Had to make another thread, I had the title wrong, and it looked like an x-men game.

THIS IS A SPACE SIM game. Fully dynamic economy, killer graphics. If you loved freelancer but thought it was static and repetative, THIS IS THE GAME FOR YOU. Want FLEETS??? Well build yourself a corporate empire to finance it!!!1






















Comes out next friday in the US. Already released in the UK. v1.0 had abunch of bugs, but the developers new that and they already have a v1.2 patch out a week b4 it gets release in America, v1.1 was made for internal use.

10/28/2005 10:39:28 AM

goddamn.

I would get like 0.5 fps on that game.

10/28/2005 11:01:55 AM

gahdamn

10/28/2005 11:11:29 AM

wow. beautiful. i might get this game, i've always wanted to try space sims.

10/28/2005 11:18:56 AM

what do u mean by "space sim"? is that like a good looking version of starcraft or more like a flight sim?

10/28/2005 11:41:08 AM

Think a cross between Sim City and Freelancer, but in 3D space

10/28/2005 11:42:47 AM

holy shit i might try this out

10/28/2005 11:47:19 AM

So its like Homeworld then?

10/28/2005 12:08:17 PM

Aparantly, you dont need a god computer to run it. Though I wouldnt try this game with a geforce 4 or equivalent and expect sexyness. Hell, because of the menus, the minimum resolution is 1024x768

Its alot like freelancer.......except with things to do other than missions.

You can follow the storyline, or you can never do the storyline.

You can make factories to churn out product to sell to AI traders, or buy a huge freighter and buy cheap sell high in different sectors.

Eventually you will gain rank and reputation and have capital class ships with their complement of fighters and such.

BASICALLY everything freelancers was and wasnt.
BUT IT DOESNT HAVE THE CONTROLS OF FREELANCER. More like a sim in that you will most likely want a joystick. More complicated.

Here is the X Universe home page.
http://www.egosoft.com/community/news_en.php

EDIT: ITS NOTHING like homeworld, starcraft or any other RTS. If you have no idea what this is like, DL X2 The Threat demo or wait for the X3 demo to come out. X2 has a steeper learning curve though.

[Edited on October 28, 2005 at 2:06 PM. Reason : dsd]

10/28/2005 2:04:21 PM

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE SCREEN SHOTS DFMLSKDJLSKDJFSFD

10/28/2005 4:20:49 PM

As simple as it was, my favorite space sim/trading game was and probably always will be Escape Velocity.

10/28/2005 5:07:47 PM

I am saddened by the fact that the space sim market aparantly isnt big in the US. This was developed in europe. But I guess the best made it threw cause this is the only real one left thats alive.

10/28/2005 5:31:39 PM

10/30/2005 12:28:10 AM

that does look pretty amazing

10/30/2005 1:09:00 AM

i hope patrick stewart is in this one

10/30/2005 1:39:51 AM

graphics look like eve online....


...but better

wonder if it runs widescreen

10/30/2005 6:29:39 PM

99% sure it does

10/30/2005 6:30:58 PM

wow, NICE! definitly going to buy this game when it comes out. I saw X3 Reunion all over the places, ads and stuff but for some reason i never looked further into it cause i thought it was yet another x-men game

10/30/2005 6:59:53 PM

holy SHIT

this game looks very promising

10/30/2005 7:33:01 PM

we alreay have eve...

10/30/2005 7:43:37 PM

Escape Velocity, that was a fun game

have you played the new one? with the 3 major factions?

10/30/2005 7:44:24 PM

Quote :

"we alreay have eve..."

we have monthly payments

MMO's although fun, have limitations when it comes to real life.....its their power over people

[Edited on October 30, 2005 at 8:34 PM. Reason : dasdasd]

10/30/2005 8:33:43 PM

k

10/30/2005 8:38:55 PM

TRADE WARS WAS BETTER

10/30/2005 9:11:05 PM

this makes me want to play EVE again until wed

10/30/2005 10:09:54 PM

This looks awesome.

I used to play Wing Commander Privateer all the time

I didn't play freelancer because of the shitty controls.

