EGOSOFT and Deep Silver announce X Rebirth (updated 2011-07-29)

[Chris0132]

Oblivion is a very bad example, it is all or nothing in that game - either never level up and only get low enemies/items, or level up to get better ones, but then the system is so broken that you do need to powerlevel your character to complete any quest, or fail miserably.

X3 gives challenges of varying difficulty at pretty much any point in the game, including the start. Some tasks are hard at the beginning, true, but not all of them. Choices always exist.

Fallout 3, then, if you prefer. Or oblivion with OOO installed.

That the game has a broken levelling system has very little to do with what I was talking about.

[dougeye]

i just use the random spawn script with oblivon so you could meet high and low level creatures anytime during the game. made the start more challenging aswell. Just over a month till skyrim!!! lol

[Incubi]

Will Deep Silver do more to promote X this time around? I'd like to see more X-Recognition with X-Rebirth!

[rrfarmer]

I need more news NOW!

Barely anything has been mentioned since August...

Isn't fourth quarter like.... 5 days away?

[A5PECT]

Toastie says a news update is coming at the end of the month.

[Geek]

It's exactly same in TC - once you'll get a high fight rank the station mission will start spawn multiple M2 despite you still flying your favorite M3. If you don't buy your own M2 then you fail miserably.

Nope.

In Oblivion, you can face powerful enemies long before you are ready, and they will be everywhere, not just in quests, just because you took a few more levels.

That does not happen in TC. To get multiple M2 on a generic mission you need a *very* high combat rank in the latest version of the game. You will have huge amount of money by that time. Thus, having a M2 a not an issue at all.

[festa_freak]

I've been a very patient boy this month! I am eagerly awaiting the x-news!

I read that Bernd was planning on releasing some info 'in a couple days' a week ago. I hope that there is extra information released in the news or perhaps an accompanying FAQ.

[Skeeter]

Yeah Bernd is a naughty boy leaving us hanging like that after saying publicly he was coming to the forum to post news within days (alot i hope and not just oh this is something u know but ill post it as news anyhow hopefully u didnt see the article on the web) but he has not.

[plynak]

Well as I mentioned before, this behavior will damage Egosoft. We are less than two months from the release of Skyrim and even if Rebirth is postponed to 2012, then it will compete with Mass Effect 3. And what will people buy? A game which has a new promo videos every week, a game with forums full of news and updates or a game which was announced in the summer and then nothing? Hello Egosoft, time wake up!

[dougeye]

lets be honest thoughm me3 will be bought by gamers who love rpg's etc in general like us (im guessing) and the experimental side of the COD crowd. i dont think it will hurt rebirth that much although i do agree more advertising would be better.

[thetack]

i disagree not promoting the game wil not hurt EGO promoting a buggy unplayable mess will and can anyone remember beign able to play any X game from day 1 before the patches, remeber reunions inability to recognise joysticks and the fact that mission 2 was unplayable before the patch because it took frame rates down to 2 or 3, by patch 2 i would say the games where advertisable, after all we will over look mistakes and bugs because we know Ego will sort them if however they go big time and millions are sold to the masses Egos name will be mud and that could kill them.
the only thing we need to know is Ego are working on the thing and at some time it will be released hopefuly by week 2 we will be patched and by the summer we will have a playable game.
its a game after all not a heart bypass or cancer sergery tha will kill you if it dosnt come soon.

[plynak]

i disagree not promoting the game wil not hurt EGO promoting a buggy unplayable mess will and can anyone remember beign able to play any X game from day 1 before the patches, remeber reunions inability to recognise joysticks and the fact that mission 2 was unplayable before the patch because it took frame rates down to 2 or 3, by patch 2 i would say the games where advertisable, after all we will over look mistakes and bugs because we know Ego will sort them if however they go big time and millions are sold to the masses Egos name will be mud and that could kill them.
the only thing we need to know is Ego are working on the thing and at some time it will be released hopefuly by week 2 we will be patched and by the summer we will have a playable game.
its a game after all not a heart bypass or cancer sergery tha will kill you if it dosnt come soon.

