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THE WRATH OF CERBERUS - Split Vendetta Gameplay - X4: Foundations Part 8
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2020
- X4 has released their 3.0 update alongside the Split Vendetta expansion. We go forth with a fresh new Let's Play to see how this massive space sim performs under new xeno threats.
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About the game:
X4: Foundations has been significantly enlarged with its 3.0 Update - this is the perfect time for space game enthusiasts to newly discover or revisit the biggest space sandbox this side of the galaxy! Jump into your ship and experience the brand-new storyline "A lever to move the world", introducing diplomatic missions. Become the best pilot out there with our new flight school.
X4: Foundations is the latest title in the popular X series of space simulation / sandbox games, played as action games from a first-person perspective in a living breathing universe, with TRADE FIGHT BUILD THINK as the common tag-line. X4: Foundations is unique in its depth, simulating an entire universe of NPC ships and stations, forming a realistic economy. It consists of a huge universe, simulated from the bottom up. Hundreds of stations, and thousands of ships, trade goods among themselves. Prices change based on supply and demand; resources are mined and processed in several stages. This economy is linked directly to the simulation of major conflicts in a universe with dynamically-acting factions. Every player decision can dramatically change the future of the game universe. Step in and live your very own space adventure!
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You're not going crazy, the video audio gets a bit out of sync near the end - new video editor and I'm still working out the bugs.
you can get your ship captain to fly the Cerberus for you....….then stand out on the flight deck and watch.
Whenever you or one of your ships is told to drop (illegal) goods, it is jettisoned in a lockbox and as they are of your faction they look green to you. So basically you are relooting your own (illegal) stuff. ;)
If you want to do research in the HQ you need to add dock and a storage module to the station to store all the goods then you can add a manager and a trade ship to the station to haul the goods to the station ( don't forget to add money so the manager can buy the items).
After it has brought all the items to the station it can then start research.
Later on you can add refineries and miners to the station and mine directly into the station. Then add processing plants and factories and make the goods yourself.
Even adding shipbuilding (after you get the blueprints of the ships and modules (most are on reputation level 10. But some of the BIG stuff is gated to level 20 ) but that is considered more end game kind of stuff. ;)
There's a keybind to match target speed, super useful when dogfighting. Default is Shift+X. Shift+C drops a flare. Those plus the full stop keybind are great candidates for rebinding. I'm loving this series, keep em coming please :D
hay TobelPlays you might want to add a mod that let's you buy all the seminars at normal dealers, or go to the faction leader you might find a pilot with 2 to 3 stars.
Bro,a word of advice,collect the spacefly eggs. Every 25 eggs allows you to craft 1 unit of caviar. 1 unit of caviar is sold at a million or more to the trader just next to the crafting table.
I keep forgetting to pick them up - I know they're valuable little buggers too.
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I seriously thought I've seen a Stormtrooper in that split second :-)
Glad you are continuing the series I just wanted to say unless they changed this service crew speed up everything a ship does from repairing, mining, turrets everything and if you have a full crew it also increases the experience gain for your crew. I can't wait to see more.
Hey pro tip: if you need a quick million get a courier and go into an asteroid field and look for crystals. You can make so much money in the beginning by hunting for crystals. You can find them by looking for the blinking on distant asteroids.
The reason things are pretty freaking aggressive right now is that the Paranid are having a holy war, against themselves, or the other faction at least, a holy civil war I guess. Anyhow, as long as you don't directly get involved in their military operations you can play both sides, that's what I've been doing. I have a trading vessel doing a regular tour of both sides stations, keeping them supplied with Maja dust and soja husk, and sometimes medical supplies, when the price gets high enough. Doesn't matter if you're a religious nutjob, you still gotta eat... =3
What about the 2 split families are they at war with each other since you start with quite the low rep with them
“Hey go shake down this food trader for me”
Tobel: *Unloads military grade plasma cannons into a civilian transport at point blank range*
That moment was frickin’ hilarious. Keep up the good work dude, haha.
