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Slow and steady wins the race innit?

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To be fair most of the descent related stuff is on the few discord servers. I believe there are no politics channels, so everyone actually likes each other

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Tunnelcat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:23 pmThief Bot?

Medium lifter

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I can take a stab at one of the secret levels, it seems I enjoy making puzzles that are different from the norm. The puzzle to get the yellow key in L14 of my yet-to-be-released mission comes to mind.

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It feels wierd just placing lasers and quad lasers in random places after neatly placing everything else in D:TC secret level 2 like they did in D1 SL2. Also quick question: After finishing secret level 2, shall I move on to level 22, or go back to level 18 to rebuild from scratch to get rid of the ...

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There is also 'Die hard' which is similar to ffyl

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On the other hand, the level that took the shortest time to build was my first one, Brimstone research lab RL1096, with almost a week.

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Just a quick off topic-ish question. Should we place a reactor in boss levels like parallax did or nah?
They'll disappear on load anyway. I think they are for anarchy or something. I've never played multiplayer so I'm not sure.

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Well I can change it, I just didn't understand from your wording what exactly you wanted changed - is the issue with metl139 or the underlying texture? I can definitely see how combining the X-shaped grate with the white and red reactor power line texture is a bit unorthodox, but I don't see ...

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By the way, I looked at the modifications to level 45 and there is one thing that must change and one thing that could change. The one that must change is that the placement of the reactor needs to be lower because at the moment it is floating. The one thing that could change is the texturing of ...

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I've just finished building level 21 of The Countdown, it took me 3 months. Even though my first level (Brimstone research lab RL1096) took me a just a week.
What is the longest time it took to build a level for everyone else? Just curious.
I bet you are all expecting good things from level 21 now

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By the way, I looked at the modifications to level 45 and there is one thing that must change and one thing that could change. The one that must change is that the placement of the reactor needs to be lower because at the moment it is floating. The one thing that could change is the texturing of the ...

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Only edit I'm planning to make is to put some warning stripes next to a couple of really important secret doors that otherwise blend completely into the floor. It might be worth changing the floor texture to one from the first game that has a secret door. Not the grey one though because that's the ...

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Perhaps the switches for the cloaks and invuls in the top compartments could go in the other corners like the two that are already there.

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Alter-Fox wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:24 pm That's technically infinite, cause the boss spawns hornet clones

It will all be fine then as long as there is knowledge of what the boss spawns. But I dont think anyone will play this as their first descent game.

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Alter-Fox wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 3:09 pm That said, though, as long as it doesn't rely on triggered doors that only open once, I'm okay with it.

There is unlimited tries as long as long as you dont hit the switch that turn the forcefields off. Then you have as many tries as you have guided missiles.

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You could replace the helix in level 39 that is right in front of as you start with fusion. It's a suitably hard secret for its first appearance.

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Its probably better if the matcens spawned cloaked lifters. The boss is the main damage dealer and so the purpose of the lifters is so that the boss can get more shots on you

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The robot reactors get used a lot in obsidian to cover switches. Same with level 6 of apocalyptic factor inside the yellow door. So maybe if there is a switch heavy level somewhere it might not be too weird to have one like that

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Anyway, I found a small but crucial detail in the Parallax D2 levels that I should make sure folks know about. It seems the Puuma reactor is meant to be placed in a segment that has another half-length segment up above it, with the reactor moved upwards ~4-6 units from its default position, so that ...

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In that case, I'll populate all of mine and send them to xfing or you if you want me to. I know the guidelines of what to put and what not to put in. Because I'm in an object placement mood now that I've finished all geometry and textures of level 21 of my mission. (Yet another one I've made that's ...

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Not a mod but it looks like the topic is asking others what their ride is so it is probably fine.

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How far along is the main .hog with level population? I'm going to populate the ones that I've built that haven't been eaten by it yet.

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Rock260 has a single transparent pixel in alien1.pig near the top left corner

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Is it ok if I take secret level 5? I'll have done at least one of each kind of level. (Reactor, boss and secret)
It'll also mean that all levels have names then which is kind of a milestone.

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Xfing wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 3:55 pm you forgot to lock the entry hatch.

Yeah I forgot that one.

As for the secrets, I'll PM the answers

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Thanks for the review.

Quick question, which puzzle did you find the hardest? I'm just curious because there are a couple of difficult ones.

I'm fine with the crediting, it was your idea after all.

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Ultimate necro but...
Levels, both official and user made, use two 20x20x10 cubes for doors quite often. ( And it annoys me every time I see it because it looks untidy and forces surrounding textures to be aligned a certain way. Unless you want an ugly seam between textures.)

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Time for some level name meanings. 1: Zeta Outpost A basic level 1 name. Similar to lunar outpost 2: Cyro laboratory The level is a lab in a cold planet. 3: Amalthea Firecrystal mine A standard descent 1 level name but with a more exotic sounding celestial body and mineral. 4: Quartzon Military Base ...

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And it's not wishing you good luck either

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I've thought of a good name for level 39 now.
I'm calling it ul'go k'doc derelict quarter.
The first two words are an anagram of 'good luck'.
It has a nice ring to it and it also sounds like a base name for the orcs in The lord of the rings.

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As long as its d2xxl doing it and not your mission it's fine.
It was the blue key from mineral valley level 3/actual level 4

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Ditto what alter said...

Also is the blue key meant to disappear on level 3? I know I saw it behind that grate but when I got there it had gone.
Another one of d2xxls quirks?

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I mean this one:

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What the deal with it being all diagonal and stretched? There are over 150 cubes left so how come it's not a normal door?

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I wish I could test, but how you open .dxa files? Google says that dxas store video frames but this isn't that.

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I've also noticed the texturing issues. Its definitely the ham because it happens with just the sound patch. It also completly messes up custom robots. (Decided to play The Enemy Within.) It's mostly the eyes that get borked.

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Cool! I'll keep everything the way it is. Unless you say whether something should change like for example those switches you mentioned. Basically you say do something, I'll make it so.
Also, do you want the red door(s) (or another kind of entrance) in a specific location?

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Thanks for the great review of level 45. The blue door lights I did myself using the blues in groupa. Because I think this: good.png Looks better than this, which is what I get when I import them (I don't think descent has purple doors :P ): bad.png Funnily enough about level 39, I was actually ...

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Yeah I looked at the beta ceti section of the level list and noticed that groupa, ice and water had only one level each so I went for groupa which adds 1 to the groupa roster and maybe half to ice. (1.5 lol) If no one figures out the key thing in level 31 by tomorrow, I'll say what it is. One final ...

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