EGOSOFT and Deep Silver announce X Rebirth

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Wed, 4. May 11, 00:48

Ah, I knew it was from XTM. I like that track.

Also, the closest we've gotten to combat in Rebirth.

Or at least something that happens to look a lot like fighting.

GeminiFire · Post by **GeminiFire** » Wed, 4. May 11, 00:50

@Maxxler

Once again, Thank you VERY much....

I am still hopeful for the Game.....

It IS Beautiful.......

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Wed, 4. May 11, 00:53

In Maxxler's newest video check out 0:49. It's a very brief shot, but it's there.

Shield effects?!

Or not. It looks like it, though.

builder680 · Post by **builder680** » Wed, 4. May 11, 00:55

I imagine now it will become a debate like cockpits and planet landing, but personally I like capital ship piloting and can't understand if it were to be removed. A huge part of the allure for me in my short time playing this game is that I can fly any ship I want, whenever I want. I know it could be an error in translation, but to see it said that 'only a small portion of players care about it' is surprising to me. I'd think nearly everyone who played a game long enough to have any kind of empire would like it. I pesonally almost exclusively fly M7's and M2's, with an occasional foray into a faster M3/4/5/6 just to taxi around/blow up a couple pesky enemies.

SeaBee-T · Post by **SeaBee-T** » Wed, 4. May 11, 00:55

Awesome, Maxxler! Many many thanks!

Legionnaire · Post by **Legionnaire** » Wed, 4. May 11, 00:59

@KloHunt3r,

whats your take on the effect at the front of the ships at 32-35 secs in? shields/atmospheric effects? looks impressive.

Legionnaire

NForcer_smc · Post by **NForcer_smc** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:03

KloHunt3r wrote:In Maxxler's newest video check out 0:49. It's a very brief shot, but it's there.

Shield effects?!

Or not. It looks like it, though.

Hmm... Maybe, this could be a trade line effect

Greetings
NF

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:14

Legionnaire wrote:@KloHunt3r,

whats your take on the effect at the front of the ships at 32-35 secs in? shields/atmospheric effects? looks impressive.

Legionnaire

32-35 just look like trade lanes.

Legionnaire · Post by **Legionnaire** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:15

@KloHunt3r,

I was referring to the two big ships that come in at the bottom left of the screen, not the background lanes.

Legionnaire

jkflipflop98 · Post by **jkflipflop98** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:16

The more I hear about this, the more disappointed I get.

-one ship?
-same crappy autopilot?
-No co-op?

Wow, way to innovate

Basically it's BTF with a new graphics engine. yay.

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:17

Legionnaire wrote:I was referring to the two big ships that come in at the bottom left of the screen, not the background lanes.

I'm looking at this. Are we on the same video?

jkflipflop98 · Post by **jkflipflop98** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:20

That looks exactly the same as every other x trailer ever released. A bunch of really quick cutaways at the side of structures. Yippie.

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:22

I was talking to Legionnaire. You just happened to post before me.

Here, I'll edit my previous post. But if you want to discuss this...

jkflipflop98 wrote:-one ship?
-same crappy autopilot?

That's absolutely fascinating. Now where did you get that information from exactly?

Legionnaire · Post by **Legionnaire** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:23

@Klohunt3r

same video, i got the timing slightly wrong, 34-35

Legionnaire

A5PECT · Post by **A5PECT** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:25

Legionnaire wrote:same video, i got the timing slightly wrong, 34-35

Okay, I'm seeing nothing that looks like atmosphere in those shots. Can you get a screenshot of it?

Progress-M · Post by **Progress-M** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:25

In a way it would be cool if capital ships were commanded from the bridge by giving instructions for the crew, I recall a submarine game this was done in a relatively cool way, the name escapes me though.

I have to say, if they remove player control of large ships apart from owning and guiding them from a fighter, I'll be quite disappointed. I mean, I trust Egosoft to make good games and all that, but one of the things I really love about X3TC is that sense of scale...that you start in a Buster with a 5-meter wingspan and end up slowly gliding through sectors in a massive warship the size of a small town if you so wish.

Variety was one of the things I really liked about IL-2 flight sims as well...I would spend hours just trying out different aircraft.

It's like, games where you pilot things have developed from just having a couple of alternative machines for the player to often being able to jump in the controls of any vessel in the game. I really don't want to go back to piloting just a couple of fighter classes!

The only way I would be happy with that was if they actually made piloting a spacecraft simulator-grade hard, and I mean for real. Jump in the controls cold without a clue and you can't even turn the damn thing on-hard. Didn't remember to pressurize the cockpit before launch or forgot to manually set the engine RPM limit to reflect the gravity well of the nearby planet? Splat. Boom. Perform a jump without a manually-adjusted calibration? Splat. Problem with starboard vernier nozzle? Oops, no left turns for you.

I don't see this happening so I want a large variety of different craft to fly...if the only attributes of a craft are speed, rate of turn and acceleration there's really no excuse for not having a lot of variety.

Black Gryphon · Post by **Black Gryphon** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:26

Looks like planetary bombardment might be in.. Looke at frame 47-48

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Looks like an impact crater to me...

jkflipflop98 · Post by **jkflipflop98** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:29

KloHunt3r wrote:I was talking to Legionnaire. You just happened to post before me.

Here, I'll edit my previous post. But if you want to discuss this...

jkflipflop98 wrote:-one ship?
-same crappy autopilot?
That's absolutely fascinating. Now where did you get that information from exactly?

The Egosoft rep's sudden urge to go about on the forums and talk about how NOT broken the autopilot is. Why would you do that? Oh, when you're planning on using the same system again.

perkint · Post by **perkint** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:29

jkflipflop98 wrote:The more I hear about this, the more disappointed I get.

Then stop making gross assumptions or believing other people's!

jkflipflop98 wrote:one ship?

Never been said in any of the interviews and reading the translations I would suggest not even hinted at.

jkflipflop98 wrote:same crappy autopilot?

Where do you get that from? Even in the weird (and sometimes random!) speculations going on in this thread, I don't think the autopilot has been mentioned. Unless you actually mean the computer voice?

jkflipflop98 wrote:No co-op?

Yeah, would have been nice, but I'm not overly surprised to hear it's not in there.

Bernd talks about not being able to steer the capital ships from the bridge. That is a very (very) big leap to get from there to only one ship. I suspect it's not even meant to mean you can't own and control cap ships. Just that you have a crew to help, such as pilots, turrets crews, etc.

Tim

jkflipflop98 · Post by **jkflipflop98** » Wed, 4. May 11, 01:34

You play in a ship, a ship with a very storied past.

Q: I saw cockpits! Does that mean ships will have cockpits?
A: *laughs* well we have that one cockpit.

Read between the lines man. I realize I'm in the fanboy lion's den here, but comon guys. We got to look at reality. They're being coy but you can get some details by reading between the lines.

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EGOSOFT and Deep Silver announce X Rebirth