What is X4: Foundations? BUILD (Part 3 of 6)

[@MenWithVen]

Bernd baby bernd! More Bernd vids. I enjoy his calm informative style. I had his livestream on replay to help me learn the basics.

[@worldpeace1822]

Colesykins how could explain building better than the builder :)

[@bcgambit80]

Great showcase as always, Bernd. Thank you and your team for over 20 years of fun and exploration in the X universe. As a fan, it's been an amazing journey watching the X universe evolve.

[@iUniversEi]

Thank you so much, Bernd! Back when I first played X4 in version 1.50 I didn't get that far because of bugs and so I did not know these menus and features exist. Your videos definitely make me want to play again and try to somehow live with or work around the bugs (if there aren't fixed already anyway). It looks like very lovely game design - I really like the ideas and details.

[@artean4700]

Station building in X4 is superb!

[@ynemey1243]

The station building is the greatest thing about the X series. Bernd is a visionary to have come up with such a unique idea 25 years ago.

[@efxnews4776]

To be honest, i find this anoyng, to me they could simplify the whole damn thing and just sell stations in the same way they sell ships, I would trade all this for a better told story and companions with a background history, so on and so on... in other worlds, less RTS elements and more RPG elements . Theres no such game in the market and have never been before. Egosoft has all this potential in their game now to make and Witcher space game, but its a wasted potential throw out in the window for the sake of showing "mechanics". It is still a incredible game, but could be so much more...

[@KrotoMax]

Thank you for making such informative videos!

[@sheppardsg1gaming582]

Do not stop with X games production 4th one is my fav so far beside 3 :) Maybe next update go dow on planets and build there that would be neat these are the games im happy that i support with buying :) + Devs care too +++++

[@JezzaL]

These are fab. Also, daunting as anything. I love how complex the game is (got my proper start in X2) but that complexity is also kinda scary. My only quibble is the AI feels VERY menu heavy, not that user friendly and does look very much like a UI built by an engineer (I'd link to the SMBC comic...) and very intense. Now, that appeals to some but an accessible menu system, something like I-War 2 which had a pretty nice navigable menu, could make things easier to manage. Or an RTS style build menu. Beyond that, i want to buy this and get into it, but I always get stuck BEFORE getting crazy rich and being able to just auto run a Crystal / Solar farm / Meat farm cycle :D

[@shepard77]

one important thing they didn't mention, is if you use "Preset for all station modules" set it to Low, Medium or High and don't adjust modules manually after that. If you try to adjust even a single module manually after that, the preset will reset to CUSTOM and all your new modules,will come with empty slots. The Highest Preset, however, doesn't fill all the slots on defense modules. So you'd have to think, either you want to use one of the pre-made presets (Low, Medium, High), or change some specific module manually and then make copies of it, that way all the slots that you fill manually, will also stay filled in the copy.

[@BlackAus07]

This is on my list of games to play i cant wait bought it already i reallly hope the explore part is gonna wow me so far im impressed

[@AlexanderWeixelbaumer]

Wow, havn't played X for a long time. I remember buying factories and they just delivered with a big cargo ship where you could watch the huge package unfolding itself.

[@Voidfarer84]

Looks very impressive! I wonder what these guys could do with Star Citizens budget! I am a Star Citizen backer btw 8)

[@psvialli]

They would make it playable lol and want me to redownload it again !

[@wiktorwektor123]

Star Citizen, biggest scum in game history. Have fun with your VERY expensive GPU benchmark.

[@MD4564]

@@wiktorwektor123 X games have not always have the best either, especially their previous games. My friends PC for example at the time on his X3 save game was verry laggy.

[@wiktorwektor123]

@@MD4564 I've never said their games are The Best, but at least finished and playable which none of this you can apply to Star Citizen.

[@XxKidnoffxX]

@@wiktorwektor123 Star Citizen is playable, and not released. I don't know what you need more of that. It suppose to be released arround 2022, so it's stupid to say a game is not finished, when this game is under developpement and not released lol.

[@Sharlenwar]

Holy crap, such depth to this game. Definitely going to have to dive into this game again.

