PIRATES! X4 Boarding Guide (Step by Step) - X4 Foundations How To Board A Ship - Captain Collins
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you got any advise on taking on traders and miners that spam laser towers and distress drones? they seem to guaranteed enforce -10 relations on you since they give you a neverending stream of laser towers, which makes distress drones even more dangerous than they already are, because it allows them to attract anyone to help out. you can also be unlucky enough that your boarding pods deploy while it deploys laser towers. destroying them. the distress drones are fired every few seconds and will instantly try to go for 1k travel speed when launched. meaning you need to tag and kill them all asap. which leads to a high possibility for a drone to slip by while you're occupied. and i'm not sure if the AI can target and handle them appropiately either.
any ideas?
Can you cancel a boarding operation ? Say you didn’t send enough marines ? Or you want to edit the parameters
Honestly man, you should get paid by Egosoft XD. Without your vids, I would be completely lost in this game. Moreover, you really nail the length of your videos. No BS, no 50-minute video, explaining one thing - on point. Excellent work!
Thank you Captain
He is right though. Great vids. I have learned a good bit from you.
I think he does pretty well (viewership wise) from the interviews he gets to do with the staff like Bernd etc.
Or come up behind it with a shuyaku in travel mode, pause and initiate “very strong” boarding to dump pods as soon as you unpause and marine dump as you fly past untouched. Wait 30 minutes or so and it’s yours
My god, this video explained so much. I didn't know about the shift click, or that you had to prescan.
It's sad this isn't really communicated well in game, but good thing you're here to help us out.
Thanks so much.
The shift click explanation was spontaneous, because that's what people sometimes ask on stream 😅 glad that I could help you!
I would like to add a few things I have learned regarding boarding. These tips have been learned via personally piloting the ship that does the boarding and only using a single ship.
The weakest part of any boarding process is the pods themselves. Destroy enemy Fighters first before starting the boarding operation (ideally make them bail.) When the pods launch, if ANY ships in the defending fleet have defense drones they will launch them to try and destroy the pods. Be prepared to kill them quickly. If the defending ship has no turrets that can shoot you and they have laser towers they will drop these until they run out and they can make short work of pods.
Once the pods are attached, they can no longer be destroyed even though they get shot at.
You only have to disable turrets because they shoot at pods.
You only have to disable engines because the pods are slow.
You can successfully board a ship without disabling all turrets. Try choosing a side of the Behemoth (top or bottom) and disabling the engines and only the turrets on the chosen side. Then board but make sure you change the defending ship's "launch pods at combat effectiveness" to very strong.
Number of Marines are not as important as attack strength. The ideal attack strength is 2X defense strength.
This next bit is just from observation. Rank of marines does matter outside pure attack strength. I have found that lower ranked Marines have a much better survival rate when the defending ship's hull is at a certain percentage. Around 40% hull strength for recruits seems to work best for me. Around 60% for veterans. Hull strength doesn't matter for elites.
Shield strength does not matter for boarding.
Captain Collins was right on when he said the Cerberus (Vanguard) is an excellent boarding ship. I would say this extends to Gorgon Vanguard and the Cobra as well. As for weapon selection, I use a Bolt Cannon Mk2 (x2 for Cobra) and an Ion Blaster Mk2 with the 2 forward turrets equipped with Plasma Turrets (set to attack my current enemy) and the rear 2 to Pulse/Bolt/Flack (attack fighters).
In the early game 140 (14 recruits with 10 strength each) attack strength may not be enough. With a frigate you can nest 2x Magpie Vanguards each with 7 Marines. Use the multi ship tactics like in the video. The Magpies cannot launch pods while docked. They will un-dock and immediately launch pods. As soon as the Magpie launches the pods you can pause the game and remove all orders from the Magpie and send it out of harms way. Same for the second Magpie.
You can successfully board a cap ship without destroying any surface elements. (no rep loss) Don't believe me: try attacking a Phoenix from directly in front of the giant center hole.
If you take the hull strength of any surface elements below 20% it becomes non functional. (no rep loss)
You can successfully board a cap ship without firing a shot. Especially true if you happen upon a pirate ship that has a less than 100% hull.
I have found boarding extremelly easy but maybe is because of the early Moreya you are given following the Feynmann missions. That ship kills subsystems in a blink and with just a freighter with 30 marines i can capture any SCA destroyer.
Also lots of minotaur raiders hace fallen to the Moreya
A Quality of Life feature where you have to click across multiple windows to individually issue commands... is the most Egosoft thing ever.
