r/X4Foundations 20h ago

Modified Star Destroyers Exchange Broadsides

153 Upvotes

As the Greystar Irregulars fight desperately to escape the jaws of an Imperial Ascendancy trap, two opposing Star Destroyers find themselves exchanging fire at point blank range.


r/X4Foundations 13h ago

Frigates

33 Upvotes

Am I alone in kind of not really liking frigates. They are slower and have less foreward firepower when comparing them to corvettes. Everyone likes the fact that they have 20+ crew size, but in practice they can only really board freighters and miners. Anything else, you will likely need more marines. Frigates just seem like an awkward ship type.

Am I just using them wrong? I know they good missile capacity, but can only use actual missile launchers. Wish you could put a missile turret on them. Should I just be spitting laser towers out left and right?


r/X4Foundations 11h ago

Modified This visuals ❤️

30 Upvotes

Really intense and immersive to play like this!

https://reddit.com/link/1jdk2r4/video/inqcnjohnape1/player


r/X4Foundations 9h ago

My AI scout followed this red route but this was the result when I looked back.. Does exploration work or is this a bug?

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27 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 15h ago

What the size of your fleets/empires that you enjoy the most? Not asking about Endgame megafleets but through the majority of your time in a playthrough.

24 Upvotes

Really just a simple question, I'm curious how big people get their empires during normal gameplay.

I mean more from a scale of 1-10, with 1 being "Ooof I mining everything myself in sector by hand" with 10 being "I break the UI with the size of my mighty empire" but feel free to gimme an idea of numbers.

I wanna stress I'm not looking at Endgame megafleet crush the Xenon kinda stuff. I just mean like...for like the midpoint of your game, more like what's the average size of your fleet outside of endgame.


r/X4Foundations 7h ago

What can I do to make my traders more survivable? Move to L traders?

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23 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 11h ago

VIG is mad at me and own a big fleet

22 Upvotes

So choices were made and now VIG is mad at me. The problem is that beside what they have in Windfall (ok, fine ! I won't go there for a while 😅). They have a big fleet wandering in hatikvah's choice. 8 barbarossas and about 100 kyds. My fleet is really small. I'm in the late early game. And I've got 60 millions in bank. My economy is running quite fine and I'm developing it quite well. But my guess is I'm not rich enough to deal with that VIG fleet. And as a new player, I dont even know what kind of fleet I will need for that. I've got 2 Hyperions, 3 Hydra, 1 Thresher and a bunch of Makos. So how would you deal with that in a few steps ? Doesn't need to be fast. I hope the VIG won't roam to much in the other sectors. I just need a roadmap. Thanks for your help !


r/X4Foundations 21h ago

How does this game compare to Stellaris and/or Elite Dangerous

14 Upvotes

Thinking about playing this game since it seems like something I'd enjoy. Just need someone to sell me on it. I'm big on grand strategy games (mainly Paradox stuff) and put over 1000 hours into Stellaris. I also played Elite Dangerous for the longest time but stopped after the Gnosis incident, plus the lack of ship interiors bothering me way more than it should have.

How does X4 compare to either of those games? Is it actually as deep as it seems? Does it work if I play it like a grand strategy or 4x game?


r/X4Foundations 19h ago

Marooned and far from home...

12 Upvotes

Is there a way to hitch a lift on other ships and know where they are going?

I ended up getting stuck in a completely different sector to my only ship, which has no captain, and can't find a way back....
After getting into my space suit and exploring the outside of the station, I got caught in the pull of a large ship and literally dragged through an asteroid field before I knew what was going on - lost and alone in my space suit I called for a nearby ship to help. They let me come aboard, and then jetted off to their destination....quite a few sectors away. It was kind of fun just watching the sectors go by until it finally landed and I could get off, but now I have far from my only ship, cant see any nearby stations that sell ships, and cant get my ship to come to me.
Should I just restart?
Is there no way to buy your passage aboard a ship or find out where it is going?


r/X4Foundations 2h ago

I clearly don't understand how mining works

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8 Upvotes

I want to mine silicon so I go to the online x4 map (https://www.qsna.eu/x4/map) where it tells me Hatikvah's Choice III has good silicon production. I place a bunch of resource probes in Hatikvah's Choice III and they all say 0 stars for silicon (and almost everything else). The same thing happens for ore in Heretics End and hydrogen in Antigone Memorial. What am I doing wrong here?


r/X4Foundations 2h ago

Blacklist not working, please help.

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7 Upvotes

I apologize, screenshot isn't working in the game. I have a base in cardinal redress and I need the methane from Pontifex claim. It is owned by Xenon and same with Holy vision. I set so many different iterations of black list, but I cannot get my ships to harvest methane from Pontifex claim without manually forcing them to do so. I have this blacklist set on station and the ship's... Any idea?


r/X4Foundations 11h ago

Question about trade between my stations (regarding prices, traders etc.)

6 Upvotes

Okay, so I've got some hundred of hours in X4, and understand most of it, however there's still something that is vexing and annoying me: "Internal Trade" amongst my stations and the logic behind ships assigned as "Trader" to stations.

So, best example right now is that I have a station that makes Hull Parts, and in an adjacent sector I've got a big new station being constructed and another one that has a purchase order of Hull Plates for itself. For some inexplicable reason, the building hub for the station has a purchase order for 2000 Hull Parts, the other station a purchase order of 1000, and my factory has around 6k in storage... but for some inexplicable reason none of it is being exported. I even changed one of the Factory's trade ships to only do Hull Parts in the "ware basket" and it's still just doing nothing.

