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As someone who put in hundreds of hours into the past games I'm cautiously optimistic about this. The possibility of additional customization of ships is a plus to me.
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2018 17:27 |
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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 08:00 |
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The TMs were part of the base game. I think they were introduced in X3:TC
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2018 21:32 |
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They did mention EVA combat, though I believe only in reference to placing charges on another ship.
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# ¿ Nov 23, 2018 15:38 |
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Hav posted:It's a reboot of the universe. I'm a huge Boron fan, and can only hope they come in later. Kha'ak were in Home of Light, and I believe Xenon are still around. I think we've already seen some Xenon ships in X4.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2018 20:25 |
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drat that map looks nice.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2018 22:53 |
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The spacelanes through gates are fantastic.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2018 23:58 |
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Cohh is sooooo happy about the GUI options.
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2018 19:32 |
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NPCs apparently build ships now. No infinite ships?
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 14:58 |
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*curses his work day just starting*
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 15:22 |
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Time to demand a refund then!
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 15:48 |
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Humble Bundle isn't handing out keys yet for some reason. Not that it matters to me because I'm going to be at work for 5+ more hours.
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2018 16:42 |
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The dev in Cohh's stream said that they were working on TrackIR implementation.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2018 01:48 |
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I've found a way to live the hobo life: crafting first aid kits as you hitch a ride from station to station. They sell for about ten times the resource cost.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2018 16:04 |
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Is it just me or is the Disco better all-around than the elite?
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 19:45 |
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GODDAMN FOOL posted:So say I'm doing a long-range scan and something pops up purple, that's for sure something special, right? I only ever find wormholes. Can it be anything else? Are there cool things out there that DON'T pop up purple? I *think* things like lockboxes and data vaults show up as blue. They'll also pop up a small blue ? (in a circle I think) on the sector map.
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2018 01:40 |
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FileNotFound posted:For fucks sake - Freespace 2 was released in 1999 and had working turrets - which ALSO had specific targets There's more ships active in any given sector in X4 than I think the entire Freespace 2 campaign had. The game has a *lot* of turrets. Almost every station module can have a few turrets on them. And then there's also the economy calculations and the various ships going around that need calculations as well. There are almost certainly code inefficiencies but comparing it to a far simpler game decades old is laughable.
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2018 19:03 |
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Wrr posted:So by what you said and the pictures of sector maps, does that mean that they got rid of loads between the sectors? I played a bunch of X3 and its expansions in the day and I remember that having discrete sectors and the gates jumped / loaded you into new ones. There's little-to-no actual loading (there's a bit of a travel sequence for the sub-sector transitions). The superhighway runs through about a dozen gates and is pretty much seamless. Sectors/subsectors expand indefinitely and you can't travel from one to another.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2018 16:08 |
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OwlFancier posted:So what you're saying is that the AP has become more state of the art and realistic Autopilot by Tesla.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2018 21:12 |
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Squiggle posted:...it did... Ghost Ride the Disco
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2018 21:59 |
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You can specifically see the behavior with bean turrets.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2018 05:41 |
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The pier you start with is also the hardest one to place.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2018 20:28 |
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Tooled around a bit in the beta patch and saw a lot more combat in the sectors at the beginning. There was Khaak everywhere, just like the early days of the internet.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2018 15:05 |
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:Thanks! Didn't know this. Well there's no point in doing the missions, then, is there? I mean, if the goal was to embiggen the (AI) economy rather than as a money making job. As long as it's not in a terrible location they're basically subsidizing a station for you.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2018 15:30 |
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Squiggle posted:Honestly, travel engines fuckin' rule with the spool up - they go slow as poo poo if you just enter travel mode, but what you should do is hit Travel mode and IMMEDIATELY slam boost. You've only got like a single second to boost before travel mode takes, but (with the Discoverer) you can get up to 1600+ in that second before the windup cutoff which gets you up to speed WAY faster than the combat engine can. Isn't pitch rate determined by the thrusters, not the engines?
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2018 17:14 |
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Leal posted:The hardest thing in going back to X3 is the lack of custom emblems. I'm pretty sure in at least one of the X3 games you could as I remember having one. Or was that only X2?
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 03:44 |
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2.5 just dropped.Egosoft posted:New Feature: Resupply ships are now available and carriers can also resupply their fighters.
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# ¿ May 28, 2019 17:27 |
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I know it's really not any different from an autopilot but I rather enjoy being chauffered around by a hired pilot, allowing me to do base management work without worrying (too much) about flying about.
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2020 18:26 |
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Did they improve the explore command? I'm noticing that my little Discos are revealing more of the sectors a lot faster than they used to and seem to be wasting less time searching the same spots.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2020 21:29 |
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I believe some of the AI stations have that arrangement.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2020 03:54 |
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My PCs performance for this game was never great but it's become a real slideshow lately.
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2020 01:47 |
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They already pushed it live. Just in time for to start a fresh unmodified game so I can play around with Ventures.
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2020 13:55 |
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nessin posted:Did they do anything with Ventures? I was going to start an unmodded game because of them but the options menu still said it was in beta so I kind of assumed they just dropped the concept and left in whatever was there when they first implemented it. I wasn't sure which is why I started the new game. I know my modded game had a number of venture ships in it but since it was modified I couldn't send any out.
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2020 18:13 |
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Anyone know if the money crystals spawn on mineable asteroids or only on the empty ones? Edit: Found some, so yes. Taerkar fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Apr 10, 2020 |
# ¿ Apr 9, 2020 21:30 |
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah there's a bug in 3.1 it seems that buggers the explore command and also makes map squares not reveal when you go over them. I was wondering what the hell was happening. Also for making money I've been starting with one of the Argon M-sized freighters (Idriss?) and rolling around with them. They have two turrets on the sides and are fast enough that they rarely have any issue with pirates (Make sure their default reaction is escape) and if the pilot isn't skilled enough you can use the trade filter on the map to find some good runs. Just filter for specific products and queue up a number of trades to make the $$$. I've had good luck with Teliadianium(?) and occasionally microchips and advanced electronics, though your numbers will likely vary due to how the economy plays out and the various ongoing conflicts. A decent "plop one down and forget about it" option is a Drill (mineral) mining silicon in Argon Prime. There's a silicon refinery there that'll reliably pay ~145k per Drill run and its a rather safe sector. Taerkar fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Apr 10, 2020 |
# ¿ Apr 10, 2020 18:33 |
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Not really sure if I want to play any more until they fix some of the issues from 3.1. And I just recovered the Odysseus.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 17:14 |
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Are those the slaves that show up in that cutscene in the one Xenon system? Because they kinda flew into the side of a Xenon frigate and died.
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2020 20:52 |
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I got achievements with a modded game?
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2020 03:10 |
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Figures that I've got a whole bunch of crafting materials EXCEPT Argon Beef.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 19:09 |
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Just recently discovered that you can see what the pilots of your other ships have picked up for collecting.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 22:19 |
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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 08:00 |
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The only downside of the scientist start is that you don't get the free corvette.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2020 03:16 |