Major Release Announcement - 2.50, 3.0 and new DLC!

werewolves? · Post by **werewolves?** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 01:27

Good work, looking forward to seeing some of the new things, the art team has been awesome so far so I can't wait to see their take on the Teladi.

bm01 · Post by **bm01** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 01:57

A new system but with only two sectors? That's not much, especially since you're considering adding more "pirates" (with stations?).
I'd like a bigger playground personally, even if some places are empty (sectors or zones acting like buffer zones between two factions for example).
Anyway, can't wait to see the new features (more weapons yay, also maybe more medium ships?).

lightbender585 · Post by **lightbender585** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 02:09

So so so stoked, yeah ES team, it is your passion, good work boys and girls
1 very happy customer

jack775544 · Post by **jack775544** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 02:51

Looking forward to this new expansion.
And it's (temporarily) free as well. Stuff like that is what makes me really appreciate Egosoft.

GarrettThief · Post by **GarrettThief** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 03:00

Ok, I will check out Rebirth when 3.0 releases propably...unless I am not allready too much into the new WOW-Addon^^

jojorne · Post by **jojorne** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 05:30

nice...

Post by **Sparky Sparkycorp** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 07:34

Len5 wrote:Happy Happy Joy Joy

Succinctly put

Rather intrigued about that internal view - seems to suggest multiple docking ports o.0

Regardless, thank you for this work and jesture. Well done

MAUCorp · Post by **MAUCorp** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 08:27

Awesome news! Thankyou, Egosoft. The gesture (and all the continued support) is very much appreciated.

BigBANGtheory · Post by **BigBANGtheory** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 10:34

Thanks for the news

"v3.0 will include new gameplay features, which we will announce later"
was the important part imho, look forward to hearing about that.

I sincerely hope this is the break through moment for XR, things have improved and I'd like to see you getting credit for good work from all sources. Good luck.

nemesis1982 · Post by **nemesis1982** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 10:35

Nice, glad the DLC is free however it does suggest that DLC will be paid for in the future contrary to previous products.

We'll have to see if the costs of the DLC are in balance with what you get (in my experience that never is the case). For now we can at least enjoy the free DLC.

Trooper1994 · Post by **Trooper1994** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 11:08

No offense but it took this long for a external camera? and if you guys could make it where I can fly any ship like the previous like 3 games and expansion that would be peachy.

Untill then I'm indiffrent to the dlc and shiny things (shiny things cost me $50 of my hard earned money last time) and will still consider the game a failure untill its fixed.

nemesis1982 · Post by **nemesis1982** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 11:18

@Trooper: Your definition of needing to be fixed is faulty since it was known long before release you would be flying a single ship. I'd think that fixing the existing features would get president over external camera and luckily it did. If you paid 50$ and expected multiple ships it's not Egosofts fault you didn't get your moneys worth (the bugs and missing features would be a different matter though).

@CBJ: "• Your game will be update automatically unless you have disabled this feature in the Steam client. " is quite a useless statement. Do you have an estimate? You've created the expectation of a date with "What's in 2.50 and when can I get it?" and after didn't fill that expectation. It would've been better to not create the expectation in the first place now it just creates disappointment

Post by **Sparky Sparkycorp** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 11:47

2.50 beta has been out for a while and has rapidly moved from beta 8, beta 9, release candidate 1 to release candidate 2 over the last few days. Egosoft probably hope to ship it next week but while there are 2.50-era bugs to work on in the beta forum, I wouldnt want to push them and its probably hard to predict when they will be fixed enough.

Earth Ultimatum IV. · Post by **Earth Ultimatum IV.** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 11:55

Okay, now this is interesting:

http://i.imgur.com/STyNRpK.jpg

When I saw this image for the first time, I tought that this "atrium" or "garden" or whatever it is, is closed behind a window.

BUT watching the picture again, I notice that there's Skunk in the middle of the picture! So you indeed can fly very close to the gardens.
Also, there is a city and some infrastructure in distance.

This pic was taken from the external view, that's a sure thing now.
However, HUD and icons are hidden in external view.
And there's something what looks like docking plattform for Skunk in that city.
Unfortunately, as the HUD is hidden, even if it really was a docking plattform for Skunk, there's no docking icon

So I can just guess.
But it really would be exciting to dock at that landing plattform, and walk around the city, or at least a part of it. The view must be marvellous.

Calca · Post by **Calca** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 12:47

Only few words... i am happy.. thanx Ego!!!!!!!

Post by **CBJ** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 12:55

nemesis1982 wrote:You've created the expectation of a date with "What's in 2.50 and when can I get it?" and after didn't fill that expectation. It would've been better to not create the expectation in the first place now it just creates disappointment.

Yes, sorry about that. We had hoped to be able to announce that 2.50 was ready right now, but there were one or two problems revealed in the final stages of testing that we decided we needed to fix before release. The problems have now been resolved, so unless something else comes up we should be looking at releasing 2.50 early next week.

Not mentioning 2.50 in the announcement wasn't really an option as people might have got the impression that there was some change of plan and that we were putting off the release of the features and fixes in 2.50 until later, which isn't the case.

Post by **Santi** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 12:58

That picture is from inside the ring structure that you can see in the first and third screenshot in Steam. It must be a massive station.

jeroll3d · Post by **jeroll3d** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 13:09

Very nice.

Congrats team DEV.

Cabrelbeuk · Post by **Cabrelbeuk** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 13:50

... And free for owner of Rebirth if you pre-order it before the first November... So all on Steam guys !

Thanks Ego, even if i think that all owner should get this DLC for free anyway, that's still nice from you

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http://www.egosoft.com/community/news_fr.php

milytar · Post by **milytar** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 14:15

nice to hear about dlc and seems that mr.Alexander Preuss ringstation "comes live"!!!I love it

Major Release Announcement - 2.50, 3.0 and new DLC!

X Rebirth 3.0 The Teladi Outpost annonced