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While Update 2.7 was very well received by our gaming community, a small bug causing one of the plots to stall (Operation Final Fury) was noted by a number of users. We have fixed that particular issue and took the opportunity to sort out a couple of others too. We hope that this small issue hasn't spoiled your enjoyment of the game. We're very pleased then to be able to offer this hotfix, version 2.7.1, to address that and some other issues.

Click here to be taken to the X3: Terran Conflict download area.

And it's out.

Hopefully all the threads pertaining to the Op:FF bug and the HUB bug (Mahi Ma and his station issue) will fade into obscurity.

Hooray, I'm having a wonderful time.

Fixed the hub broken? Finally...

Hopefully all the threads pertaining to the... ...the HUB bug (Mahi Ma and his station issue) will fade into obscurity.

Why does steam have to delete the entire game and redownload it to apply a hot-fix?

It shouldn't (AFAIK).

Deadbeat_Spinn wrote:It shouldn't (AFAIK).

Well it did... twice... for both of the recent patches...

I have X3TC on steam and I just applied the hotfix and it worked fine. I read your other posts and it seems their is something going on with your steam client.

Oh and thank you Egosoft for your hard work! I loved it when the first thing I saw when I started the game was, "Warrior return to military command!"

This is why egosoft is one of the better developers, it gets things fixed fast . I'm still waiting for a bug to be fixed in Battlefield Bad Company 2 that was in there since launch and so far they haven't even acknowledged that they know the bug exists

Berserkenstein wrote:I have X3TC on steam and I just applied the hotfix and it worked fine. I read your other posts and it seems their is something going on with your steam client.

That only screws up with X3:TC? Wow selective error there steam...

Rilder wrote:

Deadbeat_Spinn wrote:It shouldn't (AFAIK).

Well it did... twice... for both of the recent patches...

Didn't for me.

For both patches.

Thanks Egosoft for the new patch.

Rilder wrote:

Berserkenstein wrote:I have X3TC on steam and I just applied the hotfix and it worked fine. I read your other posts and it seems their is something going on with your steam client.

That only screws up with X3:TC? Wow selective error there steam...

And only on your computer too, it seems. How do you think Steam/Egosoft managed to do that?

Steam also deleted my install for this hotfix, and is now re-downloading the whole thing ...all 7GBs. That means 70 hours of downloading on my slow line... just for a hotfix. That's not very user friendly!

I wonder if it has something to do with having certain mods installed?

Thanks again, Egosoft.


On another note, after logging in to post this I recieved this message:

» ADVICE «
The IP Range for your account has changed. The actual Login took place from 86.161.x.x, the previous from 86.163.x.x. If you didn't log on from another location, then may be an aggressor has used your account without authorisation!

I haven't logged in from anywhere else and my son swears blind he hasn't done so either. (He has a secure wireless connection in his room.)

Anything to worry about?

EDIT: If someone has used my account, they didn't post anything.

If Steam decides to re-download the whole game just pause and verify your game files.

This really belongs in off-topic, perhaps.

Magnu wrote:On another note, after logging in to post this I recieved this message:

» ADVICE «
The IP Range for your account has changed.

ISPs occasionally reassign your IP address, even with always-on Broadband accounts. Sometimes this happens if your connection goes down - the server assigns you a new IPA when you reconnect.

If you click on Login Security in the right-hand navigation bar under Control Panel then you will see a log of the last ten IPAs your account was used from. If one entry stands out, then maybe somebody did log in to your account - in which case, change your password. If there is a consitant change of IPA part way through then that looks more like your ISP reassigned your IPA.

(Your son is liable to be logged as having the same IPA if he shares your internet connection.)

Rilder wrote:Why does steam have to delete the entire game and redownload it to apply a hot-fix?

it didn't for me for patch 2.7 and 2.7.1.

However when I downloaded the medal of honour free weekend preload in advance, as soon as the weekend actually opened for play, i had to redownload it again - all several gigs.

I do reckon steam has a bug at the moment in terms of deciding when to redownload or not.

Anyway that's kind of OT, what I really wanted to post was a big thank you to egosoft for fixing these issues fairly quickly! I ran into the Hub and Final Fury bugs within 20 minutes of each other a week or two ago. Its pleasing that the bugfixing process operated rather quickly compared to much commercial software.

I would like to make a comparison between X3TC and Mass Effect. Whereas with mass effect I found several obvious bugs as I played the game that seemed to be well known in the forums, there were no patches released to correct these, and now Mass Effect 2 is out which I haven't bought on the basis that the bugfixing will be prioritised similarly to its predecessor.
On the other hand we have X3TC: I have found several bugs in X3TC - to be honest they were more game-breaking than most of those I found in Mass Effect - however the developers at Egosoft have put a patch out within a couple of weeks of their previous patch that fixes a few bugs that people were having. and there have been a lot more patches for x3tc than there were for mass effect.

Everyone knows that bugs occur in software, no matter how hard you try. But I appreciate the fact that egosoft continues to resolve issues even 1.5 years after the game was released.

This engenders loyalty.

@ softweir

"if your connection goes down - the server assigns you a new IPA when you reconnect."

I think this is what happened as I had to restart the hub after the connection failed.
You are right about the Off Topic thing but the deed is done, sorry.

Thanks for the help.

This is why we love the guys at Egosoft. If only EA Games could take note. How many people there complain for ages and never get anywhere? Nearly all of them I think.

Here, it only takes one or two people to raise an issue and Egosoft do their very best to fix it ASAP. Well done guys! Thank you so very much once again.

Not only have you made a truly excellent game, you keep improving it and making it more fun, and you quickly fix those inevitable bugs that are so much a part of life with computers.

What can we say, except THANK YOU...THANK YOU...THANK YOU!

Now I'm off to finish playing with the fix installed.