What we know about X-Rebirth [Updated 09/09/11]

Jokkocze · Post by **Jokkocze** » Mon, 1. Aug 11, 04:13

I'm looking forward to more info on the DRM. The starforce in Reunion kinda made me avoid the game (Did not play that at all) and with all the weird stuff being used now, I'm a bit scared of what they'll end up using.

I kinda hope that they go for steamworks or something..

Nagittchi · Post by **Nagittchi** » Mon, 1. Aug 11, 04:37

Really hope they aren't limiting the ships we can fly in (aside from Capital ships)

And for frack sake, let me kill Winters in Rebirth. Don't restart the X Universe...

Merroc · Post by **Merroc** » Mon, 1. Aug 11, 18:45

Nagittchi wrote:And for frack sake, let me kill Winters in Rebirth. Don't restart the X Universe...

I'm guessing he's either not born yet in Rebirth or someone beat you to the punch (old age being a likely suspect). I remember reading something about several 100 years later, but that could very well be the encyclopedia.

Cereal_Killa · Post by **Cereal_Killa** » Tue, 2. Aug 11, 01:20

Someone's probably pointed this out already but if you look at the Blue Screenshot that was released, down the bottom right corner the text reads:

FPS 14.456794

[ external image ]

I think I need to upgrade my computer to play this if Egosoft cant even run it at max settings

Nagittchi · Post by **Nagittchi** » Tue, 2. Aug 11, 01:55

Merroc wrote:
Nagittchi wrote:And for frack sake, let me kill Winters in Rebirth. Don't restart the X Universe...
I'm guessing he's either not born yet in Rebirth or someone beat you to the punch (old age being a likely suspect). I remember reading something about several 100 years later, but that could very well be the encyclopedia.

Ohhh they better keep him alive. If he could cryofreeze himself in X3TC, he could cryofreeze himself again.

Merroc · Post by **Merroc** » Tue, 2. Aug 11, 10:28

Cereal_Killa wrote:Someone's probably pointed this out already but if you look at the Blue Screenshot that was released, down the bottom right corner the text reads:

FPS 14.456794

[ external image ]

I think I need to upgrade my computer to play this if Egosoft cant even run it at max settings

Not necessarily, typically game developers a) have loads of programs running on the background and b) run the game in some sort of environment that doesn't resemble the actual final game we run. (at least as far as I know)

perkint · Post by **perkint** » Tue, 2. Aug 11, 18:41

Cereal_Killa wrote:I think I need to upgrade my computer to play this if Egosoft cant even run it at max settings

Don't forget that they will have been playing the game in a state with very little (more likely no) optimisation done. That is something that tends to be a later stage of the development cycle.

Tim

Feujak · Post by **Feujak** » Thu, 4. Aug 11, 10:10

You might want to look at this :

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... 20#3652925

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... 20#3653028

perkint · Post by **perkint** » Thu, 4. Aug 11, 14:20

Unfortunately, since I can't read Russian I can't get much out of them. I see there is a PDF someone has posted a link to (on the German forum) and when I get chance I'll see if I can run that thru a translator and post it in here. Being picky know, but I only want to put stuff in where I can link directly to the source...

Tim

perkint · Post by **perkint** » Sun, 7. Aug 11, 18:57

Added a couple of snippets from a Russian interview with Bernd, kindly translated by Supahfly. Didn't add it in (since it is not really that useful) but there is a statement at the end about the game being 50% done. Would be more useful if we knew when the interview was from and exactly what he was talking about - since it has been in development for years, I doubt it is a simple 50% done!

Bernd wrote:The number of sectors is going to be smaller

Cap ships exert their own gravity fields

Bernd wrote:When close enough to the large ships you will be caught in their gravity and will even flow in its current

Cheers.

Tim

nasty one · Post by **nasty one** » Sat, 13. Aug 11, 22:54

new game huh?
-Endless room for exploration
-infinite space
-The number of sectors is going to be smaller
that's like saying I've got radio in my car though it's not working...

