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Sweet, thanks! Just started playing today, hadnt since Albion Prelude. How are you all liking Terran ships? Im still with the Kukri so far.
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the scout ship that goes just under 5000m a second with basic mk 1 engines is fun but hard to control since you have to break 10 km out or else you overshoot everything
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Mar 17, 2021 05:17
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Enjoyed the new intro storyline but not sure where I should establish mining operations in the Terran sectors since there doesn't seem to be a system with a lot of factories and readily available minerals. The Terran M miner also appears to be significantly more expensive than the commonwealth ones.
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Mar 17, 2021 06:00
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I shoved a bunch in the oort cloud. Also the new repeat orders command let's you set up an order to mine in an area and then sell to a specific station over and over so you can make some poor man's advanced auto miners. Just choose a station in Pluto or Neptune that need like 90k silicone and set a ton of miners to repeat order mine silicon in oort and sell at that station.
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Mar 17, 2021 06:08
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The ego forums definitely have a large chud population, like for real don't look up the thread of the mod that removed all the black people from the game, it's basically just wall-to-wall #whitegenocide anxiety.
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Mar 17, 2021 07:11
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So.. pro-s... I started the game and tried to do the Flight tutorial. No I am just hanging in space.. What the hell I am supposed to do now and how can I get back to the tutorial guy to do the other tutorials? Also - is there any way to rewatch what the tutorial guy is telling you (besides the hints that are logged in your journal thing)? There is lots of text and if I miss something it seems to be gone forever?
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Mar 17, 2021 10:27
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Did they resolve their issues with this and Nvidia 30 series cards in the end?
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Mar 17, 2021 11:35
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3 posted:I went to the Ego forums to look at the patch notes, and man there are some totally normal people on there huh One of the many reasons I'm not a game dev: If I had to read this poo poo, I'd immediately turn around and delete all male starts.
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Mar 17, 2021 11:38
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:The ego forums definitely have a large chud population, like for real don't look up the thread of the mod that removed all the black people from the game, it's basically just wall-to-wall #whitegenocide anxiety. Like what the gently caress, they're in a universe with space aliens and they're still worried about skin colour? Chuds gonna chud.
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Mar 17, 2021 12:00
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My game has a much larger amount of TER stations on the Neptune side of Sol so I'll probably start building there.
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Mar 17, 2021 12:18
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SirTagz posted:So.. pro-s... Pretty sure you can just start tutorials whenever you want from the help menu (hit enter, it's the question mark icon at he top) You can also just ask questions here of course. The X games are sometimes somewhat obtuse. Drunk in Space posted:Did they resolve their issues with this and Nvidia 30 series cards in the end? I remember reading that Nvidia is supposed to have fixed their bug.
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Mar 17, 2021 12:23
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Nvidia thing is in a beta driver but not fully released yet. Edit: Egosoft really needs to explain the star rating system way better as the subreddit is full of people acting as if the game AI doesn't work when really the problem is their pilots are 0-1 stars and then they give up on the game as they think that is the pinnacle of the AI and never get to see what a proper pilot can do. It'd probably be best to make pilots get smarter earlier if they aren't going to explain the system up front. Thom12255 fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mar 17, 2021 12:33
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Drunk in Space posted:Did they resolve their issues with this and Nvidia 30 series cards in the end? Oh no I have a 3070 and was about to start playing this, what is this bug?
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Mar 17, 2021 13:20
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Drunk in Space posted:Did they resolve their issues with this and Nvidia 30 series cards in the end? Not sure what exact issues you mean... but I have a 3080 and it kind of worked.. fine?
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Mar 17, 2021 13:23
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There's a real hard to track down crash with the 3000 series cards where the game crashes with a "device removed" error. Egosoft has been working on it with nVidia. Underclocking your card slightly seems to fix it for many people but it's not a long term solution. https://www.egosoft.com:8443/jira/browse/X4-275 https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=432893 Every time I think it's fixed I'll get a crash at a very inopportune time, haha.
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Mar 17, 2021 13:34
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i have a 3080 and didnt crash at all yesterday im tossing an energy cell factory up right on the border of pioneer/terran space. its 180% efficiency there and like every factory from jupiter to oort cloud is buying 10s to 100s of thousands of e-cells. just a factory with like 10 e-cell producers should make a few mill an hour. queeb fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mar 17, 2021 13:56
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"Double Assistant"  Boso TaI didn't expect that mission chain. Antigravitas fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mar 17, 2021 14:17
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I have managed to get a 3 star pilot within 9 hours of my playthrough which is a new record.
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Mar 17, 2021 14:43
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Oh no, I do not like where Project Genesis is going.
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Mar 17, 2021 14:48
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COH adds so much more plot content it's great. I'd say COH is a must-have for a new player. Split Vendetta is good but not as necessary. The 2018 release was clearly early access and the two DLC's are actually the completion of the vision of the game they had from the start. The devs have said they want to keep building on X4 for the foreseeable future and it's clear their engine can deal with it seeing as though they've already inserted graphical upgrades with this patch and you can just keep adding more and more content on top of the existing universe. There are still quite a few shut down gates scattered around. But they don't really seem to have a good sense of where to go from here besides their Venture multiplayer addition.
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Mar 17, 2021 15:19
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Less Fat Luke posted:There's a real hard to track down crash with the 3000 series cards where the game crashes with a "device removed" error. Egosoft has been working on it with nVidia. Underclocking your card slightly seems to fix it for many people but it's not a long term solution. Yeah, that's exactly the bug I had the last time I played 2 months ago. I'd just built a new PC at the time with a 3070 in it, and unfortunately got the bug shortly after firing up the game. I couldn't really be bothered with the workaround at the time, so decided to just shelve the game for a while. Since the new expansion is out, I just thought I'd check to see if they'd made any progress with it.
