A couple of things: - The most imported flight control of them all is Full stop (Backspace) - Throttle control is also bound to the mouse wheel - Aim assist lets your guns behave like the gumball weapons in Elite, allowing you to use the full range of movement of your mouse for maneuvering - deployables and ammo can be bought and sold in the ship outfitter. Save your load out template for easy restocking - Hire-ring crew by talking to them on stations is cheaper then hire-ring trough the ship outfitter - get a captain for your starter ship asap. Then you can stand behind him in the cockpit and let him drive - You cant collide with asteroids right now. AI controlled ships also don`t get collision damage from stations. Its been disabled because of the AI - shift-A is the auto pilot. But it cant dock, fight or use cruise mode on its own. Using an AI pilot is a much better option - from i have found so far Telladi have the best shields, Paranids the best engines, I haven`t really looked at weapons to closely yet
I found this video and it helps a great deal thanks for making it. I subscribed as I like your video and it is clear and easy to follow, unlike some other peoples videos. Thanks
Great Vid dude, I'm sort of a Veteran on space sims as I started playing Elite on the spectrum in the 80's and was hooked, but I had no Idea where to start on this game as it gives you very little to go on. Liked and subscribed
Good intro- well done. Doing the tutorials was slightly frustrating (yup, its Egosoft)....but the game seems excellent. They delivered well this time around.
I just got x4 yesterday, I fly with trackir and a full hotas system. My only real complaint so far is the hyper sensitivity most notable while docking. Adding a dead zone makes things worse. Overall I'm quite impressed.
For people having problems claiming abandoned ships larger than a fighter: 1. Have a crew member on your ship set to marine. 2. Get as close to the ship you want to claim as possible, usually nudge the ships broadside. 3. Target ship and open the context menu for it and select Claim. 4. ?????????? 5. Profit! You should now have a new ship. Note when claiming a ship this way the shield and weapon modules get destroyed, so you must refit it.
I’ve been playing for some hours and didn’t realize the long range scan pings show up on the map! That’s actually really useful! I just ignored it as nearly useless as in previous X games.
Thank you so much - this is fantastic. First X game I've played and this really got me a HUGE headstart. Subscribing in hopes you build on this series! Edit: What was the purpose of purchase the Trading Computer Extension Mk1?
The trading computer extension keeps the buy/sell information live for a while after passing by, to see prices. If you're stuck on an upgrade (I don't show this in the episode, sorry!), right click on it, and click on Encyclopedia - it has more help in there for each upgrade. In previous games it would read them to you, every, single, time you hovered over them. I prefer this version :D
Great review. This looks like the game I had hoped X-Rebirth would have been!! Hope you continue with more episodes. Thumbs up, subbed and hit the bell so i do not miss them :0)
It's definitely a nice successor to X3 (so far!) - there are bugs, but it is Egosoft - i'd expect them to be working on fixing them :D There's already a patch out on Steam with about 10-15 fixes.
Great tutorial. Have already noted down many tips. Also reading all the comments where there is also many tips to be found. X Foundations is my first game that im playing in X space. And i really enjoying it. Even the part where its difficult to get into it. Got already many frustrated hours trying to figure out what to do. Still have my questions but have still more tutorials to watch from you. So i just wait till ive seen them all. And indeed the makers should pay you for doing their miserable tutorial thing. :) With your support this game will be so much better to understand and cope with. And im already addicted to it!!! WTG!!!
If you like the X universe, I'd definitely recommend picking up the Terran War Pack on Steam/GOG. It's often quite cheap, and contains Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude. Much older graphics of course, but lots of mods (and complete conversions) available.
At the moment im totally into Foundation. Enjoying it more and more after each hour im dragged in lol. But i will check your tip so i can learn more about the story behind it all i suppose. Thanx.
Great Video. I plan to get this when I'm next paid on the 5th. I have played some of the earlier games but never really delved too far into it. Therefore I want to really get into this one. I have the time, I just wonder if I have the skill. I think I'll have to watch more of your videos for help.
Automatic Thumbs up for mentioning the original Elite! Helped get Elite for C64 into the U.S. market in the 80s, by working as a consultant for Firebird software, which was owned by British Telecom!
Never heard of the "x" games, just saw this randomly on steam and decided to watch some vids to understand the goal of the game. It seems pretty, thanks for the video!
If you like empire building. Build factory's and buy fleets to manage and sell the stuff (late game thing) or just fly around killing stuff or do all sorts of missions then X3 is excellent and have been playing x4 since launce this one is just more of the same just newer. Ohh yeah and I love it.
I was watching captain shack's stream on this and the biggest issue I have right now is that the ships seem samey. I realize this is just a cosmetic thing, but I think the older games had better ship design. These are all very cubic (not hard lines but they are designed to fit in a cube) I know the freighters are longer, but the capital ships just feel like bigger fighters.
The Mercury freighter is certainly longer - it's not cubic as such. I haven't looked at the rest yet - the starting ships can certainly fit in a cube :)
Thankfully it will have full modding support and workshop access built into the game.. You can bet that within a few months that all of the old ships along with a thousand other sci-fi ships will be addable.
@@EnhancedCognition one of the best aspects of X3 was the modding community. Egosoft is very open to outside creators using their game as a canvas, just give it time. Hopefully we get a stock market soonish.
@@EnhancedCognition They said somewhere that adding ships via mods is likely to not happen any time soon because of how integrated are their ship designs with their in house toolchain and how hard it would be for them offer some of that toolchain to moders. I do hope however that they will though .. I would love to model my own ship.
