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I kinda like the old one a bit better, hopefully some of the other options have more clear glass for the center of the screen, the space littlebird look would get on my nerves a bit. It's good that they're adding options though.
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I'm not sure whether it's my PC or the game, but man I get stable FPS right until the point I look at one of the massive station complex, then the framerate just drops like a brick. It's really bad at the huge space weed plantations. E: The new Xenon ship is big and scary, holy crap. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 12:09 on May 15, 2014 |
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So what's the gooncensus with the patch? Is the game finally worth investing at least a little bit of time in? I've left it installed but untouched since launch and am itching to get back into a space game of some sort. Do the new game starts still have a storyline attached?
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May 15, 2014 13:25
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Starting as a Terran in Albion Prelude with the rebalance mod on was a great idea. The constant battles going on made for some great looting to get my bank balance fattened and plenty of combat chances now that I have a police license which the bounty system in rebalance mod pays big bucks for destroying ships. Managed to blow up a Argon M6 in my m3 and it paid out a cool million. Trying to save up for a M6 Katana now to give me some real firepower. Apparently in the mod they just straight up sell Valhalla's so that is a good end goal.
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May 15, 2014 13:59
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kedo posted:So what's the gooncensus with the patch? Is the game finally worth investing at least a little bit of time in? I've left it installed but untouched since launch and am itching to get back into a space game of some sort.
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I think you should wait... I just saw that on the "Rebalancing Test" official mod in the Workshop:quote:UPDATE 2014-05-13: This mod is now obsolete as the rebalancing will be applied in the standard game with 2.0. Thanks to those who gave us feedback. For information on the changes in X Rebirth 2.0, see the public beta forum[forum.egosoft.com] (account required). The Rebalancing Test will continue to work for versions 1.3x, but will have no effect as of 2.0. Until the release of 2.0, savegames with this mod will remain incompatible with the original game. I know I'll wait for 2.0 because now I know it will exist in a "near" future...
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May 15, 2014 23:11
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In AP do NPC factions ever rebuild shipyards? Someone blew up the Saturn shipyard which I really needed because it was the only Terran source for a player Shipyard in XRM.
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May 15, 2014 23:34
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cheesetriangles posted:In AP do NPC factions ever rebuild shipyards? Someone blew up the Saturn shipyard which I really needed because it was the only Terran source for a player Shipyard in XRM. Yeah they definitely rebuild those kind of major stations, it might just take awhile.
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So all of the new starts have you in Argon space, which is really drat pretty and a huge breath of fresh air after slumming it in DeFries for ages. This patch is a good patch. Edit: Also the screen-on effect when you enter the mercenary cockpit is pretty awesome, and it gives me hope that in due time, other ships will be pilotable. Anticheese fucked around with this message at 03:35 on May 16, 2014 |
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May 16, 2014 03:30
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Ah, you beat me to it, I started with mk 2 weapons though.kedo posted:So what's the gooncensus with the patch? Is the game finally worth investing at least a little bit of time in? I've left it installed but untouched since launch and am itching to get back into a space game of some sort. The beta looks alright, flew around in a merc start, simplified but weirder cockpit, still only one ship so far, so I will let them patch in an actual game, perhaps more actual pilot-able ships too...
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May 16, 2014 03:35
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In X3:AP news playing the stock market for endless hours so I could buy a ATF Valhalla was worth it because gently caress you Argon thats why. Time to hot drop on fools.
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May 16, 2014 04:55
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2.0 is looking pretty promising, but I can't bring myself to drop $50 on this, and I don't want to go back to X3:AP at this point (because it's been a couple of months and I completely forgot how to play, again). If Egosoft wants my money, they need a price drop or some really convincing people to go on and on about 2.0 being the second coming of Christ, and it needs to happen before one of the other space sims out there comes up with something playable. Especially if one of them can scratch my exploration itch.
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I'm not sure it makes sense for the game to get cheaper when it gets good. Discounts make sense when the game has been good and out for a while. When the game actually gets good that's when they can get some money for it from people who really want to play it, then discount to get stragglers. That said I wouldn't be at all surprised if they put it on sale when they patch it to a level they're happy with and proud of.
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May 19, 2014 03:02
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After a lot of work and finally getting a huge military complex setup to feed my orbital shipyard with resources and my headquarters with weapons/shields/missiles I feel completely exhausted. Spending 7 or 8 hours doing nothing but deploying stations and setting up CLS on dozens of ships really is draining on you. Now to just wait in SETA for a few in game days while it all starts to spool up enough production to make a fleet and equip it. This is all worth it in the end right?
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May 19, 2014 03:11
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Everytime I try to sit down and play X3:AP I just get wrecked no matter what. Maybe time to turn off XRM and plod around like that, probably making the game needlessly difficult. On the weekend by the way I accidentally bought into Elite Dangerous (Was drunk, did not realise it was 100 pounds as opposed to 100 dollars) and the combat is pretty ok.
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May 19, 2014 03:20
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I think I am gonna get a nice m3+ and just spend the next whatever hours flying around dog fighting. Empire building is the most boring part.
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May 19, 2014 03:36
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I am still waiting and hoping that someone will figure out a way to turn off Collision Damage in X3 some day. Oh well, I guess that's why the ridiculously-shielded Solano M4s exist for carrier owners.
