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I have no interest in having an endless debate with you about whatever issues you have with the X series. Grind your axe elsewhere.
So no. They still can't design their way out of a wet paper bag.
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I have no interest in having an endless debate with you about whatever issues you have with the X series. Grind your axe elsewhere.
You can fly any ship. There's a modding forum so I assume there's modding. Whether or not it's to the same level as X3? Dunno. Walking around is still in, but seems to be much more streamlined rather than the mess rebirth had.
Sounds good enough for me. If the community gives it a thumbs up for being moddable I'll pick it up now to support their company.
I'll probably mostly shelf the game for a good year or so, as I've found its best to let their games age some before digging into them. Egosoft has its faults, but they do tend to provide good care for their games after release, and the community is good at filling in the gaps with some time. I really hope they did learn their lesson, as Rebirth is the first game in the series I haven't purchased.
As a big fan of the X series, the games have always had some performance issues, bugs and major faults in them on release. That said, they were great sandboxes that tons of loving fans built upon. Rebirth got rid of most of the useful sandbox shit and left in all the problems, and I dropped it fast as fuck. If I buy this game will depend on the answer to these questions:
Can I get into ships and is it easily moddable.
Oh yea, is walking in stations fucking gone? Fuck that cancer.
For the life of me I've never understood the desire some player and many devs of space games have for walking in stations/spaceships. It takes a ton of time and resources to do and adds nothing of value. I remember back in 2005 or 6 at an Eve Fanfest when they first talked about Walking in Stations for that game, and I thought "why?". It's just a time sink. Either you can do all you need to do via the regular interface (buy, sell, agents, etc..) which means why would you spend god knows how long walking somewhere to do what you can do with only a couple of mouse clicks, or they remove the interface and force you to walk there meaning everything takes longer to do just so you can show off your spacesuit. Same applies for practically all these games.
The only game I can consider it to be of any use, maybe, is Star Citizen, but then only because I've heard there is to be some sort of FPS style boarding of ships type thing.
In space sims I want to fly my ship and shit, not walk around.
Bruh, immersion.
Eve being an MMO. If you had a stupid space station to walk around in and chat with people and show off your badass space force merit badges. People slurp that shit up.
Walking around your ship is cool too.
the recent bugfixes - 1.10 yesterday - fixed most of the autopilot issues and the "m"ap teleport problem among other problems. Egosoft are like 10 guys and I want the Techlead from Bethesda spent an internship at their place.
I disagree. Some people think its a good idea, but it's literally never been done in a way that is even close to successful. Infact, I'd go as far to say that walking on space stations in space games has always been a /detriment/ to the core gameplay enjoyment. Walking around ships doesn't trigger me as much, but it also is -pointless- in games unless a mechanic involves it. I went over this before a long time ago in the eve thread, but I play space games for the spaceships. If you want cool merit badges and shit to show off, put them on the fucking spaceship. I really don't give a fuck about walking around as some human/alien. I could be an AI that is uploaded to the ship for all I fucking care.
They are certainly on the ball this time around. Bodes well for the future.
Have you tried a new save game? If there's some problematic scripts running that's causing it, it could persist across reloads. I know some streamers have had to start over to fix some pretty bad issues.