X Rebirth Studio Boss Apologizes For Buggy Launch
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After 7 years in development hell Deep silver was more then in the right to finaly demand a product.Glaice said:
At this point they where throwing money at a burning fire in order to put it out.
Its a wonder that deep silver didnt canned the entire project.. but i guess they did count on the fanbase buying the game hand over fist without waiting for reviews comming in.
It was also rather telling that something wasnt right from the game trailers and Dev videos. The only things they ever showed was how flashy the game is and how combat looked.
They never really adressed trading or station/cap ship building or how to interact with your own fleet.
There was one review from a major, or major-ish, outlet: Rock, Paper & Shotgun. Leading up to release, there were no let's plays, previews, or any sort of coverage beyond "this thing we made is coming out" announcements. There was no launch campaign and virtually no marketing. I'd wager that the team simply ran out of money, a likely consequence of an overly long development cycle.Karadalis said:
There where Dev videos.. not many but like 2 or 3Adraeus said:
None of them touched ANYTHING outside of fighting and what i can only describe as a heavily scripted demo level.
Thought they werent getting tired of showing how awesome the xbox controller was and how easaly you could fly your ship with it.
Oh and ofcourse how close you oculd get to space stations and cap ships with your own ships.
Also Cap ships are a joke now since even with your unupgraded ship you can take them out... thats not exactly something i expect when i think of "capital ship"
Sorry Egg, you had better thought about it before launch instead.
Dont... start with this. Go back to X3 games instead.AdagioBoognish said:
I diasgree. I was a newcommer to the Xverse not long ago (X humblebundle!) and was advised to skip the first two due to very unwelcoming control scheme, so i cant compare as i did indeed at least delayed the old ones for now, but the X3 one... yeah there isn o tutorial, so i spent first couple hours (lets face it , couple hours in an X game is NOTHING) flying around trying to figure things out and why did i jtu exploded after exiting a gate (stupid game AI made AI hauler ram me in the back, woot woot) and it took some figuring out why does hull damage slow me down. BUt once i got there i figured out how the game worked (though admitedly i dont suggest googling much, pretty much every resource except Egosoft forums are kinda useless) and now i got over 100 hours in and enjoying it. The default key assigning is kinda shitty though and it sucks that i cant move the camera around without moving the ship but its small things to forgive. Id say X3 is where you do start. I never really understood the whole learning curve problem with this game. yeah it doesnt spoonfeed you everything, but its not like its spceship science or anything.Agayek said:
Because at the end of the day all gamers care about is new shiny toy every 2 weeks (study in UK found that on average a gamer goes though a game every 2 weeks).canadamus_prime said:
Remmeber the starting buster on X3:R? I took on a argon capital ship with that thing, and lasted for like 30 minutes (though its low power meant i cant fire guns all the time, damn you lack power in these games). Thats because the AI was just spamming guns from all ports never hitting me. If i had big enough guns i would have won the fight. Eventually by pure chance i happen to fly right over a gun port when it fired and insta-death.Karadalis said:
Able to chose yes, but according to what I have heard there was always a small group of "best choice" ships, and using anything else was kneecaping yourself for no reason other than to chalenge yourself. I don't see whats wrong with starting us in a decent ship when most people were just going to rush a M3+ anyways.Candidus said:
Maybe I'm just odd, but that never annoyed me anymore than "The ARghun federation welcomes you!" every time I dock with a station in X3
You mean I don't have to spend several hours docking with stations and wring down prices until I have amassed a small fortune and can actually buy the damn trade software? *shockhorror*
I loved how it finaly created a game where there is so much down time I can actually use the gaps to write a paper for school (and I got B, so apparently the game wasn't effecting my concentration much)
Thanks for the insult. I keep them all in a little jar on shelf and occasionally laugh at them. But anyway one man's "slow burn" is another man's "I just spent ten minutes flying in a straight line with SETA and not interacting with the game at all, only to find the conflict I was investigating has ended leaving me with nothing but a longass trek back to a gatefuckthisimmaplayfreespace"
What's really annoying is that the press and community seems to have entirely overlooked the fact that Egosoft has went the 2K route and made a bunch of eastern countries part of Ru and CIS.
I understand those may be assigned by the MRP to russian 1C publishers, but there was barely any note on the steam page.
I understand those may be assigned by the MRP to russian 1C publishers, but there was barely any note on the steam page.
Kinda sad to see this given how badly I wanted this to succeed, but then just about every X game seems to need a few months of fixes & mods to hit its prime.
You actually can move the camera independently. Use the numpad (8462 to look around, 1 & 3 tilt the camera if you have it in 3rd person, 5 to reset the camera)Strazdas said:
Yes, I believe that's called instant gratification. No regard for the long term effects or what your giving up for the sake of that shiny new toy.Strazdas said:
I was looking forward to this game, but somehow I knew this would happen. If the trailer looks too good to be true and there's no demo and no previews...
But really the trailer says it all. Basically it's pretending to be Star Citizen, but there's no way a dedicated, but amateurish developer like Egosoft could pull off something on that scale.
Maybe in a few months it will be something playable. But I still think it's a very undue move by Egosoft to deceive fans with such an awesome trailer when they must be very aware of the products' problems.
Maybe I'm being too harsh. I didn't buy or play it myself, but the opinion on the street seems to be almost universally unfavorable.
But really the trailer says it all. Basically it's pretending to be Star Citizen, but there's no way a dedicated, but amateurish developer like Egosoft could pull off something on that scale.
Maybe in a few months it will be something playable. But I still think it's a very undue move by Egosoft to deceive fans with such an awesome trailer when they must be very aware of the products' problems.
Maybe I'm being too harsh. I didn't buy or play it myself, but the opinion on the street seems to be almost universally unfavorable.
Egosoft is amateurish in the sense that they don't have a good writer, they don't have a good character modeler, they don't have good artists and they don't have a good interface designer. They have been creating a serviceable sandbox space sim for over a decade now, which is why they are dedicated (decadated? heh) and they certainly seem to have competent developers. But as I see it, many positions at Egosoft are filled by amateurs.MinionJoe said:
I mean, you have to at least agree that the quality of the writing and the character portraits of X are abysmal, even by indie standards.
And just for the record. I like Egosoft. I like every company that even bothers to create a space sim. I really want them to succeed.
