The player benefits from several improvements brought with X3:AP, such as increased Menu size and better Out-of-Sector (OOS) Combat Simulation. This Albion Prelude version of XTC is experimental in that it was ported from Terran Conflict and is largely untested, however everything seems to work. If you're an X3 fan, I'd still recommend getting it though, as for £2.50 (which it currently is on steam) the small amount of additions are still good value.ĮDIT: There's also a stockmarket feature added, although I've not looked at this at all so couldn't really say how well it works. for albion prelude 3.3, not terran conflict.

The war is already going on when the game starts, continues on at exactly the same pace over exactly the same few sectors for the duration of the story missions and continues on at the same pace once the story missions are finished. The 'war' thing is a bit of a joke really as you can never really affect anything. I kinda get on ok with the current UI so this isn't a problem for me, although I know lots of people aren't happy with it. The story missions never lead anywhere and just abruptly finish out of nowhere with no real climax or any kind of closure. The lack of plots is a bit of a downer a PHQ would be nice, and rumor is Egosoft will be adding one eventually.Īs far as I can tell AP is basically TC with some new ships and a few story missions tacked on. So you shouldn't be seeing any more of those 'Your Teladi Phoenix has been destroyed by a Pirate Kestrel in Tears of Greed' messages. OOS (Out-of-Sector) combat has also been rebalanced to make it more in-line with in-sector results. The bonus pack adds a few essential scripts, namely the Satellite Early Warning network, which will alert you to any hostile ships in a sector and the Station Building Service, which allows for easy complex construction (no spaghetti-plexes) and out-of-sector station construction. Press enter and the sector map will open. For example, open the universe map, type 'B' and Belt of Aguilar and Black Hole Sun will highlight, type 'L' and Black Hole Sun will be selected. Also, in the universe map, you can drill down a sector name by letter. Adding a brand new universe to explore, ships, race specific stations, missions, scripts, utilities, BBS news, Plots and much much more. The biggest change for me, personally, is the sector/universe map now uses more screen real estate at higher resolutions.

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