X Rebirth systems in X4 maybe?

[barszcz]

Fellow X-fans
It would be a shame to lose those XR systems, especially those prominent in earlier X-games, such as Omicron Lyrae, Home of Light, Albion or Maelstrom. Of course space organisation will be different now (no zones visible to player) and local highways are less frequent. It would require a lot of time to rework but I hope it could be done and be explained somehow with story (massive Xenon incursions directed at highway network?)

Do you think that systems that made appearance in XR would make its way into X4 finally as a DLC? Maybe at a discount for XR owners?

[StoneLegionYT]

I thought Rebirth systems were isolated 100% so this would be impossible? Even ship designs, etc would never be the same. Though don't get me wrong I think be cool to bring some of it as extra content maybe a DLC that at least free's them not use to visit. That being said the enter system / mapping system as I recalled was also redone. It would not be very compatible at all from my understanding.

Just some guesses though.

[barszcz]

I totally agree, It would be a massive rework.

Lino in another thread confirmed that they are not going to reuse models from XR "mostly".
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Those systems were isolated at the time of XR, but there were gates in game that were still inactive. Maybe a flicker of hope for them to reconnect someday? I could certainly live without XR ships if only systems were there

[Tenlar Scarflame]

Having the systems would be heckin awesome, but yeah, given what we've seen about how ships work in X4, porting over all the ships (and stations, for bonus points) would be a humongous undertaking. They'd all have to get cockpits and interiors, correct equipment hardpoints, landing gear, ramps/ladders... some of them would probably need to be redesigned to fit onto the correct landing pads (or have comprehensible interiors at all)... that's a not insignificant amount of time per ship. Which is too bad, because I would fly a Cennelath IMMEDIATELY if given the chance.

[mr.WHO]

Part of me would love to see Arawn, but the amount of work and remodeling is CRAZY (interior, bridge, dockign and lauchbays)!

Also gonna miss Hesus and Foltor

It's easier for Egosoft to make new ships from scratch!

[Tomonor]

I'm about 60% sure that they are already planning the Albion and its surrounding systems as DLCs, along with the Skunk.

And 60% of the times, I'm right everytime.

[Crimsonraziel]

I'm about 60% sure that they are already planning the Albion and its surrounding systems as DLCs, along with the Skunk.

And 60% of the times, I'm right everytime.

I'm pretty sure it's not, at least not yet.

There will be Expansions, which will bring more races, their ships, stations and lots of missions into the X4 Universe. Our goal is to bring the first big Expansion within about one year.

The systems coming along with these expansions will more likely be tied to these races. So I think current plans rather revolve around Kindoms End, Family Pride or Sol than Albion.

[CorruptUser]

Albion has too much lore attacked to it to not appear in X4 as an expansion.

Though I did find it silly that the planet was split open. Gravity would've quickly caused it all to reform into a planet again pretty quickly. When the young earth was struck by another planet, the energy did eject a huge chunk of mass (which is now our moon) but most of the planet had returned to a spherical shape with 24 hours, albeit one with some terrible surface conditions.

[mr.WHO]

Someoen from Egosoft stated that converting XR ship to X4 format (cokpits, interiors, compactibility with landing pad and docks) might actually take more effort than making completely new ship.

I think that eventual XR DLC would be probably done last after Boron, Split and Terran are back.

[Crimsonraziel]

Albion has too much lore attacked to it to not appear in X4 as an expansion.

You could say the same about Kingdoms End, Borons und X Rebirth, yet ...