dale_glassan hour ago
For anyone who enjoyed Descent, please go buy Overload. It's a pretty much perfect spiritual sequel, with a great soundtrack.
And I believe made by some of the people that formerly worked on Descent.
krigean hour ago
That is true, furthermore Overload has an usermade campaign called Overload: First Strike, which is a conversion and upgrade of the entire Descent 1 campaign to Overload. Additionally I recommend Desecrators, which is a Descent-like with procedurally generated maps. Think Sublevel Zero or Everspace, except good.
midzeran hour ago
Need WebGL2.
WebGL1 WASM version based on https://github.com/dxx-rebirth/dxx-rebirth -> https://midzer.de/wasm/descent1/
Dovean hour ago
Impressively faithful, right down to weapons functioning incorrectly at a high framerate!
pverheggen2 hours ago
Mr. Doob has been doing experiments like this for at least a decade, glad to see that he's still at it.
He's the creator of three.js, and it looks like this uses that for rendering instead of being a straight port.
rkaregaran27 minutes ago
I remember buying this at fry’s with my dad in the 90s!
_dwt2 hours ago
Descent was a huge part of my childhood (and surprisingly my little kids are now big fans as well)! Unfortunately this seems to stutter pretty badly with audio issues as well for me on Firefox on Linux. As a huge fan of three.js and other past work... I guess I'll blame Claude?
efnx2 hours ago
I’ve been following Mr. Doob since the flash days. Cool to see they’re still doobing cool things.
xnxan hour ago
I need to replay this game with a dual stick controller. Previously played it on a serial joystick and keyboard.
ranger_danger2 hours ago
Since it's not linked anywhere that I could see, here's the source I found: https://github.com/mrdoob/three-descent
And Quake for web by the same author: https://mrdoob.github.io/three-quake/
rcarmo2 hours ago
I used to play this game incessantly. Audio on Firefox on Linux is, sadly, very very garbled.
eptcyka2 hours ago
Is there a way to play this without geting vertigo?
paulryanrogers2 hours ago
Try configuring WASD controls, mouse look, turning off auto roll / leveling. Use your choice of 'jump' and 'crouch' to slide up and down. Then it feels more like an ice-skating FPS than a flying game.
Keeping the cockpit on screen may also help provide a frame of reference.
I found that helped me enjoy the game more now that I'm older and less tolerant of 6DOF movement.