Good stuff dude. I grabbed this game on sale a couple of weeks ago. I have like 50 hours of x3 experience so your guides are much welcome. Its nice finding a 15 minute video with 15 minutes of info in it.
I found your channel because if the steam announcement with you hosting an interview with Bern soon.. glad i did..I've been playing since launch and take part in every beta and watch most of the X4 channels.. this is one of most well done I've come across.. good job.
Thank you so much!
Spend hours upgrading my fleet to lure a destroyer of xenon into an ambush to capture it. Would have been a good hint, that xenon and kraak are not captureable. Thus, shift-click and "break" was unknown to me, thx a lot! Can play more relaxed now.
Me 2. The very first ship I tried to capture was a Xenon K.
Excellent tutorial with great explanations thank you!
i learned how to play X4 watching you!! thanks for the great guides!!!
Awesome vid thanks! FYI, if all your ships are in a fleet the Quality of Life features of that UI are even easier! You can drag marines from all ships at once! Not sure if you can set individual commands for each ship though. Also, my ships stop firing on the target - so maybe Disable isn't the best option. I usually use shoot turrets or shoot engine. They usually only shoot if the hull goes back up over 80%.
I try it with disable turrets then, next time thank you for enjoying the content!
Hey Captain Collins, nice video on boarding. BTW, the Cerberus Vanguard only have an average number of crew(15 crew max, 14 marines + 1 pilot) for its class, M class ships with the most crew is actually the Cobra(26 crew max, 25 marines + 1 pilot) from the Zyarth Patriarchy. Also there is two variant of Cerberus, Sentinel and Vanguard; Vanguard variants have less protection and storage but more speed, maneuverability, and crew size.
I would like to show the Cobra, but there's no FRF wharf anymore in my game :D You are absolutely right on that!
@@CaptainCollins You get Cobra from the ZYA or CAB, which ever one you have the rep with. Only need +10 rep to buy the Cobra, it got the most weapon as a frigate and most speed!
@@ren3301 CAB are non-existant anymore 😬 and I can't find it in the ZYA wharf 🤷♂️
@@CaptainCollins ZYA wharf should be in the same sector as their shipyard unless it got destroyed, which is very unlikely. They also rebuild if it did.
7th time I've watched one of your videos, like what you do man, automatic Sub 😂
Didn't knew this is automated already ;P Thank you and welcome on board!
Very easy to understand guide. Thank you.
what I did, I captured a L freighter using one gunboat controlled by me, destroying every element on it, then using a fleet of My freighters filled with marines. once captured, I filled that one L freighter with marines and use it as my boarding force. but now knowing you can actually tell your ships to disable it by themselves is really new to me...
Terran pirate incoming!
Aha! Cool to hear that works, I was just planning that when I stumbled upon this video.
@@loveisontheroad7155 it works, but will take a LOT of time. so be ready.
@@xXCursedWorgenXx Thanks for the heads up.
Dont rush. The ai makes terrible job at aiming and destroying turrets..it will always kill the target before turrets are dispatched..
Oos boarding will never work and auto boarding wont either without the player doing the job.
Very good instructions. Going to get a few ships now.
great vid, subbed
Because of your tutorials, I'm now considering buying the game. :D
I swear I think I need to make my own video series' about X4 for "How to do things the HARD way" ROFL!!! -- o7 Captain! As always, I learn more from these 5-20 min videos than doing things the hard way for hours. THANK YOU!
I have rewatched this video a few times. I applied some foundational stuff though to capturing XL carriers AND the full compliment of ships that are docked with said carrier and you don't even need to damage engines or surface elements, just need to take the hull strength down to 79%. If you do not have the marines or attack power, then don't try it obviously. Now to the process: first, you will do a drive by boarding like Collins does it without taking out engines, etc. Then you will fly on by them to about 70km. You will then turn around and "stalk" the carrier from about 50-60K distance and wait for the ship to turn blue again, but your pods are still on the ship albeit slightly reduced in number.
From there you fly into attack range and hit the carrier with everything you have quickly. The ship won't turn red until after a certain time or hull damage has occurred, so you have a little time to book it out of there before the carrier's ships start coming after you. *Side note: scanning your prey is kind of important and know what you are getting into before you try this. You may also want an Asgard or Syn/Rattlesnake to take down shields quickly and damage the hull in as short of time period as possible. Now that you are safely away from the carrier again, you can just watch as your marines take over the ship AND the full compliment of S/M ships docked on it. Hope this helps you all.
Excellent tutorial! Thank you!
Thanks for watching! Just getting into real pirating, maybe I can redo that video with more experience.