X Beyond the Frontier, X2 The Threat and X3 TC were all playable right from the box. And what does game promoting has to do with the state of the game? ME3 and Skyrim have been promoted for over 6 months now. What does the state of the game has to do with a total lack of any news on the oficial forum. Hell Rebirht even does not have its own section here. Seems to me you do not understand the difference between PROMOTING and RELEASING.

[thetack]

the promotion costs money and promoting something that is not ready is spending money for nothing dont imagine rebirth will sell anymore than previouse games even if you promote it, space sims are completly different to shoot therm ups and big francise releases, hell ME3 will sell tons even if every revewer called it s**t, Ego will sell copies without premoting the game to us once its out and working then premote it but what the hell do you expect ego to do without deep silvers permision they own the game for retail not ego and i would be suprised if its not DS holding Ego back i am sure Bernd and co would love to show us more ( if not then Bernd is a fool and that i do not beleive) they are bound by their publishers wishes and targets im afraid and that wont change too quick.

[StarTroll]

i disagree not promoting the game wil not hurt EGO promoting a buggy unplayable mess will and can anyone remember beign able to play any X game from day 1 before the patches, remeber reunions inability to recognise joysticks and the fact that mission 2 was unplayable before the patch because it took frame rates down to 2 or 3, by patch 2 i would say the games where advertisable, after all we will over look mistakes and bugs because we know Ego will sort them if however they go big time and millions are sold to the masses Egos name will be mud and that could kill them.
the only thing we need to know is Ego are working on the thing and at some time it will be released hopefuly by week 2 we will be patched and by the summer we will have a playable game.
its a game after all not a heart bypass or cancer sergery tha will kill you if it dosnt come soon.

X Beyond the Frontier, X2 The Threat and X3 TC were all playable right from the box. And what does game promoting has to do with the state of the game? ME3 and Skyrim have been promoted for over 6 months now. What does the state of the game has to do with a total lack of any news on the oficial forum. Hell Rebirht even does not have its own section here. Seems to me you do not understand the difference between PROMOTING and RELEASING.

And one should note that almost all Bethesda games (from Morrowind since I never played them before) were bugfests, except maybe for FNV (as in, not that many really bad bugs), and that didn't stop them from promoting their games.

[thetack]

just droped over to deep silver and they are promoting

Dead Island
Risen 2 Dark Waters
The X Factor
Winter Stars
Lost Horizon
Catherine

that shows you deep silvers prioraties

edit
went back rebirth is in PC games but with less info than we have been given.

[Jerald]

just droped over to deep silver and they are promoting

Dead Island
Risen 2 Dark Waters
The X Factor
Winter Stars
Lost Horizon
Catherine

that shows you deep silvers prioraties

edit
went back rebirth is in PC games but with less info than we have been given.

All those are great titles, and it makes sense to promote early to create a big buzz.

Which means...X-Rebirth must be a super secret "WoW" Factor anticipated launch, and the secrecy is to generate suspense.

[Oldman]

.... and the secrecy is to generate suspense.

That's it!..... The new game should be re-titled "Rebirth the Suspense!" .....("Is killing me", should be the next one to follow after this one )

Oldman

[Yapa]

I think they got a bit excited and announced the game would be coming out 2011 when it now clearly looks like a Q1 2012 release now (can see the release date shown as 2012 in some of the preview slides).

I also think either:

1) 1 ship only for story / plot AND any ship in custom game
OR (and more likely)
2) X-tension 2... which will open everything up for us to use (might attract an extra cost)

It does look like history might repeat itself and X-Rebirth is X-Beyond The Frontier... just hope we get X-tension 2

[Geek]

Indeed, we need a new hope after the devs fell to the dark side of gameplay...

[supahfly]

And one should note that almost all Bethesda games (from Morrowind since I never played them before) were bugfests, except maybe for FNV (as in, not that many really bad bugs), and that didn't stop them from promoting their games.

and FNV wasn't a bethesda's game to begin with