First, the story quests are boring, tedious, buggy time-wasters. We're talking bugs that can stop you from completing the quest even though this DLC has been almost out for 2 years.

If you're lucky and the game actually allows you to complete the story, your only reward (other than a terrible time wasting mechanic where you can get about 10 million free credits an hour by doing tedious chores) is the single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ unique ship in X history: The Astrid. A ship that takes, with no exaggeration, 60 or 70+ kilometers to come to a full stop from travel drive. A ship where the relationship between your steering and the actual direction of the ship alternates between opposite and nonexistent. Trying to steer this ship will put you in an insane asylum. Trying to steer this ship will give you stage 5 brain cancer. That's right, it's so bad it causes a new stage of brain cancer that doesn't even exist. A stage where your brain already got cancer and died, then came back to life to get even more cancer and die again. Trying to use the Astrid as a player ship is like a fever dream where you're trying to open a door-knob while your hands are covered in WD-40, only to look down and realize you actually don't have hands, you only have stumps where hands used to be and those are also covered in WD-40.

Oh, and by the way, if you can't complete the main quest, you'll have infinite enemy ships spawning all throughout the galaxy whose only purpose in life is to destroy every piece of player-character property they can get to. So hopefully your save doesn't get bugged because be prepared to throw it away and start over if so.

One of the things that makes this so difficult is that you can't keep your ships alive during this critical stage of the quest because, despite it being like 6 years since this came has come out, the NPC pilot AI is still brain-dead. I literally watched a ship whose ONLY order was to fly to a nearby sector instead decide to perform the following: Undock, fly the OPPOSITE DIRECTION they were supposed to go, JUMP THROUGH A GATE INTO ENEMY SPACE despite having no orders to do so, and IMMEDIATELY FLY TOWARDS THE NEAREST ENEMY STATION and get vaporized. And yes, I removed all their orders and assignments before giving the order AND checked their behavior tab to make sure they didn't have any other orders.

Seriously, the AI pilots in this game are addicted to committing suicide worse than the people camping behind my local 7/11 are addicted to methamphetamines. You can install any mod you want, they cannot and will not fix this issue.

TLDR this DLC was so bad it made me want to uninstall X4 and also uninstall myself from being alive. If Mr. Beast calls and offers you ten million dollars to play this DLC, take my advice and hang up the phone. Then stomp on the phone. Then boil it. Then put it in the microwave. Then move out of the country and change your name.

First, the story quests are boring, tedious, buggy time-wasters. We're talking bugs that can stop you from completing the quest even though this DLC has been almost out for 2 years. If you're lucky and the game actually allows you to complete the story, your only reward (other than a terrible time wasting mechanic where you can get about 10 million free credits an hour by doing tedious chores) is the single shittiest unique ship in X history: The Astrid. A ship that takes, with no exaggeration, 60 or 70+ kilometers to come to a full stop from travel drive. A ship where the relationship between your steering and the actual direction of the ship alternates between opposite and nonexistent. Trying to steer this ship will put you in an insane asylum. Trying to steer this ship will give you stage 5 brain cancer. That's right, it's so bad it causes a new stage of brain cancer that doesn't even exist. A stage where your brain already got cancer and died, then came back to life to get even more cancer and die again. Trying to use the Astrid as a player ship is like a fever dream where you're trying to open a door-knob while your hands are covered in WD-40, only to look down and realize you actually don't have hands, you only have stumps where hands used to be and those are also covered in WD-40. Oh, and by the way, if you can't complete the main quest, you'll have infinite enemy ships spawning all throughout the galaxy whose only purpose in life is to destroy every piece of player-character property they can get to. So hopefully your save doesn't get bugged because be prepared to throw it away and start over if so. One of the things that makes this so difficult is that you can't keep your ships alive during this critical stage of the quest because, despite it being like 6 years since this came has come out, the NPC pilot AI is still brain-dead. I literally watched a ship whose ONLY order was to fly to a nearby sector instead decide to perform the following: Undock, fly the OPPOSITE DIRECTION they were supposed to go, JUMP THROUGH A GATE INTO ENEMY SPACE despite having no orders to do so, and IMMEDIATELY FLY TOWARDS THE NEAREST ENEMY STATION and get vaporized. And yes, I removed all their orders and assignments before giving the order AND checked their behavior tab to make sure they didn't have any other orders. Seriously, the AI pilots in this game are addicted to committing suicide worse than the people camping behind my local 7/11 are addicted to methamphetamines. You can install any mod you want, they cannot and will not fix this issue. TLDR this DLC was so bad it made me want to uninstall X4 and also uninstall myself from being alive. If Mr. Beast calls and offers you ten million dollars to play this DLC, take my advice and hang up the phone. Then stomp on the phone. Then boil it. Then put it in the microwave. Then move out of the country and change your name.