News Liste X4: Foundations

A Wide Range of New Content

New and Redesigned Xenon Ships

Flyable Xenon Ships for the First Time in X4

Gameplay Innovations

Usability and Accessibility Focus

Technical Advancements

7.00 Public Beta 1 Changelog

• New Feature: Reimagined Teladi and Argon capital ships.
• New Feature: Redesigned Xenon PE and SE ships.
• New Feature: Flyable Xenon ships (selected ships only).
• New Feature: Historic Terraformer ships.
• New Feature: Observation Deck module for stations.
• New Feature: Additional sectors and landmarks.
• New Feature: Race-specific managers' offices.
• New Feature: Improved AI.
• New Feature: Reworked, improved and expanded tutorials (work in progress during Public Beta).
• New Feature: Late-game crisis for advanced players.
• New Feature: Customisable radial menu for quick access to actions.
• New Feature: Extended input mapping options.
• New Feature: Enhanced external camera system.
• New Feature: Visual Enhancement Goggles.
• New Feature: Improved explosion effects.
• New Feature: FOV slider.
• New Feature: TAA support.
• New Feature: Enhanced shadows.
• New Feature: New accessibility options.
• Added gamestart recommendations for new players.
• Added option to choose default camera when piloting ships.
• Added possibility to customise external camera position per ship model.
• Added means to rescue people who are stranded in space suits, with options for player to request rescue.
• Added crew bailing out of player-owned ships that are destroyed.
• Added player character to list of things Live Stream camera can showcase.
• Added auto-targeting of next hostile or next surface element on destruction of current target.
• Added target type identification voice feedback for surface elements.
• Added visual effect when hovering over HUD target elements.
• Added icons to Data Vaults to indicate unlock progress.
• Added icon on Map for orphaned build storages with wares to sell.
• Added cover status information to message ticker.
• Added weapon and turret range of ships to Object Information menu.
• Added full equipment and module names to mouse-over texts in Ship and Station Configuration menus.
• Added number of available missiles or bombs in Ship Interactions and Ship Loadout menus.
• Added new weapon modes and renamed some old weapon modes for clarity.
• Added faction filter to Station Configuration menu shuffle function.
• Added lock range, lock time and resilience against countermeasures to missiles in Encyclopedia.
• Added link to Encyclopedia in Ship Information menu, and in Module context menu in Station Build menu.
• Added full module names to search in Station Build menu.
• Added visual hint to indicate which categories contain searched items in Station Build menu.
• Added checks for missing equipment blueprints to construction plan selection in Station Build menu.
• Added separate default options for Global Standing Orders for military ships.
• Added option to disable transform gizmo in Station Build menu.
• Added ability to show external target view for ships in highways.
• Added ability to move orders immediately to start/end of order queue in Object Behaviour menu.
• Added information about automatically calculated buy amount to Station Overview resource boxes.
• Added fleet and sector names to Map menu searches, and provided suggestion box.
• Added skip buttons to sliders in menus to immediately set them to their limit.
• Added ticker history to Logbook.
• Added ability to select options in dropdowns by typing.
• Added mouse-over texts explaining mission difficulties.
• Added Interact menu of station or ship when interacting with surface elements.
• Added Deposit Inventory order for multiple selected ships.
• Added reset buttons to Global Standing Orders menu.
• Added option to mark Build Storages as hostile.
• Added mission arrow to HUD for multiple mission targets that are close together.
• Added shield bar animation when receiving damage or boosting.
• Added wiggle animation to hull and shield bar when being attacked.
• Added visualisation for projected weapon heat after next shot.
• Added up-arrow button above tab icons to close top level menu and hide icons.
• Added warning about removing unavailable equipment when applying presets in Ship Configuration menu.
• Added warnings about missing military or mining equipment to Ship Configuration menu.
• Added warning when removing last controller input from certain important menu navigation controls.
• Added support for customisation of keyboard modifiers and remapping of Shift and Ctrl keys.
• Added feedback for input actions.
• Added Numpad-5 as an additional input to reset map view.
• Added wider range of ready-made input profiles.
• Added Menu Width Scale option to adjust menu widths in, e.g. multi-monitor setups.
• Added HUD scaling.
• Added glow option for UI.
• Added colour-blind options to accessibility settings.
• Added Reduced Speed Mode accessibility option.
• Added more achievements.
• Changed placement of station target elements to be in visual center of stations.
• Changed appearance of mission targets that are relative to objects.
• Changed target speed display to use more appropriate units.
• Changed option to reset Global Standing Order responses for all ships to be on dedicated button.