Thank you for this video, got more useful information out of it then the ingame tutorials. They were rather confusing...or should i say, not really working properly. It would tell me to do things, but would just move along before i even did it...or nothing would happen at all, leaving me confused in what it wants me to do.
Yeah, the in-game tutorials move at a set pace, and if you don't keep up, or go too fast... they break. You can restart them, but they're a little frustrating!
@@grayduster I was doing the tutorial about the scanners. Told me to use the long range scanner, did exactly that, then i said i was suppose to see something blinking on my radar and follow it. Never saw anything on the rader, and the tutorial didn't move on. So i restarted the tutorial, same part, again saying i should see something on my radar. Again i didn't see anything but this time i appearantly looked at the right direction cause the tutorial moved on, saying i could craft things...then, nothing. Didn't move on. How is that helping me as a relatively new player who only dipped his toes in X3 before. After watching this video i understand much more about the long range radar and now I'm just doing a few missions and learn allong the way. Seems to go better then following the tutorials so far.
I guess you already found out that you must check around your ship for the purple circles with there own high pitch sound. They are only visible inside your ship and not appearing on your map. And they will be only visible a little while. Just keep on pinging with your long range scanner. When im following those circles and they seem far away, i just ping them and change to superdrive with shift-1 and when the circles dissapear i change back to the long range scanner (shift-2) and ping again and turn back to superdrive till i reach the destination. Just a tip for you or the ones reading all the comments like i do. There is so much usefull stuff in all the comments!!!
@@gjvb1966 Ah thank you! I didn't know about the purple circles yet. The tutorial was a bit confusing there, and seeing i completed it without knowing what i did i never looked further into it. Thank you very much.
Just found this series, struggling with the learning curve in the game, got my first M fighter but learning to auto trade etc is so much hard work! Thanks for this series, btw, am I the only one who enjoyed docking? I did eventually get the mk2 docking software but long after i could afford it because I enjoyed docking quite a lot, (novelty did eventually wear off though after about 30 docks)
a thing i picked up was if you go to dock while in 3rd person (F2) then your ship autodocks instead of you having to finetune the landing so all you have to do is fly close to the landing spot and your ship will land
That's actually quite nice - I'll still buy the docking computer as it's cheap, but that, combined with making first-aid kits will get you off the ground (no pun intended) with a second ship really quite fast!
I haven't played or even heard of x games I just bought the collectors edition of x4 foundations any tips for a brand new player to the series i haven't started it up yet
I also have a 1080, are you finding in some stations the FPS is dropping as low as 30-40? I think it’s the AI scripts when there’s a lot of landing going on etc
Thanks for making this video. I learned a lot. I'm really new to this game and didn't even know what the ship could do. You mentioned that you didn't get a free key for the game. You should try emailing the companies. I did and got a key for this game and I have half the subs that you do. Also check the webpages keymailer and woovit. I get free game keys from them all the time.
Thanks for this video - I'm considering buying the game but I think I'll watch a few more of your videos before making that decision. Shame they didn't give you a free key as I think you are doing brilliant at showcasing the game.
Hehe, thankfully, lack of free keys does not influence whether I make videos - advertising revenue from TH-cam pays for (some) of that cost! Thanks for watching!
I was honestly considering refunding the game because I couldn't get my head around it with nothing but the ingame "tutorials". I really hope Egosoft spots this series and marks it as some sort of official guide (giving you the credit due of course) Thank you very much for taking the time to make these. Incredibly helpful/useful. cheers.
To what degree does randomness factor into this game? I noticed for example that you knew already that to the left of the starting system is a system with shipyards. Is it the same exact universe each playthrough, or is part of the universe pre-made and rest generated?
First time playing, I glitched through the dock. Then followed another pilot in their ship when they are about to take flight. Ended somewhere near warp gate where I freaked out and jumped out in space suit then got stuck there not knowing what to do. So far from home. Had to restart the game, lucky only couple minutes since start.
I do have a quick little question. Is there a way to view what class a ship is? I used to be able to view a ship's info and see, ah, this is an m3, or m5, and know whether I could take it or not. If I can't remember the difference between a Xenon N and an M, is there any way to see that on ships flying around, or do I just need to go by visual/memory?
The ships are now split into S, M, L, XL (similar to rebirth). Miners, Frigates, Transports are typically medium, starter ships are small - the construction ships are all XL. (Wharfs have the S and M classes, Shipyards have the L, XL classes). I think the symbols on the map will indicate their class, but I could be wrong, I'll do a little research
having to scan stations to get missions is such an odd mechanic it would make much more sense to have the security office or manager present these missions. idk maybe they do.
This is my first X series game, coming from elite dangerous and I am having a hard time getting used to the interface, and figuring out what to do. I have rarely found any missions, and when I do, there isn't a clear marker for the objective, so I am having a hard time doing much of anything. I also jumped into a system and saw a couple of ships fighting so I thought I would choose a side and join in, and got blown up very quickly...But overall, I am enjoying the flight mechanics...just need something to do to get started
Get yourself on the highway near Argon Prime and stay on it - it's a huge ring. Whilst on it, open your mission tabs, and the highway passes near enough stations you can see missions as you go past. I'd recommend the repair or scan missions to start - 130k each, covered in the next episode!
One of the best aspects of the X series is the high barrier to entry. They are hard to figure out if you are new to the series but if you hang in there, once you get on steady feet you'll feel very rewarded for persisting. Not many games have this level of initial challenge and that's pretty refreshing.