You definitely deserve more viewers, keep up the work.
Finding profitable station opportunities:
1) Encyclopedia>Galaxy>highest trade offers for every sector
2) Shipyard storages. lowest will sell best
Thanks for the vids, I've been in love with the potential of Egosoft's games since first buying X: Beyond the Frontier but I lost faith after Albion Prelude and haven't bought anything since. It's starting to look like X4 may be getting back to what I first loved about the series. I'm looking forward to watching this series as you continue to build an empire.
Had much of the same feeling. X: Rebirth was painful, but X4 (now) seems like we're returning to the glory days.
@@TobelPlaysSims Not being able to pilot (almost) every single ship in the game just isn't an X game IMO (not counting Final Frontier though).
You can assign a ship to your research base so it will go out and buy the materials needed for the research. I think the green lockboxes are ones your ships have dropped, probably during a police stop and search.
Finally! a new episode. I checked your channel daily now. :D
Been waiting eagerly for this episode! Keep up the good work :D
The turbo is your shields :P
After discovering the Split Free Families I immediately sent my trade fleet there to make friends, but pirates allied with the main faction blew up the Genevieve, my oldest medium freighter.
...Things happened and now the Split really likes me and I have mysteriously acquired a whole fleet of Split Dragon class medium gunboats. It turns out when you arm your gunboats to only kill freighters, they get eaten alive by Asps. And if you buy a police license it's perfectly legal to fight pirates, as long as you don't kill them.
After a while I had to take my fleet on the road because it was filling up the entire wharf. Yo ho ho and a bottle of spacefuel...
Dragons really are kinda sucky unless used in swarms: their shield & hull HP are both terrible, tho speed is good! If you want them to survive, at least equip them with Teladi shields.. but for the most part they're really only good for scrappage for cash/parts until someone comes up with a decent 'cavalry skirmisher' fleet AI order IMO.. :(
So my experience with the "waiting for signal" is that they're actually waiting for your signal. For example if you're on a space station and you gave a ship orders without actually being on the ship they'll wait for your signal to leave. You can just open comms to them and tell them to resume active orders.
Yeah or remove the order from the behavior tab
Service crew won't come with or train up piloting: their focus is on engineering. To gain more pilots you have to specifically hire pilots, or train them all the way from wherever their start skill is by having them do piloting jobs, remotely or personally (if the latter remember to actually allow them to pilot you around rather than jumping in the chair yourself & immediately calling up Betty the autopilot :) )
You don't need crew to man turrets: they're mainly there for repairs and/or reassignment as marines or for other abandoned ships
You can't specifically select subsystems of S/M-class ships to target (the XEN P is M-class); only L/XL-class
With that 'find deposit' mission, the key thing to watch for is the required density: you need to place a resource probe within a certain area (that's /not/ highlighted by mission guidance: only the required sector, despite the little yellow marker. Clue: that marker only appears in the centre of the relevant sector; whether or not it's within range of some ore or gases is relatively random) that meets or exceeds the required density. This part can take quite some time!
Those green lockboxes may have been dropped by your Cerb when ordered to drop illegal wares.. or it may be a bug. Dunno as yet: I've not encountered it..
To find eg refineries in the map, type 'refinery' into the search bar at TR of the screen. You'll have had to discover them first ofc, with a scout or by using more, personal LR scans. Don't worry: there are plenty scattered around various sectors, you just haven't found them yet
You can certainly have research resources auto-traded to your HQ, but first you'll need a station manager (the Boron's a scientist not a manager, dammit Jim! ;) ); second you'll need the appropriate storage module(s) built; & third, a suitable trade ship assigned to that manager. The small trade ship would be useful as a minor trader, shuttling e-cells or other small vollume local wares around, but a single solar panel would be v useful to start with as almost everything in the game requires e-cells for its manufacture/construction
Storages are divided into 3 types: solid, liquid or container. Most stations will require more container storage than any other type (note there is no gas storage type despite its harvestability: gases are auto-compressed to liquid form when harvesting for ease of transport). Your HQ will likely require at least 1 of each type; prolly more for at least containers
IME (pre v3.x & DLC) HAT & ANT sell the most b/p vareties, so getting on good terms with both those factions (ie rep 10+) is a good idea, but for basic b/p's go see the Argon rep as IIRC you already have that rank (I think you visited the HAT rep - the lady with the big bush - when you looked at potential b/p buying, hence so few available). Since your HQ is currently located in Teladi space you could also consider buying designs from Teladi: they only require a bunch of cash for initial advancement..
