X4: Foundations

coming back to this game in 2026 was like shooting myself in the head

Been playing this game for awhile now and with the 9.0 patch, I gotta say this is definitely one of the best space games out there currently. The new flight model update makes just being a pilot and flying around the universe achieve objects way more fun, I can just do a whole playthrough as a pilot instead of a manager of sorts... BUT stay away from this game if you cannot stand clunky UI... it is a bit of a headache to get around at first, but if you can stomach it and get used to it, the game is just the best space war sim you can find on the market right now. I am an avid Star Citizen player, but this is where I go when I get tired of the bugs in SC and want to have a bug free experience and play a game that is kinda like what SC aims to become. I don't recommend playing with heavy game changing modlist atm as the current updates make the game way better and is better balanced than what is out there right now... but light QoL mods are nice to have.

> Join the Terrans, support their economy, find out you are their economy. > Baby sit Hatvika, receive no thanks because the closest station that wasn't deleted by an I is 30.1km away, obviously. > Set up your own basic resources production, slowly ramp up to have your own shipyard and make a run ending amount of cash. By the time you get there you have so many Khaak up your mining ships' thrusters, you forget about selling anything and build each miner his own death ball fleet instead. > Start a quick game to play the HOP storyline, it's been 50hours, progress 0%, you have yet to get to a HOP gate. > When you're through with the gate network there's always SWI. + See that thing you don't, like, someone made a mod for it. + Edit a bunch of XML after seeing a guide, you've made a mod for it. The Bad. + The AI is absolutely retarded sometimes - As time goes on more and more of the AI is yours + There are mods for this - Mods can only do so much, there is no AI to fix, just a pile of scripts. > Eventually you get to a point where your PC can't handle the 100.000 entities moving around anymore. + Your own expansion is probably to blame (What's the hour count like on that save, be honest.). - Sometimes you get a strong incentive to let the game run during the night + There are mods for that (You were doing it to yourself anyway).

Наконец то купил нормальную версию. Играл пару лет назад. 6 часов - пройдено всё обучение. Это всё, что нужно знать о глубине этой игры

**Edit: I tried this with Star Wars Interworlds for another 16 or so hours. Figuring out insurance billing would still be more fun.** Welp, I spent a hell of a lot of money already, and I can't return it. The voice acting on Timelines is all done by AI, and it's very, VERY bad. I am forced, I'm sure deliberately, to make a choice between playing a black man, or a white woman on the new expansion. I want to see ultramassive black holes and amazing space phenomenon. So far, the most interesting thing going on is I've been tasked with blowing up a rival space marijuana facility. I COULD DO THAT AT HOME. The game moves slow as molasses no matter what Open Universe start I try and a lot of it again appears to be a menu simulator. (It STILL edges out Bethesda's space game because at least I'm actually FLYING a SHIP in this game, but come on, so much of it is just a spreadsheet management.) The music is somehow even MORE boring than Inon Zur's soundtrack. I would never have purchased if I had any idea this was what the experience would be like right after finishing the tutorials, it looks nothing like the cool cutscenes in the advertisements in the steam store. I'm going to try the Star Wars mod because it might rescue this from being a total waste of my time and money. I would like Egosoft to do better than their best in the future. I would like them to do okay.

What a wonderful game! You can easily sink hundreds of hours into it. However, it's not for everyone, and performance becomes an issue in the endgame.

After all this time, this game is still absolute, overly complicated, convoluted garbage.

So far it's hard to recommend X4 Foundations. I bought the pack with all the main DLC to experience the complete game. Did all the basic tutorials as recommended, and started with Timelines terran as recommended as a way to get into this game as it has a steep learning curve. I've now been stuck for hours on an impossible task to build a dock on a station with zero guidance or way to do so. Materials I don't have, no satellites to deploy to increase range and nobody available to actually build this. In a hostile sector where I'm killed the moment I fly away from the station and no jump gates to get back. This is just a boring, miserable fight to try and figure out mechanics to play this game. The fact this game has been around so long, but singularly fails to guide players properly on basics like adding a dock to a space station is pathetic. I've begged for some help now on the discord as my last resort. But have wasted a couple of hours on this crap and honestly don't recommend this torture to anybody. If I get past this I may revise my rating, but at this rate I'll be packing this in and it will be $27 wasted.

It’s a good game. However the UI needs to be way easier to navigate for people it’s a maze and it’s mind numbing. Can we please have this adjusted. It’s really hard for me to keep coming back to this game even though I desperately want to make it work for my saves but I just have so much trouble navigating through your UI. Otherwise the game is a banger!!! Please add more quality of life features check your YouTube video and shorts comment section once in a while.. Cheers gang

Absolutely phenomenal game, start off small, grow big. Fly around or manage from the map. It's totally up to you.