[Turnsky]

what'd you guys think of it..
a little too heavy on the trading emphasis i think... i'm a combat person tho..

but the graphics are good, tho..



and one other minor gripe, the lack of abundant equipment at various docks..

[Setekh]

Okay, that's it, I've really gotta get the demo now.

[Gloriano]

I have X2:Threat and well it's kinda good but story. is BAAD!
Traiding works pretty good etc.

if you want test here is demo

X2:Threat

[TrashMan]

It takes AGES to gest a decent ship... And you can't continue to follow the story untill you get a decent ship...

Waiting for a cash hack or cheat... It was far easier to make money in X-BotF and X-Tension (I had my own fleeet in X-Tension and about 20 stations)

[Turnsky]

http://www.xscripting.com/

[mikhael]

The game is ASS. Pretty graphics, but the game is ass. Search for 'X2' and you'll find my opinion of the game in recent threads.

Quick summation:
All in all, given the choice between X2 and a kick in the balls, take the kick in the balls. The suffering ends sooner.

[Ashrak]

I like it

[01010]

Originally posted by mikhael
The game is ASS. Pretty graphics, but the game is ass. Search for 'X2' and you'll find my opinion of the game in recent threads.

Quick summation:
All in all, given the choice between X2 and a kick in the balls, take the kick in the balls. The suffering ends sooner.

Unless they sprain your scrotum, burst your ballbag, sprain your sac, you see where I'm going with this right?

[mikhael]

You know what? I might STILL consider that to be preferable to having spent the $50 on X2.

[Lightspeed]

The graphics actually are crap. Look at the lower left of the screenie. you can see how they layered some flat bitmaps together - it looks more than odd. The rendering method is terrible (FOV settings, etc) - you will have horrbible distortion / warping at the view edges.

I won't even talk about the monotone, low-res, compression artifact heavy textures, the probably worst bump maps of all time, the absolutely horrible sun effects, the ugly models, the ugly low poly background planets, the really cheap effects, etc.

[Fineus]

The nebulas look pretty.

Uh, yeah. I need further testing - while in motion I guess you don't have time to notice any issues with the graphics.

Edit: Nice lighting...
Edit: Actually, everything graphical seems geared towards only looking good as a result of the lighting. Otherwise, it'd look average.

[Ashrak]

well to consider if you had high poly models etc and the amount of stuff per system thats currently any PC would fall to its knees

[ChronoReverse]

Except our very own fs2_open handles hi-polys without too much trouble.  I mean, Lightspeed gets 200+FPS with vsync off and I get 85+ on my P3 1.33GHz and GF4ti4200

[jdjtcagle]

Two different threads a week apart, this game rocks (from what I seen from the demo) I can't wait until I get it ,if this thing is moddable it's definitely worth a FS2 conversion:nod:

[IncendiaryLemon]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
The graphics actually are crap. Look at the lower left of the screenie. you can see how they layered some flat bitmaps together - it looks more than odd. The rendering method is terrible (FOV settings, etc) - you will have horrbible distortion / warping at the view edges.

I won't even talk about the monotone, low-res, compression artifact heavy textures, the probably worst bump maps of all time, the absolutely horrible sun effects, the ugly models, the ugly low poly background planets, the really cheap effects, etc.

 eh, the art direction is piss poor.

My arguement was, it would be far less pain as a genuine tycoon game - really - business management and all that set to 2D.

[Turnsky]

okay, some love it, some hate it..
i like some parts of it, but otherwise, meh..

at least in this one, bad as the storyline may be, it gives you some direction to go in.. unlike the first one.. which left you wandering for quite a while.

[Bobboau]

from what I see FSO looks better

[Ransom]

It's got great graphics, but I hated almost every aspect of the game. The storyline was not only bad, but so was its delivery. I could probably have coped with this, except the game itself just doesn't interest me. Big universe, but I prefer a more structured kind of game. To me there doesn't seem much point to get loads of money and getting a big fleet, unless there's a purpose. In my opinion, what little purpose is given by the storyline ends extremely quickly and makes the whole experience extremely empty. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if there was a lot less menu wading.

That's just my opinion, though.

[YodaSean]

I enjoyed it.  The story sort of sucked, but I'm having a lot of fun with the open-ended part of the game.  The only problem is it takes a few hours before the gameplay really takes off, they really need to work on that.  Maybe add a few ongoing wars to make the universe more interesting.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Ransom Arceihn
It's got great graphics, but I hated almost every aspect of the game. The storyline was not only bad, but so was its delivery. I could probably have coped with this, except the game itself just doesn't interest me. Big universe, but I prefer a more structured kind of game. To me there doesn't seem much point to get loads of money and getting a big fleet, unless there's a purpose. In my opinion, what little purpose is given by the storyline ends extremely quickly and makes the whole experience extremely empty. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if there was a lot less menu wading.

That's just my opinion, though.

it woulda been nice with a waypoint system.. you got lost /really/ easily