XTC news 24th December 2011

[Yautja]

Hi, those new ship varients look amazing though there is no mamba image which brings me to my questions

Are the rear turrets going to be removed in ver 2.0 for the Vanguard & Sentinel?
They have looked out of place since TC and their inclusion in AP proves it was just a rushed money spinner by Egosoft for X Rebirth. The XTC team have done an amazing job from the look of the new ships (page 11), im wondering if they have/would remove the turrets or even better activate them .

Since TC ive liked playing as a fighter pilot in a Mamba. Its true to the splits theosphy of better weapons & speed over sheilds & cargo space, though in v1.2a they have become nothing special, with the fastest "Raider" clocking in at 210m/s. Is there going to be a tweekin of these stats for v2.0 or are they set in stone.. I would prefer the speed of the vanilla versions..

Is it easy to edit the speed if the answer is a no to the above, I have ZERO modding experience of the X series...

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[Eliah]

Mno, we won't mess with stats. 1.2 was more or less the way we wanted in that respect.

I'll look into the scenes for vanguard & sentinel, and their Tship entries - if they really have turret models in the scene without a turret actually set statistically, won't be hard to fix. (Edit: Yup, you were right - turrets in scenes without definitions in tships.. I removed the turretmodels ).

To change it yourself, not that hard; you will need doubleshadow's 'X3Editor 2'. Via that, you will be able to open up the "Tships.txt" file from our mod, and change the speed entry to whatever you want for whatever ships you want . No coding or scripting involved, just scrolling a bit to find the ship called "Mamba Raider" and editing a number in "Speed" tab.

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[Yautja]

I'll look into X3Editor 2, thanks Eliah.Quick fix (at least for you), look forward to seeing the difference in v2.0.
I know it was only a cosmetic difference but its irratated me that egosoft were unable to fix it for over 3 years. Same as the repair tool showing up as a weapon option STILL in AP, a game should never be released with such easy to spot errors.

By the way good news about the 24 hour bug, glad to hear that its been found and your project is back on track, keep up the good work XTC team.

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[K.J.]

Is it easy to edit the speed if the answer is a no to the above, I have ZERO modding experience of the X series...

That's very easy actually, and alot of stuff that is necessary for balancing is selfexplanatory once you have the editor installed and opened the file. Tutorials can be found in the Script&Modding forum at egosoft.com (check the stickies).

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[Aragon Speed]

A new picture for you.

This is one of the XTC 2.0 replacement models for the factory ships. In this case the Teladi mining ship.

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[Solitas]

Sugoi.....

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[Rostran Targo]

Now that is one sexy vessel.

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[cezarip]

Nice, nice!!! Looks amazing! Do the other races have one also? Don't remember...

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[Aragon Speed]

Nice, nice!!! Looks amazing! Do the other races have one also? Don't remember...

Yep.

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[Nemoricus]

Just as I think that the XTC team couldn't get me more excited for the next version, they go and throw out something like this. That ship looks damn fine and I can only imagine what the others must look like.

Keep up the good work, and I wish the team the best of luck with finishing up 2.0.

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