SO NEED THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
It will help a lot, believe me :) You can use the chat if you have questions.
This is great and thanks for the reminder on crew, I almost sold a ship with my crew still abroad.
nicely done
I love the Argon vs Xenon aquire any 3 destroyer ships mission, I usually board SCA ships and repair them and deliver them.
Great video
Thanks for that video Cap !
I tried to board a SCA Behemoth, but I just didn't know what to do. Now I have some clues thanks to your video. But still the SCA Behemoth seems not to be an easy target compared to the Phoenix. But thanks to your videos I realised that what I was doing wrong is that I was using only one ship to do the boarding.
I will try your way with some Cerberus... This should do the trick ! :)
o7
Try the "Cobra", they are even better for that, Reggie ;)
Funny story. I have once tried boarding a builder with a destroyer fleet (4) i got the builder after 10 mins. But there was a laser turret deployed on top of the builder and my destroyers turrets were disabled, so my behemoth decided it will try blast it with the main guns from 200m away ending up killing the captured builder. It took my a while to realise what the heck happened
Thank you! The guide is great. And what weapons are the best for taking out the turrets?
I long for the day you as the player can take part in the assault on these behemoths in an instanced FPS stage. For now, this will do. Thanks to egosoft for the improved menus (coming from X3, it was a nightmare) and thank you Cpt. Collins for these guides.
Always appreciate the videos. I will say that the issue I usually run into is that my ships don't recognize when a ship is defanged, and so they will happily keep shooting it until it blows up unless i manually go in and disable all of their weapons. Needless to say this is annoying as hell
I wish player can join the boarding party, and it will be like an FPS shooting game. That would be cool.
Very good very good and nice outfit too.
Now matter how much i like X4 Foundations, X3 Terran Conflict is - imo - still the best game Egosoft has ever released.
I've been on a 2 year break from X4 now, but with the terran and split DLC released, i'm going back to further increase my empire.
/Edit: I don't understand why Egosoft removed the feature of training your marines tho... now in X4 theyr'e just cannonfodder
that you have to replace after every damn hijack... it's annoying - instead of sending in a few 5star marines /job done .
good job, mate!
Danke
I don't use the boarding feature of any X games, but this video is superb.
Well done Captain
Thank you Mike! Glad you like it
Yar har ditty dar! Its the pirates life for me!
I think I will try this now, I just made my very expensive asgard, love that ship. So need to try boarding.
I watched this video and liked it. I noticed that you had multiple ships high lighted in your property menu, and would like to know how you did that. So far I haven't found a menu navigation video from you but I am probably better at navigating X4 than TH-cam.
I'm curious what are the guns and turrets on those boarding ships? I have a group of gorgons and a cobra which worked, but it took a long time to shoot down the shield with those. The gorgons have mas driver mk2 which are total crap. What should I use for boarding on them? I fly the Cobra and shoot out all the guns an shield generators, but I will try the auto way you show here. Thank's for the video. Great info.
Hey Captain Collins, what guns are those Cerebus ships firing when you tell them to disable the Phoenix?
Thank you for explaining the Alerts feature. I have seen a lot of advise to go for SCA capital ships but have never actually seen one in game, was wondering how people find them, much less find enough to capture a meaningful number. I assume I just need/want satellites or scouts at gates near SCA stations, and along the highway, etc.?
If you're wanting to dive into boarding even earlier (before you can buy M class ships) the S class Magpie cargo ship has 8 crew and can have you boarding things straight away. You can always hire more marines mid-boarding operation if you go after something more dangerous.
U can hire more marines but u can not update and launch more pods. U have to wait the original boarding to finish and re do it.
Extremelly easy, get early ship Moreya you are given following the Dr Feynmann missions. That ship kills subsystems in a blink and with 30 marines on whatever ships u have u can capture any SCA destroyer.
Also Moreya easly makes lots of minotaur raiders bail out.
4:00 I have my alert set up exactly as shown here but the only alerts I get are for SCA Minotaurs which are M class ships.
Early game I like to be cheap and use M class transports for boarding and small/heavy fighters for disabling. Later on when I have the funds I use freighters, specifically there is an argon freighter that holds over 200 crew. Load it up with marines and you’re good to go.
Yeah, that's really good. But do you then still use fighters for disabling? And welcome on board!
@@CaptainCollins starting out with limited capital I stick to fighters for disabling turrets and engines. They do a pretty good job against transports and miners. They obviously get creamed going up against destroyers.
