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Drafell
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Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
|  Posted: 2005-11-10 07:11
Three words:
Oh My God!
They have revamped nearly everything and the game is friggin awesome...
Don't try running it on anything less than a PR 2.5ghz machine and on medium settings though. It eats resources like crazy, but its gorgeous!
*drools*
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Koda
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Fatal Squadron
Joined: August 29, 2002
Posts: 1384
| Posted: 2005-11-10 09:42
Im Headed to EB games right now!
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Drafell
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Mythica
Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2005-11-10 11:00
Performance Tips:
- Reduce Shade effects to Low
- Reduce Textures to Medium
- Disable Anti-Aliasing
- Run in Windowed Mode
For some reason the HUD overlay causes a lot of FPS lag, most of which is avoided in Windowed mode due to the way in which Windows handles application and the memory management.
Gameplay:
The new physics model they are using is nice. It's a good development on from the old engine and now is using a semi-newtonian model.
You can no longer fly about inside space stations, but now you can build up your own stations and form them into complexes using a special kit. This means you can create truely massive stations which you can have fun navigating around in your little M5 class ships, or you can even eject and use your space suit to take a closer look.
The controls still aren't comparible to the Iwar2 or Freespace full newtonian models, but as a hybrid system it works very well and is a lot more functional and even challenging to fly well compared to the older X-Series games.
Combat is fun.
[ This Message was edited by: Drafell on 2005-11-10 11:10 ]
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kenetiks
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Galactic Navy
Joined: November 21, 2001
Posts: 1130
From: Bandcamp
| Posted: 2005-11-10 11:39
x3?
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Fatal Rocko Willis
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Fatal Squadron
Joined: March 01, 2003
Posts: 1336
From: Kentucky
| Posted: 2005-11-10 13:08
Thats what I thought... I was thinking maybe an X-Man 3 game since X-Men 3: The Movie is coming out soon... A game prequle like the Matrix games where to the third Matrix movie but he refers to Freespace and IW2... Are you talking about another X-Wing Game? Please enlighten us... I for one would like to see a Freespace/IW2 type game again...
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Tbone
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Joined: July 21, 2001
Posts: 1756
From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2005-11-10 14:27
It's a space flight, space fight, space trade game. Basically, you fly things, shoot things, build things, buy things, sell things. It's a very large scale game. Think Jumpgate combined with EvE.
I wasn't too keen on X2 myself. Very, VERY, VERY grinding. And complicated controls (don't get me started on the cameras).
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Crim
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Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: March 16, 2003
Posts: 1336
| Posted: 2005-11-10 14:29
I thought you tried to due the <3 thing, and ment darkspace..I was ready to go into teh MV :/
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Veronw
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Joined: December 13, 2004
Posts: 554
| Posted: 2005-11-10 14:36
still drawing a blank, is it for pc, is it RPG, is it cool and were does it come out at?!?!?! details plz lol
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Veronw
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Joined: December 13, 2004
Posts: 554
| Posted: 2005-11-10 14:37
and a quesiton doran, in ur sig it has DS galaxies link, what is it? and do u have to pay for account? just wondering cus i saw 3 VCA in...
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Veronw
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Joined: December 13, 2004
Posts: 554
| Posted: 2005-11-10 14:38
er sorry drafell.......keep getting names mixed up today...sorry again....
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James Bum007
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Joined: April 23, 2003
Posts: 480
From: Queens, New York
| Posted: 2005-11-10 14:53
OMG that game looks awesome. Breathless, speachless. Wow.
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Drafell
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Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2005-11-10 17:45
Ok here goes for all you uninformed...
http://www.egosoft.com/games/x3/info_en.php
Thats the Official site link.
For all those too lazy to click:-
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NEXT GENERATION OF THE X UNIVERSE - X³: REUNION
The Sequel to the award winning X²: The Threat will introduce a new 3D engine as well as a new story, new ships and a new gameplay to greatly increase the variety in the X-universe. The economy of X³: Reunion will be more complex than anything seen in the X-universe before. Factories are being built by NPCs, wars can affect the global economy, NPCs can trade freely and pirates will behave far more realistically.
The Technology
Extensive development has gone into the X³ engine, making full use of DirectX 9 technology, to create dramatic visual effects and stunningly realistic starships. Coupled with the massively enhanced A.L. (Artificial Life) system, X³: REUNION will present players with an ever changing, evolving universe; where a player
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It's like Elite, but in full 3d and BIG. And gorgeous. IMO it's probably the best Space trading/combat series of games and the longest running for the PC.
It's not really that well known in the US because it is developed by a german company and so is a much more European style game.
If you ever wanted a completely free roaming sandbox space game, then this is it. If you put the time into it, you CAN own the entire universe. (all 140+ systems)
It's realy hard to describe. It' just big and you can fly every ship in the game, from the tiniest Scout to the largest destroyers and TS class mega-transporters.
If your idea of fun is to build up a huge 100+ ship invasion force, go for it.
If your idea of fun is to micro managed 100+ stations and factories, go for it.
If your idea of fun is becomeing the most notorious pirate ever known...
You can't really get much more freeform.
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BackSlash
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Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2005-11-10 17:48
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On 2005-11-10 11:00, Drafell wrote:
Performance Tips:
- Reduce Shade effects to Low
- Reduce Textures to Medium
- Disable Anti-Aliasing
- Run in Windowed Mode
For some reason the HUD overlay causes a lot of FPS lag, most of which is avoided in Windowed mode due to the way in which Windows handles application and the memory management.
Gameplay:
The new physics model they are using is nice. It's a good development on from the old engine and now is using a semi-newtonian model.
You can no longer fly about inside space stations, but now you can build up your own stations and form them into complexes using a special kit. This means you can create truely massive stations which you can have fun navigating around in your little M5 class ships, or you can even eject and use your space suit to take a closer look.
The controls still aren't comparible to the Iwar2 or Freespace full newtonian models, but as a hybrid system it works very well and is a lot more functional and even challenging to fly well compared to the older X-Series games.
Combat is fun.
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First game to enable me to use my crossfire card properly 
"X3 has detected you have a ATI Crossfire™ card installed and will automaticly optimize the graphics performance settings based on your system settings".
I checked it out afterwards and everything was up way high... Runs smooth too.
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Ham&Swiss
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Joined: October 12, 2004
Posts: 418
From: 10$ to whoever finds me
| Posted: 2005-11-10 20:09
Ya, but u have a monster of a machine, man i can barely play DS for more then 3 hours a a time...
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James Bum007
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Joined: April 23, 2003
Posts: 480
From: Queens, New York
| Posted: 2005-11-10 20:15
I went to EB games and bought the only one they had, it was still boxed with the new arrivals.
Gonna install it, my machine should be able to handle it. I have a monster 
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