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I'm CarbonCola, a video game enthusiast. I've been playing video games for over 20 years now - any genre really. I enjoy niché and unique games - so I make videos making those games accessible and easily understood.
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glass cannons with shields all the way!
wow this is just a wonderfull new version of freelancer!
still 2000 kr
its 10 pct of a 4 ppl family annual funds
2000 SEK? It's less than that, especially on sale.
I can’t play first person without being sick. Besides, it looks like the game has a bunch of DLCs that should’ve been included in the original game.
The upcoming 7.0 update will add a much better third person view to spaceships. You don't need to do that much in first person besides flying either. You can do a lot in the map. Regarding the DLCs - The base game really did not release in a good state but I am not sure it is fair to say the DLCs shouls have been included. Each DLC comes with a big free patch that adds new elements to the game. Just the extra sectors, missions and factions are locked behind the DLCs. The price is maybe a bit high for the whole package off-sale, but on sale it's definitely worth it and fair. If you enjoy the game you'll play it for 100+ hours, so paying a high ish price seems reasonable to me. Absolutely personal perfect though!
1559.4 hours in rim world and its not even my favorite game. Also it's not really a lot of hours.
What does that have to do with X4?
But im a fan for like a 12 years now....
Ive had this game on my wishlist for almost 3 years. Think ill pull the trigger sometime soon. Look like EVE but without the other people and classism lol.
32:58 you can hit pause at any time and the game will pause then you can take your time in the menu in a crisis. Figure out your new orders etc then resume playing again.
Why would Boron ships not be full of water instead of gasses the exact right mixture for humans to breath?
And no one would talk that majority of new ideas for X4 was created by Me and I ve got nothing. Even aknoledgemant.
Great review and introduction to the game. I’m going to reinstall this and give it another go thanks to this vid. Subbed
I have a 1.600 hours of a play, and keep playing, we haven't even reached the new version 7.0
The first thing you need to know about playing this game, is that you need to play it with mods! The base game is a really bad experience! You need a mod that removes the stupid star system for pilots (One star pilots can fly spaceships but not read a computer screen that lists goods to buy and sell) and a mod that adds satellites with system wide range, so you do not have to put 10+ satellites in every system to see what stations are selling, just one! (look at 21:02 in the video when he enables satellite coverage in a sector and all this satellite icons show up. Now imagine all of that in EVERY hexagon on the map) Then you will have a WAY better gaming experience!
There are short cuts of an office tour at ego soft. Does anyone have a link to that Video?
X3 was the true chad of space games (despite some soul-destroying bugs). You’ve inspired me to pick up X4.
if you like this game, go and check Nexus: The Jupiter incident !!!
Thx for your review, this is very helpful :)
Im tardy to the party. Incredible video. Great audio and pacing. Please stick to it. Youll be over 100k subs in no time. Buying the game now.
Thank you! I will do that :) Out of curiosity, did you watch any of my other videos? I am trying to understand how easy it is to be a variety-game-channel and nake reviews on many genres (like Mandalore or Sseth)
@Carbon_Cola I have no had the chance too but I am subscribed. You just got tossed into my feed!
exact type of game i play how did i miss this game
i dont know that you can call the series indie.
Biggest Problem with this Game: The Savegame mechanics that is still from their 90s X games. Very slow as soon as you hit the later mid-game. Loading times with nvme and cutting edge hardware evolves towarts 60-120 seconds with Savegame progression. Then when you attack with your fleet and you want to load because the fleet controls are shitty and your fleet did stupid things: 2 Minutes gone. Accidentally pressed mouse button and attacked the wrong thing: 2 Minutes gone. Also Saving also quickly starts taking ~15 seconds at that stage.
I wasn't sure if i did the pirated or not but yes, it seems that I did buy it. I have all but 2 DLCs missing.
