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Is there a simple to read complete list of 9.00 changes/additions?

I just want a full list of complete changes for 9.00 from 8.00 in simple easy to read format is this available anywhere?

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What's your favorite start?

I typically went Young Guns for years But Hat Start is my Favorite. I wish all the starts allowed players to pick an avatar and use it for all the starts. But a Budgeted Start is fun also.

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Sticky

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What is what on a station? (when scanning))

Hello, I want to use EMP bombs to obtain a module, e.g. Storage. 1. I approach an unknown station and turn on scanning — but how am I supposed to know which module I’m currently passing over? Is it Habitation, or maybe a Defensive Module? Or maybe it’s Storage—but Liquid instead of Solid? How can I know what I’m looking at? 2. Another thing: when I click with the mouse on the station, I get info about the whole station (e.g. its name and scan progress) — how do I deselect it? I jus need modul...

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Ricardo

4 hours ago

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8 people found this review helpful

Not Recommended

224.8 hrs on record

Posted: 1 June

This game could be the best space game ever made (BUT) right now, I’m done forcing myself to play it.

X4 has some of the best-looking ships in any space game. The scale is incredible, the capital ships look amazing, and the combat can be genuinely awesome when everything finally comes together. The problem is that the game gives you all these beautiful ships, fleets, carriers, destroyers, and battleships… but almost no meaningful reason to actually use them.

That is what kills the experience for me.

War should matter. Building a fleet should matter. Owning powerful ships should open the door to exciting, dangerous, rewarding gameplay. Instead, most of the time it feels like I am creating my own fun while the game refuses to give me a real reason to fight. The universe has all the tools for epic space warfare, but not enough motivation, reward, or consequence behind it.

Even bounty hunting feels bad. If one of my fleet ships gets the kill, it does not even count properly toward my police license reward. Why build a fleet, then punish the player when the fleet does its job?

Guild missions are also not worth it most of the time. If I lose even one fighter during a combat mission, the reward often does not cover the loss. That makes combat feel pointless instead of exciting. I should be encouraged to take risks, use my ships, and go to war — not punished for engaging with the most cinematic part of the game.

This is the frustrating part: the game is so close to greatness. The ships are there. The combat is there. The sandbox is there. But the reasons to use those things are weak.

Until this changes, I’m keeping my negative review. If the developers finally make war, bounty hunting, guild missions, fleet combat, and late-game military gameplay actually rewarding and meaningful, I will gladly change this to a positive review and call it one of the best space game ever made.

But right now, it feels like the game gives me a legendary fleet and then forgets to give me a war worth fighting.

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Large queue of ships for buiild storage

Did you changed something? I"m used to build rather large stations. But now... I 've planed a station. It requires approx 10-20 full XL cargo ships. Part of supply I've planned with my ships, also added money to build storage account... And I saw a large queue of L ships to the station's build storage. THe queue lasted for more then an hour. L ship undock is so long... I can't be sure, but as long as I remember, I had no such situation before. I guess, it took much less time for L ship to dock and undock...

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Babay

5 hours ago

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Гайд по манчкинизму

Это руководство направлено на использование существующих механик ванильной игры для получения дополнительного профита или удовольствия. Может быть интересно как тем, кто только начинает, так и уже имеющим в своем активе покраску секторов и нуждающихся в до

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List of controls ( yes I know it's X3 but you can remap them link in description.)

Dirca

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Not Recommended

26.3 hrs on record

Posted: 29 May

This game looks great fun and is beautiful. I really wanted to enjoy playing this game. I have tried for over 20 hours to get one moment of enjoyment out of it. I have not done that for even a second. There was always one more small problem to be fixed before I could get into it and enjoy playing. These problems were nothing to do with getting it to work on my PC, they were all with the gameplay.

Every little thing you need to know to be able to play the game requires you to stop playing the game and look up what to do elsewhere (the game tells you nothing). You then go back to the game, play for three seconds and discover another problem that requires you to stop playing and look up what to do elsewhere. The tutorials are plain useless and require you to stop playing the game to go back to them. If you have forgotten one slight part of the extremely dense tutorials, you have to stop playing the game and go and do the tutorial again. This means that 20 hours of play I have is actually easily double that in looking things up to try and work out how to do anything.

The developers apparently decided that 'gameplay' should include playing unpaid tech support for brain-dead AI pilots. I commissioned an automated mining ship, and the game let it sit idle in space for hours without a single error message or notification. It didn't tell me it lacked a mining laser. It didn't tell me it couldn't find resources. It didn't tell me it couldn't find somewhere to sell the resources when I finally got it to mine some. It just sat there silently wasting my time while I had to guess the hidden mechanics.

X4 doesn't have a learning curve; it has an interrogation policy. It hides its basic rules, ignores your controller inputs until you find a hidden master switch, and forces you to constantly look things up on a wiki just to make a basic menu function work.

I am not exaggerating when I say that at no point in 20 hours of playing did I actually play for more than 1-2 minutes before I had to look something up because something wasn't working and I didn't have any clues in game as to why not or what to do about it.

Baked Beano

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Recommended

216.6 hrs on record

Posted: 3 June

For beginners:
Try to hire a captain for the boat to operate it for you, and ‌play‌ the Officer Cadet mode first. Forget about earning money for now. Just do whatever you like. Focus on the main tasks. Hurry up and get the Hyperion ship and the space station.

Good luck for you!

Nova

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All 30 Datavault Locations (Timelines) & X-TREME Combat Rank Strategy

Introduction / Einleitung This guide covers the two rarest challenges in X4: Foundations: finding all 30 datavaults for the encyclopedia and reaching the ultimate combat rank X-TREME. Dieser Guide hilft dir, alle 30 Datentresore zu finden und den Kampfrang...

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