Okay, that's a new weirdness
Posted: Sun, 2. Sep 18, 03:03
With all the time I have spent playing X3, various iterations, sometimes I think I must have seen it all. Even the glitchy "hey I flew right through a gate" or "hey, there's a shot from a laser just hanging there in space" stuff, while rare and entertaining, hasn't been new for a long time. But just when you think there is nothing new under the many suns...
I saved my game by ducking into a station in Cardinal's Domain. When I got back to it I continued my easily sidetracked pursuit of better relations with the Paranid. Before I even open the map to look for mission markers, I see some fireworks over by a gate that isn't very far off, and figure I'll head over to see what's what...especially since I did pop the map and there's an ion disruptor over there just begging to be salvaged, along with some other goodies...and given the fireworks there's likely to be more.
So as I get closer I find a Paranid military Ariadne getting scortched by a couple of Terracorp Escort Novas. Lots of oddities there, but nothing totally unheard of. I figure maybe the Terracorp guys were fending off some pirates or whatnot, got a little wild with the PBGs and flamed the gate, something like that. Interesting, fun to watch (I mean, who can resist the sight of scorched Paranids, really?), and profitable, at least to the sale price of an Ion D.
With the 'nids dispatched and the Terracorpers getting on their way through the gate I collect the goods, and in the process I see even more fireworks over by the north gate. Related? Some sort of general Paranid paranoia setting in? Whatever, probably entertaining and what the heck, maybe another Ion D or something.
I head over there and identify a Nemesis...and another Nemesis...and an Argon Military Titan slugging it out. Plus a Centaur and the inevitable Nova blasting away with PBGs. I settle at a safe distance, figuring this won't take long. Quick check of the map shows there are already some good salvage prizes, and either Nemesis might drop something good. Sure enough, there goes one, then the other, and I'm ready to move in for the cleanup...
But the fireworks don't stop. I can't even see what they are shooting at, but the Argons are still going to town. I check the map, and over there in the middle of them is a Paranid Police Pegasus. I figure this guy must be doing some pretty fancy flying, and even though it will be quick I should take a look, so I put him on monitor.
This guy is getting totally cheesed. The monitor whites out with the PBG fire more than once, and the Titan has nothing better to do any more so it is steady streaming what looks like IBL fire. You'd think this guy is dead a dozen times over, but he's spinning and diving around...and the Pegasus has zero shields, and zero hull.
I saved my game by ducking into a station in Cardinal's Domain. When I got back to it I continued my easily sidetracked pursuit of better relations with the Paranid. Before I even open the map to look for mission markers, I see some fireworks over by a gate that isn't very far off, and figure I'll head over to see what's what...especially since I did pop the map and there's an ion disruptor over there just begging to be salvaged, along with some other goodies...and given the fireworks there's likely to be more.
So as I get closer I find a Paranid military Ariadne getting scortched by a couple of Terracorp Escort Novas. Lots of oddities there, but nothing totally unheard of. I figure maybe the Terracorp guys were fending off some pirates or whatnot, got a little wild with the PBGs and flamed the gate, something like that. Interesting, fun to watch (I mean, who can resist the sight of scorched Paranids, really?), and profitable, at least to the sale price of an Ion D.
With the 'nids dispatched and the Terracorpers getting on their way through the gate I collect the goods, and in the process I see even more fireworks over by the north gate. Related? Some sort of general Paranid paranoia setting in? Whatever, probably entertaining and what the heck, maybe another Ion D or something.
I head over there and identify a Nemesis...and another Nemesis...and an Argon Military Titan slugging it out. Plus a Centaur and the inevitable Nova blasting away with PBGs. I settle at a safe distance, figuring this won't take long. Quick check of the map shows there are already some good salvage prizes, and either Nemesis might drop something good. Sure enough, there goes one, then the other, and I'm ready to move in for the cleanup...
But the fireworks don't stop. I can't even see what they are shooting at, but the Argons are still going to town. I check the map, and over there in the middle of them is a Paranid Police Pegasus. I figure this guy must be doing some pretty fancy flying, and even though it will be quick I should take a look, so I put him on monitor.
This guy is getting totally cheesed. The monitor whites out with the PBG fire more than once, and the Titan has nothing better to do any more so it is steady streaming what looks like IBL fire. You'd think this guy is dead a dozen times over, but he's spinning and diving around...and the Pegasus has zero shields, and zero hull.