[@Symbine]

would love for the x series to eventually have fully design-able ships. pick a cockpit, peripheries( wings, connecting structures, cargo blocks) engine placement, gun placement, sheild placement and turret placement. eg: I really like the Buzzards cockpit, how about we put a pulsars wings on it, give it 4 engines and three sheilds. And just for the fun of it lets stick a solid storage with a mining laser inbetween the engine and cockpit. I realise that this isnt balanced and would need to be an endgame thing. and obviously the ships would need to be redone with a snap-on system. (say this cockpit, the buzzard has two side snap-on points). and you would need to be able to reverse engineer to learn how to build the parts.

[@Assassin5671000]

Not really needed to be honest . Also that is far fetched concerning how little people play it

[@BlakesSanctum]

wow! this is the kind of station building I dreamed of having playing X2 and X3.

[@stormquiver]

is there a way to flip components on stations? say like, attaching production modules to a lower part of the station. took a while to learn how to spin objects.

[@sergeysmirnov1062]

Wait, you can automate moving stuff into the build storage with cargo drones? How? I've tried for idk how long to automate that

[@dirtybeatfreak]

Yep, and if your stations are close enough (25km) you can also use drones to move wares between the stations too.

[@sergeysmirnov1062]

@@dirtybeatfreak Nice! May I ask how I set them up to do that? I currently am building a mega-factory and not having to manually ferry like... 30k hullparts would be the best.

[@AlexisyFR]

Any way to have an example of a basic self sufficient Wharf/Shipyard?

[@PT-rg2vo]

Thank you Bernd :)

[@mick7727]

So how do I increase my pilots', crews' skills without ventures? I'm not interested in online gameplay at all.

[@aeontiv]

I can't figure this out either and would like to know. Trade ship has 1 star and I have to manually tell it where to go. Have sent it on at least 10 trade runs and still 1 star. Now the trader is just sitting in a dock somewhere indefinitely until I figure it out lol

[@Agrargorn]

@@aeontiv right now you have to rely on mods for this if you want them to increase their skill on their own, or you buy seminars, but thats a bit tedious, if you want to upgrade every crew member

[@egosoft]

They go up with risky actions. Note this is for ALL crew not just for the pilot. So a very easy method (currently) is to pack a destroyer full of crew and send it to destroy lots of small Xenon ships. For every hit they earn a bit of XP

[@aeontiv]

@@egosoft thanks tip! I would suggest allowing them to gain skill from non combat actions too, even if it's slower. In reality, you don't send a trucker (trade ship equivalent) to ride in a troop transport across seas to fight in wars. Yes he will gain some skills, but it won't help his driving skills any ;)

[@mick7727]

@@egosoft awesome, thank you for the taking the time to respond :)

[@markhackett2302]

It appears that cargo drones WON'T supply from the station reserves to fulfil a build request.

[@admiralrob777]

Hi Egosoft what start is the 3.0 beta live stream you did in nov 14th 2019 of the split that not in my game 39:29 of 54:33 and thanks for the hard work.

[@egosoft]

Hi Rob, in that stream we played a Split version of the so-called "fight demo" that you can also find in the base game after 3.0. We did this demo in a Split environment for trade shows like gamescom and Tokyo Game Show which we attended last year in order to promote Split Vendetta.

[@dogfuntom]

It's not just yet another X. It's also the EVE Online minus the 'mandatory online' and the 'mandatory interacting with other people'. X + EVE - MMO = perfect game.

[@JerryKanMan]

I always loved EVE but wanted to direct AI to my bidding and not have player griefers messing around as well as being able to pilot ships in the first person. X4 met all of these needs for me perfectly. Going on 40hrs now and just got it last week.

[@wiktorwektor123]

If some one who played as me in Eve Online asking me how I would describe X4 in 1 sentence my response is "Eve Offline".

[@metacube9913]

Ok weeb

[@aitchh9244]

can you actually walk round your bases or is it just for show?

[@athina1008]

Thanks!!!

[@NapFloridian]

I bought the ultimate edition of X4 when it came out, it was such a pain to play as at one point the economy would just crash and the game would become stuck as nobody needed anything... Stations around the universe became empty and there was really no economy at all. At that that point I stopped playing as it was clear that the game was not ready... I wonder if after almost 2 years this was finally fixed, as I never heard back from anybody reporting on it. Also once you reach a specific level in the game you get swarmed by NPCs and destroyed with little to no way around the fact that you will have to start over.