Every time nice to see someone finds out about the X Series and falls in love with it. This games are not perfect and obviously kind of hard to step in, but they are so good in the end because this is what i call a game that focused on gameplay not a shit ton of shiny Cutscenes and kind of boring gamplay in the end. I started with X2 because my brother played it like crazy and i sit next to him looking what the hell was going on that he was so in this game, and it jumped over and I'm a fan of the series since than. Nice Video👍
It's not that strange. The entire X line of games suffer from mostly a lack of QoL. Many player wind up dropping it due to a lack of ground game, or lack of personalization. The game is great but to lacking for most people. Honestly when Star Citizen launches if they don't step it up this franchise will die. (By QoL I mean things like the fact that almost all ships no matter how big are just a cockpit and exit ramp, You cannot customize or make your own ship designs even though you have a station builder, there is no ground combat of any kind, the station interiors feel like copy pasted empty zones which is fair each faction would build them almost identically but the layout would not always be the same, The HQ is force started in a contested zone, things like that. The game is great for what it is which is why it has a strong loyal fanbase, however that fanbase is small because it lacks what's needed to keep the majority of gamers invested.) Edit: Also this is NOT an indie title, EGOSOFT is Germany's top developer and had a budget big enough to self publish X4.
Thanks for the Review mate. I am an X games fan, it's been ages since the last time I played one, so I stumbbled on your review and once I watched it all I just bought the game.
OK, I'm sold. But it looks like I just missed a sale, so I'll be waiting a bit.
I played the original, the extension and the follow up and lastly X3...all the while I never really found "the fun" in those games. And I sure tried for hundreds of hours but it never clicked in terms of fun. Yes, I did have huge AF factories, fleets and whatnots but still... Those games are as german as a game can get, I should know as I am one...clunky UI (at least the ones I played, but judging from that vid...nah-uh...still the same mess), overly complicated production chains, way waaaaaayyy too much micromanagement on a star-faring level, frankly quite stupid names for everything that can be named (Boron as an example is a chemical element, ffs how teutonic creative of Egosoft), ship and station designs are well - not at all my cup of tea and frankly never have been and so on... To me, those games always try/tried to implement something on the complexity level of Factorio (which is sufficiently complicated already even without aggro biters) and then adding a multiplier of about 1000 on it...and all that in the oh so vast space which in fact isn´t vast at all in any X game so far - vast, as in empty for the most parts and simply black...gosh, I hate those skittle ships and systems that look like a f-ing 80s disco when you accidentially ingested all the nice pills (and the ones mother gives you, but these don´t do anything at all) Plus: Xenons...no, those make the game considerably more tedious cuz they have been f-ing OP in the past and prolly still are if you intend to play this game "fleet admiral" style...sure sure, they are not a biggie if you choose to mil-ind-complex them to pieces but that simply is the same as some "goon swarm" in another game disguised as a spreadsheet...yuck! and lastly: mods ... simply, as the game(s) - way too much imho... Not that I don´t like mods...just checked my FS22 mod folder...a staggering 150Gb of vehicles - not even maps or something. If you want "space" and "pew-pew-a-plenty" then I would direct you to Star Sector...not 3d but good lord is it fun to shred inspecting and unsuspecting hegemony fleets :p and its also quite hard
This is looking more and more like a single player 4x version of Star Citizen the more I watch
Yeah! It's bit like quantum, but on a smaller scale!
Yeah! It's bit like quantum, but on a smaller scale!
I loved mount and blade. But I sucked at combat.
You can focus a lot more on empire building in X4if it's any consolation:D
I have played the game quite a bit, but the theme of space AI and combat sometimes disappoints me, which is why I have sometimes stopped playing it.
I personally have not played X4 - yet. But I have play X1, 2 and 3 and the expansions. All very good - if a little frosty to new players. If you like Elite, or Freelancer or anything similar... This series will rock your world. Eventually. You'll need to invest a few hours to get the hang of it...... But worth it.
