A beginner's guide

Contents

• Introduction (below),
• About the game,
• The HUD,
• Our ship,

• Do the Flight school mission,
• Learn how to trade,
• Explore new sectors,
• Learn how to fight,

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Introduction

Starting X3TC for the first time can be very confusing at first - countless icons floating around the screen, without a clue what to do. In this guide, I plan to explain what's going on and how to play X3/X3TC.

The first thing is to start X3TC and get onto the main menu, like so:



The two main options are New game and Continue, which let you start a new game or load in a save game. I'm guessing your a new player to X3TC, so lets start a new game instead of loading in an existing game. So select New game, and another list will appear like so:



Your list may have a few different choices than mine, however which one you pick will not make a huge difference in the overal game, just what you start with, your reputations and your location. So it maybe best not to start with a difficult beginning at the moment, but an easier one to get used to the game. For this I recommend you pick Terran Defender, seeing as your in a safe place.

Once you start, your see this:



Onwards to the second page:

• About X3TC and understanding the game,