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It's a big solar sail for energy generation is my bet I mean it's actually just a giant aesthetically pleasing sail for fashion alone but that's not what the terrans tell people
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Mar 2, 2021 18:02
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The tram line running on the inside is nice too. Also I assume it is a solar panel, but I'm curious how the game handles it, whether it has any functional use, because it's gonna be weird if that just catches a giant amount of gunfire all the time and does nothing. Maybe it's modeled as a module? Module could conceivably allow it to track the sun too. I suppose they can make animated ship sections anyway it's just none of them use it other than a couple of fighters.
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Mar 2, 2021 18:03
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OwlFancier posted:The tram line running on the inside is nice too. You see the same class of vessel without any sail deployed so I'm gonna guess it's either something you install or can toggle on and off. Mind you I have no idea how X4 ship systems work on account of having bought it less than an hour ago
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gonna be weird going unmodded except for a few things when the expac launches, ive been playing with no highways this whole time.
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Mar 2, 2021 18:06
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Looks like they rebuilt the Torus, curious to see how it works in this game.
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Mar 2, 2021 18:10
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gently caress yeah, that looks good
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Mar 2, 2021 18:15
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Private Speech posted:Maybe it's a solar panel array?
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Mar 2, 2021 18:38
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Within 10 seconds that music took me back to X3. Hot drat, may finally be time to play after getting gifted the special edition after the original release lol
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Mar 2, 2021 19:32
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Those Terran models look fantastic. There's a ship in X:Rebirth that also has an axial cannon and it looks badass there as well. They even fixed the pilot AI to use it eventually. 
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Mar 2, 2021 19:56
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drat that looks good. I'm excited to see how things went after the jump gate shutdown. I imagine the Terrans thought, "Fuckin' sweet! No more annoying Commonwealth drama." They have accelerator gates connecting their entire territory so they probably were barely even bothered. Though if I'm not mistaken there appeared to be a Terran built/modified Jump Gate. Travic fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Mar 2, 2021 20:39
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Looks like the rebuilt the torus as well.
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Mar 2, 2021 20:42
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There's mention of *two* terran factions being added in this dlc so I'm thinking maybe things weren't so hunky dory for them after all maybe That or they're reintroducing Aldrin
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Mar 2, 2021 20:44
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I always figured it was just the Terrans and the ATF. I watched it again and yeah that looks like the Torus. How long were the gates down!?
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Mar 2, 2021 20:53
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I'd be really shocked if it was anything other than terran/atf, major factions all have a 'sub faction'. i love the slow beam, they're way underused even in these games that fuckin love beams
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Mar 2, 2021 20:59
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Travic posted:I always figured it was just the Terrans and the ATF. X3:AP was 2948 AD, and X4 is 2992 AD - so 45ish years?
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Mar 2, 2021 21:00
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Squiggle posted:X3:AP was 2948 AD, and X4 is 2992 AD - so 45ish years? Thanks. I'm at work looking for the dates and couldn't find them.
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Mar 2, 2021 21:04
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Oh right the ATF probably still exists.
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Psycho Landlord posted:Oh right the ATF probably still exists. And they are probably still pretty piiiiiiiiiiiiiiised.
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I could have sworn Rebirth was like a century or so post AP, not just a couple decades. Did X4 retcon that? If so that make the Torus getting rebuilt pretty fuckin quick lolTravic posted:And they are probably still pretty piiiiiiiiiiiiiiised. I can't wait for the gate to open back up and the Valhalla to immediately bust into argon space looking for some payback
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Psycho Landlord posted:I can't wait for the gate to open back up and the Valhalla to immediately bust into argon space looking for some payback "Who gives a poo poo if it can't fit through the gate?! The Pain Train has arrived!"
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Less Fat Luke posted:This is a cool touch. The football never stops. Nor the tennis, apparently.
