XRebirth

This should be good

The video looks good as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabrDe4XJo0

Thats XAwesome!

Well great, time to upgrade my PC again. ¬¬

I’ll reserve judgement until I know more

Been with X since X2 release. Won’t be buying this unless the changes are significant enough to feel like a different game…eye candy and a few new aspects but the same underlying game mechanics are insufficient for me.

If it feels like the same game with a facelift, then I’ll miss it. X Games are great, but playing them in succession you get bored in the new games very quickly as there isn’t enough change to make it worthwhile.

I played X2 for hundreds of hours (maybe 300-500 hours plus).
I played X3 Reunion for perhaps 50 hours.
I played X3 Terran Conflict for about 5 hours…I didn’t even finish the storyline.

Definitely need more info before my expectations start to move beyond “I’ll be bored within 10 hours”.

Having said that - front page news?

Chips wrote:
I’ll reserve judgement until I know more

Been with X since X2 release. Won’t be buying this unless the changes are significant enough to feel like a different game…eye candy and a few new aspects but the same underlying game mechanics are insufficient for me.

If it feels like the same game with a facelift, then I’ll miss it. X Games are great, but playing them in succession you get bored in the new games very quickly as there isn’t enough change to make it worthwhile.

I played X2 for hundreds of hours (maybe 300-500 hours plus).
I played X3 Reunion for perhaps 50 hours.
I played X3 Terran Conflict for about 5 hours…I didn’t even finish the storyline.

Definitely need more info before my expectations start to move beyond “I’ll be bored within 10 hours”.

Having said that - front page news?

even though this isn’t freelancer I think it could use some front page news time. X Universe sandbox gameplay and economic freedom are something that we as modders should aspire to achieve within Freelancer.

Hey guys, I totally agree, we even have a dedicated “space sim news” category. The main issue is we dont always have time to write news, so please do submit news if you think something is worth to be on our front page
–> http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/submit.php

I have a lot to say about this, but I’ll get around to it later. I’m honestly not impressed. While it looks good, there just isn’t enough information to say anything definitive. Egosoft trailers have generally looked good, but are always misleading and not indicative of gameplay in any way. Past trailers were always ingame footage, but tended to be heavily scripted and feature situations and events that were completely implausible in the actual game.

I think the biggest mistake in this is keeping it in the X Universe. I don’t like the X Universe at all. I’ve always felt that the universe they had written for themselves has always created huge limitations for what they could do with the game. These games have had the same structure since the very beginning, and ditching the X Universe would’ve been a great way to create a brand new immersive universe free of all the limitations imposed on themselves such as the rigidly structured sectors, jumpgates, and SETA. Don’t get me started on why SETA is one of the worst design, gameplay, and universe decisions in the entire setting.

As for positive comments? I think it looks really nice. Graphically it looks excellent, particularly the new upper atmosphere station. I’m also glad that they are finally scrapping that decade old engine and starting anew. Aside from the universe, that ancient engine was the other thing holding these games back from reaching their potential.

OT: @TSP-Staff: Are also other gaming news ok? For instance, an article about the humble bundle:
http://www.humblebundle.com/

I know it just lasts a few days but I would still write an article in a hurry, I think.

No, this is a Freelancer site first and a space sim site second. We won’t start going in all directions and dilute what we cover, no matter how nice they are.

If you want to post space sim news, feel free.

Im still playing X2, and still modding it too… if i pickup another game… lol i’ll never find time to work on my Freelancer mod.

Had the urge to try EVE… but retreated from that as i know that would have been the end of my “free time”… why do good things always happen when i pick my mod back up and try to stay focused… lmao… dam internetz, it’s a conspiracy i tell ya’s!!

all that said… I was looking at recent X games the other day… seems the same stuff better gfx… i may delve, but i really miss that “fear” of being loaded with codenames or perishables… flying across the borderlands and getting pirated by another player… “oh no’s the loots!” something X games (nor anything else it seems) can’t offer…

I figure i’ve got one more shot left in me… lol… the crazy often do true though about getting sidetracked but im fairly certain (apart from one thing…) there will be minimal “new stuff” to get distracted by in the Freelancer world… so it’s a safe bet i won’t find myself swimming in .cmp’s and shifting lore & code around so everything makes sense again.

