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Bengel Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:09pm
How does this game compare to Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen?
What is the difference between this title and the other two besides this game being Soloplayer and the others Multiplayer?
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Originally posted by Rayniel:
(played a lot in all three)
In short:

Elite D - game where u have fun in exploring giant galaxy with many systems in your little frigate (32 small ships only several with small hangars). Its all about nice views, smooth flying in space and missions, trade.
You cant walk here instead of 2 other, only cockpit and 3rd view. This is FLYING space sim only. No player-trade, so u play like solo-game with another players just flying around sometimes.
Game is fine but gets boring after about 150-200 hours (- +) cause u have no other goal than get a new ship. ( I have fed. cor and imp cutter after 200 hours and i dont want to play anymore)

X4/series - game where u have fun in complex trading system, producing goods, gathering res. managing your empire fleet, building stations. U can fly many ships from xs to XL capitals with hangars, customize them.
You Can walk here as your avatar on stations (very limited, small areas) and in cockpit in ur ships. This is real Space sim.
Solo game but devs will implement invading other player universes in future (new).
Game is very addictive and fun even after many hours for its custom ships, stations-fleet managment and Big stunning battles.

Star Citizen - game where u have fun in many aspects of the gameplay. Next-gen graphics (needs rly super pc), procedure-generated stations and planets, ships in Full scale 1-1 (!). You can walk as your char everywhere, carry objects, insulting people with obscene gestures, fly many diff. ships, multicrew them with friends, racing, play arena shooter, kill other players in space and steal their ships. So, this is a true definition of full space sim where u can do what u want. The game is amazing BUT its not released yet, still in beta. And after all This game is long term the best space-sim game to date and in future i guess. Devs already made many features and revolution and game design and gameplay.

What game is best of 3? Im sure that its SC, but after a couple of years when they complete full system, servers where 1500+ can play, fly, mine together.

(!)
For now i would recommend to
1) take Elite if u want to do missions, explore and nice visuals
2) take X4 if u want to play building ur space empire.
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Flippy Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:11pm 
Those games are not fit to wash the decks of the X4F capital ships, and X4F could do with some cruisers and battleships.
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Hakgova Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:16pm 
I play Star Citizen but have been put off playing it much due to bugs and such. Plus, there currently is not much to do. For everything SC is trying to do, X4 currently does it better. That is not to compare apples to oranges as they are NOT the same game in many ways. SC is going for more "realism" on a grand scale with ships. X4 is going for grand scale on a small universe scale with lots to choose to do.
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Klaus Schwab Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:25pm 
This game will pale in comparison to Star Citizen when it's released but this game is released right now(albeit buggy). There just is not enough in Star Citizen right now to warrant playing.

This game is catered towards more of a management sim where as Elite is combat focussed.

The ships have had a serious down grade compared to the rest of X games, the capital ships are bland and quite uninteresting looking. If someone makes it possible to capture and fly Xenon ships it would add some flavour but ultimately mods and DLC are needed to spice up ship variety.

The huge difference is this is singleplayer only, that in itself is a huge positive or negative depending on your gaming preference.
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Zothen Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:27pm 
Originally posted by Bengel:
How does this game compare to Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen?
What is the difference between this title and the other two besides this game being Soloplayer and the others Multiplayer?

Oh hey, another one of that troll threads with an easy, working bait!
Kudos and enjoy!

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Flippy Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:29pm 
Corvettes are not capital ships by the way, they are one class below. Really X4F only has the destroyers and carriers as capital ships so far.

I dont think SC has any capital ships at all and not even a corvette that can be used without giant problems.

ED has gun boats at best.

NMS seems to have capital ships but *barf*.
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Bengel Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:30pm 
Originally posted by Hakgova:
I play Star Citizen but have been put off playing it much due to bugs and such. Plus, there currently is not much to do. For everything SC is trying to do, X4 currently does it better. That is not to compare apples to oranges as they are NOT the same game in many ways. SC is going for more "realism" on a grand scale with ships. X4 is going for grand scale on a small universe scale with lots to choose to do.

It sounds pretty interresting, reminds me a bit of stellaris in some way.

Originally posted by TS Bailey Jay:

This game is catered towards more of a management sim where as Elite is combat focussed.

The huge difference is this is singleplayer only, that in itself is a huge positive or negative depending on your gaming preference.

Singleplayer is often a hughe plus for me but how is the AI in general?

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Klaus Schwab Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:30pm 
Originally posted by Flippy:
without giant problems.

Are we going to pretend X4 doesn't ?
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Klaus Schwab Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:31pm 
Originally posted by Bengel:

Singleplayer is often a hughe plus for me but how is the AI in general?

Broken, they're releasing patch notes often but ultimately X games are better after 6 months or so. I personally would not torture myself with the state that it's in at the moment but it has potential.
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CDEEKS Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:31pm 
This game is out and not a scam Star Citizen is not out and is a scam.
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Klaus Schwab Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:34pm 
Originally posted by CDEEKS:
This game is out and not a scam Star Citizen is not out and is a scam.

Can you provide reasoning to that statement ?

From what I can see Star Citizen is buggy but it's in early access to fix bugs.

This game is "released" yet resembles early access due to being so broken right now.

Can you elaborate ?
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Flippy Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:34pm 
Originally posted by TS Bailey Jay:
Originally posted by Flippy:
without giant problems.

Are we going to pretend X4 doesn't ?

Trying to get 10 players together to man a corvette is a chore at the best of times and for any length of time is impossible.

The class below a gun boat is called the "pinnace" by the way. Next to no military value in the past but some today and the future for comms, AA, and things, especially in space where comms can be delayed hours or days or even weeks etc.

The best pilots use a pinnace in the books i read, to survive the extreme G's and things like that, and even captains and admirals pilot them in off time. These could be called fighters in more modern speech.
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CDEEKS Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:37pm 
Originally posted by TS Bailey Jay:
Originally posted by CDEEKS:
This game is out and not a scam Star Citizen is not out and is a scam.

Can you provide reasoning to that statement ?

From what I can see Star Citizen is buggy but it's in early access to fix bugs.

This game is "released" yet resembles early access due to being so broken right now.

Can you elaborate ?
Sorry TS Bailey i dont have the energy to argue with SC fanboys anymore. History has taught me no mater what logical arguments you put forward and evidence you provide blind fanboys just cant seem to grasp it.
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Klaus Schwab Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:38pm 
Originally posted by Flippy:
Originally posted by TS Bailey Jay:

Are we going to pretend X4 doesn't ?

Trying to get 10 players together to man a corvette is a chore at the best of times and for any length of time is impossible.

You need to find a new crew lol they should be stationed and ready to go
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Flippy Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:39pm 
Originally posted by TS Bailey Jay:
Originally posted by Flippy:

Trying to get 10 players together to man a corvette is a chore at the best of times and for any length of time is impossible.

You need to find a new crew lol they should be stationed and ready to go

The limits of purely multi player... SC will need ai crew to even begin to be functional.
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Klaus Schwab Dec 7, 2018 @ 2:43pm 
Originally posted by Flippy:
Originally posted by TS Bailey Jay:

You need to find a new crew lol they should be stationed and ready to go

The limits of purely multi player... SC will need ai crew to even begin to be functional.

You're not seriously insinuating that due to it being online no one will ever be 'ready' for anything ?

Tell that to the 10's of thousands of EVE players that form PVP fleet responses within 10 minutes to defend corp structures and systems.

By your logic no one would be playing any MMO right now yet MMO's are the most played games on the market.
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