NOTE that different race's b/p's often require different construction materials (& their food requirements differ too, once you start properly staffing your station(s) ), as do their ship/wep designs, so take that into account when constructing your station(s)
When designing freighters, you should have at least 1 bolt turret set to missile defence. While flak deals AoE dmg, it fires too slowly for effective MD, & beam weps do so little dmg that their efficacy is v poor, even vs drones. What's required is something that can escape/evade combat with as little dmg as possible, ASAP, not something that can destroy even small ships (esp any random hostile cop)! You also don't need dock Mk2 on your automated ships unless planning to use them personally at some stage, which can be useful but is unnecessary ATM.. & don't forget to assign cargo & repair drones if you can, plus some service crew to use them should it be necessary
Improved thrusters make the ship more maneuverable in different axes of rotation - useful in a freighter/miner (or indeed any M+ ship) because the game AI for automated ships lines the ship up first before engaging travel drive - while different engine types (& race of manufacture) trade off local/boost max speed & warmup times for travel drive max speed & warmup times. Teladi shields are strongest but have low recharge speed, but hulls (& engines) are v slow albeit with reasonable CC - possibly better as miners; Paranid hulls are a good combination between speed & hull HP for combat ships while tending to be lower on cargo capacity; while Argon's Mercury freighters & Drill miners are excellent traders (ARG combat ships are mostly middle pick overall). Split stuff.. well they have crap hull HP & shields but excellent speed & firepower, reflecting their racial lore traits (like the other major races): Charge in & kill everything, who cares about defence?! :)
Oh, see www.egosoft.com:8444/confluence/display/X4WIKI/M+-+Medium+Ships for some comparisons (sadly not yet updated for Split)
As always appreciate the insight! Unsurprised I got the levelling crew part right! I completely forgot about station managers. I'm not sure if I want to do much with the Boron HQ. It always feels cheetsy
@@TobelPlaysSims Every gamestart gives the opportunity to gain the HQ, which is a v useful factory-setup tutorial, so don't regard it as cheesy/cheatsy unless you're deliberately avoiding it for RP purposes (altho once you've done the initial contact you can pretty much ignore it for the rest if you wish) :)
All fixed deployments (eg minefields, asteroids) tend to only cover the ecliptic of the local system, so it's a valid tactic to power up/down out of that plane to avoid the worst of potential dmg dealt, then max power towards a gate to avoid further dmg
The HQ is also extremely useful for learning about fleet/trade management, & ofc you can't do research without it, so it's kinda necessary. You don't have to choose to turn it into a megafab ofc: you can still place other stations wherever you want & ignore the HQ's potential in that area, or simply use it as a storage station: you do you! :)
The last X game I played was X3 albion prelude and from what I can tell, this game has done a fantastic job of making the grind way less... grind. Gone are the days where the AI offers you a very hard combat mission with 30 minutes on the timer and a 9000 credit payout. Also that Cerberus is a Frigate? I can't believe they've upped the abandoned ships to include frigates and such. Seems like such a powerful acquisition considering it came fully loaded with guns and shields and everything.
theres an abandoned cap ship in one of the xenon sectors
be careful if you want to build maja dust or spaceweed. those are illegal goods in most factions, and you'll need th illegal goods licence if you want to trade those goods in those factions. I think you get it automatically at 20 relationship.