I have this game since launch. Tried to played it 3-4 times, never could get past the tutorial. I also tried Pathologic 1 when launched, i wanted to finish and understand more of it, but i was to young and imature to apreciate what it was doing. I found your video and you convinced me. I am now trying Pathologic 2 and, after so many years, i think it finnaly cliked. The strangeness of this game is beyond everything i have ever played. So many strange sounds, the world, the dialog. The use of lights to highlight important locations. It has a strange efect on me, to the point i dont mind bugs and even the somewhat "dead" world and charcaters. By dead i mean static, like in Morrowind. This is a game that makes you consider it alive in your mind, not in the technical visual common sense. The characters, even though are not voice acted, have to say more than tons and tons of characters from other games. The world, even though little and "bland", is more compact and it changes so much that eventually it feels interactive and alive. I dont know how they managed this. I think is one of the few games that really shows us what this medium can acommplish. Very nice review. To speak so much about a game that is so obtuse and strange and not spoil anything is a huge deal. Ty 🥂
Thank you so much for your comment!! I don't get so many views or so much feedback for my Pathologic 2 Review, but it was the hardest video for me to make so it means a lot to hear it had a positive effect!! Regarding the deadness of thr world, I wonder about that too. Are those technical limitations? Or is it an artistic element to further make me feel alone and isolated and to make the town feel more at the end of its life? Like I mentioned with many of the townspeople looking the same - this can also be interpreted as a technical limitation. But I think that it has a lot of artistic value because it depereonalizes everyone you interact with and makes the townspeople seem extra creepy, and makes the town overall feel much less safe. Completely agree with you that Pathologic 2 is a fantastic example for just how much the medium of videogames can accomplish. It's a masterfully created interactive piece of art.
@@Carbon_Cola I listen to your review a bunch of times while cleaning the house and doing dishes, and have to say it is very good even without the visual. Like an audiobook 😊 I think we got used with the same ideas and mechanics in video games, that when we get into this type of game, even things like bugs, glitches and unpolished parts don't matter. They even get meshed somehow in the world. Bcs you don't need a visual and technical perfection when a game doesn't need it. It would have been cool for the world to be more alive, with npcs going on theyre business etc. But I think it wouldn't have the same impact. And the strangest thing is I can't explain why this kind of "downgrade" is actually a huge bonus in immersion. The use of "fog of war" is such an old concept, used back in the day to hide the limitation of the hardware, and in Pathologic 2 works like a charm. Years back I played The Void. A game as strange, even stranger than Pathologic and plagued with bugs. The thing is I was on my old pc, my video card was old and damaged, and at some point the game gliched hard, with strange visual artifacts and some colors meshed into eachother. I played for more than 2 hours without even thinking the game had a problem. The game was so strange, that my brain didn't register the actual visual bugs and glitches. I realised this when I got a crash and I rebooted the game. What game out there can do this ?! Pathologic also uses the fear of the unknown, like Subanutica and Outer Wilds. This fear is primordial, it is integral part of our subconscious minds, and the engine that drived humans to aquire knoledge. I think this is the greatest feat, in the immersion department, that a game can accomplish. Keep up the good work. You didn't received much feed back not bcs of you, is bcs of the game. Not many people got into it, not to mention the ones that have didn't get pass day 3. I have waited for 5 years until your review convinced me to open up to the game. This also proves that Pathologic 2 is a work of art. It ages like art. Cheers mate 🥂
@@bilibistrox Once again thank you! Purely out of curiousity - did the Pathologic 2 review make you interested in checking out my other reviews? For example the X4 Foundations one. I never know if my audience switches between my videos or sticks with one. I'm trying to establish myself as another good video game review channel where people stay for the style of the video and my ability to help people enjoy new games they previously wouldn't have considered. Wondering how well that is working haha. Btw if you want, you can join my discord if you ever wanna philosophise about games! discord.gg/MdszAPKnqc
It would be if it worked properly
When did you play it last? Things have been getting a lot better over the last few years with the many patches they have released.
@@Carbon_Cola two months ago , case and point ai is as bad as it ever was. If ai doesnt work then entire management section of the game doesnt work
Anne - Tig - On - E.... They say it in the game.
It is a map with colors
Some of the most complicated colors in gaming!