It's going to take you a long time to soak it all in. I'm and X3 veteran and after 15 hours I feel like I'm just now getting the hang of it. But like all good strategy games that steep learning curve leads to a very deep playing experience.
Thanks for this series. Allows me a look before I buy. I don't spend a lot on games, I don't have a lot of time, I hate to buy one and find it just annoys. This looks fun! But... turns out my hardware doesn't come close. So I may give X3 a go at least as a delaying tactic until I can justify/afford a beefier box. It's only a tenner too! :-)
Yep - X3 is a good buy for a tenner. Do be aware, it's single threaded, however, meaning that late, late game, performance is slowed down because it can't use more than one of your CPU cores. Shouldn't be an issue for most people :D
@@grayduster Ah - bugger - my "play" machine is a 16-core Xeon! Each core not THAT fast. oh well, for a tenner we'll see. Maybe I swerve towards E:D...
Did my first docking today. Had everything lined up, nice and green. Strafed down bit by bit. Next thing I knew I was bouncing around, flying backwards, and getting half stuck in the dock area. Have the exact same thing happen when taking off. I don't know if there's some wonkiness in how the game reads my joystick or what. But it's very annoying. Wouldn't mind if I was obviously doing something wrong. Then I could correct my mistakes and move on. No way to correct random game behavior. Also, it isn't very easy to set up the controls. It doesn't do a good job of reading the different buttons on my VKB Gladiator NXT.
By the the way, there were jump gates in Rebirth. If you missed the first one you missed out on 2/3 of the game. Additionally, Rebirth was much better after patch 1.14....played over 400 hours myself. In many ways I found Rebirth better then X3...which I also had a lot of hours playing. Anyway, great video...DO MORE!
Landing on moving ships is easy, you dont need advanced docking computers because the larger ships have their own gravity so when you approach them your velocity matches theirs.
I was having trouble with the forward/back direction when trying to dock with another ship (with the landing pad on the outside) - the other directions aren't too bad, so the docking computer just lets you dump it on a pad, and it's not that expensive :D
I am trying to set up my Thrustmaster TM16000M but while I can set up controls the response in game is very sluggish and not at all controllable. Any thoughts?
My only issue thus far is that I rarely get offered missions. So I end up spending a lot of time flying around by stations just trying to find missions. Once I get a small cargo vessel hopefully I will be able to start to make more consistent credits with trading.
Get onto the highway that passes through Argon Prime, and stay on it. It'll run in a large loop, and watch the Missions Offered tab. I'd look out for the leak/repair missions, and possibly scan missions, they're typically 130k ish - but we'll be covering it in the next episode!
@@zsahman1723 Sorry for the delay. It has been a while and I was doing it in Rebirth. I am not sure how anymore. They are not commonly drops though. You get a coupleafew at the beginning of the game. You either select the item in your inventory and choose an action or choose the person in your case whoever is flying your ships and choose the action. Sorry I dont have more.. Just havn't played in almost a year. Got X4 and returned it within the 2 hr limit which is not long enough to really try it. There were enough problems I opted not to keep it. mostly problems with the flight configuration.
The low point of both X:Rebirth and this is the loading time (saving also). Loading/saving is extremely drawn out and takes forever. More mods, more in-game items (ships, wares, encounters, etc) means longer and longer load times. In fact, game start/load/save times are increased compared to Rebirth. Save games at start are only about 200-300m but the game takes a long time to load a save. By comparison, Cities:Skylines saves load 18Gb of mods and assets in less time. Personally, I don't consider xml to be speed/space efficient. 60-66% of the saved game is just xml tags, with 30-33% being the actual save data. NVME SSD with 32Gb of RAM jelly makes no difference...snail-y slowness to start/continue. It is fantastic that there are a few mods which add new areas/sectors but to add them brings the aforementioned start/save delay.
I would like to see the capital ships! Specially its behavior in a fleet! I hope Egosoft didnt place shit like pathing and limited angle for capital ships.
In one of your videos you show using a spacesuit to repair the hull of a station. I found one of those sprking places and went out of my ship and made the repair. When I was done I could hear what sounded like a human male broadcasting that he needed help. if antone could hear him. I coudn't figure out how to communicate to him.. You have any experiance with this? Thanks
You can communicate by finding the right spot. Turn on your spacescanner on with Shift-2 (like on your ship. The spacesuit has also a spacescanner that can be turned on) That way you can find the right spot easier. It will look like sparks flickering or a glowing globe. Get closer to it. If you not see it just get closer to the sound of the noise. The biggest problem is to actually find that spot. Takes me sometimes a hell of a time to find it. Just get close enough and it will automaticly make contact and a screen will probably pop-up where to click F to start the conversation. Good luck with it. And this explorating thing is was i really like in this game. Never know what to expect when exploring a station or datavault or whatever :)
Btw.. with your spacesuit you are able to repair also your own ship if your ship is damaged. Better then to travel around for that spacestation where you can repair. And saves also a lot of money!!! Just use the wrench on our ships hull.
I did x 3 but could never really get into the game I got x4 hoping for an upgraded game and it delivered on that in spades even feels like they improved on the game a lot and the controls feel better i'm excited over the joystick usage considering I've found very few games that allow the use of a joystick beyond elite dangerous. I love the tutorial bit where you go into details that the tutorial in game really doesn't hit on much like the quest markers I've been trying to figure out how to grow faction and get a new ship or gain money with no success at this time I was thinking on returning it but now I've found some tutorials coming up I think i'm going to give it a shot and see if the game can replace the garbage online games that had the features I wanted with a lot I hate. i'm hoping it turns out to be all it says it is if so than it will be one of the best space games I've found to date.