@@oleandrummer yeah, I use the small fighter with weapons that bypasses shields to kill all of the turrets, then I board the l freighter with M traders xD
after that I use the small fighter with weapons that bypass shield to kill all of the turrets on an l military ship, and use the freighter's turrets to lower the hull and board. then, with an l freighter and an l military ship, I can basically board anything :p
I love your channel! It's always full of useful information. I am wondering though, what kind of chair are you using? It definitely has that space commander feel to it.
Godspeed Captain!
Oh, this is my old chair 😅 an IKEA "Markus". But I got a new one which is way better for my back.
If you go to my twitch channel to the chat and type "!newchair" you will see which one I'm using now (it works even though I'm offline) 😉
@@CaptainCollins that's awesome! I have been looking for a decent chair for a while and want something like the Markus. Thanks again for the reply and safe travels Captain!
@@NCMarksman92 you're welcome Spaceman! And if you use the link you can help out the channel ;)
Thx for this Video, i'm not sure you notice in your video "strong" boarding means high chance of marines to die ( apparently ) everyone do strong or very strong.
And by following this i'm losing 50 to 75% of my marines.
So all boarding guide may be guide to buy canon fodder marines 1star split OR
i'm wondering if i have / want a 5 star marines ? do i go "weak" and put hull to 20% to minimize the loss ? or it doesnt work well as everybody shows strong boarding with 1 500 1star marines ? and not elite marines crew ?
thx for your guides bro, i watch a lot of them :D
Can you disable Weapon of all selected ships (with shift) at once? and the same for assigning marina from all ships?
Not really. Same as you can't change the fly-to arrow for all selected ships at once
Question he just says to move the crew back to your ships before you sell it, how do you do that?
You know you can simply shift-select multiple ships to apply the order to all of them in the list...
what about board at distance, V strong,V strong, dump marines and run ? i pirate in one Argon Shuyaku. can take almost anything even carriers if a couple of those. /shrugs. this alot less work ? yeah i get your showing real way to do it but should have at least mentioned easy method, imho. good video bro. cheers. o7
Seems like i need to go back to x4 after a long break, btw is auxillary ships working now? they did basically nothing about 4-6ish months ago when i tried them.
I don't know. Maybe you could ask that in the discord. Welcome back on board!
Hi I know his is a bit of an old video but I am having alot of trouble with this. I have 65 marines to the enemies 34 defending and yet we lost >,< yes i save scummed but I am confused as to why I am not winning with nearly double the number. the ship hull is at 1% and I destroyed everything on it, but after they board and as they fight I lose ]=
what is the BUC shipyard when you trying to sell the captured ship?
Sharp eyes! This is a shipyard you have to build for BUC in a storyline
I have been playing this game for a while and I love running boarding operations. I always run the operation myself. I have never had one be successful involving multiple ships
Could you say something about the "Shard Cannon". Is it helpfull to lower marines on ships before boarding ?
You know, this is not live. I tried the shard cannon the first time on thursday and I will upload the recording this evening. There will be a lot more about boarding and you see the learning process. So far: shard cannon is strong but the shrapnels are bad and I don't know what you mean about the marines.
@@CaptainCollins I think he mean "If it is helpful to reduce defending marines by making them bail through escape pod before starting the boarding operation?" And YES, it is very helpful, but depending on the target amount it may take a while for the defender to bail out. Also some people said the "Shard Battery" weapon seems to increase the chance for the defenders to bail out, but there does not seems to be any proof to that theory.
Ah okay! That makes sense. Well, got to try that next time :)
Why would you not put the crew back into the boarding ship/s so that they level up?
I'm trying to take a SCA ship right now and I can't change my attacking ship's behaviors. They're all set to target enemy but I can't change them to disable target. Any idea why this is?
I am trying to take over a Xen Destroyer. I scanned it, it only has one person on board. I have disabled the engines and destroyed all the guns, but I am not able to assign any marines to board. Around 6:30 where you grab the slider bar to assign them, it just wont slide. Is it not possible to board these ships? Wtf am I doing wrong? Spend 2 hours trying to get this to work, no success.
Can I ask do you use or recommend using a joystick for x4
I use a gamepad (from xbox) and mouse+keyboard. If you want to use a joystick you still want to keep mouse+keyboard.
i have tried 3 times and it all bugged out. i can see a pod bouncing around and i can't control it....everytime the target ship end up killed before i can even breac....
You forgot to mention to sell all the stuff off the ship before selling the ship. I've made over 15mil from a single ship just selling off all the turrets and shields and such BEFORE selling the ship for another 7mil.
That, good sir, is a phantastic tipp
Wait what!?!? They don’t account for the equipment installed when selling!?!?
