I still get little shivers flying into kingdoms end.....

BDStyle · Post by **BDStyle** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 21:16

When I first played X3:R I headed straight to kingdoms end as most do when you fly off to get a certain object.

I'll always remember the moment of thinking 'jesus that feels great' when you jump in through the south gate, the music starts and you are staring straight at the planet with 'roids in site.

Anyone else still get that? Perhaps not with kingdoms end but a similar thing. Even now, with TC I get that feeling flying through that sector. Sometimes I just chill in orbit of the planet organising my affairs.

garv222 · Post by **garv222** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 21:22

I just like the music in Kingdom End. It's also got a good layout with the asteroids in orbit around the home planet. Overall a good example of what comes to mind when visiting a planet's space in a space simulation.

cj-spartacus · Post by **cj-spartacus** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 21:29

Kingdom End is nice to look at and the music is appropriate for the setting.

Pyure · Post by **Pyure** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 21:40

I concur. I actually called my wife over to check it out once. She rolled her eyes at me.

when you fly off to get a certain object.

I'm ashamed...ashamed...to say I don't know what this is subtly referencing. Bala Gi missions initiation maybe?

cj-spartacus · Post by **cj-spartacus** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 21:43

Well my usual port of call in KE would be to get

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A Triplex Scanner

If that's what you mean.

silenced · Post by **silenced** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 21:53

It's the same feeling you get when leaving the "Vortex Rikers" in "Unreal". Silence until you're finally out and then that music starts to play ... awesome.

Cith · Post by **Cith** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 21:59

Getsu Fune! That sector still gives me the shivers, sometimes I park my mommaship there and trade remotely.

BDStyle · Post by **BDStyle** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 22:02

Pyure wrote:I concur. I actually called my wife over to check it out once. She rolled her eyes at me.

when you fly off to get a certain object.
I'm ashamed...ashamed...to say I don't know what this is subtly referencing. Bala Gi missions initiation maybe?

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The toucan hauler in menaleus' paradise and on the way to it I get as you say the triplex and a set of goggles. I start in argon prime usually, before the new start was implemented I just used my own start that put me in Argon prime.... heh call me sentimental....).

amtct · Post by **amtct** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 22:52

Maybe that will be in the next top 100 summer charts.

Everyone seems to like that sector music .

esd · Post by **esd** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 23:04

Except me. Can't stand it myself. Too happy - it just doesn't quite fit the 'verse

BDStyle · Post by **BDStyle** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 23:11

Yeah but that's why I love it these days. Spend most of my days fighting bad guys and shooting asteroids. Sometimes the break from X3 reality that kingdom end gives you is ........ well nice I suppose. It's like the cup of tea after a 4 hour SMT meeting where the future of your department just got laid out.

Hellfire29 · Post by **Hellfire29** » Sat, 7. Aug 10, 13:06

I love that music so much, I'm listening to it right now.
It's called Peace 2 if you want to listen to it, just add the whole terran conflict folder and look for it.

Starlight_Corporation · Post by **Starlight_Corporation** » Sat, 7. Aug 10, 13:16

Kingdom end is for me the place to break with the universe & relax.

War all across, pirates pillaging, xenon marching, and Khaak raiding. You traders running into deathtraps, your escorts getting vaporized by menacing Q's and people giving you hard times with their tight delivery schedules...

When it's hell, I jump to Kingdom End, and loiter around, enjoying the peaceful music. Somehow when I'm there, it seems the rest of the universe is detached for a moment, like a real good lounge.

The atmosphere there is totally different due to the music & the placing of the gates then the rest of the universe, and it's good, always a peaceful retreat when hell just payed you a visit.

IceFire909 · Post by **IceFire909** » Sat, 7. Aug 10, 13:24

I had it on my Car stereo mp3 flash drive. Along with the Teaser Music (08512, it's at the bottom).

I think I need to head there for a while... I've been stuck in bloodshed and warfare dosed with 50ml of hellish fury for so long I think I need to head to the spa&relaxation sector.

huntergreenall · Post by **huntergreenall** » Sat, 7. Aug 10, 15:01

Totally agree, want that music on mp3. Next time I've got alot of admin to sort I'm going to idle there.

Triaxx2 · Post by **Triaxx2** » Sat, 7. Aug 10, 15:10

I sit a hundred KM above the Ecliptic in Kingdom End. The cops don't bother me to break SETA, and there's enough firepower around the gates that pirates and even Kha'ak don't bother me.

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Sat, 7. Aug 10, 16:06

Triaxx2 wrote:there's enough firepower around the gates that pirates and even Kha'ak don't bother me.

Kha'ak don't use gates, so that's more luck than anything else. In fact, they usually pop in a long way from the sector centre and then cruise around until they come into range of something to attack, which could be you!

cswiger · Post by **cswiger** » Sat, 7. Aug 10, 17:20

For those who like the Peace 2 theme, there's what looks to be a higher-bitrate version and some alternate takes, as well as other music from Alexei Zakharov's site (he's the author) here:

http://zakharovmusic.com
http://unlike.iddx.net/work/Alexei_Zakharov_Promo/

jlehtone · Post by **jlehtone** » Sat, 7. Aug 10, 22:06

esd wrote:Except me. Can't stand it myself. Too happy - it just doesn't quite fit the 'verse

I'm not particularly impressed by that track or view either, but the same goes for each track and each sector. Only the X472 -- packed as thight red as it can -- could count as "looks good" on my scale. And that obviously is not about the background.

Not that Kingdom End wouldn't have a particular memory attached to it. I did visit every single sector on the X3R (this was pre-2.0) galaxy before entering KE. Intentionally. And I've kicked myself for not having chosen Home of Light as the furthest place to visit (starting in Argon Prime, plot and all).

Triaxx2 · Post by **Triaxx2** » Sun, 8. Aug 10, 00:52

Fortunately, they mostly pop in within a few KM of the ecliptic, and then cruise level with it. Like most things, NPC's in X never look up.

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I still get little shivers flying into kingdoms end.....

I still get little shivers flying into kingdoms end.....