DFSniper
12-03-2007, 12:52 PM
ok, last year i signed up to do some beta testing for a new in-game overlay project (i dont know how else to describe it really) that basically combines all your messenger programs, xfire, your media player, and WoWWiki and Thotbot for you WoWheads!. it was orignally designed for clan chats and Thotbot, but they expanded it very quickly. unfortunately, i havent had internet on my gaming pc for a while, so i havent been able to test the beta yet, but its installing as i'm typing this. if i can figure out how to invite people, and theres anyone interested, pm me and i'll see what i can do. here's a public preview for now. it looks promising:
http://www.playxpert.com/web/guest/product
well im gonna run it on 2142 and America's Army to see how its working so far.
Working Review
I'm going to use this section to review PXP as I learn more about it.
Well, as far as widgets right now (the add-ons) it came with were a Google search bar, a Wowhead search bar, a media player control panel (see dislikes section), and a chat client that lets you use AIM, MSN, Yahoo, XFire, ICQ and Google Talk all in one window and in-game. And yes, it should keep track of your XFire stats.
Dislikes:
The only things I don't like so far (beside it being a little buggy) is that when you add a messenger account, it says "name" has added you to their list or whatever, and I have like 80+ screen names on AIM, so I had to hit Alt+F4 80+ times.
The Tunes widget, which is basically an in-game music control panel, only supports Winamp and ITunes, which made me mad because I only use Windows Media Player, so I had to download Winamp, and the control panel only works if you already have Winamp running, which, on second thought, makes sense. But I have media player buttons on my keyboard that does that already.
The menu is too big, they could make it smaller and save a lot of screen space. Also, its transparent when you play, but not transparent enough for me, a custom transparency slider like the TitanBar on WoW would be really useful.
http://www.playxpert.com/web/guest/product
well im gonna run it on 2142 and America's Army to see how its working so far.
Working Review
I'm going to use this section to review PXP as I learn more about it.
Well, as far as widgets right now (the add-ons) it came with were a Google search bar, a Wowhead search bar, a media player control panel (see dislikes section), and a chat client that lets you use AIM, MSN, Yahoo, XFire, ICQ and Google Talk all in one window and in-game. And yes, it should keep track of your XFire stats.
Dislikes:
The only things I don't like so far (beside it being a little buggy) is that when you add a messenger account, it says "name" has added you to their list or whatever, and I have like 80+ screen names on AIM, so I had to hit Alt+F4 80+ times.
The Tunes widget, which is basically an in-game music control panel, only supports Winamp and ITunes, which made me mad because I only use Windows Media Player, so I had to download Winamp, and the control panel only works if you already have Winamp running, which, on second thought, makes sense. But I have media player buttons on my keyboard that does that already.
The menu is too big, they could make it smaller and save a lot of screen space. Also, its transparent when you play, but not transparent enough for me, a custom transparency slider like the TitanBar on WoW would be really useful.