Is X4 Foundations 7.0 Beginner-friendly? Ep 1: Crystal Mining & Getting Started

[@markhackett2302]

If you are on that highway through Argon Prime, it goes in a ring and automatically steers you around (not clear in the video), so a tip is to get ON that highway, then while on it, go "Long Range Scan" mode, and just keep pinging LR scans as it takes you round and round and round. Anything within 200km of the highway will be spotted if it is a gate or a station and marked with a "?". It's a quick way to uncover more of the map for early game, and since it goes fast even for a slow ship, it is a quick way to explore the core systems.

[@8484terry]

haha awesome!

[@Only_Some]

wow works the same for me without the scanner

[@monehselik6185]

Just started playing this on my new PC after watching some videos, its very indepth so videos like yours are much needed! Looking forward to it! Cheers!

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

Glad I could help!

[@liammorris1018]

Another hint: Go into options and change it to keep your speed when in menu. That way it won't stop cruise or pause when on the map.

[@davistiano]

Bro said this is a playthrough not a tutorial, and then he went on to explain things along the way - THIS IS ACTUALLY AWESOME! You have explained things very clearly and in a easy to understand way while not bombarding us with tonnes of unnecessary info at the beginning, or showing off how familiar you are with the game like some other content creators out there did. :) THANK YOU!! Great vid!!

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

Hi, thank you for the comment and doh 🤔, yeah I said it wasn't a tutorial lol, I have a terrible habit of intending on not explaining things but then explaining things 😬

[@Only_Some]

@@RoxeePlaysGames geez im so bad at it i explain stuff to my buddies in game like 100x over .. and they always like "i know ive played the game" its just a bad, but can be good habbit

[@markhackett2302]

Long Range scans will go out up to 200km for large things like Gates, Accelerators and Stations. The longer you hold LR scan ping without going to "exhausted ping", a red line with a "fwoop" downward sound, the closer to that max range you will get, the shorter you hold it (when a blue wide bar that narrows) the shorter the range. Ships max out to 80km or thereabouts, some lockboxes can be spotted to 200km, some only 50km, and anomalies can be pinged at a short range only.

[@zeonos]

a good early game money maker is to buy deployables (sattelites) in equipment stations and sell them at wharfs/shipyards. You can quickly scale this up and even late game you can earn a lot of money on this if you have a group of ships you just sent back and forth manually.

[@markhackett2302]

If you aren't sure about this game, buy the base game. Each update comes with an update to the base game, and this will be true for 7.10, 7.50, 8.00 or whatever versions come out with new DLC. However, if you decide to buy ALL the DLCs "because sale", you can buy all the things but deactivate the DLCs to produce smaller and easier to get into game in Settings and Extensions, by default they will be "On", just turn them off. It won't help Roxee here, because his save game has a larger universe and traders from all races, so that game REQUIRES now the DLC is had. A reason for some putting down the game and not continuing is "UI is hard" or "learning curve too steep", but that is because they approach this game as if it were "end game in five minutes" as the mindset. The UI is complicated because it has to make available 100% of what you can do, even if it cannot be done at all yet. So just ignore bits you don't need to know. The UI HAS a logic to it, not the same logic as Windows uses, so people say it is illogical because it isn't doing what they did Windows-learned, and some insist "I shouldn't have to LEARN this thing!" but you did, you HAD TO learn how Windows worked. Back in the Early Days of Macintosh computers, people HAD to learn how to use a mouse. Now you don't know how you did that, you did it while you were learning how to catch a ball and now it feels normal to you. But you still HAD TO learn it. This UI also requires you learn its logic. Lastly, if you find the game overwhelming, START AGAIN. The save game may have near 30 hours of your life spent on it, and you may then feel you HAVE TO carry on or it is all wasted. But what you learned was not wasted, you can carry that knowledge to a new game. If you want to learn how to be a fighter pilot, start with the Paranid start. If you want to start building an empire, meaning you order NPCs to do the actual work while you fly to find new places to sell to in a scout, start the Teladi start. If you have the Split DLC active, choose either of the Split starts for a combat pilot. And the Terran start is the easiest, has the quickest and easiest rewards if you enable the terrans' DLC and you may find yourself with a fledgling fleet command and trades are just a thing to do to afford all the ships you need for a fleet. But the easiest start is just to play one style. You will find yourself bodied by the AI if they gang up on you without a passive income from trading or mining, but you can totally start a simple pilot, and absolutely none of the UI other than your personal inventory UI needs to be dealt with. If you play space trucker, again, little of the UI comes into play, the map and the trading filters are all you need to know to play that. And if you get a wingman, you will need to learn wingman messages and orders, or if you have NPC traders, you need the order queue of the UI to do that. And so your knowledge builds up of the UI and how to use it. This game plays differently from most other space games. Slower building, LOTS slower. Like hours of building to get a factory from buying the plot to final up and running, and more hours to return that investment. Not that you HAVE to build, but it IS one of the options and will get you passive income to play pewpew with if that is your bag. To afford a fleet and big battles (the big draw of the X series) you need a lot of passive income. So you may find that you only play early game, because you really don't care for that building play. However, since the game IS single player, you can under creative mode make a fleet of ships and be fleet commander in space, in a different save, made for that pure purpose of playing around as Admiral.

