The basic premise is, way in the future mankind exists in a universe with many other races. From the ground up, it is filled with gorgeous solar systems, gigantic space stations, and absolutely killer ship designs. XTC is one of the most beautifully built “unofficial” games I have ever seen. Do you like learning curves served in healthy portions with your Space Combat Simulators? Then this game is for you.

This can take weeks, months, years to do, and the bigger the game, the bigger the task.Īfter 4 years of blood, sweat, and tears (and apparently a consensual, adult relationship with an office coffee-machine), X3: Xtended Terran Conflict 2.0 has been released to the masses. Modding is when you take the original code of a game and tweak it, re-write it, add-on to it, and re-release it. In the world of video games, that level of commitment has a name, and it’s called Modding. There is a level of fanaticism out there that goes beyond fan fiction, beyond long hours spent twiddling away with whatever the focus of the obsession might be. Not the plug-in kind, but the obsessed kind.