You can also simply click on the gate, select auto-pilot and hit j. Just find it on the sector map (.), press t and follow the blue arrows. Almost all commands are done via the menu. Find it on the map or press r and select it in the list.
You don't have a forward-facing weapon so you can't do his mission (lol).įirst of all, make sure your Discoverer follows you. At the start, ignore the Flight School Buster. This guy starts with a trade ship and a nice useless scout ship which you can sell for hard cash to quickly boost your income. Pick the Merchant, the third character from the top. You can either go along with the main quest which involves quite a bit of fighting, or you can go the easier route and start a new character. Press c to contact it and do the little training mission. If you can't find it on the screen, press. You start in a confusing screen but you'll figure that out quickly enough. The others you can find easily in the game itself. Shows the contents of your current ship and how much space you have left. Docking can be done at a max speed of 39 (as far as i can tell).į = Freight. You can also decelerate with z or click on the speed bar. Faster than holding x (decelerate).īackspace = Decelerate fully. Here you can see all stations, ships, asteroids, et cetera. You can pick the person by pressing the corresponding number. Talk to people to get missions and ask permission to dock at stations.
Blue arrows will show the path to this target, whereas yellow arrows show the current mission target.Ĭ = Comms. By default this is set to 6x, go to options and change it to 10x. Right-click fires any forward-mounted weapon - careful! There are keyboard shortcuts for the most important commands. You select things by left-clicking on them.
It's basically Mount & Blade in space, but a space fighter sim instead of a first person fighter game. I got X3 at the sale too, it's ok once you figure it out.