X4 patch 2.50 ready for beta testing
Egosoft just released the latest beta version of X4: Foundation and you are welcome to test it out for yourselves!
As with all Egosoft updates – the patch notes are a bit lenghty and the final patch will be free for all X4 players.
Patch notes
- New Feature: Resupply ships are now available and carriers can also resupply their fighters.
- New Feature: Sector blacklist settings to prevent ships entering certain areas.
- New Feature: Inventory management with lockboxes in space and inventory storage at player HQ.
- New Feature: Tobii eye-tracking support (Windows-only in this build, Linux support to come).
- Added images and background information relating to star systems and planets in encyclopedia.
- Added logbook entries for NPC ships being built, restocked or repaired at player shipyards.
- Added note/hint while mouse direct steering mode is active.
- Added more variations for Build Station, Rescue Ship and Scan missions.
- Added new global orders section in player information menu.
- Added options for ware transfer and trade with build storage to docked menu.
- Added inventory information to player-owned ships.
- Added categories to object list and property owned in the map.
- Added options to sort the object list and property owned menus by name, size or hull.
- Added warning in trade menu if a ship cannot transport a ware.
- Added possibility to cancel builder ship assignments before ship deploys at station.
- Added current build progress information to the module type summary lines of station entries in the map.
- Added option to configure autosave interval (and prevented autosave immediately after a manual save).
- Added information about hacked research module to research menu.
- Added information about hacked production modules to info menu and Logical Station Overview.
- Added ability to configure Logical Station Overview graph data for each station individually.
- Added wreck filter option to map.
- Added interior sounds to rooms, shops and ship bridges.
- Added mining and resupply tutorials.
- Improved selection of multiple wares for behaviours and map filters.
- Improved out-of-sector firepower calculations.
- Improved resource preview in the ship build/upgrade menu.
- Improved satellite deployment tutorial.
- Improved performance of loading and saving.
- Improved interface for dropping player inventory.
- Improved map object list performance when looking at many player stations.
- Improved faction behaviour when dealing with ware shortages.
- Improved ship formation behaviour when flying in travel mode.
- Improved controller support for initial ship type selection in ship build menu.
- Improved ship docking and undocking movement in certain cases.
- Improved behavior of free-flying police.
- Improved defence drone handling by capital ships in combat.
- Improved mission reward text for paint mods.
- Improved updating of wares to be traded or harvested by station-based trading ships and mining ships.
- Improved Logical Station Overview graph data selection.
- Improved AI station generation logic to make selection of large habitation modules more likely where appropriate.
- Removed Fly To objective from Build Station missions.
- Removed ability to load construction plans that contain more venture modules than the player has available.
- Removed ability to move an empty station plot after paying a cheap licence to a location with an expensive licence without repercussions.
- Fixed issues with moving station plots during Build Station missions.
- Fixed Rescue Ship mission potentially creating unowned ships which don't get cleaned up.
- Fixed Rescue Ship mission reward calculation in the variant where the ship must be delivered.
- Fixed warping to a different sector when getting up during specific stage of HQ mission.
- Fixed missile range calculation for dumbfire missiles.
- Fixed very slow mission offer display if many offers are known.
- Fixed menu errors when opening information menu for ship under construction.
- Fixed huge player-owned stations not displaying all stored wares in information menu.
- Fixed encyclopedia links to ships not working correctly.
- Fixed NPC buy/sell orders not honouring minimum amounts.
- Fixed ships stuck waiting for upgrades.
- Fixed error messages when attempting to unlock EMP-induced data leaks on ships.
- Fixed dock speed limits being applied when travel mode is active.
- Fixed ships docking at moving objects appearing to strafe very quickly at certain times.
- Fixed police ships remaining in space where they no longer have police authority.
- Fixed some factions' police ships not being named as police.
- Fixed defence drones belonging to Teladi Trading Stations not docking after completing their tasks.
- Fixed stations potentially trying to trade with other stations when they no longer have any available cargo drones.
