X3 Reunion – First Impressions

Time to spend some time on blogging
about my X3 Reunion progress
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Whenever you want to enjoy space / flight sims having a joystick is
a must, even better when you got force-feedback Winking So if you bump,
it will bump back to you, physically.
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Reunion, is the 3rd part of Egosoft’s space trading and combat
series, above we can see Nikonofune which is the ship of
Saya.
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This is mine, at the very beginning, you’ll already get a M4 Argon
Buster and a Mercury TS,
but earning money is still hard to achive at the beginning.
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This shows the landing lights of a solar power plant.
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Space stations are huge, and there are only a few docking bays now,
most of the time they’ll be in the middle.
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Nebula rendering, atmosphere and lighting textures are incredibly
improved.
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As well as station design. Most of them don’t differ anymore
between races, but their designs textures, bumpmapping and light
effects are really eye-candy.
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Dockingclamps. Although it’s a space game there’s good sound
effects too, even in space, well it’s a game so that goes ok.
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And there is a great variety of BGM for all the space-sectors, some
frightning, depressing or relaxing… as in Kingdoms End.
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Are you still reading this text ? Enjoy the pictures.
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This one is a bit obscure, this is the station in Grand Exchange,
which obviously was sprayed by some teenagers ? Winking))
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Inside of the station it seems someone painted some japanese kanjis
on the walls…. strange.
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Where am I ?
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One of my f****ing expensive superfreighters.
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Being attacked by the side…. shame on them. My turret is in the
rear.
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Someone’s in a hurry…. profitsssss….
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A nice shot from the side, lighting is really great here. Each edge
will reflect sunlight when moving… wow.
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Asteroid fields are beatiful, as long as you see them early enough
when flying through thick sight-killing shield-eating nebulas. (X2
had acid nebulas damaging your hull, I guess it’s still the same, I
don’t wanna try this. But in X2 the shielding was weakened by
lightning charges inside nebulas, which I haven’t experienced yet
in X3.
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The weather is cloudy, beautiful storms cycling in the planets
atmosphere.
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A huge carrier ship of the Teladi. Slow but deadly. But who wants
to be on war with that trading geniuses.

Expect more, when I find some time and mysterious places…

Andy.