The upcoming X3: Terran Conflict 2.5 update will be available for download in the not too distant future, but to bridge the gap we've decided to let you know what it features.
New Features and Improvements:
Removed copy protection
New options for marine training, including multiple skills and duration
Several boarding aspects improved and corrected
Rebalanced boarding Xenon ships
Added a new menu for access to factories connected to a complex
Production can be toggled for connected factories
Show wing orders in the context menu for ships in a wing
Improved Defend Station command
Added gateless sector option to several flight commands
Added more information to the property menu including marines
Added option to change the sorting method for ships in the property menu
Improved Best Buys/Best Selling Price Locator menu
Added "Locate in Sector Map" option to context menus
Added laser bay information to ship info menu
Added new instructions to script editor and mission director
Enabled mods to add news articles to the encyclopedia
Fixes:
Disabled use of more than 2GB RAM again due to bugs
Renamed Mercenary stations as Rehabilitation Facilities
Fixed flak weapons becoming inactive after saving
Fixed references to destroyed homebases of wings
Fixed Jump and Fly to command for ships and wings
Fixed wing jumpdrive energy display
Fixed Attack Shields command
Fixed Universal Traders flying into hostile territory
Fixed issue when launching many marines
Fixed missile resupply settings on boarded ships
Fixed mission memory leak which led to slow savegames
Minor improvements and bugfixes
There is no solid release date yet but the update has entered the Release Candidate phase. If anyone wants to take part in the final stages of testing, sign up for DevNet access in your [url=http://forum.egosoft.com/profile.php?mode=editprofile][b]Fo[/b]rum[b]Pr[/b]ofile[/url].
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Last edited by Xenon_Slayer on Thu, 17. Sep 09, 14:23, edited 1 time in total.
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clevider wrote:....
Also, I didn't see mention of a bonus pack. Is that later? Do we have to wait for the superbox?
Patches and Bonus Packs are totally different animals. Patches come directly from Egosoft. Bonus pack content comes from modders and scripters, and is tested by both Egosoft and volunteers prior to signing and release. If you want info on that, go sign up for Level 3 access and check out the script testing forum.
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It'll be interesting to see if the Flak bug really gets fixed this time.
I picked up the ATF shipyard mod so i could build those, can't connect them to a complex but its better than nothing, but i'd really like to have the original shipyard back now since its where i used to buy my baldrics and fly them to earth for a jumpdrive.
Kitch wrote:Very happy with most everything ... Except this bit:
Xenon Botherer wrote:Disabled more than 2Gb Ram
Hope you can find a way to fix that.
It may not be fixable. If the fault is with windows 64-bit implementation (iirc the problem only affects 64-bit OS users) or device driver implementation or something then there will be nothing Egosoft can do about it.
Xenon_Slayer wrote:
[*]Fixed mission memory leak which lead to slow savegames
The game saves faster? The game doesn't start running super slowly after a couple of game days? I hope it fixes the latter!
Your Frames Per Second will be higher. The slowdown got progressively worse the longer you played the game, so people with relatively short game ages will probably see no difference. On the other end of the scale, the savegame which I was testing went from 5 FPS to 40 FPS!
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Kitch wrote:Very happy with most everything ... Except this bit:
Xenon Botherer wrote:Disabled more than 2Gb Ram
Hope you can find a way to fix that.
It may not be fixable. If the fault is with windows 64-bit implementation (iirc the problem only affects 64-bit OS users) or device driver implementation or something then there will be nothing Egosoft can do about it.
It also affects 32-bit OS, of course, after you enable the +3Gb flag.
Xenon_Slayer wrote:
Disabled use of more than 2GB RAM again due to bugs
Wait, my game lags slightly in Home of Light (Like a gajillion civillian vessals all over the place) and that's with 6GB RAM. I'm guessing my game would like drop to 5fps if I was forced to use only 2GB of RAM.
That was a bug? I'd assumed the nigh interminable save/load time was due to the satellites I've been placing in an increasing number of sectors. 
