Posted December 19, 2016
Hello all,
Now that X3 is on GoG, I will post a link to the newest BSG mod I know of. Heck, I'll post the link to the newest Star Wars mod too.
X3 is a great space game because you can go through missions and such, or you can just go do your own thing and build an empire. There are ships out there from every sci fi franchise. At one point I made myself a starbase, made a huge fleet, and went out conquering. The best part about it was that my fleet included the Galactica armed with two squadrons of vipers, a cylon basestar with raiders, a star destroyer with tie fighters, a mon calamari cruiser with x-wings, the Enterprise galaxy class, the Defiant, some Romulan ships, and the Dominion ships. It was a hell of a site. I was able to set up battles against them too, so I made some appropriate battles in each franchise, but then made some against each other. So I had a star destroyer with tie fighters and fought against the Enterprise and the Defiant.
For any space, sci fi, and space combat nerd it's a great game. The mods can get a little complicated to install and get working properly, but there are a lot of guides on the forums to help you through it.
Star Wars:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=368892 - Go through the pages of the forum, I think there is a recent patch they released for it.
BSG:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=319495
new-x3-mods-bsg.wgz.cz
Star Trek:
new-x3-mods-star-trek.wgz.cz - As of 12/18/16 the owner of the site knows the ST mod link is down, he will be putting it back up within a week.
Egosoft Forum:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewforum.php?f=94
If you look on there, you will find all of the mods and there are a few threads with links to ships from just about every franchise you can think of. There are a lot of different useful mods, such as the plugin manager that help you add ships and completely customize the game.
To be honest, I got X3 because of some of the mod videos I saw before I even knew what the game was. I saw the video for the Star Wars mod, a Star Trek mod, and a Battlestar Galactica mod that were all in progress. I traditionally love games that really require a stick like the X-Wing series, which you can use in this game, but you can control it with a mouse and keyboard just like Freelancer. It's very useful, especially for being able to play it on my laptop when I'm away from home. I just wanted to share this because it took me a while to find all the mods and such to get my X3 experience right where I wanted it to be. I'm hoping this will help some of you who are looking for the same experience, but also hope some can learn about X3 and decide to get it.
Edit - I forgot to add, you can control any of the craft. So i was flying around my Galactica and got into it with a basestar, I put the Galactica on AI control and launched in a viper to join the battle. It really feels like commanding a capital ship or flying a fighter.
Now that X3 is on GoG, I will post a link to the newest BSG mod I know of. Heck, I'll post the link to the newest Star Wars mod too.
X3 is a great space game because you can go through missions and such, or you can just go do your own thing and build an empire. There are ships out there from every sci fi franchise. At one point I made myself a starbase, made a huge fleet, and went out conquering. The best part about it was that my fleet included the Galactica armed with two squadrons of vipers, a cylon basestar with raiders, a star destroyer with tie fighters, a mon calamari cruiser with x-wings, the Enterprise galaxy class, the Defiant, some Romulan ships, and the Dominion ships. It was a hell of a site. I was able to set up battles against them too, so I made some appropriate battles in each franchise, but then made some against each other. So I had a star destroyer with tie fighters and fought against the Enterprise and the Defiant.
For any space, sci fi, and space combat nerd it's a great game. The mods can get a little complicated to install and get working properly, but there are a lot of guides on the forums to help you through it.
Star Wars:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=368892 - Go through the pages of the forum, I think there is a recent patch they released for it.
BSG:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=319495
new-x3-mods-bsg.wgz.cz
Star Trek:
new-x3-mods-star-trek.wgz.cz - As of 12/18/16 the owner of the site knows the ST mod link is down, he will be putting it back up within a week.
Egosoft Forum:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewforum.php?f=94
If you look on there, you will find all of the mods and there are a few threads with links to ships from just about every franchise you can think of. There are a lot of different useful mods, such as the plugin manager that help you add ships and completely customize the game.
To be honest, I got X3 because of some of the mod videos I saw before I even knew what the game was. I saw the video for the Star Wars mod, a Star Trek mod, and a Battlestar Galactica mod that were all in progress. I traditionally love games that really require a stick like the X-Wing series, which you can use in this game, but you can control it with a mouse and keyboard just like Freelancer. It's very useful, especially for being able to play it on my laptop when I'm away from home. I just wanted to share this because it took me a while to find all the mods and such to get my X3 experience right where I wanted it to be. I'm hoping this will help some of you who are looking for the same experience, but also hope some can learn about X3 and decide to get it.
Edit - I forgot to add, you can control any of the craft. So i was flying around my Galactica and got into it with a basestar, I put the Galactica on AI control and launched in a viper to join the battle. It really feels like commanding a capital ship or flying a fighter.
Post edited December 19, 2016 by Gylfe
