We are not entitled to sell downloadable Descent 3 licenses.
Then come back to download our package and install it on your computer. Buy Descent 3 from somewhere else instead, but don't install it. "Wow! That's exactly what I was looking for! Where can I buy this package?" Sorry, the software can't be installed on Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT, but it runs just fine in Wine under Linux. Minimum required Windows operating system for our Descent 3 version is Windows 2000.
A selection of Descent 3 films can be found in the PromoFilms folder here on Dateiliste. Alone YouTube and Google offer tons of them. If you really want to download and install them anyway, they are not very hidden on the net. Since we doubt that most people would like to download and install several gigabytes of Descent 3 videos and watch them for hours, we decided not to include any in the package. You can easily find another few gigabytes of fan-made promo films and music videos on the net. The reason for this is that there are simply too many of them around. Here's what it doesn't contain: Fan-made promo films.
Users need to know what they have to download and how to install it. Outrage's online service is dead, hence it's not possible to play Descent 3 online out of the box anymore, although there still is an active online player community - They are only not that easy to find.
It takes a bit of googling, downloading, and trial and error to get it, since some distributions contain a copy of the wrong patch for the wrong localized version of the game. The standard patch, which most people are playing, for Descent 3 is the one that upgrades it to version 1.4. There is no easy way to break that circle. No wonder, the game is 10 years old.ĭirectly off the CD, it's not even possible to register the game, although it keeps asking for it. It's only the beginning of a long journey of outdated information and references. This may be the first, but it will by far be the last surprise potential players encounter when installing Descent 3. When the CD installation starts, one of the first misleading things it does is make the wrong suggestions for upgrading DirectX and Flash. Poor Best Descent 3 - Installation, updates, and modificationsĮverybody who's done or tried it before knows it already: The complete installation of Descent 3 takes at least a few days, and novice computer users have no chance at all.