EGOSOFT and Deep Silver announce X Rebirth

SeaBee-T · Post by **SeaBee-T** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 14:34

Iveco wrote:BTW: The soundtrack for the trailer has been created by our sound mastermind Alexei Zhakarov - who is really awesome! His Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/alexeizakharovfans

If enough people are interested I can supply a separate download link for the soundtrack in HQ (MP3 format).

Count me in as one of the interested parties.

Syock · Post by **Syock** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 14:35

perkint wrote:
Oh, and one of my (gross) assumptions is that those "trade lanes" are not really trade lanes but automated drones as part of a big station/complex :p

Tim

About those ones in the video, I agree. Those were far too uniform and organized to be what we know of as the AI traders.

Harag · Post by **Harag** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 14:36

This is great news about X rebirth, looking forward to it at the end of the year (start of next?). Hope it comes out before Skyrim through...

Planets - since it's a new engine do you think we will have stations on planets where we have to land - I remember the days of Elite / final frontier - those were the days!

Hope the new development turns out great! Looking forward to it!

fOSSil · Post by **fOSSil** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 14:40

Yeah I know its all assumptions. But I'm seeing the long energy-like tube in this picture on the right hand side, turning right at a distance and going off into nirvana: http://www.egosoft.com/games/x_rebirth/ ... en_003.jpg. And in the unveil-video I could see the player being inside one of those tubes along with a few other ships, traveling pretty fast.

BTW, I know I'm just dreaming

. And yes I play freelancer once every year or so. There are e.g. the far south sectors with gold mining opportunities and no trade lanes anywhere near. If you could by trade lane segments and optimize travel speeds it would greatly help developing my wealth

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Oh I should stop dreaming and enjoy the nice weather outside I suppose

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Ringo7 · Post by **Ringo7** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 14:41

SeaBee-T wrote:
Iveco wrote:BTW: The soundtrack for the trailer has been created by our sound mastermind Alexei Zhakarov - who is really awesome! His Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/alexeizakharovfans

If enough people are interested I can supply a separate download link for the soundtrack in HQ (MP3 format).
Count me in as one of the interested parties.

PLEASE Do!!

Ringo7 · Post by **Ringo7** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 14:53

Stryke11 wrote:I just saw the trailer for Rebirth.

I just want to say I love you people.

I have been playing games since Below the Root, Battle Chess, and Castle Wolfenstein on my old Apple IIC, like 20 or more years ago.

In all that time of playing games, X3TC clocked in at over 200 hours of play time, far more than any other game (Medieval 2: Total War + mods comes in close, but no cigar).

Thank you! That is all.

I'm right there with you Stryke11! Was playing Battle Chess on the Amiga back in those days. Wife had the Apple IIC. I started out on the Commodore Vic 20, then moved to the C64, C128 and onward...

The X games are simply fantastic and I've never enjoyed a series of games more. And now X-Rebirth? Dang! This is going to be freaking awesome!!!

PTR · Post by **PTR** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 14:54

Enter a young adventurer and his unlikely female ally...

Anyone else think that this 'unlikely female ally' is in fact Betty?

Demotruk · Post by **Demotruk** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 14:57

PTR wrote:Enter a young adventurer and his unlikely female ally...

Anyone else think that this 'unlikely female ally' is in fact Betty?

I wish. I think it's gonna be her + another female character who is constantly cracking bad jokes.

FalconGrey · Post by **FalconGrey** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 14:59

Iveco wrote:BTW: The soundtrack for the trailer has been created by our sound mastermind Alexei Zhakarov - who is really awesome! His Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/alexeizakharovfans

If enough people are interested I can supply a separate download link for the soundtrack in HQ (MP3 format).

Count me in as one of the interested parties.

strude · Post by **strude** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 15:03

PTR wrote:Enter a young adventurer and his unlikely female ally...

Anyone else think that this 'unlikely female ally' is in fact Betty?

It's probably a cat, that'd be pretty unlikely, so it fits the description

Roguey · Post by **Roguey** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 15:12

hmm.. what about a space womble? that would be more unlikely...

I guess the game wouldnt last long, as your ship would probably explode with the amount of them... hmm.. maybe the reason the name 'rebirth'

phucahwa · Post by **phucahwa** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 15:27

"a young man and a female companion in an old battered ship" = character interaction in ship + walking inside the ship ?

Betty: "welcome aboard. Ship computer ready for command" = leaving ship, boarding ship while docked in a station ?

The teaser shows ships leaving the station's hangar = possible docking inside station, and not docking arms ?

I predict this game will have all the above. Maybe walking in station just like freelancer and walking in ship just like in starcraft 2.

Skyman · Post by **Skyman** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 15:33

Maybe the female companion will be Sweety from "A Traders Tale" by Mercenary, I really loved that story.

amtct · Post by **amtct** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 15:33

phucahwa wrote:"a young man and a female companion in an old battered ship" = character interaction in ship

You mean it will be an M rated game?

vr01 · Post by **vr01** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 15:41

Skeeter wrote:Also if gates are still in the game then why? I think the main reason gates never were took out was because you didnt want to redo the whole game but now you guys are so im wondering why gates still i mean the odd few super gates would be good like freelancer but the rest of it could travel just with a jumpdrive?

Umm because it's like still set in the X Universe...

The gates are a key part of X lore, you can't just remove them and say "it's still the X Universe". It wouldn't be believable for those who have played any of the previous games. It remains to be seen as to whether they actually work however...

Obviously the glass half empty type so let's wait until Ego release more details. For now we have been given a very large Easter Egg...

Thanks and Happy Easter EGOSOFT!!!

phucahwa · Post by **phucahwa** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 15:41

In space, anything is possible XD

dillpickle · Post by **dillpickle** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 16:09

...and his unlikely female ally travelling in an old, battered ship...

Fairly obvious that the female ally is Mahi Ma, the ship is Boron....

Battered Skate and Chips.....

G810 · Post by **G810** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 16:17

hm alte alianzen sind zerbrochen

Boronen jagen juheee

->für die königin uhaaaaa

Darkwolf7 · Post by **Darkwolf7** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 16:22

well the game looks to be pretty cool and i just hope it mantains a lot of the x3R and x3tc consept of game play its self with split argon ect the remaining Khaak and xenon with new races and also kinda keep the expansion sectors and the diferent classes of ships, race specifide weapons in the mod for x3tc extended but with adding your own to your build as well of a Fight build think trade game that has always made me interested in it with the open ended end to just play

T.S.Zatoichi · Post by **T.S.Zatoichi** » Thu, 21. Apr 11, 16:30

Seeing as how the guys at Ego love these games as much as we do, I don't think they'd spend 4 years in development and then give us something that they wouldn't want to play themselves.

I know that if the dev team likes this game, then I will too.