X4: Foundations

X4: Foundations

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22 Jan @ 9:00am
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Description
This mod does a few things.
1. It removes the E suffix from the new L and XL ships, eg "Odysseus E" is now just "Odysseus".
2. It removes player-access to the blueprints for the old Paranid ship models, they are hidden.
3. It swaps the model of the abandoned Odysseus Vanguard in Faulty Logic to the new one.

I will update the mod once the Teladi and Argon E's appear later this year in 7.0 (seems like they will be named like that from what we have seen).


Usage
Intended for use in new saves and I wont be offering support for installing mid-save.
However, from my limited testing the only issue that arises if you do install mid-save is that if you already have the old ship blueprints they still appear in your encyclopaedia and the abandoned ship does not get switched. As always with modding, backup your saves and check things are working ok before saving/continuing with your game.


VRO?
VRO compatible.


But why?
As Egosoft continue to work on updating the old models the overall visual quality of the game becomes more consistent in terms of both design and model quality. The presence of the old models ruins this consistency for me, so much like how the old npc models were removed by egosoft when they added updated ones I would rather remove the old ships entirely. I will do the same for Argon and Teladi once Egosoft give us those updates in 7.0.
With the old ships removed the E suffix becomes superfluous, but also serves as a reminder of the inferior quality of the past so I am removing that too. 7.0 will be a fresh start.
I made this mod for myself but there may be someone else out there that will appreciate it so here it is.


Thanks
Thank you to the egosoft discord for basically writing this mod for me. Thanks especially to deadair, lc4hunter and Phipsz for the assists!
8 Comments
[ 大选帝侯 ] 20 Jul @ 4:01am 
Any ideas for updating? Seems that Egosoft is not going to add more E-ships
Axeface  [author] 5 Apr @ 3:33pm 
@Troubleshooter I'll be giving them the same treatment yeh, Argon freighters didnt get an update though which means things arnt going to be a neat as I had hoped.
Troubleshooter 5 Apr @ 11:44am 
Oof, the new Teladi/Argon ships make the old ones even more redundant than the Paranid E ships did. Hope you can remove them for us, Axe :)
Sternlein 24 Feb @ 12:55am 
My opinion is that flying this ugly hairdryer with specs from a M class ships are good to be gone. The E classes are looking so much better. The only good thing from the Paranids are the Bridges and Interieur ... but the Big ship models are the worst. But if u like it ... good to have modder to make everything possible. I wouldnt use it, but thx for your work in the X comunnity
Axeface  [author] 3 Feb @ 6:03pm 
@Troubleshooter Thanks :) I wasnt expecting any interest in this but glad it works for some others. As for those changes, ego will do it with the argon and teladi in 7.0 and I will update this mod to remove the left overs. Only ones that remained for the paranid were the herecles, which hop got the van and par got the sent, for L and XL anyway.
Troubleshooter 3 Feb @ 11:32am 
Man, i'd love to see a mod like this but to remove the outdated Vanguard / Sentinel variant system Egosoft abandoned since the first DLC. But that would likely be a megaton of work.

I appreciate you making this mod, i enjoy it very much.
enterprise1959 28 Jan @ 6:11pm 
Thanks for the mod now we need a mod for our ships to target big ship first.
Mr.Person 26 Jan @ 1:35pm 
I'd love a mod that'd make it so the base game ships for factions that have 2 sub factions would get the old models and the main one get the new models

Like HOP get the E and the PAR get the old. Just for Variety's sake, and to get rid of the old (and frankly, pretty dumb) Sentinel/Vanguard variants.

I see where you're coming from though.