X-Rebirth

Evil spacejew cashgrab schemes
Star Citizen: ✓
X: Rebirth: x

 

Those are exactly the responses I'm fishing for, yes.

Best response so far:

 

I more or less expected the game to be Freelancer with worse production values and annoying gimmicks, worse combat, but better non-combat gameplay (trading, exploration, and so forth), and prettier graphics. From impressions thus far, I take it that this is what it basically is, except the UI is awful, and the gimmicks really, really annoying?

Blaine does Star Citizen actually have Newtonian physics as you said? If so, does DraQ know about it?

 

http://www.twitch.tv/nerdgasmtv

 

So is this shit? It sure looks like a big turd.

 

http://partedveil.com/index.php?dev=croberts68

Yes. Read the latest four entries linked above—Chris discusses the Newtonian physics model in some depth.

Is DraQ one of those autists who refuses to consider a game a "space sim" unless it's a NASA orbiter simulator? I can't remember. The artificial speed limit is usually what gets autism sufferers started in on Star Citizen.

 

Yes.

Dozens.

Surpsingly the combat is pretty good.

Not only are all of these worse than Freelancer, they are worse than every other game in the X series. By a significant margin.

 

I think it looks good. Game seems more alive than in the older X games.

 

Yeah, by prettier graphics I actually meant flying around in space.

Is trading in Rebirth really worse than it was in Freelancer? How is that even possible?

 

I watched some gameplay videos and I really hate that "space highway" thing, way to go making space travel feel like taking the bus or something.

 

Also it's extremely buggy currently (of course), and people have gotten "kicked out" of the highway and into a black void. Only fix is to reload a save. Related to the space highway mechanic, people across the Internet are blasting Rebirth as having far worse exploration than in previous games in the series. Looks like that "ping for points of interests" crap was just as bad a harbinger as many had feared.

In other news:

 

I'm impressed how they managed to fuck up stuff that worked fine in 1990's games.

 

It has all the same complexity of the older games. It's just a new UI and will take time to learn all the functions. I think it looks fantastic. Gameplay videos seem to confirm that the game is more alive than before. I like that.

Edit:

To the dismay of many Codexers, an Xbox Controller seems better than Keyboard/Mouse. There will 100% be a console port (this seems obvious now).

 

There will not be a console port because there is no fucking way on heaven or earth that this game would ever make it through certification. The 2.5 year delay was to hack a failed console game into something resembling a PC game.

 

x-rebirth is to X3 AP what diablo 3 is to diablo 2 ,or what is oblivion to daggerfall, probably worse. AS for the walking in stationi think they could have skipped it,no its not the core of the game but you waste quite a bit of time in there:

 

I think this remains to be seen. It's a departure, but most of the core gameplay is intact. The shift doesn't seem as big as going from boss farming for items to AH surfing for them. Plus, there are some new gameplay elements:

Beneath the hood, it's almost the same game. Just better presentation with a questionably better UI. Of course, it's going to take some time to get used to, and the UI could be worse in the end.

 

By the way, that old woman face is apparently frequently found on female NPCs, along with a tight young body and youthful voice acting. I've noted people complaining about it on the official forums and elsewhere. Here's another sample:



I... can't fap to this. I won't even be able to sleep tonight.

 

Fixed.

I don't get how you can defend this piece of crap. It's a downgrade in seemingly every conceivable way, and that's discounting all the bugs and performance issues. And it's very questionable if modders can even fix it, given how much seems to be hardcoded.

 

Or directly through any means, for that matter—only indirectly.

Yep. I wonder if Xi actually played any of the earlier X games, since this isn't a change by any stretch of the imagination.

Didn't need to land on stations in TC/AP to see their info either if I recall correctly, just needed certain software. What you didn't need to do was climb out of your ship and interact with hideous people models in order to get shit done.

But no longer possible to bind "target nearest/next/previous enemy" to hotkeys, since they only planned this game around a console controller.

 

Anyone claiming the graphics in this game are better than AP is high as a fucking kite. Seriously.

 

Yep. Just loaded up a new game and took this in AP moments ago, and really it's probably not the best example. This is on max settings with possibly some GPU tweaks—and it runs at a smooth 60 FPS for me at max settings.

 

They are clearly better. But hey, I can understand differences in taste in that regard.





Mostly better lighting.

 

The egosoft forums are back up, displaying record levels of stockholm syndrome.

 

Actually, I've noted more than a few longtime veteran posters expressing unhappiness. EGOSOFT may be deleting some of that now that the forum mods can actually log in, though (heh). Example:

 

This got posted on the steam forums a few hours ago by one of the devs.

Sounds early access and unfinished.