X4: Foundations
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:22 am
On a whim, I bought this late Saturday night (actually early Sunday morning) as, although I hated rebirth, I really enjoyed the original game. It was such a massive scope with you owning massive factories/spaceports and a fleet of ships.
So starting up and first impressions are it reminds me so much of no mans sky (the good bits) crossed with Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen.
It has bugs but EgoSoft tend to be quite good in eventually nailing them down.
Playing it is pretty hard. There must be more keys than Elite. I struggled to get my HOTAS working so stuck with keyboard and mouse and it actually worked out quite well.
I'm still only a few hours in and have had fun just exploring stuff. Finding new sectors, tackling a few criminals, trying to complete missions, trying to spacewalk (god that inertia!), buying new ships and trying to fight the god awful UI.
Simple things are not simple as they should be. It might all suddnly click but trying to find things out is a task. Thank god for youtube and reddit.
I've left the game running whikst I'm at work to see how an AI handles autotrading. I have a feeling they're going to cost me money as I haven't setup things like satellites to monitor prices.
I was thinking about trying out trading mysefl but I can't find anything obvious that would make money. The stations that specialise in certain items don't seem to sell them cheap. They're all over the average price. Again, I wonder if the lack of satelittes is killing it. It seems that the map has a fairly easy UI to see prices all around but nothing is a real profit maker. Maybe I need to buy larger traders with thousands of tons spare to see the profits?
I've yet to make my first million.
So starting up and first impressions are it reminds me so much of no mans sky (the good bits) crossed with Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen.
It has bugs but EgoSoft tend to be quite good in eventually nailing them down.
Playing it is pretty hard. There must be more keys than Elite. I struggled to get my HOTAS working so stuck with keyboard and mouse and it actually worked out quite well.
I'm still only a few hours in and have had fun just exploring stuff. Finding new sectors, tackling a few criminals, trying to complete missions, trying to spacewalk (god that inertia!), buying new ships and trying to fight the god awful UI.
Simple things are not simple as they should be. It might all suddnly click but trying to find things out is a task. Thank god for youtube and reddit.
I've left the game running whikst I'm at work to see how an AI handles autotrading. I have a feeling they're going to cost me money as I haven't setup things like satellites to monitor prices.
I was thinking about trying out trading mysefl but I can't find anything obvious that would make money. The stations that specialise in certain items don't seem to sell them cheap. They're all over the average price. Again, I wonder if the lack of satelittes is killing it. It seems that the map has a fairly easy UI to see prices all around but nothing is a real profit maker. Maybe I need to buy larger traders with thousands of tons spare to see the profits?
I've yet to make my first million.