I have thousands of hours in X3. I used to take my laptop to work and play for 4 or 5 hrs a night.
Id be lucky to get half that a week now 
But even so, it deserved another stab. Been following it closely and while its not in any way close to perfect, it has the feel back from X3. That’s exciting
I think its hooked me…
Victor, you’re going to make me re-install X4 aren’t ya.
Cant talk, scanning systems
First impressions.
Scanning and the map screen. On X3 you could sit on the sector map, click a location and fly there. Scanning while flying around at the same time.
Now you use a long range scanner that you send out a “pulse” with. Seems to work out to about 150km give or take.
I both love and hate this. But the more i use it, the more natural it feels and its growing on me from an immersion perspective. You must (so ive worked out so far) have a destination locked for auto pilot to function, you cant just sort of heading hold and use AP to collision avoid for you while you sit in the menu. But its not too bad.
Ive not found any form of seta yet. But when you put AP on it functions in sort of an elite dangerous “supercruise” mode and speeds right the hell up. I LOVE this. It also stops you sitting in seta and making big bucks on the stock market etc. All good with me.
Combat, still sucks but does seem better than before in a dogfight. Not that ive done much of it.
Close range scanning is a PITA. Scan a station. Get as close as you can and scan every inch of a huge station, fun for 30 seconds. God awful for the rest of time. Although you can pick up radio messages from people in need, home in on them and the results are interesting so far. I HIGHLY recommend scanning the first station you are docked at and meeting the imprisoned boron scientist. He helps you TONS and its a great tutorial and a bit of a financial help at first as well. Never would of found it otherwise but i was convinced the short range scanner must do more than turn the hud purple. Glad i did.
Walking around stations is still a bit forced but they are BEAUTIFUL to admire. I love watching the ships docking etc.
Docking itself has clearly taken a big load of license from ED. Much easier though. Line up the pips over the landing pad and lower gently. Easy very immersive and fun.
Yeah…i quite like it so far.
PS.
Travelled to a war system without realising. Just sat and watched the paranid vs argon fight and it. Was. EPIC. i was sat there for 20 mins just watching it all kicking off. Really cool.
I’m back in.
The tutorials are really excellent now
I’m taking this slow. My problem is that i have SO much x3 time. That i expect to be able to play this like a master instantly.
I did all the tutorials this time. I’m taking it slow, exploring and seeing what’s what instead of blasting off and getting frustrated.
Btw the combat tutorial is really fun.
The voice acting, is better, the whole thing is much more polished. I’m going to buy all the DLC and disappear into this for a while
I haven’t played an X game recently, I feel like I’m in the same boat except it’s X2 time for me 
Messing around, Hard to really devote time when its late at night lol. So I landed at a station and walked around.
Same.
Sadly I am now away from my PC for three days, after just a few hours in-game.
I started as a Terran (couldn’t stand them in X3 but that’s long ago) and so far I just flew around a bit. Quite fun though.
Yeah i wasnt keen on the terrans either. I was a boron. I like a squid.
Going to get the DLC today and start a kingdom end game i think
*Edit
Turns out i already owned all but 2 of them so got the kingdom end and tides of avarice for £10. Sweet deal really
I like treating it as a haulage simulator … get a few good pilots and have them doing cargo runs
Thats what i like as well. Not really bothered with the combat unless its the small scale stuff. I like empire and trade creation. Fleets of ships and factories. It was my favourite thing to do in all the X3 games. Micromanagement and taking over all trade in a system.
Sitting in pirate sectors and stopping them killing my ships was amazing fun
I got the whole pack with all DLCs for 38€ (including the bundle bonus that was a sweet deal, normal price for all of them together is 90€.
I also liked Boron designs, especially the more playful ones from X2. I wasn’t a huge fan of the samey looking ones in X3, although of course gameplay wise that was the best game.
(Complex building sucked though. It seems they improved it a lot in X4).
Didnt it just. My god what a shambles. Looking forward to seeing how they have improved that
I watched a tutorial vid by some German youtuber and it looked pretty easy.
I’m thinking about playing X4 when I’m not playing X4.
That used to happen with X3. This is good.
Reminds me when I was an avid gamer, this some time ago. When I went on a holiday trip or camping I’d take a copy of the latest PC Gamer and one or two manuals of the games I was playing. Good times
I’m still awfully confused by the whole thing.
Oye Beltalowda!
I just flew around the sol system asteroid belt for a bit. Harvesting crystals from asteroids can be fun, although the drifting around makes me dizzy after a while.
I almost have enough money to buy a mining ship now!