You'll gain faction reputation even by trading/automining from that station, so feel free to move your autominers (or traders) to the faction station you want before starting them up. You'll see it more in episode 3, but they get me to level 10 reputation with Argon pretty easily - that gets you the military license and a better ship :D
@@grayduster Thanks for the info with your intro into how to get the game started and really get into it this has been my first x series game I've actually accomplished some in though not much at this time still it brings the game up to playable I hope your series continues and does great I look forward to more episodes.
Also, how do you transfer cargo from one ship to another? I have both ships docked at the same station and when i select transfer wares, nothing happens
When you scanned, long range scan, how did you know the key to press was "R"? I'm trying to find that and I could not locate it. Also I tried it and nothing happened, maybe I held it down too long
Shift 3 to go into that mode. Hold R and listen. There'll be a tone that goes up in pitch, let go of R when it's at its highest (ish). It's in the in-game somewhat dodgy tutorials (press H for those)
I played for a couple of hours and still getting used to the controls which for me feel a bit weird. I think I played the first one way back when so this is all pretty new to me so I need a lot more time in the game to have a real opinion.
Controls are not clear, especially for new players, no reference page. The first problem I had was firing the gun on the starter ship, 3 shots and it ran out. No obvious recharge option, I therefore had to run. Still haven't worked it out.
The game isn't compatible with the normal Game Capture option in OBS - had to use screen capture for episode 1 - take a look at episode 2 (I change to a different encoding/capture technique then - that should be better)
communicate with a crew member of your ship when it's on the station you want a manager for, tell them to work somewhere else, and choose the station with a role of Manager
If and when and I do, one plays with a controler. There's insufficent bottons to reconfigure general usable configs. IF EGO were to insert into the controller support, the ability to use one of the bottons as a modifer. This game would be considerably more playable.
A couple of things:
- The most imported flight control of them all is Full stop (Backspace)
- Throttle control is also bound to the mouse wheel
- Aim assist lets your guns behave like the gumball weapons in Elite, allowing you to use the full range of movement of your mouse for maneuvering
- deployables and ammo can be bought and sold in the ship outfitter. Save your load out template for easy restocking
- Hire-ring crew by talking to them on stations is cheaper then hire-ring trough the ship outfitter
- get a captain for your starter ship asap. Then you can stand behind him in the cockpit and let him drive
- You cant collide with asteroids right now. AI controlled ships also don`t get collision damage from stations. Its been disabled because of the AI
- shift-A is the auto pilot. But it cant dock, fight or use cruise mode on its own. Using an AI pilot is a much better option
- from i have found so far Telladi have the best shields, Paranids the best engines, I haven`t really looked at weapons to closely yet
Lots of nice tips here, many thanks for posting them!
Nice
_"Hire-ring crew"_
Where on Earth did you learn that? It's "hiring", not "hire-ring"... -.-
@@dxb8086 I am not a native English speaker, and spellcheck said it was like that.
@@ZEROGOKI1983 spell check must not be a native speaker either lol
Fantastic set of start up tutorials - you've saved me hours of floundering around, thanks a million for making these. Can't wait for the next ones!!
For me, you are a new find on TH-cam.
I was looking for good X4 content-
Seems I found it.
Thanks for the help I just got the game and am trying to learn the basics.
You made a good beginner's tutorial for X4! Hard to find one that doesn't skip the beginner stuff. I'll be watching more of yours. Thanks
I found this video and it helps a great deal thanks for making it.
I subscribed as I like your video and it is clear and easy to follow, unlike some other peoples videos.
Thanks
Thanks for the tips! I'm very intrigued by this game and it reminds me of Freelancer in a way.
Ahh, the good old voice acting from Egosoft. Can't live without it.
Alone the first trick with running is awesome. So easy, and so easy to miss. Thanks for the hint. I would not have got the idea.
Thanks for this tutorial, was good getting it refreshed from X3
great video love it as you do go into depth, thank you
Great Vid dude, I'm sort of a Veteran on space sims as I started playing Elite on the spectrum in the 80's and was hooked, but I had no Idea where to start on this game as it gives you very little to go on. Liked and subscribed
Good intro- well done. Doing the tutorials was slightly frustrating (yup, its Egosoft)....but the game seems excellent. They delivered well this time around.
Brilliant tutorial, mate. Thanks a million.
Thank you. I think you just saved my pc from a series injury.
I just got x4 yesterday, I fly with trackir and a full hotas system. My only real complaint so far is the hyper sensitivity most notable while docking. Adding a dead zone makes things worse. Overall I'm quite impressed.
Some very handy here tips here, many thanks.
Good job mate. Looking forward to this game, thanks for the info. I will be keeping track of your channel for updates to this game
oh, and I am pretty sure the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1...though you probably shouldn't know that
Never tell me the odds!
For people having problems claiming abandoned ships larger than a fighter: 1. Have a crew member on your ship set to marine. 2. Get as close to the ship you want to claim as possible, usually nudge the ships broadside. 3. Target ship and open the context menu for it and select Claim. 4. ?????????? 5. Profit! You should now have a new ship. Note when claiming a ship this way the shield and weapon modules get destroyed, so you must refit it.
I’ve been playing for some hours and didn’t realize the long range scan pings show up on the map! That’s actually really useful! I just ignored it as nearly useless as in previous X games.
Just found out that you can get out of the ship in space... Amazing!!!
Thank you so much - this is fantastic. First X game I've played and this really got me a HUGE headstart. Subscribing in hopes you build on this series!
