DescentBB

I wasnt sure weather I should put this under tech support or not, so I put it here
I wish to play descent 3 online
well... i cant connect to parralax and heat is down so how do i play descent 3 on the internet?

1. First....go here. http://d3.descent.cx/tracker.d3

2. Find the game you want to play, (assuming people are in it) and click on the row of numbers (IP) to the right of it.

3. Click on "Launch via EXE"

4. This will start D3...(click "esc" twice to get out of the D3 movies)as you would normally.

5. Your on your way...

That's what I do...

Bettina.....

make sure u have the 1.4 patch. which u can get here.. http://www.teamnub.com/tools.asp click on
D3 US 1.4 Patch.if u get any errors like "old file not found" download this
http://www.descent3.com/patch/d3_us_1.0_djfix.exe
and unzip it to ur descent 3 directory. then just install the 1.4 patch again after that.
Also this is where all the descenters chat
www.suncho.com/chat

hmmm if it says d1.descen.cx does that mean thats a descent 1 server?

if so i guess no one is playing on those servers?

and alot of the servers have so many different .mn3's am i going to have to find those files and down load them separate?

Now I clicked on an ip address and clicked the exe thing and open. but when i get in descent 3 it says cannot find mn3 line 0 WHATS THAT MEAN??? it cant find the mission file line 0?
argh

No, the d1.descent.cx doesn't mean that the server is hosting a Descent 1 game. It's just the chosen name for the D3 server. Yes, you'll have to download the actual mission (.mn3) files before playing in a server that is hosting them. That "line 0" error means that you're trying to download a server whose mission you don't have. Any missions you download go into the "missions" folder in your main D3 directory. You can get D3 missions from Levels4You and PlanetDescent, except PD is temporarily down. For any more questions, I'll refer you to a rough draft of my D3 Beginner's Manual. A few sections need updating, and I didn't add all of the links I wanted to, but this should help get you started. If you have any more questions, just ask .

P.S. When PD gets back up and running, I'm hoping to have this guide hosted there, as a permanent reference for new pilots.

Jadewolf...
Your almost there.........when u r here http://d3.descent.cx/tracker.d3 look in the upper left corner and you will see "missions". That's where you go to get them...
Bettina....Hurry, I'm waiting for you

You can also get levels from http://www.gameedit.com/descent3 .

PD's DETLEF site is still operable, but you just can't update it right now. Of course you had to have gotten the DETLEF files before the site went down .

Now how did I forget Gameedit?

Thunderbird, if you're a good guess regarding the zip file names, you can still try to directly download them. If you tried enough filenames at http://www.dfiles.de/download/d3/missions, you'd probably find at least one of them . This may not be the fastest method, but at least the files are still there.

Make sure you check out the tutorials on http://www.suncho.com

hey uh.. goob? what's your call on this?