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General discussion (archive)Release: STAR WARS®: X-Wing Special Edition(153 posts)(153 posts)
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Posted October 28, 2014
Make Admiral Ackbar proud, pilot!

<i>Star Wars</i>&reg;: X-Wing Special Edition, a classic space-combat sim putting you at the helm of the iconic starfighter, is available - for the first time in digital distribution - on GOG.com, for only $9.99!

It is the dawn of the rebellion, in <i>Star Wars</i>&reg;: X-Wing Special Edition. The Old Republic is gone. The Senate has been abolished. The Jedi Knights have been exterminated. Now the last Emperor seeks to crush the last remaining opposition. Against the overwhelming might of the Empire stands a small but growing Rebel Alliance. Scattered resistance groups are uniting and what is needed most now are Starfighter pilots. Will you join their struggle to end this tyranny and become a hero of the Rebellion? Suit up, climb aboard your own personal X-wing and prepare to fight for your life. Out-maneuver the evil Empire's TIE fighters and Star Destroyers and blast them into oblivion. The Special Edition offered here, includes Star Wars: X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM</I> and both [i]Tour of Duty expansions: Imperial Pursuit and B-Wing.

Fly over 120 deep space and Death Star surface missions against the Empire in <i>Star Wars</i>&reg;: X-Wing Special Edition, for only $9.99 on GOG.com!

Want to see it in action? Join BaerTaffy today, 6:00PM GMT (11:00AM PDT / 2:00PM EDT) at the usual place: <span class="bold">Twitch.tv/GOGcom</span> and bring enough popcorn to baer-out for solid two hours of unforgettable space combat! Not exactly Twitch-savvy? No problem! You'll be able to see the whole thing right here (and if you're confused by the timing, there's a handy countdown clock at the bottom of the very same page.

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Post edited October 28, 2014 by G-Doc
Posted October 29, 2014
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flasherle.203: Will it get a german version?
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Potzato: The gamecard doesn't say so atm.

Side note : you might want to contact a blue for your '.203' appendix.
yeah. i don't know why the appendix is on the name. i've been a long time at gog, but i wrote the first time to the forum. and taaaaataaa, the appendix was born.
Posted October 29, 2014
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Potzato: The gamecard doesn't say so atm.

Side note : you might want to contact a blue for your '.203' appendix.
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flasherle.203: yeah. i don't know why the appendix is on the name. i've been a long time at gog, but i wrote the first time to the forum. and taaaaataaa, the appendix was born.
You probably didn't notice but it's a number appended to you by the gog staff for helping them doing experiments on you while you weren't paying attention. They are THAT evil.

To get rid of that, contact support, tell them to revert your username to ... whatever you want in fact and they'll fix that (if they finished experimenting that is ;)
Post edited October 29, 2014 by Potzato
Posted October 29, 2014
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Potzato: The gamecard doesn't say so atm.

Side note : you might want to contact a blue for your '.203' appendix.
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flasherle.203: yeah. i don't know why the appendix is on the name. i've been a long time at gog, but i wrote the first time to the forum. and taaaaataaa, the appendix was born.
They had to add some numerical appendicies if names could conflict with certain parts of their forum program (or something like that). I'd imagine the "flash" part was tagged and altered. But I'm not GOGspert.
Posted October 29, 2014
I am seriously disappointed that the 1995 versions of the two games aren't included. Oh well, I'll make do with the 1998 versions then. After all, it's X-Wing (and TIE Fighter) again, finally, yay!
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RefriedNoodle: Thanks GOG for the releases of today!

I have to ask: How come TIE Fighter includes The Steele Chronicles, but X-Wing does not include The Farlander Papers?
I presume for the same reason the latter (according to wikis) wasn't included in full in the game guides; it had apparently been promoted as a collectors' item. It really shouldn't be a point of contention for a digital version so many years later, so I am disappointed, but who knows? Maybe Lucasfilm managed to get themselves tangled up in some sort of legalese back in the day?
Posted October 29, 2014
Saitek X-55 RHINO HOTAS profile

