Wow, I cant wait for this one. Great dev team on this, it should be fantastic. Man, thank the gaming lords for kickstarter!!! \m/

Here some updates of DU's progress, of a map they are working on:


Here WingMan's own words on that video:

"Well Descendents,

I just could not wait, here is a better look at flying through the map we are kit bashing. What that means is we are building the pieces that modders will be able to use to build their own versions.

And we are seeing how things scale etc. Here is a look at where we are, you saw this last week, and you can see some of the progress we are making in getting this together.
Anyway, I just could not wait to share this, and my continued THANKS to every single one of you for helping us bring Descent back - and letting a new generation experience the thrills and challenges of flying in true six degrees of freedom.

And with VR support - maybe we include a boxed copy with a Descendent Studios Barf Bag?

Heh!

Thanks for your continued support and keep spreading the word, that is how this will all happen.

All the best,
Eric "Wingman" Peterson"

Here an image named "Core"


Here WingMan's words to that picture of the Core and other slike the Hangar bay as wel:

"The core, drone bay, and Auger ship we have shown in engine were made by someone we discovered from our own community Kajisan. Both he and Erio (gameplay programmer), have been very involved in the making of this project, and are a welcome addition to our Dev team.

Eric "Wingman" Peterson"

The DU Community also has lots of great talents such as:

Goznik:
Goznik is making a Hummingbird ship.

FireDragon:
Firedragon is now focusing on weapons.

JazAero:
JazAero is making a Parrot style of ship.

Mourf:
Mourf's Piloted Tie Phantom Concept

Louhikarme:
Louhikarme is working on a concept drone ship named the Manta


Map design looks pretty good I have to admit, Unreal Engine uses Displacement Mapping and Tessellation, to make things looks realistic in various ways.
Imagine firing a missile through that cave and see how the light of it's trail would reflect alongside the walls...

Here our KickStarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/descendentstudios/descent-underground

Things have been going great but  there is still a long road to go and this is one thing we can only do together, so support is always of great need, the more the better
Descent Underground is on Steam as well, they hope to get the Green Light, feel free to help out
Here is their page
http://steamcommunity.com...edetails/?id=412870542

Please vote for this awesome game, which I have backed with many others

Many thanks

loved this game in the 90's
 

Yeah, I think Kickstarter is the future of bringing games to the market. A developer already gets the feedback of whether their design is good or not and can immediately react to the public they are selling to. They can also take risks that fall outside of a publisher's comfort zone (e.g. space games, PC-focused games).

Hrrrm, it's going to be a tight race to the finish line on the Kickstarter goal.
 

Hey all :)

Well the time has come almost to an end, but we are not there yet, so here the latest updates before this campaign comes to an end from 6 hours from now!

Here the latest video:


And here the latest updates as the Director and founder Eric "Wingman" Peterson explains:


"It's been an exhilarating month long campaign. So much discovered, so many new friends met, and the building of not just a great game, but an amazing community.

Due to your amazing support our project has done very well, but we still have some work to do.

Give a shout out to anyone you know and even those you don't that they have just a few more hours left join the rush and be part of something truly wonderful!

Engadget had some very nice things to say about us. Lots of people have read the article and it shows. We've seen quite a bit traffic coming from their site in the last day or so. If you haven't read the article, check it out!

There is still time to grab an add on from the Kickstarter page. This is a great way to support the project and get something cool too!

And why not grab a super sweet wallpaper for your PC?

Mike "Viewmaster" Morlan has put quite a few nice ones in the forum. Grab one or all of them.
http://descendentstudios....topic/1237-wallpapers/

Just a reminder that we've announce our first stretch goals -- more will come later but the first few are:

   625,000 unlocks the Shaman
   650,000 and EVERYONE gets the Torch... come on you know you want it!
   675,000 will unlock the Warlock


Let's do this thing -- together! We have come a long way from here."


So lets hope this will be a major success for the 6DoF gaming series, a series we all love, named the Descent series and that this series welcomes it's new chapter a prequel to Descent: First Strike! from Parallax Software, which was released on December17, 1994 on 3.5" Floppy Disc Format and on February 15, 1995 on CD Format:

Ultra Rare boxed Beta from October 24, 1994:


Descent EU FDD & CD Version Releases:
FDD:


CD:


Descent USA FDD & CD Version Releases:
FDD:


CD:


Descent Anniversary Edition


Descent MacPlay


Descent Levels of The World EU, MacPlay & EU:


Descent by Peter Telep:



Descent The Official Strategy Guide:



And there you have it all my Descent 1 related stuff, Descent Underground is the prequel to Descent: First Strike, that was my trip down the D1 Memory lane, lets prepare for Descent once again with it's prequel:
Descent Underground.

