X4 Foundations

Can you guys recommend the optimal graphics settings for this game?

Despite having a 9900k, 32gb of ram and a 2080ti my frame rate really tanks when there's a lot going on.
 
Vidar said:
Can you guys recommend the optimal graphics settings for this game?

Despite having a 9900k, 32gb of ram and a 2080ti my frame rate really tanks when there's a lot going on.
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Turn off reflections that kills the game a lot. After that is your CPU, I have seen the game using 10 cores :D
Also what ram speed & latency you use?
 
My word I have played x3 to death but this has me stumped lol, I've started the first mission foudn the anomonly but how the hell do I drop satelites and beacons do I go and buy them first or are they in my hold.
 
Any tips on fleet management? Getting ships to travel together etc?

Also I notice that the Split large trader supports upto 40 small ships? Is it worth building 40 fighters to protect it?
 
@Vidar

The first part I can't help, I'm still figuring it out myself.

Second part, IMO no not worth it, ideally you don't want your Buffalo fighting at all, you can setup blacklist systems so your ships won't enter, better off doing that, it's in the player menu somewhere.

Just stop them going through hostile systems they should be ok otherwise. If you set it up with shields and turrets and support crew a buffalo can at least tank for quite some time a few smaller Xenon ships harassing it.
 
atomic7431 said:
Just picked this up, what are people using for decent control setup?
Im tempted to setup my Hotas but i see you need keyboard and mouse quite a chunk from the reviews etc for map control etc
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Keyboard and mouse. HOTAS is good for S size ships. When you get big ones is useless.

Everything else is done with keyboard and mouse. Orders, build stations the whole lot.
 
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Smokey Deza said:
I want to pimp out my Dragon too but it seems all the research you need to do is tied to a go fetch quests.

I was hoping once I'd done the PHQ mission I could just leave it ticking over.
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Oh yea it's a total ball ache, a have all the research unlocked now I had a buffalo running around getting all the bits for me not gonna lie though takes ages.
 
Has anyone any idea how to take screenshots post GPU processing without compression? Aka what we see is what we get.

I am surprised how much better the game looks with AA off, Integer Scaling and 70% RIS compared to VSR or SSAA!!
However if I take screenshots Integer Scaling and RIS aren't applied so they look bad, even if I have set steam to take uncompressed copies.

Thoughts?
 
Panos said:
On the station you start, search for a data leak (go to search shift+F2). A boron will start talking to you to pick an item. Do it but do not continue.
Go to Argon Prime. There should be the HAT mission there to select from the mission. Pick it up and go to the station it tells you. That will start the main campaign.
Why is important to do first? Because you get a fully equipped ship that is better than the crappy one you fly already. (at least has 2 guns).
Do the missions, while hiring a cheap pilot-captain for your starter ship and send him with explore mission to Argon Prime. After that move him to the ANT system to the south.

At one point the HAT campaign will stop. Go back to your starter system and continue with the Boron mission. In the mean time do small missions like fix leaks, drop a satellite where it tells you (within the system you are do not pick such mission to further away systems especially if their name starts with Matrix, Void etc).
When you have your first 400,000 buy a M size Mineral miner from the argon wharf, get full crew (Pilot & 9 engineers) and set it to automine silicon in Argon Prime
Every time you get ~400,000 buy a miner. Equip them with mining drills (on gunport & turret), MK2 combat engines and MK1-2 combat thrusters. Long range scanner 2, docking 1-2, trade module etc. Don't buy any deployables.

You will need 5 miners per faction. 2 on Silicon, 3 on Ore but at the start you can go 3 Silicon. As money rolling in you build more miners. As you progress the Boron mission and you get your PHQ station, get one miner to Grand Exchange I with order to mine Nividium.

I cover up the first 10-20 hours of your game now. :p

Explore the map, do not panic to get fast the research going as you need a constant stream of income going first. Google search were to find the easy to get abandoned S & M size ships. Avoid the Odysseus until you know what you are doing :D
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So I went to Argos Prime as ordered by Commander Panos.
Took the HAT mission, and it is telling me to go to "Hatikvah" but where is that?
I can't see it on the map, just Argon Prime, Second contact 2 flashpoint and black hole sun.

Only 1hr into the game really, so forgive my most likely glaringly obvious overlook.
 
Are the xenon OP? I launched a major assault to try and take out a xenon shipyard as they're really pushing in the north and taking a lot of ground. I went in heavy with 6 destroyers, 20 frigates and close to 100 fighters and got absolutely annihilated by them.9nly managed to get out by the skin of my teeth
 
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