X3:Terran Conflict has arrived

Maybe a bit late for me, but as i have a new pc on its way, im looking at this game to break up the online gaming time.

As a player who has never played X3, ever, any good guides i can read to make sure i dont get blown away in 5 mins?

ColiN

Best place to look for guides is the egosoft forum, someone also posted a good one several pages back.

http://x3terranconflict.filefront.com/file/X3TC_For_Dummies;108927

Best advice to stop you getting blown away in 5 min is dont pick a fight with anything with guns.
 
how do you unlock the quests for the player hq?

do you have to finish the terran quest or can you start it without.

You need to complete the hub plot to get the player hq plot. So no you dont need to finish the terran plot first but its a long way off.

anyone know a good script that will let me just press a single button to launch all marines so i don't have to go through the hideously designed maze of menus while trying to fight?

try this http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=219597
 
Patch 2.7

X3: Terran Conflict Update 2.7

This is an update for version 2.6 only.

This update brings a large number of fixes and improvements to many parts of the game.

Version 2.7 features:

* Re-enabled use of more than 2GB RAM if supported by the operating system
* M6, M8 and TM ships now travel through gates like smaller ships
* Enabled M7 and M8 ships to spawn in more missions
* Added chance of Xenon during a Defend Station mission
* Reduced flak explosion volume
* Included a large amount of bugfixes, investigated and provided by our community


enjoy
 
Using more ram has got to be a good thing though, why did they disable it before?

>2GB support has been in the game for ages but they disabled it a couple of patches ago because of memory leak errors which they have now fixed.

Anyway, started a new game, got my first billion from mining nvidium and selling the ships - 1 mercury then 23 then 133 :) So much quicker than my old struggle through the early game.

Ah so you decided to cheat\exploit your way to the first billion. ;)
 
anybody know what shipyard the Paranid Hyperion is available at?.

ive been playing the terran story line, got to Aldrin etc, find my Vidar a little wanting in a fire fight some times so ive been looking to buy a Hyperion but can't find it at a shipyard, despite having high Paranid rep, is it a "reward ship" only?.

Only 2 ways to get one

1) by using the poisoned paranid start and completing its plot

2) set phasers on stun.
 
Having been away from X3 for quite a while I notice they have released some patches. I would imagine I am before patch 2.6.

One of the reasons I stopped was due to the fact that I have 3 very large complexes in a single sector and the sector became completely unvisitable. It was like your mum showing off her holiday snaps and wanting you to savor every little inch before moving to the next one.

Has this been fixed or is there a viable workaround. I cannot even get in to the sector to self destruct the complex and rebuild it elsewhere.

On the plus side which may help, I have now upgraded to 8GB and I see that patch 2.7 allows more than 2GB to be used.

Cheers
RB

There have been lots of performance fixes in the various patches whether it will fix your problem or not is another matter.
 
You can set it to fire a barrage of however many missiles if you like iirc.

A barrage fires missiles from every launcher simultaneously. Assuming your M7M has 8 launchers then setting a value of 3 will fire 3x8 missiles.

If its hammers then thats 24 each doing 300,000 damage giving a maximum of 7.2m. enough to take out any M7 or take out the shields of most M1 and M2's

For Flails its 24 x 8 warheads each doing 5000 damage, giving a maximum of 960,000. Thats enough to wipe out a wing of fighters or destroy several M6's
 
Barrage turns on a single shot barrage or sets to barrage mode ?

It is under the special command menu as I though there was something like it around but didn't find it last night when working away at the CPU ship.

Might have to get a couple more if the barrage works out and explore the xenon sectors ;).

Thanks

RB

It fires n number of barrages
 
Anybody know how to hand in a "Return Abandoned Ship" mission? I am new to the game and started a custom game. The first mission I picked up was to deliver an abandoned Pegasus ship back to a particular station. I claimed the ship and flew it back to the station. I saved the game and tried docking, undocking and even ejecting from the ship but there is no finish mission option when I open the mission window or speak to the person who offered the mission. Oh, and I am at the correct station.

You cant end the mission if you are flying the ship.

