X3 Albion Prelude Announced‏

[GT182]

News letter from Egosoft came during the night. This fills the gap from X3-TC to X- Rebirth...... We are at war with the Terrans!

"Egosoft is very pleased to announce the release of X3: Albion Prelude, a new episode in the story of X3: Terran Conflict. X3: Albion Prelude reveals an X Universe in flux - the simmering tensions and conflict of ideologies between Earth and the X Universe's Commonwealth has escalated into a war on a scale never before witnessed in the X Universe. With the fleets of the X Universe's main races battling the forces of Earth, corporations old and new gain an increasingly large stake in the future direction of the X Universe. Corporate expansion and technological breakthroughs will provide the X Universe with a quantum leap forward in economic development, but the road to the new status quo is a rocky one and only the bold or ruthless will make the whole journey".

Official website at Egosoft..... http://www.egosoft.com/games/x3ap/info_en.php

[gigabyte]

Oh Gig like the look of this

[GT182]

Oh Gig like the look of this

Not me... GT scared. We're all too young to die! LOL

I does sound cool Mike. I was wondering how they make the transition for TC to Rebirth. They sure kept Albion a secret.

Sounds like Rebirth might be delayed a bit. I wonder if Albion has the new game engine. Nothing was mentioed about that, tho I imagine it's still the same engine as TC.

[gigabyte]

I'll let you know on the 16th...lol

[Lionheart]

Ok... I just got up to speed on this. I thought Albian was 'another' addon pack. I thought X3 'next' would be something like X4.

December 16!!!! Thats like in 4 days!



ACK!!!!

[GT182]

No Bill, it's release is the 15th... tomorrow. Mike is will let us know how it tis on the 16th.

I wish I knew a store would have it tomorrow cause I'd have it too. I'm not crazy about buying off Steam. I'd rather hav the disc in my hand instead of a download.

[gigabyte]

I am not gib on Steam either and if there is another option I will go that way. I have a few Steam games but only ones that can be played off line, I dont mind activation on steam,but having to be connected to play is a deal breaker for me that is why I never bought Silent Hunter V and I really wanted it bad.

[GT182]

I am not gib on Steam either and if there is another option I will go that way. I have a few Steam games but only ones that can be played off line, I dont mind activation on steam,but having to be connected to play is a deal breaker for me that is why I never bought Silent Hunter V and I really wanted it bad.

Then I have some really good news for ya Mike. UBI finally saw the light and now you do not have to be connected to the internet to play SH5. Tho getting the patches by Steam will be ok. You have the option now to play offline.

You can read it here.... http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=189245 BTW... Subsim is the best place for mods that improve and bring SH5 alive. Many many mods to choose from. And you are not the only one that wouldn't get it, there's many now that got it only because the DRM was removed.

BTW.... I've not seen X3 Albion Prelude listed on Steam yet. Maybe tomorrow. Egosoft isn't even in the Publisher Catalogs at the bottom of the main page yet.

[Lionheart]

I cant believe its out....!!!! Dang...


Should be interesting.

[gigabyte]

It's up on Steam and Gamers Gate, I will DL from Gmers Gate as soon as the wife leaves fro work...lol

I purchased the X3 Superbox from them and I like their system so this is a nice surprise to see them with it, and at $10.00 it's a no brainer.

Here is the link if you are interested

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-X3APUS/...expansion-pack

BTW if you get it from them it is very easy to burn a CD/DVD right away so you can have a good archive copy that is my SOP.

[GT182]

It seems you have to have X3 TC running thru Steam to play Albion Prelude. Not gonna happen here.

From the Steam site, "Requires the base game X3: Terran Conflict on Steam in order to play."

[Lionheart]

Well, I just found out (realised) that this is 'not' the big new X3. I was thinking of X3; Rebirth, which is the entirely new version of X3. Albion is a continuation addon for X3TC.

Very cool of them to do this. They must have things going really nicely to be able to do this. I wish they could do platform improvements to FS like this.

- X3: Albion Prelude released 15 December
- Bridging the gap between X3:Terran Conflict and the upcoming X:Rebirth
- Improved user interface
- New Stock Exchange feature
- A huge war and lots of new missions and ships!

Bill

[gigabyte]

It seems you have to have X3 TC running thru Steam to play Albion Prelude. Not gonna happen here.

From the Steam site, "Requires the base game X3: Terran Conflict on Steam in order to play."

I am about to DL from go gamer so I will let you know about Steam, but I have never had to signintoSteam to activate anything I got from GoGamer before..

[GT182]

Mike, seeing you are getting it from GoGamer, I don't think Steam needs to be involved... at least I hope not.

The way I understand it is, that if you get Albion from Steam you must get TC from Steam also in order to play Albion. I didn't see anything from GoGamer saying you needed Steam if you got the download from them. At least I hope not.

Yeah I have Steam. and IL2 Cliffs of Dover is the only one running in my account. But.... I don't need Steam running to play it, it's only for patches/updates. I've no idea how it will work for X3TC/Albion.

Please keep us posted on what's going on with this.

[gigabyte]

I am working on getting it up and running now, I do have to use Steam, but I am going ahead. I will post the details as soon as I finish but I am fairly sure it will be an OK set up, I need to register my Non Steam version of X3 and then Steam wil add the AP update, that is what it looks like anyway... Stay tuned.