EGOSOFT and Deep Silver announce X Rebirth

Eriru Drourojj · Post by **Eriru Drourojj** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 15:57

Zavvi.com have a release date of October 7th

amtct · Post by **amtct** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 16:00

karlwatson wrote:Zavvi.com have a release date of October 7th

http://www.zavvi.com/games/platforms/pc ... 48547.html

If that's true ,this site is the last place where you can find news about Ego products

KRM398 · Post by **KRM398** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 16:03

We have 5-6 months to go, don't expect something new every week. As the Mod team used to say: It'll be here when it gets here..lol.

Post by **CBJ** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 16:08

amtct wrote:
karlwatson wrote:Zavvi.com have a release date of October 7th
http://www.zavvi.com/games/platforms/pc ... 48547.html

If that's true ,this site is the last place where you can find news about Ego products

*sigh* We get this every time. Retailers put up specific dates and everyone jumps up and down complaining that they are the last to know. They are guessing, as is anyone stating a specific release date or indeed anything more precise than the expected quarter given in the announcement.

amtct · Post by **amtct** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 16:12

CBJ wrote:*sigh* We get this every time. Retailers put up specific dates and everyone jumps up and down complaining that they are the last to know. They are guessing, as is anyone stating a specific release date or indeed anything more precise than the expected quarter given in the announcement.

Well ,you know what you have to do .Tell the boss to sue them for false release date

Alee Enn · Post by **Alee Enn** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 16:21

CBJ is 100% right Here is proof of how reliable Play.com are

amtct wrote:Well ,you know what you have to do .Tell the boss to sue them for false release date

As has been discussed on the Frontier Forum, until they actually take your money, they are doing nothing wrong.

LoSboccacc · Post by **LoSboccacc** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 16:24

I wonder if the new huge stations means "(almost) every factory now is built as if in a complex, but inside a big space city" with mixed player and npc factory all joined within the city

amtct · Post by **amtct** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 16:27

Alien ND wrote:As has been discussed on the Frontier Forum, until they actually take your money, they are doing nothing wrong.

What if I pay now and post the pre order receipt

Guess I have nothing better to do .I'd have if I'll have some (more) news about the game

Skyman · Post by **Skyman** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 16:36

Alien ND wrote:CBJ is 100% right Here is proof of how reliable Play.com are

Elite 4? now that would be just as exciting as X Rebirth

builder680 · Post by **builder680** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 16:40

Skyman wrote:
Alien ND wrote:CBJ is 100% right Here is proof of how reliable Play.com are
Elite 4? now that would be just as exciting as X Rebirth

Far as I'm concerned the whole X series has been Elite 4. Braben can keep dawdling on his supposed project 'The Outsider' for eternity for all I care... now that I've discovered this series. Egosoft has done Elite better than he (and Bell) ever did.

MegaJohnny · Post by **MegaJohnny** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 16:50

PTR wrote:He says something like 'bring more of the game to the surface of the space stations'. I like that: in smaller ships I like to dogfight around space stations, so you can hide behind them for cover etc... I hate it in bigger ships, the turrets cause a lot of rep-loss....

Thanks for the vid!

I'm sure they'll have taken these things into account - although I am concerned about how the AI fighters will handle it. It'll have to be a big improvement over TC and its spherical collision avoidance thing.

It's a very nice idea though - it was a lot more tense fighting in a dense asteroid field in Freelancer than in open space. You had to be on your toes to worm around the asteroids.

I need to stop comparing space sims to Freelancer though, in case I accidentally create a variation of Godwin's Law.

VincentTH · Post by **VincentTH** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 18:05

builder680 wrote:
Skyman wrote:
Alien ND wrote:CBJ is 100% right Here is proof of how reliable Play.com are
Elite 4? now that would be just as exciting as X Rebirth
Far as I'm concerned the whole X series has been Elite 4. Braben can keep dawdling on his supposed project 'The Outsider' for eternity for all I care... now that I've discovered this series. Egosoft has done Elite better than he (and Bell) ever did.

