No. Planets are background-decoration and no solid objects.

Just tried to go near one like in ED, and u right I got killed... Maybe it could be changed to solid objects or etc.. Maybe in DLC?

Originally posted by redeyedraven:

No. Planets are background-decoration and no solid objects.

Completly wrong.
Planets and rocks are completly 3D.

Yes it's possible to create, but Egosoft probably won't do it.

Originally posted by Scimitar101:

Originally posted by redeyedraven:

No. Planets are background-decoration and no solid objects.

Completly wrong.
Planets and rocks are completly 3D.

Yes it's possible to create, but Egosoft probably won't do it.

I like what they did with Radiant Haven, Just have a Super Highway go to low orbit and have a space elevator station.

Well it could be paid dlc, beside from what I think it would be equivalent of a zone with its own textures and thats it, no possibility of land beside on some stations. Shouldnt be difficult...

Nope, completly new game mechanics won't come through a paid DLC. That's not really what Egosoft does - maybe in a standalone game extension, like X3TC was for X3 Reunion.

Originally posted by Scimitar101:

Originally posted by redeyedraven:

No. Planets are background-decoration and no solid objects.

Completly wrong.
Planets and rocks are completly 3D.

Yes it's possible to create, but Egosoft probably won't do it.

3D or not, they're still background-objects gameplay-wise, although not as simple as in X3 for example (where they were just animated parts of the space-backgrounds).
Mechanically, everything you don't directly interact with is still a background-object.

Nope, ever since X: Beyond the Frontier, planets are 3D objects (I think, but in X2 they were 3D for sure, cause I died in atmosphere of one of them).
They are very far away though.
I was able to give myself a Valhalla that flew around 3k m/s, and was able to survive atmosphere burn and get to surface of planet (in X3TC). Bounced off and died.

Have u tried to do it with XR? I was almost at the atmoshpere layer but just got gave over without any animation...

No, but many people did. There were screenshots posted on forum, and in the community hub feed.

Originally posted by Scimitar101:

Nope, ever since X: Beyond the Frontier, planets are 3D objects (I think, but in X2 they were 3D for sure, cause I died in atmosphere of one of them).
They are very far away though.
I was able to give myself a Valhalla that flew around 3k m/s, and was able to survive atmosphere burn and get to surface of planet (in X3TC). Bounced off and died.

You didn't die in atmosphere, that was the extreme sector border (far off the sector-map already). The atmosphere is in-mention only and not actually in the game. Technically you didn't even actually move closer towards the planets in X (ever) as they were animated background objects, 3D perhaps, but out of players reach actually.

Originally posted by redeyedraven:

You didn't die in atmosphere, that was the extreme sector border (far off the sector-map already). The atmosphere is in-mention only and not actually in the game. Technically you didn't even actually move closer towards the planets in X (ever) as they were animated background objects, 3D perhaps, but out of players reach actually.

No, I really moved very, very close to the planet, then I started losing shield and died.
I did it many times. They are 3D objects, that's a certain thing.
There's no map border BTW, you can fly 30000 kilometres outside from the centre of sector, you won't get killed. Not even in X:BTF.

Interesting, I cant find anything - I hope they will keep adding stuff as I got it 2 years ago, then got my money back from Steam than bought it again and am impressed with the changes - its a really good game...

BTW-> Any links to this screenshots?

I found some screenshots of the planet surface in X Rebirth:

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/504697104518925446/B7AC49AC5AED885C132C7C0DFC9CC52BE86CD19D/

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/3278924097077177775/7AE25F6F4422203367E74E8ED79E930EB61480E9/


It's the planet in Radiant Heaven, in Omicron Lyrae.
Interesting that the planets actually have surface, they are not just big balls (in previous games, they were only big balls with texture, without any actual surface - except for the shattered planets).

NO WAY... WHY THE PLANET IN THE STARTING SECTOR DOES NOT HAVE IT? I REALLY COULD NOT REACH BEYOND ATMOSHPERE LAYER / TEXTURE.

MAN IT LOOKS SO COOLL....