X Rebirth First Trailer

[Grim.Reaper]

Gotta admit, this thread has me thinking hard about trying out xbirth after all. I've paid $50 for less impressive experiences than mikeck's exploding ship taking out part of a starbase. That sounds awesome!

I am probably going to hold out until xmas sales, but you can get here for about $39.  Its a place for steam keys.  I have used them for some games in the past and had zero issues.

http://www.kinguin.us/catalogsearch/result/?q=rebirth

Or if your more comfortable with mainstream, gamefly has it for $39, when you use the coupon code of GFDDEC20

[mikeck]

Gotta admit, this thread has me thinking hard about trying out xbirth after all. I've paid $50 for less impressive experiences than mikeck's exploding ship taking out part of a starbase. That sounds awesome!

I would wait another few weeks until they get another patch or two under their belt.

[skeptical.platypus]

Probably will just 'cause I'm filling my plate thanks to great wisdom on games here. For example, I can't wait for spectacular failure in my new digital copy of Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm!

[mikeck]

That's a great game. You'll love it

[republic]

Following the plot and there was a bit of Fawlty Towers humor put in there.  :)  Egosoft is a team after my own heart lol

[mikeck]

Well, I captured 3 ships and sold 2...all from "no limits" mining so they don't like me. I kept the third and ordered if on its first trade. Apparently it's still not fully repaired as only one engine is working but the jump drive works to we are good. It's a liquid tanker so I am starting by picking up some water for sale cheap...not a money maker but I don't want to go for broke on my first time out. Have about 9million in the bank. From here out, I make my money legit...no piracy due to bad rep.

Plan is two but another freighter or two. Then build a station. Eventually, I'm buying a fleet and am going to start taking out the competition to see just how dynamic this economy is

[skeptical.platypus]

Following the plot and there was a bit of Fawlty Towers humor put in there.  :)  Egosoft is a team after my own heart lol

Ya see -- that's the kind of insight yer only gonna get on Grogheads!

I'm sold!

[mikeck]

New 1.19 beta patch. Seems pretty healthy and seems to address any of the problems I have had:

Before downloading this public Beta version, please make sure you read, understand and agree to the Public Beta Rules and Information. By downloading and installing the public Beta, you agree to abide by these rules and accept the disclaimers it contains.

Instructions

1. Make sure that your savegames are backed up!

2. To start using the Beta version. right-click X Rebirth in the Steam client, select Properties and go to the Betas tab. Enter the password IBackedUpMySaves then select public_beta from the dropdown list.

3. To return to using the non-Beta version, select NONE from the same dropdown list. Remember that savegames made using the Beta version may not work when you do this.

Note: Please avoid re-posting the above information outside this forum. If you wish to tell other people about this Beta program, please post a link to this forum so that people joining the Beta are aware of the risks and the rules.

Note: Problems encountered while using a modified game will be considered invalid. Please make sure your game is a clean, unmodified game before you start.

Release Notes

• Fixed major slowdown after loading savegames.
• Fixed several more causes of crashes.
• Fixed more cases of trade ships getting stuck.
• Fixed large ships being unable to trade with Canteran station in DeVries.
• Fixed undocking problems after trading.
• Fixed ammunition trade problems.
• Fixed mining drones getting stuck.
• Fixed negative number of drones in cargo.
• Fixed cargo bays containing more wares than they can hold.
• Fixed cockpit animations hanging.
• Fixed problem with targeting player-owned ships.
• Fixed incorrect player position during highway flight.
• Fixed player owned ships being assigned the wrong commander.
• Fixed ships with missing AI functionality.
• Fixed problems with Engineer functionality.
• Improved flight behaviour for boarding and claiming.
• Improved combat behaviour for capital ships.
• Fixed station defence problems.
• Fixed incorrect defence routines being used on ships.
• Fixed switching the AI mode of the Defence Officer.
• Added defend and attack mode options to Defence Officer.
• Rebalanced skills of existing NPCs in line with new ones.
• Rebalanced contents of boxes and other containers on platforms.
• Rebalanced cost of ship and station repair.
• Fixed transport passenger mission getting blocked after cutscene.
• Fixed sounds not stopping sometimes.
• Fixed buttons not working with mouse input.
• Added facility to unmap controls in control mapping menu (press Delete).
• Added video capture mode with ability to switch off cockpit (Expert settings).
• Fixed too many missing extensions breaking the load game menu.
• Several localisation improvements.

Note: If a problem is not listed as fixed above then it is probably not being addressed in this patch, but may be planned for a future one.

[republic]

As I slowly learn about the supply/demand needed to build ships and keep things going...I'm convinced that Rebirth is a realtime first person Distant Worlds.

Once we get the ability to interact more with the underlying simulation, I think thats exactly what it will be like.

[mikeck]

A couple of handy links:

Wiki: http://www.starfreeze.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Map: http://www.seizewell.de/rebirth/map/Map-Rebirth.jpg

[MikeGER]

THX for the head-up mikeck and the 1.19 beta access  :)

i found this side very resourceful 
http://roguey.co.uk/xrebirth/help/

[mikeck]

This is hands down, the most accurate and honest review I've seen:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zE4jofI_rKY

Also puts to rest myths like (x rebirth universe is small)

[undercovergeek]

christmas eve purchase for sure - tis a fine marketing campaign youve run!

[Jarhead0331]

So what is the state of the game? I haven't seen an update in quite some time...This worries me.

Anyone still playing?

[mikeck]

I have not. I had to keep restarting after each patch so I decided to wait for th to slow down. Iay pick it back up since most of the issues seemed to have been fixed.
I'm the end though, I run into the same problem as x3...boredom