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X3: Albion Prelude Announced

[Dec 07, 2011, 9:39 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

X-Universe News - Edition 46 announces X3: Albion Prelude, a new game in EGOSOFT's X series of space combat game to be released on December 15. The new game is to bridge the gap between X3: Terran Conflict and the upcoming X Rebirth, which was announced as coming this year, but seems pretty obviously delayed based on this news. They offer some screenshots and this teaser trailer, and here is a bit on the game:

X3: Albion Prelude provides a welcome bridge from the X Universe we know and love to the X Universe that will be experienced in X Rebirth. This new adventure will also feature more than 30 new ships and stations. A new Stock Exchange feature will enable players to speculate in local markets in a bid to increase their wealth. With this will also come tools to monitor and analyse economic developments and progress. Users with high-end machines will also benefit from some improved graphical quality settings. It is important to note that X3: Albion Prelude will NOT feature savegame compatibility with X3: Terran Conflict.

For owners of the X Superbox, X3: Albion Prelude will be available as a free download on Steam, while for owners of X3: Terran Conflict it will be available at the 'add-on' price of €9.99. For players new to the series, X3: Terran Conflict and X3: Albion Prelude will be available for purchase as a bundle. Time your purchase right and you could enjoy substantial discounts in the Steam holiday sale too!

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Re: X3: Albion Prelude Announced

Dec 9, 2011, 22:13

eRe4s3r

As you said, Rebirth looks to focus the game so theres hope that might do it.. all i want from x3 is a tighter sandbox.. not 150 sectors of NOTHING. Its a big difference to talk to Jun'ko Zane and see her in person every now and then and do missions for (and later with her) than be offered "world changing missions" by the GENERAL BLA BLA of ship BLA BLA whom you never meet or see in person. In fact i can't even remember anyone from x1 x2 x3 and x3 TC.. not a single character. Now i get it, x³ is a space sim sandbox.. but that doesn't excuse lazy ass dialog and even lazier character interaction. (in x³, there isn't any) no rivalry, no arch-nemesis or like able side-kick. I guess, one of my only real gripes with x³ is the fact that everything is so.. anticlimactic. I had my fun with the games for sure and i would not play Freelancer now for more than a bit of shooting but i wouldn't even install x³ (or care about a addon) nowadays, because this addon adds nothing but a bit of dressing to a huge but empty universe. My seriously biggest gripe with x3 besides the above, is that nothing you do matters. You can blow up the home sector of the borons and nobody in the universe cares (besides the borons) and even those reactions are merely "reputation" based, that means if you use ways to smooth the reputation hit borons will like you again... and never even mention your little mass genocide episode. I mean, what the hell? Why give us the ability to do something, and then not put any response to it whatsoever in the game? What x³ is missing is the game and atmosphere that its universe deserves. In TC it was supposed to be a cold-war style situation with impeding threat of the swarm AGI, i never felt it. Most of the game didn't even relate to it even if you played terran. And it seems completely hilarious, in the face of impending world ending doom at the hands of the swarm AGI, to do a station defend mission as terran for a boron ore mine somewhere 50 sectors away from terra. Anyhow... Rebirth will be the last chance i give this franchise.. which i played since the original X and grew less happy with over each passing iteration...

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Comment [quote="eRe4s3r"Dec 9, 2011, 22:13]As you said, Rebirth looks to focus the game so theres hope that might do it.. all i want from x3 is a tighter sandbox.. not 150 sectors of NOTHING. Its a big difference to talk to Jun'ko Zane and see her in person every now and then and do missions for (and later with her) than be offered "world changing missions" by the GENERAL BLA BLA of ship BLA BLA whom you never meet or see in person. In fact i can't even remember anyone from x1 x2 x3 and x3 TC.. not a single character. Now i get it, x³ is a space sim sandbox.. but that doesn't excuse lazy ass dialog and even lazier character interaction. (in x³, there isn't any) no rivalry, no arch-nemesis or like able side-kick. I guess, one of my only real gripes with x³ is the fact that everything is so.. anticlimactic. I had my fun with the games for sure and i would not play Freelancer now for more than a bit of shooting but i wouldn't even install x³ (or care about a addon) nowadays, because this addon adds nothing but a bit of dressing to a huge but empty universe. My seriously biggest gripe with x3 besides the above, is that nothing you do matters. You can blow up the home sector of the borons and nobody in the universe cares (besides the borons) and even those reactions are merely "reputation" based, that means if you use ways to smooth the reputation hit borons will like you again... and never even mention your little mass genocide episode. I mean, what the hell? Why give us the ability to do something, and then not put any response to it whatsoever in the game? What x³ is missing is the game and atmosphere that its universe deserves. In TC it was supposed to be a cold-war style situation with impeding threat of the swarm AGI, i never felt it. Most of the game didn't even relate to it even if you played terran. And it seems completely hilarious, in the face of impending world ending doom at the hands of the swarm AGI, to do a station defend mission as terran for a boron ore mine somewhere 50 sectors away from terra. Anyhow... Rebirth will be the last chance i give this franchise.. which i played since the original X and grew less happy with over each passing iteration... [/quote]

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