![]() Also, is the Albion prelude stand-alone, or do I need to install Terran Conflict first? Because I somehow thought it was a small add-on, but Steam apparently lets me download them separately - and Albion is bigger than Terran Conflict by more than a Gb. ![]() The thing is, I don't know enough about the games, or what was improved and added between them, to make an informed decision hence my question. More gameplay options! Yay!ģ) Forget about Reunion and Terran Conflict and directly download the X3: Albion Prelude instead. Variety! Yay!Ģ) Forget about Reunion and download X3: Terran Conflict instead. Modern games take between 6 and 12 gigs to download, give or take, and that's a sizable chunk of my monthly allowance so I have to think long and hard before downloading any of them.)Īnyway, my question is: Assuming I have enough bandwidth to download one more game before my monthly allowance is renewed, should I:ġ) Start playing X3: Reunion, which I already have installed, and use that bandwidth to download other games acquired through the recent sales. (Why foolishly? I have a limit on how many gigs I can download/upload in a month - 70Gb between me and my wife, to be exact. Foolishly, I installed X3: Reunion, the first of the X3 series then other shinies caught my attention until now, when I feel like playing some space trading/fighting game. Never having played one before, I read the latter games include much better gameplay than the former, and that the storyline wasn't powerful enough to warrant playing them in order, so I decided to start directly with X3. Some time ago I bought the bundle that includes all the games in the series, from X-Tension to X3: Albion prelude. I'm telling you all this so you know that my preferences are probably different from yours, and thus my advice may not be what you'd find most fun.I know this series is being talked about right now in the Steam Daily Deals thread, but I don't want to clog it with questions about a single game. I have yet to do the plots in AP, and I switched to AP before I had a chance to do anything more than the Terran and the Hub plots in TC. I've actually restarted both X3TC and X3AP several times, just to see how different it is to start as an Argon in the NW part of the map vs. Personally I prefer to explore and build as I learn the mechanics of a new game, and THEN do the plots. However, it depends on how you like to play the game. You can finish the plots in a few days you can be building up and exploring for months. The exploration and building your fleet is. You're supposed to explore, build up your wallet, and buy your own capital ships / make the weapons and missiles to outfit them, for the later parts of the plots.Īlso, the plots are not the main part of either game (a la Freelancer or Freespace). However, be aware that both games are designed so you "build your resources" in between missions to help with the plots, as in, it will be very hard to complete the plots by flying just the ships the plots are handing to you as the (few) rewards. If you like to do plots, then you should start with X3TC first. The user interface elements (maps, etc) are bigger. X3AP has war sectors, and ships have been retuned for war (they are a bit tougher, and they appear in much larger fleets complete with full escorts). The user interface, while similar, has smaller windows than X3AP. There are no war sectors, and Pirate or other enemy responses aren't as strong as in AP. X3TC has more (and lengthier plots), and also corporations that you can do missions for, in order to get rare ships. ![]() AP is kind-of an expansion to TC, but only in the sense that it's a different game that uses some of the files and models that TC has.īoth TC and AP are played (typically) over months you have different start scenarios (most you start of penniless, some merely "poor") and you make whatever you want out of the galaxy (over a period of several months).īut you can consider X3AP to be a separate game from X3TC (your old character is dead, and a new character has to start from scratch all over again). Your empire doesn't get transferred from TC to AP. ![]()
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