Major Release Announcement - 2.50, 3.0 and new DLC!

Trooper1994 · Post by **Trooper1994** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 11:08

No offense but it took this long for a external camera? and if you guys could make it where I can fly any ship like the previous like 3 games and expansion that would be peachy.

Untill then I'm indiffrent to the dlc and shiny things (shiny things cost me $50 of my hard earned money last time) and will still consider the game a failure untill its fixed.

nemesis1982 · Post by **nemesis1982** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 11:18

@Trooper: Your definition of needing to be fixed is faulty since it was known long before release you would be flying a single ship. I'd think that fixing the existing features would get president over external camera and luckily it did. If you paid 50$ and expected multiple ships it's not Egosofts fault you didn't get your moneys worth (the bugs and missing features would be a different matter though).

@CBJ: "• Your game will be update automatically unless you have disabled this feature in the Steam client. " is quite a useless statement. Do you have an estimate? You've created the expectation of a date with "What's in 2.50 and when can I get it?" and after didn't fill that expectation. It would've been better to not create the expectation in the first place now it just creates disappointment

Post by **Sparky Sparkycorp** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 11:47

2.50 beta has been out for a while and has rapidly moved from beta 8, beta 9, release candidate 1 to release candidate 2 over the last few days. Egosoft probably hope to ship it next week but while there are 2.50-era bugs to work on in the beta forum, I wouldnt want to push them and its probably hard to predict when they will be fixed enough.

Earth Ultimatum IV. · Post by **Earth Ultimatum IV.** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 11:55

Okay, now this is interesting:

http://i.imgur.com/STyNRpK.jpg

When I saw this image for the first time, I tought that this "atrium" or "garden" or whatever it is, is closed behind a window.

BUT watching the picture again, I notice that there's Skunk in the middle of the picture! So you indeed can fly very close to the gardens.
Also, there is a city and some infrastructure in distance.

This pic was taken from the external view, that's a sure thing now.
However, HUD and icons are hidden in external view.
And there's something what looks like docking plattform for Skunk in that city.
Unfortunately, as the HUD is hidden, even if it really was a docking plattform for Skunk, there's no docking icon

So I can just guess.
But it really would be exciting to dock at that landing plattform, and walk around the city, or at least a part of it. The view must be marvellous.

Calca · Post by **Calca** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 12:47

Only few words... i am happy.. thanx Ego!!!!!!!

Post by **CBJ** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 12:55

nemesis1982 wrote:You've created the expectation of a date with "What's in 2.50 and when can I get it?" and after didn't fill that expectation. It would've been better to not create the expectation in the first place now it just creates disappointment.

Yes, sorry about that. We had hoped to be able to announce that 2.50 was ready right now, but there were one or two problems revealed in the final stages of testing that we decided we needed to fix before release. The problems have now been resolved, so unless something else comes up we should be looking at releasing 2.50 early next week.

Not mentioning 2.50 in the announcement wasn't really an option as people might have got the impression that there was some change of plan and that we were putting off the release of the features and fixes in 2.50 until later, which isn't the case.

Post by **Santi** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 12:58

That picture is from inside the ring structure that you can see in the first and third screenshot in Steam. It must be a massive station.

jeroll3d · Post by **jeroll3d** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 13:09

Very nice.

Congrats team DEV.

Cabrelbeuk · Post by **Cabrelbeuk** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 13:50

... And free for owner of Rebirth if you pre-order it before the first November... So all on Steam guys !

Thanks Ego, even if i think that all owner should get this DLC for free anyway, that's still nice from you

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http://www.egosoft.com/community/news_fr.php

milytar · Post by **milytar** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 14:15

nice to hear about dlc and seems that mr.Alexander Preuss ringstation "comes live"!!!I love it

JimmiG · Post by **JimmiG** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 17:21

Thanks for the heads-up, added my free DLC.

Also looking forward to version 0.3 of X Rebirth and the promised gameplay improvements.

Wana · Post by **Wana** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 17:54

[OffTopic] No, I won't be happy unless Bernd himself say a word about this, no offense CBJ, you come just after. [/OffTopic]

For fast-readers, just know you will have 3.0 features anyway with any new copy of X:R, without DLC.

Giving this free DLC for any purchase of X rebirth until its release date would be more appropriate than clicking a pre-order button until 11/01/14. People will get more angry than ever when they'll return on X:R 3.0 advertised steam page to see you have a paying DLC for a game they never played since X:R 1.12.

