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Cracked a data vault, scanned a bit more around and saw a purple ping so I decided to fly to, turns out it was a wormhole and I got sucked in (you don't get a lot of time to change course at 3km/s+). Got stuck in the middle of nowhere so decided to hop on a highway back to Black Hole Sun. Half-way there I accidentally ram into one of the highway struts and explode. RIP Edit: loving amazing, decided to go back through the wormhole instead, ended up in Sacred Witness, found some random thing floating nearby, went closer to have a look. It was a mine. 
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popewiles posted:Am I crazy for thinking it was Argon shields and paranoid engines that were preferable? Different shields have different properties. As capacity goes up, charge rate goes down. Teladi have the best capacity, Paranid have the best charge rate, Argon are middle of the road. So it's a preference thing. For engines, Paranid make the best combat engines, but Argon make the best travel engines. And since capital ships do not have combat engines, hey there you go.
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Dec 26, 2018 21:44
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popewiles posted:Am I crazy for thinking it was Argon shields and paranoid engines that were preferable? Nah teladi have the best shields. Even in x3 their ships had the most or biggest shield slots.
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Dec 26, 2018 23:04
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^They were also about as maneuverable as a dead pig in tar Capacity is the only real metric that matters though with the delay in shield recharge rate. The 15% boost you get in rate of recharge that starts 30% faster on Paranid is basically worthless when your shield rarely regen in combat, the 25% boost in shield buffer is all that matters for Teladi. PAR shields are the worst. Engines have a bit more variety. PAR have the best subspeed engines, ARG have the best travel speed engines, TEL have the shortest cooldown on engaging travel speed after an attack and the best brakes. PAR also have 1/2 seconds extra boost available on ALL engine types and get up to speed faster in travel. So at least with engines, you got some options, PAR for combat ships, ARG for general traders/economy ships, TEL for smugglers. And as far as turrets go, ARG/TEL seem to be the same? But PAR have better rotation speeds for tracking.
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Dec 27, 2018 00:23
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I kind of like paranid engines.
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Dec 27, 2018 02:45
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ded posted:I kind of like paranid engines. hoooooooooow
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Dec 27, 2018 02:57
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bandaid.friend posted:there's no Boron or Split ships in the game either Wait, what the gently caress, there isn't? But, but... my Mamba! My Chimera! My Python!
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Dec 27, 2018 03:25
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Wait, what the gently caress, there isn't? Well there are wrecks of a bunch of split capital ships in a few sectors. But yeah there are some ~*plot reasons*~ for no split or boron but its just because they didn't have the resources to add two more factions.
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Dec 27, 2018 03:33
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There were split ships in Rebirth so it's fairly likely that they'll show up eventually since they could basically just reuse the models.
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Dec 27, 2018 03:34
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Have they said if they're gonna add the split back in? Like, poo poo, I can't believe an X game would launch without half the races from the series. 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Wait, what the gently caress, there isn't? I loved the Split M7s as player ships, I seem to remember the Tiger with full incendiary bomb launchers being an absolute monster, and the Panther(?) being a rad little mini carrier.
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:I loved the Split M7s as player ships, I seem to remember the Tiger with full incendiary bomb launchers being an absolute monster, and the Panther(?) being a rad little mini carrier. The panther raider was probably my favorite non-Hyperion ship. The fighters launching vertically in front of the cockpit was a nice touch.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Have they said if they're gonna add the split back in? Like, poo poo, I can't believe an X game would launch without half the races from the series. IIRC there are two planned expansions and it feels likely they will add more species. I have not heard any specific info though.
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Dec 27, 2018 04:23
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Egosoft has to be the one company to have great post launch content and support though. I'd bet they get introduced eventually.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Have they said if they're gonna add the split back in? Like, poo poo, I can't believe an X game would launch without half the races from the series.  "
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Dec 27, 2018 04:44
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Am I crazy? Did satellite range get changed? Now all my carefully laid floaters are covering nothing in the green ring and I need to essentially have the satellite right on top of the station to be in the ring. The green ring only covers about a hex and a half.
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:hoooooooooow Engine and Mass mods. This screenshot shows the correct regular speed (821) but the travel is the same as the other screenshot I posted, 16752.  
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:IIRC there are two planned expansions and it feels likely they will add more species. I have not heard any specific info though. I know I read the expansions were going to include more races, I thought it was on the collectors edition description but it's not. I did find it on Egosoft's website though so should be good enough. https://www.egosoft.com/x/xnews/201810_1_44News.html There will be Expansions, which will bring more races, their ships, stations and lots of missions into the X4 Universe. Our goal is to bring the first big Expansion within about one year. New races are sectors are likely going to be what they try and sell more casual players on. The more hardcore will buy it for the improvements to AI and other small details that just make the game a better overall experience. Being popular races I bet each of the 2 planned expansions focuses on one of them considering the PHQ plot. Maybe see some Terran in one of them, they don't need another expansion with them as the focus but I'd like to see them show up. pixaal fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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Data vault spawned at the entrance gate for Faulty Logic. Got to play space Mission Impossible and open it seconds before an M came through, beelining for my space suit as I boosted into my airlock.  Why no, I didn't have to save scum with my jaw dropped after getting blasted on the first attempt and learning enemy ships target your suit.So yeah, still having the automine issue since it's a 1 star behavior and my pilots all have zero. Is there anything I can do besides manually trigger them to mine, then manually make them sell, ad infinitum?
