NEWS: Update 1.3 for Terran Conflict and X-News

wolverine005 · Post by **wolverine005** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 18:05

The picture of the ship in the news section, is that the Brigantine (the pirate destroyer, whatever its called)? Or is it a new ship? I haven't seen the Brigantine so I dunnah!

pgllrdp · Post by **pgllrdp** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 18:31

No its a new cap ship by the look id say its either teladi or yaki

GBlair4811 · Post by **GBlair4811** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 18:40

Ive already mentioned this but is anyone gonna fix the news link =P

Supposedly there is an issue of the newsletter to read? The link 404's me.

http://www.egosoft.com/404_en.php?path=/x/xnews

~Lonowski~ · Post by **~Lonowski~** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 18:50

wolverine005 wrote:The picture of the ship in the news section, is that the Brigantine (the pirate destroyer, whatever its called)? Or is it a new ship? I haven't seen the Brigantine so I dunnah!

i see no ship, can someone link me?

GCU Grey Area · Post by **GCU Grey Area** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 18:55

pgllrdp wrote:No its a new cap ship by the look id say its either teladi or yaki

I reckon, going by the shape of the engines & main hull, definitely Yaki, though it's not a new model for the Shuri M1 (I went to have a look & Shuri still looks exactly like a Colossus in 1.3).

Malkuth74 · Post by **Malkuth74** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 18:55

I will try to ask this again since the mods think its ok to merge questions of the patch to this one thread that gets lost in about 1 min.

HOW is the OSS combat now? With the M2 and the laser towers?

Sometimes you guys have to let specific questions get asked, instead of merging every single one into this thread to get lost and never answered.

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 19:02

Hey 'ski .... try this.

shrikebtr · Post by **shrikebtr** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 19:05

It's a good thing we have the internet, otherwise all these people wouldn't have a chance to get on their high horse.

Look, the vast majority of people irritated at Steam are just that. Irritated. They aren't posting 2 page rants, they are saying "hey this sucks, wish it wasn't so", so the adorable chorus of "OMG EGO WORKED SO HARD YOU DON"T UNDERSTAND STEAM!" is entirely unnecessary.

Lets be clear: Ego made an awesome game. That game was buggy. So kudos for the awesome game. Also kudos for continuing to support it instead of washing your hands of it. That is to be lauded.
To the fanbois: It is entirely reasonable and acceptable to be aggravated that a product you spent money on is having issues, so silly posts about "people are never happy" don't really make sense.

Not to mention lets keep in mind here that the people who are grousing about 1.3 and Steam? They aren't doing it because they like whining, they are doing it because they are eager to enjoy the same game you are enjoying. We are all going on the same vacation here, it's just that us Steam users are still sitting at the dock waiting for our boat, while we watch you guys party it up without us

It's also worth noting in Valve's defense that L4D received a patch yesterday as well, and I think we can agree that patching their own games up is probably a higher priority for them.

shrikebtr · Post by **shrikebtr** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 19:08

GBlair4811 wrote:Ive already mentioned this but is anyone gonna fix the news link =P

Supposedly there is an issue of the newsletter to read? The link 404's me.

http://www.egosoft.com/404_en.php?path=/x/xnews

On that note, the link to the patch details/thread, found on this page:

http://www.egosoft.com/download/x3tc/patches_en.php

Leads to the German forum instead of the English one.

I.e. the link is http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=226456

GBlair4811 · Post by **GBlair4811** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 19:24

Aha I think the news link is http://www.egosoft.com/x/xnews/200812_44News.html

Ecthelion · Post by **Ecthelion** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 19:52

B_O_L_T wrote: As an aside, I personally avoid steam versions of any software; because many files are decompressed on the fly as needed, it can cause many games to run slower than their DVD counterparts.

Actually, that's not true, although it's a common misconception. I have yet to see a third-party Steam game that used a different file structure than the non-Steam version. It may be true for some games (although I doubt it due to my experiences), but it's certainly not true of X3:TC. The only thing that's different is the executable file.

I have purchased quite a few games on Steam (both Valve and third-party ones), and the only ones that use archives are games that use archives in the retail version (such as Quake3 engine games with their pk3 files) or Valve games (which use GCF files). The thing is, those games were designed to use compressed archives in the first place; it wasn't something tacked on for the Steam version. In the case of X3:TC, the Steam version does not use Steam-only compressed archives. I preordered and preloaded X3:TC on Steam, and watched as it downloaded. Steam didn't even use compressed archives to download the game... each file downloaded directly to the X3:TC folder.

Your point about the Steam service overhead is valid, although it's really not an issue on modern systems. If your game is running slowly only because of Steam running in the background, something is very wrong.

As far as the patch goes, yes, it's frustrating for us Steam users to have to wait. But there are much bigger, more important things to be mad about. Waiting a few days, or even a week or more, won't kill anyone. It would be nice for the Steam patch to be only a day or two behind though.

moodster2629 · Post by **moodster2629** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 20:27

Im still having the same problem with the ut's going into standby mode after repeatedly commanding them to go on a universal trading run, does anyone else still have this problem with v1.3?

wolverine005 · Post by **wolverine005** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 21:05

~Lonowski~ wrote:
wolverine005 wrote:The picture of the ship in the news section, is that the Brigantine (the pirate destroyer, whatever its called)? Or is it a new ship? I haven't seen the Brigantine so I dunnah!
i see no ship, can someone link me?

http://www.egosoft.com/news/images/news ... 04_001.jpg

Boghedian · Post by **Boghedian** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 21:16

What's the name of the new ship? I have gone through TShips.pck in both old 03.cat and new 05.cat and both have 369 objects. I just can't find the new ship entry and it's driving me bonkers

Demolisher 2 · Post by **Demolisher 2** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 21:20

Sitting outside the gate in a station defense mission.
Nova flies through, liquefied by my PSGs.
Centaur flies through, also killed quickly.
...
long pause
...
AKUMA M2 flies through!!

I kill it, 8000,000 credits after a long hard fight.

Then a Yaki M1 Hoshi flies through.
I exit my ship and give it orders to kill.
It flies to and destroys the enemy M1.
Looks like I now get reward for my ships kills in these missions. (6M for the M1)
Hooray!

This is better than the stupid spamming of Centaurs and Ospreys by far!
Great job, EGOSOFT!

Demolisher 2 · Post by **Demolisher 2** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 21:26

Boghedian wrote:What's the name of the new ship? I have gone through TShips.pck in both old 03.cat and new 05.cat and both have 369 objects. I just can't find the new ship entry and it's driving me bonkers

That's the Hoshi, the Yaki carrier. It's faster than any other carrier, and holds 40 fighters.

vorstaal · Post by **vorstaal** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 21:27

Thanks guys! Unbelievable improvement in gameplay after all the frustration. Running on full detail and it's brilliant...

Black Gryphon · Post by **Black Gryphon** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 21:27

Anyone know if they fixed the protect the base mission; so when you capture one of the ships it will end (if all the rest are killed)?

bigmacmonster · Post by **bigmacmonster** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 21:34

Thanks Egosoft and all the testers

Have been waiting for this so now Xmas is on hold

Gilesey · Post by **Gilesey** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 21:41

Excellent. Thanks for the patch. Going through this thread, I've come across a few mentions of restarts. Do some of the fixes only happen when you start a new game? If so, what are they

I've played about 3 full game days and don't want to have to restart unless I really have to.

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