X - Dangerous
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 2.4% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- ✅ Updated 56 days after the latest game patch — actively maintained
- 🏆 #174 of 596 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
A ship and combat tweak for X4. 10x higher ship top speed, no travel drive, 8x longer range weaponry, and increased draw distance. Save game compatible, supports all DLC and story. Easy to edit for player preference.
Ship Changes:
- Ship top speed ~8-10x higher over vanilla, 2-4x higher in reverse, and Travel drive removed on all ships.
- Added version without engine boost and a version with vanilla ship + travel drive performance.
- Small and medium ships get 5x faster strafe top speed and 2x stronger strafe thrust.
- Ship top speed and acceleration is dictated by cargo capacity, weapon count, and shields.
- Shield regeneration delay removed for all ships (0. 25s for small), but ships have around ~3-5x slower shield regen.
- Some ships with fewer shield generator slots gain HP buff; Split have best hull in class.
- Standardized engines, mass, and shields for various classes of ships across all factions similar to Elite Dangerous.
- L and XL ships gain over 4x mass. S and M ships gain around 1x - 2x mass.
- Sentinel, Vanguard, and Raider all have same top speed, but retain different hull and mass.
- Sentinel class for L and XL gains an additional health buff.
- Integrated Increased Ship Scan Range mod by Axeface: https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/1447
Thank you for letting me include this mod!
- Timelines ship performance balanced for in-story compatibility.
- Xenon XL ships have higher turning rate.
- Xenon ships gain HP buff, but have much lower shield regen.
- Xenon ships have top of the line top speed over most ship classes.
- Fighters carry 50% less cargo, Scouts carry 75% less cargo, Barbarossa, Basilisk, and the Erlking carries 50% less cargo.
- Astrid (yacht) is upgraded to be competitive with other corvettes.
- High speed can keep you alive in heavy combat; sharp turns bleeding your speed can make you easy target practice.
- Spacesuit top speed ~16x higher (standalone version: https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/859)
- Boarding pods gain 6x higher top speed. (standalone version: https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/863)
- Ship boost duration reworked for 7. 50 flight model.
- Many of the . XML's made on initial release were made by Nerhesi in their "Ship Balance Overhaul" mod:
https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/823
Highly recommend this mod if you want a more traditional X experience. Thanks for helping me learn!
- Split XL Ark ship in Timelines DLC has significantly increased hull strength for compatibility.
- Ship radar range is now 40km for M, 50km for L, and 60 km for XL ships
Radar mod made by captainradish. Original Mod linked here:
https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/77
Weapon Changes:
- Weapon range increased 8x excluding beam lasers.
- Many weapons gain 2x more damage.
- Asgard main weapon's damage nerfed
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- X4foundations Mods
- Author
- ShadowedWilds
- Version
- 0.99.97
- Downloads
- 2,526
- Endorsements
- 60
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 3/17/2022
- Updated
- 8/5/2026
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