X4: Foundations - Missions and Collectible Loot

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The X-universe is filled with people needing help in the form of missions. Missions can be accepted to earn notoriety with the giving faction along with credits and occasionally other rewards.

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Available missions are listed in the Mission Offers tab on the map:

Accepted missions are listed in the Mission Offers tab on the map:

Guidance missions

These are player-determined and only apply to the playership. Objects such as ships, stations, gates and lockboxes may be selected as destinations via the HUD, radar or Map and guidance will show the way to them. It is also possible to select set a position in empty space as destinations via the map.

Generic missions

“Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got’. Until, or even after, you’ve found your place in galactic society, “generic” missions let you swap effort for cold, hard cash.

There are a multitude of them:

Assassination
Clearing military objects
Criminal termination
Delivering crew
Deploying objects
Espionage
Item or ware deliveries
Lost item recovery
Passenger transport
Repairing satellites
Rescuing trapped ships
Secret missions
Station construction
Theft recovery

There are multiple ways of finding and accepting these missions. When the player passes within radar range of stations, any generic missions offered by their population will be visible through icons on the HUD, radar and map, and will be listed in the Available Missions tab. Mission details are available from the “Open briefing” menu that is offered via the Available Missions tab or a right-click on the Map icon. The moment the mission is added to the Mission Offers tab and map, these icons also blink for a moment.

In contrast to most generic, publicly-available missions, are some secret and often illegal missions. The nefarious Individuals offering these missions do not post them openly. Instead they try to contact trustworthy pilots with audio signals. Use the SCAN MODE near stations, to find signal leaks that may offer secret missions. Often the rewards for these types of missions are significantly higher than those of normal missions.

Upkeep missions

The upkeep mission category holds small tasks related to player property. A ship that does not have a pilot, a station in urgent need of a manager and similar tasks to regain functionality in the players empire. Completing these missions do not give rewards but helps keep things running smoothly.

Guild missions

Faction missions are the highest and most important tier. A player must first gain a very good standing with a faction and be invited to the faction representative to get access. During the visit to the faction representative (e.g at level +10 reputation), an offer to join a faction mission may be given. The most prominent but also most dangerous such example are the war effort missions. Several large wars are happening in the universe and the player can join either side.

After joining a war effort faction mission, this mission works like a subscription for many tasks. The player can choose which to pick from a list of offers.

Playing multiple missions at once

There is no limit as to how many missions can be accepted at the same time. While there can only be one mission active, many more can be accepted. Failing or aborting missions usually has no consequence however in some cases failing a mission may be punished, especially during faction missions.

Crystal Clusters

In the depths of space there are treasures to be found and collected. When traveling through asteroid fields the player may notice small gleams of light coming from asteroids. These gleams are caused by Crystal Clusters which can be shot at until they release their contents. The value of collected crystals can range from 1,000-250,000 credits each depending on their type and provide crafting materials.

Lockboxes

Use of the long range scanner or flying in the right place at the right time will reveal Lockboxes floating in space. Lockboxes require the player to accurately shoot between 1-16 glowing red locks off the spinning box to open it without dealing enough damage to destroy the box along with the contents. Lockboxes usually drop items for the player inventory with the number of dropped wares being proportional to the number of locks.

Data Vaults

Occasionally the player will encounter large satellite shaped Data Vaults floating in space. These puzzles require the player to use a combination of techniques to open including damage, repair and scanning.

X4: Foundations – Missions and Collectible Loot