- Fixed ships built for invasions sometimes not performing their intended orders.
- Fixed subordinates not responding to attacks in some cases.
- Fixed ships attacking targets outside their engagement area when on their way to their engagement area.
- Fixed squadron subordinates getting distracted by hostile targets encountered while on their way to join their commander.
- Fixed subordinates of carriers waiting for the player's permission before undocking to attack if player is on board the carrier.
- Fixed station-based miners and traders not updating their range when they or their manager improve in skill.
- Fixed construction vessels not always being unassigned when a station is destroyed.
- Fixed NPC ships not firing their weapons when attacking under certain circumstances.
- Fixed turrets set to Fire on my current target only firing sporadically when current target is a station.
- Fixed turrets set to Attack my current target periodically stopping firing.
- Fixed player-flown ships with turrets set to mining mode only acquiring asteroids 3km away regardless of mining turret range.
- Fixed mass traffic sometimes using the wrong ships directly after loading a savegame.
- Fixed asteroids in certain regions sometimes ending up with negative mineral yields.
- Fixed incorrectly-scaled rendering of paint mods when redesigning certain ships.
- Fixed promotion of crew to pilots removing existing pilot from ship.
- Fixed object selection failing in the map when switching between tabs.
- Fixed cases where map continued panning/rotating even after having released all mouse buttons.
- Fixed station building menu asking to confirm loss of changes if nothing was changed.
- Fixed station building menu not updating when a module build finishes.
- Fixed returning venture ships sometimes being displayed in an incorrect location on the map.
- Fixed map object list not showing the correct player logo for player-owned sectors.
- Fixed supply settings for Drones and Missiles in Logical Station Overview.
- Fixed workforce information in Logical Station Overview being greyed-out
- Fixed player map icon being very large in certain situations.
- Fixed external view on surface elements.
- Fixed targeting while in spacesuit.
- Fixed loot-magnet sound stuck after auto-save.
- Fixed tooltip text getting stuck in the station build menu when using the controller mouse emulation.
- Fixed various NPC pathing issues on platforms.
- Fixed NPC rubberbanding when talked to while walking.
- Fixed detached habitation modules during AI station construction (existing station layouts are not affected).
- Fixed factions building more defence stations than they should.
- Fixed situation where ships could appear stuck in internal storage.
- Fixed missing localisation of several texts in menus.
- Fixed several localisation issues in mission texts.
- Fixed being able to fly into planets.
- Fixed NPCs walking in front of pilot in Demeter and Hermes.
- Fixed Pulsar's right weapon being visually disconnected from hull.
- Fixed Nodan lights not turning on.
- Fixed missing mode visualisation in Nodan cockpit.
- Fixed Xenon capital ship engines not having animated exhaust flames.
- Fixed duplicate display on panel in Kestrel cockpit.
- Fixed missing geometry on side of Discoverer Vanguard.
- Fixed missing external geometry when standing on Incarcatura bridge.
- Fixed Incarcatura bridge location.
- Fixed menu crash when opening the map legend in certain cases.
- Fixed several causes of crashes.
How to get the beta
Steam
- Make sure that your savegames are backed up!
- To start using the Beta version, right-click X4: Foundations in the Steam client
- Select Properties and go to the Betas tab
- Enter the password IBackedUpMySaves
- Select public_beta from the dropdown list.
- To return to using the non-Beta version, select NONE from the same dropdown list.
GOG Galaxy
- Make sure that your savegames are backed up!
- Select X4: Foundations in your GOG Galaxy game collection.
- Click on "More > Settings"
- On the right hand side of the page, click on "Beta Channels: OFF" and select "ON"
- Click on the "Channel" option and select "Add Private Channels"
- Enter the password for the "Public Beta" channel: IBackedUpMySaves
- Select the "Public Beta" channel.
- To return to using the non-Beta version, click on the "Channel" dropdown and select "default"
Remember that savegames made using the Beta version may not work in vanilla version.