X4: Foundations

Ugh.. as a new player this brutally boring and just not fun. Taking hits to your ship slows it down.. what!? I had to continually keep trying to speed up 10 hours and have not found 20 minute of actual fun. It's all forced and what seems to be hardcoded on/off situations. I have played EVE and Star Sector and had way more fun in both of those. Too bad because the concept is really cool.

I've really wanted to like this game, but it's just too obtuse, with awful mission design, and fairly shallow flight combat. It's clear that the main thing with the game is playing the map, managing AI, and treating it purely as a sandbox, and for those things it's probably a great game. But not for me - doing any of these missions seems to be an absolute chore where you just fly for 5-10 minutes, then listen to a bit of dialogue, then fly another 5-10 minutes, and then get told to scan for data leaks or something and spend the next 30 minutes looking for god knows what.

This game is just terrible

Невероятнейший кал, где ничего не понятно, не советую

No, no lo recomendaria, el tutorial es claramente insuficiente, los menus son un batiburillo incomprensible, sin ningun tipo de logica, saber lo que tienes que hacer se convierte en cada paso en una odisea, lo menos intuitivo que he visto en mi vida.

Unfortunately, X4 just misses about every possible beat; as wide as a medium-sized pond, as shallow as a swamp. Setting annoying bugs aside, the whole game feels rather lackluster and is normally gated behind some form of mechanic. [b]Let's use mining as an example.[/b] There's plenty of guides out there explaining how mining works, right from soloing asteroid feels all the way to self-sustained mining fleets complete with stations. Sounds great. Problem is, to get past the manual phase and into automation requires your pilots to be of a specific skill level, that level, even with mods, is inherently slow. So let's say you assign a miner (Solid/Gas, doesn't matter) to your station, they need to be a specific skill requirement to do prospecting. You can't have them locally automine, because they can't find the right rocks. Research. That's another fun topic: requires resources delivering to your station, but it's another tedious and slow process that requires money and ridiculous amounts of patience. There is also no story in X4, albeit a very loose one. As you progress from the game, regardless of start, you will slowly unveil (or be forced) to have specific events happen. There is a particular event in this game where, no matter what, you end up with a free station. Just no explanation, poof, it appears - do some minor annoying side quests, here's a station. The bugs are few and far between, but some can be quite gamebreaking. An example is when you have a relief Captain aboard your fighter towards the start of a new run. Sometimes when you ask them to get space-bound, they just randomly clip into the station and get stuck. Very annoying. I think apart from all that, the game is relatively good looking, has decent soundscapes and for the more patient player, probably rewarding. To me, X4 is just very lackluster in a lot of areas and I constantly find myself thinking "when does the fun begin?" and that is a bad sign from a game. Sorry Egosoft, please do better on X5.

This game is amazing… until the ship AI ruins it. The depth is immense. The galaxy is fun to explore, the missions are interesting, and building your own trading empire, stations, fleets, and economy can be incredibly satisfying. When everything works, X4 feels like one of the most ambitious space sandbox games ever made. But the ship AI is a constant source of frustration. Capital ships behave unpredictably, fleets make terrible decisions, friendly fire can spiral into disasters, and missions can break down because allied ships or your own ships do something completely stupid. Instead of feeling like an admiral commanding a growing empire, you often feel like you are babysitting broken automation. There is an amazing game here, but the AI problems seriously damage the experience. I want to recommend it because the scale and depth are incredible, but after too many moments where bad ship AI ruined hours of progress, I can’t. Not recommended unless you have a very high tolerance for jank and frustration.

Je débute mais je m'accroche pour continuer à apprendre et cela malgré mes 59 ans.

Начнём с простого. я не играл в игру наверное больше года из за проблем с пк. И по возвращению я начал играть как обычно через землян и ставить свою экономику и захват секторов просто играю как в песочнице без какого либо сюжета если только минимум и по итогу мне надо было найти сув. Раньше я без проблем за часик другой собирал и исследовал у босса та и проблем нет всегда самый гемор был с повреждённым сингулярным двигателем но как я уже писал за час другой находил. Сейчас я не смог его найти уже вторые сутки. Извините за выражение я ♥♥♥ знает. Это одно. В результате поиска решений всё таки заглянул в вики местную которая обновилась и посмотрел что через фарм ксенонов можно. Взял катану и заметил у неё дичайшую энерцию прям ужас как будто я на L летаю но это ещё ладно. Как всегда поставил двигатели паранидские, и на мезонках полетел бить ксеносов. Когда я встретил простого PE и залпа с одной мизонки фактически 0 урона выходило а со всех 4 я ему меньше половины щитов сбивал еле еле.После этого у меня бомбануло так как если посмотреть 2.5-2.7 ляма за пушку жирно и хотя бы должно урон наносить но нет.Страшно подумать что они с асгардом сделали.Желания играть больше нет.

Ich würde das Spiel echt gerne mögen, aber es frustriet mich jedes mal wenn ich neu anfange. Ich kann nicht mal in Worte fassen, was alles passiert ist, und warum es mich so nervt, aber am einfachsten erkläre ich es so. X4 ist wie die Deutsche Bürokratie, man versteht den Prozess, die Vorgänge, aber es legt einen immer wieder Steine in den Weg, und verkompliziert einfach alles. Ps. wer Rechtschreibfehler findet, darf sie gerne behalten. :P