I don't check updates on my uninstalled steam games. i just wait for new features once a year or more.
You will sell DLC to everyone IF the playerbase are happy. which is obviously not the case today.

I love X:R even if it needs many improvements, like an UFO-like feature.
but, hey... who am i ? if it works well, then...

MegaJohnny · Post by **MegaJohnny** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 19:30

Earth ultimatum IV. wrote:Okay, now this is interesting:

http://i.imgur.com/STyNRpK.jpg

When I saw this image for the first time, I tought that this "atrium" or "garden" or whatever it is, is closed behind a window.

BUT watching the picture again, I notice that there's Skunk in the middle of the picture! So you indeed can fly very close to the gardens.
Also, there is a city and some infrastructure in distance.

This pic was taken from the external view, that's a sure thing now.
However, HUD and icons are hidden in external view.
And there's something what looks like docking plattform for Skunk in that city.
Unfortunately, as the HUD is hidden, even if it really was a docking plattform for Skunk, there's no docking icon So I can just guess.
But it really would be exciting to dock at that landing plattform, and walk around the city, or at least a part of it. The view must be marvellous.

Aye, would be nice to walk around inside that ring, but it seems unlikely. Would probably be troublesome to make such a huge 'room' to walk around in, not to mention making the gravity non-linear. I think you're probably right about the docking port - it's sticking out a fair bit with a familiar-looking circle in the middle. Looks about right for a Skunk docking port.

The interesting thing to me is the difference in art style - looks like between the Terran War and now the Teladi have really pulled themselves together as far as aesthetics go. I have to admit, I'll probably miss the industrial mishmash look.

Earth Ultimatum IV. · Post by **Earth Ultimatum IV.** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 19:37

Yes, I liked teladi most.
Terrans were my favorite race because of their character (agressive and bad@ss), but teladi race had my respect, because every teladi felt unique to me.
Some of them were agressive, some of them begged for mercy. Some of them were pirates.
And Teladi Phoenix from X3 just looked marvellous. And Condor from X2. And also the fact that they supported piracy to certain degree, and their space was a giant cluser where nothing is safe and you can be ambushed at any time.

Post by **linolafett** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 20:24

YorrickVander wrote: @Linolafett - Fluffy cockpit dice to go with those teladi? That ring station looks great, giving Fronter Developments a run for their money in the shiny steaks huh?

Fluffy dice not confirmed, sorry. How about some pancaces?

ezra-r · Post by **ezra-r** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 20:56

rboerdijk wrote:@ karlwatson : Timon will most likely keep working on the multiplatform support - there is still much to be done, but he's making good progress. There is less "pink" stuff on the screen every day ( pink and neon-green are typical programmer colours for testing things ).

Health-wise: We knocked on the broomcloset-door today and there was still some muffled sound - so everything is ok with him.

Indeed.

I've been testing 2.50 betas and RC and it is clear the game is now more or less like most would have wanted it to be on release, and more like previous x games in terms of "growing", now we can earn a little money to buy small trading ships and bit by bit start creating our empires, with the factory building issues fixed (hopefully) I bet you guys will have from now on more room for adding interesting content and exploit exploration.

Interaction with pirates and smugglers (sounds amazing!!)

And yes, considering we are in september, having the dlc free to claim for owners of Rebirth until november is another good move to compensate for the rocky start.

As we expected, Egosoft does not dissapoint!. Keep up the great work!

EuRoKa · Post by **EuRoKa** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 21:54

Earth ultimatum IV. wrote:Okay, now this is interesting:

http://i.imgur.com/STyNRpK.jpg

But it really would be exciting to dock at that landing plattform, and walk around the city, or at least a part of it. The view must be marvellous.

It looks great indeed but still needs some improvements to achieve the looks of the station from Elysium.

The station design is however typical Teladi and has certainly come a long way since its first appearance here.

sailbot · Post by **sailbot** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 22:18

free Update is the right way...
DLC is the wrong turn

after the free DLC... come more DLC´s, but not free

birdtable · Post by **birdtable** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 22:24

Really looking forward to a trailer ...give the Elite D fans something to drool over.

Earth Ultimatum IV. · Post by **Earth Ultimatum IV.** » Sat, 27. Sep 14, 23:08

birdtable wrote:Really looking forward to a trailer ...give the Elite D fans something to drool over.

We already have ability to build stations, own freighters and fleets, and use them to make profit and produce wares. That's why I don't really bother with Elite - you can't do anything besides shooting and trucking

Major Release Announcement - 2.50, 3.0 and new DLC!

X Rebirth 3.0 The Teladi Outpost annonced