The Descent 3 1.4 - 1.5 Version Switcher.Here's an (incomplete) list of what the Descent 3 package contains: The package is highly compressed, which means you only need to download about 1.1 GiB. It installs about 3 GiB of Descent 3 stuff (but no promo and fan-made game movies). We made Descent 3 compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and also the newer server versions of Windows, without requiring to be logged on as administrator and without any dodgy Microsoft Windows backwards compatibility mode. You can now install and configure Retribution, Mercenary, Vortex, Pyromania, Olympia Gold, Basewars, the server tool, about 750 additional missions, and everything else required for single and multi-play, for creating own levels (maps), and chatting with only a few mouse clicks. We created an installer for the full version of Descent 3, which installs all required additions, modifications, the level editor, single and multi-player missions, and much much more in one go. Without tweaking it a bit, the game doesn't work on Windows Vista or Windows 7. Many Descent 3 extensions come without an installation program, and most of the ones that do have a setup that is terribly outdated. Users need to know what they have to download and how to install it. Outrage's online service is dead, hence it's not possible to play Descent 3 online out of the box anymore, although there still is an active online player community - They are only not that easy to find.
It takes a bit of googling, downloading, and trial and error to get it, since some distributions contain a copy of the wrong patch for the wrong localized version of the game. The standard patch, which most people are playing, for Descent 3 is the one that upgrades it to version 1.4. There is no easy way to break that circle. No wonder, the game is 10 years old.ĭirectly off the CD, it's not even possible to register the game, although it keeps asking for it. It's only the beginning of a long journey of outdated information and references. This may be the first, but it will by far be the last surprise potential players encounter when installing Descent 3. When the CD installation starts, one of the first misleading things it does is make the wrong suggestions for upgrading DirectX and Flash. Poor Best Descent 3 - Installation, updates, and modificationsĮverybody who's done or tried it before knows it already: The complete installation of Descent 3 takes at least a few days, and novice computer users have no chance at all.
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