• Changed Object List and Property Owned menus to show stations under construction in same way as station entries.
• Changed order of Dock Areas in station elevator menu to prioritise current location and ship dealerships.
• Changed Map menu trade ware and storage type filter from being persistent per player/account to being persistent per save.
• Changed discovered Data Vault icons to remain on Map even outside of live view.
• Changed Laser Towers to show up as "ping" on map after long range scan.
• Changed messages in ticker to no longer disappear while game is paused.
• Changed faction colours to be more distinct.
• Changed colour of collectable HUD elements that cannot currently be collected.
• Changed hull bar colour in Map and radar from green to white to match HUD representation.
• Changed missile reload bar to animate from full to empty.
• Changed SSAO quality settings and added Ultra option.
• Removed interaction icons for NPCs that are not your current target.
• Removed option to minimize Map menu.
• Removed mouse HUD mode.
• Improved balancing of mineral and gas region yields across whole map.
• Improved balancing of drop rates, types and amounts for ships and lockboxes.
• Improved balancing of seminar prices to match equivalent NPC hiring fees.
• Improved balancing of stellar output across all systems to match stars and locations.
• Improved balancing of storage volume for S and M storage modules.
• Improved ware allocation for wharfs, shipyards and equipment docks.
• Improved Find Resources mission to have more variation and to take into account new resource regions.
• Improved fleet composition of Terran Protectorate.
• Improved spacesuit manoeuvrability.
• Improved character appearance when moving and performing certain activities.
• Improved mission guidance and NPC pathfinding in large walkable areas.
• Improved presentation of NPCs greeting passers-by in certain situations.
• Improved behaviour of collisions between capital and S/M sized ships.
• Improved tolerance of turret friendly fire between player and non-player factions.
• Improved friendly fire handling between non-player factions.
• Improved flee behavior of S or M ships under attack by capital ships or stations.
• Improved boarding pod launch velocity.
• Improved flight behaviour of guided missiles.
• Improved missile hit detection.
• Improved docking guidance.
• Improved precision of target guidance in space.
• Improved AI flight by not interrupting travel mode due to small course changes.
• Improved AI flight while moving to jump gates.
• Improved capital ship movement when approaching and exiting gates, accelerators and highways.
• Improved undocking behaviour of S/M ships on stations such as Teladi Trading Station.
• Improved combat behavior of missile-armed fighters attacking large targets.
• Improved combat approach for capital ships attacking very large, very slow or immobile targets.
• Improved boost usage of ships in fleets that are traversing jump gate to attack.
• Improved capital ships approaching gates prior to sector transition.
• Improved fleet gate traversal to sectors with hazardous regions.
• Improved long-distance movement to moving objects.
• Improved gate transition for very long NPC ships.
• Improved ships with mining orders avoiding asteroids they are not currently targeting.
• Improved free traders finding trades when operating over multiple sectors.
• Improved miner decision-making involving mining in distant sectors which are contested by hostile factions.
• Improved manual mining order for solid resources.
• Improved manual mining order when cargo is already full.
• Improved reliability of capital ships getting supplies.
• Improved reliability of construction ships building stations in owned faction space.
• Improved repair and resupply for ships with repeating orders.
• Improved repair and resupply by allowing player-owned ships to use player-owned equipment docks, wharfs and shipyards.
• Improved damage calculations for certain weapons when player not nearby.
• Improved response to being boarded.
• Improved price balancing for several MK2 weapons.
• Improved voice feedback for repeated target selection.
• Improved fighter pursuit of very fast, large targets.
• Improved fighter pursuit of targets when player not nearby.
• Improved Flee order, particularly when fleeing from ships attacking head-on.
• Improved behaviour of NPC ships regaining lost subordinates.
• Improved reliability of carrier-based fleet subordinates.
• Improved subordinates with Mimic to inherit commander's default behaviour when promoted if commander is destroyed.
• Improved fight-or-flight decision making for subordinates in fleet with Carrier or Fleet Auxiliary Ship in combat.
• Improved stations set to sell excess resources in logical overview to no longer reduce automatic buy amount.
• Improved redistribution of NPC military ships from long-standing quiet areas to potentially troubled ones.
• Improved delivery of scrap to processing modules.
• Improved order to deploy satellites to show radar range of satellite before deployment.
• Improved messages for stations reporting friendly ships being attacked close to station.
