You can also pick up a few hidden easter egg crates to upgrade your ship beyond its maximum speed and turning rate.īut almost anything else is doable in TC or AP. You can change weapon layouts however which drastically change how a ship fares in combat. Taking over sectors – it’s like bombing the moon base and demand the human race to give up the solar system.ĭiving into planets – dem atmosphere friction ain’t joke, bro.Įliminating a race – same as taking over sectors.Ĭreating and customizing your own ship – sadly no, ships have prebuilt specs that can’t be changed. However, these are things that can’t be done in the game, at least without the use of mods:
Or, just be down to earth and follow through the plots? Wanna build a dominating fleet and sweep across the universe? Wanna be the biggest spaceweed dealer in the galaxy? Wanna be a rare ship hunter and collect ‘em all? It’s time to set up a goal! What do you want to do in X3? under options -> gameplay, increase seta factor to 1000%, select left monitor to display auto target and right monitor to display automissile. Then under options -> audio, turn on subtitles. Press F1 repeatedly to go through main cockpit and turret views, press F2 to have an external view of your ship, and press F3 to have an external view of your target. The letters inside the brackets are the keys I bind to.Īdditionally, you use wasd to strafe, qe to roll, up down left right to turn (or as most reasonable humans do, hold down mouse left and drag), and num 1235 to rotate camera, and +- to zoom in and out. You need to bind an easily assessable key to each of the following commands. It’s a bad idea to play with a controller. What now?įirst thing to do is to change your control scheme. If it’s your first playthrough please for the love of god and all that’s holy don’t pick the terran start. Some starts come with a mini plot that rewards you with a unique/hard to get cool ship when you complete it. Bad rep with one of the races? Fix it right back. There are hardly any points of no return in the game so it’s really hard to ♥♥♥♥ up something unintentionally. Starting as a terran means you will still participate in the plot event, but only as a terran. However in AP your start decides which “side” you’re in. They decide you pilot’s name (which you may change any time), your starting ship (moderately important), your starting reputations with the races (which you may change any time), your trade and combat ranks (which you may change any time) and the sector you are in (which you may simply fly off). What starting scenario should I pick?įirst of all they don’t really matter.
Don’t install any mods until you understand why you need them and stay specifically away from overhauls until you’re comfortable about diving into page 34 of egosoft forum.Īnd JESUS TAP DANCING CHRIST INTALL THY BONUS PACK. AP gives TC’s end game rewards to you really early in the game so you can fully enjoy them throughout a playthrough. Move to AP when you’re feeling you have nothing to do in TC. TC has a lot of cool plots and “official goals” aka plot missions that you can work on.
The guide takes the form of faqs but the problems I talk about are in the order of you encountering them. Please consider doing this or bunnies will die! They are official and have no drawback whatsoever on your game. But this is a guide that specifically targets beginner frustrations basically, it’s like teaching people build a torch in minecraft.īefore even running the game, install the official bonus pack, no ifs and buts. Nobody tells you what to do in a sandbox game. And here I am, strangled in space, lost and frustrated.
I have too many windows in my room, so my TrackIR 4 doesn't like to work, so this is a good replacement.Best game ever they said. And, yes, you can't interact with the cockpit in that mode, so you have to switch back and forth. To deactivate, click the right mouse button.
To activate it, you click the scroll wheel on the mouse. You can use it in either the cockpit or externally. I have a cheat sheet with the standard MSFS key commands but nothing on it addresses this problem.So, I use this all the time on purpose. and my Track IR went a little bonkers but worked for the most part. When I was in this mode, the mouse becomes a "freelook" device and you can use it to scroll all over the place. I was getting to close to top of descent when I started "fooling around" with the cockpit camera views. I was enjoying a trans-Atlantic flight: Gatwick to JFK
Does anyone know how to regain control of the mouse once you have entered into this mode?