X2: The Threat

[AztecWarrior]

Is there a demo?

The best space sim would have to be Freelancer/Tachyon: The Fringe (tie).

[Everay]

no not yet, and i tried out universal combats demo, that blew goats. i was in a star fighter, flew into the fraw, seconds later after hyperspacing in, something i couldnt defend myself from, or see, blew me away, 1 shot, i was like, wtf? and ground combat on that game sucks, so does all combat for that matter.

[Happy lil Elf]

Now that the AI works I've found I'm not a realy big fan of the combat (of course shooting at ships that just sat there wasn't exactly entertaining either). If I was on crank I might be, but as it is it kinda strikes me as sorta like trying to kill flys by shooting at them with a fully auto BB gun. Flys that are made out of depleted uranium, have rocket boosters strapped on their asses and are constantly trying to fly through you that is.

In other words, combat is a little too fast paced. I think I'm basically going to try and ignore it until I have a few really big and nasty ships that the enemies can ram themselves to death on.

I also kind of agree with Sputty, now that the game is working and I've had a chance to play with the various commands. The control scheme isn't very good. The thing is, I don't know how they could make it much better with the amount of things you can do (although allowing me to use the mouse to navigate the menus would be nice).

I think it'll be a very fun game once I get things rolling again, it's just gonna take a bit to get there.



Question for those that have been playing for awhile. Once you've deployed a factory, will it start to make cash automatically or do you have to supply it and sell it's products with your own ships?

[Dharkbayne]

You gotta set up trade ships. I got a haxed argon titan, with like 0192058 shields, I killed everything, bases, fighters, other capital ships, by ramming them.

[Happy lil Elf]

You gotta set up trade ships.

Curses. Well, time to redo some trading >_<