• Improved relation penalty on issuing attack order so that penalty is removed if attack order is cancelled before shooting has started.
• Improved station deconstruction by transferring remaining cargo to build storage.
• Improved Live Stream view target selection logic.
• Improved ticker message when picking up crates or asteroid chunks.
• Improved selectability of small target elements in HUD.
• Improved look and feel of mouse interactions in space and on radar.
• Improved visuals of communication channel video feed.
• Improved display of effective countermeasure resilience for missiles in encyclopedia.
• Improved Controls settings menu layout.
• Improved mapping of mouse buttons and mouse movement with Shift/Ctrl modifiers.
• Improved conflicting controls popup when remapping is not possible.
• Improved range of control mapping options.
• Improved support for DualShock and DualSense controllers.
• Improved performance of Player Info menu under certain circumstances.
• Improved cockpit visuals for Irukandji.
• Improved historical accuracy of broken Terran jump gate model.
• Improved presentation of loadout editor for Boron ships.
• Improved structure of Options menu.
• Improved visuals for Thermal Disintegrator bullets.
• Improved appearance of stardust effect.
• Improved lighting in Station and Ship Loadout menus.
• Improved flickering of object lights when transitioning between functional and non-functional.
• Improved visuals for scan mode.
• Improved consistency of glow with different anti-aliasing and upscaling modes.
• Improved readability of weapon heat bar on bright backgrounds.
• Improved subtitle readability.
• Fixed some pirates not being active in Kingdom End expansion sectors when gate opens.
• Fixed missing default paint theme when at high reputation with Queendom of Boron.
• Fixed Leda We being placed in same spot as Boron marine in The High Road mission.
• Fixed Godrealm of the Paranid and Holy Order of the Pontifex being present in some Split sectors after Paranid unification.
• Fixed Boron story sometimes getting stuck if Boron Shipyard is destroyed.
• Fixed A Matter of the Utmost Gravity mission getting stuck if conversation with Kromancketslat's lieutenant is interrupted by opening Map.
• Fixed Trinity faction not able to rebuild wharfs, shipyards and other major stations.
• Fixed stereo audio issues in some cutscenes of Boron story.
• Fixed incorrect countdown in Casino welfare module research time trial.
• Fixed mission-only module blueprints being unlocked in Station Design Simulator.
• Fixed missing animations when selecting New Game under certain circumstances.
• Fixed ships not using travel mode when ordered to attack target in distant sector.
• Fixed several situations where ships could fly through station or carrier while docking.
• Fixed dock assignment and ship hologram persisting when stopping control.
• Fixed various issues with retrieving ships from internal storage.
• Fixed various issues with player docking requests.
• Fixed NPC subordinates sometimes docking indefinitely.
• Fixed some pilots finding it hard to land on Boron Wharfs.
• Fixed Mk2 Laser Towers getting stuck in docking bay on launch.
• Fixed player-owned police ships continuing to police old sector after player loses control of all sectors.
• Fixed free traders sometimes not finding trades, particularly when only working with one ware.
• Fixed capital ships sometimes repeatedly trying to trade with stations they cannot dock at.
• Fixed frigates, destroyers, and battleships sometimes not launching defence drones when they should.
• Fixed frigate-based defence drones sometimes escorting their frigate indefinitely rather than engaging hostiles.
• Fixed ships tending to repeatedly switch targets if faced with multiple small targets in close proximity to one another.
• Fixed non-capital ships in combat tending to always prefer to target individual ships rather than capital ships or stations.
• Fixed NPC ships sometimes unintentionally initiating hostilities against neutral or friendly ships or stations.
• Fixed ships performing queued Coordinate Attack orders trying to attack wrecked targets.
• Fixed participants in Coordinated Attack pursuing targets to adjacent sectors.
• Fixed Attack orders sometimes generating failure messages even if order resulted from automated behavior.
• Fixed attack subordinates sometimes getting distracted by other targets far from their commander.
• Fixed attack subordinates attacking targets other than their commander's without provocation.
• Fixed ships attacking targets that are being boarded by non-hostile faction.
• Fixed capital ships sometimes approaching too closely in combat.
• Fixed ships re-engaging in combat after being ordered to disengage or being given a move order.
• Fixed Coordinate Attack including subordinate groups that have been set to Docked.
• Fixed ships sometimes not considering other ships in front of them and therefore not slowing down.
• Fixed ships sometimes spiraling around carriers while trying to dock when player not nearby.
• Fixed ships sometimes flying backwards in Travel Mode after changing current orders.
• Fixed subordinates wanting to undock if docked at commander that is further up their command hierarchy.
• Fixed many cases of ships stopping abruptly upon destruction.