The problem is, 90% of the systems you've been too are virtually unexplored. Id focus on making the fog go away in the next episode :)
watched all the episodes today while i played x4 myself :P, im new to the series and im trying a semi RP run as the free families start. not a hard start but really annoying having to deal with Zyarth everywhere
I see the autosave takes about 10x longer than one would expect on your system as well. I found that the escort AI is simply broken, they take so long to respond to your travel drive that my fighter has literally never showed up to a fight when i was in my cerberus, they always arrive when im flying around looting, or running with 5% hull left.
I'm pretty disappointed in the escort behavior. I was really hoping that would be fixed. Yeah autosave feels like forever.
@@TobelPlaysSims lol i now keep the fighters in my cererus (somehow it can fit 10) so i just get them to dock when i move, and then as i charge into a big fight i press enter and change the fighters section to "undocked" and they come swarming out like a bunch of angry bees and totally obstruct my view. Its annoying that you have to go into that menu to dock and undock them, there needs to be a deploy and recall fighters hotkey.
@@Freelancer604 wait I thought the Cerberus could only hold one? Cheatsies! I've been wondering how to store the fighters
@@TobelPlaysSims Actually i only have two fighters the second one comes up an elevator after the first departs. I thought i saw space for 10 somewhere but dont quote me on that!
I would like to state before making a factual correction that I pre-orderd the game and have over 1551 hours in the game. I have a recent within the week start using Young Gun that I'm up 6m with 2 mining fleets with the acquired abandoned Osprey and Odysseus with a captured Nemesis Sentinel that I captured with the Elite after capping a couple of Minotaur Raiders to sell. All of this in a little over just 3 hours. Most of that being sitting around and doing nothing while miners get me rep. I don't care for the economy stuff at all so I can say that I rely on the AI to do that for me. Having said that I have to know how they work. It's factually correct that Piloting is what determines what jobs or formations they can do. Piloting for those that have played X Rebirth is the combination of Navigation and Combat Skill. Make sure the captain is going into the fourth star. The third star has to be completely filled in. Or It's not going to be able to do a 3 star pilot job. Please note that I do not play with mods.
Also regarding fleets they are better off being left to ai ships only. Or alternatively you need to place a guidance point and autopilot to it. Doing so will keep your ship and the winged up ships together. The problem is the AI does not know how to follow a player because it's no longer following a set script. It's playing catch up and it follows your last action. It can be most visually seen when telling a ship to dock on a frigate and you fly off. It will go to your last location and then fly to you to dock. I hope this clears that up.
Service Crew are used in medium and capital ships to aid in faster repairs. The more skilled they are and the more of them there are the faster the repairs are. Small ships do not benefit from Service Crew.
You can only target surface elements on capital ships. You cannot target the turrets on a medium ship.
@@wolfhound146 "The problem is the AI does not know how to follow a player because it's no longer following a set script. It's playing catch up and it follows your last action." Exactly what I was about to say :)
@@wolfhound146 Small ships do benefit a little from service crew (eg they fix internal components, & gain Eng XP), but they don't help with hull repairs: for that you'll need to manually repair laser while in EVA unless you're willing (& able) to dock to repair, & eat the cost
Oh yeah, ever since the last patch I have a weird bug that makes the panels of space stations unresponsive, this also extends to crew on those stations, my own crew and captains, and the command chairs of my own ships. Usually the ship I am on when the bug occurs works but everything else becomes unable to be clicked and unresponsive. (It fixes itself if I save and reload, but it's horribly annoying.)
I honestly thought this was because of a mod I downloaded off the workshop but you're saying other people have this problem too?
I had the same issue and just using f2 to change my view then return to my personal view usually fixed this issue for a time.
I have it too. A save and reload works just fine.
@@perplexedcats7687 save and reload will take forever bro, just hit f2 f1
@@SherrifOfNottingham Thanks for the tip, but I don't play this game any more.