10/30/2005 11:56:11 PM

^ um....unless you just straight up hate mouse controls then I can see them being bad. But to most people, freelancers controls system is the most intuitive and easy to learn control system out there.



BUT ON TO MORE PICS!!@!@!@!@!2121





[Edited on October 31, 2005 at 9:48 AM. Reason : dfg]

10/31/2005 9:47:30 AM

thats a jump gate I think....

[Edited on November 1, 2005 at 10:30 PM. Reason : asd]

11/1/2005 10:29:48 PM

so is this somewhat similar to escape velocity?

11/1/2005 10:32:29 PM

thanks to this thread i started playing eve again


but that'll stop when this comes out because goddamn eve gets boring

11/1/2005 10:51:10 PM

is it Nov 3rd yet?

11/1/2005 10:54:29 PM

So is this game a in-cockpit game type of combat or a pick a target and push fire, like Earth and Beyond?

11/2/2005 8:42:31 AM

The music in the trailer is kickass

11/2/2005 9:30:08 AM

They took the cockpits out because it blocks to much stuff, and they would of had to of modeled the correct geometry for each cockpit. Basically trading no cockpits for more ships.

Anyhoo, yea from what I have read the sound is amazing.

11/2/2005 1:31:29 PM

bah i thought this would be one of those massive multiplayer ones, like Earth and Beyond..

11/2/2005 2:53:35 PM

11/2/2005 6:35:16 PM

I CALL NIGHTCRAWLER

11/2/2005 7:01:17 PM

sweet wallpapers.

11/3/2005 10:55:18 AM

this is out tomorrow right?

11/3/2005 5:31:25 PM

thats what I hear....

11/3/2005 6:38:09 PM

OMG CABLE IS USING HIS GAY GUN MOVES AGAIN, CABLE IS FOR FAGS...PIC A REAL CHARACTER.

11/3/2005 6:44:09 PM

lame comp, insert another reference here

[Edited on November 3, 2005 at 6:45 PM. Reason : .]

11/3/2005 6:45:25 PM

damn yankee

11/3/2005 7:06:26 PM

Not gonna be in stores until ~mid next week

11/5/2005 9:51:28 PM

I was wondering where this thread went


any more news on this game?

11/5/2005 9:55:53 PM

It will be in stores this week sometime, just need to call whoever anc check. If you want more in depth info on the game you have to go to the link above and read in the forums a whole bunch

11/6/2005 3:18:14 PM

ATTN: Best Buy in Garner has X3 in stock. 3 copies left though. To my knowledge it is the only place around here that has it.

GL

11/9/2005 2:04:08 PM

best buy on glenwood sure as hell didn't




i hear this game uses some crazy copy protection (aka it makes running it legit hard sometimes) so let me know how that goes

11/10/2005 12:07:54 PM

Either they sold out, or you didnt look in the right section. I had to ask someone to find it for me cause they are all broken up according to genre.

Installed and runs fine on my computer. Having a hard time figuring out how to make money cause I never played X2. Just gotta find a walkthrough on how to get your bearings.

Waiting the release of patch v1.3. Should optimise the graphic engine and fix alot of bugs. You cant even get through the storyline because of CTD errors. But the game is mostly about aquiring wealth and such.

11/10/2005 6:09:07 PM

Anyhoo, been playing it for a while and I am relativly comfortable with it.

At first if you dont want to do the missions you will feel really overwhelmed. I had to read alot of the forums to figure out the best way to do things. I dont have a factory yet, but I have explored abunch and know what to do when I get a factory.

But once you get over the learning curve this game freaking rulz. Semi newtonian physics make the space fights really kewl.

You can buy freighters, load them up with trading software and have them make you money trading. Eventually when they get to lvl 8 you can get them a jump drive and they can go all over the place making better money.

Eventually you will be able to destroy sectors and make your own empire.

And since it is space, there is alot of space to hide pirate bases and easter eggs/free ships.

Currently v1.21 with 1.3 coming out soon.

11/17/2005 9:56:37 PM