x4 Foundations – Travel Mode Guide

Travel Mode

There is a specific locomote mode, for travelling (hit shift-1, with other ways, to activate it). There is likewise a scan mode, which seems to go for finding secrets as well as materials (shift-2), as well as a long arrive at scan mode, which seems to go for finding things similar stations as well as cloak-and-dagger lockboxes. (shift-3)

While wandering closed to stations, it’s possible to honor traders who are inward buildings at the docks with a large shopping cart hologram inward a higher house them. You tin move purchase crafting items from them, such every bit needles as well as bandages, as well as arts and crafts medkits. This turns a actually expert profit, at to the lowest degree for me every bit I start out.

There’s a assort of interplanetary spear – these long bluish ribbons y'all tin move sort of consider on the map, as well as inward space. If y'all wing close one, thus lower yourself downwards (using the s key), y'all tin move lock onto it as well as race closed to at real high speed. This is awesome. It’s possible to speed upwardly slightly with x as well as tedious downwards a fleck with Z, thus y'all tin move overtake traffic.

Manually docking the commencement fourth dimension was confusing every bit hell. Not solely must y'all follow the tardily to consider greenish lines to the docking zone, y'all require to business yourself upwardly with your pad. This is best done past times looking for a hologram. You require to ringlet (tilt side to side with q as well as e), align the front end of your starship (hold mouse1 as well as plough to face), as well as acquire yourself lined upwardly with the optic of the pad (z as well as x to set limit backward as well as forward, or mousewheel likewise works), thus striking s to become downwards as well as land.

Remember that hitting boost (tab) drains your shields. It likewise drains your opponent’s shields, thus consider making an endeavor to chase them downwards if they’ve simply boosted away.

To acquire missions y'all conduct keep to role the map screen, y'all don’t verbalise to people on a station. There is a tutorial for this. It details some requirements for accessing plot missions (level 10+ inward a faction, for example, but I can’t confirm this.)

Sometimes y'all volition overhear constabulary radio type stuff. If a tiny send gets marked every bit an enemy, for whatsoever reason, it seems to go security to shoot it. You acquire a pocket-size bounty as well as a pocket-size boost to relations with the local faction.

I shout out back I flora some infinite landmines! They showed upwardly on longscan every bit a plain of ?s, as well as when I got closed I couldn’t target them. But past times running into them my send exploded. They looked similar yellowish glows which I was hoping were some sort of valuable infinite mystery.

Longscanning as well as scanning tin move go used to honor cloak-and-dagger stuff. On longscan, await out for majestic pings inward the basis (not on the map) which are invisible to radar.

When trying to hire people on a station, click the send y'all desire to add together them to, thus correct click it as well as click ‘select’ inward the popup menu. You tin move thus assign them a component inward the correct mitt hire dialogue menu.

To sell a ship, Open the map thus select the send y'all desire to sell, thus correct click on a shipyard or warf as well as select sell send inward the drib down.

You tin move role the publish keys, 1-4 as well as 5-8, to switch weapon groups on top dog as well as secondary weapon toggles. I similar leaving ii empty, thus I tin move go certain non to accidentally shoot at civilians when inward crowded space.

If y'all correct click an object on the map, y'all tin move select ‘start guidance to object’, which volition lock it inward yellowish brackets. This agency that if y'all switch on your autopilot, either inward the send interactions card or past times hitting shift-A, your send volition autopilot to the vicinity. Remember to plough on locomote way when necessary (Shift-1) as well as go aware your send volition NOT dock, or fifty-fifty necessarily tedious down, when approaching that object. To go automatically flown closed to to a greater extent than easily, it’s ameliorate to acquire a airplane pilot or captain, acquire upwardly from the ascendance chair (Ctrl-D or acquire upwardly inward the interaction menu), as well as plough over orders to the send you’re inward on the map interface. (Left click it, thus correct click where y'all desire to become for a context menu).

If you’ve heard something well-nigh the foreign acronym ‘PHQ’, or are interested inward nefarious plots, a keen start would go to produce the send modes tutorial as well as acquire how to role scan way (shift-2). You may come across somebody who needs your aid past times next upwardly on a information leak betoken close a station before long later on completing this tutorial, as well as your commencement steps to PHQ mightiness go somebody y'all honor proverb ‘Please Help Quick’.