X2 the threat consumed many many hours.A great game but it had many flaws
1.The combat it was pretty poor compared to games like free space 2
2.The fact that the early ships feel tremendously under powered .The first few ships you own they could barely hurt any enemys let alone destroy them.And even my current argon nova one of the best m3 ships against 2 or more khaak ships you would be wasted (though the game was made harder by the 1.4 patch
There were other flaws but many were fixed with the plugins and patches
Now onto first impression for X3
The graphics are great better then x2 the planets you see are so well defined with seas land and even moving clouds.Shame you cannot land on them.The ships and factorys also seem more imaginative.With solar power plants looking like 3 Massive solar panels
My comp is
ati 9800
athlon 64 3000
1gb memory
And it runs fine a bit of stuttering though when things get busy
There are a few things that seem different from x2 on initial play one the menus You can access some menus by pressing esc or num pad enter and this brings up a transclucent menu on the hud you press the right mouse button which brings the mous pointer up so you can click on icons for each menu.Will take some getting used to but its pretty good.
The next thing i noticed no cockpit view you just have a fullscreen.Makes gameplay sense i suppose.But does detract from the atmosphere i always liked it when you got a new ship and you could see the different cockpits
With many stations now you dock on hangers that are on the outside now which i do not mind at all while again in x2 docking inside stations added to the atmosphere it makes more gameplay sense this time
No warp tunnel graphics either shame really
The big change you start with a argon buster and you go into combat very early on (if you follow the story) and the combat is far better you can actually destroy ships and even some khaak ships (which would have been i very very hard in x2 with the argon buster)
At the moment though i have just started trading but will give a more indepth comment as soon as i have put some good hours in
Seems good so far
Oh download the patch straightaway. Up to 1.2 now
1.The combat it was pretty poor compared to games like free space 2
2.The fact that the early ships feel tremendously under powered .The first few ships you own they could barely hurt any enemys let alone destroy them.And even my current argon nova one of the best m3 ships against 2 or more khaak ships you would be wasted (though the game was made harder by the 1.4 patch
There were other flaws but many were fixed with the plugins and patches
Now onto first impression for X3
The graphics are great better then x2 the planets you see are so well defined with seas land and even moving clouds.Shame you cannot land on them.The ships and factorys also seem more imaginative.With solar power plants looking like 3 Massive solar panels
My comp is
ati 9800
athlon 64 3000
1gb memory
And it runs fine a bit of stuttering though when things get busy
There are a few things that seem different from x2 on initial play one the menus You can access some menus by pressing esc or num pad enter and this brings up a transclucent menu on the hud you press the right mouse button which brings the mous pointer up so you can click on icons for each menu.Will take some getting used to but its pretty good.
The next thing i noticed no cockpit view you just have a fullscreen.Makes gameplay sense i suppose.But does detract from the atmosphere i always liked it when you got a new ship and you could see the different cockpits
With many stations now you dock on hangers that are on the outside now which i do not mind at all while again in x2 docking inside stations added to the atmosphere it makes more gameplay sense this time
No warp tunnel graphics either shame really
The big change you start with a argon buster and you go into combat very early on (if you follow the story) and the combat is far better you can actually destroy ships and even some khaak ships (which would have been i very very hard in x2 with the argon buster)
At the moment though i have just started trading but will give a more indepth comment as soon as i have put some good hours in
Seems good so far
Oh download the patch straightaway. Up to 1.2 now
i have a feeling during the first mission the enemys were made easier.But in x2 i would have been wasted in probably about 30 sec.But still i reckon with a couple of upgrades i will be able to defeat them (the starting weapon did get rid of the enemys shields pretty quickly)
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