Early details for next X³: Reunion patch - 1.3

[Blacjacmac]

Someone must live in Germany. Can't someone drive the F over there & bust some damn skulls???

[Sixhitter]

I said Darshu 3 times when I read his last post and now the mrs has me wrapped up, dosed with asprins thinking I got a cold.

Dam U darshu. oops here comes the anal thermometer

[mrholway]

I have conclusive proof that EGOSOFT is off for the holidays and possibly even out of business. Yes, its the end of the world as we know it....
I don't know if anybody said this allready ( I anly have a couple of hours a day to read this forum, at work of course...) but the "Screenshot of the day" picture hasn't changed in quite a while... Hmmm. I think they are all GONE... gone I tell ya... NO PATCH FOR YOU... HO HO HO.... ( or is it hi hi hi )

Ooh, outlanding guesses. Let me try. Mine is that the Christmas party went horribly awry. Someone sat on the source code repository server and broke it after mistaking it for the photocopy machine while trying to get a copy off their arse.

In a cruel twist of fate the backup tapes were tragically destroyed when they were knocked from a shelf into the egg-nog during an impromptu footy game.

We're all borked now...

Chortle, Yu'r one funny bloke!! how did u guess that it just takes a mention of egg-nog to get me in stiches!! Anyhow, I reckon the'r actually all down their local offy, having a "compare the spinning bow-tie" competition, while simultaneously collapsing into large vats of custard.. On a more serious note (how about e minor) we should all be on our third Stella by now... right?? COME ON EGO, MY GRUNDYS CAN'T TAKE MUCH MORE OF THIS..

[techno-mole]

i wonder if the old saying " no news is good news " is worth considering in regards to this so far non existant patch ?
i hope so, rally i do hope so ... ...

[Sixhitter]

Nah Ego aint gone out of business.

A friend of mine (Old lady of 82) said this morning she was carrying two bags of heavy xmas shopping past their offices. A young coder came towards her and asked her if she could manage. To which she replied 'I already told U once I dont want the bleeding job.'

[Da_Junka]

I rang my granny who live in Germany. She nippys over to Es offices in da automobile. She says notice on "For Sale " sign that say "Gone on Chrismas time vacation."

[XenonBuster]

well send her out searching for them

[BugMeister]

..tick ...tick ...tick ...tick ...tick

'twas the week before Christmas
And all round the house
Not a creature was stirring
Not even a mouse..

Not even an Intellimouse..

[Thrappy]

Does the patch only come out if everyone is asleep, Just like santa

[De-Winter]

To be perfectly honest I don't really care anymore, I think for myself personally it would be better if when giving dates they wouldn't, Instead just say last quarter or first quarter etc etc, basically it gives us an approximate date and then gives people upto 3 months to get it done.

When people say it's out at the end of November then just after say it's now the last week in December it's just pisses people off, including myself

I understand the usual statement that people say in regards to " Well the longer they spend on it the better it shall be"...?????
Doesn't anybody think that in reality, that this should have been done before the game was even released!!!!

Although it's been said before It's like buying a car and then finding you have to wait 3 months for the engine to be put in it? Ridiculous analogy
I know but when purchasing a product I don't really care if I spend £10 on it or £10,000 I still expect a certain standard from the company that sold it.

It's not the monetary value that should bother you it's the fact that a large amount of people on here feel a little bit ripped off but then when anybody brings it up people quote "Well the previous game was the same!" and you should expect this!!

Well to be perfectly honest why do we have to put up with this? Don't get me wrong I really enjoy this game bugs and all and I will continue to play it for months maybe years but when the next one comes out, deep inside myself will look back to this moment and think "Do I really want all the same shite again like I did with the old one?"

More than likely I will buy it again but a warning, you can only expect people to take a certain amount of crap before their feet do the talking and it would be a shame because this is a wonderfull series which I hope continues for a long while and it would be a shame if a software house has financial troubles because of demands put on them by publishers etc etc

I know these people hold the purse strings but try having some balls next time and saying "no" I know in the real world this is harder said than done.

Anyway enough of my ranting, I apologize to any member of the Software team it's not you guys I have a problem with, So sorry if any offence was caused. It's a possible "great game" but unfortunately there shouldn't have been any "possible" about it, It should have been shipped as the writers intended it.


Regards,

D-W

[dr del]

bugger

when i saw this thread was locked i sprinted over to the patch download page thinking that meant it was out.

since it did however prove the mods are reading it could one of you ask the relevant person (i'm sorry i have no idea who that would be) about the availability of the patch on cover disks for me?

i, obviously , have internet access but it isn't that bad an idea for those who dont.

or am i once again practicing ventriloquism with my trousers up?



dr del



"Proof that evolution CAN go in reverse"

[BrendanD]

well send her out searching for them

And give her a few red bulls and pizza's to deliver while she is there. As someone who has lived through this sort of coding deadline I can promise you that they need it.

[mrholway]

I wonder what we're all gonna do after the patch is out...

Will we be able to play?
Or will everybody keep staring at this thread which all of a sudden dies at page 187? Or will we manage the turnaround?
Will some even realize that the patch is actually out ?

The really bad thing about getting so close to x-mas is: Now we'd have time to play during work but what about afterwards when it's really x-mas time? The remainder of your social life will all of a sudden strike back: "Darling, could you prepare the tree? In one hour you'll have to pick-up my mother at the station! What about the dog? I don't have time while I'm preparing the dinner. Why don't you play with the children instead of this stupid space game?"

Yeah yeah folks, admit it. In reality all the whining is just about this fear of not being able to play _during_ x-mas time

So my tip: Find a quiet corner in an unknown sector, fine tune your factories and find a good excuse to leave your guests every 60 minutes. Something like bladder inflammation, gastritis or whatever.
The better you're prepped, the more credits you'll earn - old Teladi proverb.

