X4-Information from Gamescom

Solflame · Post by **Solflame** » Tue, 4. Sep 18, 14:45

I wouldn't expect a huge jump in quality in terms of how the people look to be honest: dealing with them was probably one of the most the most panned features of Rebirth (even if I liked it) and they probably had artists spending more time on ships and stuff that people thought were more important.

Besides, Egosoft isn't exactly drowning in money or people. We can't ask for everything to be a million times better than their last release. Incremental steps, my friends, incremental steps!

mr.WHO · Post by **mr.WHO** » Tue, 4. Sep 18, 18:18

repatomonor wrote:
Cucumber King wrote:I hope X4 will not simply have X:Rebirth characters with pathfinding. It looks eerily similar. It does not look like a 5 year leap in graphics. The universe art style and ship realism is strongly at odds with the characters.
...Rebirth had pathfinding?

Good God! You reminded me the pathfinding nightmare of XR Torride system. Just looking at capships trying to navigate/boost around those spire asteroids gives me creeps.

I hope nothing like this will be in X4 or will have some kind of "no capships" fly zone area.

VincentTH · Post by **VincentTH** » Tue, 4. Sep 18, 20:21

mr.WHO wrote:
repatomonor wrote:
Cucumber King wrote:I hope X4 will not simply have X:Rebirth characters with pathfinding. It looks eerily similar. It does not look like a 5 year leap in graphics. The universe art style and ship realism is strongly at odds with the characters.
...Rebirth had pathfinding?
Good God! You reminded me the pathfinding nightmare of XR Torride system. Just looking at capships trying to navigate/boost around those spire asteroids gives me creeps.

I hope nothing like this will be in X4 or will have some kind of "no capships" fly zone area.

Actually, most asteroid fields are in a plane, as most of them are remnants of a failed planetoid). So just get out of the plane and fly away, then get back to the z=0 plane at your destination. (or is it y=0 plane, X3 Coord system is weird)

Now for a system like Aldrin, Ego may have to think of something else. Those acceleration gates do not help much!!

Just MHO

Solflame · Post by **Solflame** » Tue, 4. Sep 18, 23:13

Just needs to be better pathfinding the XR. I love how Toride looks and would hate to lose out on areas like it.

Perhaps it'd be nice if areas where capships might have trouble were marked as "navigational hazard zones" on the map?

Skeeter · Post by **Skeeter** » Wed, 5. Sep 18, 00:36

New interview showing bernds new long hairdo.

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0

Dunno if anything new as i dont understand German. Tho has a bit of new footage from the game not seen elsewhere so thats a plus.

spankahontis · Post by **spankahontis** » Wed, 5. Sep 18, 16:17

Skeeter wrote:New interview showing bernds new long hairdo.

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0

Dunno if anything new as i dont understand German. Tho has a bit of new footage from the game not seen elsewhere so thats a plus.

I noticed on the footage, as you're walking around the Station, there is an Advertisement board that has "Add your Advertisement here".

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0?t=6m13s

Question: Would we be able to add Advertisements like we can add a Faction Logo to our Ships?
That would be awesome! Your Company advertises their Goods on other Factions Stations to increase awareness of your business.

Post by **Tomonor** » Wed, 5. Sep 18, 17:17

spankahontis wrote:
Skeeter wrote:New interview showing bernds new long hairdo.

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0

Dunno if anything new as i dont understand German. Tho has a bit of new footage from the game not seen elsewhere so thats a plus.
I noticed on the footage, as you're walking around the Station, there is an Advertisement board that has "Add your Advertisement here".

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0?t=6m13s

Question: Would we be able to add Advertisements like we can add a Faction Logo to our Ships?
That would be awesome! Your Company advertises their Goods on other Factions Stations to increase awareness of your business.

That's most likely just a sort of easter egg.

Post by **linolafett** » Wed, 5. Sep 18, 17:19

repatomonor wrote:
spankahontis wrote: I noticed on the footage, as you're walking around the Station, there is an Advertisement board that has "Add your Advertisement here".

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0?t=6m13s

Question: Would we be able to add Advertisements like we can add a Faction Logo to our Ships?
That would be awesome! Your Company advertises their Goods on other Factions Stations to increase awareness of your business.
That's most likely just a sort of easter egg.

Correct, just an easteregg.
Modders could change the texture though to their liking.

jocan2003 · Post by **jocan2003** » Wed, 5. Sep 18, 17:57

Solflame wrote:I wouldn't expect a huge jump in quality in terms of how the people look to be honest: dealing with them was probably one of the most the most panned features of Rebirth (even if I liked it) and they probably had artists spending more time on ships and stuff that people thought were more important.

Besides, Egosoft isn't exactly drowning in money or people. We can't ask for everything to be a million times better than their last release. Incremental steps, my friends, incremental steps!

I dont have many hope, but seeing the new modilar system, from station to ship i have high hope about modding implementation, adding slots, equipment and the like, also finally a game where adding Galactica with full c9mplement on weaponry on hull and stuff? mannnn i cannot wait to see the possibilities. Thats what i expect from smaller studio, give us a good shell to expand uppon and i will be happy.

mr.WHO · Post by **mr.WHO** » Wed, 5. Sep 18, 18:05

spankahontis wrote:
Skeeter wrote:New interview showing bernds new long hairdo.

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0

Dunno if anything new as i dont understand German. Tho has a bit of new footage from the game not seen elsewhere so thats a plus.
I noticed on the footage, as you're walking around the Station, there is an Advertisement board that has "Add your Advertisement here".

