I've asked over here and they tell me we should have the base game in 2 months. In the meantime, enjoy the other new releases :D

Any ETA on this?

[quote="Dominic White"]In my experience so far, most Metaboli games are moddable. With a little luck, it should be possible to install XTended over the base game anyway. If not, well, it's still a big honking space-sim as part of the package.

But yeah, launching people straight in with a mod designed for expert players ain't good.[/quote]

that might be something that is possible wont know for sure until we get Terran.

In my experience so far, most Metaboli games are moddable. With a little luck, it should be possible to install XTended over the base game anyway. If not, well, it's still a big honking space-sim as part of the package.

But yeah, launching people straight in with a mod designed for expert players ain't good.

[quote="Dominic White"]Really, there need to be two versions of this on the site. One for regular Terran Conflict, one for XTended, and make it clear which is which. The mod is designed for veteran players, wheras Terran Conflict actually has tutorial missions - forcing newbies into the super-hardcore modded version is not a good idea at all.

I can't even imagine how tough it would be to start out with that mod and no prior experience.[/quote]

shane has already said they will be removing Xtended once they get Terran because they can't have both. so there wont be two versions.

Really, there need to be two versions of this on the site. One for regular Terran Conflict, one for XTended, and make it clear which is which. The mod is designed for veteran players, wheras Terran Conflict actually has tutorial missions - forcing newbies into the super-hardcore modded version is not a good idea at all.

I can't even imagine how tough it would be to start out with that mod and no prior experience.

Ahh well.. pity as you cant use extended without changing the exe I think.. still believe its best to have TC rather than XTC up.

MetaD did announce it as Extended, but all the descriptions pointed to normal. If your changing it can ignore my game review, just let us know when its done so we can redownload.

Ill also check if the patch works our side again, could simply be that with Xtended it didnt work as it wouldnt recognise any files :P

Hmm, I wasn't aware this was the Xtended Mod.

Apparently, the guys at packaging here got their game versions mixed up and so I've asked them to get the real terran conflict up and not the Xtended Mod... We won't be able to keep both versions though, sorry.

put in a review on the game including the description for Xtended (current one is for Terran Conflict) whether Metaboli change whats on the game page itself or just put up the review is up to them ;)

"X-Tended - Terran Conflict is a complete overhaul of Egosoft's game, X³: Terran Conflict. Featuring completely new ship & weapon balance, numerous gameplay enhancements, streamlined ways to manage your assets, dozens of new weapons, wares, missiles, ships, new missions, a completely new map and a setting that is faithful to the official lore laid out by the books and games, X-Tended - Terran Conflict is easily one of the most extensive modifications ever created for a game of the X-Series."

yeah i was surprised when booting up to find it was the xtended mod, not sure why that was sent I wouldn't have thought Metaboli would have requested a fan made mod instead of the origional game, as wildride says you do miss a fair bit and your chucked straight into the deep end as it's more of a sandbox mode which wont help those that haven't played previous X3 games in having no tutorial etc.

Metaboli should keep this version ( if they can) but really need to get the actual Terran realease version as well or maybe remove the mod if it was installed at Metaboli's end by mistake and re-upload.

@wildride thanks for the performence tweak :)