 
Nice pics Gold Leader. I used to have some of that stuff. Not as much as you though.  LOL.

knightsilver
Anyone know if Descent or SC will have Co-op ?

Descent and Star Citizen will have co-op for the story or the mmo? The mmo definitely for both, SC has stated that they want to have Co-Op for the story, no idea about Descent.

Yeah it was a major party alright, we are now heading towards these stretch goals :
 
   625,000 unlocks the Shaman
   650,000 and EVERYONE gets the Torch... come on you know you want it!
   675,000 will unlock the Warlock
 
And so far the team is at 612K, you can follow this progress here:
http://descendentstudios.com/
 
As my Descent collection goes, it being also the largest in the world, here it is all then, might as well show everything then
 
The reason for me being so surprised is that I have been collecting the original Descent & Freespace game series since October 24, 1994 and seeing a Descent 4 like idea pop up even beinga prequel, well I am willing to support his project as well and I really really hope you lot will succeed.
 
So here my story and my Descent/Freespace colelction, something msot of the Descent & Freespace community people know about, I just want to give you lot my insights of the ebst game  ever created by mankind.
After some years of collecting and being a Pyro Jockey for over 20 years all way back  since it all began on October 21, 1994 when the first Descent Demo rolled out I was hooked immediately, and since then I waited for every part of the series to arrive but never thought about this collecting feeling which I started about 2 years ago and now it has turned into a Descent obsession some call it Obi's Descent Archive and others a museum heh.

Anyways name it what you all like here's some new pics and I want to thank alot of you for helping get a few of these rare wanna haves.
Today I gave each album a new sub section so here's the collection 105 parts as I have counted them all yesterday after adding a Descent mission disc and a Spacetec IMC Cooperation Spaceorb 360 game controller .

As I registered to this forum a few days ago i thought I'd add a topic of the World's Largest Descent / Freespace Collection, the one I have collected  and gathered the past 20+ years  8-)
What I did is divide it all in to sub groups, all the Product names speak for themselves, click it and you enter the sub gallery of that item .

Descent Series


Descent 2 Series


Descent 3 Series


Descent Combo Packs


Descent Linux Series


Descent Macintosh series


Descent Playstation Series


Descent Books


Descent Mini Posters


Descent Mouse Pads


Descent Misc Items:


Descent Freespace Series


Descent Freespace 2 Series


Descent Freespace Combo Packs


Descent Freespace Books


On October 21, 2010 this lovely set arrived from fMasternX, a guy that has a contact with one of the cleaners that worked @ Interplay HQ back in 2003 to 2004, when it was being cleared after it shut down xD

So here's the parts in a one shot:


That frame hung in the Interplay HQ Office hallways, them CD-R's are host software of Descent 1 and 2, the one with the scratches is the Descent 1 Alpha disc, this is where it all began before it was going final, the one from 1996 is the host disk for Descent Anniversary Edition me thinks hence the date of the disk, unless some Interplay Employee's can help me out here!

This came to me all thanks to MasternX from this website:
http://forums.my-collections.eu/

This is probably one of the most rarest of all items I was given as a gift, after helping a friend Acquire a rare 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A2 2600 [Week 26 Year 2000] from an ex-3dfx engineer for a good deal, my 3dfx report can be read here @ EVGA Graphics to see my3dfx background, just for the ones that are questioned about this xD
http://forums.evga.c...31.aspx#2185131

Here a Pre-Production Sample of Descent3: Mercenary USA! This is the Pre-Release version which is Factory Sealed in the original factory cellophane + NOT FOR RESALE Decal under the seal on the box! A very rare sight  :mrgreen:

Click to Enter!

Great and many thanks to a good friend of mine from Minnesota, USA he goes by the nick name of "rottentreats" he's from the 3dfx forums Falconfly.de
This is certainly a gift of many words  8-)

Here all the four variants of Descent I and II The Definitive Collection all are Factory Sealed in their original cellophane! These items are from 1998, so it's been like this for the past 16 years... 