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WebDO posted:Data vault spawned at the entrance gate for Faulty Logic. Got to play space Mission Impossible and open it seconds before an M came through, beelining for my space suit as I boosted into my airlock. All ships should come with a 1 or 2 star pilot. I've never not gotten that, add a pilot from refit screen at a warf after firing your current useless guy.
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pixaal posted:All ships should come with a 1 or 2 star pilot. I've never not gotten that, add a pilot from refit screen at a warf after firing your current useless guy. When I go to anywhere to upgrade I can always hire support crew or marines from the upgrade interface but I have never been able to hire a pilot that way. I don't know if I'm clicking in the wrong place or what but it never seems to be an option. And mooks just walking in stations are all garbage tier.
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When you buy a ship, get the HIGHEST PRESET, then switch out the parts to whatever you want. This is how you get competent crew. It's dumb. I hope they add more ways to hire crew.
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Ass_Burgerer posted:When you buy a ship, get the HIGHEST PRESET, then switch out the parts to whatever you want. This is how you get competent crew. The problem is that most of my ships I'm trying to crew are found or captured, so that's not an option.
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Well, hopefully it doesn't take a full year for them to get the Split in game. Hopefully by then the game will be cleaned up of the major bugs and some cool mods will be in to. And hopefully the Split stuff still looks cool. But man, I can't believe they'd make an X game without the Split and Boron factions... wait, did Rebirth have them? I never looked much into it after hearing it was dogshit.
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rebirth had no boron and a limited number of split
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I'd prefer having Split or Boron in place of Argon. Humans are boring! I've played a bit of the game but most of the stuff you can do just doesn't work well enough to be satisfying. It's probably time to put this down for a couple of months. Normally I'd be more upset, but Egosoft's earned some trust by X3
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My first car was a stick
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bandaid.friend posted:I'd prefer having Split or Boron in place of Argon. Humans are boring! Yeah the base game is real solid and I am real excited to see what modders can do with it. Right now I've built up a decently sized empire and have a good steady income. I just don't have anything to do with it.
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Do I need a hotas or something to play this game or can I get by with mouse and keyboard
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I thought the boron weren’t in because they couldn’t figure something out for making an aquatic species mesh with the walkable stations
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Phobeste posted:I thought the boron weren’t in because they couldn’t figure something out for making an aquatic species mesh with the walkable stations Have them get around in water filled hamster balls
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It would be cool if they could do like water filled stations that you have to visit in your suit and with zero G turned on.
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Is there a sensible way to see what ware a shipyard's missing to build a ship that's waiting construction? Best I can tell the only way is to try to buy the same ship and see what wares appear in the purchasing order as red.
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Phobeste posted:I thought the boron weren’t in because they couldn’t figure something out for making an aquatic species mesh with the walkable stations There exist models for boron in water space suits. The problem is boron stations
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VostokProgram posted:Do I need a hotas or something to play this game or can I get by with mouse and keyboard KB + mouse is easier. If you want full immersion the game plays really well with a full setup but by no means required. Even with a nice equipment you'll still need to grab the mouse every so often since it's a bit of a pain in the rear end to navigate some of the menus without one and selecting by using "next target" and " closest target" it can just be quicker to let go of the stick and just click what you want to go to. There are options for emulating a mouse with a joystick including left right click though if you really want that.
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Falcorum posted:Is there a sensible way to see what ware a shipyard's missing to build a ship that's waiting construction? Best I can tell the only way is to try to buy the same ship and see what wares appear in the purchasing order as red. For a particular ship? No, not really. For the queue itself, you just go into the build/buy menu and it'll tell you what's needed for the ships it wants to build. Or if you've scanned the station (or installed the mod that autoscans everything discovered) you can just look at it's info page and what storage is low on.
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Why are the destroyer main batteries so hilariously unsatisfying to shoot? The most limp noodle pews imaginable.
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The sound is a big part
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Asproigerosis posted:Why are the destroyer main batteries so hilariously unsatisfying to shoot? The most limp noodle pews imaginable. Partly sound, and partly because this game, like seemingly a lot of others, lacks a "Big fuckoff gun" thing that you generally expect in sci-fi Destroyer and above-class ships. Not an upscaled pulse laser or whatever, but a massive "oh you're hosed" cannon. See something like Mass Effect's dreads/cruisers, where the ship is basically built around gigantic mass drivers as their primary armament-you have turrets, launch tubes, etc for swatting at smaller ships, but then you also need to line up the entire ship to bring the main gun to bear on bigger prey. The Expanse kind of has the same thing with missiles/torps being a long-range engagement thing, but then once you bring a big ship close enough you start trading punches with the big guns. It would take a bit of customization off the table, naturally, but it'd be pretty sweet to have actual "main guns" that ships came with that would be specific to different races.
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