Edit: What was the purpose of purchase the Trading Computer Extension Mk1?
The trading computer extension keeps the buy/sell information live for a while after passing by, to see prices. If you're stuck on an upgrade (I don't show this in the episode, sorry!), right click on it, and click on Encyclopedia - it has more help in there for each upgrade. In previous games it would read them to you, every, single, time you hovered over them. I prefer this version :D
Thanks for this video. I am a new player to the series.
just subscribed, excellent tutorial. I hope you continue the series
The next episode will be out today :D
Good video! Very helpful for first timers! (like myself) Thanks!
Great series. Thanks, chum.
Awesome TH-camr. Glad I found you
Great review. This looks like the game I had hoped X-Rebirth would have been!! Hope you continue with more episodes. Thumbs up, subbed and hit the bell so i do not miss them :0)
It's definitely a nice successor to X3 (so far!) - there are bugs, but it is Egosoft - i'd expect them to be working on fixing them :D There's already a patch out on Steam with about 10-15 fixes.
This is a great series! Thank you. I really like the way you explain things.
Thanks for effort. Great video.
Great tutorial. Have already noted down many tips. Also reading all the comments where there is also many tips to be found. X Foundations is my first game that im playing in X space. And i really enjoying it. Even the part where its difficult to get into it. Got already many frustrated hours trying to figure out what to do. Still have my questions but have still more tutorials to watch from you. So i just wait till ive seen them all. And indeed the makers should pay you for doing their miserable tutorial thing. :) With your support this game will be so much better to understand and cope with. And im already addicted to it!!! WTG!!!
If you like the X universe, I'd definitely recommend picking up the Terran War Pack on Steam/GOG. It's often quite cheap, and contains Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude. Much older graphics of course, but lots of mods (and complete conversions) available.
At the moment im totally into Foundation. Enjoying it more and more after each hour im dragged in lol. But i will check your tip so i can learn more about the story behind it all i suppose. Thanx.
Re Post = I really hope Egosoft spots this series and marks it as some sort of official guide (giving you the credit due of course) = Totally Agree
Only few seconds into video and all ready thanks for settings tips.
Great Video. I plan to get this when I'm next paid on the 5th. I have played some of the earlier games but never really delved too far into it. Therefore I want to really get into this one. I have the time, I just wonder if I have the skill. I think I'll have to watch more of your videos for help.
X-Rebirth started with 4 systems and added 4 between the 2 dlcs. It also had jump gates to travel between them.
this game is awesome so far. i remember back in the day playing Elite from the publishers Acornsoft,Firebird and Imagineer. :) back in 1985 :)
Automatic Thumbs up for mentioning the original Elite! Helped get Elite for C64 into the U.S. market in the 80s, by working as a consultant for Firebird software, which was owned by British Telecom!
I think I only ever played Frontier: Elite II :)
Great tutorial liked & subscribed... 😁👍
As a newcomer to the X Games, you insight and knowledge has been invaluable - Thanks man!
The game looks cool. Gonna buy it definitely
Good guide was handy. No need to avoid those asteroid feild though navigating them is easy even in travel mode.
Never heard of the "x" games, just saw this randomly on steam and decided to watch some vids to understand the goal of the game. It seems pretty, thanks for the video!
It's very pretty :)
If you like empire building. Build factory's and buy fleets to manage and sell the stuff (late game thing) or just fly around killing stuff or do all sorts of missions then X3 is excellent and have been playing x4 since launce this one is just more of the same just newer. Ohh yeah and I love it.
Wow, that was super helpful; answered a bunch of things I was just staring at (new player to the series). Thanks!
Are you liking it so far?
Thank you... good info... clearly explained. :)
The sats, nav and probes are all needed for the main quest .. dont sell them
there is no main quest the one ur thinking of is a short story to get a hq
@@oooweee3192 semantics, the point remains
Thanks for the info I think im gonna buy this game
I was watching captain shack's stream on this and the biggest issue I have right now is that the ships seem samey. I realize this is just a cosmetic thing, but I think the older games had better ship design. These are all very cubic (not hard lines but they are designed to fit in a cube) I know the freighters are longer, but the capital ships just feel like bigger fighters.
The Mercury freighter is certainly longer - it's not cubic as such. I haven't looked at the rest yet - the starting ships can certainly fit in a cube :)
I love this game but i agree fully to your comment. Imo, the older games have more character to their ship designs
Thankfully it will have full modding support and workshop access built into the game.. You can bet that within a few months that all of the old ships along with a thousand other sci-fi ships will be addable.
@@EnhancedCognition one of the best aspects of X3 was the modding community. Egosoft is very open to outside creators using their game as a canvas, just give it time. Hopefully we get a stock market soonish.
@@EnhancedCognition They said somewhere that adding ships via mods is likely to not happen any time soon because of how integrated are their ship designs with their in house toolchain and how hard it would be for them offer some of that toolchain to moders. I do hope however that they will though .. I would love to model my own ship.
Thank you for this video, got more useful information out of it then the ingame tutorials. They were rather confusing...or should i say, not really working properly. It would tell me to do things, but would just move along before i even did it...or nothing would happen at all, leaving me confused in what it wants me to do.
Yeah, the in-game tutorials move at a set pace, and if you don't keep up, or go too fast... they break. You can restart them, but they're a little frustrating!
@@grayduster I was doing the tutorial about the scanners. Told me to use the long range scanner, did exactly that, then i said i was suppose to see something blinking on my radar and follow it. Never saw anything on the rader, and the tutorial didn't move on. So i restarted the tutorial, same part, again saying i should see something on my radar. Again i didn't see anything but this time i appearantly looked at the right direction cause the tutorial moved on, saying i could craft things...then, nothing. Didn't move on.