Get in another ship and order the return ship to dock at the station. You can do the same thing from your space suit.
 
I should really end up doing some of the actual plots in TC. Only ones I've even tried are the start of the Terran campaign and a tiny bit of the Hub.

Ive spent a long time playing the game and still havnt completed the hub or any of the other plots that require the hub to start. I just keep restarting before i get that far.

Think im going to go all the way this time and try to complete everything. Thats if i can survive as im doing a suicidal squid start :D

After a hour of game play im still alive (not even had a close call yet) got me a advanced skate and about 1m in other assets. Need to get my self a big ship fast or it will be game over.
 
NooooooooO!!!!!!!!1111!!!!one

my dead is dead suicidal squiddy is dead :(

There is was making nice proffits while searching for good missions. When i came across a nice patrol mission that would sort out my rep with the parinid.

After accepting the mission i went oh $%£* as a kaahk corvette jumps into the system, no way i could take one of them out in my M3.

Not a problem i thought lure him onto some other ships let them engage take all the hits then i can swoop in at the last second and take the prize :D

First sector had a bores in it which unfortunately beat me to it (sector 1 clear).:(

Second sector had a kaahk corvette and some KM3's luckily i spotted a boron m6 so lured the kaahk onto it (sector 2 clear):D

Third Sector, i fly around a bit going where are the enemy ships, no sign at all then suddenly a KM6 spawns right in front of me (OH £$"!) only a quick 180 and running screaming like a girl saved me. Right time for some pay back, i lure the KM6 onto the trade lane where it engages several M3's.

Great now he is busy i can strike, so i swoop in for my first strafing run and manage to take out his shields before my energy runs out. Wow this is going well. :cool:

After a short wait while my laser batteries recharge i move in for the kill. I move in behind the M6 while unloading my rain of death (his hull drops %80, %50, %25 oh yes he is going down) KaaHHKbOOm the M6 explodes in a nice fireball of death (Yes ive done it!)

My victory cry quickly turned into a death scream as i looked out the window to see a plume of orange covering my ship and stare in disbelieve as the GAME OVER message appears on the scree.

Yes you guessed it one of the supporting M3's killed me with a plasma burst generator about 2 sec after i took out the KM6......

Now i have to start again :mad:
 
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Is this a really complex game?

It sounds amazing.

Yes it can be very complex (massive industrial complexes and 1000's of ships under your control), or if you chose very simple (just the ship you are flying). Thats the beauty of the game you can play it any way you want.

The only problem you have is the steep learning curve you need to get over at the beginning.
 
gah!
hate that, I've got a save where I'm stuck docked with 5 pirates seemingly ALL armed with those flamethrower things that instakill you on them!

Thats not stuck that sounds like a nice combat scenario. use the station stick very close to it. This should keep the pirates out of range making the PBG's useless.
 
Just started playing again after a few years gap making a bit of money ATM just from buying used ship from ppl
got 4 mil
6 ts's with jump drives
1 nova raider

thinking of getting some UT going now

Not tried buying second hand ships for early game proffits i normally look for combat missions and turn to piracy.

Doesnt take long and im making about 1m for a quick easy assassination mission.
 
Hey All,

Ok I have X3 (had it for a while never played it), I now have bought X3:Terran Conflict. Is it worth me playing through X3 first??

Stelly

No just jump strait to TC.

The two games are very similar except TC has

More sectors
More ships and new ship classes
New races\factions
More weapon types
More Missions \ plots
A reworked interface (this makes is slightly more noob friendly)

The only thing you might want to do at some point is play through the plot in reunion. This wont take long as its quite short but is good if you want to know how\why the Terran's are so different to all the other races.
 
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ok... wouldnt mind some starting pointers, I dont know what to do :) any ideas people??

Stelly

What start did you chose the pointers will be different for each one.

On a side note i fail as Dead is Dead, died 3 times now 1st to FF, 2nd a Un-lucky missile and finnaly last night i crashed into the m6 i was pwning. Thats it im taking a break and going for a nice easy poisoned parinid start.
 
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