I don’t have a massive vision… just a rather big one (lol) I’d probably be done if not for the evil working’s of Glock… I had all my #$%% sorted… then he goes and hands over the one shipset i cannot say no to, coveted almost… a Mountain of Sol’s meshes still lays unattended… and i keep looking at the DS1 pack too with evil intent, Mixed with some Kuze for good measure… and those Bane ships i swore i’d update… yeah… somewhere in all that im making a mod with actual lore too… lol… i’ll be at it for a time yet hehe.

My PS3 is a good distraction, been hitting Amalur a fair bit, some NFSHP and Little big planet for the quiet times… lol, can’t seem to find any “flying” games worth my time… I even went and looked at PS1 titles but no colony wars so… i always come back to the PC to fly it seems…

I dont think modding is a bad habit at all, even if nobody is gonna play it. I actually think it’s one of the best hobbies one can have.

Take ye Thorazine Timmy (hehe)

We are… sadly… probably the last 2 left from that old place, I don’t know about your history (too busy counting buttons in my own cell) but it’s where I started playing online… where all my “ethics of play” were formed and where i got the 1st “ich” to change something inside Freelancer… after seeing a flurry of variants somewhere around V2-V3.

It also taught me very early, before i even started, that Modding FL can be taxing, painful… and players outright ungrateful at times to all the days/months of work each build represents… lol… so i had a head start, Then i moved to a bigger mod… after trying the “standards” of the time TEKs/Disco etc, I landed in WTS… eventually ended up an Admin (lolz fun times… ) then my net went Boom (lightning strike) and i was offline for 2 years (painful)

That’s when i really began modding… No servers to play on… not many of the mods i had were SP (if any) i NEEDED to mod to continue enjoying Freelancer… that turned into a rather bloated and highly dubious First release when i got back, I got smacked around for theft… shunned… everyone i knew was gone replaced by a bevy of fresh faces and grumpy folks, it was a shock on all accounts… but i learns how to navigate and quickly made friends with tons of top modders & shipbuilders… time to start “again” lol

Then Adoxa came… and for me at least… i had a new game (that was like the old game, but better) to play with. Sol came… and showered us with goodies, lol, you came bearing gifts from afar… a grand time to be enjoying the hobby indeed.

Were still doing alot better than other games of the same if not half the age… as a modder at my core i go looking before i even install anything for mods and community… not alot left for the X series… X2 modding is well dead (tumbleweeds) problems from those days still linger in the X community… finding modders that have QQ’d the community is almost impossible… same old nasty crap we’ve seen time and time again. It’s why i blew up over that “thing” last year… Seeing us start to fall apart over one thing, seeing the same crap i’ve seen in other games one MAJOR mod with all the toys… on a slow painful release and tons of small nothing mods with not alot to offer EVERYBODY… and the odd gem too… whilst big older mods go belly up… yeah I lost it.

But it reminded me of something, something kinda cool… we still have stuff to argue about… and folks to argue with, can’t say that for most of the games out there… even Morrowind and Counterstrike/HL2 is on a mass dwindle of good peeps and content.

Oh and i forgot to add…

Tools… we have much better tools these days than say 4 years ago… much better than what i had to learn with anyways.

I still get a warm fuzzy felling from HCMP and UTFed, and that “mod studio” thing is da’bomb when used alongside FLE… i can do things in an hour that would have taken half a day… man i can even build simple .sur’s when i need to… no more “trying to find a match” which i always thought was a dubious process at best.

I even got to do my longtime dream of making new cloaks… and seeing them become buyable/mountable/switchable…

We’s far from dead, i don’t know what’s happened to the players (honest) and servers… but as a modder… it’s still viable to be working on a mod… there’s things the kids haven’t seen yet Timmy, things too scary for the newbie modder to wrangle… there’s still a place for me (lol)