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Valin Halcyon

Since Steam launched; $1,214.45.

I'm not going to fret over it either, that's over 15 years of games at about $80/yr. That comes to just 1 or 2 new full price games a year. It's cool.

Valin Halcyon

I was a lurker for a couple years, finally registering in the year leading up to Orbital's founding in 2001.

Valin Halcyon

Has anyone seen him around? Perhaps has a recent email address for him? I'm not talked to him since 2017 via ICQ where he seems to still be online but never responds anymore. As far as I can tell from a deep webcrawl, he vanished from the Internet in late 2017, except to back Overload it seems.

Valin Halcyon

Played the demo some more this morning. Got the ramping worked out. God, I'm home...I've missed this place. <3

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Reasons™

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Just tried Overload. That's D4 for me. Waiting happily for the release this summer.

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Downloaded the demo this morning, feels good! I'm willing to call it D4. Took them long enough!

Ship feels a little...odd to the touch. Probably some ramping tweaking and I'll be fine.

Valin Halcyon

It's revived.

Working on something new, but not anything Descent. Wanted to head off the rumor mill before one of you guys spotted us back online.

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Well, from my point of view it is real, if rather buggy. I still have the rough alpha version of the game Orbital produced in 2002, but am not permitted to share. However, It wouldn't sell in today's market. Any published Descent IV would need a significantly different design than what we worked ...

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Cougar made it, 16 years ago.

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...and not DescentIV.

*www.orbital-inc.com*

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But I still want one...since we can't have holodecks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJCsomGwdk0

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Pay close attention to:

He's been popping up on my Soundcloud notifications lately. Good stuff!

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I've been extremely ill for the last few days, but I have received no communication from Descendant Studios in response to the message I was invited to send. I'm glad my aid was not needed to complete the funding of this project, and having just watched the above trailer, I'm already feeling much ...

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To the community at large: Please stop trying to make parallel contact attempts for me. Please stop sending me messages with a conspiratorial tone. I've made contact with Descendant Studios myself, thanks. If anything comes up of note which I am explicitly allowed to share, trust me, it will be ...

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dunkelza wrote:If you're rather, PM me your preferred contact details and I will pass them on to him and try to get him to contact you.

Done! Look forward to hearing from him.

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...and just to take a step toward leaving the skeptics camp...I've put up a small pledge.

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I understand Descent isn't just any game...for pretty much everyone here. I mean, my god, we're STILL here hoping 16 years after D3 released? There's just too many failures to just take some talking heads on youtube to convince me otherwise until I see the game itself. Hell, Orbital had some ...

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I know, Thorne. But if they can't make the goal before the deadline, *poof*, they get _nothing_. I'm willing to make the gap, if it comes to that, given my terms above. I'd be willing to settle for running their QA for them and being involved (I don't mind being a non-stakeholder (no votes on ...

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Please don't mistake skepticism for arrogance. If you're willing to put in what I could (You'd dump 250K if you had it to spare to revive Descent, wouldn't you!? :P ), you'd still want to be assured your money isn't going to waste. Asking to see the GDD and a Tech Demo is no less than any potential ...

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Show me a design document and a tech demo, and I'll consider backing it.

EDIT: I have the ability to back the project to your KS goal, if you can provide the above...

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Yeah, I could contribute a not inconsequential sum, but all I've =seen= doesn't lend itself much to confidence in the project. What I'm hearing is good, but then, we've heard that before...my own company's attempt notwithstanding. Now if they're interested in perhaps contracting my company as a ...

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Wow Lothar, that's one giant wall of text You found. It's also a good analysis of that which makes Descent great. At Orbital we'd done a number of studies and tests of the games to try to quantify this in greater detail. I'll echo the first reply to that post, if they follow that recipie, they will ...

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Having been behind the last major attempt at a Descent game sanctioned by Interplay, I think I'll wait to be interested until there's a demo, at the minimum. There are a thousand ways this could go off wrong, and we've seen many of them. Don't think I'm bitter over D4 either, far from it in fact ...

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EVE Online's forums have a "beta" feature that turns the forums into Asteroids, where you can blow up the HTML.

http://forums.eveonline.com

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OHAI.

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Just thought I'd chime in and let you guys know... Interplay isn't the Interplay we grew up knowing. It's barely more than an IP holder for the company that owns it. If you want to find the guys who did make Interplay Great, i.e. Brian Fargo, look at InXile Games. Nearly all the old Interplay people ...

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I found one in its box at a yard sale. Owner said he bought it for his PC ages ago, tried it once, and then put it away. No scrapes or damage whatsoever, the foam insert that goes under the stick to keep it immobile in transit is still in place. The floppy disk with the drivers is still present as ...

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I appreciate your PDF on 6DOF setup in UDK, it solves things I've already done, but more elegantly. I'll get back to you in return when I've finished making vehicles work in this context, with humans that can get in and out of them in different contexts. Some of what I've done is in the UE3 source ...

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The reason is less honorable pages used to use frames to "hijack" a major page, like FB or Google and put ads around it. It was unethical, and a major legal issue. The ability to detect someone trying to do that was quickly added to the DOM, and rapidly adopted to prevent the problem.

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Sounds like Space Invaders (Atari)...

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Yes, I'm aware they still had them. But I do mean I have _all_ rare and unusual Descent files and information.

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I have the D1 animations. In fact, if there are any rare or unusual Descent I or II files you're looking for, I have them.

Valin Halcyon

Liking the new track a great deal. However, no offense, I don't care for the lyrics. They make the track sound like a poor imitation of Gorillaz. Any chance for a lyric-less track?

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I liked the opening, but as the song built, some of the choices made for a few specific instruments were less than ideal. There was one note in particular that was played from time to time by a...piano?...that sounded horribly out of place, despite the rest of the piano section sounding just fine ...

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It just means he's not valuable enough to worry about.

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I prefer vim...but I'm just weird like that.

Valin Halcyon

OPL2 (mono sound), OPL3 (which is really just two OPL2s for stereo output), SB16, Gravis Ultrasound, Roland, General MIDI.

Most people who played D1/2 in the mid 90s would recognize the OPL2 or 3 renditions. However, the music was made with a Roland synth...

Valin Halcyon

Let the games begin! I'll be watching.

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