X4: Discovery Pack (X4: Foundations + X4: Timelines)

You cannot remap Shift for Sprint or Ctrl for Crouch. The excuse of the developers is that those are modifier keys and therefore cannot be used for other functions. That is not an excuse but a K.O. criterion, as it affects accessibility. Look how Star Citizen can do it.

Like someone said: Frustrating? Sure! Buggy? Of course! Clunky UI? Guaranteed! Ugliest NPCs you will ever see? Hell yeah! Aliens with woices tham make you want to quit the game? Check! Rudimentary documentation, mostly made by a fanbase? Here we go! I stopped there. I tried. I asked for a refund. Sorry game, we were not meant to be together. Masochism is not my taste. Seriously though, I played more than my fair share of hard and/or badly optimized games in the last 25 years, I played with idiotic UIs, I played with dumb control schemes. I also played heaps of complex games. Mostly that, acctually, from deep RPGs to 4X to shooters to management sims. And those get bad UX all days of the week. But this level of unplayability I did not encounter often. In this category, this game is a gem. 1st of all: keyboard and mouse are unplayable. Simply unplayable. Even when using Pause to select actions, which btw is dumb in this type of games, the UI does not work as intended. The best example is not being to hit a single enemy in a combat mission, because there is no way to target them even when they are in front of you (normally, with the controller, I get a circle and dots. But with the controller, you cans target only one enemy at a time, and changing target requires to circle between every targetable thing, with one single button. Then there is the fact that even if there already is too much different buttons needed, some are useless due to bad thinking: Like to accelerate / decelerate, needs 3 different buttons on controller, and a number of them on keyboard. Selecting weapon groups, what does it do? Why 2 buttons for that, and so close to other functions. And to nail the coffin, this could be a great game, if what is at the core of it was not so badly executed. It has incredibly exciting features (logistics being one of them), but lacks so much in the flight aspect of it, that I sadly had to ask for a refund.

I agree with below smh. Why sell this. The supplied .sh files don't work. "Mojosetup Error" even though it says 100% integrity check succeeded. No, it won't unzip or tar xvvf like the only solutions that google say. Same on pop/debian

this is not a hidden gem, its just garbage. egosoft did not keep their promises even like a decade later - i was a early access supporter. do not support this company and instead play games that are actual fun.

This feels like EvE, but worse. It's another case of a game that wants to be everything and fails at everything too. Flying a spaceship feels like you're manoeuvring around a plastic toy, the sounds are completely lacking any coherence and atmosphere. The first bit of combat outside the tutorial was against some kind of four-sided dice that just shoot lasers that always hit, make an annoying sound, and it's simply about who can soak more damage. There's apparently also a "walking around" experience that might have been a good experience in 2005, and you get to meet plastic-looking aliens with some of the absolute worst garbage "AI"-generated voices I've heard in a decade. New players do not gek any kind of "flow", you're thrown into a mess of a game; I was trying to follow the meagre choice of missions and ended up owning a huge base that can do nothing, with instructions to build stuff. How do I build stuff? Where do I get the parts for it? Map filters aren't helping. The base building process is apparently so convoluted that you need to refer to a shoddily written wiki thing on Egosoft's website. Hardware management beyond keyboard, mouse, and maybe a gamepad is technically there but also a bit of a broken and confusing mess. All of that is wrapped in a broken UI that's trying---and true to form failing---to wrap around a mess of features, the map has some weirdly broken overlays that manage to always be in the way. I should just accept that "the space genre" is dead. All that's coming out is drowning in incompetent project management, a lack of a coherent vision, and absolutely no grasp on what a studio could reasonably accomplish. Aim for the sky, fall on your face. I just want to fly a damn spaceship and shoot stuff! Is that SO HARD? Get the basics right, and THEN MAYBE tack on an extra mechanic or two.