I don't know about that. I have been a fan of the X series since XBTF, but despite the original claim that XBTF is an Elite followup game, IMHO, it is not. Don't get me wrong, but besides the trading aspect, I found no similarity between the 2 games, even though I am a fan of both games.

After almost 20 years, I am still looking for a game that has the flight model that FE has, i.e. Planet landing, quasi Newtonian physics and real/lookalike solar systems that you can navigate in (and not just a graphic thing in X). I understand the limitation (computing power etc...), but I find it hard to believe what Braben can do with code sizse that fit in a 1.44MB floppy disk and a 640K RAM cannot be done in nowsaday CPU.

My apologies for the OT rant.

SeaBee-T · Post by **SeaBee-T** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 18:11

amtct wrote:
SeaBee-T wrote:
GeminiFire wrote:ps. In the first set of pics, who are the two guys on the stage?
Looks like Garrett Wang, can't tell who the other guy with the microphone is though...
Soo you know about Garrett Wang and you don't know about Bernd
Who is Garrett Wang after all .I never heard of him .

Well, as you could tell from my post, I'm not around the forum much and have just joined the X-universe since X3:R, while Garrett played the Operations Ensign on ST:VOY, which series I happened to watch several times.

VincentTH · Post by **VincentTH** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 18:16

SeaBee-T wrote:
amtct wrote:
SeaBee-T wrote:
GeminiFire wrote:ps. In the first set of pics, who are the two guys on the stage?
Looks like Garrett Wang, can't tell who the other guy with the microphone is though...
Soo you know about Garrett Wang and you don't know about Bernd
Who is Garrett Wang after all .I never heard of him .
Well, as you could tell from my post, I'm not around the forum much and have just joined the X-universe since X3:R, while Garrett played the Operations Ensign on ST:VOY, which series I happened to watch several times.

Oh thanks, I remember now who Garrett Wang is.

amtct · Post by **amtct** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 18:16

SeaBee-T wrote:Well, as you could tell from my post, I'm not around the forum much and have just joined the X-universe since X3:R, while Garrett played the Operations Ensign on ST:VOY, which series I happened to watch several times.

So that guy is the asian actor from Star Trek Voyager ...sheesh ,I have the entire serie on DVd

tbg10101 · Post by **tbg10101** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 18:43

Will Rebirth be easier to get into than previous games?

BeidAmmikon · Post by **BeidAmmikon** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 18:46

tbg10101 wrote:Will Rebirth be easier to get into than previous games?

I don't know about the getting into it, but it will be surely harder to get out of it.

kurush · Post by **kurush** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 18:56

as far as I'm concerned the whole X series has been Elite 4.

Compared to frontiers X Universe's space is too cartoonish and it doesn't look like it is going to change much in X3:Rb. X series wins where economy or dogfight counts, but it is an entirely different game. I would very much like to explore an infinite programmatically generated space. Looking at the gates on all the screens we are still going to get the same concept in X3:Rb.
Elite 4 would definitely suck thought without some sort of economy and fleets. I only wish somebody marries these two concepts some time.

Roguey · Post by **Roguey** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 18:58

tbg10101 wrote:Will Rebirth be easier to get into than previous games?

Well two highlight points from deepsilver page are:

- Easy to learn - hard to master
- Gameplay, controls and UI are redesigned from scratch

so I reckon it should be.

builder680 · Post by **builder680** » Fri, 29. Apr 11, 19:06

I meant more in spirit than a direct successor. Obviously we don't have newtonian physics (which the first Elite didn't have either, iirc from being 8ish years old), and planet landings... etc... But we do have quite a heck of a lot. That's the sense I mean when I call X the spiritual successor. Not a replica or a sequel, just the bearer of the torch, so to speak.

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EGOSOFT and Deep Silver announce X Rebirth