User Information - Michael

I'm going to copy/paste my portion of what I saw this morning before work. I'll get home and play more and post more once i can. Ok, I've put in about 30 minutes (all I can do before leaving for work). I own all the other X games and this one BLOWS them all away in playability. The hype surrounding the control scheme is totally warranted! I love it! I've only done the first 2-3 missions, but so far its amazing. I use a standard mouse k/b setup. The previous X games were basically unplayable to me. I wanted to get into them so badly but for space sim games my goto comparison is Freelancer. This control scheme and very similiar to that and it's a NICE upgrade from the horrible controls of the previous X games. I also love the highway system being able to slipstream behind other vessels in a "train" for faster speeds is really neat. I've not had any combat aside from blowing up an asteroid to test my weapons. I won't be able to play again until I get home from work around 4:30pm Eastern time. (8 hours from now). By then I'm sure others will have put in their thoughts. My impression so far is that if it keeps up like this, it'll be game of the year for me. I'm running a GTX580 single (took out my second due to heat!) and everything at max at 1920x1200 and it all ran fine. Even SSAO was enabled. I don't know how Titans are only pulling 15fps unless its horribly optimized for them or something. My 580 is perfectly fine pulling 60+ fps.

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Re: X Rebirth Launch Trailer

Nov 15, 2013, 13:06

I'm running a GTX580 single (took out my second due to heat!) and everything at max at 1920x1200 and it all ran fine. Even SSAO was enabled. I don't know how Titans are only pulling 15fps unless its horribly optimized for them or something. My 580 is perfectly fine pulling 60+ fps.

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Re: X Rebirth Launch Trailer

Nov 15, 2013, 08:16

InBlack wrote on Nov 15, 2013, 08:09: Efflixi wrote on Nov 15, 2013, 07:39: Ok, I've put in about 30 minutes (all I can do before leaving for work). I own all the other X games and this one BLOWS them all away in playability. The hype surrounding the control scheme is totally warranted! I love it! I've only done the first 2-3 missions, but so far its amazing. Good to hear. Keep the impressions comming. What control scheme do you use? M + KB, Stick, control pad? Most importantly how is the combat? (This is what will sell the game for me personally) A huge warning sign for me is the follower/drones/cap ship management. If Im going to spend the majority of my game time delegating tasks and giving orders, they might as well have given me control of a goddamn huge ass carrier starship. If I can build up a fleet and let them do random shit thats fine, but I dont want an economy business simulator I want to blow shit up, rule the galaxy, or a combination of both I use a standard mouse k/b setup. The previous X games were basically unplayable to me. I wanted to get into them so badly but for space sim games my goto comparison is Freelancer. This control scheme and very similiar to that and it's a NICE upgrade from the horrible controls of the previous X games. I also love the highway system being able to slipstream behind other vessels in a "train" for faster speeds is really neat. I've not had any combat aside from blowing up an asteroid to test my weapons. I won't be able to play again until I get home from work around 4:30pm Eastern time. (8 hours from now). By then I'm sure others will have put in their thoughts. My impression so far is that if it keeps up like this, it'll be game of the year for me.

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Re: X Rebirth Launch Trailer

Nov 15, 2013, 07:39

Ok, I've put in about 30 minutes (all I can do before leaving for work). I own all the other X games and this one BLOWS them all away in playability. The hype surrounding the control scheme is totally warranted! I love it! I've only done the first 2-3 missions, but so far its amazing.

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Re: X Rebirth Launch Trailer

Nov 15, 2013, 07:09

Exit and restart Steam!! It's loading up!

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Re: X Rebirth Launch Trailer

Nov 15, 2013, 07:07

East Coast of US here. Was told earlier it would unlock at 8am my time. It's now 7:07am my time and I got a "Now Available" message from steam. If it unlocks at 8am I can't sneak in a few minutes before work!

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Re: Out of the Blue

Nov 13, 2013, 17:48

Free Batman Origins DLC: https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=tZmaP3GSPkuwyAhx

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 21, 2013, 14:58

News Comments > Early Word on Carmageddon: Reincarnation Early Access

I remember when you got Hudson Blue. I loved seeing you dress her up for halloween! I am certainly sending good juju your way!