[@liammorris1018]

Hint for any newbies, buying advanced satellites from equipment docks and selling them to wharfs can be pretty lucrative early on.

[@maddadplays7565]

I only got this game this week.. So this will be a handy lets play.. u got a sub from me... let's goooo

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

Thank you so much for the sub. I hope you enjoy the series 😀

[@dersebbler9452]

This series is awesome! I just started X4 and this helps me a lot! Thanks for explaining things along the way!

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

Glad you like them!

[@GB_Rusty]

18:30 There is a setting in the game to continue your forward speed when in menus.

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

Thank you 👍

[@markhackett2302]

@@RoxeePlaysGames Aye, prod around and under Gameplay there is an option to keep speed in menus (and also a setting in graphics to turn off the semitransparent map which IS "the menu"). Another thing most people eventually do is map the platform movement W key from "Forward" to "Run", because apart from trying to get in the seat to replace the AI captain, you want to run everywhere, and the minor inconvenience of running through the chair of a ship is a lot less than the major inconvenience of having to double-tap W to run.

[@thomasjohnston1805]

If you have a little bit of knowledge on the basics of the game there is a free Capital ship (Odysseus) you can claim in enemy sector "faulty logic". You can grab it and sell it to give yourself a jump start instead of the crystals

[@sullivan6475]

Good to know. I saw this in an older video and assumed it had been nerfed by now. I’ll go check that out 👍

[@psour33]

Thank's ! I'm always lost with "do what you want" games 🤣

[@TobiasS-w6q]

very nice video thx a lot! I hope you get some more views on these

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

Much appreciated!

[@janorszulik6429]

Weight of subcription is inversely proportional to all existing subscriptions (as it divides the visibility window), in other words if everyone subscribes to everything it's same as if everyone subscribes to nothing. Follow/Subscription etc is management tool. This is not meant to be rude in any way, this is just trying to explain why some people might not sub/follow even if they occasionally watch your videos, it's self curation tool with more weight than simple like. Great episode tho

[@SquidmanMalachar]

Getting started on the video to see if this is something i might enjoy. 'lots of modding support, potential 1000 hours' i'm listening 'you can even mod the game to be star wars' i'm listening intently

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

I just got back into x4 because of the 7.0 update and I'm not super experienced with this game, so this is super useful.

[@tixarfuriaa]

well, it doesn't cost me anything to like or subscribe, but there are probably 2 reasons why people don't do it: 1: we are looking for guides that are in one playlist and 2: they are arranged so that we can fasten them and watch them one by one without moving, e.g. out of bed and it doesn't hurt when we press those buttons and that's the problem of all creators ;)

[@GlitchedVision]

if you don't have any expansions I would suggest wayward scion over young gun. You get a slightly better ship as well as automated guidance to the first storyline at Hatikva's choice for a quick free second ship, which is a small trader. You can either put it to work or sell it to upgrade, but either way it's a slightly quicker start than just crystal mining or drop farming before you can get into more decent money making endeavors. I wouldn't completely write off those other two though, but you could put the trader to work while you are doing one of the others.

