I just came back to the game and wow, X4 I think has finally reached a really good sweet spot, especially if you include all the DLCs. Egosoft also didn't fall behind on the graphics, which is key to the longevity of these older games. And X4 has had incredible longevity. Thx for the vid.
one major note is that I've heard stories about how Xenon and Khak would pretty much decimate most regeons of the galaxy leaving entire spans of red sectors in their wake prior to 7.0. What I've found in 7.0 though is you can pick a spot in the galaxy, set up shop, and live there for days to even weeks without being bothered. When you're all set up and ready to explore you'll find that the majority of sectors haven't been taken by the hostiles. They'll still have snagged a system or two but ultimately the AI is better and more capable of putting things up to a stale mate so that it requires player intervention to break.
Note that those are just that, stories. There has not been a major change in faction invasions for a long time. people just keep forgetting that X4 is very dynamic and each start even if using the same seed will not necessary lead to the same result.
@@GlitchedVision Again this is not really true, there are many factors that influence outcomes, claiming the E have more impact then others is yet to be backed up by stats. In my long run test there are still many variations and the small patterns that we can see (since we would need to do 1000s of these tests to get reliable data and no one has time for that) its not much different then before 6.00, in fact even 5.00.
To add my 2 cents to this- I'm brand new to the game, and about ~50 hours into my first play through. So far as I can tell the Xenon have not yet broke out of the systems they started the game in. They have made incursions, in particular they made a play for Hatikvah's Choice while I was there doing the missions- I was gonna head back to my base to try and build a fleet to help, but as I got to the Jumpgate a massive Terran Intervention Corps fleet jumped in. An Asgard, Syn's, Osaka's- you name it. Even some Argon ships showed up to help. So I just stayed around to watch. That was a hell of a battle.
I've been playing the X series games on and off since X2: The Threat came out. After all this time with all the updates, expansions, new titles and long developer support which have all been consistent features of the series, Egosoft are still yet to figure out how to do a decent job in character modelling. If you compare the ones from X2 to the ones in X4 it is difficult to say that there has been much improvement on that point at all. They have managed to make the audio lines recorded for Boron characters ever more annoying though!
Only reason you wouldn't in my opinion is lack of mod support or waiting for mods to be updated e.g. interworlds, Other than that 7.00 working great for me. The fact i can type a few letters into the search bar and it brings up all the options without you having to remember everythings exact name is game changing.
It would have been much better if you were showing examples of what you're reading, at the very least some of the key changes that you felt made 7.0 worth while. podcast format on YT isn't my cup of tea
I just came back to the game and wow, X4 I think has finally reached a really good sweet spot, especially if you include all the DLCs. Egosoft also didn't fall behind on the graphics, which is key to the longevity of these older games. And X4 has had incredible longevity. Thx for the vid.
one major note is that I've heard stories about how Xenon and Khak would pretty much decimate most regeons of the galaxy leaving entire spans of red sectors in their wake prior to 7.0. What I've found in 7.0 though is you can pick a spot in the galaxy, set up shop, and live there for days to even weeks without being bothered. When you're all set up and ready to explore you'll find that the majority of sectors haven't been taken by the hostiles. They'll still have snagged a system or two but ultimately the AI is better and more capable of putting things up to a stale mate so that it requires player intervention to break.
Note that those are just that, stories. There has not been a major change in faction invasions for a long time. people just keep forgetting that X4 is very dynamic and each start even if using the same seed will not necessary lead to the same result.
@@Ketraar very true, the new E variant ships in the hands of the improved NPCs make that a less likely outcome now days though.
@@GlitchedVision Again this is not really true, there are many factors that influence outcomes, claiming the E have more impact then others is yet to be backed up by stats. In my long run test there are still many variations and the small patterns that we can see (since we would need to do 1000s of these tests to get reliable data and no one has time for that) its not much different then before 6.00, in fact even 5.00.
@@Ketraar the time saving option would be to go ask the egosoft coder/s who wrote it in, as long as it wasn't NDA info.
To add my 2 cents to this- I'm brand new to the game, and about ~50 hours into my first play through. So far as I can tell the Xenon have not yet broke out of the systems they started the game in. They have made incursions, in particular they made a play for Hatikvah's Choice while I was there doing the missions- I was gonna head back to my base to try and build a fleet to help, but as I got to the Jumpgate a massive Terran Intervention Corps fleet jumped in. An Asgard, Syn's, Osaka's- you name it. Even some Argon ships showed up to help. So I just stayed around to watch. That was a hell of a battle.
I've been playing the X series games on and off since X2: The Threat came out. After all this time with all the updates, expansions, new titles and long developer support which have all been consistent features of the series, Egosoft are still yet to figure out how to do a decent job in character modelling. If you compare the ones from X2 to the ones in X4 it is difficult to say that there has been much improvement on that point at all. They have managed to make the audio lines recorded for Boron characters ever more annoying though!
Only reason you wouldn't in my opinion is lack of mod support or waiting for mods to be updated e.g. interworlds, Other than that 7.00 working great for me. The fact i can type a few letters into the search bar and it brings up all the options without you having to remember everythings exact name is game changing.
Did they nerf Fly by boarding? Ive heard they did.
There have been a lot of changes for boarding, I'd have to have another dig into it to see exactly how it's effected it
I just started 7.0 and I hope they did, it was too big of a temptation, and it's a game breaking tactic, very close to being an exploit
It would have been much better if you were showing examples of what you're reading, at the very least some of the key changes that you felt made 7.0 worth while. podcast format on YT isn't my cup of tea
Note taken, I may look to that format in the future, as I tend to pick out what ive found best in my opinion anyways.