Third part of Descent saga, this version brings even more explosions, spaceships and flights. An unforgettable 3D-action experience, with innovative 360-degree technology, new control system and advanced collision detection. Forget about gravity, and fly in many, beautiful areas - subterranean strongholds and more. Descent 3 brought many improvements, such as open areas and great graphics improvements - while Descent 2 was still using the old, original engine, the third part of the series brought it into a new dimension. This game was undoubtedly one of the greatest hits of 1999. This includes the Descent 3: Mercenary expansion.

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Omens: Resurgence is the latest level in the Omens series, bringing back the Overload-style bots and weapons for another big singleplayer level. Although...

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Omens Full Version

A massive level for Descent 3 combining the sprawling level style of D3 with a more classic Descent feel, featuring Overload-style robots and weapons...

Basewars Redux

Basewars Redux

Silent Fury & Basewars Full Version

A re-imagined version of the original 2006 multiplayer-only level, with an entirely new AI controlled enemy team, resource management system, base repairs...

Silent Fury

Silent Fury

Silent Fury & Basewars Full Version

A 5-level FreeSpace style campaign for Descent 3. Version 1.1, Updated April 2019.

Descent, Descent 2 & Descent 3 Updates

Descent, Descent 2 & Descent 3 Updates

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This contains all of if not most of the updates for Descent, Descent II and Descent 3 including updates for Descent II that allow the use of 3D acceleration...

Miner Wars Setup - Benchmarking Demo

Miner Wars Setup - Benchmarking Demo

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Miner Wars Flythrough Hello Community! First of all let me thank you for all the positive feedback we received on our 30 user release of the non-interactive...

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Jules451
Jules451

Woefully underrated (and sadly somewhat forgotten) game! Easily my favorite entry in an already fantastic series.

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Re-synthesizer
Re-synthesizer

I used to own this game back in the early 2000s: It is an awesome game; very unique -- as far as I know a similar type of game has never come out since. Are there any mods, patches, or means to bring Descent 3 up to date and make it compatible with Windows 10? Also are there any mods, patches or means to give it a widescreen resolution of 1366x768?

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GodfatherPablo
GodfatherPablo

You can change the resolution with launch options on Descent 3.exe

just use -width 1366 -height 768 -aspect 1.78

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Sectorgame
Sectorgame

Just added a new mod added today: Silent Fury, a 5-level space-shooter campaign. If you're having trouble finding stuff for Descent 3 due to dead links, try this: Sectorgame.com - It has most, if not all levels and mods for the game.

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max-damage
max-damage

Does anyone have the pyromania 1.2.1 mod?

Sadly dateiliste.com is gone and that was the only location on the net for the pyromania files :(

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Daskaloto
Daskaloto

looks great

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RC1162
RC1162

Okay, there are several Descent sites where you can find more than just mods, but the 2 places I know of to get the Pyromania mod for Windows are Descentforum.net , there is a list of files and mods for D3, Pyromania is the first on the list. The other site to go to is www.planetdescent.com where you can find out anything about any descent game and download/upload everything ever made for descent.

About the mod, though. Pyromania should be installed in the folder descent is installed in. It will make its own executable through which you can play the game. The movies are disabled when using Pyromania, but the advantage of it is that you can play through all the levels of Descent 3 with 3 new ships and all the weapons of Descent 1 & 2. For multiplayer there are 3 extra ships in addition to the 3 ships usable in single-player mode. The 6 total ships are named as follows: Black Pyro (MP), Black Star (SP), Pyro-GX (SP) Pyro-SX (SP), Pyro-GE (MP), and the Starhawk. The Black Pyro and Starhawk have Dual-Missile launching capability. I may upload the installer later once I find out if it's legal to distribute it.

Also, Pyromania, along with the graphics, works better with patch v1.4 or better.

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xgmx
xgmx

Pyromania can be found online or you can buy it in the store

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War_Bringer
War_Bringer

I had forgotten how good the graphics were on this one, considering it was 1999 when it came out.

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TheNailer
TheNailer

if you can find it, the two disk version works on everything from 98 to XP, even when unpatched, but i sugest going to www.descent3.com and get the double jewl fix and get the official 1.4 patches

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