M&K imho
I'd normally agree with this, but with Rebirth, they seemed to REALLLLLY want us to use a gamepad, so we'll see what X4 has in store in this regard.
This is NOT a joystick game though.
I used my ancient Cyborg EVO flightstick pretty successfully for X3. I didn't play Rebirth. I have significant trouble using a controller for flight games, but practice might fix that. The ObsidianAnt video looked to me like he was using a mouse pretty successfully, and the X games have always supported that by switching between flight and UI modes. But I always found it useful to fly with one hand and click targets with the other.
By "not a joystick game" do you mean a stick isn't needed or that it would actually be difficult to use?
By "not a joystick game" do you mean a stick isn't needed or that it would actually be difficult to use?
Games like I-War, TIE Fighter, Freespace, these are joystick games because a stick is the method by which they're meant to be played.
The X games have never been about the spaceflight primarily, therefore I wouldn't consider them joystick-centric games.
Thanks. That makes sense- at the beginning of an X3 game I might do a lot of manual flying but once I was in a M6 or bigger I'd almost always be running on autopilot. Also, I always use MARS for my turrets which made the AI rather better than me at making nearby red things go away .
Exactly, you're meant to be a captain of industry, only your office happens to be a spaceship.
You’re all terrible. I just pre-ordered.
Yeah me too - Bastards!
Just waiting for the 30th.
I can’t wait to hear about your impressions. I can’t believe X3 Terran Conflict was so long ago.
I can't believe it's been five years since Rebirth. Holy hell.
I can’t wait to hear about your impressions. I can’t believe X3 Terran Conflict was so long ago.
Sometimes I want to go back and kill Borons. The whole lot of em.
I can’t wait to hear about your impressions. I can’t believe X3 Terran Conflict was so long ago.
What Balthezor said - 5 years, blimey.
I've been poking into the Egosoft Discord a few times today, people definitely seem to be hitting some bugs, but it's hard to see how widespread it is. I did pre-order but my current plan is to wait, probably at least a month, but we'll see what you guinea pigs say about it!
I am considering reinstalling Voice Attack for this game.
I hope to try some of it tonight, tomorrow is a definite regardless.
Damn it guys. I might buy this tonight.
Damn it guys. I might buy this tonight.
I really would wait. Give it time to see how this game pans out.
Treat your other ships in the map like a RTS. Select them, the right click on what you want them to act on and pick action
I can't figure out how to make one of my ships to buy something remotely tho.
X3 had specific software you had to buy for the ship in order to do that. Is it the same here?
So the first tutorial was setting up one's joystick/HOTAS.
FINE, I'LL PLUG IN EVERYTHING.
I follow the tutorial, THINKING I set everything up properly.
Undock and hit a wall. Throttle is set to zero, yet I'm moving forward.
Keyboard and mouse it is!
Gosh this looks good, but I think I'm going to wait for a few patches going by the early reviews. Maybe I'll catch it with a nice little 30%+ off down the line
Bonus being, there will probably be a whole bunch of tutorials to help me out. I always loved the idea of X, but X3 just blew me out with its complexity.
I know Steam reviews are to be avoided normally, but this is hilarious
14.4 hrs on record
POSTED: 30 NOVEMBER
> Spawn on loading dock
> See NPC ship coming in to land
> Decide to have a closer look at their ship
> Loading ramp deployed
> Run up the loading ramp, look around and make small talk with pilot
> Pilot raises loading ramp and takes of with me still inside
> Watch him fly about continuing his normal daily life with me sat in the back
> That moment when I just got kidnapped by an NPCHis name is Steve, he doesn't have much to say, but I am thinking of asking him to marry me
POSTED: 30 NOVEMBER
> Spawn on loading dock
> See NPC ship coming in to land
> Decide to have a closer look at their ship
> Loading ramp deployed
> Run up the loading ramp, look around and make small talk with pilot
> Pilot raises loading ramp and takes of with me still inside
> Watch him fly about continuing his normal daily life with me sat in the back
> That moment when I just got kidnapped by an NPC
"...and that, love, is why I'm late home from work.."
I started playing this morning, and had an odd experience.
Poking around the starting dock, I saw another ship dock next to mine. Cool, I thought; I walked up its stairs and talked to the pilot, who wanted nothing to do with me. Before I could leave, he closed his doors and took off. Not wanting to be stuck, I walked over to the door control panel, and found an option to eject into my space suit, which I took.
By the time I was out of his ship, he was 3km from the docking port. No big deal, I figured -- I set a course for the station and started moving in the direction of one of the open ports. About halfway there, the words "Game Over" appeared on the screen, and then I was dumped to the main menu.
Weird and disappointing.
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