Neuweiler, that's terrible! are u really so under the thumb? Outrageous ! u need to "get a life" as those Americans keep saying.. I mean come on, ok there's the excuses we have to give (all the f****ing time), the constant feeling oif being watched, the creeping lack of self expression/movement, that vacuous sensation of freedom of speech.. OH yeeea there's thaat (cockney accent please) that guilty feeling of actually doing something we want to do.. In fact when you get that new life could u just pop me an e.mail letting me know where u got it from.. Not that I'm in need of one of course. Really. Honest guv! (cockney accent again) ahem, fourth Stella yeah lads?? here's to yours

[camknox]

Some other things that need attention:

1. Inability to ALT-TAB out of game. Upon resume game will hang after displaying the X3: Reunion screen.

2. Bug - When passing through a gate if you hit TAB (boost extension) straight after coming out you will magically pass back through the same gate to the sector you just left.

3. Some way to increase pirate faction?

4. Bug - If the game/computer crashes while playing, any saves done since last load, either manual or auto are lost and irretrievable. Workaround is to save and load straight away to restart 'the game'.

5. The ship that steers like a whale problem when using SETA. Ships will autopilot into objects (stations, asteroids etc) seeing as they turn far too late when SETA is engaged. This shouldn't really happen as it's meant to 'speed up time' not the ship.

6. Are the Xenon ever going to leave their 'secluded sectors'?

I'm sure there were more that I had but for now they have slipped my mind.

[BrendanD]

I wonder what we're all gonna do after the patch is out...

Will we be able to play?
Or will everybody keep staring at this thread which all of a sudden dies at page 187? Or will we manage the turnaround?
Will some even realize that the patch is actually out ?

The really bad thing about getting so close to x-mas is: Now we'd have time to play during work but what about afterwards when it's really x-mas time? The remainder of your social life will all of a sudden strike back: "Darling, could you prepare the tree? In one hour you'll have to pick-up my mother at the station! What about the dog? I don't have time while I'm preparing the dinner. Why don't you play with the children instead of this stupid space game?"

Yeah yeah folks, admit it. In reality all the whining is just about this fear of not being able to play _during_ x-mas time

So my tip: Find a quiet corner in an unknown sector, fine tune your factories and find a good excuse to leave your guests every 60 minutes. Something like bladder inflammation, gastritis or whatever.
The better you're prepped, the more credits you'll earn - old Teladi proverb.

Neuweiler, that's terrible! are u really so under the thumb? Outrageous ! u need to "get a life" as those Americans keep saying.. I mean come on, ok there's the excuses we have to give (all the f****ing time), the constant feeling oif being watched, the creeping lack of self expression/movement, that vacuous sensation of freedom of speech.. OH yeeea there's thaat (cockney accent please) that guilty feeling of actually doing something we want to do.. In fact when you get that new life could u just pop me an e.mail letting me know where u got it from.. Not that I'm in need of one of course. Really. Honest guv! (cockney accent again) ahem, fourth Stella yeah lads?? here's to yours

The Christmas period is often such that those of us with family commitments just can't spend the whole weekend playing games because if we did we'd end up sleeping on the couch at least until 1.3 gets released. (Yes, I'm talking that long.)

(Un)fortunately for me it's back-to-back family events away from home with the fiance's and my family from Saturday morning until Monday evening so this won't be an issue for me. Or at least it can't let it be if I still want the wedding.

[illum_inati]

I'll bet money that they finished the patch and the testing like a week ago but they don't want us to have it yet. I bet now they are just sitting at evil Egosoft headquarters, waving a patch CD-ROM in front of their evil 24'' widescreen monitors that we payed for, laughing their asses off at our desperate posts. They are singing too, can you hear it? ...

Eeeee-eee-eh, eeeh-eeeh-eh, CAN'T TOUCH THIS!
Eeeee-eee-eh, eeeh-eeeh-eh, CAN'T TOUCH THIS!
Ego-time...

They are bloody all of them, lol...

[HeathCharnock]

To all the people who keep sending posts to this thread (including myself) PLEASE GO GET A LIFE FFS its freak'n Xmas, go and drink vodka and eat some mince pies, sing carols, dance like a gay gordon around the merry old tinsle strewn flashy light riden tree and then sit back and bask in the glory of what you did during 2005, or, create another meaningless post!

Ohh Darshu your seriously disappearing up your own black orifice m8!

FLAME ON!

[bloodystump]

If you hit the update button from the game menu, it now says there is a download for 1.3 only it says the link is broken. That wasn't there yesterday i'm pretty sure.

[Red Squirrel]

......My third Artois and Mince Pie.....The protest is going well.....where's the sick bucket!

[AsTrOcReEp]

Oh good were back! Here is a Christmas ditty.


TO JINGLE BELLS...

We are waiting for the patch,
been waiting for an age,
look at the forum size,
these goes another page.

EGOSOFT, EGOSOFT
your game is full of bugs,
oh what fun it is to write,
code that doesn't work.

It's not very hard,
to em-ploy some QA,
get them to check it out,
for more than just one day.

EGOSOFT, EGOSOFT
your game is full of bugs,
oh what fun it is to write,
code that doesn't work.

Next time we wont be fooled,
we'll wait until till the day,
that you have released some working code,
and the games half-price anyway.

EGOSOFT, EGOSOFT
your game is full of bugs,
oh what fun it is to write,
code that doesn't work.

So come on now,
How hard can it be,
just let us know,
Where is patch 1.3?

EGOSOFT, EGOSOFT
your game is full of bugs,
oh what fun it is to write,
code that doesn't work.


Merry Christmas all