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Re: X3: Terran Conflict

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From: Memnoch
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:49
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:19:02 +1100, Lazarus <devnull@lukewarmmail.com> wrote:

>Memnoch wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:33:21 +1000, Lazarus <devnull@lukewarmmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Memnoch wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been playing it a lot over the last week and it is great fun. I have
>>>> nearly 70 million and about another 30 million in assets so far.  Now I never
>>>> played the XTM mod really. I stopped playing X3 shortly after it was released
>>>> I think but as much as the devs. would have you believe, TC is really X3 with
>>>> XTM built in as a paid for product, but the devs. have polished things some
>>>> more. There are a lot of new features but one of the core things to my mind is
>>>> the modified XTM content.
>>> No serious problems, obviously.  [Phew!]
>>>
>>> Ok, that's good enough for me, I'd better pull my finger out and put my 
>>> order in.
>>>
>>> Geeze...  I'm a really hard sell, eh?
>> 
>> With patch 1.2 and presumably before as well, there are a few problems with
>> some of the Terran plot missions, which have easy to follow work arounds to
>> avoid them. Rather than retype all that here, have a look on the official
>> forums for the Terran plot threads. There are two missions that I am aware of
>> that I have also personally come across that are somewhat bugged. But
>> fortunately not complete deal breakers.
>
>That shouldn't be a problem, I was sort of half-expecting something like 
>that anyway.
>
>I was a tad concerned about the reworked interface though, there's 
>always the potential for disaster there.
>
>Still, my order is in.  Now comes the waiting game.

The interface is really nice but I still find myself using the keyboard a lot
as it is stil faster if you know the keys to press.
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