From my understanding, defense squad attacks only targets that attack you, attack squad attacks only if you order them to attack and interception attacks any targets within range without an explicit order. Please correct me if I am wrong. Slight correction: subordinate groups set to intercept will ...

There's no official information on this. Based on Egosoft's track record (i.e. previous games): no. Gameplay and benchmark demos usually came after release, and were separate executables from the actual game. Why? Because demos, even simple demos, take man power. I would like it if they released th...

THIRD find out if Egosoft is even using the same file compression they have been using since X:BtF or not.

If Egosoft did a complete re-do, it's not going to be fast...

If for some strange reason Rebirth is unplayable at first or it flops, I bet you would never hear the end of it... You weren't around for X3's release were you? :lol: I have no doubt X:R will be buggy as heck and have limited features. But we know Egosoft's track record and they'll keep on improvin...

Is there any in-universe explanation why these xenon sectors haven't been taken over? Yeah there's a war going on, but how in X3R did they get sooo much past those sectors and thought "Eh, let's leave them be." However them endlessly spawning makes sense in-universe because they are self-replicating...

I honestly never thought about this in depth before. But I certainty noticed the disparity between low tech and high tech goods. It always perplexed me that a equipment station can only carry a handful of HEPT or other weapon arrays at a time. And you were the only one really buying them...

Perhaps a programmer here can correct me, but there is no need for Egosoft to reinvent the wheel and spend lots of resources. Let's see: 1) There are already self-contained environments which model physics, shooting, and enemy AI. For example Unreal Tournament. When boarding, how difficult would it...

I have been reading sci fi since I was in my early teens (and that was tom swift, lol) and I have to say this is the first time I have seen a space setting set with 'highways'. Hrm, I guess you haven't been playing space games for that long though. Freelancer had the exact same local highways as Eg...

Yeah, it's not clear if you'll only be able to VR control drones or will you also be able to VR control other ships. It'll also be interesting to see how far away you can control your drones, like can you go into a different solar system in a drone? But VR controlling drones is much more than what X...

Only Thumbnail? Sense when is 1280x720 thumbnail? You can click on them to go full size. Perhaps they did a ninja edit on you. xD

IMO we should try to keep all the comments in one thread... this seems as good as any. As a former modder, I fully support the redoing of the X engine. I really like how it's going back to it's roots while also moving into the future. And I bet a whole bunch of people will be glad to have a bonafide...

Just CCX14.zip, but I missed on page 30: Just look back at the topic, it was already posted: http://azzx3.free.fr/div/CCX14.zip So if you could reupload it somewhere else for extra safekeeping that'll be awesome! It seems like the Teladi cockpits were messed up because of a bad folder name, I wonder...

I have lost the website I was hosting on before, and I have also lost the harddrive to a hardware crash. If anyone has any of these files please PM me, otherwise, please download the IMP. cockpit callback mod that's offically hosted by Egosoft. http://www.egosoft.com/download/x3/bonus_en.php?downloa...

As a former X2/X3 modder. I am so freaking happy that Egosoft has finally decided to go and restart the engine from scratch for Rebirth. Even in X3 there were TONS of leftovers and call back to older code/methods that made no sense. The GUI even in the latest X3 isn't as fluid as it could be althoug...

The only problem I really foresee about using UDK and other engines is that they are very built for FPS's, and as such can rely on very limited map sizes that may not give you enough space for a space combat game. Nevermind their addiction to gravity and up/down. As for using Java, you should check ...

Good luck mate. Making a 3D game from scratch that doesn't look like crap means you will either have deep pockets, or tons of time to become proficent in 3D modelling, creating UV Maps of said models, and texturing the models. Those three are unto themselves areas a digital artist can speicalize in ...

With Steam you can both browse the internets and play. XFire might also have a browser since the last time I checked..

But usually, it's as Technojerk said.

Does anyone LIKE fog?

I assume it means you won't be buying a copy, which is why I voted that.

Make it play the final countdown! If you don't know the notes I can get them for you.