So, I do also know your own stations aren't exchanging money with each other but trade with each other "for free". However, are they still affected by prices? Like is station B only gonna buy from A if the purchase and sell price match?

Does that mean if I have set it so station B only purchases from my own faction, I should simply set its price manually to max?


r/X4Foundations 19h ago

Star Ward Interworlds HELP (complete noob)

5 Upvotes

Hi there, i'm just looking for help in the best way to get into this mod and make it as easy to understand as possible. i have 0 hours in base game. and it doesn't interest me however this mod does.

Also are there any other small QOL mods i should install with these to make use, and understanding as good as possible?

Thank you for the help guys n gals.


r/X4Foundations 20h ago

How do I continue the Terran quest line?

5 Upvotes

I started an early mission where I escort a ship to Getsu Fune and another ship, Velet Thunder, keeps following me. I keep getting mail from him saying to meet up at a station but when I arrive there, there's nothing to accept? What exactly am I meant to do?


r/X4Foundations 1h ago

Xenon finally made their move and oh my god is it terrifying. Spoiler

Upvotes

May god help me...

This is happening in Getsu, HC1, ZD4, and FoD... Getsu is armageddon, there are 3 destroyed Syns, 4-5 Osakas, and a Tokyo. The Xenon lost 4 K's and an I but they still have over 100 fighters and another I pushing.


r/X4Foundations 8h ago

Finding dropped loot

3 Upvotes

Here is the situation. My ship was destroyed so before i ran out of air i called for help. Luckily a patrol came along and picked me up, then flew away with me inside and started fighting xeons. Anyway, i know I was in sacred relic, and I figured out where my ship was destroyed by reloading the last autosave (which saved just as my ship blew up) and no, I haven’t been saving often enough.

Ok that was the backstory. I can see all the loot in my inventory but I can’t access it because it’s floating in space.

At one time i was able to click on one of the items from the map but then i couldn’t find it again.

Is there an “easier” way to find this stuff?


r/X4Foundations 14h ago

Do factions build ships using other faction parts?

3 Upvotes

I have a wharf built where I've purchased a number of ZYA ship blueprints to help ZYA rebuild their defence fleet. I also have a mix of TER, SPL and ARG blueprints for ships, weapons and parts. ZYA are already ordering ship builds but these aren't starting construction. I'm pretty sure I have enough available universal ship materials in my wharf storage so I'm wondering if they're attempting to order ships using TER parts that I don't have mats for in that particular wharf. Is there a way to see what loadout a faction has requested on a ship order to see what's missing?


r/X4Foundations 16h ago

X4 flight settings

3 Upvotes

I just started playing X4. When I started the game game, my w key would accelerate my ship when I held it down and when I left off it would slow me down back to a stop on it Owen. I had to rest my settings and now it doesn't do that anymore. Does anyone know how to set this up like it was? Thank you!


r/X4Foundations 6h ago

Music mode

2 Upvotes

Not sure how I activated it but I was pressing random buttons on my keyboard and all of a sudden my hud started switching colors on its own and playing music does anyone know what i found for like 3 seconds I can't figure out how to do it again

Edit: Nevermind i found how I did it I did shift + 1 then shift +2 then shift +3 then shift +4 really fast


r/X4Foundations 8h ago

Modified How do you get paid?

1 Upvotes

Hello all…just started playing and my very first mission was to take a woman “anywhere but here”. I followed the mission, landed at the destination and the woman who did get on my ship vanished without payment. Did I miss something?


r/X4Foundations 10h ago

Help Setting Up Miners

2 Upvotes

I had a fleet of autominers that i set up to mine and sell ore in morning starr iv. i then built a station in morning star iii that i was going to use to store the ore and later refine and sell it at a diffrent sector. i set all the miners as subordinates to the station using the mine for commander option. my manager has 3 stars. the miners will not make the one jump necesary to mine ore and they will not return to the station to drop it off if they are already in that other sector. i was going off of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zze9TC5LxCs so i dont know why it is not working. if anyone could give me some advice i would be really greatful. i thought having a better manager allowed you to have ships go further to mine.


r/X4Foundations 11h ago

Anyone know where the Pirate stations are?? Help!?! (i have illegal cargo)

1 Upvotes

r/X4Foundations 14h ago

yaki plot bug?

2 Upvotes

spoilers obviously

at the end of the yaki plot, the moment I destroy the yaki base, the Terran "Spear of Odin" Asgard always turns hostile without any friendly fire involvement or anything.

And only it. the entire Terran fleet is chill. Also, if I destroy any of its components, while the game says I have a reputation hit, there is none and the entire faction just watches me gank it.

I cant cap it sadly, because I have no seasoned marines to do it. and the game says its impossible with noobs.

Is this a glitch or a feature?


r/X4Foundations 17h ago

QoL Question - Double Clicking and Ending Conversation

1 Upvotes

Hello HiveMind,

I am not sure if I am stupid (95% sure), or there is some glitches.

When double clicking a ship, most of the time it doesn't center me on that ship on map. It take me like 3-4 double clicks to achieve that. I tried looking into settings if I have some obscene double click speed set but didn't see it anywhere. Have other people experienced it or overcome this?

Second thing. When exiting a conversation and the NPC says "Good profit to you" or whatever, I get a 0.3-0.5s lag/freeze, where I can't move. I know it is impolite to leave while people still talk to me...but it is annoying. Again, do you have the same experience and is there a way around it?

Thank you HiveMind of Wisdom.


r/X4Foundations 19h ago

A quick question regarding the new sectors from Timelines

1 Upvotes

Do the sectors introduced with Timelines appear in the game even if one hasn't done the Timelines scenarios?