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Shalebridge Cradle posted:New video for X Rebirth. My god they're making Freelancer 2.
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Alchenar posted:My god they're making Freelancer 2. He said, his erection throbbing.
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Aug 7, 2013 21:39
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Alchenar posted:My god they're making Freelancer 2. God willing it'll be as fun to look around and explore as Freelancer. My biggest complaint with TC and AP is it's really boring to do that with the universe they have; the only reason is to look for better trading stuff instead of finding cool wrecks or anomalies and things.
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Aug 7, 2013 21:45
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Saw cockpit model, confirmed purchase.
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Aug 7, 2013 21:49
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:New video for X Rebirth. All is forgiven, Egosoft.  That interface is slick as hell, it's like they remembered they're making an actual video game and not some kind of subdirectory simulator. Now all they need is actual voice talent and someone who can do character animation more expressive than a Punch & Judy show, and they'll have absolved themselves of almost every sin of the X series prior.
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Aug 7, 2013 22:15
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:New video for X Rebirth. Can I join my marines on a boarding operation as they fight their way through an enemy capital ship? 
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Aug 7, 2013 22:52
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3 posted:All is forgiven, Egosoft. The items on the radial menu seem oddly clumped together, but I'm sure they'll fix that before release. Still a huge improvement on the 'MS Windows c. 1992' UI they've had up to now.
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Aug 7, 2013 23:21
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El Disco posted:Can I join my marines on a boarding operation as they fight their way through an enemy capital ship? I was already sold with the cockpit model, I was thinking "Wouldn't it be cool if all the menus were incorporated into the cockpit..." just as his view turns to the right and a large holographic menu pops up out of the console. My jaw hit the loving floor when he gets up out of the seat and walks out of his ship and onto the station.
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Aug 7, 2013 23:48
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I hope you can freely wander around your ship whenever you like, and that it's not just an animation that plays when you exit onto a station.
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Aug 7, 2013 23:51
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:I hope you can freely wander around your ship whenever you like, and that it's not just an animation that plays when you exit onto a station. I don't know if you can walk around but there are supposed to be multiple rooms in the ship and different NPCs you can hire to man them.
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Aug 7, 2013 23:59
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Sure hope you can jump out of your seat when on a carrier, and run through the corridors to the flight deck, hopping into a fighter as the scramble music from Wing Commander 1 plays.
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Aug 8, 2013 00:30
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Unfortunately its been pretty well confirmed you can only really pilot the one ship. But you can probably control a fighter-type drone.
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Aug 8, 2013 00:38
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Falken posted:Sure hope you can jump out of your seat when on a carrier, and run through the corridors to the flight deck, hopping into a fighter as the scramble music from Wing Commander 1 plays. Sadly, they've already said you stay in the one ship throughout this game.
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Aug 8, 2013 00:39
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My interest died just like that.
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Aug 8, 2013 00:47
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Falken posted:My interest died just like that. The more I hear about it, it still sounds ok. You can only ever pilot the one ship, but you get control over various types of drones (fighters, bombers, probably other stuff that hasn't been shown yet). Flying the drones is supposed to be like flying a fighter in X3, its just not game over when you die. Capital ships are still in but again not under your direct control. You can land on them and give orders to the crew. I understand the logic behind the changes, cap ships are pretty boring to actually steer, but it remains to be seen how it plays.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:00
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The running around outside your ship in this (and I bet this is how it ends in Star Citizen) looks suspiciously like station interior docking in X2: a feature added for 'immersion' and coolness that just became loving annoying because it broke the pace of gameplay and added nothing of substance so everyone just skipped it and it was dropped in the next game. Likewise the 'one ship' thing is because if you look at X3 the way virtually everyone plays it is to buy their personal favourite ship and then sit in it forever while organising everything else remotely. So just put the player in a ship that they can pay to customise the way they want at the start and work on improving the remote control interface. I am curious to see what actual combat will look like. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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Aug 8, 2013 01:18
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Alchenar posted:I am curious to see what actual combat will look like. Yeah. My initial reactions were massively positive, because it's pretty as all hell, but it looked like it would play almost like a FPS. Of course, I'm simply going to throw money at them like a chimp throws poop.
