I always recommend grabbing a flight stick to anyone that's been bitten by the X4 bug. ED's combat doesn't really compare. One of my favorite engagements was saving a recently purchased, at the time anyway, L-gas miner from an I-destroyer reeking havoc in the Void. Only had 10 S and M ships close enough to intercept in time. I set half to attack my target and the other half to defend me, and believe it or not, we actually bought the miner enough time to get its travel drives online without a single casualty. I always tell people to not be afraid of losing ships and to write them down, your loses are often times more interesting than your victories. Looking at my notes I almost forgot about the "Defeat at Family Nhuut". I'd haphazardly tried to reclaim the sector from the Xenon, as the tip of the spear targeted their shipyard, I'd two destroyers rendezvous in the rear. When I was ready to integrate them into the main attack a K had already flanked them. Hastily i took command of one as the K delivered the deathblow to the Behemoth and began to slowly rotating its main battery into range. After my weapons over heated I charge it at full speed to buy more time, and while this dance was going swimmingly, my main attack force is being flanked by Ks and Is causing them to flee into the Shipyards defenses. Long story short; this lead to a full retreat and I had to refocus my approach to a containment strategy while I rebuilt my forces for a second push that eventually reclaimed all the lost sectors and claimed my new main base of operations in Family Zhin. What's cool is either of these could easily be dramatized into the highs and lows of a larger story but they can just organically happen to anyone in X4 or you can just sit in an elevator on a station staring at the map if you so choose. Heroes of the Defeat at Family Nhuut: *MQT-069* Valiantly sacrificed themselves to aid in the retreat IUC-104(GO) Valiantly sacrificed themselves to aid in the retreat VQK-127 SPD-621 QXR-170 XWP-945 MLS-137 WKW-463(OS) OXA-794(OS) VIF-429 EPR-666
On my save, I'm friendly with teladi, Argon, split, and windfall factions. Terrans at war with Arg ANT, and paranids at war with EVERYONE. after completing multiple major missions. My universe is absolutely insane, massive fleet battles everywhere. My main stations are all in 3 silent witnes, and president's end. Almost 2k hours in save. You can accidentally make your universe passive with mission choices.
Excellent game! I've had it since 2021 and unfortunately life kept getting in the way of me really buckling down and learning. Now im finally engulfed. And it comes at a time when I've transitiomed from being an engineer to a business owner. I find that it reinfoces business thinking. I actually have it up playing while I work. And that's another cool thing about it. You can sit and let it run if you have things setup well and just jump in when you have time or need to resolve and issue. If you stresm X4 you've got a new sub.
X4 Foundations in my opinion is the best and ultimate space simulation game to date. It has a very steep learning curve. For the casual player that just want a quick pew pew pew session this might be a letdown as it will take many hours to get to know all the mechanics of the game and the beginning of the game is a bit of a grind. I think the expansion Timelines attempted to solve this problem, I don't think it succeeded if it was the goal of the expansion. However, there are multiple tutorials that the game provides to assist you. If you enjoy space simulation games, strategy, tactics, economy, ship and station building, empire building, aliens, epic space battles, exploration etc. (Not possible to explain everything) you cannot pass up on this one. In conclusion X4 Foundations is the best space simulation game to date the con is that you will need to invest at least 100 hours in the game to be able to say whether it is for you or not. Egosoft has a passion for their product, they care for their customers, and it shows!
I got it early this year and it took a while to wrap my head around it, but the Terran assisted start with the narrative focus for newbies helped. Only got 40 hours in before getting distracted by other games; need to get back to it sometime.
My jaw dropped when i saw that i can walk on capital ships WHILE they are getting attacked, seeing the battle from aboard. It's really epic. The game has flaws, sure, but no other game can offer this experience.
I always recommend grabbing a flight stick to anyone that's been bitten by the X4 bug.
ED's combat doesn't really compare. One of my favorite engagements was saving a recently purchased, at the time anyway, L-gas miner from an I-destroyer reeking havoc in the Void. Only had 10 S and M ships close enough to intercept in time. I set half to attack my target and the other half to defend me, and believe it or not, we actually bought the miner enough time to get its travel drives online without a single casualty.