[@markhackett2302]

The Young Gun starts off with a cheap ship, so you can strip it and sacrifice it in the Boso Ta quest to start off with, and keep the Hatikva reward as your small trader until you can afford something that CAN actually engage in a turning fight (by the way, the Perseus Fighter is a decent starter ship, the Nova turns only slightly better but some people LIKE its nimbleness, and the Falcon has twice the shield slots and many love it for that, especially for early wingmen to your fighter dodging blows). IMO the only reason for the Elite is to make you desperate to get out to something much more viable, and pretty much ANY ship is an improvement to the Elite. IMO The Callisto small Argon trader should have its turn rate upped about 50% or possibly more, to take it to scout or M class military turn rates, and THEN it makes a decent "can't decide which" early ship. It carries enough to be an early start trader, it carries enough firepower to be dangerous and turns fast enough that combat is, if not gleeful, at least fun that can be improved on by going "REAL fighter" instead, and its speed being slow really doesn't matter since early on you are still exploring where the stations are, so using Long Range pings to do that, and they go out fast. Use the Elite to sacrifice. Use the Hatikva reward ONLY in early game as a replacement for your use (and until you need to sell the weapons and shields of the Elite, just set it to DEFEND yourself in that reward as a Wingman, the AI will prefer to attack you if given the option). If you can afford a Courier or an actual fighter or a real miner NPC, then you might not want to take the reward, hence my suggestion to use it early game, you will outgrow it quickly, but until then, it has a good low level balance, its turn rate just lets it down for that use. The Elite IS, however, one of the fastest turning ships.

[@lowfuel6089]

Could you put a list of all the mods you're using in the description?

[@GalacticOdyssey16]

Your the best sub+like already but can u explain more about controls what's best for new players like me

[@blshouse]

You should list the mods you are using. Without mods, crystals are much harder to spot.

[@TM1701D1]

graphics look great

[@Hardwaregeekx]

X4 is a fun game. Not really beginner friendly IMO, but worth learning to play.

[@screamingiraffe]

For future videos, please create timestamps. Thank you

[@lowfuel6089]

Edit: disregard, I found the crystals mod. I never see the green patch on any asteroid like you did, but i do sometimes see little flashes of light (which always seem to be the purple crystals). Do I need to do something to turn on the green overlay you had? Or have I just not found one yet? I've been at it for 1.5 hours and not found a single one. :/

[@Nick-jf7ku]

a galaxy has about 100 billion solar systems on average, also Press Ctrl H when searching for crystals and again if you dont like it.

[@maxwaller976]

Do you have any mods installed? My crystals definitely don't glow as much like yours. Also the Menelaene Crystals are green in your game, in mine these are blue.

[@scoutgremlin]

+

[@scoutgremlin]

I have found mod Crystal Rarities - Glow only. Looks very similar

[@lexsdragon1554]

You don't know whats bigger galaxy or solar system? For real?

[@K9zz]

game you were thinking with the hex map star fleet command?

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

Ahh YES, that's the one, thank you, I was going crazy trying to remember lol

[@glacialisventus1946]

Hi Roxee. Frist time watching your content and i am sorry before hand for this. but seems like your X4 play list is backwards episode 1 is number 3 on the list and number 3 is number 1. Any chance you can swich them around?

[@bycensus3628]

Galaxy.

[@BigB0ss00]

How did you find so much crystals in less than 1 hour? I heard they nerfed crystal mining and in 1 hour I only found 600k credits worth of crystals

[@blshouse]

It is a mod or mods that add the color blotch and greatly increase the amount of crystals.

[@mps_gaming1898]

Nice video :-) also you can fly to Hatikvah's Choice I, its conected to a Xenon sector so its going on lot of war at Hatikvah's Choice I and drops lot of loot to colect from destroyed ships easy money too for sale the loot on stations at beginning of the game, Hatikvah's ChoiceI its conected to sector Argon Prime and to big ring highway for move fast to lot of sectors who are good to fly at begining of the game. Egosoft is my favorite X games in space.

