SpaceSimCentral

Posted: **Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:59 pm**

=oAn actual release date!My mind lumped this in the vaporware category awhile ago. With an actual release date, I think it is time to take it out of that pile and start looking into it again!

Posted: **Fri Aug 09, 2013 11:09 am**

i also like those cockpits - maybe there is some customizing garage where you can pimp your flight errr.. get a custom cockpit. Hope they will go retail with a dvd in a box in europe. I would imagine that any new cockpits will be one of the first thing looked at by the mod community. Their publisher is Deep Silver [url]http://www.deepsilver.com/news/newsdetails/article/release-date-for-x-rebirth/[/url]

Posted: **Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:48 pm**

Thanks for posting this in the chat Pinback and reposting it here. If this video doesn't get you to want to give X-Rebirth a try nothing will

Posted: **Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:13 am**

It was actually Shea and Diablotigersix who posted the videos :good: First time I have been excited about an X game since the hype with X3 just hope that I am not going to be disappointed with it and it's not a bugged release as in the case of X3 was.Just looking at the control video again and wondering if they maybe have gone a bit too far with the FPS style control?.

Posted: **Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:27 am**

It is very funny when he starts going "But the coolest thing is..." (as a result, viewers start paying more attention to what he is going to say), he then names some in-game content and continues "... are real". He looks a bit nuts for a moment :laugh:I know that speaking in a foreign language on the fly and under a great deal of pressure isn't easy, but at least he should've given it a second try and say something "simulated like in real life", "have a functional purpose" instead. Damn, they must be busy with the game. That aside, there are some serious concerns. The 1 ship problem has already been discussed to death so I'll leave that alone, but I'm worried about the removal of weapon slot system and replacing it with only 1 primary/secondary slot. Seriously, what kind of space sim is that? It looks like they're trying to cater to CoD players by dumbing the game down way too much. The second potential issue is travelling/exploring which is the essence of an open-world space sim to me and whether it is done properly is a biggie to me. I'm afraid there is the gameplay outsite space cities is going to revolve around nothing else but highway travelling. Can you imagine how horrible that would be? It is absolutely vital that there put some content to explore spread between space cities (planets you can fly around, nebulas, hidden small stations, abandoned stations, large asteroid fields, etc.). In Freelancer for example, although there was practically nothing to do after you finished the story mode, it had a good balance between highway and normal travelling. I liked that outside civilized worlds, there were no highways at all and that gave them a completely different character. If X:R doesn't strike the same balance, I'm sure that wandering around those space cities will get tedius pretty soon.

Posted: **Sun Aug 11, 2013 3:59 am**

Their a bit about the Highways and the size of each solar system here [url]http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=306348[/url] They might be keeping all the interesting point at each end or in the middle of these highways and as you say their may not be a lot going on anywhere else, guess we will have to wait and see if they do a video about the travelling in the game. I am wondering if each of the different alien races will have their own style of interior to their stations or will we be stuck with the same design just repeated over and over again also the station looks a little empty in the video. System requirements as posted by Steam [url]http://store.steampowered.com/app/2870/[/url] Minimum:OS: Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit), Vista SP2 (64-bit), XP SP3 (64-bit)Processor: Intel i-Series at 2GHz or AMD equivalentMemory: 4 GB RAMGraphics: NVidia GT400 series with 512MB RAM or better, ATI 4870HD with 512MB RAM or betterDirectX: Version 9.0cHard Drive: 6 GB available spaceSound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound CardAdditional Notes: These specs are still being determinedRecommended:OS: Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit)Processor: Intel i5 (Quad) or i7 at 2.5GHz or AMD equivalentMemory: 8 GB RAMGraphics: NVidia GT500 series with 1GB RAM or better, ATI 5870HD with 1GB RAM or betterDirectX: Version 9.0cHard Drive: 10 GB available spaceSound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound CardAdditional Notes: These specs are still being determined.