• Fixed ships being forced out of highway when colliding, and several other cases of ships getting stranded beside highways.
• Fixed AI-controlled ships with player passenger sometimes appearing in wrong position after gate transition.
• Fixed large ships getting stuck when trading with build storage while station build plot size is changed.
• Fixed unprotected player-owned miners mining in sectors with hazardous regions if no other regions with resources are found within range.
• Fixed Construction Vessels sometimes idling next to gates to enemy sectors.
• Fixed Construction Vessels with no drones having no efficiency penalty.
• Fixed mining ships sometimes shooting empty asteroids when player is nearby.
• Fixed mining nodes on asteroids being randomised when turning scan mode off and back on.
• Fixed free-flying police scanning space suits.
• Fixed friend/foe mines launched during dogfights sometimes not being hostile to their target.
• Fixed guided missiles not properly targeting stations and build storage.
• Fixed missiles sometimes not leaving launcher in forward direction.
• Fixed turret control acquiring only one missile per missile swarm.
• Fixed ships launching countermeasures against unguided missiles.
• Fixed trade discounts not being taken into account when traders are looking for trades.
• Fixed stations not selling resources to their build storages under certain circumstances.
• Fixed certain trading stations no longer buying or selling certain wares after changing ownership during story.
• Fixed stations that are starved of resources sometimes not paying high enough price.
• Fixed equipment on destroyed ships and station modules not contributing properly to scrap value.
• Fixed trading stations sometimes deviating from average price for certain wares when they shouldn't be.
• Fixed inconsistencies in M turret pricing.
• Fixed beams and ricocheting bullets distorting accuracy stats.
• Fixed player being personally blamed for some hostile actions by other ships belonging them.
• Fixed player-owned ships worrying that player will be stranded when player is on their own ship.
• Fixed ship repair taking longer than it should with crew aboard.
• Fixed ships sometimes oscillating between two positions, e.g. when approaching player or while docking.
• Fixed ships sometimes changing directions very abruptly.
• Fixed ships disappearing during docking animation.
• Fixed collision with invisible walls on some wrecked objects.
• Fixed capital ships sometimes reacting too strongly to collisions.
• Fixed force effects, e.g. of anomalies, not working after exiting superhighway.
• Fixed outdated game start image of Boso Ta.
• Fixed dock areas not having any props.
• Fixed not being able to select all objects from Kalis, Sunder or Incarcatura cockpit.
• Fixed excessively dirty cockpit glass in XL Argon ships.
• Fixed incorrectly rotated shield impact effects.
• Fixed ship ID being cut off on Syn and Guppy.
• Fixed logo being cut off on Thresher and Dolphin.
• Fixed logo and ship ID being cut off Heracles.
• Fixed logo and ship ID on Yasur disappearing at certain view angles.
• Fixed missing logo on Osaka lower left hull.
• Fixed flickering surface on Yasur.
• Fixed missing geometry on Asgard and Peregrine.
• Fixed incorrectly placed elements near the docking area on Nomad.
• Fixed space suit dock not being visually integrated into the Boron luxury dock.
• Fixed floating geometry on Barbarossa.
• Fixed floating geometry on Kalis fighter in ship build menu.
• Fixed landing gear of Lux being out of place.
• Fixed cockpit ramp of Shih clipping out of ship while in flight.
• Fixed Ion Pulse turret bullets clipping into ship hull on launching.
• Fixed certain small weapons not firing straight ahead.
• Fixed floating turrets on Terran defence tube.
• Fixed turrets of Scrap Recycler being inside module.
• Fixed turret positioning issue on Magnetar.
• Fixed shield generator positions on Donia, Yasur and Shark.
• Fixed shield generator on Shark being located inside ship hull.
• Fixed missing flame animation in Teladi S all-round engines.
• Fixed incorrectly positioned engine flames on small Xenon ships.
• Fixed multiple cases of out of place hologram in airlock.
• Fixed transporter room doors on small ships not closing properly.
• Fixed black surface appearing on Kyushu when viewed from further away.
• Fixed hole in Split corridor.
• Fixed invisible keyboard in manager's office.
• Fixed paint mods not affecting cockpit frame on Kestrel and Guillemot.
• Fixed visual glitch on capital ships under construction.
• Fixed incomplete wreck for Falcon.
• Fixed missing wreck for Jian.
• Fixed missing wreck for collectible containers.
• Fixed incorrectly textured wreck for Magpie.
• Fixed incorrectly positioned wreck for Chimera.
• Fixed incorrectly positioned wreck for Teladi small container storage module.
• Fixed colliding with invisible wall when undocking from bay 6 on Boron luxury dock.
• Fixed imprecise collisions with Asgard main weaponry.
• Fixed imprecise collisions with derelict station in Duke's Haven.
• Fixed incorrect snap connections inside Terran Trading Station Hexa-Dock Pier.
• Fixed incorrect rotations of station modules under construction after loading.