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X3 sequel announced, Tube declares life to be over

TubeTube Registered User admin
edited April 2008 in Games and Technology
http://www.egosoft.com/news/current_en.php scroll down a bit.

This

This is really bad you guys.

I was just getting things together.

Life was on track, you know?

I just

I just can't take a sequel

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  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I'm so sorry, Tube. Maybe the upside is that you won't be able to run it?

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited April 2008
    oh god...
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  • subediisubedii Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    To be honest I'd be more interested if they actually had good space combat in there.

    Last time I got a decent fix for that was probably Freelancer.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I need to go back to playing X3 over the summer, that's when I get my craving for space. I also want to hear what the next Elite is going to be like, since that's where my heart really lies (although X3 is really good once you get into it).

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  • StraythStrayth Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    The fuck is this, it looks cool.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Tube, stop posting spaceship porn.

    And I'm surprised you havent heard this already. Tsk.

    That said though I'm eagerly awaiting the chance to lay my hands on a sweet Terran cruiser.

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  • SilpheedSilpheed Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    subedii wrote: »
    To be honest I'd be more interested if they actually had good space combat in there.

    Last time I got a decent fix for that was probably Freelancer.
    Iagree, I love X3 but it sorely needs a better engine for the combat. I guess in a perfect world we'd get Freespace 2 combat married with the complexity of the X games.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    subedii wrote: »
    To be honest I'd be more interested if they actually had good space combat in there.

    Last time I got a decent fix for that was probably Freelancer.

    Good lord, Freelancer was awesome. I still fire it up from time to time.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited April 2008
    OH GOD

    YOU'LL GET TO FLY A TERRAN ODIN

    OH GOD

    PLEASE JESUS CANCEL THIS GAME

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  • TVs_FrankTVs_Frank Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I hope the combat will be better. There's just something about it that's off in X3.

    But that trailer is pretty rocking.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Will there be any Threats in this one?
    I am so clever.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited April 2008
    If they make the capital ship combat acceptable I'll basically have to quit my job.

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    YES!

    I love me space games. I hope it isn't more of the same, though.

    Edit: It doesn't really seem like a sequel. It still goes under the title X3. It's not X4. The site says it's the next installment for the story. Graphically, it looks like the same engine, too. I have a feeling it'll feel little more than an expansion, but who knows.

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  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    what is so good about a TERRAN ODIN?

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  • DartboyDartboy Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    You can use all the Terran ships in XTended.

    Also, will this feature two new enemy races that team up with the Kha'ak, the Di'ix and the Llo'l?

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  • subediisubedii Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Daedalus wrote: »
    subedii wrote: »
    To be honest I'd be more interested if they actually had good space combat in there.

    Last time I got a decent fix for that was probably Freelancer.

    Good lord, Freelancer was awesome. I still fire it up from time to time.

    Which reminds me, I really need to get hold of a decent joystick again so that I can try out Starlancer. Game's like a decade old, but when I played the demo ages ago I thought it was quite good. I think I've still got the discs around somewhere.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Cool beans, another reason to stay indoors and play video games.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Malkor wrote: »
    Cool beans, another reason to stay indoors and play video games.

    You need a reason? C'mon... Global Warming man! Not enough hot pants in the world to stop it either.

    OT: I loved X3, but I was so very terrible at it. I'll buy this because I'm a sucker.

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  • BoredGamerBoredGamer Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    OH SHI-

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited April 2008
    Rentilius wrote: »
    what is so good about a TERRAN ODIN?

    you wouldn't understand

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  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Oh god. I vaguely understand now. That thing, in your pictures, the last picture. You can fly that.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Rentilius wrote: »
    Oh god. I vaguely understand now. That thing, in your pictures, the last picture. You can fly that.

    Basically you sit still and the univserse slowly floats past you as you light it on fire with lasers and plasma.

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Goddammit, why? Everything was going so well.

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    WATCH THIS SPACE.
  • BearcatBearcat Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ever since I realized spacecraft don't behave like aircraft in space, everything just seems kinda off.
    I mean, thats like having something behave the same way in air and underwater.

    But I also realize if any space-combat game incorporated true space vacuum physics, I'd throw a small child at my computer in frustration.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited April 2008
    vsove wrote: »
    Goddammit, why? Everything was going so well.

    I know man, I know.

    I'm going to have to start going back to those wretched meetings.

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Cardboard Tube wrote: »
    vsove wrote: »
    Goddammit, why? Everything was going so well.

    I know man, I know.

    I'm going to have to start going back to those wretched meetings.

    I need to avoid any kind of media on this, so when it comes out I can be properly surprised.

    This will last until about 2PM today when code is compiling and I need something to look at.

