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Article #89624Re: DXX REBIRTH vs D2 XL
From: Wesley
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 02:17
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 02:17
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"karx11erx" <karx11erx@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:1148754829.426795.245570@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >I can tell you why I think D2X-XL is better than D2X-Rebirth: > > - It has all features the original Descent 2 has, and you can make it > look from totally retro to fully filtered with a simple mouseclick > - It has a lot more features than the original Descent 2 has > - It has a lot optimizations making it run faster than any other > Descent 2 version around > - It is the most mature and stable Descent 2 derivate around (imo it is > even superior to the original game as it fixes that version's bugs) > - It's fully configurable in every aspect > - Yet you can have it show a simplified interface and hide all the > 'expert' options you will hardly ever have to fiddle with > - You can play multiplayer games via the UDP/IP protocol, instead of > having to use an auxiliary program like KALI > - It supports two joysticks > > and and and > > Well, my Descent site lists all the fixes and enhancements it contains. > > D2X-R is way behind D2X-XL. Both programs started from the same D2X > version, but D2X-XL did so 1 1/2 year before D2X-R. Go figure. ;) Sounds very good :) I'm very busy unable to play games for long time :( When I'm ready no doubt I will play Descent 2 :)
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!ken-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Wesley" <Wesley@duper.com.de> Newsgroups: alt.games.descent References: <bvgdg.10486$S7.5847@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <1148581279.065068.178960@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <4qsdg.10747$S7.8293@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <1148754829.426795.245570@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: DXX REBIRTH vs D2 XL Lines: 34 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <5L7eg.12107$S7.4627@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 02:17:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.136.211.122 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1148782657 144.136.211.122 (Sun, 28 May 2006 12:17:37 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:17:37 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit