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In contrast, the new transport system also works with hundreds of players - a technical forerunner of a possible future X Online.

What's even better is that the space highways also solve another problem on the side, one that had, until now, stood in the way of a possible online version of the X Universe: time manipulation is not possible in the collaborative game. The absence of the Sinza time acceleration makes the transport system in X Rebirth more believable than in previous X - installments. You pass through a jump gate and follow a multi-colored tunnel to the destination. The leap into neighboring sectors also works in a similar way. If you hang in the slipstream of other faster ships, you'll make even better progress.

In the long corridors, the spaceship gains thrust. X Rebirth dispenses with these kinds of clever tricks by allowing you to merge onto space highways at any time. Previous X - installments had time manipulators to overcome long distances. The initial game hours are devoted solely to finding your way around and to the game mechanics.Ĭrossing space without help is a time-consuming process in X Rebirth. A tutorial makes the junior space pilot familiar with the first maneuvers and slowly introduces him or her to the story of X Rebirth. So large, in fact, that you initially feel tiny and a bit lost. It's clear right from the first few minutes of X Rebirth that everything is a little larger than you're used to from most other current games.