www.dropbox.com/s/unk27p1ay9t1zzq/X-Wing.pr0?dl=0

I've spent some time yesterday to program some of the most important commands but I have no idea how to map Twist axis to roll left/right.
If anybody would want to use my file as a base to create his own profile, I would be most grateful for helping me with that problem :)
Post edited October 29, 2014 by Radzik.213
Posted October 29, 2014
how long do you think will <span class="bold">X-Wing</span> &amp; <span class="bold">Tie Fighter</span> be <span class="bold">EXCLUSIVE</span> to GOG?
Posted October 29, 2014
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F4LL0UT: The crazy thing is that they didn't even go all the way, inserting new CGI animations in some places while not changing anything about most of them. And sure, the new CGI shots look better, but they were still unnecessary and are inconsistent with all the shots they didn't alter. Also, somehow they managed to make most of the explosions look worse in the special edition.
Agree with this. They kept in some bizarrely awful shots (X-Wing strafing, Super Star Destroyer crashing) that were crying out for a re-do. I thought they were bad even when I saw the original films when CGI wasn't an option. But then most things George Lucas does are... inexplicable (well, apart from the need to make as much money as possible by flogging a dead horse)... ;-)
Post edited October 29, 2014 by TesseractOrion
Posted October 29, 2014
So, how do you contact GOG support? Since I bought this game, the screen flickers every few seconds, showing my desktop. It doesn't actually interfere with the game except that it's really hard to see. It happens about every 12 seconds. I cannot find any mention of it in the support posts and asking to contact puts you in a loop of bullshit that never ends. How do you find help anyway?

Also, now having the same issue with tie fighter. This sucks.

Thanks for the response below.
Post edited October 29, 2014 by kvader
Posted October 29, 2014
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kvader: So, how do you contact GOG support? Since I bought this game, the screen flickers every few seconds, showing my desktop. It doesn't actually interfere with the game except that it's really hard to see. It happens about every 12 seconds. I cannot find any mention of it in the support posts and asking to contact puts you in a loop of bullshit that never ends. How do you find help anyway?
Here's the link where you have a drop down menu where you can select the choice that best describes your problem:

http://www.gog.com/support/contact/technical_issues_with_games/star_wars_xwing_special_edition

As for how to get there, just do the following:

Click on Support on the bar that you see on top of every page.
Type in the name of the game in the Search bar once you get to Games Support.
To your right, you'll see a link titled "I can't find the solution for my problem".
Click on the aforementioned link and it will take you to the drop down menu I have linked above :)

Let me know if I can help with anything else :)
Post edited October 29, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted October 30, 2014
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Radzik.213: Saitek X-55 RHINO HOTAS profile

www.dropbox.com/s/unk27p1ay9t1zzq/X-Wing.pr0?dl=0

I've spent some time yesterday to program some of the most important commands but I have no idea how to map Twist axis to roll left/right.
If anybody would want to use my file as a base to create his own profile, I would be most grateful for helping me with that problem :)
Anyone have an X-52 profile? I'm really struggling with mine. Especially figuring out how to get it to roll.
Post edited October 30, 2014 by trebcourie
Posted October 30, 2014
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Radzik.213: Saitek X-55 RHINO HOTAS profile

www.dropbox.com/s/unk27p1ay9t1zzq/X-Wing.pr0?dl=0

I've spent some time yesterday to program some of the most important commands but I have no idea how to map Twist axis to roll left/right.
If anybody would want to use my file as a base to create his own profile, I would be most grateful for helping me with that problem :)
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trebcourie: Anyone have an X-52 profile? I'm really struggling with mine. Especially figuring out how to get it to roll.
I don't own the game yet but will sometime soon and when I do I'll be making an X52-Pro profile which may be compatible with the X52 also I'm guessing. If I remember I'll post a link to it here to share. Might take a few days to get it fully functional though as the game has an amazing number of keys/options and the hardware an amazing number of buttons/gizmos to sort out. ;o)
Posted October 30, 2014
Is it possible to beat these games with a mouse and keyboard?
Posted October 30, 2014
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Crosmando: Is it possible to beat these games with a mouse and keyboard?
I believe you can play the DOS versions with them, so I assume with enough skill you could beat them with K&M
Posted October 30, 2014
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Crosmando: Is it possible to beat these games with a mouse and keyboard?
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craig_ethan_123: I believe you can play the DOS versions with them, so I assume with enough skill you could beat them with K&M
But they're very difficult without a joystick?
Posted October 30, 2014
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craig_ethan_123: I believe you can play the DOS versions with them, so I assume with enough skill you could beat them with K&M
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Crosmando: But they're very difficult without a joystick?
I'm sorry I don't know, all I know is yoy can play the old versions with a M&K, I suggest you post in the sub forum
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