@@planexshifter They do NOT. Make sure to sell off all the parts before selling ships when selling L/XL ships. Probably not worth the effort on M/S ships, but your call.
thz for the info ,i setup the alert and every time there is a ship found ,by the time my ships arive thet ship is ot longer SCA ship bit another faction,is it posible thet npc ship board it vy the time i am there,i would understand 1-2 times thet hapens,but i till now i got ore then 10 situations like thet,did i miss somthing or am i doing somthing wrong
No, that's how it works. They cover themselves. You can still see it in their name, it says "Raider" or something, not like the other ships of that faction. If you scan them, they become SCA again.
@@CaptainCollins yea ,later i remember to try to scan them ,but ty anyway ,love your vids
attacking marines: 42/41 someone extra snuck onboards it seems.
Instead of disarming your ships' guns, can't you just switch their behaviors in the Boarding menu? Like change it from "disable target" to something else that doesn't involve them continuously shooting the boarding target?
EDIT: Just remembered two other questions...
Is it possible to board and steal Xenon ships? Is it possible to board and steal space stations?
First question is a WIP as far as I know (Hopefully in 4.0 ships will automatically stop shooting, i hope)...
Xenon ships are AI, so no, they have no corridors/bridges/controls in any traditional sense.
Stations should be boardable, but currently are not, sadly.
I am confused. How do you pause the game? I allways believe XN does not have pause button. Pause take you off screen.
Press "pause" or "break" on your keyboard, it's above "page up" :) cheers!
why cant we have these commands/interface for simply just a normal attack target order? would be nice to send fighters to disable turrets on stations/xenon ships
Anybody know if you can aslo board stations?
That doesn't work. Same with boarding Xenon, also impossible.
How do you pause in the map menu????? I need this so bad and I don't know how!!!!
Press the "pause" or "break" button on your keyboard (above "page up") or reassign it to something else 😅
@@CaptainCollins Thanks so much for your quick response!! I tapped it once out of a guessing scenario and didn't work but I need to investigate further. Might be dirt/dust under that key and may need a few taps. You've got my sub for being so attentive to your viewers. Thank you and keep up the awesome work!!
@@infinitesentient3545 if the button doesn't work set the keybind to something else and thank you for the kind words
@@CaptainCollins Yea, I'm feeling a bit silly for not checking the settings more closely. I think when I see pause in the list my thought defaults to the Escape key standard and glosses over it. I'm also cringing and wondering if I had this option for the hundreds of hours I put into X3, as well as X2. Thanks Cap` 😉👍
Wait.. You can pause the game????
Stupid question, but how do I get my marines back after fight?
They are on the boarded ship (all that survived) and you can transfer them with the "Transfer Crew" command
@@CaptainCollins Thank you dude
12:00 Attacking Marines 42/41 ?
Just lost my game on Geforce now currently cant play. I have space withdrawal symptoms.
Steam sale 30% off ? Maybe now's the time 😅
@@CaptainCollins i own the game just my laptop is shit. My intenet speed however is great.
@@garethbryant2183 hehe, lucky me, my amd r7 360 makes this game just about playable on lowest settings(30 fps in asteroid heavy sectors - 60 fps in empty space), with these launch options(on linux)
RADV_PERFTEST=aco ./X4 -SM 4 -skipintro -showfps
@@damjandjordjevic1994 i have 350mps internet geforce now i can get the best my screen can output.. its not even to bad when i do throw it up on my tv. Geforce now only £4.99 i cant complaint and thanks to it just streaming a stream machine all workshop & dlc are able.
Wait, prisoners??? I've never seen prisoners as a crew thing! Maybe because I have never bothered to capture a ship that I don't notice things like this...
I wish you could go with the marines and actually fight with them.
X5... this... let us participate in boarding missions
wait for Star Citizen
@@wemustbecomemachines2012 XD we got a comedian over here
They should had add the function for automatic stop of fire at the target if marines are in the ship and all requirements are met. What a half finish mess
They are improving on it. The new beta (5) has some of it implemented, so it says that ships stop to shoot when the status of the target changes. Maybe it works for boarding.
@@CaptainCollins oof, at least they doing something. Weird that they deliver unfinished features
Dude, you need to invert your camera, all the text on your jacket/shirt/mug is reading backwards on the video.
I got new inverted patches ;) it's a room/stream design thing why it's that way.
@@CaptainCollins Thanks for the great guides!
how do you make owned ships ?
I think this is simply no more working really with 5.10
Video is not realistic to survival game as the cap has no fighters protecting it, and the cap ship is not shooting you as you fly in. Feels like creative.