The star in Zyarth's Dominion is a proto-star. It's a baby star that's acquired enough mass to begin nuclear fusion, but is still drawing in the primordial gasses in the system. Eventually, the ring cloud will be pulled in to the star and add to its fuel.
Unless I'm wrong - & I'm never wrong! (c)Quill18 - about which system you're referring to, the radiation ejecta beams do indicate a pulsar rather than a proto-star. If the background wasn't fixed it would be easier to determine: the ejecta beams should be forming a visible cone as the star rotates so rapidly, hence the visible helix effect towards the end of the beams
@@snafu2350 Pulsars are neutron stars; stars so old, their local gasses have long since dispersed. Since this one not only has an accretion disc, but is also binary with another yellow star, I'd say protostar. If it's also spinning very rapidly, it could also have the beams, though, I don't know if there have been any protostars observed with ejecta.
Visually, it's actually very similar to a quasar, but it's FAR too small for that.
@@criran "though, I don't know if there have been any protostars observed with ejecta" and /that/ is my key point: a protostar won't have ejecta as it's accreting mass, not ejecting it. However, I'll have to refresh the littly grey cells on the other details: it's been 40 years since I thought more than shallowly about astrophysics :)
I think what we're seeing is a Microquasar. The smaller star is actually a black hole with ejection jets. The accretion disc is produced by the black hole being close enough to the companion star to suck away at its matter(which can be seen streaming towards the black hole, especially from a distance). Once the black hole has consumed enough of the companion star's matter it might no longer be able to sustain fusion and implode in a supernova.
Question does the AI know the max range of their weapons? I'm thinking of equipping a fast fighter with only mass drivers...
I don't want to wast those expensive things only for them to fly point blank range to a xenon k!!! 😵
Also how do you rotate the camera in f2 view.
Not really no I bought 2 destroyers 1 split and 1 argon ,they use their big guns from range when they are in rage but continue to travel into melee making them after the first two shots mostly useless unless you have plasma canons for big ships
I need more
Crews help every thing do better but you can do it with just a captain
That mouse thing getting stuck on map is not new sadly. Great videos!
i tried this ship in tutorial
As they sell more, the lower the price
Is that Cerberus location random?
IIRC no, all abandoned ships are fixed and there for the taking with every possible game start.
But that might have changed as I haven't played X4 since before 2.0.
@@Teiwaz111 There are /some/ fixed location abandoned ships (of which this is one IIRC - I think it may be unlocked by the HQ plot), but there are also emergent random abandons due to various battles etc
@@snafu2350 True, didn't think of the abandoned due to bail out ships. But those are mostly S class I think. Can't remember ever seeing M or above that wasn't supposed to always be there anyway.
No, there's always an abandoned frigate spawning in this particular HQ mission near the starting point. Doesn't have to be a Cerberus though, I got a Gorgon instead.
@@Teiwaz111 They certainly exist: take a look at some serious battle sites. However they may be rarer finds, as IIRC M-class ships have a lower chance to bail (& are more likely to be targeted by missiles still in flight immediately after bailing)
Better to leave it in fleet reacts faster
The fighter / fleet AI and commanding in this game is so disappointing. I want to jump into xenon space with a proper carrier task force and smash faces, but the clunky command interface and horrible AI makes that impossible. Fighters have problems docking / undocking, they don't follow commands half the time, they don't stay in formation... the problems go on and on. Until egosoft fixes the fighter behavior, carriers and fighter wings are a waste of time.
Around the X3 era there were excellent modders out there who wrote great scripts to tackle these issues. I don't think they're bothering with X4 though and Egosoft apparently just can't do it themselves.
started playing this game 4 days ago....already have a fully upgraded Cerberus ....2 gunboats fully upgraded and 2 heavy eclipse fighters fully upgraded all in a fleet ...started with 1 billion credits so yeah wasnt hard...il prob start again without the cheat mode lol