Recent reviews by Richard Blonski

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The game can be described as a cinematic Horde Co-Op shooter,
the game is quite cinematic which makes every part of the game feel quite epic, in addition to its great graphics compared to performance the game looks great.

Gameplay wise
The game is great, it's your typical co-op horde shooter but instead of going for one objective you have an open map with various objectives that you can do, in addition to very fun to use (stratagems) that include turrets (that will murder your team-mates), artillery (that will murder your team-mates), oh did I mention did you will murder your team-mates a lot?
(You get used to it), speaking of death when your character does die you will have to wait until another player calls you back which often doesn't take too long and means that you get back to the action very quickly.

Regarding things to unlock the game at least in the beginning has a bunch of things you can unlock like cosmetics, power ups, stratagems and ship upgrades but afterward you don't really have much to unlock apart from small war packs.

As a returning player to X4: Foundations player

I've started the game up and done the tutorial to relearn anything I might've forgotten, afterwards the tutorial just drops you instantly into the DLC - X4: Timelines giving you some sort of a story and dropping you into some kind of a "Facility" to which the characters you have there do not explain anything at all.

From there you are promoted to play those "Missions" which I've managed to do to some degree however any New player being dropped straight into those missions will STRUGGLE and by so not have any fun at all.

Those missions feel kinda bland, sure they might be cool for the first 30 seconds but after that they are just your simple in design and feel kinda worst due to you being dropped into them without any context.
The mission briefing does a bad job at explaining the context of why are you even in there, why are you evening doing this mission.

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X4: Foundations by itself is an amazing game, however this expansion takes away what makes X4: Foundations special and gives you a mission selector with a fancy hub that doesn't really add anything special.

For NEW PLAYERS s it's a HORRIBLE experience they Should not be promoted to after the tutorial to play this DLC, as this DLC feels more like a special challenge mode then anything else.

It adds nothing necessary to enjoy the X4 experience, and at it's current state more ruins the experience for new players, I suggest to only buy this DLC if you are interested in a challenge mode and interested in supporting the game developers.

I've played this game for about two hours, the Graphics are great and the performance is good as well.
I'm not sure what is it when I've played this game SOLO but the gunplay feels rather horrible, and the entire class system sucks.

not to mention most of the time if you play solo you get horrible teammates.