Tutorial : Defence platforms, designs and weapons : X4 Foundations

Thank you so much. I've been playing this game off and on pretty much since day one, but the closed loop build mode *completely* slipped past my attention.

when trying to set this up, got to adding guns and it said I have no guns on the list. How do I get to add guns.

Thank you mate. Awesome Tutorial!

How do you see the range from the gate = 10 km?

This is superb, really worked for me, currently working my way to plugging the pinch points. Quick questions, how do you stop the ships which collect the drops from fleeing straight into the xenon system?!!

Not Great, not terrible is also what the soviet engineers said when reading the radiation charts after the explosion at chernobyl nuclear plant :D

Thank you so much for this. I was looking at reddit posts and so many of the platforms looked incredibly complicated (not to mention expensive), and so I have just been trying to have a few destroyers stationed to stem the tide. I think this will work a lot better lol

Do you eventually get Marines to recruit from your own platforms ?

If you care about hitpoints, then don’t use the basic dock but the luxury one.

I tried 3 x 2 discs and 2 k destroyers came through and killed one of the discs before I could do anything. So I go 3 x 4 now :D Also blew the 1m6 dock out for a 3m6. Got tired of some random trader camping my dock so I couldn't land the corvette I use to harvest the drops. On active docks, i.e. Hatikvah 1, I would build a L XL dock so I could park a destroyer, in case you get multiples of the station killers, there is something with a heavy hit in system. The Destroyer will help defend the base with the turrets while docked.

This thing is invincible. Is there a TER version using only TER guns and stations? As far as I can tel the TER stuff is bad.

thank you

I set up that 5disc defense platform. It got taken down pretty fast. Might be one or more mods making Xenon more powerful? 🤔


But biggest issue is collateral damage. So not many hours in the Argon went from +25 to negative. How do I get around that issue?

Thanks for the hot tip, now i can properly defend locations and keep any survivors from fleeing the devastated systems in my campaign of destruction

you should put a couple of large beams on there. just like 2. they are hitscan, sometimes their miners come through in travel mode, and blast past before your station can react, a beam will tap them and drop them out of travel mode, prevent them going back to travel mode.

New to game really, Why does no one mention Boron tech? Are their Disc Platforms not good? They seem to be above average turret/shield slots.

How can these be modified to be in-sector friendly, to minimize friendly fire risk while still being effective? Even if more disks are required, it's be worth it to not have to avoid all my sectors that neighbor Xenon space.

Lol, I completely overkilled my gate guards... 😂 something like 1500 M turrets and 700 L turrets... 🤦‍♂️🤣

I have about a week in my first X4 play through. I built the defence station outside Hatikva's Choice I AND put another at Family Zhin. Then I went and picked a fight with the Xen in Matrix 598 in my Earlking. That day I pulled 107 million in loot drops. I'm regularly pulling 60K+ from the two stations. I have other stations but their just for aggressor control and have no loot collectors (yet).

I built one but it either cant range far enough to shoot and kill a xenon I or soemthing else is messed up?

Where do I get the flak guns, I don't have that option?

or you can first build the loadout of 1st disc, then copy the disc along with the loadout :P

You only have to set weapons once... You COPY the first disc (after adding weapons) when you place the others...

This is why it is so easy to overbuild defense platforms because you can build any size with just copy and paste each module.

thanks for the videos the help a lot could do do one on commanding ships and setting up command orders

Aliens:
Write its down , write it down 😂

100 hours in X4 and after thinking "defense platforms SUCK" I find out from this video you actually have to build the weapons on each module.. uhh

My first "Gate-Sec" platforms had the issue that they were not wide enough and those pesky little Xenon miners mostly never came through the gate properly but instead spawned bit further away - and starting from there they could easily avoid my station. Now, with my Gate-Secs being wide enough (equipped with L-sized Lasers + Plasmas + Flaks), not a single ship will pass. Ever.

Have to say in my game these get obilirated by about constand raids of s-m class ships and after that will K get in.

What weapons would you use on a terran version?

A little thing to help you when it comes to building modules... I imagine you probably know this, but I don't see you using it in the video, so just in case...

If you hold down shift while you're rotating a module, instead of smoothly rotating, it'll move in 15 degree snaps. This makes it much easier to get perfect 90 degree rotations and the like

My Argon Administrative center is totally different than yours... Are you using mods? Edit: NVM.. I just realized that's a TEL admin center

Will a fighter go around the station to harrass other stations, traders, or transit to other systems?
Does this actually take diwn full invasion fleets, including "I"s mixed with "K"s and fighters?

Lol! These things work great. I put one in Split space at The Xenon gate above Hatikvah's choice. They dropped an "I" two "K's" and a handful of small ships on top of it. they didn't last two minutes. One tip, put a small container storage on the back so the base can make repair drones. The only downside is the split don't buy as much of my stuff anymore because they aren't constantly losing ships...

closed loop SAVES MY BRAIN SO MUCH. thank you

Telladi defense turrets have a LOT of L turrets on the bottom half. The shields for them are on the other half. If you know which way the enemy is going to come from, you can twist the module so all those L turrets are pointed toward the baddies. Fighters that come in and try to destroy the L turrets will have to fly to the other side to get at the shields.

The Boron modules are also nice for anti-fighter work. Hello large flak turret!

I liked this vid (especially the closed loop part) so I built one of these at the bottom of The Void, exactly 10km in front of the gate. I have about 6 Xenon K carcasses (plus lots of small wrecks) floating around the station so it worked, however now when the gate activates the Xenon K/I are appearing 20km away from the gate and flying straight past. Not 100% but i feel like this happens when multiple Xenon hit the gate at once...

Have tried this 3 times in Hatikva's choice - Every time I get the build complete and all the resources in place, as soon as the builder shows up, the AI sends a couple of K's through and blows up my building before I can do anything. So frustrating!

AWESOME VIDEO. Thank you for this keep them coming. Was wondering what ship are you using

Awesome tip with the all-Argon-stuff … I have the Averice DLC and didn’t even think about it 😅🙈

Informative video. Thanks. Are you in the cockpit on a Pulsar Vanguard?

AFK farming in space? Of course Francis can cheese this mechanic.

Hold down shift while you rotate to lock to 90 degree angles.

Where is part 2 of your tutorial, I really wanted to understand the midgame better.

Perhaps I missed it in the video, as an additional FYI, Administrative Center allows you to capture sectors (if there are no other centres in the sector). You don’t even have to build platforms:)

I watched your video on when you discovered this layout. I use it, but in a 2km radius instead of 1. Considering the costs involved, the extra few credits, worth it if you just want to expand out with more crazy. ;)

Edit: Oh.. The Closed Loop thing... Wish I knew that before I built the 5 other platforms. {sigh}

Where is the rest of the newbie guide? You left us on such a cliffhanger and I really want to learn how to make the big bucks 😀

Wow thanks I think I actually learn something useful watching an x4 video 😁

for your collection ships you can also tell them to deposit inventory, it will make them take their inventory to your headquarters and you can pick up everything all at once. also you can sit in your chair in your personal office while using seta.