X4: Foundations (tuxdb.com)

7.00 Public Beta 8 now available

X4 7.00 Public Beta 8 is now available to download. As you probably already know, we are rapidly approaching a significant milestone date. We recently announced that our next expansion, X4: Timelines, will be released on June 20, 2024, alongside the huge, free update 7.00. [previewyoutube=hFNrlEtpmiA;full][/previewyoutube] You can also put a note in your calendar for June 14, 2024, at 4:00 PM CEST, when Egosoft founder and CEO Bernd Lehahn will join Captain Collins in a livestream to talk more about X4 7.00 and X4: Timelines. In addition, we are in the planning stages for a small Reddit AMA with Bernd - we will let you know the exact date as soon as we have it. Thank you for your support on our journey to 7.00! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2700340/X4_Timelines/ [quote]How Do I Take Part in the Public Beta? Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 7.00 Public Beta version. In order to ensure that beta participants are aware of the risks and rules involved, we ask all interested players to visit our forum, where they will find the rules and disclaimers, as well as practical instructions for participating in the beta. Follow this link to our forum - no registration required - to find the relevant information.[/quote] Please share your feedback / bug report in our Public Beta Feedback forum. Before doing so, please make sure you read the Public Beta Rules and Information, which you can find in a sticky thread at the top of that forum.

7.00 Public Beta 8 Changelog

(visit our forum for the full 7.00 changelog overview)

[Beta 8] Added more skilled marines to newly created Terran Asgard ships.
[Beta 8] Added research to re-trigger crisis long after finishing it (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Added loading of most recent save to end of tutorial when tutorial was started via prompt in Open Universe (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Added unlock status of Data Vaults to target monitor (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Improved strength of Xenon fleet in Mutually Assured Destruction mission.
[Beta 8] Improved ships unnecessarily dropping out of travel drive when flying in formation.
[Beta 8] Improved boosting without flight assist to no longer set throttle to zero.
[Beta 8] Improved capital ship combat movement (further improvement to 7.00).
[Beta 8] Improved effect of single poor marine during infiltration phase of boarding (improvement for fix in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Improved balancing of boarding difficulty for Xenon H (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Improved balancing of Xenon PE (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Improved hull and shield bar damage animation (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Improved boosting without flight assist to no longer set throttle to zero.
[Beta 8] Improved capital ship combat movement (further improvement to 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed potential freeze during Blazing the Trail mission.
[Beta 8] Fixed stuck data heist mission of Covert Operations story.
[Beta 8] Fixed items spawned from container in Find Object mission disappearing when player flies away.
[Beta 8] Fixed Trade Subscription mission characters sometimes appearing behind counter in trade corner.
[Beta 8] Fixed case of crisis mission objective remaining Talk to Boso (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed Xenon and Kha'ak small fighters being killed by player not counting as success during crisis (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed crisis sector invasions sometimes not including Kha'ak (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed ships unrealistically being pushed around by bullet impacts (fix for improvement in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed repair of multiple ships not working under certain circumstances.
[Beta 8] Fixed inactive mission line not being shown under certain circumstances.
[Beta 8] Fixed faction name in target monitor not updating after uncovering covered ship.
[Beta 8] Fixed incoming supply trades being listed for production resources.
[Beta 8] Fixed ship attacked notification showing pilot upside-down if ship was destroyed.
[Beta 8] Fixed search in ticker logbook (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed Launch button being available for subordinate groups where setting has no effect.
[Beta 8] Fixed target monitor unintentionally overlapping menus under certain circumstances (problem introduced in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed missing gamestart info under certain circumstances (problem introduced in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed SETA HUD indicator getting stuck under certain circumstances (problem introduced in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed sector parameter selection for orders not working correctly (problem introduced in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed submenu bar on left side of Player Info menu not showing up under certain circumstances.
[Beta 8] Fixed incorrect y-axis labels on some graphs.
[Beta 8] Fixed target bracket size with non-default FOV.
[Beta 8] Fixed blurred weapon aim-indicators with TAA enabled (new feature in 7.00).
[Beta 8] Fixed several causes of crashes.

[ 2024-06-06 15:52:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

X4: Foundations
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2018-11-30

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Freedom to personally fly all ships:

X4 will allow you to fly all ships personally. From small scouts over a wide range of ship classes up to the biggest carrier, everything can be piloted from the cockpit or an external view.

A big focus in the development of X4 has been to achieve a seamless and immersive experience when moving between ships. You can leave a ship, climb down a ladder, walk over the dock of a large space station into another ship you may have parked there and replace the pilot that was working for you just by clicking on his chair.

Modular stations and ship upgrades:

Building space stations and factories has always been a foundation of the X games. After gaining enough money through fighting or trading, most players want to establish their own economy and start influencing the universe on a larger scale. In X4, it is now possible to be completely free and creative. Stations can be constructed from a variety of modules, be it production modules, living sections, docks or many other types of parts. The powerful new map system allows you to drag and connect modules using a connection system to design your own unique creations.

Ships also offer a variety of upgrades. Engines, weapons and other equipment can be added in a graphical editor and actually seen on the ship.

Most dynamic X universe ever:

X4 will be the first X game to allow our races and factions to freely build and expand their empires; the same flexibility the player enjoys in creatively designing space stations from modular building blocks is also available to them. Races expand their empire based on supply and demand, which leads to an extremely dynamic universe where every action the player makes can influence the course of the entire universe.

Managing your empire with a powerful map:

Once you have more ships and many NPCs working for you as pilots, crew or station managers, the map will be your preferred method of managing it all. Ships can be ordered with simple clicks and through drag-and-drop operations to set their future path and commands.

Graphically plan your trade routes, coordinate attacks with your entire fleet, manage the hierarchy or send ships on remote exploration missions.

Most detailed X economy ever:

One of the key selling points of X games has always been the realistic, simulated economy. Wares produced by hundreds of stations and transported by thousands of ships are actually traded by NPCs and prices develop based on this simulated economy. This is the foundation of our living and breathing universe. Now with X4, we have taken another, massive step. For the first time in any X game, all parts of the NPC economy are manufactured from resources. Ships, weapons, upgrades, ammo and even stations. You name it. Everything comes out of the simulated economy.

Research and Teleportation:

The seamless change from ship to ship and from NPCs controlling your empire for you continues on a higher level. Once you own a larger fleet, you will be very interested in researching a technology from your HQ: Teleportation. Once you've unlocked teleportation, you can jump from ship to ship a lot quicker and experience all the critical situations your NPCs encounter first hand.

Every order you have given to a ship before turns into a mission objective when you pilot the ship yourself. The moment you leave again, your pilot takes the helm and continues with their previous orders.

Get into the game:

In X4, you can start your journey from a number of different gamestarts and as a number of different characters, each with their own role, set of relationships and different ships and technologies to start with. No matter how you start, you are always free to develop in any other direction. Focus on exploration, make money with illegal trading and theft, command large battle fleets or become the greatest entrepreneur ever. It's all up to you to decide.

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Storage: 35 GB available space
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