EGOSOFT and Deep Silver announce X Rebirth

zetharyn · Post by **zetharyn** » Wed, 27. Apr 11, 23:22

the last one makes me think about how nice it would be if "landing" as a complex simulated procedure would be part of getting in- or onto stations (or capital ships - for example the hangar of the ship in the 8th screenshot)

not just taking a target and hit a key to auto-dock... or flying with full speed into the docking area...

Incubi · Post by **Incubi** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 01:03

This is my current background http://www.after-domination.net/ADGloba ... _BG_13.jpg

As I am very curious about this structure. Is it a space city? A massive modulated complex? A military base? Can I get out of my ship and grab a beer?

Yeah I am looking forward to information on this structure.

handzon · Post by **handzon** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 01:40

zetharyn wrote:the last one makes me think about how nice it would be if "landing" as a complex simulated procedure would be part of getting in- or onto stations (or capital ships - for example the hangar of the ship in the 8th screenshot)

not just taking a target and hit a key to auto-dock... or flying with full speed into the docking area...

this reminds me of the other x games where you would wind your way into a complex looking for a free bay

Progress-M · Post by **Progress-M** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 02:00

Incubi wrote:This is my current background http://www.after-domination.net/ADGloba ... _BG_13.jpg

As I am very curious about this structure. Is it a space city? A massive modulated complex? A military base? Can I get out of my ship and grab a beer?

Yeah I am looking forward to information on this structure.

It would be very cool to be able to hop off the ship and grab a beer/space fuel...perhaps some quality time with an Asari dancer? Surely Egosoft can ask for ME designers to send a few young Asaris to earn a dollar in the X Universe...

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handzon · Post by **handzon** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 02:31

It would be very cool to be able to hop off the ship and grab a beer/space fuel...perhaps some quality time with an Asari dancer? Surely Egosoft can ask for ME designers to send a few young Asaris to earn a dollar in the X Universe...

id dare say some of my home made bourbon could substitute space fuel after my easter weekend drinking session there were some guaranteed space cadets roaming aorund my home

rafaelskywalker · Post by **rafaelskywalker** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 02:35

I really hope they've made it multi-core this time. I really hope also, that I don't have to e-bay this one too.... please, sell your stuff latin-america ok !?

Nick 031287 · Post by **Nick 031287** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 02:53

rafaelskywalker wrote:I really hope they've made it multi-core this time. I really hope also, that I don't have to e-bay this one too.... please, sell your stuff latin-america ok !?

Egosoft would have to be insane to not make Rebirth use multi core systems. since this game uses so much processing power. its understanderble why X3 never used it becuase it was still using the engine way back to X-BTF, but now they made brand new engine for Rebirth, i would say most definetly have multi core support. maybe evan DX10/11 it looks like it has that feature so far.

empiro · Post by **empiro** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 06:08

StarSword wrote:
Ahem wrote:I really hope that seta has been done away with (which is doubtful i admit).
I hope they don't remove it, at least not unless they replace it with something like an FTL drive. SETA is intended for use in decreasing travel time. Using it for other purposes like reducing one's trade/combat ranks, or to speed up the earning of money by one's AI fleet, is perhaps the most common exploit in the game (in the latter case, one I've used myself during complex-building).

I hope they get rid of SETA as an item that you buy. If they want to have a key to accelerate time, then just have a key that accelerates time. There's no need to have an "in-universe" explanation for why time is passing faster (to you, the player), for the same reason there's no need to have a pee bottle item to buy in order to explain why your character never seems to need to use the bathroom.

In other words, don't introduce a magical piece of time warping technology in order explain a game mechanic that exists to make the game fun.

Thepeon · Post by **Thepeon** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 08:57

A new X game must be the best new I ever heard this year and I think this is the only game that is on my top 1 on my top 10 list of games I want ^.^

BigBANGtheory · Post by **BigBANGtheory** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 09:22

Exciting times ahead it seems, I am looking forward to some more details hopefully Egosoft can spill some more beans after the Deep Silver announcements.

Not sure why both parties are keeping things under wraps, what purpose does it serve?

