Egosoft announced today that the free DLC X3: Farnham's Legacy that was released back in April is now officially out with a Linux build and there's more.
X3: Farnham's Legacy is set in the years following X3: Albion Prelude, as the chaos caused by the gate shutdown really takes hold, X3: Farnham's Legacy starts very differently to previous games in the X3 series. It was developed over five years by long-term members of the Egosoft community in close cooperation with the team at Egosoft.
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It's not just a whole new story, the free expansion also brings with it lots more including:
- (Almost) Everything from X3: Terran Conflict and X3: Albion Prelude
- Exploration tools and explorers guild
- Diplomacy and dynamic relations
- New drone carrier and armoured transport ships
- Player headquarters with new advanced facilities
- A unique and very special new ship
- Station-building and complex planning services
- Ship browser and hyperlinked encyclopedia
- New piracy options and gameplay
- Real sector ownership
- Improved logs and graphs
- Enhanced modding support
- Lots and lots of smaller improvements!
Along with the Linux release, Egosoft also tweaked other parts of the series too:
X3: Terran Conflict
X3: Albion Prelude
- [GOG Linux only] Updated to version 3.4 (2017)
- [Steam only] Simplified first-time setup on Windows
- Fixed lib compatibility issues on Linux
- Fixed several voice samples in German version
- [GOG Linux only] Updated to version 3.3 (2017)
- [Steam only] Simplified first-time setup on Windows
- Fixed lib compatibility issues on Linux
Really amazing to see the long-term support here from Egosoft for their games.
You can buy the X3 series on GOG, Humble Store and Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I have never got into the "X" series. I like these kind of complicated games, so I think it will be great for me. Can someone recommend, where should I start first with this game? X3: Reunion, X3:Terran Conflict, X3:Albion Prelude, or X3:Farnham's Legacy?
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rustybroomhandle Jul 9, 2021
Quoting: AvikarrI have never got into the "X" series. I like these kind of complicated games, so I think it will be great for me. Can someone recommend, where should I start first with this game? X3: Reunion, X3:Terran Conflict, X3:Albion Prelude, or X3:Farnham's Legacy?
If you are into the story stuff, then I'd say play all of them. But if, like me, you don't really care about that stuff and just want to build a mighty space empire, then I'd say Albion Prelude is a good place to jump in.
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Quoting: rustybroomhandleQuoting: AvikarrI have never got into the "X" series. I like these kind of complicated games, so I think it will be great for me. Can someone recommend, where should I start first with this game? X3: Reunion, X3:Terran Conflict, X3:Albion Prelude, or X3:Farnham's Legacy?
If you are into the story stuff, then I'd say play all of them. But if, like me, you don't really care about that stuff and just want to build a mighty space empire, then I'd say Albion Prelude is a good place to jump in.
Fully agree.
After spending months on X2, X3:R, X3:TC, X3:AP and now struggling to get used to X4 (I never really enjoyed X:R), I fully agree that X3:AP is indeed the best release.
- Gilboa
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Avehicle7887 Jul 9, 2021
I'm happy they finally got around to update the outdated Linux version on GOG, it was an abandoned state for a while. Might finally be the right time to buy X4.
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Quoting: gilboaAfter spending months on X2, ...
Is there a painless way to play X2? I tried launching the old LGP demo of X2 but that only segfaulted, so I picked up X2 on steam when it was super cheap but steamplaying X2 resulted in missing audio
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Quoting: rustybroomhandlethen I'd say Albion Prelude
Quoting: gilboaX3:AP is indeed the best release
Thank you guys :)
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Quoting: GrifterIs there a painless way to play X2? I tried launching the old LGP demo of X2 but that only segfaulted, so I picked up X2 on steam when it was super cheap but steamplaying X2 resulted in missing audioDepends on your definition of painless. Looks like Proton-6.10-GE-1 is reported to be working:
https://www.protondb.com/app/2800
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Quoting: AvikarrQuoting: rustybroomhandlethen I'd say Albion Prelude
Quoting: gilboaX3:AP is indeed the best release
Thank you guys :)
I actually was a beta tester and owner of (the late) LGP X2 (and then X3:R).
As far as I know, LGP's X2 still can be made to work (unlike X3:R that uses some license server that no longer works).
That said, back when X3:TC was released as Windows only, I had zero issues running it under wine. As such, I would venture and guess that Steam-Proton will have zero issues running X2.
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Love the X series (Frontier owner here). Wrote various articles like how to get a headtracker working with this and even started to get into writing extensions for it myself.
Unpopular opinion but I even like Rebirth ;-)
Unpopular opinion but I even like Rebirth ;-)
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Quoting: AvikarrI have never got into the "X" series. I like these kind of complicated games, so I think it will be great for me. Can someone recommend, where should I start first with this game? X3: Reunion, X3:Terran Conflict, X3:Albion Prelude, or X3:Farnham's Legacy?
My first X-Game was X4: Foundations.
It is a really great game, but it was a bit to learn to come into the game. I watched a few video tutorials.
So if you seek for a start in X-games, I think X4 is good to do this. You can play the story lines or just use it as a big sandbox. I have lots of fun with it, building an empire in space with only a bit of story line playing.
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