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May 19, 2014 05:40
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Is there a lot of difference mechanics wise between AP and TC? I have TC through the recent bundle but if it's unplayable without the expansion that'll kind of suck
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May 19, 2014 06:32
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TC is standalone so you're good, you'll need TC to play AP though.
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May 19, 2014 07:03
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Yeah it's fine, although AP does add a couple of UI improvements and a stock market that's essentially free money. If you see it for super cheap then I'd pick it up, but it's by no means necessary.
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May 19, 2014 08:38
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I'm really tempted to just go back to TC because a majority of the mods out there don't work with AP.
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May 19, 2014 22:59
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What mods did you want to use? I have not encountered problems between tc & ap use, however some mods do not play well together, hence false patches and so on.
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May 20, 2014 01:28
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Holy poo poo, I might have to reload Rebirth and give the 'ol shitbucket a spin. Dreadwroth fucked around with this message at 02:56 on May 20, 2014 |
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May 20, 2014 02:38
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You know looking at the recent space games in development, seeing the amount of progress they're making in such a short amount of time... we all are really desperate for space games, x series is seriously awful. I can't even compel myself to reinstall AP to get my space fix, who wants to navigate 6 deep nested menus. Seriously enemy starfighter, elite: dangerous, eve valkyrie, that other game... I kinda feel bad for egosoft.
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Not many of the space games coming out have much, if any, in the way of economy or fleet management or any of the spergier things I like about the X series. I still feel like there's a sizable niche that Egosoft could serve, it's a shame they don't want to.
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Mr. Crow posted:You know looking at the recent space games in development, seeing the amount of progress they're making in such a short amount of time... we all are really desperate for space games, x series is seriously awful. I think Egosoft could've easily stayed in the niche they were in with the pre-Rebirth X games. While they had "deep nested" menus, there were more than enough people who were fine with it due to the complexity and options the game offered in exchange. With Rebirth they seem to be aiming for the same less complex mainstream that all those other space games are also gunning for. And now in hindsight as we can say Rebirth is a big turd, I don't think they'll fare too well in that crowd.
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It's still early access and with the lack of tutorial, has a bit of a learning curve, but you could give Kinetic Void a shot. The devs are goons and post in the thread here, and are currently looking for some suggestions for what you could do when they land on the planets surface. If anybody is going to have ideas, its the X crew. Here is the thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3634824&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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I had a space craving. X-Rebirth? Bah, feels shallow. I didn't want to reinstall X3:AP and mess around with mods and start from scratch. I tried many space games... Blah... Nothing to feel the hole X-Rebirth punched in me. One morning, I said gently caress IT. I reinstalled X3 and goddamn this feels good, even with the 10 level deep menus and "clip-your-wing-on-a-station-and-die" poo poo. Do yourself a favor, play X3 again!
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This might sound spergy and you would be right but I went through the effort of using Microsoft speech and a macro utility to set up voice commands for a lot of the common actions. I was pretty buzzed at the time and it seemed like a fantastic idea. I know you can just hit buttons but there is something still fun about being all "Display sector map!" and bam, I get a sector map. I mapped a ton of stuff like Seta, weapons lock, galaxy map, docking etc. I use the keys most of the time but when I smoke up out come the voice commands! It makes me feel a teeny bit like a captain.
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insidius posted:This might sound spergy and you would be right but I went through the effort of using Microsoft speech and a macro utility to set up This owns so hard. I'm so tempted and I don't even smoke anymore. Sounds like fun.
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tehsid posted:This owns so hard. I'm so tempted and I don't even smoke anymore. Sounds like fun. It looks and sounds stupid to everyone around and if you are of the variety that does not like their...efficiency impacted it may not be for everybody but if you just want to have a laugh with the lights off and your headphones off as you direct your ship around the galaxy by shouting various "COMPUTER DO X" commands it is quite enjoyable 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cLpwbhTaFU And the full notes / instructions here. I was reminded that the game can look drat good. Anyone been playing unstable builds able to comment on the improvements?
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Is it just me, or is the framerate in that video terrible? It looks good though. I need to remember to download the beta when I get home.
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Boogalo posted:Is it just me, or is the framerate in that video terrible? It looks good though. I need to remember to download the beta when I get home. 2.0 is out for real now as far as I can tell, so you should have it automatically.
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:2.0 is out for real now as far as I can tell, so you should have it automatically. Manual for 2.0 http://www.egosoft.com/games/x_rebirth/features/2.0/XR_2.0_Manual.pdf 'Launch' Trailer for 2.0 http://youtu.be/5cLpwbhTaFU V1 is the new beta, obviously. edit: Beaten by Bettik edit2: egosoft posted:Version 2.00 (183618) - 2014-05-20 Looking at the support forum, it seems that bugs are still the order of the day, but this looks promising. Hav fucked around with this message at 15:41 on May 20, 2014 |
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So V2.0 is the version they wanted to ship (non-beta). So will 3.0 be the version that's actually worth playing? We'll see! Also, I see BoobWindow is still there, probably still telling the computer to shut up as she talks constantly.
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Backov posted:So V2.0 is the version they wanted to ship (non-beta). So will 3.0 be the version that's actually worth playing? We'll see! Games good after that. e: It isn't yet before any Goon rushes out to buy it. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 16:11 on May 20, 2014 |
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So it's okay to buy X:Rebirth now?
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