds and other details. https://playoverload.com/ https://playoverload.com/
- Lapsa 5y ago
  Sublevel Zero Redux is also worth mentioning. Although nothing compares to Descent1.
TheCycoONE 5y ago
In the past there was significant animosity between this project and rebirth (which they referred to as stillbirth.) I haven't been part of that scene in years so I don't know if it continues.
- dleslie 5y ago
  Wow, that's... Using a pejorative that relates to what is often an incredibly painful experience for expectant mothers to describe the efforts of a group of volunteers working on an open source passion project. Or, simply, toxic.
- _Microft 5y ago
  I know nothing about that. I just liked DXX-Rebirth more because it preserved the „dull no-BS industrial look“ of Descent better. I also wasn’t a big fan of some other, similar games (looking at you D3, Forsaken)) which looked more like the lovechild of a lightshow and an architecture competition in comparison.
  - Lapsa 5y ago
    Back in days, D3 multiplayer experience was quite fresh and impressive. Shoutout 2 [DIII]Smiddy. I remember you, motherfucker.
ur-whale 5y ago
Unlike the other one, rebirth compiles cleanly out of the box on Ubuntu.
- jandrese 5y ago
  Interestingly enough Rebirth triggers a compiler bug on my Ubuntu 20 system: during GIMPLE pass: local-fnsummary similar/main/object.cpp: In function ‘void d1x::object_rw_swap(dcx::object_rw*, int)’: similar/main/object.cpp:2611:1: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction 2611 | } | ^ Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-9/README.Bugs> for instructions. scons: \** [similar/main/.d1x-rebirth.object.o] Error 1 scons: building terminated because of errors.
  - klyrs 5y ago
    Have you submitted that bug?

sp332 5y ago

There's also Overload, which has some of the Descent devs on the team and got some hardcore fans to extract data on original bullet movement speeds and other details. https://playoverload.com/ https://playoverload.com/

Lapsa 5y ago
Sublevel Zero Redux is also worth mentioning. Although nothing compares to Descent1.

TheCycoONE 5y ago

In the past there was significant animosity between this project and rebirth (which they referred to as stillbirth.) I haven't been part of that scene in years so I don't know if it continues.

dleslie 5y ago
Wow, that's... Using a pejorative that relates to what is often an incredibly painful experience for expectant mothers to describe the efforts of a group of volunteers working on an open source passion project. Or, simply, toxic.
_Microft 5y ago
I know nothing about that. I just liked DXX-Rebirth more because it preserved the „dull no-BS industrial look“ of Descent better. I also wasn’t a big fan of some other, similar games (looking at you D3, Forsaken)) which looked more like the lovechild of a lightshow and an architecture competition in comparison.
- Lapsa 5y ago
  Back in days, D3 multiplayer experience was quite fresh and impressive. Shoutout 2 [DIII]Smiddy. I remember you, motherfucker.

ur-whale 5y ago

Unlike the other one, rebirth compiles cleanly out of the box on Ubuntu.

jandrese 5y ago
Interestingly enough Rebirth triggers a compiler bug on my Ubuntu 20 system: during GIMPLE pass: local-fnsummary similar/main/object.cpp: In function ‘void d1x::object_rw_swap(dcx::object_rw*, int)’: similar/main/object.cpp:2611:1: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction 2611 | } | ^ Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-9/README.Bugs> for instructions. scons: \** [similar/main/.d1x-rebirth.object.o] Error 1 scons: building terminated because of errors.
- klyrs 5y ago
  Have you submitted that bug?