X3: Albion Prelude 3.0 – Shady Business is available as a FREE update to everybody who owns X3: Albion Prelude and includes support for LINUX as STEAMPLAY.
To celebrate the update X3: Albion Prelude, X3: Terran War Pack Bundle, X3: GoldBox, and the X Superbox will be 33% until May 22nd.
X3: Albion Prelude 3.0 – Shady Business brings three unique new plot lines and for the first time can be completely controlled with gamepads!
A plethora of new ships, new sectors, new gamestarts and new generic missions rounds of this big update to the X3 universe.
New Features and Improvements:
– New plots: Shady Business, Corporation Troubles, Breaking Grounds
– New generic mission: Repair Station, a service to repair damaged player stations (below 95% hull)
– New generic mission: Multiple Transport, to transport multiple passengers with different collection/delivery points
– New generic mission: Tour of a Lifetime, to take a group of tourists on a tour to various sectors to see the sights
– New generic mission: Escort Dual Convoy, to aid two convoys on different routes which need protecting
– Added controller support
– New ships: Lotan, Acinonyx, Pteranodon
– Changed the ‘close to target’ warning during the Follow Ship Mission from a popup message to a help text
– New special sector, including new soundtrack
– New special UFJD sector
– Unlockable Gamestarts: Aldran Adventurer, Lost Lar, Goner Witness
– Added ability for missions to enable/disable war behaviour
– More Terran factories available in shipyards
Fixes:
– Fixed Generic Patrol by removing extra ‘missions accepted’ increment statistic on acceptance
– Fixed Deliver Matching Ship increment statistic on acceptance for war mission
– Fixed Super Shipyard dock which caused M6 ships to collide while undocking
– Fixed Boron Equipment Dock orbiting objects being in the wrong position
– Fixed Argon Stock Exchange billboard which was located below some docking clamps
– Fixed messages sent to player in Transport Passenger Missions when there is insufficient cargo space or no Life Support
– Fixed Yaki Stock Exchange unlock requirements
– Fixed Escort Convoy Mission being offered by enemy race
– Fixed Escort Convoy Mission not ending if you attack an escort ship
– Fixed cleanup for the NPC contact in the Assassination Mission once the mission is finished
– Fixed issue of captured ships being destroyed by war manager
– Fixed bug with MD command
– Fixed loading of ware templates
– Fixed Ice miner Job so it no longer stays docked when it has nothing to mine
– Fixed default values for ship hue/saturation
– Added cleanup for escorts created for the Escort Convoy Mission
– Added checks to avoid Xenon Invasion Missions continuing when Xenon leave the sector
– Added checks during the Build Station Mission for when the Beacon is moved to avoid problems completing the mission
– Changed Tyr cargospace to 8800
