Xfire and X3 ingame chat tested and proven to work pics right here

antman112 · Post by **antman112** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 15:51

so me and CreHater have been testing Xfire ingame with X3 now right away Xfire works with the means that it recods how long you play (in hours) and we have all the lovey time we spend on X3 in your profies
but the ingame chat has been a bit of a problam (for me at lest CreHater it worked fine for)
but now it works (duw to a Xfire update)

you can chat in game with no problam at all me and CreHater played at the same time sending messages to each other

and here is the pic of it happening
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this is at crehaters side and i can see exatley the same thing

no why dose it get in the way with playing the game a box pops up in the coner if someone messages you and you can chose to ignore it without it geting in the way of fighting or whater (have to press Scroll lock-X to get the window you can see up)

it is the next best thing to haveing X-online i say and i think you should give it a try
if you allredy got it or you have just got it (xifre that is) then plz post your
nickname down so we can make a massive network where all X players can chat while they play there games

no need to go off game to ask about things why not do it while your in game
no need to evan use msn to chat to other X players do it while your in game
easy to use
no performace loss at all Xfire uses next to none memory

ill update with some of my pics in a min some reson it did not take any

if you what to look at Xfire go here www.xfire.com

just got to say that Xfire has nuffing at all to do with the X-Universe or egosoft its just that it serports X3 as a game and a strage but wonderfull thing that it allso has X in its name

hope i make sence

Player. · Post by **Player.** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 15:55

Yeah a bit gonna try that

antman112 · Post by **antman112** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 16:10

just tested with some old gameing frends of mine and works all ways round and here are the updated screens

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it works in the meun area

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me docked looking at meun system for Xfire

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someone messageing back
as you can see the little window pops up the game carrys on no loss of controle as im spining to make shore

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the popup gose away fastish the game carrys on

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here is me chating back to wils that dose not play or know about X3 lol

you can allso chat in groups (chat rooms) can make one up for X3

so plz post a nickname if you have or geting Xfire and the game will be made that bit more fun

KipperTheFish · Post by **KipperTheFish** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 17:33

And of course you get the added bonus (if the rumours are true) that as you have to drop your firewall for xfire to work, people have experienced problems with virus attacks.
I guess if you want your X3 more exciting this is the way to go.
Personally I use Skype which allows you keep some protection in place, and also with a mic you can talk instead of all this typing stuff.

antman112 · Post by **antman112** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 18:39

KipperTheFish wrote:And of course you get the added bonus (if the rumours are true) that as you have to drop your firewall for xfire to work, people have experienced problems with virus attacks.
I guess if you want your X3 more exciting this is the way to go.
Personally I use Skype which allows you keep some protection in place, and also with a mic you can talk instead of all this typing stuff.

lol

drop my firewall me
never happens i got zone alram and my hubs firewall working all at once with Xfire on
just rumours im afade
iv had Xfire for years never had a virus

Tha_reaper · Post by **Tha_reaper** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 19:10

KipperTheFish wrote:And of course you get the added bonus (if the rumours are true) that as you have to drop your firewall for xfire to work, people have experienced problems with virus attacks.
I guess if you want your X3 more exciting this is the way to go.
Personally I use Skype which allows you keep some protection in place, and also with a mic you can talk instead of all this typing stuff.

im also a fas of skype, but then you can only continue a conversation you started before you launched X3. when someone calls you there is nog way of awnsering his call right?

antman112 · Post by **antman112** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 19:18

Tha_reaper wrote:
KipperTheFish wrote:And of course you get the added bonus (if the rumours are true) that as you have to drop your firewall for xfire to work, people have experienced problems with virus attacks.
I guess if you want your X3 more exciting this is the way to go.
Personally I use Skype which allows you keep some protection in place, and also with a mic you can talk instead of all this typing stuff.
im also a fas of skype, but then you can only continue a conversation you started before you launched X3. when someone calls you there is nog way of awnsering his call right?

with Xfire just "SCROLL LOCK - X"
and you get the big window you can see in the pics
if you dont press it nuffing happens but the pop-up box (that dose nuffing to gameplay) and maby the person will try and message you agen but they can allways wait

no dissableing firewall
no spyware
no virus
and when you shut X3 down the window with all the chat will come up on your desktop
and when you start up X3 with chat allredy happend it will be accessble in game

Tha_reaper · Post by **Tha_reaper** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 19:29

thats cool, but i dont have any contacts on Xfire

thats why I asked if there is an easy way of accepting a skype incomming call.

antman112 · Post by **antman112** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 19:34

Tha_reaper wrote:thats cool, but i dont have any contacts on Xfire

thats why I asked if there is an easy way of accepting a skype incomming call.

i dont know anything about skype

if you have no contacks why dont you post your nickname and we make a Xfire - X-Universe Community where all the players can play and use the group chating to talk ingame at the same time about X

Ferd Harling · Post by **Ferd Harling** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 19:35

I use Skype but X3 sometimes crashes when you get an incoming call.

