X4: Foundations - Mount and Blade with space-ships. Now with significant Beta update

[Zarniwoop]

You can set game to 720p on low and my gpu can't go past 15-20% of use and game FPS is then mostly limited by CPU performance as CPU % goes to 100% not by GPU itself.

So your CPU is 20% used but the CPU is the bottleneck?

Got it

 

[Perkel]

So your CPU is 20% used but the CPU is the bottleneck?
Got it

Ur mom is 20% used. Learn to read nigger.

so should i even start to play it with 7700HQ and 1060 6GB?

7700HQ should be fine even doing big empire just don't expect 60fps once you do that.

 

[tindrli]

25 is just fine for me

 

[Perkel]

X4 going places people actually started to create content for it:

 

[Eli_Havelock]

X4 going places people actually started to create content for it:

Woo, it's about time the community really started back again with that kind of thing. As if Rebirth wasn't bad enough to the series and community, Ketraar attacking the fan sites like Roguey's was the chef/don's kiss of X community management.

 

[anvi]

Meh

 

[Tweed]

Is it good yet?

 

[Perkel]

Is it good yet?

It is really good right now.

 

[Zarniwoop]

At this rate, only 5 more years until it has the complexity X3 had at launch.

PROGRESS!

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

why do you care for its complexity when the game leaks and slows to a halt before reaching it?

 

[Perkel]

why do you care for its complexity when the game leaks and slows to a halt before reaching it?

It got much better with every huge patch. At release performance of both graphics and simulation was pretty horrible but with each expansions they upgraded they engine and it allows for much bigger wars, more stations and so on.

 

[Blake00]

Also keep in mind X3 was not a shinning beacon of stability and polish at launch either lol. We all have positive memories of it because of what it became after endless patches and addons. And even then there are still some old diehards who think X3 was worse than X2 lol (no I'm not one of them although I do have a soft spot for X2).

Love it or hate it, it's pretty much Egosoft's MO to release a mess of a game with a grand vision resulting in everyone screaming about how the previous game was better, they then spend the next 3-4 years fixing and adding to it until you get a pretty awesome final product, then the process repeats itself lol.

 

[Perkel]

X3 outright doesn't have collision prevention feature which means that all of your fleet would just crash and destroy each other when you move them. If you have like 20 buzzards if you move them at least few will be destroyed. And god help you if you try to do that with whole fleet. Which is why later on people just used cap ships instead of smaller ships.

It took a long time for modders to figure it out and dev behind LU overhaul managed to do it after like 12 years.

Also SETA. Whole game was designed around it and it was painful to actually play it yourself. Getting from one side to other side of sector could literally take half an hour in slow ship without seta. Now with X4 travel mode you basically don't need seta. IT is still there though for those who want to skip some time.

 

[Perkel]

boarding tutorial for 5.0

 

[anvi]

I wonder if they ever considered hiring a programmer.

 

[exe]

They made some new expansion for X3 recently, how was that? Does it have some campaign/missions or proper interesting exploration? Or is it just more of the same meaningless sandbox about spamming trader/factory so you can spam more trader/factories?

 

[Joggerino]

Wasn't that just a patch?

 

[Perkel]

They made some new expansion for X3 recently, how was that? Does it have some campaign/missions or proper interesting exploration? Or is it just more of the same meaningless sandbox about spamming trader/factory so you can spam more trader/factories?

It was not Egosoft made expansion but essentially officiated fan created expansion.
As for how it plays i didn't play it myself but i heard pretty good reviews from people i know.

Basically if you want to play something close to vanilla + years of fan created fixes/upgrades etc. without going into total overhaul territory like Litecube or Xtended.

 

[tindrli]

They made some new expansion for X3 recently, how was that? Does it have some campaign/missions or proper interesting exploration? Or is it just more of the same meaningless sandbox about spamming trader/factory so you can spam more trader/factories?

It was not Egosoft made expansion but essentially officiated fan created expansion.
As for how it plays i didn't play it myself but i heard pretty good reviews from people i know.

Basically if you want to play something close to vanilla + years of fan created fixes/upgrades etc. without going into total overhaul territory like Litecube or Xtended.

is there a review?

 

[Volrath]

Still no Boron?

 

[Perkel]

Still no Boron?

nope.

 

[mikaelis]

Perkel Any opinion on REALSPACE MODS for X4 (Galaxy remake: STARS, Engines Mod and X4RSGE) ?

I am thinking about starting my X4 after decade on hiatus from X universe and I am not sure how to do it. This mod(s) raised my interest, but maybe I should just start Vanilla with expansions?

 

[Perkel]

Perkel Any opinion on REALSPACE MODS for X4 (Galaxy remake: STARS, Engines Mod and X4RSGE) ?

I am thinking about starting my X4 after decade on hiatus from X universe and I am not sure how to do it. This mod(s) raised my interest, but maybe I should just start Vanilla with expansions?

I wouldn't try that on your first go into X4. It is changing way too much.
Just give default X4 with all expansions a spin even without mods it is great game.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

They made some new expansion for X3 recently, how was that? Does it have some campaign/missions or proper interesting exploration? Or is it just more of the same meaningless sandbox about spamming trader/factory so you can spam more trader/factories?

it's interesting, some nice new features. Focus more on exploration and "expansion". Cool new ships too.

 

[Country_Gravy]

Will this game ever be worth a buy?