I recently bought the entire series of 'X' games for PC thanks to the Steam Christmas sales.
X: Beyond the Frontier all the way to X3: Albion Prelude.
Now unfortunately these games don't come with instruction manuals so that's difficult as is, but I'm finding the first game really hard to play. It seems to me like the game has been designed around use of a joystick, and I'm finding inverse tilt with a mouse very confusing after having played Freelancer for such a long time (plus many other games without tilt/look inverted). The sensitivity is really weird, too - it seems non-linear.
Not to mention, there is no numpad on a laptop keyboard, and I think some commands are mapped only to a numpad.
The game seems to have rather non-intuitive gameplay... I struggled getting through the rings in the tutorial, and finally after I finished that awfully long first dialogue, I tried to dock with a trading station nearby, and thought I had done it correctly when I crashed with the docking bay door and exploded... Q_Q
So... halp? Does everyone clumsily make their way into the game before they figure it out?
Also, have the controls improved / become re-mappable by X3: Reunion or later?
Well, I'm not sure about the earlier X's but Rebirth, TC and Albion, you can change the setting so the mouse is like Freelancer, and I'd say try to dock using autopilot, not manually. That rarely works out.:P
' Wrote:Well, I'm not sure about the earlier X's but Rebirth, TC and Albion, you can change the setting so the mouse is like Freelancer, and I'd say try to dock using autopilot, not manually. That rarely works out.:P
i played X-Reunion a few months ago and i remembered that its graphics are nice ,but controls and camera views are weired ,yeah dammn weired and i remembered i unintstall it after one hour of crazy playing:crazy:
no match for Freelancer !
' Wrote:It depends, if it's with a Docking Hook it's super easy, but landing in a hangar bay seems trickier.
I found it just as easy. Make sure your sides are fully lined up and you're not too high/low and you should be fine. The rotating ones are the trickiest, and I still figured it out easily enough.
The combat is relatively easy to pick up too...
... it's the station/empire/relations management that'll give you the real headache.
Its quite easy to set the mouse... On the Egosoft forum you can find some awesome scripts, which makes the game hared but more interesting at the same time. If you start with the first, you can easily get used to it, but I must admit its far more complicated than FL.
The only thing I miss, is the cockpit view at battleships.
*Manual docking is easy:)... well for the first time, errors are permitted. Anyway if you cannot dock, use the automatic docking system with SETA boost extension...
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