Tha_reaper · Post by **Tha_reaper** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 19:37

antman112 wrote:
if you have no contacks why dont you post your nickname and we make a Xfire - X-Universe Community where all the players can play and use the group chating to talk ingame at the same time about X

thats a pretty cool idea! I will download Xfire as soon as Ive cleaned the dishes. My nick will probably be Tha_reaper

antman112 · Post by **antman112** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 19:45

Ferd Harling wrote:I use Skype but X3 sometimes crashes when you get an incoming call.

this is why me and CreHater been testing it with avengece
there was only one bug and that it whold not work with me but now it dose

no crashs
no lag
no huge box that gets in your way

i sound like im adrvtiseing i know but all im saying is that this can be a real big thing if ppl join in

my nick on it is sedestiny
send me a invite with a note to do with X and i will add you

if i was to be the hub to all this and set up the group then it be grate

Tha_reaper · Post by **Tha_reaper** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 19:47

ok, the name tha_reaper was invalid. i chose the name thareaperd

ADD ME!

antman112 · Post by **antman112** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 20:25

done
and the group has started

as more and more join it will grow you can all have each others nicknames and chat over the internt while we play the game or not

its not like giveing away your MSN address as its not that personal no details are given away and we all play the same game and shuting Xfire dose not cut you off from your game or MSN

there is two things thowe
it has a problam with X3 sound and makes a riping noise insted of a beep
funy relly
there is no offline opp as Xfire is ment to be online all time
but you can block ppl and set your own stats like away from keybord or eating

this group i will add all X3 players to it as the Community grows you will be able to see it and you can tlk to all ppl within it (as far as i know) make your own chat rooms or just chat to one person one on one

i am going to remove every body on my Xfire account asspert for the ppl who play X3 so no one else but ppl who play X3 so as not to get confusd
if everone knows me then everyone will know all X-Universe but not have to add them to there lists or tlk to them

Hadez2 · Post by **Hadez2** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 20:45

A firewall doesn't protect you from a virus. Most viruses come in through user initiated connections (file sharing, web download, e-mail). The only thing a firewall would prevent virus wise is if you had a backdoor installed and someone was trying to gain remote access (which doesn't make you not infected).

Your best bet against viruses is to have an active and updated anti-virus application. There's several good free ones out there (antivir, avast!).

I've used xfire for quite some time now and it is a great app. Works well with virtually all games.

Tha_reaper · Post by **Tha_reaper** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 21:15

I just tried it, and its working great.

I only have 2 problems:
1) The sound Xfire makes when you get a message is really freaking me out. Makes me jump about 10 cemtimetres from my seat everytime i get a message.
2) I want voice chat, and im still working out how i can enable that

But everyone: download Xfire, add thareaperd or Destiny to your contacts, and we will make sure you get invited to the right chatroom with X3 players. When there are a lot of players, it will be fun!

RavenIII · Post by **RavenIII** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 21:28

I already have x-fire, add me grimraveniii

I'll add you all, but at the minute very busy downloading a mod for another game... so x-fire isn't on.

Anybody with worries about getting viruses etc. Just use Zone-alarm, it allows you to choose what you want to give access to the internet.

Perhaps if someone is skilled enough they could create an X3 Skin which will match the rest of the game

...that would get it even closer to X-universe.

Anyway, chat with you all soon

RavenIII.

Tha_reaper · Post by **Tha_reaper** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 21:45

I added you. The problem with custom skins is that some group chats are not supported. with custom skins sometimes an invitation for a group chat wont pop up.

UnholyGenoc1de · Post by **UnholyGenoc1de** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 22:21

i have had x-fire for some time now using it mostly because of the feature it has on online games where if i am playin battle field 2 i can launch the game and join the same server as a friend by hitting one button in x-fire..it launches the bf2 excecutable, logs me in and joins the server its cool....oh yeah i bought x3 4 days ago...never played any other of the x series but i love x3 im Unholygenoc1de on xfire...any vets out there wanna add me that would be great cause i could use a little help

RavenIII · Post by **RavenIII** » Sat, 4. Mar 06, 22:25

Well, I have work experience in a few weeks, so once that is over, I'll have a little read, and if no-one by then has made a skin that works successfully I'll take it upon myself to read into it. I have a basic knowledge of skinnig, and a decent amount of knowledge on graphics... so hopefully combining the two I can wizz up a skin. Which reminds me I have to finish a banner off for a website.

UnholyGenoc1de I've already added you.

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Xfire and X3 ingame chat tested and proven to work pics right here

Xfire and X3 ingame chat tested and proven to work pics right here