PTR · Post by **PTR** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 09:26

Ahem wrote: Well, i did mean for them to increase travel speeds. Maybe include some real physics, so travel speed is only limited by the distance you have to accelerate... with big sectors, you could potentially get up to huge speeds, meaning travel time across a sector would get exponentially lower the bigger the sector is (as theres more room to accelerate)

Problem with that is that it will take at least the same distance to deccelerate. And even now when docking a freighter I 'overshoot' sometimes since decceleration is too slow....

Another thing is, when there will be 3 modes of travel (normal speed, FTL, jumpgates) it'll become quite hard to choose a freighter to attack: they will move too fast, all using FTL.

I hope that when egosoft does the presentation there are some good questions from the crowd and the answers will be posted somewhere here...

dargj2 · Post by **dargj2** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 09:47

This has seemed like a very nice year for PC games so far, hearing about X-Rebirth is a nice big juicy cherry ontop of that cake

STL_fpagsc · Post by **STL_fpagsc** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 10:10

Don't like the graphics. There's NO atmosphere in space and so the light can NOT be visible in space/vacuum, only on objects...

And it is too similar to Eve Online, that's also not good. (: very similar gates, ships, stations, graphics, etc...)

photon-forge · Post by **photon-forge** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 10:12

This is right at the top of my wishlist. Simply awesome.

I was thinking of this cool idea for a race. Maybe there could be a civilization which traverses the galaxy looking for supernovas to "mine". The newer the nova- the more there is to be gained and ships are brought to mine the resources (higher elements and so on created at a stars death).

So a whole heap of them turn up in the X universe and discover there are people there. Yeah just a quick idea for a new race since I hope egosoft will squeeze some new ones in.

supakillaii · Post by **supakillaii** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 10:24

STL_fpagsc wrote:Don't like the graphics. There's NO atmosphere in space and so the light can NOT be visible in space/vacuum, only on objects...

And it is too similar to Eve Online, that's also not good. (: very similar gates, ships, stations, graphics, etc...)

Light =/= Sound, bro.
You're confusing either Light and Sound or space/vacuum and black holes.

Mad_CatMk2 · Post by **Mad_CatMk2** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 10:47

STL_fpagsc wrote:Don't like the graphics. There's NO atmosphere in space and so the light can NOT be visible in space/vacuum, only on objects...

And it is too similar to Eve Online, that's also not good. (: very similar gates, ships, stations, graphics, etc...)

I understand that modern games should have a decent quality of graphics, and from WHAT WE CAN GARNER from this SHORT trailer, its not bad.

However, I think we should care more about the gameplay of X-R itself. So maybe the models aren't the best or for some reason look like some EVE ships, I can't care much. If the game has actual replay value, this feature trumps 'pretty graphics' any day.

Vayde · Post by **Vayde** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 11:11

Mad_CatMk2 wrote:
STL_fpagsc wrote:Don't like the graphics. There's NO atmosphere in space and so the light can NOT be visible in space/vacuum, only on objects...

And it is too similar to Eve Online, that's also not good. (: very similar gates, ships, stations, graphics, etc...)

I understand that modern games should have a decent quality of graphics, and from WHAT WE CAN GARNER from this SHORT trailer, its not bad.

However, I think we should care more about the gameplay of X-R itself. So maybe the models aren't the best or for some reason look like some EVE ships, I can't care much. If the game has actual replay value, this feature trumps 'pretty graphics' any day.

I completely agree with Mad_CatMk2 on this. Gameplay keeps you coming back time after time and is why most of the X series are still played today.

Ahem · Post by **Ahem** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 11:22

I think minecraft has proved that good gameplay trumps graphical prowess anyday....

Edit: Anyone know what time this press conference is at? Just so im not distracted loading this website all day in work

KromaZone · Post by **KromaZone** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 12:19

Cant we just have the Excellent graphics with the Excellent gameplay? surely we can have the two together. Gonna need a new rig for this too methinks!

Alee Enn · Post by **Alee Enn** » Thu, 28. Apr 11, 12:46

Ahem wrote:Edit: Anyone know what time this press conference is at? Just so im not distracted loading this website all day in work

15:15 CEST (GMT +2)

Thank you Fanchen & Differix for that info

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EGOSOFT and Deep Silver announce X Rebirth