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D3Alien

I remember playing a ton of NFS 2 and 3. Probably the PC game back in the day I had played the most other than Descent and maybe Quest For Glory, possibly Age of Empires. This track in particular was really burned into my head, decades later.

D3Alien

Music has pretty much been my main hobby for decades now. The Descent 2 redbook was a major launching point. I love Perturbator. Here's a few others that would work as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtZ1O8iMysA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V55aQd8c2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

D3Alien

What lame thing did Xeon do again? It's been so long I don't remember anymore. Well he was basically the king of doing what TheWhat was talking about, spending all day in levels like Amateur's Arena trying to get as high an efficiency as possible pounding newbs into dust. I think he was the first ...

D3Alien

Yeah, but if you wanted to be a big bad demigod you had to stick to one name in particular. Something lame like "Xeon" or "{ROX}Hostile" would do. And then you had to "take a break" when any anonymous anti-stat padder who could do 40%+ on you would enter.

D3Alien

So is this the only "active" Descent spot anymore? One by one it seems most of the various other sites closed up. It's probably remarkable there's any traffic at all for a 2+ decade old game. I haven't played in years and years, but I get nostalgic thinking about it every once in awhile. Every few ...

D3Alien

I love that blue finish. Much cooler looking than the standard 'burst Les Paul styles a lot of people have.

I have a bunch of guitars, and one of them is an Agile 7-string. They punch well above their price range.

D3Alien

I'm not really an \"excellent\" pilot, but I'm gonna see about setting it up again for at least a bit of action.

D3Alien

If I play again you will never be sure who I am.

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In '04 JF and I could have taken you two. :-p

D3Alien

RetZ wrote:Maybe we could share some BOZ demos in this thread? Like, your longest killing strike against the bots.

I had 25 on the easier ones when they were in Ascent awhile ago. I could probably kill even more if I actually tried for it, and Behemoth/Zero/Darktalyn/Ryujin could easily do even better.

D3Alien

I think that link has been broken for at least 7 years.

D3Alien

*waves hand*

Those are not the release dates you are looking for.

D3Alien

Huh, I had thought it was earlier in '94. I guess it was early winter of '95 that a friend gave me the D1 demo discs, and the rest, well, is history.

D3Alien

You'll just get waxed 20 to 0, Behemoth. :p

D3Alien

I would cut down on the number of doors for the puzzle. Dozens of potential combinations to try is one thing, but 1/3 of a million is just insane. It's just not that interesting of a puzzle for anyone to spend that much time on it.

D3Alien

I enjoyed D1 L26 this summer. All the bolting from room to room felt like CTF in SP.

D3Alien

Personally that seems a pretty silly idea. I guess if you can host a bunch of different servers with robots it'd be ok, but I definitely don't want the primary server to only hold one human. For example, IceHammer and I had a couple fun ones a few months ago vs. the the bots and each other. And ...

D3Alien

Just look for the \"bot\" sending text macros every 10 seconds and you'll have blown B's cover.

D3Alien

This sounds awesome, reminds me of playing RL CTF with a jail when I was younger. We just need to get the VV and SD crews to play it.

D3Alien

It has bots with homing missiles though, which is arguably worse.

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Normally I'd love to, but Saturday evenings don't work for me.

D3Alien

There is another set of them - the "adult version" consists of players like "[BOZ]Vincent", "[BOZ]Marsellus", "[BOZ]Jules" (taken from Pulp Fiction) and have higher aiming skills. There ought to be a server up frequently consisting of just these. The other set is way too easy.

D3Alien

Behemoth wrote:They are robot players.

Not all of them.

D3Alien

Get her really drunk one night, but don't drink too much yourself, and see what info you can dredge up.

D3Alien

To my knowledge the rule about bumping old topics was that it should only be done if it was for the purpose of adding useful content to the thread, and the discussion here fits right in with many other things we've been discussing lately. The atmosphere is a little different here, but I also spend ...

D3Alien

I am going to pre-emptively vote insane. I haven't technically done it yet, but I can clear some of the toughest levels with a cold start, so I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of time. :twisted: It's pretty satisfying, because until a few months ago I hadn't played single player in many years, and ...

D3Alien

Well generally I only change weapons when the situation requires something different, so I know exactly which weapon I'll need next. For example in Varicose Veins I'll often go down the halls firing fusion ahead of me, and if an opposing pilot appears in my sights firing MD I'll switch to that, and ...

D3Alien

In the D1X and D2X versions they stop after 3 cycles even on insane. Krom mentioned somewhere that on the original it was 5 in D1. Dunno about D2.

D3Alien

Aha, I was right. Level 26 isn't that awful if you exploit all the cloaks and invulnerabilities. I just did it insane + cold start without even dying, though I did again have a few save points. You've gotta have your trichording down, but of course, if you don't you really have no business playing ...

D3Alien

Yeah, I've been studying this video, and 26 looks a lot easier now. I think a lot of the things he does even on hotshot would be applicable to insane. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LocorKAPhUo It looks like the best way to tackle it might be to speed through a lot of it, particularly fully ...

D3Alien

2) be able to switch directions with one finger without having another finger release its key (so be careful about what you use your ring finger and pinky for.) 3) be able to cycle through weapons without moving your hand out of maneuvering / firing position. I don't think these two are that ...

D3Alien

Heh, for me this is all the the first time. When I started playing D3 MP the best I'd done on D1 SP was getting to the reactor room in level 6 on trainee, before the super hulks wiped me out. I had crippled myself when I was young by playing only on trainee, with a horrendous config and often with ...

D3Alien

Ok, I feel a lot better now. I know you're a lot better than me, but I had this image of you racing pell-mell through the mines with fusion on insane, not saving and not even getting a scratch, so this is comforting.

D3Alien

Hehe, last night I stayed up late and finished D1 SP on insane. I forgot how horrible level 26 was on insane , whoever designed that level must have really hated the player. By comparison level 27 is easy, till the boss anyway. Finished with about 9.1 million points. You oughta head on over to the ...

D3Alien

Having played more of these guys, the super hulks are worse than I remembered, the vulcan drillers are a little easier, and the fusion hulks and green platform bots are significantly easier. Neither have instant-hit weapons, and neither have homing capabilities. Also, the fusion hulk is really slow ...

D3Alien

I'm going with the vulcan driller's scream, which practically used to give me nightmares, and still makes me uneasy. Runner up goes to the green platform bot, which sounds like some hellspawn.

D3Alien

I think you mean level 15. Level 16 has one medium hulk behind the first door, and then one far on the other end of the room, but they're not too much trouble. Level 15 has 3 in a line in front of you who fire as soon as you spawn, with 2 super hulks and a cloaked medium hulk also in the same room ...

D3Alien

It's pretty essential to master the game to be able to trichord, which is the ability to do 3 things simultaneously. 1: Move forwards or backwards. 2: Move left or right. 3: Move up or down. Each additional axis increases the speed at which the ship can travel. The extra speed is pretty necessary in ...

D3Alien

I'm gonna agree on the fusion hulk, as one of my first D3 multiplayer aliases (\"Fusion Mech\") was in honor of him.

D3Alien

Cool, I love this sort of detailed discussion. 8) I already use most of the tactics, but I might have to give the prox bombs in the lava/keycard area one a try, since that room is generally what trips me up the most. I've also beaten it on insane without dying, but also had to use a few save points ...

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Which robot has the creepiest sound?