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Mar 17, 2021 15:23
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Drunk in Space posted:Yeah, that's exactly the bug I had the last time I played 2 months ago. I'd just built a new PC at the time with a 3070 in it, and unfortunately got the bug shortly after firing up the game. I couldn't really be bothered with the workaround at the time, so decided to just shelve the game for a while. Since the new expansion is out, I just thought I'd check to see if they'd made any progress with it.
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Mar 17, 2021 15:24
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Thom12255 posted:I have managed to get a 3 star pilot within 9 hours of my playthrough which is a new record. I did the genesis start and the ship boso ta sends to pick you up after you get teleported came with a 4 star pilot noice I also find it interesting that the game mentions that the terrans have had contact with the aldrin system, but apparently got cut off again? So they apparently know about the rebirth sectors but the gates aren't reliable yet. Thom12255 posted:Egosoft really needs to explain the star rating system way better as the subreddit is full of people acting as if the game AI doesn't work when really the problem is their pilots are 0-1 stars and then they give up on the game as they think that is the pinnacle of the AI and never get to see what a proper pilot can do. It'd probably be best to make pilots get smarter earlier if they aren't going to explain the system up front. Christ I know right, if you make the AI poo poo for 90% of the things the player will have contact with, then you've just made a game with 90% poo poo AI, doesn't matter if you wrote the code for it to be good if you don't give people access to it. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mar 17, 2021 15:26
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can you get most of the plot stuff doing the other starts? I did both terran starts but went with the lab assistant one instead. seems like there's a plot mission to pick up near the PHQ with the terran scientists at least.
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Mar 17, 2021 15:34
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Halfway on the 16 gig dl, *sweats* its been a while since I played so yay, also, does scanning still drop blueprints or is it just emp-ing now?
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Mar 17, 2021 15:34
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staberind posted:Halfway on the 16 gig dl, *sweats* You EMP the module and then scan the leaks that appear with your spacesuit. After researching the tech that allows you to get those kinds of blueprints of course.
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Mar 17, 2021 15:48
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I got one blueprint for a connector from scanning a data leak before I had the PHQ, weirdly enough. You don't absolutely require the EMP, it's just the most reliable way to create data leaks.
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Mar 17, 2021 15:49
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staberind posted:its been a while since I played so yay, also, does scanning still drop blueprints or is it just emp-ing now? I've gotten a couple of random scan blueprints in my new start, seems to still be a thing. Not really something I intend to rely on. Scanning is annoying, EMPing is easy. Now in the process of trying to decide where to start setting up my stuff, leaning towards building my private military-industrial complex around Getsu Fune this time. I should probably not start by building in there though, it would be annoying if my first station was summarily exploded before I can afford to get beefy defenses placed at the new Xenon gate.
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Mar 17, 2021 15:49
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im wondering if the better kill credit mod is broken. ive killed a few xenon around stations in the void and have gotten nothing, which seems weird. gonna turn it off and try again.
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Mar 17, 2021 15:50
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Some things also you cannot acquire by scanning, such as the ship production modules, because they're hella expensive and also money printers. But as far as I know you can still get blueprints by scanning, yeah.
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Mar 17, 2021 16:46
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I love the Terran scientist start. How it ties in with a small storyline from way back is great.
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Mar 17, 2021 16:46
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is there a mod that allows me to actually purchase the Trump Steaks, this is ridiculous
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Mar 17, 2021 18:08
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mining is still decent passive income. I grabbed the odysseus from faulty logic and bought a whack of miners with it since they were super cheap right at the start. parked like 5 in every faction zone and theyre doing pretty well.
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If you're just starting out you should head to the HOP border on the highway loop, it will be a massacre near the gate and you can scoop up all the delicious loot.
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Mar 17, 2021 19:29
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Has combat been overhauled at all in the last couple years? I remember the thing killing the game for good for me was being able to solo entire xenon fleets in my crappy frigate if I just hugged blindspots then took advantage of debris, and I've never been big on the economy building part itself except in service of making a fleet
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Mar 17, 2021 19:42
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The ship you get from the Hatikvah intro mission now has mk2 equipment and components + ship sold for about 900k. I guess it always did and I just don't remember it as being quite that nice; maybe because I picked it up much later and much richer last time. Anyhow, after I stripped it and the bonus scout ol' Bozo gave me for parts I could easily afford a pile of resource probes and my first few nvidia miners for a comfortable start.
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RBA Starblade posted:Has combat been overhauled at all in the last couple years? I remember the thing killing the game for good for me was being able to solo entire xenon fleets in my crappy frigate if I just hugged blindspots then took advantage of debris, and I've never been big on the economy building part itself except in service of making a fleet They have improved the turret tracking a lot which was a big problem early on, and if you want you can install VRO which massively changes how the weapons work and are balanced, more lethal, varied, cinematic, and longer ranged as a rule.
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Mar 17, 2021 19:54
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Assuming I'm a novice at the X-universe, does the game have a campaign working as a tutorial (i.e No Man Sky), or does it throw players into the deep end sandbox? I'm pretty bad at finding my own fun in games, so I'd prefer the game to set clear goals I can do. 
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Mar 17, 2021 20:02
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OwlFancier posted:They have improved the turret tracking a lot which was a big problem early on, and if you want you can install VRO which massively changes how the weapons work and are balanced, more lethal, varied, cinematic, and longer ranged as a rule. Cool thanks, definitely getting coh later then
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Apparently the new expansion is a lot more plot driven but the core of the game, I think is very sandboxy, there are a lot of systems in the game for you to play around with on your own initiative, especially in the economic sim aspect.
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