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    WATCH THIS SPACE.
  • LegbaLegba He did. Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    For a moment there I thought you meant a sequel to X-Men 3.

    This is infinitely better.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Bearcat wrote: »
    Ever since I realized spacecraft don't behave like aircraft in space, everything just seems kinda off.
    I mean, thats like having something behave the same way in air and underwater.

    But I also realize if any space-combat game incorporated true space vacuum physics, I'd throw a small child at my computer in frustration.

    Also, weapons. When you shoot lasers in real life, they move at the speed of light, not as weird projectiles flying through the air or vacuum or whatever.

    And in the year 3999, your computer's targeting systems shouldn't exactly have the possibility of missing with what's basically a hitscan weapon.

    But that would be realism at the expense of fun.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited April 2008
    Rentilius wrote: »
    Oh god. I vaguely understand now. That thing, in your pictures, the last picture. You can fly that.

    In X3 you could get the biggest ships in the game and then try and fight Terran ships (like the Odin) and they'd say "hahahaha, SHIT no" and blow you up in two seconds. In your HUNDRED MILLION CREDIT SHIP.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    FUCK YOU CARDBOARD TUBE

    FUCK YOU FOR ALERTING ME TO THIS

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited April 2008
    Misery loves company.

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    YOU'RE GOING DOWN

    YOU'RE GOING DOWN TO CHINATOWN

    However I know my computer won't be able to run it well. Thank God.





    But I'm getting a new PC.

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Let us all be miserable together.

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    WATCH THIS SPACE.
  • BearcatBearcat Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Daedalus wrote: »
    Bearcat wrote: »
    Ever since I realized spacecraft don't behave like aircraft in space, everything just seems kinda off.
    I mean, thats like having something behave the same way in air and underwater.

    But I also realize if any space-combat game incorporated true space vacuum physics, I'd throw a small child at my computer in frustration.

    Also, weapons. When you shoot lasers in real life, they move at the speed of light, not as weird projectiles flying through the air or vacuum or whatever.

    And in the year 3999, your computer's targeting systems shouldn't exactly have the possibility of missing with what's basically a hitscan weapon.

    But that would be realism at the expense of fun.

    I can generally excuse all that.
    My original point is that the space-flight-resembling-atmospheric-flight is such a ridiculous notion, its like, what the fuck?

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  • OtsegoOtsego Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I haven't played X3 in so long, it's gonna take me forever to learn everything again.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Bearcat wrote: »
    Daedalus wrote: »
    Bearcat wrote: »
    Ever since I realized spacecraft don't behave like aircraft in space, everything just seems kinda off.
    I mean, thats like having something behave the same way in air and underwater.

    But I also realize if any space-combat game incorporated true space vacuum physics, I'd throw a small child at my computer in frustration.

    Also, weapons. When you shoot lasers in real life, they move at the speed of light, not as weird projectiles flying through the air or vacuum or whatever.

    And in the year 3999, your computer's targeting systems shouldn't exactly have the possibility of missing with what's basically a hitscan weapon.

    But that would be realism at the expense of fun.

    I can generally excuse all that.
    My original point is that the space-flight-resembling-atmospheric-flight is such a ridiculous notion, its like, what the fuck?

    I'm sure Elite used newtonian physics. Or at least gave you the option.

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  • TheSonicRetardTheSonicRetard Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I totally thought this was gonna be a sequel to Xmen 3 the game.

    So what is this... X3?

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  • StraythStrayth Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Am i to understand this is like a blend between Freelancer and Sins of a Solar Empire?

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  • ArrathArrath Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    Bearcat wrote: »
    Daedalus wrote: »
    Bearcat wrote: »
    Ever since I realized spacecraft don't behave like aircraft in space, everything just seems kinda off.
    I mean, thats like having something behave the same way in air and underwater.

    But I also realize if any space-combat game incorporated true space vacuum physics, I'd throw a small child at my computer in frustration.

    Also, weapons. When you shoot lasers in real life, they move at the speed of light, not as weird projectiles flying through the air or vacuum or whatever.

    And in the year 3999, your computer's targeting systems shouldn't exactly have the possibility of missing with what's basically a hitscan weapon.

    But that would be realism at the expense of fun.

    I can generally excuse all that.
    My original point is that the space-flight-resembling-atmospheric-flight is such a ridiculous notion, its like, what the fuck?

    I'm sure Elite used newtonian physics. Or at least gave you the option.

    I know of at least one Freelancer mod that hacked around in the exe and added newtonian physics.

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  • A-PuckA-Puck Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    So I went out and looked for info on X3, since I missed it the last time around. I found this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pi8n6uN091E.

    That aside, can someone give me a rundown on the game play for this?

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