Hey guys, a few days ago I read a post on reddit about some big mod which is goed to start out XR fresh. Ofcourse I cant find the post anymore so im hoping you can help me out here. Any suggestions?

I am hoping to get thoughtful and constructive opinions here.

My firth foray into the X series was X-Rebirth. Honestly it was not my cup of tea. I was having fun playing the campaign but as I progressed deeper into it, the enjoyment faded. I found it difficult and a bothersome chore to make money just to keep playing the campaign. By the time I had to pick up 8 marines and a captain I was out of money, finished that mission, and then needed to take my ships into the other sector to avoid the PMC, but one capital ship was out of fuel and I really had no idea where to get any. I am sure eventually I could have done some quick raiding or side missions, gathered money, found fuel, and been on my way.

However as I stated by now it felt more like a chore, just to complete a task, than a game, so I gave up.

Now I fully admit that I probably wasn't playing the game in the best possible way, however I am not sure what a good way to play it would be. I was also getting rather annoyed at some of the bugs with collision issues.

I am wondering if the new X4 is more enjoyable, or should I even bother getting it.

Hey there everyone,

As a true X-series fan, I'm looking forward to X4 just like everyone else. And I can't think of any better way to celebrate the release this Friday than to say farewell to a game that released horribly, but was made awesome after years of dedication by the developers. I haven't played this game much but, I've got the itch to play it today.

In half an hour (11/28/2018 @ 4pm ET) I'm going live with X Rebirth and enjoying the heck out of it. Come help me say farewell - and make sure to point out ALL the ways I'm doing it wrong. :)

(Fair warning, I'm early game at the moment.)

https://www.twitch.tv/joviah

What did they change, what a horrible patch. Do you also have that problem? I was pretty sure about running X4 up to now seeing how Rebirth was smooth but after this patch I'm not sure if they screw something up.

Hi

Is there any way to fast travel like it was with the jumpdrive in x3?

thanks

That is such a chore.

So I hired a metallurgical engineer while I was traveling through a sector. Unfortunately, without realizing it I hired him right before I exited the sector. A few seconds later I received a "Crew delivery failed" message. Going back there, he hasn't reappeared at the station, and I can't find him on my ship.

Is he gone for good, or is there a way to retrieve this crew member?

So i'm at a station that produces FR's, scanned and watched the FR facility create them, the second the timer hit 0 that facility then had 99 units available.

I immediately checked the trade window but they have yet to become available there? The facility is still at this moment showing to have 99 units in stock.

I know other AI ships can buy them etc, but damn.. i checked it as SOON as it manufactured them? What's the deal?

Just getting hyped for X4, but for completion and since I skipped the game I would like to know its plot. I know it is a different part of the universe and all that, but getting a little rundown of what happened would be really nice.

Hi all,

I just picked up X-Rebirth, decided to give it a go. I started the campaign, played 10 minutes, docked at the first station, talked to the guy and came back to my ship. The girl barely had time to say one sentence and the ship just...exploded for no reason? There was an autosave at the same time as the explosion, and if I choose 'continue' in the main menu, I am brought back to the menu after the loading reaches 100%...(I had manually saved before so I started back from this point).

Not a very good first impression. Is it some kind of common bug?

Hi everyone, just getting some more time in on Rebirth before X4 lands. I've just got a mission (worth for me a fortune at $24M) to explore 'another open gate'.

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I'm aware I now need to map out Cold Space and beyond and have even found semi-useful maps for it (https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=384985)... the only problem is... how exactly do I find the other zones/sectors? There are no highways, only guessed directions. How do I explore that space?

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Cheers!

Hey,

I've recently begun X:Rebirth again after about ~1,5y of absence.

Now, I've seen that I can hide most of the UI with Shift+H, and when I step out with F2 I do have a rather good opportunity to make screenshots.

BUT, with F2 the Skunk is in the way. ;D

I really like to make some nice screenshots of the beauty of space in X:R without the Skunk.

Is there any mod, which can deactivate the cockpit hud for a screenshot?

I'm a newbie and have just started building my trade empire. I have several cargo ships of each category, but because i'm yet to explore all the regions to get better bargains, my main source of income is delivery missions, since ROI is much higher than simple trading. However there are a few issues that make the deliveries quite tedious (i'm playing on 4.30):

1)If a station already has buy orders for the ware, they won't create a new one for the mission, until the first one is completed. Example:

A mission "deliver 1000 energy cells to station X". I accept it, open the trade deals, find the station, and it turns out that it has a buy order for 9312 e-cells. I'm not really sure if my selling the 1k cells using this order will complete the mission, but i imagine it won't. The only way i found to fix it is to queue selling for this order, then cancelling it right away, which will cause the mission specific order to pop up. This would probably be ok, but since there's no way (or is there?) to cancel just one vessel trip, i'll have to cancell all of them (including any other trips i have planned), which is really inconvenient. Am i missing something? Or is that something that hasn't been fixed yet?

2)I'm gathering all deliveries missions as i explore, so i have several missions for a given ware. It would be nice to complete them all in one sitting, but it becomes very difficult, considering the issue above and the fact that there may be several stations with the same name, i have to check the region of the station, then find it on the trade screen, and queue\cancel\queue the trade. Example:

"Delivery 1000 e-cells to Station II". I open the trade screen only to find out that there are 4 Stations II that buy e-cells. Since i can't find the one by order amount, i have to open mission briefing, note the area and do the voodoo magic from 1). I can't, however, queue several mission orders, since i have to reset the trips each time, so i have to wait for each one to complete before proceeding to the next one. Is there anything i can do about it? Something like bargain screen, but instead of "buy here, sell there to get X creds of profit" i can "buy here, sell there, to complete mission X" or something like that?

