When comparing X4: Foundations vs Cyberpunk 2077, the Slant community recommends Cyberpunk 2077 for most people. In the question“What are the best single-player games for PC?” Cyberpunk 2077 is ranked 6th while X4: Foundations is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Cyberpunk 2077 is:
The story and world present an exciting cyberpunk vision of the future similar to science fiction novels.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Constant bugfixing
The game gets constant and many updates that already fixed the most gamebreaking bugs. However they also introduced new.
Pro Universe sandbox
You can build your own empire with stations, ships, sectors. You can also fly any ship in the game.
Pro Thrilling science fiction
The story and world present an exciting cyberpunk vision of the future similar to science fiction novels.
Pro Plenty of sidequests, good replay value
The game's storyline can be compared to The Witcher's 3, both in length and in the sheer number of sidequests. Also, since most of your choices will genuinely affect the outcome, the game has great replay value.
Pro No microtransactions
All of the game's content will be available from the get-go. Sure, there will be DLCs, but none of them will require you to pay extra to unlock a single weapon or feature.
Pro Vast weapon selection
It is too early to tell, but the closed preview already shown that there will be dozens of varied combat weapons, most of them quite creative. There are smart bullets that bounce off walls, smart tracking bullets. Also, there are customizable weapons as well.
Pro Augmentations
The game features a cool system of bionic enhancements that let you customize your abilities. Also, you can use drugs to enhance your combat.
Pro Open world
The game is set in a fictional neon city known as Night City. It has six districts and all of them will be able to be explored by the player, each one offering a different environment.
Cons
Con Poor performance
It performs poorly even on highend systems
Con Stations can't be destroyed
Sure in theory they can however until you have destroyed all the invisible modules (yeah! you heard right - unfinished station modules are invisible but you have to destroy them to destroy the station and to conquer a sector) an new construction ship has already built another defense station.
Con Too many menus
There are just too many menus you need to navigate, it fells more like MS Excel than playing a game.
Con Stations are unpopulated
You barely find any NPCs or life on the stations.
Con Weird pathfinding
AI gets stuck very often rusulting in endless docking attempts.
Con Graphics are outdated
Space graphics are still the same as with X3:Reunion(just a few new shaders/effects are added like FXAA, SSAO), NPCs and Character animations look like from the 90s. There are plenty of unsharp textures by zooming in-.
Con Failed to deliver
There were a lot of promises for this game by its developer like faction war over sectors, expanding empires. But none of them are in the game.
Con Only Xinput support
The game does only support Xinput so playing with a DualShock 4 is a no-go.
Con Needs to be online
With 2.0 the introduced an exploration mode that can be disabled however it is the only way to level up a crew.
Con Universe full of clones
There is no point for different races in this game since all use the same weapons, ship types and almost the same production modules. The whole universe feels the same.
Con No joystick or gamepad support
There is no proper gamepad or joystick mode that makes the mouse and keyboard obsolete.
Con No multiplayer plans for now
For the people who like to play out their games cooperatively or competitively, this is kind of a disappointment.