Descent 2 [Full Playthrough]

Longplay going through all 30 levels on Hotshot using DXX-Rebirth v0.58.1, played with Keyboard and Mouse.

I put aside the stress I'm going through just to get it done. Anyways, hope those of you who watch it enjoy what you see. Also.. Sorry for all the lag and using the gauss so much, it's just so OP that it outclasses all the other primaries.

If I do another one, D2: Vertigo Series is a possibility, but I refuse to play Descent 3. Sorry.

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0:00:00 - Intro

0:03:29 - System 1: Zeta Aquilae
0:03:43 - Level 1: Ahayweh Gate
0:07:28 - Level 2: Turnabout Bore
0:12:07 - Level 3: Wenl Mine
0:18:21 - Secret Level 1: Segment City
0:21:10 - Level 4: Robby Station
0:26:45 - System 2: Quartzon
0:26:58 - Level 5: Seaspring Gorge
0:33:35 - Secret Level 2: Hurdle Chase
0:35:22 - Level 6: The Well
0:39:57 - Level 7: Coralbank Quarry
0:44:34 - Level 8: Riverbed Mine
0:48:01 - System 3: Brimspark
0:48:15 - Level 9: Firewalker Mine
0:57:47 - Level 10: Extraction Ctr.
1:11:39 - Level 11: Coalbank Shaft
1:22:16 - Level 12: Magnacore Station
1:33:12 - Secret Level 3: Mephisto Hardcore
1:42:45 - Return to Level 12
1:45:23 - System 4: Limefrost Spiral
1:45:36 - Level 13: Sleetstone Tunnels
1:51:22 - Level 14: Arcticon Corridor
1:54:55 - Secret Level 4: Galacia Caverns
1:58:58 - Return to Level 14
2:04:09 - Level 15: Icehammer Caverns
2:18:35 - Level 16: Terrafrost Catacombs
2:38:27 - System 5: Baloris Prime
2:38:41 - Level 17: Y'tor III
2:49:02 - Secret Level 5: Ascent Level 1
2:55:58 - Level 18: Drec'nibie K'luh
3:07:38 - Level 19: Nep-hilim S'crub
3:17:18 - Level 20: Gytowt Station
3:30:38 - System 6: Puuma Sphere (Omega System part 1)
3:30:51 - Level 21: N'neri Ring
3:47:27 - Level 22: Kwod A'rior
3:59:55 - Level 23: Iwihml
4:07:52 - System 7: Tycho Brahe (Omega System part 2)
4:12:57 - Secret Level 6: Chain Reaction
4:17:03 - Return to Level 24
4:20:10 - Outro

[gatzad]

I remember that intro cinematic being cool as a kid but seeing it all these years later, I’m really impressed with how well it holds up.

[Kaizen]

Never expected this video to amount to anything. Thanks, everybody <3

[TheExiledTexan]

God, my seven-year-old ass HATED that thieving bastard who steals your weapons and powerups. Even after all these years, it still feels good to see him die.

[gallosuelto]

I use to love this game as a kid.
It disappeared into my memories and I COULD NOT REMEMBER THE NAME.
I searched and searched and after a year and a half, i was able to scrap together enough data from my memory bank to put together a list of descriptions to find this game...
Never knew there was a mission to this and I honestly just loved the control you had and the awesome visuals.
Oh how I have missed this game.

[skullkandy]

It's about time this game gets a remastered edition

[PrimitiveBaroque]

Descent 2 intro movie was so amazing back then. My StarCraft name was ZetaAquilae lol, named after the planet.

[bigchunk]

This game was incredible. I just love how this guy knows exactly where to go. When I was a kid, I thought the part at 2:35:50 was impossible. I had to get my Dad to help me figure it out, but we did end up beating it.

[bormisha]

It's a pleasure to see such a professional play. Man, you must love Descent 2 so much that you studied every aspect of each level! The "Hot shot" difficulty seems to easy for you. It's also nice that you played the soundtrack with a great variety of sound fonts, making it entertaining. Really well done.

[MrAdam]

amazing game!!!! thank you for the awesome playthrough and for keeping this game alive in 2017 and beyond!!!....

[chainz]

Love this game !! PLayed it over and over. Loved to park my ship and launch a missle and go by my ship watching it sit there. There were/are many killer user made levels. I remember playing in Kali. Really fond memories. I am going to buy the new Descent game that is about to be launched when it is released.

[PunmasterSTP]

I only played the first Descent, and that was years after it came out, but after starting to come to terms with the controls I just loved the sense of speed so much. This playthrough was really fun to watch; thanks for uploading!

[kilroy]

3:29 System 1 - Rock
26:44 System 2 - Water
48:01 System 3 - Lava
1:45:22 System 4 - Ice
2:38:27 System 5 - Gold
3:30:37 System 6 - Emerald
4:07:52 System 7 - Final Boss

Best game in the series, I think. I hated the minigun and missile robots of Descent 1 - they usually spelled instant death for me. Descent 2 calmed that down by replacing the minigun robots with gauss cannon robots, and the situations created with any missile shooters allowed more of a response. Descent 3 was just bleh to me. Hee, even in Descent 2, huge bases explode like a moon does in Star Trek 6.

2:40 With my interest in computer graphics and knowing what they could do, I always took notice of how perfectly the ship comes to a stop in relation to the background. I like it when the composition of a scene expresses some technical credence instead of just keeping things moving in an offseting way for a mood.

[kenhenderson]

Thank you for making this. Thought you'd like to know someone is still using it. Without it, I'd probably give up. Me and my buddies played hooky from work and bought it when it first came out in the nineties. I did play through it but I don't remember anything from when I first played it.

[PlutoTheGod]

It’s taken me YEARS to find this game again. Still looking for a few others from my childhood, this honestly is just as cool and confusing as I remember.

[АндрейГришенко-дк]

That was a pleasure to watch. You don't use plasma cannon much. It is better on energy than laser, good damage and faster fire rate (obviously). It is really the most optimal weapon in the game. Flairs are a waste of energy. Better to turn on headlight. Vulcan cannon is useful in lava levels. Laser is good against medium slow moving bots. Helix is a killer on large bots. Same as me on missile use, I always end up with a pile of unused missiles but I hardly ever used fusion cannon. Omega is useful against pesky swarmers. It was really funny when thief actually managed to steal something. Poor bot signed its death warrant.
This game was a beast to play online and single player, even on hardest difficulty seemed boring. I remember toying for hours with the last boss before putting out of its misery.

[JaredDoyle]

A lot of fond memories playing this in college instead of doing homework. The CD audio soundtrack is pretty cool and I listened to it all the time in my car. Got a lot of strange looks from people with it blasting while sitting in traffic 😅😅

[vitarius]

My dad and I used to play this in multiplayer when I was like 8! Good memories. Great playing, thanks for the upload! I’d love to see you play on a higher difficulty level just for kicks

[ThCreativeVideoGroup]

Thank you for posting these! You brought me back to my childhood, playing D1 and D2 on my Mac PowerPC tower. Seriously awesome piloting! ✌️

Please do a Descent 3 video!!! 🙏

[jimsalmon]

I remember playing this game with my friends in high school. We set up a network game in the school’s computer lab, put the game on Insane mode, and proceeded to blow each other up! One of the highlights of my childhood!

[bellmakersalp]

nice vid
some of the level names are obvious but:
Level 1 - AHAYWEH Gate - Abandon hope all ye who enter here
Level 23 - I wish I had more light (no energy recharge station, very mean surprise my first time...)