Descent veteran here (we call ourselves Pyro-jockeys). Shout out to all the other pilots here!
The Descent games never caught on as a mainstream game because of how they played. It frankly was too much for most gamers to handle, dealing with all six degrees of freedom at once. I describe...
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a PERFECT example of the absent-mindedness that permeates every aspect of my life! *takes a bow*
Thanks for giving me the slap upside the head I needed, Stump :P
It's fantastic to see that things are going better now, and we can only hope for full tilt production to start again. I'd be delighted to have my Pandora by Christmas, but I'll wait my turn like everyone else! I believe I'm in Batch 2, or at least I assumed I would be. I'm not really nursing any...
Batch 2 Pandora customer here (I'm not affiliated with the team).
It's good of you to state your case as a warning, but understand just what position the Pandora team is in. This is a team of perhaps a dozen people (please correct me if I'm wrong, those more in the know) all constructing a...
I ordered my Pandora in July of this year, so I'm not counting on seeing it in the forseeable future. But I knew that when I ordered, so it's not particularly bothersome to see the development process hit roadblocks. It's really not worth getting worked up over. The OP team is doing everything...
I agree with you completely. The real shame is that the Pandora itself is suffering because of these companies' laziness. And now that they've been sent the message and are finally doing things right, things are taking much longer than they should have. Which really hurts everyone.
I don't know if one of the engines previously mentioned is what powers it, but I heard Descent I/II has been ported to the Pandora. I've actually worked in that engine before (i.e. I built Descent levels). It's a decent engine, only spazzing out when it detects nonconvex cubes (which is rather a...
As far as I understand, the Pandora's case is moulded in color. That is, the plastic that's put into the moulds is already black - so there's nothing to paint. So even if it did chip, there would just be more black plastic underneath the surface.