3 Ways To Get FREE Ships in X4 Foundations - Pirating, Fly-By-Boarding and Exploring

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[draeath]

Quick tip for folks: the data leak for claiming a ship is always near the suit dock, I believe. Once you know where that is, you don't have to go searching anymore.

[SirBaal]

Small note, if you get capital ship parts below I believe 20% (could be bit less) they shut down, while if you destroy them you get a reputation hit. so if you want to stop the ship without reputation hit just shoot engines until they stop functioning but don't destroy then, same with shields and turrets.

The target seems to only repair one part at a time (I believe always the engine first) so just by keeping the one part being repaired always low keeps the ship completely incapacitated. Nice bonus to that is that if you don't destroy parts once the boarding is complete you get the ship with all the disabled parts intact.

Nice when using S or M class ships when you don't have enough crew for flyby capture. Plus capital ship crew also bail out but unlike S and M ships they never abandon, so if you patient you can force the capital ship crew to bail out to the last 1 captain, then just board.

[UTUBMRBUZZ]

You can also get free ships from missions. All you have to do is to navigate the ship out of a minefield. When that is done you cancel the mission. Fly the ship to nearest wharf and sell it.

[svn]

You can also set a global alarm for ships (L / XL) from the green scale plate.
You get a signal tone and location whenever they are spotted in the universe.
You can board them everywhere without losing any reputation at all.

[bozmaister]

i started playing x4 a month ago (used to play tons of x2 back in the day) and your content helped me tons, great content man and thx a lot

[wileywilson]

Boarding is one of my favourite hobbies in X4. I've tried using large ships for boarding, but found them too slow moving around the map.

Here's how I board (base game, no DLC, non-custom budgeted start)
Boarding Medium ships
- Buy a Pulsar & attack medium SCA ships until they bail. Take over ship, transfer a pilot, fly to wharf. Repair (optional). Strip, transfer Captain then sell. Repeat.

Boarding Large ships
- Buy a mk2 Nemesis (with 2 mk2 ion, 3 mk2 bolt) and 3 mk2 Gorgon Vanguards with mk2 bolt guns and turrets. Fill with marines (56 in total)
- Put Gorgons into "attack with" Nemesis fleet and set all turrets on all ships to "attack my current target"
- Buy 2 minimum spec Ides Vanguards and park at a wharf with lots of workers (one is "Marine recruitment", the other "Service crew")
- Place advanced satellites in neutral sectors (Silent Witness XI & XII etc)
- Set up an alert for large (usually Phoenix and Behemoth) SCA ships in neutral sectors
- Fly to SCA ship in Nemesis, scan and take out large turrets first. Then engines, then plasma, then tracking, then all other turrets. 3 gorgons will help take heat off your Nemesis. They'll also target the same turret as you. If you are low on shields/hull, you can hide in blind spot and cycle through SCA turrets - Gorgons will auto-attack the turrets for you
- Take down hull to 75%, board & take over ship. Transfer remaining marines back to Gorgons. Replace dead marines from "Marine recruitment" ship.
- Transfer service crew from, er, "Service crew" ship to captured ship
- Repair (optional). Strip, transfer crew back to, you guessed it, "Service crew" then sell.
- Repeat as much as you want

Initially, there's a bit more micro in this method, BUT, the speed that you cap SCA ships is much faster than lugging large vessels around. You can do the crew transferring whilst your Nemesis co-pilot is flying to the next SCA ship. After a couple of caps, I buy a Stork Sentinel. This repairs your capped ships for free and becomes your mobile Marine recruitment/Service crew ship (sell the 2 Ides). Typically I have 50 service crew and 150 marines on the Stork, only telling it to recruit more marines every 5 or so caps. The micro goes down a reasonable amount once you have the Stork.

Cpt Collins - best X4 content creator out there. Fly safe. O7.

[SirApropoofNothing]

Humble bundle put out an X bundle recently and that is how i got into X4. I have watched all your videos ( and others) and learned alot. Tried piracy quite a bit on larger vessels cus i couldn't seem to get done with M/S ships. Since you posted this video, i captured 8 ARG construction ship and I'm still at max

It has made capturing SCA destroyers easier since the fly by works great, and i dont risk losing the ships to local authorities

[Gnrnrvids]

Just getting back into X4 after a break of a few years. Loving your videos.

[justbobsmith]

New to X4, wish i had discovered this game years ago. It's exactly what i was looking for, and just stumbled across it. I've not yet tried boarding. I will have to try these out. You explained it very well.

[RazDorNV]

I love the way you impersonate being a captain, that really makes x4 feel like a real universe! thanks, dude, great content

[NotThatBob]

C.C. has the best X4 videos BY FAR!!! All of them fun to watch and so informative! I've been playing CP2077 for a change and now that I found this video, I'm seriously going back to X4. Thanks so much for the high quality videos Captain.

[rzstrike]

Oh, so that's why I was able to capture a Nemesis with my starter ship 😮 good tutorial, thanks a lot :)

[GuidoGallenkamp]

14:30 gave me a nice asgard which came into the xenon sector to help and left the sector as part of my fleet. Thank you a lot!

[durandal]

Love your videos man. Also your accent. Reminds me soooo much of a friend from my homeland it makes me smile. Because of this video I /always/ carry at least 2 fighters per L-class combat ship. Solely to drive-by board on my pirate play-through. (Lightly modded). Roleplaying as a pirate / smuggler is the most fun I've had on this game so far by far.

[bustaboy]

learned so much about X4 from your vids. Thanks for all the good advice!

[Caigul]

7:50 with that ship it is also advised to not pilot it out your self but to put a captain on it fly out of the system and then tell it to fly to friendly sector due to the mines in the system iv done it a few times and so far the npc has had no trouble getting it out

[sim.frischh]

The Signal leak always seems to be right next to the exit hatch used with the Spacesuit, on ships without a landing pad the dropables also come out there as far as i know.
So it is easy to find in most cases as sooner or later one knows all the ships and where that hatch is on each.

[MrWheelman]

So, wait, you don't take a reputation hit at all when you board and capture ships in sectors hostile to them!? That's very useful to know, thanks a lot!

[cannibalholiday]

Oh damn. I wish I knew about taking over ships like this last night. I get a short cinematic of a capital group about to go off and fight, they boost away from the gate... and run into an asteroid, crippling their ship. I don't know if they had any crew left, but both engines were gone and there were scorch marks everywhere. A couple of repair drones worked on it in the meantime.

[Duvoncho]

I'd never tried that fly-by technique before but I gave it a go with a tricked out Shuyaku and 225 marines. So far I've bagged 3 Honshu and a Tokyo carrier that also came with 9 Gladius and 26 Kukri (no pilots in any of them ofc). All with no reputation loss, brilliant! I wonder if my troops can manage an Asgard, a good number of them are veterans now.... I'll soon find out! Thanks for the video, really cool tips. 😃