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Re: Early Word on Carmageddon: Reincarnation Early Access

Sep 26, 2013, 16:07

News Comments > Star Citizen Hits $18M - $20M Goal is Planetary FPS Combat

They admit they screwed up in a new email they just sent out. All previous backers will get ALL DLC and new content until the end of time. They won't have to pay more. Anyone who backed them for $15 (the minimum for the game) gets all the dlc they release free.

Re: Star Citizen Hits $18M - $20M Goal is Planetary FPS Combat

Sep 7, 2013, 10:57

News Comments > Star Citizen Credit Sales

Looking forward to this!

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Re: Star Citizen Credit Sales

Aug 31, 2013, 18:01

All I want is freelancer with these graphics and a true dynamic economy.

Re: Out of the Blue

Aug 13, 2013, 08:31

News Comments > X Rebirth in November; Specs; Trailers

The battery test thing is ingenious. The only problem I see is that he is testing a pretty much dead battery vs a brand new one. I'd bet the difference between two used batteries (but not dead) would be hard to tell.

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Re: X Rebirth in November; Specs; Trailers

Aug 8, 2013, 15:49

News Comments > X Rebirth in November; Specs; Trailers

Creston wrote on Aug 8, 2013, 15:37: NewMaxx wrote on Aug 8, 2013, 15:21: Haven't heard much about this game except that it'll be a single ship the entire game... Well... Yes and No. Landing on capitol ships?!?! Sign me up!

Re: X Rebirth in November; Specs; Trailers

Aug 8, 2013, 14:50

I tried so hard to get into X3 but the control scheme just did me in... I love space games. Freelancer is one of my favorite games of all time. I backed Star Citizen for more money than I've ever spent on a game before.

Re: Out of the Blue

Aug 8, 2013, 10:07

Keep the old way of removing posts. Keep the new screenshots.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 9, 2013, 13:19

News Comments > Star Citizen Economy Trailer

Nearly 3000 hours for me too. Most of those game i'll never play. I really need to quit buying games!

Re: Star Citizen Economy Trailer

Jul 7, 2013, 10:07

News Comments > Sanctum 2 Road to Elysion DLC Next Week

I backed this on kickstarter and put a lot of money into it. A real player driven economy was promised for Freelancer but dropped due to time. If this is how it will REALLY work, then this will be amazing. I foresee merchant guilds hiring mercs to protects their fleets of traders (i'll be into the trading business i think!), pirates attacking the trade ships, the mercs fighting them off. God, it sounds glorious. I wonder though, where does the actual raw materials come from? Is there asteroid/planet mining? Can you mine a small asteroid completely dry and eventually end up with a zone where there are no raw materials left? While i love the idea of a dynamic economy, unless the materials are literally limited in supply somehow, it won't matter in the end. You'll end up with huge guilds hording materials and divvying them out to the highest bidder and no one can do anything about it. Does anyone know if this addressed anywhere? He says in the trailer (and i realize it's most likely just an example) that it takes 3 tons of this, 1 ton of that, and 1 ton of another thing to make these items. Where does that actually originate from?

Re: Sanctum 2 Road to Elysion DLC Next Week

Jun 20, 2013, 20:23

News Comments > Steam Game Sharing Planned?

I have quite a few hours in the original Sanctum. Almost all of it co-op with a friend. I adored Sanctum. It's the perfect mix of FPS and tower defense. Sanctum 2, isn't a bad game in and of itself. But it eschews most of the TD formula for more FPS. It feels wrong and you're towers basically seem useless. All I wanted from Sanctum 2 was better graphics and more/better levels. I got those (i like the level design), but all the other crap I don't like and some of it i even hate. You can't tell how many kills a tower got for example so you know if to upgrade it or sell it. The original had that. Why did they remove it? I hate the class system, it's broken and unbalanced. To put it simply, it went from a Tower Defense games with FPS elements, to an FPS game with Tower Defense elements. I won't be buying the expansion.

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Re: Steam Game Sharing Planned?

Jun 19, 2013, 10:42

News Comments > Morning Consolidation

I have over 200 games on steam, i play less than 10 of them. It's not that i don't like them (some of them i don't like, but most i do), it's just finding time and the gumption to actually play 200+ games!

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Re: Morning Consolidation

Jun 11, 2013, 09:51