Should I purchase the game now or wait for X5? I completely new to this series.

[GnomeSlayer]

Thank you

[lefty1117]

Grab this one on sale imo. I'm not aware of any announcement or release date for X5 though I wouldn't doubt that work for it is already happening.

[ZeroAffex]

Devs already stated they will be working on X4 for a while longer. I'd imagine and pray for at least another couple years. I'd say it's definitely worth buying X4 right now on sale. It's super cheap right now and the amount of replay value you can get out of these games probably should be illegal because it's so good. Odds are, you'll feel bad for not buying them at full price after a year or two of gameplay and 1000's of hours if you fall in love with these games like many of us did. :D

[zpc]

X5 is years away - my guesstimate is 4-5 years at least.

[buttawise]

Originally posted by ZeroAffex:

Devs already stated they will be working on X4 for a while longer. I'd imagine and pray for at least another couple years. I'd say it's definitely worth buying X4 right now on sale. It's super cheap right now and the amount of replay value you can get out of these games probably should be illegal because it's so good. Odds are, you'll feel bad for not buying them at full price after a year or two of gameplay and 1000's of hours if you fall in love with these games like many of us did. :D

Yes

[ayrtep]

You could wait until kingdom's end DLC comes out, or buy now and try the latest beta.

Waiting for X5 is silly, that way you will never play: when X5 comes out you will want to wait until the initial bugs are all fixed, and then of course once they are fixed you might as well wait for X6 and so on.

[Mitth'raw'nuruodo]

IMO this is the best space game released in the past 15 years, especially for single player. Buy it. Get it in a bundle with all DLC during a sale of course.

[wedge]

Get the base game now and enjoy. It is better than X3 - no matter what reviews says.

Like it was already said, X5 is years away and devs are still gonna support X4 with new features and updates after 6.0. They are still working (or reworking rather) on Ventures that will come during Summer or Late Summer.

It is a good time to jump in. Game's good.

[Devil Cooker]

Originally posted by wedge:

Get the base game now and enjoy. It is better than X3 - no matter what reviews says.

Like it was already said, X5 is years away and devs are still gonna support X4 with new features and updates after 6.0. They are still working (or reworking rather) on Ventures that will come during Summer or Late Summer.

It is a good time to jump in. Game's good.

+1

[franzmauser]

You can wait for X5 only if you are certian that your life will not end from old due process of waiting.

[Gregorovitch]

Definitely play X4 now. Get all the expansions, they make a huge difference. Maybe wait for the new Boron DLC to drop. Egosoft are quite proud of the new Boron story line apparently and are recommending people to play it.

The main reason for this is Egosoft are a small company and they always develop each release of the X games over a long period of time. Years. In X4's case about four years now. The game is vastly better now than it was on first release in every possible way. It's mature basically.

When they decide to make X5, and who knows when that might be, Egosoft themselves haven't decided that yet, the game will be back at starting point on initial release. It will take them years post-release to get it to play as well as X4 does now. Pencil in around 2030-ish for X5 to beat X4 as it is now.

[MOK]

Skip the DLC's at first.
X4 has a lot of jank. Wait until you've played a bit and decide you can put up with the jank. They don't add functionality that changes the game, the DLC mostly just makes the map bigger and adds a bit more not-necessary ship variety.