X3 Albion Prelude

[Pinback]

Jumping in from know where is a digital only game from Egosoft covering he period between the X Universe and X Rebirth http://www.egosoft.com/games/x3ap/info_en.php
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Feature overviewA new plot throws you into the power struggle between corporations at a time of war.More than 30 new ships and stationsNew Stock Exchange feature allows advanced investment strategiesImproved graphics quality setting for high end machinesImproved UI introducing charts to visualize economic developmentsSupport for head tracking
Due out on the 15 of this month, seems to only available on steam and there is a Mac version on the way as well.

[sscadmin]

I liked the trailer and it is a good move to do something like this since Egosoft had to push out release of Rebirth to next year. And since X3TC save games are not compatible I wonder how long game time will be in this game and will it be mostly action like the trailer makes it out to be...?

[Jabberwocky]

DarkOne wrote:
will it be mostly action like the trailer makes it out to be...?
I'll believe it when I see it. ;)There's a lot of great in the X games, but action ain't one of them.

[CaptainKal]

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There's a lot of great in the X games, but action ain't one of them.
But Pinback must be very excited that Egosoft released a new X game.

[Pinback]

CaptainKal wrote:
But Pinback must be very excited that Egosoft released a new X game.
Thank god it’s digital only. Can’t play it or add to my collection.Think they might be trying the same trick Bioware did with the DLC for Mass Effect which bridges the story gap between 2 and 3.

[darksmaster923]

It's going to be released tomorrow, I'm definately interested to see what it will bring

[Pinback]

Anyone have any thoughts about this yet.

[Pinback]

Well well there an unpleasant surprise looks like there is going to be a box version of the game in Feb 2012http://www.egosoft.com/news/current_en.phpAlso going to appear on the mac early 2012

[sscadmin]

If I remember correctly too is that if you buy the X Superbox you get X3: Albion Prelude for free.

[CaptainKal]

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If I remember correctly too is that if you buy the X Superbox you get X3: Albion Prelude for free.
Yes. You can register the community code of the retail version with Steam, and it will appear with the games you already have (With a Steam version of Superbox).
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Well well there an unpleasant surprise looks like there is going to be a box version of the game in Feb 2012
They really made your day

[Pinback]

Guess I will buy a copy might even play it, then again. Has anyone actually played this and how different is it to X3TC, I know theres some gameplay vids on youtube but they don’t really show anything.

[Geraldine]

You know you can activate it for free on Steam if you have the boxed version of the X Superbox Pinback?

[Pinback]

Geraldine wrote:
You know you can activate it for free on Steam if you have the boxed version of the X Superbox Pinback?
I do have the superbox but it become a problem with downloading anything over 500MB for me.Beside I am very attached to box games and will buy it when comes out.Although as to weather I ever play it is an entirely different matter.

[Geraldine]

PINBACK wrote:
Although as to weather I ever play it is an entirely different matter.
DA DA DAA!!! Pinback strikes again!!

[sscadmin]

I will be starting fresh with the X series with X-Rebirth, I have had the same problems as Pinback with the inability to complete one of these games, usually I get burnt out on it or bored. I hope that the next installment will remedy this for me.

[tindrli]

i got bored after 3 hours. but maybe it's just me duno..

[Pinback]

I think the problem with the X games has always been if you are not into the whole empire building, gathering resources and micro management of the economic. Then they offer very little else in the gameplay dept.Hopefully this new game will correct that by offering more options rather than just the dry economic simulation of the old games.

[sscadmin]

PINBACK wrote:
Hopefully this new game will correct that by offering more options rather than just the dry economic simulation of the old games.
Agreed. X-Rebirth needs to concentrate on the background story they have build around the universe and you can still have these epic battles without the micro-management of everything. We should be able to go through a few command screens to issue everything we need to do, from telling units to capture a fabrication facility, telling them how to run it and what gets produced. This should be more than 1 min of my time and then let us worry about the open endedness of space and do the battles and skirmishes for gaining control of resources to build the empire needed.I guess in simplicity it should almost have the ease of use like a RTS in that you set and forget and you just know when something is being attacked and you send forces to designated rally points or have them protect valuable resources.

[Bullwinkle]

I have become a huge fan of X3: Terran Conflict (X3TC). I started playing it a while back because it was the most-suggested game on this forum (as something to follow Freelancer). (As you probably know, X3TC is the most recent of the X games prior to Albion Prelude.)X3 is the deepest game I have ever seen. I was impressed by Mass Effect's depth, but X3 blows it away. I have played for over a hundred hours and am still less than half way through the multiple plot threads. There are still sectors that I have not found, and I have yet to command a destroyer or carrier fleet. The game just goes on and on, seemingly forever.But, wait... as both of you point out, a player who is armed only with the manual and in-game tutorials will soon find the game boring. There are too many tedious tasks that are not so much challenging as they are repetitive. Luckily, the script engine is extremely powerful, and it allows scriptwriters (including me) to change the game in many ways. Even the Artificial Intelligence can be improved. Sometimes dramatically. And the script editor handles all of the syntax for you, which makes writing (or hacking) scripts easier than most other languages.By using the very-nicely-done plugin manager and a variety of plugins, I have been able to "tune up" X3 into the best space sim I have ever seen.EDIT: Also, the Egosoft forum has helpful tips that the player is unlikely to discover on his/her own. Without the forum (and the scripts), the game is not so much fun at all. But *with* the forum and scripts, X3 is the best there is, so far.So I have high hopes for X3: Reunion, which is due in mid-March. The industry desperately needs a new space sim engine, and I cannot think of a team with better current experience than Egosoft. There is a lot of speculation about how it will all work out. Some X fans fear that the new game will be too easy. However, as Geraldine wrote in another thread, Egosoft has an excellent balance in mind ("complex is good; complicated is bad").I hope they make it a winner. We could really use a great new space sim!EDIT: Oh! I almost forgot... boarding capital ships with a team of marines is probably the most-fun thing I have ever attempted in any game. It is hard to do, but both fun and satisfying when you beat the game!

[Pinback]

Bullwinkle wrote:
So I have high hopes for X3: Reunion, which is due in mid-March. The industry desperately needs a new space sim engine, and I cannot think of a team with better current experience than Egosoft. There is a lot of speculation about how it will all work out. Some X fans fear that the new game will be too easy. However, as Geraldine wrote in another thread, Egosoft has an excellent balance in mind ("complex is good; complicated is bad").I hope they make it a winner. We could really use a great new space sim!
It’s what this game genre needs a hit.Weather Egosoft can deliver a game which appeals to a much broader spectrum of game-players or if it’s just more of the same, only time will time.