NEWS: Screenshots of the Week - [no new Screenshots]

[ezra-r]

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Seriously though, I am very concerned that all of the visuals shown so far will somehow be dumbed down because of the need to support older hardware. I mean how can we get this much detail (judging from the screenshots) in a game that is playable on older systems, when X3AP takes huge frame rate hits on a not too complex station complex because of the connection tubing?...

It's not the graphics of the tubing, per se. It's the computation involved with all the moving parts, a good share of which is CPU-related. After all, you get pretty much the same lag whether you're looking at it or not. And if we've learned anything from that, it's that Egosoft doesn't 'dumb down' the graphics because of such things.

Even so, I am not complaining or anything, the graphics we have seen, even although exciting, don't look like much detailed or slick looking yet. Being it development or toned down to make good performance looks good to me either way.

Keep it up Egosoft!

[amtct]

There will be a E3 in 2013 .Let's hope we will get the game by the end of the century.I know many people will die of old age by then but few lucky ones will play it

[EmperorJon]

I think I should be able to make it to the end of the century, given helathcare advances, assuming the world doesn't end. So I'm happy.

[Gavrushka]

AMTCT (AdrianMole) has no chance... His hair has already gone to meet its maker and his teeth ain't so far behind...

I can't help but think the Rebirth Forum was set up thinking the game would be released by now...

...If not, then I would suggest it was a little premature.

[bluenog143]

You guys may be lucky enough to live to the next century but with the way health and health care is in my country I'll be lucky to make it half way (on life support of course) !

...assuming the world doesn't end.

Lol it's like the moon falls out of orbit and destroys Earth the day before X:R comes out.

[Len5]

Don't know much about game development, but could it be they used lower quality textures in the beginning and will replace them for higher quality near the end?
Does "give Egosoft the opportunity to make new screenshots in a better quality" mean better textures or higher resolution screenshots?

[Kofa]

Don't know much about game development, but could it be they used lower quality textures in the beginning and will replace them for higher quality near the end?
Does "give Egosoft the opportunity to make new screenshots in a better quality" mean better textures or higher resolution screenshots?

That bit really confused me too. I wonder what has prohibited them from taking screenshots in the quality they wished to portray. Has all the graphics we have seen thus far been alpha? I thought they looked really good, so if they are upgrading the textures then the next batch of ingame screenshots should be really amazing.

[strude]

Perhaps they need to wait until PCs and graphics cards are powerful enough to run the game at maximum graphics quality.

[amtie]

Or until optimization has gotten a pass, and can show more stuff at more than 20 FPS. Which means, presumably, more stuff (quantity, size?) gets shown.

Also, more modeling work is done.

[bluenog143]

It would be cool if for X:R the max graphic settings were so high that it would take computers at least three years or so to catch up. I sure hope that the max graphic settings are going to be real high.

[Len5]

Don't know much about game development, but could it be they used lower quality textures in the beginning and will replace them for higher quality near the end?
Does "give Egosoft the opportunity to make new screenshots in a better quality" mean better textures or higher resolution screenshots?

That bit really confused me too. I wonder what has prohibited them from taking screenshots in the quality they wished to portray. Has all the graphics we have seen thus far been alpha? I thought they looked really good, so if they are upgrading the textures then the next batch of ingame screenshots should be really amazing.

Personally, I'm not that enthusiastic about the graphics, the textures at least. Like I said before, they look cartoony.
Maybe if I could see the game on Egosofts computers it would look much better, but I hope the remark means that the textures will improve.

(And to be more positive, I'm very enthusiastic about the rest of the game.)

[Mike2988]

if the game is very optimized then the game will run smoothly on any settings

[mglushed]

Very true. Me too think it is very important to be optimized for ALL systems to be running smoothly. That should range from small laptops to heavy desktop gaming systems. EVE Online has been doing it so very well. I could run it on my 1gb RAM laptop with integrated graphics at 60fps as well as max settings on desktop at just the same rate. Wider range will mean more people can get to it, more money for Egosoft, better quality for next versions.
But also "Max Settings" should be worth what it sounds to be, not just resource expensive but also truly high quality, hopefully.

[shadowrunner85]

I need my dose, I need my dose, I need my dose... seriously, I'm going through a bad withdrawal here.

so i go on to this thread to get my weekly fix, but I cant see any new screen shoot?! where is it, does it exist, is it all used up?

[Privata]

I need my dose, I need my dose, I need my dose... seriously, I'm going through a bad withdrawal here.

so i go on to this thread to get my weekly fix, but I cant see any new screen shoot?! where is it, does it exist, is it all used up?

I feel the same....
when there no screen of the week its like the world is on pause

[shea]

Where is our screenshot?????????????

[Alan Phipps]

Remember this post about 5 pages ago? Well the 2nd paragraph of text is all we mortals know for now.

[shadowrunner85]

I'm really to sad and I'm sorry about it to announce this. But this week it was the last new screenshot so far and for the next weeks you will have to forgo upon new pictures. I'm aware about the expectations that have been made here in the last months towards this thread and the new picture for the following week. But it was me that decided to make a cut here and give Egosoft the opportunity to make new screenshots in a better quality to show the actual development progress of X Rebirth.

I know you have some screen-shoots back there, I can smell them. Just give me a little taste pretty pizza pliz. NO... what, your just going to have them all by our self, ain't you? you screen-shoot hoarder.... ok, ok, thats cool, then I wont tell you what I have hid in my super secret hidden compartment under my sock-drawer.

joke ends here.


so you given as a few weeks with screen-shoots most of them previously shown, and then you announce weekS of pause? I'm not mad, just very very sad...

[nemesis1982]

@mglushed: I agree with you that it should be optimised for budged gaming desktops. However keep in mind making an engine which can render the same object for a celeron, 1GB, integrated graphics latop up to a I7, 32GB, quad GTX video card beast costs a lot of time and resources (Something egosoft doesn't have).

Therefore I think a range is current gen low budged gaming I5, 8GB, single dedicated card (50 euro) current gen card (or older comparable) up to I7, 32GB, Single high end gaming card current gen.

Laptops in my opinion especially budged ones are a poor substute for a desktop when gaming. Unles you would be willing to lay some serious cash on the table.

And offcourse EVE is not the most stunning game

Now to finish my rant and get back on topic:

I'm quite dissapointed that the last line of info has been closed down. Seeing the new screen each week coloured my always bland mondays.

[Privata]

Im not trying to cause trouble or somthing...
but this is realy depresing...
good look egosoft. and I cant wait for the game and the sreens