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I think it's all about the controls... When I played this in the 90's, I had a sidewinder joystick, and then used the keyboard for strafing. Once you master ci

• Shorel 3y ago
  Absolutely true. I bought a second hand MS Sidewinder for this game, and I still have it =) In fact, last week I bought all three games in Steam.
• sjamaan 3y ago
  Yeah I always struggled with that too - I only had a gamepad, or just the keyboard. I always felt I didn't have enough keys/fingers, and I never mastered strafing due to that.
• Delk 3y ago
  That doesn't quite help with the vulcan bots in the first Descent game as much because their weapons actually are hitscan, they aim ridiculously quickly, and they're often waiting behind corners or behind doors already facing you so they can pretty much immediately hit you when you open the door and/or pop out behind it. Circle-strafing is a must in general, though.