Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:23 pm
but do i even want to fly around in a spaceship without a cockpit? no not really. great pics and I'm sure its even better than x2 in terms of simulation but no cockpit? thats like playing an fps without guns, imo. I hate to say it but for now 'm going to pass on x3. sorry.
But I thought the following games were amazing points in Space Sim history, yet they had no cockpits either:
Elite
Freespace 1
Freespace 2
My first reaction was "Oh no cockpit, hmm..." - but after playing the game for 5 hours, I didn't notice/think/bemoan my cockpit missing. Now I am not sure I even want it back either.
Of course, the expectation is that modders will put the cockpit back in, but you have played other space sims without them, and enjoyed them immensley as well. I wouldn't brush off a game because of the lack of cockpit, especially in light of the calibre of other sims that were missing them as well. X3 is sooo much more, that the cockpit is a minor concern.
What you should be concerned about is the bugs, and like I say - unless your an "X" nutt like myself, I would buy it after the next patch to be honest, as there are still quite a few little bugs in it that prove annoying. For example, I have a tooltip that unfortunately saved as a black box on my screen (right at the bottom, you can see it in some screenshots). When you talk to someone (top right hand corner of screen you have a mini cam window, like the one on the left showing your objects in my screenshots) - sometimes the images flicker to someone else (weird). The storyline has some bugs still (not met them, but Giskard has told me to save a fresh new slot when I hear about a "scanner ship"
, as the ending is bugged...
Although the 1.2 patch is out, that addressed major issues. It will be alot safer to wait until the 1.3 patch, which will probabily be a few more weeks. That is the good thing about patches, the Publisher doesn't get to force their hand, they work and release when they are ready.