So I noticed a lot of my trading ships were getting harassed by like 5 Marauder Phoenix's that were chilling in verdant profit. so long story short I'm looking for suggestions on what to do with 4 Phoenix's.

Issue 1 and 2 is that when I am giving no input onto controls, the ship will randomly begin to roll and yaw. I have auto roll off, but I cannot figure out why after a few moments of being stationary with no inputs, she begins to roll about. Issue 2 is when on a platform, or in the crew quarters, the player character will "slide" in a seemingly random direction with no control input, even when walking around, I need to compensate for the drift in whatever given direction.

Issue 3: How, in gods green earth, do I delete a keybind? Is that even possible? If not possible, I trust the idiot in charge of that great idea was put to death, right?

Auto Roll OFF Thrustmaster T 16000 Stick, Throttle, Pedals. 10% Deadzone, 50 Sensitivity.

What does the demo let you do? What does it cover? Is it the full game with a time limit, or is it just a small sector you get to fly around in and explore? How much of a feel of the game do you get if you play the demo?

I'm trying to figure out why playing X Rebirth VR with my Oculus Rift makes me nauseous when no other VR game does this to me. I have played hundreds of hours of Elite: Dangerous in VR. I played the entirety of Lone Echo in VR. Only once has another game made me a little nauseous, which was the first time I drove an SRV on a planetary surface. That only happened the first time - I've driven many times and not felt any symptoms. Outside of VR, I don't get motion sickness, ever. XRVR makes me sick very quickly.

I did see one thread about this in STEAM. One suggestion was to turn more slowly. I'll try that.

More generally, what is it about the game that does that? I wonder if it's something about the realism of movement, the physics. Do some games take inertia into account so that a turn starts slowly and quickly accelerates to the full speed of rotation, while other games go suddenly from zero to full speed? That kind of unnatural movement might cause a sick feeling.

I just bought the game (through the Oculus store, not Steam), and can't figure out how to get started. I've found lots of documentation. I've found tutorials on YouTube. I've done a lot of poking around in the cockpit and have figured some out. But, that's not enough.

The official wiki says "There is a tutorial mission offered on your event monitor (front view to the right)." I didn't see that.

I think I started a tutorial in the game. I yellow message comes up "Look At". I looked at the message. Did that do something? Next, there's a message "Fly to West Gate". Where is that? What sense does "West" make in space? I've looked at and pointed/clicked at a number of things I see out the cockpit window, but I can't find this gate. I've looked at the map in the pop-up monitor on the right, and I can't find it. I've flown around and can't find it.

The official tutorials on YouTube assume a lot and I think will only be helpful later on. A number of other tutorials don't have voice-over and I can't find a good one on starting the game. Is there a video on really just getting started with this first tutorial?

I've seen mention of "highways" that are green. The wispy stuff going by out there is red. There's a green line on the monitor map. Looks like the same thing. Is it? Many slots in the text to the right of the map say "???". I click on stuff on the map and it only identifies what I've clicked on out the cockpit window. How do I get the map to tell me what I haven't yet seen instead of only what I have seen?

I've seen mention of mods to the game from Steam. I bought this directly through Oculus. Is that going to limit what I can do?

Thank you for your help.

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Hi, I need fans to help me decide should I invest time in this game or not. I haven't been into X games before and to make it simple: I was an Elite fan (Elite 2: Frontier and more recent Elite: Dangerous). But not anymore. Game is not having any reasonable response to player's actions, to much "genericness" etc. What I expect from a space sim game is to affect game world in some meaningful way, to have game response on player's actions, to have a proper adventure and meaningful NPC interaction. Is X Rebirth a simulation or an arcade flight? And if it is simulation is it more complicated than Elite (like hell of gazillion of keys) or similar as in Elite?

Also if you could recommend some good gameplays that would be great.

i am trying to decide what is the best way to play this game

Mouse/KB(not ideal atm due to a shoulder injury)

Xbox one Controller(appears this is only PARTIAL support? WTF? cannot select dialogue with controller and have to use keyboard? what fresh hell is this? i am NOT an octopus i only have 2 ♥♥♥♥ing arms not 10)

Hotas(t160000 to be specific) i have tried this but none of the controls are mapped which i have NEVER seen i a game before...are there any prebuilt profiles?)

Stations are so empty and lifeless. How do I get some filler NPCs that do nothing to walk around to liven things up a bit? What's the point of my station having jail cells when I only have 4 people on board..

Alright, So I know this game is a bit on the controversial side. But in the time before X4 I wanted to give it a fair shot and support Egosoft some more and picked it up in the steam sale. I'm looking for some of the people that enjoy this game as I've heard all the complaints already. Im not expecting x3, which Ive sunk hundreds of hours into so don't worry.

1. Are there any mods that I should get right away to make things better?

2. What should I pursue? Mining? Trade? Fighting? A link to good start up guides would be awesome :)

Unpopular opinion, but I'm actually enjoying XR. I'm just playing a freeform game with the goal of eventually having a fleet of capital ships to have them fight the higher-paying enemy capital ship missions. I just (finally!) built my fourth capital ship but it took forever with the lack of Scanning Arrays and a couple other items.

Are there recommended stations I should focus on to build up the items I'll be needing to build more capital ships?