I'm not so happy to have female co-pilot on board either
is this some kind of new space regulation?
I think I should have the option of choosing couse
with my luck I surely get some crazy khak broad...

and undying Betty...
why o why I can't have proper cynic ,sarcastic ,electronic bastard like the one from the Red Dwarf series

I'm not even going to comment Paranid alliance with argon abominations and those slimy planktons
Its like speaking treason openly...

Hope some things can be change or at least TTATNBT (The Thing After The Next Big Thing) will be decent

brucewarren · Post by **brucewarren** » Sat, 13. Aug 11, 23:45

I wasn't sure whether there be sectors or not. I thought the gate
network is shut down. Unless there is a different way to travel.

Personally I like the idea of female co-pilot as long as she is young
and pretty (I know that makes me very sad)

Wrt to Betty, I preferred EDI from Mass Effect to Holly from Red Dwarf.
Holly may be all those things, but he's also a thicko computer after
all those aeons in deep space. Computer personalities should be smart.
VAL from Startopia was sarcastic and smart.

Virtualaughing · Post by **Virtualaughing** » Sun, 14. Aug 11, 10:20

We definitely need a board where only OFFICIAL infos exist

Even locked by site admins so only they can post there

PabloRSA · Post by **PabloRSA** » Sun, 14. Aug 11, 10:24

If you looked in the trailer there is some sort of gate there.

My theory is that we start out in x sector and fingers cross with unfocused jumpdrive untill the sectos develop a makeshift gate network like the terrans.
As such with the terrans you may not be able to automatic jump to sectors.
Maybe you will have to earn the respect to use the jump codes for the gates .

nasty one · Post by **nasty one** » Sun, 14. Aug 11, 12:53

naah Holly was the best
just imagine You are being chased by half of fleet or sth and You want to Jump to some safe sector and he calmly says that he's busy at the moment and would You like to leave a message...
or one day switch the stats of 5 pirate harriers you encounter to 5 pirate galleons cause it's 6 months to april fool or somethig...
nothing beats that...

perkint · Post by **perkint** » Tue, 16. Aug 11, 19:42

Skeeter found an article on gamona.de about Rebirth (thanks Skeeter!). Written as if they had discussed it with Bernd, but not written as an interview. Two quotes spring to mind tho:

the ability to accelerate the timing of the game for him was always an ugly workaround. [...] These are all things you want to do differently in Rebirth.

The days of time-lapse, however, it seems, after the rebirth finally counted.

SETA is dead? Maybe?

Anyway:
Google translated English version
German version

If any German speakers (readers?) feel like translating the bit about SETA a little better than Google, I'd be grateful

Tim

perkint · Post by **perkint** » Tue, 16. Aug 11, 19:56

Also added comment about Deepsilver at Gamescom within the next week

X-Rebirth to be presented at Gamescom between 17-21 August

Deepsilver's web site with confirmation

Tim

Merroc · Post by **Merroc** » Tue, 16. Aug 11, 20:04

perkint wrote:SETA is dead? Maybe?

my 2ct: makes sense, they want someday to make an mmo. SETA with mmo, doesnt work. So SETA has to go at some point.
Together with the rumors/quotations (don't know which one it is) of the spacelanes stuff, it would make sense.

My translation of said passage:

Die Reisen zwischen den Sprungtoren hält er für langweilig, die Möglichkeit, den Zeitablauf im Spiel zu beschleunigen, war für ihn immer nur eine unschöne Notlösung. Außerdem ist es im Leerraum oft langweilig. All das sind Dinge, die man in Rebirth anders machen möchte.

Bernd regards the travel between gates (in sector) as boring. The possibility to speed up time (with SETA) is an ugly makeshift way to remedy that. Also, space is often boring (?). All these are things that they want to do differently in Rebirth.

I can do more, but in that time I can also play X3TC

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perkint · Post by **perkint** » Tue, 16. Aug 11, 20:08

Thanks Merroc. The key bit I wanted was "All these are things that they want to do differently in Rebirth". What I was really after was the context of "what they want to do differently". In other words was it something they want to change, something they are going to change or something they have changed.

Sounds as though it is still only a hint, not explicit confirmation.

Tim

heratik · Post by **heratik** » Tue, 16. Aug 11, 20:14

To lose SETA will be huge, it's practical application goes way beyond getting from a-b faster.