Descent 3 - Silent Fury v.16032019 - Game mod - Download

Silent Fury is a mod for Descent 3, created by HunterD3.

Description (in words of mod’s author)

This is something of a passion project that was long ago abandoned. I always wanted to get it done, but various factors got in the way. Over the years I've worked on numerous mods for games, but I have to say that the stuff I did for Descent 3 holds a special place in my memory. So 10 years since my last Descent 3 project, I've finally gotten off my ass and worked through an idea that I thought would never work.

After a whole year in development (sort of) I am pleased to announce the release of Silent Fury, a 5-level Hyperspace campaign for Descent 3. Based on a concept from way back in 2006, Hyperspace: Silent Fury is a unique FreeSpace style space shooter using the Descent 3 engine. If you are familiar with the multiplayer only 'Basewars' (aka Hyperspace: Genesis) from a decade ago - this is basically a single player version of that. Using a wide range of new and former assets, this campaign is basically entirely different from what you'd normally see in Descent 3.

The Hyperspace/Basewars series was heavily influenced by various shows and games including Babylon 5, FreeSpace, EVE, Star Trek and others.

Here are some of the features, both old and new:

5-levels plus one secret bonus mission

Tons of new objects including custom enemy ships, stations, turrets, drones etc

A whole bank of new textures and sound effects

A fully rebalanced set of Basewars weapons

Features a music score from Dan Wentz (FS REDUX)

The only Descent 3 campaign to be fully voice acted (nearly 400 lines of dialogue)

Custom scripts including recharging when idle, repair/refuel support ship and other cool gadgets

Some basic story to enjoy!

Overall, I am pleased with how the project has turned out this time around - This is not the first time I took a stab at this. It's not perfect, there are some issues here and there - I spent countless hours bug fixing, and getting things to this stage was a lot of work. You can expect to get about 2-3 hours of gameplay from it, so it's not a particularly long campaign. The missions aren't too difficult, but you should expect a few bumps along the way. I've added some tiny variations to keep things interesting which should give some replay value.

Instructions:

Mod offers an installer.

Before playing, you should consult the readme and make sure your game is setup correctly.

The 32-bit patch is highly recommended, along with custom command lines such as:

width 1920 -height 1080 -aspect 1.78 -usesmoothing -himem -hividmem -subpixelcorrect -nocompress

-nosparkles -nomotionblur -nomultitexture -z32bit -framecap 100

Adjust these accordingly to your requirements and tastes. WARNING: Do not use a high framecap. This will crash the game! You will need a good computer - an old PC isn't going to cut it. SOME systems may not be able to play this at all. I've tried to isolate as many issues as possible (D3 is a nightmare to mod!) but I cannot guarantee it will work on all setups.

• Last update: Thursday, September 26, 2019
• Genre: Action
• File size: 160.4 MB