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0?t=6m13s

Question: Would we be able to add Advertisements like we can add a Faction Logo to our Ships?
That would be awesome! Your Company advertises their Goods on other Factions Stations to increase awareness of your business.

I noticed that while NPC models seems to be the same as in X-Rebirth, at least their walking animation is not repulsive.
I wonder if Egosoft put a guide how to mod NPC models...(reminds Skyrim with models of everything from My Little Pony to Anime)...well never mind

VincentTH · Post by **VincentTH** » Wed, 5. Sep 18, 20:32

mr.WHO wrote:
spankahontis wrote:
Skeeter wrote:New interview showing bernds new long hairdo.

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0

Dunno if anything new as i dont understand German. Tho has a bit of new footage from the game not seen elsewhere so thats a plus.
I noticed on the footage, as you're walking around the Station, there is an Advertisement board that has "Add your Advertisement here".

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0?t=6m13s

Question: Would we be able to add Advertisements like we can add a Faction Logo to our Ships?
That would be awesome! Your Company advertises their Goods on other Factions Stations to increase awareness of your business.
I noticed that while NPC models seems to be the same as in X-Rebirth, at least their walking animation is not repulsive.
I wonder if Egosoft put a guide how to mod NPC models...(reminds Skyrim with models of everything from My Little Pony to Anime)...well never mind

and Skyrim 's "nwde" mod!!! LOL!!!

nemesis1982 · Post by **nemesis1982** » Fri, 7. Sep 18, 08:59

Skeeter wrote:New interview showing bernds new long hairdo.

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0

Dunno if anything new as i dont understand German. Tho has a bit of new footage from the game not seen elsewhere so thats a plus.

Nice, there's a bit of footage there I hadn't seen before.

Edit: The map looks awesome and it really seems to be a much more RTS experience now

Skeeter · Post by **Skeeter** » Fri, 7. Sep 18, 12:16

http://forums.ltheory.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&p=164337

Someone's doing a English translation of the Gamescom vid. Thought I'd share the page here.

Général Grievous · Post by **Général Grievous** » Fri, 7. Sep 18, 12:47

Skeeter wrote:http://forums.ltheory.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&p=164337

Someone's doing a English translation of the Gamescom vid. Thought I'd share the page here.

Awesome guy, awesome work.
There is a lot of juicy information on this interview!
Thank you for the link dude!

Solflame · Post by **Solflame** » Fri, 7. Sep 18, 15:28

Confirmation on new races and ships being added through some form of expansion/update/DLC which is nice, though no news on whether it'll be free or not.

It'll probably cost due to the fact that you have to pay programmers and artists. They don't eat binary, after all!

...unless Egosoft employs AGI. Um. Anyone know if they've had their annual ATF inspection?

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Fri, 7. Sep 18, 22:14

The models might be the same, but character textures are much better. They also benefit greatly from the lighting and shader changes.

spankahontis · Post by **spankahontis** » Sat, 8. Sep 18, 19:12

mr.WHO wrote:
spankahontis wrote:
Skeeter wrote:New interview showing bernds new long hairdo.

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0

Dunno if anything new as i dont understand German. Tho has a bit of new footage from the game not seen elsewhere so thats a plus.
I noticed on the footage, as you're walking around the Station, there is an Advertisement board that has "Add your Advertisement here".

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0?t=6m13s

Question: Would we be able to add Advertisements like we can add a Faction Logo to our Ships?
That would be awesome! Your Company advertises their Goods on other Factions Stations to increase awareness of your business.
I noticed that while NPC models seems to be the same as in X-Rebirth, at least their walking animation is not repulsive.
I wonder if Egosoft put a guide how to mod NPC models...(reminds Skyrim with models of everything from My Little Pony to Anime)...well never mind

Egosoft is for the Nords!

Solflame wrote:Confirmation on new races and ships being added through some form of expansion/update/DLC which is nice, though no news on whether it'll be free or not.

It'll probably cost due to the fact that you have to pay programmers and artists. They don't eat binary, after all!

...unless Egosoft employs AGI. Um. Anyone know if they've had their annual ATF inspection?

Egosoft might be doing what they did before, sign up for Beta Testing the latest Patches and they might let you sign up to test the latest dlc content?
I got to keep the Teladi Outpost and Home of Light after I helped Beta test them. May of just been a one off because of Rebirth's bad release.
But it was a good gesture all the same.

jasonbarron · Post by **jasonbarron** » Sun, 9. Sep 18, 04:58

Did i read that correctly, X4 is still planned for a 2018 release? Take my money please!

DaMuncha · Post by **DaMuncha** » Sat, 15. Sep 18, 02:13

VincentTH wrote:
mr.WHO wrote:
spankahontis wrote:
Skeeter wrote:New interview showing bernds new long hairdo.

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0

Dunno if anything new as i dont understand German. Tho has a bit of new footage from the game not seen elsewhere so thats a plus.
I noticed on the footage, as you're walking around the Station, there is an Advertisement board that has "Add your Advertisement here".

https://youtu.be/fLSBEsQScV0?t=6m13s

Question: Would we be able to add Advertisements like we can add a Faction Logo to our Ships?
That would be awesome! Your Company advertises their Goods on other Factions Stations to increase awareness of your business.
I noticed that while NPC models seems to be the same as in X-Rebirth, at least their walking animation is not repulsive.
I wonder if Egosoft put a guide how to mod NPC models...(reminds Skyrim with models of everything from My Little Pony to Anime)...well never mind
and Skyrim 's "nwde" mod!!! LOL!!!

Funny how modders chose to cover up Yisha's bewb window in XR.

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X4-Information from Gamescom