

However admittedly I still haven't properly played X Rebirth or X4 as my current machine won't run them.
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To me Terran Conflict is that perfect moment in the series where everything feels just right (particularly becuase of the upgrade to the mission system to be more FL like). Then after a mission dock with fleet in your own station and resupply ships with missles and ammunion you personally produced at your factories.ġ00% agree.

Some nasty corvette comes in which can obliterate you quickly then you order your own carrier to hyperspace jump into this sector and sweep that corvette with bombers. Nothing feels as awesome as starting small fight with someone, he calls backup. With this you can basically build your own armada of ships from small scout ships to carriers along with taking on whole sectors fighting actually war with other factions if you want.įighting model itself is comparable to Freelancer but unlike freelancer here you can take anyone and anything as you can form wingmen groups to support you. Unlike 99% space sims out there this gives you ability to fly anything you can see out there in space (maybe outside few alien ships). X3 Terran Conflict + Xtended 2.0+ is where it's at.

I'm not looking for a deep, meaty, and complex rpg that is made for true fans of the genre - I just want some easy shit for shitheads who want a guided story without the boring nonsense like Freelancer, and if there is rpg-like character development and better ship development system all the better.įreelancer is crap economic space sim which is why you didn't like mining and shit.

To use an rpg analogy, if privateer was Daggerfall, and Freelancer was Morrowinf/Oblivion, I'm looking for Skyrim. And all the easier ones like Dark Orbit, etc, seem to have minimal story and maximum repetition, unlike Freelancer which was all pretty decent story missions from what I remember. I don't like this genre enough to really get into it and learn the complex games. I tried this Russian Privateer like MMO and gave it a good shot but it seems I really suck as these games as I was useless in missions and was no challenge to anyone in pvp. I played Freelancer on a streaming service when those were popular in the early to mid 00s so don't own it so can't fire it up to see if I still like it. What would be ideal is Freelancer with character development and better ship development, but sophomoric gameplay that doesn't require you to mainly waste your time flying from boring navpoint to do boring to another super long boring flight to another navpoint to have a minute of action and another super long boring flight. I tried that new fancy smancy one that came out but I still was trying to make the controls comfortable when my two hour window for returns was closing so returned it. When it comes to these games I am more like a stupid hack. Rebel Galaxy was okay, and a set horizon was a great idea, but it was still repetitive and boring. Most of these types of games I play don't have a ton of content and have generic repetitive missions to follow and extremely boring mining of asteroids. I'm looking for a game like Freelancer more than Privateer. Looking on steam didn't really let me know if it actually is like privateer. I was very surprised to see certain games on it, like X3 or whatever that series is called. I guess "games like" is popular enough to have a bunch of websites devoted to it. I did a internet search for games like privateer and freelancer type games and it gave my sites with tons of compiled lists.
