Dark Forces Out For Steam

theshadowcult said:
thats really cool. another set of games that could genuinely get a remake.
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There's been a couple of projects started to rebuild Dark Forces in the Quake3-engine games. I think they never got very far though.

I've also seen a bunch of Doom mods that bring in the DF weapons and enemies, but nobody's taken the next step and put them in the levels.
 
I hadn't heard of the Dark Engine. Sounds like a good escuse to play dark Forces again though I'm really looking forward to support for Outlaws.
 
Destroy said:
You need to own the original game, correct? Its $2 on GoG.com right now fwiw.
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Yup, this runs just like any source port for any other game. You need to acquire the game files somehow, and for $2 its an easy choice.
 
SubCog said:
Tried the newest build on LuciusDXL's Force Engine. It's fully playable now, with enemy AI and everything. Even supports widescreen, which is nice. I'm still waiting for the perspective correct renderer though, as the default renderer makes me pretty queasy to play. But some folks are saying they've played through the whole game on the current build.

Looking forward to more progress this year. We're getting pretty close to having a proper Dark Forces source port, with the expected quality-of-life features you'd expect from such a project.

https://theforceengine.github.io/blog.html


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Makes me think about going back and replaying all the great 90s 2.5d shooters with modern source ports. Many of which I never played at the time, or have never finished.
  • Doom 1&2
  • Duke 3d
  • Heretic
  • Hexen
  • Blood
  • Dark Forces
  • Shadow Warrior

Does Descent count? I played the heck out of that at the time.

I occasionally revisit Wolfenstein 3d, although honestly I can't see myself playing more than 20 minutes at a time. Modern source ports do nice things for it, but it's still a VERY primitive game.

I've tried to get into Rise of the Triad several times, but just never really got it.
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Blood has a spiritual sequel called Cultic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ZK8_XAeXM



Looks like an update 2.5 build engined game.
 
How about Dark Forces 2 Unreal Engine?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/dark-forces-2-v1-78228910

DARK FORCES 2 UNREAL ENGINE REMAKE V1.0

Welcome to my first Unreal Engine project.

The goal was to recreate one of my favorite games back from my childhood while keeping the base look, feeling and gameplay

and of course learning the engine itself.




After nearly 3 years of development the project is finally at a point where I feel ready to share it with you.




Original game by Lucasarts from 1997




Version 1.0 comes with:

- 2 offical levels from the original game

- 4 Survival levels

- a Sandbox mode

- 3d model viewer

- bonus level for testing

- some secrets...




Download Version 1.0:

Password: DF2




Download Link 1

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Download Link 2

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