The X games need a "test drive" option.

[ahddib]

I like this basic concept, however I would implement it much differently.


I would allow the player an option to test drive the ship from the shipyard, however I wouldn't let him take it to real combat. I'd unfocused jump drive him to an array of sectors based upon the ship class and have him in a "simulation." It'd have a default set of weapons (you wouldn't try on shoes without laces would you?) and I would have a few enemy waves attack. M5, M4, M3, M6, M8, M7, M7M, M2, M1 (with full array of combat fighters)

That to me is a decent test run.

It'd actually be kind of interesting to make it a perpetually harder scenario. Sort of a Survival mode

I'd like to see that as a uploadable stat. Major bragging rights for those who beat M1s with an octopus raider lol (doubt that's possible without missiles)

[tanner1ie]

A survival or high score challenge mode would be great, but when some of us have been looking for some sort of multiplayer in X for years and we haven't got that, i wouldn't hold me breath.

For multiplayer elements, i'd love if we even only got a deathmatch mode, where say 2 or more players, pick a ship or fleet each and fight 'til only one player remains alive, without having to risk your main game assets.
Maybe each player putting up an agreed amount of credits, which the winner then takes.

Surely that wouldn't be as taxing for Ego to implement as full Universe multiplayer.

But as for all the above and my proposed test flight option, anything is possible .

As for an Octopus, killing a cap ship, i don't think they can mount Mass Drivers or powerful enough missiles, but any M5 that can use MD's, given enough ammo, time and skillful flying could kill one .

[Lazerius]

I'll take this seriously as soon as the US military lets me test drive a Tank.

[tanner1ie]

Maybe if you were interested in buying said tank and had a licence (which we effectively do with sufficient game rep ) to purchase military hardware, they would do .

[Ripskar]

[tanner1ie]

Ha ha, cool video, especially the part where they do the handbreak turn .

I wondered, while playing Battlefield 3 was it realistic to be able to drift a tank - guess it is .

[jkjklkl]

[tanner1ie]

[Jumee]

[tanner1ie]

[Probe1]

Did someone seriously just mention realism as an issue in a space flight sim that breaks a dozen laws of recognized physics and implements some in impossible ways?

Or, hold on for this one, features races that just so happen to be identical except minor cosmetic differences? Have you ever thought, Hmm how odd that all these ships have the same shield variants! How quaint that they hold on to their own weapons (that all do a single,unified type of damage, undoubtably this was agreed upon when credits were sanctioned as the UNIVERSE WIDE CURRENCY).

No no, wait, here's my favorite. Everyone, everwhere, except two races that we just so happen to hate and destroy, speak the same language. I've never seen a universal translation thingimabob. Not to mention the whole Terrans understand you just fine despite never making contact with alien life before.


Soooo now, on test flights, you're playing the unbelievable card?

lol!

On topic, just install the cheat script, start a custom game and don't save. Job done gg problem solved

[Ripskar]

[Probe1]

No, I have never played X-BTF. I was tempted when X3 came out to buy the first two and see the plot but I ended up just reading a wiki.

If that was explained then strike that part out; my point still stands. That point being: It's a video game. You can't selectively say "Oh I don't like this because it isn't realism" when the entire series is implausible and unreal.

You accept the game for what it says it is. If there's something you absolutely cannot reconcile, there's always modding but beforehand, I urge you to clear your mind and say "Really now? I can do x y and z but W is really ridiculous!"

tl;dr it's a game function, not a plot function. there's no reason why ships could not be test piloted by techno goggles and virtual reality. or whatever.