X-News Issue 8 Released and new video available online!

Steel · Post by **Steel** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 16:58

Hi all,

Issue 8 can be found Here.

Downloading video from server 2 might be a little slow (that's us and we are being swamped!)

Thanks,

Steel

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 17:12

Thanks Steel and team!

I want those projectile weapons! They going to fire like a machine gun/gatling gun?

Can just imagine firing about 1000 rounds per minute!!!

"by by cap ship!!!"

boogyman · Post by **boogyman** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 17:23

I have to say that it was well worth tha wait.

Rega · Post by **Rega** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 18:03

Nice work Steel im geting the vid as we speak

Al · Post by Al » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 18:11

great stuff. Only comment is that the higher quality divx is very dark and its hard to make out whats going on. Dont know if this can be altered within the Divx playa or not.

Anyways cheers guys

Al

CT3 · Post by **CT3** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 18:58

NICE!

attempting to get the high Q divx now 40 mins to go

Eagle · Post by **Eagle** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 18:58

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Avis · Post by **Avis** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 19:33

Very Nice,

Steel · Post by **Steel** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 20:49

Al wrote:great stuff. Only comment is that the higher quality divx is very dark and its hard to make out whats going on. Dont know if this can be altered within the Divx playa or not.

Anyways cheers guys

Al

Hi Al,

Looks fine here, but you can right click in the DivX player, select options and play around with the settings. Haven't done it, but the option appears to be there.

hth

Steel

Brody · Post by **Brody** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 21:25

Brilliant work on the video. Some of those images are truly breathtaking. What an immersive game with those shadow effects. I hope my Gf3 Ti can handle it!

Seriously, congrats to all who were involved with the video. It should be an excellent marketing tool. Please let me know if I can help in the U.S. beyond e-mailing PC game magazines.

Brody

Grimm · Post by **Grimm** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 21:35

Ok - where do I send the money?

Top job guys - I am really impressed - Can't wait to get my hands on this game

Especially so I can fly the ship from the end credits - looks fun

abaddon · Post by **abaddon** » Fri, 6. Dec 02, 22:37

The info on the new weapons looks interesting - hopefully there will be a whole load of different types - each with different characteristics such as range, power consumption, shield damage, hull damage etc, and an easier way of switching between different sets of weapons.

It would be nice to be able to have the 1/2 keys switch between, for example, your 'long range blast everything to hell' and your 'short range shield draining ship capture' sets of weapons.

Faze · Post by **Faze** » Sat, 7. Dec 02, 18:08

The vid is brill

The links for the wall papers are the wrong way round.

but who cares.

RustiSwordz · Post by **RustiSwordz** » Sat, 7. Dec 02, 20:02

Eagle wrote:[ external image ] [ external image ]

Eagle is definitly of the wakky bakky tonight.

PS Cool news, and cool wallpapers. I want that frigate patrol ship thingy.

RustiSwordz · Post by **RustiSwordz** » Sun, 8. Dec 02, 11:07

I just downloaded the video. Bloody cool. Still think the fighter ships look too cartoony, they enspire me to burst into laughter rather than the mean looking ships of XT.

However the cruisers look cool.

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Sun, 8. Dec 02, 23:22

Well, can't weight to get my hands on some of those wejapons, from what have read so far, some of them sound fantastic!

Maniacal Maestro · Post by **Maniacal Maestro** » Mon, 9. Dec 02, 21:44

Nice. Very, very nice. The explosion effects still need a bit of work IMO, but apart from that, very pretty. I'm definately looking forward to it, but getting more and more worried about the system requirements for it - I mean did you see the number of Khaak ships there?...

Lorien · Post by **Lorien** » Thu, 12. Dec 02, 19:43

Maniacal Maestro wrote:Nice. Very, very nice. The explosion effects still need a bit of work IMO, but apart from that, very pretty. I'm definately looking forward to it, but getting more and more worried about the system requirements for it - I mean did you see the number of Khaak ships there?...

Hopefully machines with a 1gig processor and above shouldn't have too much of a problem with that number of Khaak.

Agree a bit on the explosion effects but wouldn't mind seeing what they look like from a cockpit point of view.

Any greenies reading this able to oblige with a screenshot or two

N.aqil1 · Post by **N.aqil1** » Thu, 12. Dec 02, 22:09

yeeaaaah!!!

Pukka video!!

I love it all!!! Especially the design of those brilliant looking boron cap. ships with those "tentacle" extrusions".

But we all know that the video is contains not even a 1/4 of the stuff we will be finding in x2, so if im exited so much about this video.

HOW EXITED I WILL BE IN THE REAL THING!!!

thanx alot team

P.S to all who is not good at english slang.....Pukka is our slang for Exellent (it is a japanese word though)

Gandalf The White · Post by **Gandalf The White** » Fri, 13. Dec 02, 10:23

Well of course the Boron Cap shps look good! They are Boron. No explination is needed!!!

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X-News Issue 8 Released and new video available online!

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