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Psycho Landlord posted:You see the same class of vessel without any sail deployed so I'm gonna guess it's either something you install or can toggle on and off. That might be a different ship, in X3 the terrans had the Toyko, which was their carrier, and the... other ship that was their large transport and looked almost identical that I forget the name of. And that's the general design of the ship in question. The big patreon logo. Also did they rebuild the torus? I guess the station at the end is part of it (I never actually got to see in in X3) but it looks broken on one end, so I thought it was literally just a part of it free floating. 
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Mar 2, 2021 22:10
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OwlFancier posted:That might be a different ship, in X3 the terrans had the Toyko, which was their carrier, and the... other ship that was their large transport and looked almost identical that I forget the name of. And that's the general design of the ship in question. The big patreon logo. Nah it's def the same boat, same launchbay design, same hollow ring command deck, and same escorts as the earlier shot. The ship you're thinking of, while yeah very similar to the Tokyo, didn't have launchbays of any type. Side note, really digging that the Terrans seem to have downscaled the Kyoto as their new... I guess those are M2s?
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OwlFancier posted:Also did they rebuild the torus? I guess the station at the end is part of it (I never actually got to see in in X3) but it looks broken on one end, so I thought it was literally just a part of it free floating. Which is how the Argon dopes destroyed it in the first place, wasn't it? They mass-separated all of the sections, which individually sealed off and floated away.
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I thought they put a bomb on it or something but I dunno, I never played the plot really.
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X4 codex confirms it was just a separation of the section connectors so it wouldn't be that hard to rebuild those and reconnect the main parts.
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I feel like "blew up the torus" and "decoupled the torus so it all drifted apart" are not quite the same thing. Like one of those is just inconvenient. Also why did the torus have a "lol decouple all the parts lol" button?
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Mar 3, 2021 13:26
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OwlFancier posted:I feel like "blew up the torus" and "decoupled the torus so it all drifted apart" are not quite the same thing. Like one of those is just inconvenient. She actually did blow it the gently caress up, huge explosion That said if it the torus worked like a ring world it would make sense for it to have an emergency separation protocol, cuz it was going to catastrophically rip apart anyway if it was severed.
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OwlFancier posted:Also why did the torus have a "lol decouple all the parts lol" button? To prevent it from tearing itself apart and all falling on earth, ending all life in a giant fiery catastrophe. As it stands it only ended a Lot of life in a giant fiery catastrophe, because of this decoupling protocol. Only the sections that were destroyed and the sections immediately around those ended up being caught in a decaying orbit, all the other sections were able to be jettisoned into stable orbits. Hey guys gently caress the Argon
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new beta: [Beta 10] Added available habitation capacity for race as workforce growth rate influence. [Beta 10] Added optimal workforce info to production modules in Encyclopedia and Station Build menu. [Beta 10] Added summary of workforce info to Habitation Modules section in Station Build menu. [Beta 10] Added options to use faction and sector lists in Blacklists as whitelists. [Beta 10] Added ability for player to set global policy and per-ship overrides governing response to attack. [Beta 10] Added shortcuts in Object Information menu to show commander or subordinates of ships and stations on Map [Beta 10] Added mouseover text for storage amounts in Logical Station Overview. [Beta 10] Added Show Encyclopedia Entry interact menu option for sectors. [Beta 10] Added Rename Interact menu option for player-owned sectors. [Beta 10] Improved warnings about missing storage space in Logical Station Overview. [Beta 10] Improved balancing of Kha'ak threat (improves previous improvement in 4.00). [Beta 10] Improved armament of Xenon stations. [Beta 10] Improved behaviour of mining ships with regard to resource probes, especially where multiple sectors are involved. [Beta 10] Improved mineral mining with non-capital ships when player is present. [Beta 10] Improved collision detection while in spacesuit. [Beta 10] Improved Deploy Resource Probe upkeep mission handling. [Beta 10] Improved Antigone Terraforming Mission rewards by adding exclusive new Patrol jobs (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Improved balancing of terraforming Atmospheric Pressure stat on Eighteen Billion (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Improved balancing of plant-based terraforming projects such as Fields and Forestation by removing limit on