The X series is the best there is for space sims. SETA has been part of the game series for a long time X3: Reunion made it almost mando to have it fully upgraded. It took forever to get anywhere without it. The Boron have been in the game since I think X2, so when you say recently, do you mean the last 20 years? lol
Hey! Can you remind me in what context I have said "recently"? I don't remember :D
What is the ship in the Thumbnail?
I took it from a screenshot of the upcoming X Timelines DLC so I am not sure what exactly it is called.
@@Carbon_Cola ah, it looks nice!
Well i played the X3 Terran and that was not great for me, so when i saw this few years back, i just glance over it and said, naah, not again, but after seen it been presented like this and also i was not aware that you could do other stuff than sitting in a spaceship, and after getting my Home World burned after 13 hours and that was done , , - 80€ i might look at this one, and it do look good consider it is an old game, also there are few other title that are about to release, but i`m sure the gameplay in those are not like this, thank you for the vid and the way you have showed it too the people . best regards in the Void.
In my last game, the xenon almost completly wiped out the split, when i eventually got around to pushing them back the split had 3 sectors left, i eventually pushed the xenon back and took the sectors for myself, now the split loves me even though i control almost all their sectors
Yes, he convinced me to buy this game. I’ve only been playing RISK has Varo on steam lately. That’s what I have time for but before that, I played a lot of mount and blade. My other favorite game is Star Wars Empire war and both of those games I feel like it would be combined into X4. I can’t wait to try it out after I pay some debts in real life
Salve, ho iniziato a giocare all'universo X con l'apparizione dei Kaak e non ho più smesso! Mi sono comprato tutte le uscite, dalla prima all'ultima. Ho passato una quantità di ore a giocare in X che è senza ombra di dubbio il mio gioco più giocato! Un enorme grazie a Egosoft per questo bellissimo universo che ci ha regalato!
Avorion is better.
Avorion has a totally different scope.
I know this game is not so popular worldwide, but still it's weird as a German because here it's a Game everyone knows. Like with Gothic. I'm playing it since X1. I love this series. Egosoft, the developers, maintain their games for a very, very long time, which is a thing I really like about them. Even if a new release comes out they pacth the older parts.
I wonder how the devs balance the economy. Clearly if you keep mining and producing eventually there will be oversupply of everything. So you need "sink" of stuff - probably war. But it needs to be balanced fairly well for it not to go too much in either direction. If the other factions cannot cheat (by getting free ships or other resources) it becomes doubly difficult to make it challenging against human players.
The bottleneck becomes the production and transport of goods. The raw material demand actually gets saturated relatively quickly. You need to then start producing all the intermediate goods to sell to the AI. Ultimately most goods will flow to spaceports. There's a limit to how many ships each faction is allowed to have (can be changed via mod) so unless they are loosing ships, that demand is also limited. But with mods to change these limits the consumption usually stays high. Plus you can do story missions to plunge the AI into war with each other to further stimulate demand.
Just wondering: Does x4 foundations have a story mode?
Currently, the story is part of the normal sandbox. There's a bunch of story missions that expand the X universe but it's not the focus. There is an upcoming DLC called Timelines which should come out in the next few months. This one will bring dedicated story missions into the game!
@@Carbon_Cola Wishlisted! Top Tier!
Great short to introduce the game. The amazing atmosphere and storytelling is well represented in this. Thank you, great work.
Thank you! It's actually the intro for my long-form review! It sounds like you are a Pathologic fan - maybe you'd like to check it out too? kzread.info/dash/bejne/pY5s29x6ZrLggpc.html
@@Carbon_Cola oh i saw it already before finding the short some weeks ago haha. Great video by the way.
I think that the next DLC timelines might fix the issue of the lore for many people. 7.0 itself improved destroyer behavior, but it#s still far from perfect.
You make great videos <3
That is very kind - thank you!!! Comments like yours are very important to me at this stage. The channel is still small and I am still trying to figure out my voice - so hearing that people like my content makes me feel like I am on the right track and I should continue :)
haha I laughed at the french pronunciation! It was great after you googled it :D
Haha, thank you!
Nice informal video, however I am surprised you found the time to make it! 🙂(I've played around 2.5k hours in the X4 universe, & still counting)