How is that helping me as a relatively new player who only dipped his toes in X3 before.
After watching this video i understand much more about the long range radar and now I'm just doing a few missions and learn allong the way. Seems to go better then following the tutorials so far.
I guess you already found out that you must check around your ship for the purple circles with there own high pitch sound. They are only visible inside your ship and not appearing on your map. And they will be only visible a little while. Just keep on pinging with your long range scanner. When im following those circles and they seem far away, i just ping them and change to superdrive with shift-1 and when the circles dissapear i change back to the long range scanner (shift-2) and ping again and turn back to superdrive till i reach the destination. Just a tip for you or the ones reading all the comments like i do. There is so much usefull stuff in all the comments!!!
@@gjvb1966 Ah thank you! I didn't know about the purple circles yet. The tutorial was a bit confusing there, and seeing i completed it without knowing what i did i never looked further into it. Thank you very much.
Just found this series, struggling with the learning curve in the game, got my first M fighter but learning to auto trade etc is so much hard work! Thanks for this series, btw, am I the only one who enjoyed docking? I did eventually get the mk2 docking software but long after i could afford it because I enjoyed docking quite a lot, (novelty did eventually wear off though after about 30 docks)
a thing i picked up was if you go to dock while in 3rd person (F2) then your ship autodocks instead of you having to finetune the landing so all you have to do is fly close to the landing spot and your ship will land
That's actually quite nice - I'll still buy the docking computer as it's cheap, but that, combined with making first-aid kits will get you off the ground (no pun intended) with a second ship really quite fast!
Finally, a decent start up tutorial! Thanks for this, because I'm new to these games and I was starting to become irritated!
It does get better, and once you're used to the flight modes, you'll be flying sideways, power sliding through jump gates :D
I loved X`Beyond despite the limitations, I hope they built upon that.
I haven't played or even heard of x games I just bought the collectors edition of x4 foundations any tips for a brand new player to the series i haven't started it up yet
I also have a 1080, are you finding in some stations the FPS is dropping as low as 30-40? I think it’s the AI scripts when there’s a lot of landing going on etc
I read in another post that shadows cause a major performance hit. Esp around stations. You can disable them if you need to.
how do you scan stuff? like structures and ships and the like..is it automatic once im in scan mode?
Thanks for making this video. I learned a lot. I'm really new to this game and didn't even know what the ship could do. You mentioned that you didn't get a free key for the game. You should try emailing the companies. I did and got a key for this game and I have half the subs that you do. Also check the webpages keymailer and woovit. I get free game keys from them all the time.
Thanks for this video - I'm considering buying the game but I think I'll watch a few more of your videos before making that decision. Shame they didn't give you a free key as I think you are doing brilliant at showcasing the game.
Hehe, thankfully, lack of free keys does not influence whether I make videos - advertising revenue from TH-cam pays for (some) of that cost! Thanks for watching!
I was honestly considering refunding the game because I couldn't get my head around it with nothing but the ingame "tutorials". I really hope Egosoft spots this series and marks it as some sort of official guide (giving you the credit due of course) Thank you very much for taking the time to make these. Incredibly helpful/useful. cheers.
Hi GrayDuster -- don't suppose there is a way to print off the keyboard controls (ie cheat sheet) is there?
To what degree does randomness factor into this game? I noticed for example that you knew already that to the left of the starting system is a system with shipyards. Is it the same exact universe each playthrough, or is part of the universe pre-made and rest generated?
The sector map is the same, but the positions of the stations in each sector may be different.
@@grayduster Are sectors those hexagons you move between? So in essence does everyone play in the same universe?
i'm from the ADAMA school, it's all hands ON !!! call the ball !
Thanks very helpful.
First time playing, I glitched through the dock. Then followed another pilot in their ship when they are about to take flight. Ended somewhere near warp gate where I freaked out and jumped out in space suit then got stuck there not knowing what to do. So far from home. Had to restart the game, lucky only couple minutes since start.
I'd like to see where abandoned ships are located. So far I haven't been able to find any myself.
Found one in a minefield in Antigony memorial. Needs to be claimed from ship with a marine on board. Can be done in the discover.
Ohh yeah and it's a Drill (mining ship)
I do have a quick little question. Is there a way to view what class a ship is? I used to be able to view a ship's info and see, ah, this is an m3, or m5, and know whether I could take it or not. If I can't remember the difference between a Xenon N and an M, is there any way to see that on ships flying around, or do I just need to go by visual/memory?
The ships are now split into S, M, L, XL (similar to rebirth). Miners, Frigates, Transports are typically medium, starter ships are small - the construction ships are all XL. (Wharfs have the S and M classes, Shipyards have the L, XL classes). I think the symbols on the map will indicate their class, but I could be wrong, I'll do a little research
Open the map legend top right corner. See the ship icons. Or, click on a ship and then push i or schift i, I belive. Check settings controls general
Excellent. Thanks
having to scan stations to get missions is such an odd mechanic it would make much more sense to have the security office or manager present these missions. idk maybe they do.
First thing I would buy in x3 was a triplex scanner. I haven’t found anything like it in x4 so far
This is my first X series game, coming from elite dangerous and I am having a hard time getting used to the interface, and figuring out what to do. I have rarely found any missions, and when I do, there isn't a clear marker for the objective, so I am having a hard time doing much of anything. I also jumped into a system and saw a couple of ships fighting so I thought I would choose a side and join in, and got blown up very quickly...But overall, I am enjoying the flight mechanics...just need something to do to get started
Get yourself on the highway near Argon Prime and stay on it - it's a huge ring. Whilst on it, open your mission tabs, and the highway passes near enough stations you can see missions as you go past. I'd recommend the repair or scan missions to start - 130k each, covered in the next episode!
