

The sheer size of these stations and some ships is overwhelming. When you're in a station, wandering outside of your ship, trying to find missions, traders and more - everything is as huge as you would expect. X4: Foundations is a very attractive game that manages the scale of the galaxy perfectly. This isn't to say that you can't get into the game if you try. Intel Core i9-10980XE 18 Core ‘Cascade Lake-X’ Flagship CPU Benchmark Leaks Out – Blazes Past AMD’s 16 Core Ryzen Threadripper 2950X As a series, it is notoriously opaque, even when it's trying to be more inclusive like here in X4: Foundations. I did play it prior to launch but found it difficult to get into, even as a light player of prior X titles. A game that would have been almost impenetrable otherwise. Watching other players explain how to play the game.

Out of the fourteen tutorials, I've managed to complete maybe four of them.Įventually, my best friend became something completely out of the game - YouTube. So the problem is that I'm doing what I'm told and getting no acknowledgement nor the following step. In almost every single one of the tutorials, I've had the game tell me what to do and then not recognise when I've actually done it. The tutorial is there, sure, but it acts more like a broken powerpoint than anything else. Sadly, this isn't something Egosoft wanted to help you out with. Knowing the X-Series as I do, a tutorial is essential if only to grasp the basics of getting in and out of your ship and, of course, not crash into an Einstein-Rosen bridge (not that you can). Other startup options had different ships and credits, but no tutorial. The Young Gun option came with the appealing promise of tutorials, a basic ship and 10,000 credits. You're given the choice between being either a Young Gun, a Fighter or an Explorer. One of the major issues actually comes with the most promising aspect of starting the game up. This is riddled with bugs, glitches and other significant issues, though the bugs are getting fixed at a rapid rate. Sadly, Egosoft has a Bethesda problem in that they desperately need to grab a few cans of insect repellent, or just outright fumigate the place. Anyway, we're here to talk about X4: Foundations. Fallout 76 is better than X Rebirth was at launch. This is better than X Rebirth was at launch. I want to get one major point out of the way. Intel 9th Gen Core Processors Get Price Cuts, New Xeon W-2200 and 10th Gen X-Series CPUs Announced

Part of this feeling is my fault, but the overwhelming cause of this is down to Egosoft themselves.

This is sadly the overwhelming feeling I've had when playing X4: Foundations. However, taking it as a space-travelling song the lyrics seem to indicate loneliness, also futility to how our actions can actually be. In reality, David Bowie's masterpiece is a song about seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey while high as a kite. If there's one song that exemplifies my time with X4: Foundations in song form, it's Space Oddity.