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

Awesome, thank you

[@Texy_UK]

I have no idea how you collected nearly 9 million in around 45 minutes. I only got ~300k in almost double that ;-(

[@slackerpope]

Hi Roxee and X4 Community! I'm considering buying X4 and was wondering if I should buy any of the expansions up front for cool quality of life etc. Or should I just add the expansions as I run out of stuff to do or get curious. I'm happy to get them all while they are on sale if they make the overall game better. So, if you were just starting out what would you buy? Also are there any mods y'all consider worth installing right from the start? Thanks in advance for any advice. Cheers!

[@darkausg9333]

I would recommend purchasing Cradle of Humanity because the Earth economy is the easiest to learn. But you can add any expansion in the middle of a game and it will work fine. As for the mod, there are 2 that I consider essential: learning all the things and Mapfix - Player-owned ships will not disappear when zoomed out. I think the name Mapfix - Player-Owned Ships Won't Disappear When Zoomed Out is self-explanatory. Learning all the things is a must because X4 is REALLY slow at levelling the piloting stat of your captains and a low piloting stat mean that auto mining will only be able to mine in one sector and sell in that same sector while a high piloting stat would not suffer the same level of restriction.

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

I bought the whole lot on sale. You get the first 90 mins to play and see if you like it or not, then you can get a refund. But personally I love the game and the community is really helpful if you are unsure of anything. It does have a steep learning curve, but if you stick with it, watch tutorials and ask for help you will be fine :)

[@Mondfischli]

...If you haven't already - I'd recommend buying the whole game with all dlcs on steam sale now. It's much cheaper than adding dlcs later. However - the added systems and races make the xverse overwhelming for beginners. The starter options young gun etc. help alot, you need to find one you like. Enjoy!😁

[@markhackett2302]

If you get all DLCs you don't have to turn the races, ships and sectors for those things on to start with, the base game still has the updates whether you bought the DLCs or not, but if you bought the DLCs, just go to Extensions and turn the DLCs off. You can turn them on later, at any point, and you get new races, new sectors, new ships, but not before then, which can make playing the game easier. Once you know more about the X universe, you are less liable to get overwhelmed by "too many options".

[@ostkaka8397]

so as to wheter the galaxy or the solar system is larger... xP the Universe is everything and it containes many Galaxies, that in turn contain many solar systems ^^

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

Ahhh, thank you :)

[@MasteryGuns]

Just got the game got tired of elite dangerous was getting to boring and star citizen is buggy atm as of the new patch so I decided to give this game a try and I must say I’m not disappointed but man the learning curve it’s overwhelming

[@RoxeePlaysGames]

Yeah, it is a BIG learning curve. But I must admit, I am totally engrossed in progressing, have not got bored at all

[@MasteryGuns]

@@RoxeePlaysGames true! I just got a mod that enables creative mode so I can experiment with miners and hiring folks to mine for me building a station and have the biggest ship to see what I can do also got all the dlcs and gonna start a fresh vanilla save today😁😁😁

[@MasteryGuns]

@@RoxeePlaysGames the only thing is it’s creative and doesn’t tell me what I should do first😁 luckily I got your guide

[@markhackett2302]

@@MasteryGuns You don't need a mod to go in creative mode. New Game and right at the bottom are two user created starts, one of which is "Creative" (not budgeted). Give yourself a fleet you want to play around with and some credits. You CAN just edit the save file (it is a zipped up XML file, so you may want to set your save game to "not compressed" in Options to begin with) and give yourself a billion credits. It will be modified, aka creative, but you can play around. However, the game builds up to that level anyway and so not modifying the game save lets you take time to learn how to use Y, whatever Y is, in this game.

[@John.McAfees.Dead.Mans.Switch]

This game is best for the afro physics alone.

[@emiliyangeorgiev22]

Fix your sound, move away from the microphone a bit!

[@Only_Some]

not beginner friendly i had to watch about 12 hrs of gameplay loop just to understand the basics

[@HallyVee]

Feature not bug ;)

[@CruorBlossom]

X³ Terran Conflict was my first space sim, and I loved it, but fell out of the series after getting into Elite Dangerous. But ED has been questionable lately, and I wanted to go back to my roots. I'm glad to see X⁴ has all the depth I loved in X³