One of the best aspects of the X series is the high barrier to entry. They are hard to figure out if you are new to the series but if you hang in there, once you get on steady feet you'll feel very rewarded for persisting. Not many games have this level of initial challenge and that's pretty refreshing.
@@SAVikingSA eve online 2.0
It's going to take you a long time to soak it all in. I'm and X3 veteran and after 15 hours I feel like I'm just now getting the hang of it. But like all good strategy games that steep learning curve leads to a very deep playing experience.
i feel exactly the same i really like the visuals gameplay etc. but i dont know what to do nad i dont have any missions at all
Thanks for this series. Allows me a look before I buy. I don't spend a lot on games, I don't have a lot of time, I hate to buy one and find it just annoys. This looks fun! But... turns out my hardware doesn't come close.
So I may give X3 a go at least as a delaying tactic until I can justify/afford a beefier box. It's only a tenner too! :-)
Yep - X3 is a good buy for a tenner. Do be aware, it's single threaded, however, meaning that late, late game, performance is slowed down because it can't use more than one of your CPU cores. Shouldn't be an issue for most people :D
@@grayduster Ah - bugger - my "play" machine is a 16-core Xeon! Each core not THAT fast. oh well, for a tenner we'll see. Maybe I swerve towards E:D...
Thank you for tips.
Did my first docking today. Had everything lined up, nice and green. Strafed down bit by bit. Next thing I knew I was bouncing around, flying backwards, and getting half stuck in the dock area. Have the exact same thing happen when taking off. I don't know if there's some wonkiness in how the game reads my joystick or what. But it's very annoying. Wouldn't mind if I was obviously doing something wrong. Then I could correct my mistakes and move on. No way to correct random game behavior.
Also, it isn't very easy to set up the controls. It doesn't do a good job of reading the different buttons on my VKB Gladiator NXT.
First thing I do is allways get a pilot, before I undock! He can land the ship better...
By the the way, there were jump gates in Rebirth. If you missed the first one you missed out on 2/3 of the game. Additionally, Rebirth was much better after patch 1.14....played over 400 hours myself. In many ways I found Rebirth better then X3...which I also had a lot of hours playing. Anyway, great video...DO MORE!
If only X3 gets the engine improvements of X4/Rebirth while keeping the core.
No more Aldrin Springblossoms colliding on a station on undock.
@@Aereto Springblossoms...so much great memories aboard that ship and her starburst shockwave cannons =')
I would have fun in rebirth, if it wasn't a one-ship game like Darkstar one. I had better times playing spaceforce rogue universe than xrebirth.
Landing on moving ships is easy, you dont need advanced docking computers because the larger ships have their own gravity so when you approach them your velocity matches theirs.
I was having trouble with the forward/back direction when trying to dock with another ship (with the landing pad on the outside) - the other directions aren't too bad, so the docking computer just lets you dump it on a pad, and it's not that expensive :D
I am trying to set up my Thrustmaster TM16000M but while I can set up controls the response in game is very sluggish and not at all controllable. Any thoughts?
@LH Streaming Not too sure. I have the steam version and updates are automatic. I will look for the patch
Very helpful thanks
Ty so much for this .
My only issue thus far is that I rarely get offered missions. So I end up spending a lot of time flying around by stations just trying to find missions. Once I get a small cargo vessel hopefully I will be able to start to make more consistent credits with trading.
Get onto the highway that passes through Argon Prime, and stay on it. It'll run in a large loop, and watch the Missions Offered tab. I'd look out for the leak/repair missions, and possibly scan missions, they're typically 130k ish - but we'll be covering it in the next episode!
I have found a few thing's called seminar gift Piloting. I also have moral and such so on. How do I apply them? or they just to be sold?
You use the to train a crew member... save them for a Nav, Capt, or Combat officer who has less than great skills.
@@sigvar6795 How do I use them? any ideas? Also. Hello fellow eve player. lol
@@zsahman1723 Sorry for the delay. It has been a while and I was doing it in Rebirth. I am not sure how anymore. They are not commonly drops though. You get a coupleafew at the beginning of the game. You either select the item in your inventory and choose an action or choose the person in your case whoever is flying your ships and choose the action. Sorry I dont have more.. Just havn't played in almost a year.
Got X4 and returned it within the 2 hr limit which is not long enough to really try it. There were enough problems I opted not to keep it. mostly problems with the flight configuration.
@@sigvar6795 That's fair man. Thanks for replying tho. Cheers bud!
The low point of both X:Rebirth and this is the loading time (saving also). Loading/saving is extremely drawn out and takes forever. More mods, more in-game items (ships, wares, encounters, etc) means longer and longer load times. In fact, game start/load/save times are increased compared to Rebirth.
Save games at start are only about 200-300m but the game takes a long time to load a save. By comparison, Cities:Skylines saves load 18Gb of mods and assets in less time. Personally, I don't consider xml to be speed/space efficient. 60-66% of the saved game is just xml tags, with 30-33% being the actual save data.
NVME SSD with 32Gb of RAM jelly makes no difference...snail-y slowness to start/continue.
It is fantastic that there are a few mods which add new areas/sectors but to add them brings the aforementioned start/save delay.
