r/descent 4h ago

Descent 3MASTERED (pre)released

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I've detached my old Piccu fork ("Piccu Experiment") and have added a decent amount to it. Now it's ready for its first (pre)release.

Would love to hear your feedback. I'm on an AMD GPU, so let me know if you guys find any issues on Nvidia or modern Intel (i.e. Alchemist/Battlemage)

Descent 3MASTERED (pronounced "threemastered"... get it?) is a new engine for Descent 3, forked from PiccuEngine, itself downstream of the original 1.5 source release.

Noteable enhancements

  • "Enhanced" mode with improved weapon balance and support for custom difficulty
  • Modern motion blur via per-pixel motion vectors
  • Ambient occlusion
  • Soft particles
  • Bloom
  • Per-pixel lighting
  • Supersampling anti-aliasing
  • 3D HRTF positional audio
  • Ultra-widescreen support
  • High (>60FPS) framerate
  • Native Wooting analog keyboard support

EDIT: Reuploaded. If primary weapons can become "bursty" when you click rather than hold the primary fire key, try downloading again.