X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe. Exp...
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
Explore: You can explore over 130 beautifully designed sectors occupied by nebulas that affect your ships and stations, asteroids you can mine for materials you can later sell on for profit.
New Ships: Explore in over 60 ships of varying sizes from scout class ships to the much larger carrier class battleships.
New Upgrades: Upgrade your ships systems with many more upgrades, and download new upgrades that make use of the new scripting engine designed specially for X².
New Missions: Take part in missions offered to you on each stations bulletin board, make money by defending convoys and destroy incoming Xenon fleets intent on destroying everything in their path. But above all else, help to defend the universe from the Khaak, before they kill everyone and everything they come across.
Goodies
gunnery crews manual
manual
reference card
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Serial key for online registration will be automatically generated in your GOG.com library (open it via website → select the game → More → Serial Keys).
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-runs on DX8
-neither keybinds nor mouse sensitivity can be changed in-game and only 3 keys can be changed via the launcher
-no mouse cursor in menus
-obnoxiously unintuitive default keybinds
This game is almost ruined by a dumpster fire of a control scheme. Even in the launcher, you can only map a few of the keys. This isn't a glitch. Text on the top of the window straight up tells you "you can only map special keys like Shift and space."
While I'm starting to see that most flight sims on GOG are just hot garbage in the controls department, I could give them a pass because A: the game is from a long time ago, or B: the awful controls are remappable, so you can at least fix it yourself. This game is not the case. Not only was it made in 2001, where we should know better, but even the launcher's control window only lets you map like 5 keys on the entire keyboard. You won't get any help either. your only chance at enjoying this game, according to the other players, is "buy a flight stick". You will get no tips, troubleshooting, or workarounds. If you can't play it, you just didn't spend enough money on your peripherals.
After days of getting used to the most counter-intuitive mess of a control scheme (I was eventually smart enough to just give up on mapping it.), I did enjoy the game world, the music is top notch, and there's lots to do. Getting to the point where I could enjoy the game took many tries, however. Some will not have the time or energy to make it work when there are way better games out there that avoid this issue entirely.
It's 6 bucks. What would you expect?
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