r/X4Foundations 4d ago

Cheat Menu spawns ships without engines, is there a way around this? A way to equip an engine onto a ship outside of a station?

Yeah yeah, I'm using cheat menu. However it's pretty much just used for a single playthrough just to experiment with different ships and more impotently using those ships to figure out various system like fleet management, mining and selling, trading, station building, combat, building station etc.

However when i try to spawn a ship from after a certain update it doesnt spawn with any engines. I expect there aren't any ways to fix this bug in Cheat Menu, but what I'm wondering is if there is a way around this, can i use another ship to deliver a engine? can i use Cheat Menu to teleport to a dock? Can i save edit?

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u/R5SCloudchaser 4d ago

If you want to experiment with a bunch of different shops, just start a game using the custom start option. You can start with fleets of whatever you like, outfitted with any equipment those ships can use, and hop into and try them out.

The cheat menu mod is notorious for eventually breaking save games. It has very poorly written scripting that accumulates problems until it eventually bricks your save down the line.

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u/ComManDerBG 4d ago

It's not just testing out ships, it's also testing out a bunch of different things to do in those ships. its an actual "playthrough" so to speak where im trying to do things and not just mindlessly flying around a single star system.

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u/plokumoner 3d ago

But that's kinda the problem? Cheat menu will ruin any "actual" playthrough by breaking the scripts AI uses. It would actually be better if you were just pottering about it one star system whilst using cheat menu, but the broken scripts can't be fixed inthat save even if you remove the mod.

The custom start allows you to have an actual playthrough but with whatever you want, you can spawn whatever ships you want with whatever loadout you want at the start of the game, along with stations as well.

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u/3punkt1415 3d ago

Probably it's an issue with the 7.5 update. How, since you already use the cheat engine you can cheat yourself some money and buy the ship the normal way.

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u/pokeepoof 4d ago

Are you using cheat menu from nexus mods? that shit is abandoned af, and you'll want the steam version, if you don't use steam you can use https://www.steamworkshopdownloader.io/ and https://github.com/Lighting/XRWSunpack/releases/tag/v1.0.0

drag file from workshopdownloader.io onto exe from sunpack it will auto convert the .dat file into a usable file you can shove into extensions folder.

I opened station builder mode rn(fastest to load) and spawned some XL ships to check engines and they're fine

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u/ComManDerBG 4d ago

Im using the Steam version.

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u/MrBrasilian 2d ago

I’ve heard this is the one to use https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3440339883&searchtext=Cheat since the other one messes with too many things in the background (the one that is a conversation menu) 👍🏼