I always tell people to not be afraid of losing ships and to write them down, your loses are often times more interesting than your victories. Looking at my notes I almost forgot about the "Defeat at Family Nhuut". I'd haphazardly tried to reclaim the sector from the Xenon, as the tip of the spear targeted their shipyard, I'd two destroyers rendezvous in the rear. When I was ready to integrate them into the main attack a K had already flanked them. Hastily i took command of one as the K delivered the deathblow to the Behemoth and began to slowly rotating its main battery into range. After my weapons over heated I charge it at full speed to buy more time, and while this dance was going swimmingly, my main attack force is being flanked by Ks and Is causing them to flee into the Shipyards defenses. Long story short; this lead to a full retreat and I had to refocus my approach to a containment strategy while I rebuilt my forces for a second push that eventually reclaimed all the lost sectors and claimed my new main base of operations in Family Zhin.
What's cool is either of these could easily be dramatized into the highs and lows of a larger story but they can just organically happen to anyone in X4 or you can just sit in an elevator on a station staring at the map if you so choose.
Heroes of the Defeat at Family Nhuut:
*MQT-069* Valiantly sacrificed themselves to aid in the retreat
IUC-104(GO) Valiantly sacrificed themselves to aid in the retreat
VQK-127
SPD-621
QXR-170
XWP-945
MLS-137
WKW-463(OS)
OXA-794(OS)
VIF-429
EPR-666
On my save, I'm friendly with teladi, Argon, split, and windfall factions.
Terrans at war with Arg ANT, and paranids at war with EVERYONE. after completing multiple major missions. My universe is absolutely insane, massive fleet battles everywhere.
My main stations are all in 3 silent witnes, and president's end. Almost 2k hours in save. You can accidentally make your universe passive with mission choices.
Excellent game! I've had it since 2021 and unfortunately life kept getting in the way of me really buckling down and learning. Now im finally engulfed. And it comes at a time when I've transitiomed from being an engineer to a business owner. I find that it reinfoces business thinking. I actually have it up playing while I work. And that's another cool thing about it. You can sit and let it run if you have things setup well and just jump in when you have time or need to resolve and issue.
If you stresm X4 you've got a new sub.
X4 Foundations in my opinion is the best and ultimate space simulation game to date. It has a very steep learning curve. For the casual player that just want a quick pew pew pew session this might be a letdown as it will take many hours to get to know all the mechanics of the game and the beginning of the game is a bit of a grind. I think the expansion Timelines attempted to solve this problem, I don't think it succeeded if it was the goal of the expansion. However, there are multiple tutorials that the game provides to assist you. If you enjoy space simulation games, strategy, tactics, economy, ship and station building, empire building, aliens, epic space battles, exploration etc. (Not possible to explain everything) you cannot pass up on this one. In conclusion X4 Foundations is the best space simulation game to date the con is that you will need to invest at least 100 hours in the game to be able to say whether it is for you or not. Egosoft has a passion for their product, they care for their customers, and it shows!
Is there leeway to do like a pacifist Syarfleet option? Where you just build, fly and explore?
I got it early this year and it took a while to wrap my head around it, but the Terran assisted start with the narrative focus for newbies helped. Only got 40 hours in before getting distracted by other games; need to get back to it sometime.
@MattLathrum I'm loving it, even when I get frustrated. Course, I'd probably be a lot further along had I not gone to war with the Terrans.
I mean, after 400>+ hours, I _knew_ you were going to say "yes," haha. I just wanted to hear what you liked about it.
My jaw dropped when i saw that i can walk on capital ships WHILE they are getting attacked, seeing the battle from aboard. It's really epic.
The game has flaws, sure, but no other game can offer this experience.
Now you can mod it and rack up another 1400 hours :D
Orson is the true leader of your empire and you know it. The one major issues with X4 is there is no option to sample Tussok.
I thought about mentioning that.
@@honglongwuxia Orson's leadership deserved to be mentioned! Plus Discount Orson's help as economic and military adviser.
No is not worth it
Why not?
@@honglongwuxia sorry thats my SPED nephew hes a little slow