All four variants top view
Top left is EUR version without D3 Demo
Top right is USA Version with D3 Demo
Bottom left is Big Box USA version with D3Demo
Bottom right is Sleeved USA version without D3 Demo

 
All four variants rear view
Top left is EUR version without D3 Demo
Top right is USA Version with D3 Demo
Bottom left is Big Box USA version with D3Demo
Bottom right is Sleeved USA version without D3 Demo


Descent Freespace Battle Pack EUR & USA top


Descent Freespace Battle Pack EUR & USA rear


And here the entire Collection 96 of 102 items, my floor was not large enough xDDD
Even though I have 105 items hence the odd D1 Game expansion disc and the Spaceorb 360, these pics were made a while back, back on March 16, 2013 to be exact 8-)
But it will give you an exact idea on how large this collection is if all in one space :ugeek:
New pics will be made again sometime when I get an other odd 20 new items or so :mrgreen:

Top lot:


Centre lot:


Bottom lot:


Entire Lot:


The other items I forgot to take new pics of were these:

Self made Descent based Mouse pads:


Descent 2 Promo Mousepad, a Gift from D2X-XL Moderator Frustikus


Descent 2 & Freespace 2 Case Mod:

PyroGX from Descent 2 Release painted in 1996:


Hercules MK III, Vesudan Dreadnaught & Shivan Carrier from Freespace2 Painted in 1999:


Descent IV: Invasion RTF file of Floppy Disk:


Here's a video I made of that massive collection today after recounting it all
http://www.youtube.c...=_bBy5cb5ec4#ws


The latest added items are the following:

Item 103:
This ultra rare 1998 Descent: Freespace: The Great War Interplay Developer's T-Shirt
Front:


Rear:


Item 104:
JukeBox Collection for Descent French D1 Mission Disc

Pic is from the seller, I will make a better documented photography of this odd item.

Item 105:
And the infamous Spacetec IMC Cooperation Spaceorb360 Game Controller! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


Force n Torque Sensitivity
Patented SENSITIVE FORCE n TORQUE technology built into the SpaceOrb™ 360 PowerSensor ball senses up all the pushes, pulls and twists that you apply among the axes and translates them into fluid and smooth movement in your game - with over 1,000 levels of speed!

Pretend its Your Head
Think of the PowerSensor as your head, and move the head in the way you want to move on-screen. To move forward, just push with your thumb on the back of the ball (or head), and youll move down the hallway. To move backward, pull from the front of the ball, and youll go back. To look left or right or spin, twist the ball from side to side and youll look or spin on screen.

This Interesting controller was especially designed for any 6DoF based game, the Descent and Forsaken series were famous of this 6DoF technique being used.


Powerful Digital Interface
Adding a true DIGITAL interface through a powerful serial port and how fast and how slow you move in your game depends on how much force you use on the PowerSensor ball. To move forward slowly, lightly push the ball forward. To move faster, increase the pressure until you reach top speed. The SpaceOrb is a 10-bit device allowing for over 1,000 levels of speed. With the Customizer, you can fine tune axis sensitivity exactly to your needs. You can even adjust the sensitivity of EACH AXIS with our new GameMaster software.



The Spacetec Space orb 360 is a real worthy item for the World's Largest Descent / Freespace collection, this way it will keep on growing and hereby I also increase our nice descent / Freespace Reference.
A good friend from the Sol Contingency Community made the 3D Printed model of the infamous Pyro-GX Starfighter, this wonderful piece was sent to me to respect the collection and archive I have been maintaining all those years:

Rear angled right view:


Facial view:


Rear view:


Belly view:


Here a pic I made to give you an idea of it's size, as I have compared it with Descent 2 EUR and the CD Case

 
Descent II: The Infinite Edition USA 1997 Factory Sealed! Still new in Cellophane Shrink Wrap!
 
Top:

 
Rear:

 
Side a:

 
Side b:

 
And where it is stored

 
And I also pledged 150 USD for Descent Underground, so I got that game version of Descent as well, as the collection goes, I am pretty sure that I am ready for every new Descent & Freespace that will be upcoming as well
The new version of Descent, named Descent Underground aka DU, gives my collection also anew reason to expand, so all in all this is the best news I have heard since 1999, the release year of Descent3 + Descent3: Mercenary, which was 16 years ago, so hey well worth it right!

knightsilver
Anyone using a Bluetooth headset in co-op online play?

I've not seen a good Bluetooth headset before. Most of them seem to be in-ear pieces for cellphones.

@Gold LEader
OK, those pics.... now you're just showing off!
 
I loved my old dedicated Voodoo (not voodoo2) edition I had way back when. 
 
Definitely looking forward to this.

~Nostalgia~ Remember how smooth it played?
 

Got out my old Logitech Wingman Strike Force 3D for this one.  Great with the older versions. 

 
Having to wait until 2016 for the single player is just pure torture.          

Thanks for your kind replies my EVGA Buddies
Buy them all I will my friends, trust me I will buy everything I can come across , just as long it's an original release, facory Sealed would be the best condition obviously
 
But hey xD Like they say in every Descent match ending
 
See you in the mines!