I would like to see the capital ships! Specially its behavior in a fleet! I hope Egosoft didnt place shit like pathing and limited angle for capital ships.
There was about 15 Jump gates in Rebirth if you had all the expansions.
In one of your videos you show using a spacesuit to repair the hull of a station. I found one of those sprking places and went out of my ship and made the repair. When I was done I could hear what sounded like a human male broadcasting that he needed help. if antone could hear him. I coudn't figure out how to communicate to him.. You have any experiance with this? Thanks
You can communicate by finding the right spot. Turn on your spacescanner on with Shift-2 (like on your ship. The spacesuit has also a spacescanner that can be turned on) That way you can find the right spot easier. It will look like sparks flickering or a glowing globe. Get closer to it. If you not see it just get closer to the sound of the noise. The biggest problem is to actually find that spot. Takes me sometimes a hell of a time to find it. Just get close enough and it will automaticly make contact and a screen will probably pop-up where to click F to start the conversation. Good luck with it. And this explorating thing is was i really like in this game. Never know what to expect when exploring a station or datavault or whatever :)
Btw.. with your spacesuit you are able to repair also your own ship if your ship is damaged. Better then to travel around for that spacestation where you can repair. And saves also a lot of money!!! Just use the wrench on our ships hull.
I did x 3 but could never really get into the game I got x4 hoping for an upgraded game and it delivered on that in spades even feels like they improved on the game a lot and the controls feel better i'm excited over the joystick usage considering I've found very few games that allow the use of a joystick beyond elite dangerous. I love the tutorial bit where you go into details that the tutorial in game really doesn't hit on much like the quest markers I've been trying to figure out how to grow faction and get a new ship or gain money with no success at this time I was thinking on returning it but now I've found some tutorials coming up I think i'm going to give it a shot and see if the game can replace the garbage online games that had the features I wanted with a lot I hate. i'm hoping it turns out to be all it says it is if so than it will be one of the best space games I've found to date.
You'll gain faction reputation even by trading/automining from that station, so feel free to move your autominers (or traders) to the faction station you want before starting them up. You'll see it more in episode 3, but they get me to level 10 reputation with Argon pretty easily - that gets you the military license and a better ship :D
@@grayduster Thanks for the info with your intro into how to get the game started and really get into it this has been my first x series game I've actually accomplished some in though not much at this time still it brings the game up to playable I hope your series continues and does great I look forward to more episodes.
seta was my best friend in albion , you gotta love watching those space rasta taladi spending their money on space weed
Also, how do you transfer cargo from one ship to another? I have both ships docked at the same station and when i select transfer wares, nothing happens
figured it out. you have to be in space and each ship has to be piloted by an NPC.
Thanx for the tip!!!
thanks...I'm going to hate that.
Shift+D to teleport back to ship.
I was frustratingly wondering why I kept randomly teleporting back to my ship for hours.
thanks so much for this
If this is a starter guide. how can i dock at Paranid or Split sectors as enemies at the start of the game ???
Can you walk around on your ship while in space? Can you explore the bigger ships? Is things like beds useful (I'm assuming there is some)
Not exactly - you can walk around set areas on larger ships, that are linked by a transporter room.
I've remembered the Teladi (predominantly female space-side) to be more reptilian on the head at X3 and before.
Dragging the mouse to steer seems like a pain. A flight stick would be really nice
When you scanned, long range scan, how did you know the key to press was "R"? I'm trying to find that and I could not locate it. Also I tried it and nothing happened, maybe I held it down too long
Shift 3 to go into that mode. Hold R and listen. There'll be a tone that goes up in pitch, let go of R when it's at its highest (ish). It's in the in-game somewhat dodgy tutorials (press H for those)
Went back in and tried again, no result during long range scanning when pressing R.
Love your videos on this game, thanks! I found it, on my game it is my secondary fire button. I must have remapped that when I set up my T16000M FCS
I played for a couple of hours and still getting used to the controls which for me feel a bit weird. I think I played the first one way back when so this is all pretty new to me so I need a lot more time in the game to have a real opinion.
I am playing the game and i need some advice. I have this burning itchy sensation between my toes. Any Help with this issue would be cool! THANKS!
Athlete's Foot powder - yellow canister, second shelf from the top. Spacesuit boots cause it. Terribly itchy, easy fix!
@@grayduster THANKS MAN!! Subscribed!
Controls are not clear, especially for new players, no reference page. The first problem I had was firing the gun on the starter ship, 3 shots and it ran out. No obvious recharge option, I therefore had to run. Still haven't worked it out.
Is the graphics stuttering an artifact of the stream or is that happening in game?
The game isn't compatible with the normal Game Capture option in OBS - had to use screen capture for episode 1 - take a look at episode 2 (I change to a different encoding/capture technique then - that should be better)
Please do you have on any of your video's, info about hiring a manager?
communicate with a crew member of your ship when it's on the station you want a manager for, tell them to work somewhere else, and choose the station with a role of Manager
If and when and I do, one plays with a controler. There's insufficent bottons to reconfigure general usable configs. IF EGO were to insert into the controller support, the ability to use one of the bottons as a modifer. This game would be considerably more playable.
God damn boy 11k views good job
Lots of people like X4 it seems :D
@@grayduster 11h later 20k :P
it looks decent kinda like a mini star citizen but those frame dips are bad should i wait to buy it to see if they fix that issue ?
Take a look at later videos (episode 8 or so) - nvidia released new drivers. It runs at 70 FPS or so for me, on a 1080
@@grayduster ok awesome still on part 2 Haha I was worried about that for a second