Or if you are completely new to the X Universe (i.e. you haven't played X or X2) then try the one in my sig.

If you are new to the X universe (as I am) I would strongly recommend that you ... Click HERE ... to see a newbie guide by a chap called Chips. I was totally lost until I read it. After following it (and a bit of fiddling) I am really enjoying the game. Stick with it, it's a bit daunting at first, b...

I would like to recommend you add Chips' Newbie Guide to this list.


For those who have no previous experience of the X Games series, it is invaluable.

Nice post btw

Bump for a great post - will someone please sticky this for the love of all that is n00by

(I figure if we keep gtelling Chips how good he is, he might do some more of these guides lol )

Yup - what MGA said. It's the spec of the machine - not the size :wink: I have a Rock Direct Quaddra Ti from May 2004. It gets very VERY warm, but it will run Doom 3 no problem - but it damn well should with the spec it has. Pentium IV 3.4 ghz (full desktop flavour), 1gb RAM, 256mb Radeon 9700 (mobi...

Am I the only one who thinks this should be stickied alongside Giskard's guide?

Before this post I was all for sending the game right back to play.com

After reading this post I now have a good idea of the basics and am really enjoying the game

Cheers guys

As you can probably gather, I'm a bit of a newb and have NO idea what size category those missles were (can't even remember the type)

Will check my cargo hold when I play it next

Probably a horrendously silly question that will result insomeone saying "RTFM!!" :D, but..... I came across a crate/box of missiles floating around in space and I wondered if it is possible to pick them up? If it is possible, how do you do it? I was in the starter ship, I opened the cargo bay and f...

Yup - can be changed.

When in space, Right Click once then hit the Enter key

Click the 'Options' button
Click the 'Controller' button
Scroll down until you see 'Invert Mouse Pitch' and change it from 'no' to 'Yes'

Hopefully this will have the desired result for you (it did for me)

Chips for Emperor of...well... everything!!

Nice one mate - as posted above, very helpful for X newbies like me

This is exactly the kind of thing the non-existent in-game tutorial should have covered. Great Job!! I hope someone at Egosoft is watching

Nice one Sinned - tried your tip and it seems to have worked.

Excellent Stuff Chips - nice one. This is just the kind of thing newbs like me need to get us going. Hopefully once the game has settled a bit, more guides like this will pop up around the net. thanks again for the pointers

This guy should have written the manual

Was wondering how you did that - thanks

OMG - Two Ton Tony Tubbs!! Glad I'm not the only 2000ad fan round here

I'm away to dig out "Requiem for a heavyweight" while I reinstall

With me it was a fresh 1.2 game.

Hmm - odd. At no point in the installation of the patch did it ask if I wanted to overwrite any files. It was installed to the correct location and the laucn screen (with the Graphics resolution option etc) said v1.2 Will try reinstalling as suggested, but to be honest I should not have to do this b...

It would be even better if the manual actually referred to bits of the game that existed. As an X Universe n00b-extrordanaire, I was heartened to read the bit that says, "It is recommended that you play through the first turorial...There is a step-by-step guide to the first tutorial in the Flight Ma...

Sorry CJB, I have exactly the same thing - but I noticed it on the incoming messages and the weapons screens. Before 1.2 I could see all the text. After 1.2 there is nothing. And if you look on the Station bulletin boards, it just reads that all the messages are left by 'Unknown' and there is no tex...