Разработчик: Egosoft
Описание
500 Years later Kyle Brennan starts his journey by piloting an experimental ship equipped with a new piece of technology allowing it to cross vast distances on its own. However it malfunctions and traps him in a group of sectors inhabited by Aliens, hunted and with no way home, this is his story of survival... Beyond the Frontier...
X: Beyond The Frontier is the first part in the X-Universe series of games developed by Egosoft.
It tells the story of mankind's rise and fall in the universe, and the attempt by Kyle Brennan to help repopulate the stars using a new ship called the Experimental Shuttle, and how he became trapped in a closed group of sectors linked by a series of jumpgates, owing credits to an alien for helping to save him, and hunted by several people. Unknowingly, a group of secret service people are after him, a group who have tried to hide their races secret, that they are the descendants of a group of Humans who saved earth from the Terraformer fleet they created to help colonise the universe.
Now with the Truth coming out, X: Beyond the Frontier allows the player to play as Kyle Brennan on his hunt to find a way home, whilst helping a group of people find the truth about their ancestry, and continue to help save earth from the Terraformers who are now known as the Xenon.
Features
- Trade - Trade in over 50 sectors, with over 50 different goods, upgrade you ships with dozens of upgrades available to you by 5 different races.
- Fight - Find the location of the hostile pirates and survive against attacks by the Xenon.
- Build - Construct stations to build your own production empire.
- Think - Adapt your trading empire to suit the needs of each sectors local economy.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, german
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: Windows 95 or higher
- Processor: Pentium II 200 MHz
- Memory: 32 MB RAM
- Graphics: 4 MB DirectX-compliant video card
- DirectX®: DirectX 7.0 or higher
- Hard Drive: 360 MB hard-disk space
- Sound: DirectX-compliant sound card
Отзывы пользователей
it might be good if you played this game eons ago, but today it's very hard to figure out all that crap. Like how do u even dock or land on a station, you're just basically ignored by anything and the hotkey to hail(C) doesn't do much.
The controls are weird, but can get used to(to some degree).
The game talks about some different type of stations and there are different icons on the radar as well, but there is no chance that you will ever figure out what the hell is what.
There is a manual and a walkthough file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\X Beyond the Frontier
And you can watch a video to figure all this crap out, but too much work for so little fun. Can't really recommend it.
Primitive & flawed.
Holds up fairly well despite its age, but I would not recommend it except to fans of Egosoft's X series. Newcomers should probably look at X2 or one of the X3 titles to start with. Those games are of much higher quality, and are a bit less frustratingly cryptic. If you do buy this and get stuck, a walkthrough is included in the game files.
For fans of X though, this game is pretty nice. You get to see how it all started. It has a bit more of an atmosphere than the more recent games (X4, Rebirth). It is also much simpler than later games, which is both a blessing and a curse. Less complexity, but also less to do. You will probably finish the main plot, and then move on to one of the more recent titles.
As for compatibility, despite Egosoft's best efforts this was still made for Windows 9x, and there is only so much they can do. They still patch the game to try and keep it working. But realistically you will need to spend some time debugging in order to get this working on anything newer than Windows 7. Also, you may have issues getting gamepads and joysticks to work. I had no issues with the keyboard or mouse controls.
Ironically, you may actually have an easier time getting this to work on Linux. The game runs out of the box on Proton Experimental as of September 2024, but is prone to crashes, so save often. Also NPC portraits are broken and only display a test pattern. I highly recommend installing GE-Proton. With GE-Proton9-11, the game runs much better and portraits mostly work, although sometimes the wrong portrait will be displayed. Lutris' Wine-GE also works fine and is more stable. Even Lutris' Wine-GE still crashes periodically, so remember to save.
Overall, a very strong showing for a 25 year old game. One of my all-time favorites, even if it is a somewhat niche title.
Too much fiddling around with getting controllers to work, or rather, not being able to.
easily better than star citizen.
doesn't make it good though.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Egosoft |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 04.12.2024 |
| Metacritic | 67 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 69% положительных (160) |