Recent reviews by BakedBaker

It is with sad tidings for me to NOT recommend, and strongly so at that, X4 Foundations. I am standing fan of X series and have always been able to enjoy every aspect of them EVEN X Rebith after it was polished up was a good game no X material in my opnion but fun but I shall list fof numerous issues to help people make a choice if this is a game worht getting or not at the time.

I find myself constantly lagging ONLY after I try to dock to do anything without being in my ship about thirty seconds in crippling 1-2 fps slams me. Tried everything EVEN upgraded my GPU and CPU to a 8 gb capable beast and a FX 8350 OC to 5.1 ghz(yeah I overnighted them just thinking I was out of date!) and set settings to low and I still can't even progress faction upgrades/missions because evidently we were LIED to about not having to EVER set foot on stations to complete missions or play the game which is also a huge negative point simply for a outright lie from intial announcement trailer.

I enjoy flying around scanning and reading lore, dogfighting and, for what little I can do without docking for long, even starting my minitrading empire. I wish I could do more and I won't refund this because I love the X series and know they will eventually fix it but EgoSoft needs take a step back and address critical progression flaws and optimization of memory leakage and cpu usage further before you and anyone else reading this buys it. OH and they need to apologize for lying outright about NEVER having to board a station to do ANYTHING it's right there in the revealer/showcase trailer they said as much so yeah there ya go for proof. Now if you already have it avoid stations and you'll be fine fps drop wise.

I don't recommend this game to any self respecting human being as this is a severely flawed product that seems to continue to get worse after every update.

Desyncs. Controller desyncs are nonexistent now after three months however server desyncs for online matches, regardless gamemode is a more severe problem now. These always culminate into simple slow/intermittent connectivity for random players to even point no hosts being selected because was "no suitable" hosts.

Onto our more fun issue of prestige and locked weaponry, this affects all sides and is a known chronic issue. After updates level 0 bug is still popping up but not as often.

I have sank over 120 hours into this game. That's a odd bug but it doesn't bother me mainly because if you launch multiplayer portion first seems to record no play time sometimes that and play time barely means much.

New bug to upate with, contracts aren't recording any changes so multiplayer is pay to win in order to even unlock materials/weapons/camos. This bug strikes at random and there seems to be no reason for it.

Decent game in the works, the devs are really coming along with content and updates. Only gripes are general ones due it being a alpha. I recommend this to anyone into survival games.