NEWS: X³:TC "Build" Video - (Plus all available release info)

[Gothsheep]

No. Standalone Expansions are not a new thing. Thing of it this way:

A classic expansion would be installed parallel to the original game. It would use most of the original game's content, but add things to it, and maybe change some things as well. To run it, you would start it, like its own game, but it would use many of the resources of the 'core' game in order to run.

However, thanks to improving technology, better efficiency in game design, and overall more better choices, designers these days are able to put all the resources their games need, packaged right in with the expansions. This allows people who don't own the original game, to still buy and enjoy the expansion. It still draws on those same resources of the original game, but this time it has them packaged with it, instead of needing to rely on them already being there.

EDIT: On a different topic, can someone wiser in the ways of the world tell me abouts what £20 boils down to in American dollarinos?

[Carlo the Curious]

About 40 USD at the moment. I imagine it will be cheaper than that though.

[D_Zorro]

When i saw that movie, looks like egosoft learned a bit from XTM ?? A lot of those things like ship balancing the XTM team did very well, so in the end, we all get an overall better game thanks to those outstanding modders.

[Cycrow]

EDIT: On a different topic, can someone wiser in the ways of the world tell me abouts what £20 boils down to in American dollarinos?

as a comparision, its the same RRP as most sims expansions from the same site

[bob hope]

£20 is approximately $30 or nearabouts, personally i would like to know how much work its going to take modders to make thier mods work if they will at all

[CBJ]

£20 is approximately $30 or nearabouts...

Er, when did you last look at the exchange rate? As someone said earlier, it's almost $40 now.

[NavyAICS]

Nice video. I was expecting a little more on building but it was a nice preview. I love the look of the new interface. I think that's a much better look then the current view. Still can't wait for X3:TC.
-NavyAICS.

[Mobuj]

When I play either the High or Low rez versions I get only sound, the video is blank. Using XP with media player 11. Any ideas?

[Carlo the Curious]

Where did you download it from? iirc the last video posted on the Egosoft site needed an Xvid codec.

EDIT: As it says on the download page, oddly enough .

[Protrader]

You need to install the xvid codec

http://www.digital-digest.com/software/ ... id=0&did=1

[jvx]

when can i play this new game , it is looked so nice thaks for developing so great game

[Syndrome]

Interesting, but I've always been a little disapointed. We've waited more than three years and all Ego can come up with is more ships and a better GUI?

It's not like there was a 3 year gap between X³R and X³TC. There were many additions (and bug fixes, yes), Bala Gi Missions, new features (HQ, Tractor Beam e.t.c), and then a final 2.5 patch for both X³ and X².
And as the BUILD video states, there are other new things.

Quote my whole post man. Sheesh.

[StarTroll]

Speaking money :
1 £ = 1.26€ = 1.96$
and the price of games are different in many countries
for exemple Spore in precommande is 49.99$ on a site (don't remember which) while it is 54.99€ in France, meaning this game is much cheaper in US than France (or Europe). 49.99$ vs 84.14$ we see the winner

[bob hope]

£20 is approximately $30 or nearabouts...

Er, when did you last look at the exchange rate? As someone said earlier, it's almost $40 now.

a few months back, personally i dont give 3 hoots about exchange rate as i know in the end UK normally gets the dirty end of the stick, what with games coming out at $50 in usa and £50 in the uk. So i give up looking because i just dont want the stress of knowing just because were in the UK we are to be ripped off and taken the mickey out of.

[silentWitness]

Was it just me who could have sworn that the Build trailer was being narrated by a Boron???

I was waiting for there to be some mention of the Queen or Kingdom of Boron... I'm hoping for a Teladi for trade... 'the profitsssssss...' and a Split for fight! Oh and ofcourse... an Argon for think!

Oh well I can dream!

[AleksMain]

£20 is approximately $30 or nearabouts...

Er, when did you last look at the exchange rate? As someone said earlier, it's almost $40 now.

a few months back, personally i dont give 3 hoots about exchange rate as i know in the end UK normally gets the dirty end of the stick, what with games coming out at $50 in usa and £50 in the uk. So i give up looking because i just dont want the stress of knowing just because were in the UK we are to be ripped off and taken the mickey out of.

You will be shoked when you will know prices in other countries. Just imagine price 5 times less than in USA.

Just to compare:
"Intel® Core™2 Quad Q9300 (Socket 775) 2500 6144kb cache BOX 1333 MHz bus Hyper-Threading Technology ! EM64T Function Execute Disable Bit°" cost here 301 $,
full system block with 2G DDR3 on this processor and "768 Mb Nvidia Geforce 9600GSO Gainward BLISS PACK 9600GSO Golden Sample DVI Superior Design, PCI Express-16x, DDR3 192bit. 600/1800Mhz, HDTV, Dual-DVI, TV-Out" video - 997 $.

Windows from 78$ up to 143$ (different versions).

[Yxaky]

Looks awesome!

[muppetts]

I download and just get voiceover and no picture?

[xeon_1]

I download and just get voiceover and no picture?

You need to install xvid to play it
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm
This one will do fine

[surferx]

Interesting, but I've always been a little disapointed. We've waited more than three years and all Ego can come up with is more ships and a better GUI?

Now I'm sure there is more but the very fact that there's no new engine means it can't be all that much. The whole project just looks a bit cheap (especially ripping off XTM's models).

Over the three years they've released a small amount of new material for the game but... well... we'd rather have a new, better game than tiny pieces of supplementary material.

So far it looks like more effort was put into XTM than X3:TC. And c'mon - it's not like X isn't their only project.

In saying the above, however, I'll probably be a little more enthusiastic when the 'FIGHT' video is released (if there will be one).

It could be looked at one way that they just repackaged the models already available for free and charged for it. That's fair, but would it have been better if they completely ignored the XTM additions? Or would it have been change for change's sake? It's good that they recognized the initiative and creativity of the XTM team. It looks like they incorporated much of the XTM material and built upon it, while adding and improving lot more. So XTM gets rewarded for the hard work, and we get a nice expansion. Time will tell if it's worth the charge, but I'm excited about it. Still, I also hope we see even more additions/upgrades in the "FIGHT" video. "(if there will be one). "