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Chekote
Where’s my Banana?!?!
Joined: 08 Mar 2002
Posts: 1540
Location: Dont know, looks kind of green |
Where do you download this 1.3patch? www.x2-game.com claims that v1.1 is the latest patch.
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dteowner
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Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
http://www.egosoft.com/
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Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:58 am |
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Chekote
Where’s my Banana?!?!
Joined: 08 Mar 2002
Posts: 1540
Location: Dont know, looks kind of green |
Thanks.
I downloaded it, but now I seem to have a framerate drop!  
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EverythingXen
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Joined: 01 Feb 2002
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You're not alone. Patches... they're whacky.
I'm one of the 'wow, this is running smoother' lucky people, though.
Ah... the glories of remote jumping indeed. I was cruising through a sector I own in my Pegasus when I noticed a Khaak cluster ominously making its way towards two of my precious and expensive tranports. Quickly I issued a jump command and prayed. The Khaak were about to catch the TPs at the south gate of Bad Debt when suddenly there was a flash of purple light and a two kilometer long M2 destroyer appeared.
The Khaak scattered as photon pulse cannons began dispensing some rather discriminate and brutal justice. The transports ran through the gate as the Khaak cluster began evaporating at a rate of one a second. The M3, with 75,000 shields, made the terminal error of being in front of the Tidal Kraken and was hit by a stream of gamma and beta pulses from the front, left, and right turrets. Death was immediate.
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Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:24 pm |
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Ican
Captain of the Guard
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
Posts: 185
Location: UK |
Ok, I've had a chance to use the patch ...and I note a significant improvement in performance. Thumbs up from me. I use an ATI 9800 Pro btw.
@ dteowner . Klingons ...now they would provide an extra threat. The K&K tag team. Sitting in my Nova ...there's klingons on the starboard side, starboard side, starboard side ....  |
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Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:04 pm |
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Lintra
Elf Friend
Joined: 23 Apr 2002
Posts: 9448
Location: Bermuda, the triangle place with SANDY BEACHES |
quote:
Originally posted by EverythingXen
You're not alone. Patches... they're whacky.
I'm one of the 'wow, this is running smoother' lucky people, though.
Ah... the glories of remote jumping indeed. I was cruising through a sector I own in my Pegasus when I noticed a Khaak cluster ominously making its way towards two of my precious and expensive tranports. Quickly I issued a jump command and prayed. The Khaak were about to catch the TPs at the south gate of Bad Debt when suddenly there was a flash of purple light and a two kilometer long M2 destroyer appeared.
The Khaak scattered as photon pulse cannons began dispensing some rather discriminate and brutal justice. The transports ran through the gate as the Khaak cluster began evaporating at a rate of one a second. The M3, with 75,000 shields, made the terminal error of being in front of the Tidal Kraken and was hit by a stream of gamma and beta pulses from the front, left, and right turrets. Death was immediate.
Oh I do so want to play this game! Xen, I know it took you a ton of time to get to the point of having star destroyers, but I this is the kinda thing every boy who grew up with Star Wars dreams of!
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Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:10 pm |
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dteowner
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Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
quote:
Originally posted by Ican
@ dteowner . Klingons ...now they would provide an extra threat. The K&K tag team. Sitting in my Nova ...there's klingons on the starboard side, starboard side, starboard side ....
True enough, although right now a couple Khaak are sufficient to have me saying ...it's worse than that, I'm dead Jim dead Jim dead Jim... 
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Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:51 pm |
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corwin
On the Razorblade of Life
Joined: 10 Jun 2002
Posts: 8376
Location: Australia |
I still run from them too. Mind you, I've been so busy this week and will be next week as well, that I haven't had any time to play at all!! 
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Ican
Captain of the Guard
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
Posts: 185
Location: UK |
I find the Khaak more a pest than a threat, in well policed sectors. In the outer-rim though ... they are a completely different kettle of fish.
On a few occassions I have encountered swarms of the "egg shaped" clusters that break off into about 10-20 or so Khaak M5s. Before you know it you have dozens of the things enveloping you. It doesn't matter what you fly in those circumstances .... you are in trouble.
The new patch seems excellent the more I play with it ( since last night ..) I see that the Teladi Osprey is now available legitimately in-game. That's a real Khaak buster. Saving up for one now ...or I may just trade in my Split Dragon instead. Still so many factories I want to set up too ...decisions, decisions. |
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Sat Mar 13, 2004 11:41 am |
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EverythingXen
Arch-villain
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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After playing for a few days with remote jumping it's a marvel I ever did without it.
It lets me jump my Hercules around to buy solar plants without being present (have to be in the sector to place it... though you don't have to be on the Herc), send my battleship to intercept trouble spots, and lets me call for whatever ship type I need whenever I get a BBS mission that looks too good to pass up but is for the wrong ship type.
SO much better!
I've drastically increased by trade empire... by something like 10 or 15 factories. I've started buying the M level ships as well... sometimes 5 to 15 thousand shields helps survive Khaak ambushes... at least, an M5 or two.
Net result is I've probably made enough money to afford another battleship... but sunk it all into my economy. I've still got 22 million personal change though. Maybe I'll treat myself to another M6... though the one I have idles a LOT.
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Sun Mar 14, 2004 10:12 pm |
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dteowner
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Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
Besides nerfing pirate captures, does the patch make any major "negative" changes to the gameplay? Since I'm not having much luck capturing pirates anyway (I try it for a while, but I generally get nervous about getting rammed after a couple passes and just vaporize the guy), I'm leaning towards patching up.
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Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:03 pm |
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EverythingXen
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More iron willed pirates is about the only 'negative' that springs to mind.
Unless you count pirates using different weapon mounts from time to time a negative. Ran into a Bayoman with Ion Disrupters. Managed to surprise me as I'm used to ignoring them... and suddenly he had done 150,000 damage to my shields. The odd Orinocco now pack PSG, which is also dangerous. More for the pirate than anyone else as it nicely gets an entire sector after them.
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Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:12 pm |
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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
Capturing is very profitable so I would stick at it. Still, if you leave out capturing, v1.3 is a good patch.
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Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:36 pm |
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dteowner
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Joined: 21 Mar 2002
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Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
I upgraded to 1.3. The biggest thing I've noted is that my Nova's combat computer must have lost a few computer chips during the transition. It no longer leads the target, and regularly passes up a clear shot. I'm a bit displeased, because I might have to learn to do combat myself.
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Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:11 pm |
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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
It hasn't just been turned off, has it? Pressing 'k' will rotate through the tragetting modes.
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