X4: Foundation - My defence station OBLITERATES Xenon I and K

Too much powerfull :D I love this game! *_*
Costruction Plan:
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[@TheJanstyler]

Holy hell. Enough shots to destroy the ship already in flight before the ship is even close enough to fire at the station.

[@sir_killalot]

Yes, quite impressive! :D

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

shrugs shoulders in plasma armed syns

[@sir_killalot]

Heh! At the time of this video Syn hadn't been conceived yet 😉 Much love for this ship

[@PragmaticTornado]

Player owned Defence Platforms are extremely OP, still. I have made many templates so I can quickly place out new ones, with 72 L Plasma, 72 L Beam and 72 M Flak. Nothing touches them, and I have them in enemy sectors (well, before I exterminated them and claimed their sectors), Hatikvahs Choice right outside the Xenon gate, and elsewhere with major enemy presence. Just stock them up with repair drones, and forget all about them.

[@sir_killalot]

Yes, unfortunately it is still like this :(

[@PragmaticTornado]

@@sir_killalot I've never even built them before, so I think it's fine, haha.

[@sir_killalot]

@@PragmaticTornado In fact, at the fifth start I decided not to do more block defense near the portals, otherwise the Xenon have a short life ;)

[@cookiemonsterdayz]

Yeah. I have the same sort of infestation there. Damn Xenon looking for trouble. Well.. not anymore.

[@count-robo]

why defence station? does the player get attacked by npcs from time to time? sounds cool

[@sir_killalot]

Anything can happen on X4! That station in particular was built to block the arrival of the Xenon in that sector, but yes, on X4 you can attack anyone and be attacked by anyone;)

[@count-robo]

@@sir_killalot thx

[@eogwiji]

Yes they do... especially Xenon. The Xenon can be quite a threat.

[@karos009]

@@eogwiji when u saw an Xenon K flying in your face with 450m/s. u can feel the threat . " X2 the threat"

[@Scorpio_1974]

Nice Defense Platform LMAO! Xenon I & K got WREKT!

[@sir_killalot]

Thanks! It was one of my first experiments, after which I did better :D

[@Cryton12345]

Could you post the import link via Google docs here? I'd really like to make this station for hatikvah choice defence. Or to official egosoft website

[@sir_killalot]

I was able to recover the old save. You can find the building plan in the link in the description.

[@Cryton12345]

@@sir_killalot much appreciated I'll try this out

[@Hitman2b]

guess i'll build this to fuck with VIGOR be with alot more FLAK and plasma for bigger target

[@sir_killalot]

And Laser Beam! ;D

[@azurazdandaridae9158]

Could you put a list or make a tutorial on your defence platform please?

[@sir_killalot]

Unfortunately this video is very old and I could not find the save. Making this type of station is very simple. Keep in mind that vertical development prevents the Xenon ships from being able to attack the modules one at a time and when they are within range they will be attacked by all the turrets at the same time. The secret is all here ;)

[@sir_killalot]

Hi, I recovered the save. You will find the link for the building plan in the video description ;)

[@TB-wvvvw]

​@@sir_killalot I don't follow the logic above about separating the defense modules. It seems like the farther apart the modules are from each other, the easier it should be to attack and destroy them one at a time as they come into range, and the fewer of them would be in range to fire at the enemy. We see in the video that of 15 modules, only three or four fire at the enemy at any time, as the rest are all too far away. Surely if they were closer together more could fire and finish him off more quickly. If the enemy used a weapon like a grenade with enough splash or explosion damage to hit several things at once, maybe you could make a case for having them somewhat separated, but as a Xenon destroyer approaches, it uses lots of single graviton projectiles that according to Roguey have zero area of effect damage. Thanks for the helpful video though, that lets us see this approach.

[@sir_killalot]

@@TB-wvvvw I knew some Xenon approach movements and I aligned the 3 columns to cover all directions (except the back where Xenon will never come). In the K approach you can see how 2 modules from the first line above fire, plus another 2 modules in the bottom left line. This actually suggests that the station is working as expected. Even a top-down approach would be foiled :)

[@Altair565]

how much did it cost to built it ?

[@sir_killalot]

About 6 Millions without various connector between modules. I think less than 7-8 Millions in total.

[@cellics]

@@sir_killalot Wow that cheap! Defence platforms are way cheaper than ships when it comes to defending the sector :)

[@Assassin5671000]

@@cellics its like the price difference between a standard desktop pc and a laptop

[@КириллВладимирович-ч6б]

how did you get it right to face the xenons gate?

[@sir_killalot]

Buying a lot as close as possible to the "portal cube" and keeping it perfectly in line. When you open the station construction menu the "holographic cube" is in the same aligned position as the "lot cube". Just align everything and the station will be perfectly in place. You can also buy a "lot cube" exactly under the portal, then stretch the top for 10km, so that you can build so close that it looks like a single structure!

[@karos009]

the A.i still crap as i see :D still flying in a straight line.

[@sir_killalot]

This video dates back more than a year ago, when the version was 2.60 (prior to the first dlc). Now we are at 4.0 + two DLCs and things have changed a lot ;)

[@karos009]

@@sir_killalot At least things has changed for mabe to the good side. Im still very disappointed for the X-series after the 3 I loved that but what i witnessed in 4 i feel its like lost a spark what made the 3 especially with XTM Are so chilling. i missing this spark from it.

[@sir_killalot]

@@karos009 I received the spark you speak of with the arrival of the Terrans. The fresh start as a cadet gave me the exact feeling I had at the time of my first game with X3TC. Few stations, highly technological productions, HUGE sectors and a much more familiar sense of space. And above all, when you first go out of the terran area, there comes that "alien" effect that pervades the environment. It is what I have always dreamed of and finally X4 has decided to give it back to me. Despite a game lasting 30 days (about 800 hours), I had the desire to start again as if it were the first time. And the feeling is great! If you have it in your library, I recommend you install it again!

[@kobayashimaru1]

I thought that maybe things improved now, whith version 4.0 and new DLC (haven't played for more than a year), but nope, AI is still crap. There are some improvements, but it's still not satisfactory enough to be considered 1.0 release material. Bunch of problems still persist, some new ones were introduced with "fixes" and tweaks, AI is still very poor. It's playable and there's more ships and stuff, universe feels more alive, but I'd wait for another year until it gets better. Although, some thing will never improve. Those are just pure design flaws and there's no will among the devs to fix those, at least judging by their posts on the forum.

[@heyhoe168]

@@kobayashimaru1 Egosoft: but... but.... terraforming!....

[@kwkcardinal]

Sweet. Wish I could get my defence station close to that effective. Those are L Plasmas, right?

[@sir_killalot]

Yes! A lot of L Plasma turrets ;)

[@LandoCalrissiano]

Is that what vanilla explosions look like? That's actually pretty bad. I've seen better explosions in 2005. Currently using a mod that adds Rebirth's effects.

[@sir_killalot]

Yeah, the explosions aren't that great. The mod you're talking about should undoubtedly be part of the vanilla game :/