Spacebar

Steel · Post by **Steel** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 02:51

Hi all,

OK, I've read enough. Just so everyone understands, the spacebar will NOT be used as a fire button in X2.

It ain't going in, it never was, regardless what you may have heard. If you can't press your fire button on your stick/mouse/ball/wand, go find another game. No SPACEBAR fire buttons here folks.

Some quotes from the developers.

"Spacebar? Why DO people keep bringing that old question up?"

"Who has a spacebar? It's the minority, trust me."

"I hope future PC's ship without the damn thing."

"It's all IBM's fault. They put the thing on there in the first place."

So people, it's been discussed a THOUSAND times!!! Do a search for "spacebar" and look at the results. It might enlighten you. If I see so much as the word "spacebar" in a thread title, its "click" time and you just know what that means......

That's right, thread LOCKED! Hey maybe even DELETED!!!! I have the power people, just remember that.

You have been told.

ps: I hear a rumor that "Argonsoft" are working on an add-on for X2 which allows the fire button to be mapped to the spacebar. Ha ha, who's gonna buy that then? Fools!

Cheers,

Steel

pps: THIS IS A JOKE!!!!!

Apothos · Post by **Apothos** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 02:58

Steel wrote:pps: THIS IS A JOKE!

Hehe.

UncleKnobby · Post by **UncleKnobby** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 04:49

Damn and I've just been out, and spent £250 on a realy hot spacebar too, I guess it's back to shop's, to trade it in for one of them 'joystick' thing's

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 05:44

Damn, wrong bar!@!

I thought maybe we had a new business to run in X2

Thalass · Post by **Thalass** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 05:57

you did who with the what now?

Aye Capn · Post by **Aye Capn** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 07:54

Err, UnkleK, I inadvertantly swiped your joke, sorry.

I hadn't read this thread yet or I wouldn't have duplicated your fine humor.

(See thread titled JOYSTICK! JOYSTICK! HALLELIEUIAH!)

UncleKnobby · Post by **UncleKnobby** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 08:24

Aye Capn wrote:Err, UnkleK, I inadvertantly swiped your joke, sorry.

I hadn't read this thread yet or I wouldn't have duplicated your fine humor.

(See thread titled JOYSTICK! JOYSTICK! HALLELIEUIAH!)

Not a problem, it happens all the time

Welcome to the forum

Grimm · Post by **Grimm** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 08:33

Spacebar? I helped make one of those...

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Apothos · Post by **Apothos** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 08:38

/me spies Batman.

Oh, and do you have an eta on the next chapter? :D

Grimm · Post by **Grimm** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 09:07

Heh - observant tonight, aren't we...

You can thank Avis for Batman, and no, unfortunately... but it is coming.

Reverend_Vader · Post by **Reverend_Vader** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 10:29

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Well for only £300 you can get what I have

A keyboard without a space bar

For the rest of you peasants who were not a forward thinking enough and went out and got the old "Defunct type of keyboard"

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Bahahahahhha

Eagle · Post by **Eagle** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 10:53

Yooz r gonna pilot a spaceship with a keyboard???????

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GHarper · Post by **GHarper** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 17:02

so I can safely assume that X2 will NOT be compatible with the new Thrustmaster Hyper-SpaceBar due out Q4-03? it has 3 POV hats a microstick and is more programmable than the venerable TM HOTAS Cougar...

Not only that but it has the ability to delete entire words in MS WordXP

Deleted User · Post by **Deleted User** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 18:50

My only complaint about the spacebar is that it's too small so i am modding my keyboard by taking some of the buttons out to enable a larger s/bar

~Lonowski~ · Post by **~Lonowski~** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 20:12

UncleKnobbysBack wrote:Damn and I've just been out, and spent £250 on a realy hot spacebar too, I guess it's back to shop's, to trade it in for one of them 'joystick' thing's

yeah! i just replaced the whole area between F1-F12 with 3 new Microsoft Wattsdapoint3600 spacebars!

growly_person · Post by **growly_person** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 20:24

I miss my old spacebar

Many a ship has died because of it

Deleted User · Post by **Deleted User** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 20:29

I like big buttons

when i play games wearing my boxing gloves it gets difficult pushing the small buttons individually, so these spacebars are a God send ... praise da lord still got a problem with the CD's though ... trying to get them into the drive tray

UncleKnobby · Post by **UncleKnobby** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 20:41

I hope your happy now steel.

Look at all the distress you caused, with you calous actions.

In fact we should form a petition to get the spacebar used.

It might delay the release of X2 for a few years, but I feel it will be worth it, if we can use our expensive spacebars.

Deleted User · Post by **Deleted User** » Sat, 15. Feb 03, 21:10

I agree all this bashing of spacebar users is frghtening it amounts to old fashioned spacebarphobia, very unhealthy, should be a law against it

SteveMill · Post by **SteveMill** » Sun, 16. Feb 03, 00:24

No spacebar? Say it ain't so. You're going to be telling us we can't fly with our cursor keys next or have to stomach 3d cockpits instead of the tired and trusted third person viewpoint. And if I see X2 ships can bank, roll and move in 3 dimensions there's just going to be trouble.

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Oops, swiped your joke, sorry

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