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Aug 8, 2013 01:36
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This looks pretty amazing, my only concern is them dumbing down the game, but that's probably unfounded.. right? :\
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Aug 8, 2013 03:07
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Someguy posted:This looks pretty amazing, my only concern is them dumbing down the game, but that's probably unfounded.. right? :\ Really there is so little information about how the game actually plays its not possible to judge. That being said I love the X games, but they need some simplification. Mods really make the game tolerable by simplifying some of the tedious aspects of the game. Actually loading and transporting all the factories in a 100+ factory complex is just not fun, buying and equipping 60+ fighters to fill up a carrier is not fun. The information so far seems like both those things are streamlined. You buy a complex shell and fill it with factory modules, instead of connecting factories with tubes. With drones you can get a fighter in a discrete package that is hopefully easy to manage and replace.
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Aug 8, 2013 03:18
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The spaceship games looks freaking amazing even if it will not be quite the same scope of fleet management as X3. I'm not sure how I feel about tacking a FPS/RPG onto the game though. Hard to imagine they have the resources to make a great spaceship game and also make Mass Effect at the same time.
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Aug 8, 2013 05:05
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I want to enjoy this game so much, but,I am so stuck. Is there a good startup guide? I simply cannot grok the trading interface and setting up industry, or really how to do anything beyond shooting people.
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Aug 8, 2013 06:36
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Something is happening in a couple of hours: http://soon.tm/
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:Something is happening in a couple of hours: http://soon.tm/
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Aug 8, 2013 12:03
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:Something is happening in a couple of hours: http://soon.tm/ Is this going to be the announcement that they announced last month?
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Aug 8, 2013 12:13
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I wonder if this had anything to do with it - http://steamdb.info/sub/28732/#section_apps The app was updated 21 hours ago.
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Aug 8, 2013 13:47
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Thom12255 posted:I wonder if this had anything to do with it - http://steamdb.info/sub/28732/#section_apps Hoooly crap, that actually seems pretty plausible. We'll find out in 8 minutes.
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Aug 8, 2013 13:51
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Just noticed X-Rebirth is on the STEAM Listings for a 15 November 2013 release, is that new? http://store.steampowered.com/app/2870/?snr=1_4_4__105_3 It's also showing a trailer I don't remember seeing before.
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Aug 8, 2013 13:55
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Thom12255 posted:Just noticed X-Rebirth is on the STEAM Listings for a 15 November 2013 release, is that new? That's definitely new. poo poo's going down man.
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Aug 8, 2013 13:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFQGaKjHYFgquote:11-15-13 
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Aug 8, 2013 14:00
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Yep the trailer on the Steam page is what is on the soon page.
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Aug 8, 2013 14:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEbL1p5vZpw
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Aug 8, 2013 14:01
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Trailer looks Freelancer meets GTA.
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Aug 8, 2013 14:03
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Okay, interest renewed. Looks like sectors will be entire systems maybe, much like Freelancer? The Albion Pride is our ship. Neat... I will rename it Serenity and pretend to be Mal. Also the ship designs are really cool, and the one at 2:16 reminds me of a Battlestar. As much as I will miss piloting a ship like the M7 Cerberus, at least we can still run an empire from the Albion Pride, which isn't a bad looking girl. e: Ugh, release date so soon? I am going to be spending alot of money on videogames, money I should be putting aside for maintaining my new (albeit old) car. e2: So can we customise how it appears, or is that as is? Falken fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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Aug 8, 2013 14:04
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I was initially concerned about the ceaseless radio silence from Ego on X:R, but now I'm actually kind of glad they spent that time apparently polishing everything to a mirror sheen. I still have bad memories of the X3 launch and how obviously rushed to release that heap of a game was. I know a lot of folks are annoyed that this isn't just X3:TC with new shinies, but an overhaul to this series has been a long time coming, and it looks like Ego have put a lot of work into making Rebirth its own game without any of the previous games' baggage.
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Aug 8, 2013 14:12
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Well, I didn't really want to do well in school this year.
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Aug 8, 2013 14:14
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Have they talked about OOS combat in Rebirth yet? That seems like the part of the game that could use the most help.
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Aug 8, 2013 14:20
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The trailer is down.
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Aug 8, 2013 14:38
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Thom12255 posted:The trailer is down. It was reuploaded or something  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNs1rdSkUi8
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Aug 8, 2013 16:12
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Browsing the egosoft forums, there is a little something about the release date: X Rebirth will be released for PC in Europe on the 15th of November 2013 and in North America on the 19th of November 2013.  From here: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=341133
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It looks amazing; the one thing I've noticed that is a little disappointing is that it seems much more human-centric than X3. You're tied to being the pilot of the Pride of Albion, and all NPCs we've seen thus far are human. Wonder what's happening with the other races...
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