[@olihoernli]

Well you decide how your universe develops

[@corsonebula]

You make your story, it never starts the same way, the invasions are always different, the economy is never the same! To give you an idea, at this point I have a save of 50 hours, and in this save the beginning had something I was not expecting, the Teladi razed the Xenon in three sectors, my God, the power they had was impressive at the beginning of the game, something i had never witnessed. This game is never the same, play as many times as you play ; )

[@ZlothZloth]

You've still got another DLC coming, don't you? Maybe you should wait for that to show up.

[@reimuhakurei2208]

@@ZlothZloth it might take more than a year for a dlc to show up...

[@aY227]

Music title from background, please.

[@egosoft]

The tracks used in this video are "Turquoise Sea", "Last Farewell" and "Federation Lost". All from the X4: Split Vendetta soundtrack, available on Steam (store.steampowered.com/app/1277600/X4_Split_Vendetta_Soundtrack/), GOG (www.gog.com/game/x4_split_vendetta_soundtrack), Amazon (www.amazon.com/X4-Split-Vendetta-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B086RPFP9L), Apple Music (music.apple.com/album/1505881801?app=itunes&ls=1), Spotify (open.spotify.com/album/3PpCBZajEZW7AxToWhnSHS) and many other shops and streaming services.

[@aY227]

@@egosoft Last Farewell Still game version is... not sure how to describe it - lighter. Anyway, good guy Egosoft. (please add full hud to 3rd person view ;p )

[@efxnews4776]

And here i am with almost 200 hours and i never even saw this logical overview menu before...

[@VadioRk]

I believe you need pull fews modders and make some series as well , mods its that make X-series move over decades

[@drakehyena4632]

The player HQ is so frustrating, to the point where i droped the game. Please remove the fixed position for the player HQ and lets us chosse a place to build it. The fixed position takes away the freedom of choice, so it doesn't feel like my hq in the game, when i can't decide where to set it up and when my player faction is at conflic with the teladi it's even more of a problem. Otherwise it's good to see that the game got improved so much.

[@NapFloridian]

it basically forced you to never fight the Teladi... making it a little "Obvious" what the game wants you to play or how it wants you to play. Its a sandbox but not really.... if you know what I mean

[@olihoernli]

They're working on it to replace it

[@XenonLxx]

I'm playing the split gamestart where you begin as a enemy with ZYA and have a quest to capture the three argon sectors above the split territory. I cannot get my research done because to reach the HQ my freighters fly through argon territory even if I blacklist everything and they get yeeted. A function to move the HQ is badly needed.

[@olihoernli]

@@XenonLxx get under -20 and you're not getting attacked unless you attack them That mission is a longterm task you cant just raid these sectors within 30 minutes, take it slow

[@XenonLxx]

@@olihoernli i already took all of them over. Not new to the series. But I'm at -30 now and I have no intention of fixing the rep. Argon are the enemy of ZYA and also me, and the HQ is badly placed.

[@blackfang101]

I really wish i could build like this, but unfortunately somehow the station builder is incredibly slow, i can easily build a station the size of rusiris sunrise without any problems, but after that it gets exponentially more laggy and harder to place modules correctly because it just keeps jumping all over. Nowhere else lags, its only the station construction, and well, the occasional jump into a new extremely busy sector like argon prime which has most of my stations and my mega station, but thats a slight lag spike just as i jump in thats over in seconds. Edit: Although, i have been thinking of ways to work around it and as long as i can place the modules anywhere in the first place which is hard because it only registers every 10th-15th click at times, i can just drag the module where it needs to be and it accurately lands where it needs to be so i guess its not all bad, drag and drop doesn't really lagg, only the model moving does.

[@shepard77]

Make sure to use this for building stations: www.x4-game.com/#/station-calculator

[@JM_Traslo]

Hey Egosoft, why can we still not do a basic a-to-b hauling loop order? This is a core element of X games and the overall genre, every other game before this had it. It's such a massive thing left out it cripples the game. We have to do extremely awkward blacklisting orders to get our ships to supply our own stations across systems. I had this game on launch since I've played X1, 2, 3, and even Rebirth (We don't talk about that), and I check in from time to time and this is still not in the game and it's bad enough that it's missing that I don't play nor consider even buying the expansions as I used to.