Oxygen effect (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Improved balancing of Reflective Cloud Particles terraforming project by lowering temperature requirement (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Improved balancing of planet-side competitions by greatly increasing cooldown between them (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Improved visuals of several terraformed worlds (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Improved communications scenes for NPCs by adding their real environment. [Beta 10] Fixed NPCs appearing on player owned stations generally being all of one race. [Beta 10] Fixed fleet commanders using their piloting skill rather than their combined skill for determining validity of formation shapes. [Beta 10] Fixed subordinates assigned to commanders that have bailed becoming completely unresponsive. [Beta 10] Fixed range calculation issues with capital ships attacking stations. [Beta 10] Fixed ships sent to be recycled sometimes blocking dock. [Beta 10] Fixed possibility to queue multiple repair orders for same ship. [Beta 10] Fixed ships missing information about damage capabilities of their different quadrants (problem introduced in 4.00). [Beta 10] Fixed not being able to personally claim ownerless capital ships. [Beta 10] Fixed lockboxes accumulating when saving and loading repeatedly. [Beta 10] Fixed map filters not being applied correctly after selecting plot in Manage Plots menu. [Beta 10] Fixed number of queued orders being visible on ships with insufficient revealed info. [Beta 10] Fixed incorrect voice lines playing when Fund Start-Up terraforming project becomes available (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Fixed incorrect amounts in log message related to Fund Start-Up terraforming project (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Fixed being able to start training projects without assigned trainees (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Fixed being able to build Aerial Maze terraforming project before Toxicity is removed (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Fixed misleading colour scheme for repeatable terraforming projects that cannot currently be started (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Fixed trade offers not immediately updating to reflect the changes in resource demand caused by starting or aborting terraforming project (new feature in 4.00). [Beta 10] Fixed falling through floor and black space background after returning from external view (problem introduced in 4.00). [Beta 10] Fixed freeze during emergency eject (new feature in 4.00).
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Thank goodness:quote:[Beta 10] Improved balancing of Kha'ak threat (improves previous improvement in 4.00). This was sucking the fun out for me.
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Psycho Landlord posted:To prevent it from tearing itself apart and all falling on earth, ending all life in a giant fiery catastrophe. Back when X3TC/AP came out I didn't know any of the lore background so I thought the Terrans were huge dicks and the Argon didn't do anything wrong but now I know the Terrans did nothing wrong.
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Argon shall pay!!!!!!
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Yeah TC and AP had this weird thing where the Terrans were the designated villains but, uh... well that doesn't actually hold up to any scrutiny. You don't react to an attempt to sabotage your murder AI research with the mass murder of millions and massive damage to a planet's biosphere. Actual game question and not DEEP LORE, does X4 have any plots to speak of? I'm probably gonna hold off on installing until the new patch since so much is changing, but I noticed I never see anyone discussing plots of any type. Gonna be sad if there's no PHQ or something to chase. Psycho Landlord fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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You actually get a PHQ pretty early and cheaply via a short-ish plot. Then there's another that ultimately points you to the Split and Paranid plots. Those plots are driven by the shadiest motherfucker I've ever seen in a game. I'm not even sure he's deliberately written to be suspect, but I'd jettison his rear end immediately. The missions aren't the most thrilling storytelling in the medium, but they work just fine.
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Psycho Landlord posted:Yeah TC and AP had this weird thing where the Terrans were the designated villains but, uh... well that doesn't actually hold up to any scrutiny. You don't react to an attempt to sabotage your murder AI research with the mass murder of millions and massive damage to a planet's biosphere. The 'plots' are based around changing the existing dynamics of the universe. They do have a story but it's nothing amazing. They are huge resource sinks though so it does keep you going with a big goal throughout the game. It is possible that the Terrans storyline is more in-depth but we won't know for 2 weeks. Thom12255 fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Bring back the hub I am sure it craves microchips once again
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yeah the storylines in game let you start some wars, or cause factions to merge together and whatnot.
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