Since it runs so poorly, you would think that this is a graphically impressive game with cutting-edge technology and effects, but it’s not. On top of bad frame rates, there is constant pausing and stuttering when you leave your ship, enter a highway, or just randomly because the game hates you. At best I would get 20 FPS, and that didn’t happen very often. My machine is decent, despite being a bit dated, and I was constantly dropping down into single-digit frames per second. Egosoft has come out in the forums saying it didn’t really test the game for high-end systems. And the hilarious thing is that the better your machine is, the worse it could run. The first thing you will notice, is that this game runs like a one-legged horse trying to win the Kentucky Derby. There are already mods out from fans to remove most of these features, or overhaul them completely, so that tells you how the changes went over with fans. X Rebirth was hoping to provide a good starting point for newcomers to the series by adding in station interiors, new trade systems, better ways to quickly move around space, and a handful of other features that no one really seemed to want. The newest games are difficult to get into, and they have a very steep learning curve. It has long been known to be an amazing sandbox series, which usually contains flaws that the community later fixes with mods. It’s a follow-up to the classic X series, which begin in 1999 with X: Beyond the Frontier. X Rebirth is an open-ended space exploration game, where you can trade, build stations, command a fleet, engage in dogfights, and become a space-faring mogul who rules over the galaxy. Instead, we have a game that scares away newcomers and upsets fans of the series. X Rebirth was supposed to be a new starting point for the series, a game to bring in new players while keeping the old spirit alive. There is some good stuff in here, but anything worth playing in X Rebirth was done better by X3: Terran Conflict. The menu systems are hard to navigate, it’s hard to know what you should be doing or what you can do, doing a simple task is an exercise in patience, and I always felt like I was fighting the game’s mechanics to get anything done. It’s more than just a few weird glitches or flaws - nothing in X Rebirth feels ready to be played.īeyond just being glitchy, the core gameplay mechanics are flawed. Egosoft has been releasing a lot of patches, but the game is still borderline unplayable. The X series is known for being a little rough out of the gate, so when X Rebirth came out with some major bugs, no one was really surprised.
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