[@PT-rg2vo]

Between your own stations you can do it automatically either with freighters or if distance is closer than 25km with cargo drones. As for A to B multiple times, started looking into making a mod for it, that stumbled the moment had to make it to save files as need to record somewhere that a trip is repeatable. There are so many parameters involved like profitability & available goods on both sides. Contrary to previous X games, X4 has 100% fully simulated economy. Selling goods between 2 stations can be unprofitable from the second trip, or demand collapse after the first trip. Need things to consider like how many times need to do the trip, do I ask more information from the end user (aka player) when to stop transfering the goods. How about pick a different station to sell the goods if profitability falls over. The automated methods of Auto Trade and Distribute Wares removes these considerations tbh.

[@JM_Traslo]

@@PT-rg2vo We shouldn't have to mod to make a loop. I know we can do it once, but that's the kind of bad micromanaging that hurts a game. EVERY X game before this one has had the ability to do this, they just refuse to add it in X4 for some reason.

[@ZlothZloth]

@@PT-rg2vo I don't think he's looking for buying & selling, but simply moving goods from one player-owned station to another with a player-owned freighter, over and over again. I haven't played 4 yet - is that possible to set up?

[@tarpaper1769]

@@PT-rg2vo How to move cargo using cargo drones? Can you describe where to find this option?

[@TikoPiko]

I am here.

[@Troublechutor]

Aint going to lie... I was 100% in for this game prior to release, then the initial reviews described broken AI pathing so bad that collision detection had to be turned off. So I put a pass on the game until it matured. That's about a year for me most of the time, because once the hype wears off, I'm basically looking at patches/updates and sale pricing. You really hurt yourself by launching in that state. On the plus side, these videos are a good sign that you are invested in improving the game and bringing in new players. I'm still on the fence, but I've got you on my wish list for fall steam sales. Good luck, keep up the good work.

[@BoredTruckn]

You mean cargo drones.

[@Diarmuhnd]

*I'm a pirate and "Anything you can do I can do BETTER!"* - the Dread Pirate Diar, spamming the com channels with his singing as he plunders something shiny. ---------- edit : not my song ^^ . I'm allowed to sing it and however badly I may be at singing does not matter. Good to see X4 Foundations is getting fleshed out , I'm looking forward to using a bunch of QoL and theme mods. :) *Good luck , have fun and stay safe.*

[@ShadowStep6996]

tell more about XL builders so much different ships! (no) i paid for Spit dlc and get new cool unique split XL builder (NO)

[@haroldmcbroom7807]

Mr. Bernd, I hope you and your family are doing well, and I wish to share this short message... I've played your games for decades, starting with X-Beyond the Frontier, but X4 I could not buy. X-Rebirth had sensual imagery, more of a temptation to me, and it is such imagery of the dark nature that prevents me from buying X4. *(See Below Please)* That which is sweet to the flesh, temptuous and mostly desired of, lasts only for a short season, and at times cut off short before reaching maturity, then it falls off bitter-hearted into obscurity, all the while cursing God unto the very end, but that which is bitter and despised by most, is what's most needed. _"What does it profit a man to gain the world, yet to forfeit his soul for all eternity."_ WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN? *Ecclesiastes **8:11** (NKJV)* _11 Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil._ Why do bad things happen? And yet are we to assume bad things only happen to good people, when God says there is no one good, except God, therefore we can not be "good" without God. Bad things happen because the wicked say, _"God does not stop us, so God does not exist, therefore we may do as we please!"_ The purpose of this message is this, that there is a God, and He loves YOU! Consider His Word, if you have not, if you have already, then find strength in these words :)

[@XenonLxx]

You need a therapist lmao

[@ZlothZloth]

@@XenonLxx A theologian would help more. Bad things happen because you looked at cleavage in a video game!? I'm having a hard time believing that's biblical.

[@Agrargorn]

@@ZlothZloth Sometimes I really have hopes for mankind to become better, to rise from wehere we are now, to overcome our greed and exploitation of our own planet for the sakes of a few rich people. Than I read comments like that from @Harold McBroom and have to realise, how retarded our species still is, and I lose all hope, it's really depressing. On the same level like Presidents with access to Nuclear Weapons suggesting, that it's a good solution against Covid-19 to just inject Disinfectant into our Venes.