Released today, but it doesn't seem to have been very well received on the Steam forums.
Sounds like a major disappointment :(
Anyone actually played it yet?
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Well, I've heard two people who played it saying it looks nothing like on the promo videos and in reality it looks waay cheaper.
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Agreed. Especially that both opinions are coming from people who are long-time fans of the serie and Egosoft, both wondering now why did they rush in with the purchase...
I wonder how long someone needs to hear hype is bad both for the wallet and pleasure they get to get that idea into their heads. Let's be straight, pre-order guys are paying just to get pissed off at the release unless they want to support the developer they like. Me? I'm gonna purchase the same game year or 1,5 later with GOTY edition, all 'additional' content that should be part of the game in the first place, some patches and for a fraction of what they paid to get less. I'm sure I'll get more fun than them and if I find the game's bad in my opinion as most of the titles I play, it won't bother me with the price tag.
I'm in for supporting people like Klei or Double Fine, or Kickstarters in general (which is supporting idea of game, not buying actual game) but pre-ordering seems to me just silly. I'll get that worthless 'exclusive' gun with the GOTY anyway.
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Very sad. Had really high hopes for this one, but judging by some of the odd design choices, and the apparent tsunami of bugs, X3 is still king of the sparsely populated space trading/exploration genre :(
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At least they try. TC/AP are way better than Reunion/X2 ...
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Eventually I guess they may, but it looks as though they've made some horrible design choices, that will (barring a massive grass-roots reprogramming exercise) render the game unfixable in terms of gameplay for many fans of the series.
I'm still hopeful, and will probably pick it up in a sale if they can get it into half-decent condition, but a lot of the game's hardcore fans are incensed if the forums are anything to go by.
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Holy crap, I checked the forums myself yesterday and there were 99 pages overall with over 60 made since Steam launch. Now it's 179. Good luck with searching for useful info there...
Why on Earth anyone having vBulletin on their 'official' board would switch to something as dreadful without even proper search engine? Valve, get your shit together!
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I really don't like the format of the new forums. I guess maybe it's more Tablet/phone friendly than the old style, but the shonky search functionality never fails to disappoint (not that the old forums had anything much better tbh)...
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The serie is certainly awesome and i want to buy it for a friend for christmas but yeah so far the reviews are generally bad.
On the other hand i expect a lot from mods, which even with the xp from the precedent opuses will probably take a while to make a huge difference.
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Its Egosoft, either they will make it ok with dozens of patches or fan community will rework it with mods.
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Looks like a bad launch but they've all been like that since X3 Reunion so... I'm sure they will fix it in time and what they don't fix the modding community will. I'm not buying it full price that's for sure, just gonna wait patiently for a sale. I don't however get why people are so upset over bugs, sure they can be upset about texture quality(which can be fixed as well) or poor writing but this, just like the TW series, has been a series of games that, if memory still serves, are very buggy on release and eventually get fixed and become good/great. But let's be honest here, the rest of the games have not been great pieces of literature either, i doubt anyone plays them for the story, i'v been playing them on and off ever since X2 The Threat and the story has never been the reason, it's always for the great freedom the games offer.
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I totally agree with you. Although im fairly new to the X series. Only been playing since reunion. The stories have all pretty much blown. Yet I play because I can do whatever I feel like in the game. Yeah I also agree that there is no way I'll be paying full price for rebirth I'll wait for a sale
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This is what they get by pandering to the lowest common denominator. I love the previous X games, but the stupification achieved with Rebirth is even worse than it was with SupCom2.
All in all, Egosoft can go fuck themselves. And they used to me by favourite PC developer, too :(.
P.S.
Albion Prelude's 8.0 user score compared to Rebirth's 4.1. I guess I'm not in the minority :).
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it was the same with Rome 2.."Oh look at the trailer!! it looks sooo good" etc on the day of the release I had problems downloading it, after i finally installed it it was bugged like hell, AI was broken, etc.. seems that X rebirth is on the same way.. No game is without flaws and bugs but it seems that X-rebirth is on the same track.. I will wait till its on sale and some major bugs are fixed ;)
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I played it 9 hours since yesterday. UI and gameplay have few bad points but developers said they will fix them(external camera etc.) at first large patch. I see only one reason to wait for a sale: you cant fly and look at map simultaneously. There is a quest breaker bug at tutorial but it isn't an issue if you do "energy cell transport" quest very slowly.
BTW there isn't SETA and bourse in the game. Why they remove the bourse even GTA V have it?
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i have x2 boxed and x3 complete on steam... neved had time to learn how to play :D
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Basically, do we think its going to be any good?
The X3 games were pretty immersive and definitely very playable if a little slow paced for a space sim/shooty pew pew pew...
So, Will X: Rebirth actually be any good with its redesigned game mechanics or will it kill off the franchise?
Discuss ......
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