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Post by Cascinova »

The sheer amount of emotion on the animation faces when their speaking is incredible! :D

In other words, perhaps they could have subbed out the facial animations :D


And this, Egosoft-Chef Bernd Lehahn hat uns auf der gamescom die für die Messe erstellte Demo-Version des Weltraumspiels X: Rebirth vorgespielt.

Why is there an egosoft Chef? They should be spending more money on doing animations not some chef, do your own cooking!
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Post by DaMuncha »

Actually I'd like to just turn that off. Thats what I did for X3, and it felt like NPCs were talking to me over the radio or intercom. The way it should be.
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Cascinova wrote: Why is there an egosoft Chef? They should be spending more money on doing animations not some chef, do your own cooking!
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Post by Earth Ultimatum IV. »

It looks great. Needs some polishing.
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Post by dougeye »

video looks ruff because of how its recorded I think, graphics will be a bit sharper in reality (I hope) ;)
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Well for a start it's quite clear it's a camera recording of the screen as opposed to a screen capture.
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Re: Gamescom demo and additional info

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Night Nord wrote:There is a separate tactical interface for controlling your fleet. It is on Skunk, so no need to dock anywhere.
But what if I WANT to dock at capital ship and command it from inside? As commander Adama? Can I at least open that fleet controlling interface while standing on observation deck of capital ship? Please answer.
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How many times will I have to quote this... From the stickies.
Bernd wrote:You can in fact even land on these beasts and get out of your playership to meet NPCs while watching the large ship move around in space FROM the deck of the ship!
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Post by dingbat91 »

seriously concerned about how easy to do it low level trade if you can't do it with the pride of albion. can we "hire" capital ships like we could with station constructions ships in the previous games?
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Post by Tenlar Scarflame »

Hoping for some footage of how that works.

ALSO hoping for some info on how the Pride is upgraded.

ALSO, I am seeing some REALLY familiar-looking starship designs... beyond the obvious Katana we see, one of those ships REALLY looks like a Jaguar...

ALSO, freight ships look kinda spindly. But I like it! They look really believable, actually.

ALSO, I like that capital ship but I must still complain about its 'big gun' emplacements - the ones that are most likely PPCs. SLOW BULLETS, SERIOUSLY. STAHP.

ALSO, I see that little ship hiding between the towers of that station, and if he's doing that on purpose, THAT IS AWESOME. :D
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Post by EmperorJon »

I'm still a bit disappointed that module destruction on capital ships works as... well... it seems to. Maybe we can get some more info on if the damage actually does any damage to the hull.
Does shooting a turret damage the ship? How does the shielding system work like that?
Does shooting a destroyed module damage the hull?
Overall I'm just a bit disappointed that you once again blast some stuff off then just shoot the hull with no visible impact and suddenly it explodes.
I have a mod idea though. ;)
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Post by Santi »

Thanks a lot Night Nord, awesome that you took the time to pass some information to us, even with so much to see in Gamescom.
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Post by triplecrownroyal »

This game looks disappointing, very raw and amateurish.

The trading is very concerning and the answer to capital ship control was "not direct" but not VR either... wait and see is said
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Post by Rykugur »

I haven't studied German in 3 years, and I am literally amazed at how much of this I can still pick up. Bernd actually talks pretty clearly compared to some other Germans I've "tried" to converse with.

HOWEVER, hopefully one of our ever-so-helpful forum members will translate this pretty soon. :)
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Post by ThommoHawk »

Tenlar Scarflame wrote: ... snipped ...
The faces are a little better than before, but... well, living creatures clearly are not Egosoft's specialty. :roll: Hoping to see better aliens though.
^ agree re faces (I also thing movement is a bit iffy) .... but no surprise for me, and I'm not really disappointed by it - used to it/expect it ...

... ever since X2 and X3R I try to skip the plots as much as possible because of the poor animations of people - the old Thunderbird puppets looked more real ... heh

... still, some game mods enjoy improving stuff like that ... but now we will be running into these NPCs all the time... so it is a big mouthful for Ego (chew, chew, chew) ... people are starting to fathom why all the time has been taken to get here....

But whoa yea, so far no-shows of the alien races, and when we get them that will be stunning .... who knows? (I' so used to the existing ones in X3 now I think im gonna miss them .... maybe)
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EmperorJon wrote:How many times will I have to quote this... From the stickies.
Bernd wrote:You can in fact even land on these beasts and get out of your playership to meet NPCs while watching the large ship move around in space FROM the deck of the ship!
:wink:
It says that you can dock and observe but it doesn´t say anything about commanding!!!
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linolafett wrote:We "only" show "Dogfightdemo" because it is simply not possible to demonstrate the wisdom of the other priorities in skimpy 10 minutes. In this demo, but you can see also a mining ship asteroid break down and watch the drones, further then captured and invite the Materiel.
From German forum, so still a lot more to find out.
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Post by Spami »

Rykugur wrote:
I haven't studied German in 3 years, and I am literally amazed at how much of this I can still pick up. Bernd actually talks pretty clearly compared to some other Germans I've "tried" to converse with.

HOWEVER, hopefully one of our ever-so-helpful forum members will translate this pretty soon. :)
There isn't really much more. He talks about how he is controlling the ship in the most scenes and then is talking about what he is doing right now and why ("Okay now I'm shooting rockets... which is not really intelligent because... yes I have hitted the space station") and the rest is pretty much useless because he tries to point out something over and over again.
Everything he says contains nearly no new information not already covered by other interviews or X-News. So you are missing nothing by just watching the video ;)

(Oh yeah and the german copyright laws are rather strict. So I would like to translate it but I had to upload this video again with subtitles but to get the permission to do this from all copyright owners (maybe DeepSilver, too?)... its not worth the effort - trust me)


But the faces. I don't care if they are ugly as hell and seem to be less alive then a stone rolling down a hill but they are SOOO MUCH DEPRESSING!
Why can't they just smiling or at least have a neutral look. They are looking like they had lost their whole family just a minute ago.
The last thing they have to do is colouring their hair and clothes black then this would be authentic. If I want to see the depressing life as it is, I watch the news on TV.
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Re: Gamescom demo and additional info

Post by Night Nord »

BigBANGtheory wrote:
Night Nord wrote:There is a separate tactical interface for controlling your fleet. It is on Skunk, so no need to dock anywhere. It's not quite RTS-ish yet, but they have something like that in plans.
So we will get something at release but by "plans" I'm sensing we could be talking about post release for a more feature rich interface?
Yes, but no promises or priorities. I.e. they have a lot of plans and they won't tell which plans will be implemented first. But some kind of tactical interface already there and AFAIR it will allow you to setup general combat plan before the combat - go there, hold that position, watch this direction, etc...
BlackRain wrote:But what many want to know, can you also dock on your capital ships and give them commands while on the ship and have it carry out those commands while on the ship?
Demo didn't had your own capital ships and Arsaneus evaded that question =). Edit: not true, he actually answered that, I just forgot about it for a second. See initial post for details.
shea wrote:Is it just me or does the astroids look weard in that vid?
The whole video is weird - that's a crappy cam recording of the screen =)
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Post by Chris0132 »

It wouldn't really be X if the talking heads didn't look like dodgy claymation from soviet russia.

I like ugly talking heads.
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