XLOG 📢 A Vision for 7.00 ✨

Join Egosoft Managing Director Bernd Lehahn as he shares our early ideas and plans for the next big update to X4: Foundations. We also take this opportunity to express our gratitude for your support during the launch of X4: Kingdom End and the major 6.00 Update earlier this year. Stay tuned for more exciting developments in the X4 universe!
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[@egosoft]

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[@eagle6163]

Maybe one cool Feature would be a Shipdesigner to create custom Ships without having to modify your savegame? I think if its well balanced it might be a fun Experience for everyone and it could add more possible research stuff at the HQ and a Design Office at the HQ. It could be done with modular Parts and you can choose the materials for the Hull etc. so They can be balanced as well with these stats cause every material has specific weight and volume and you need too add different components to make it work. For example you can decide to add 4 Shield Bays but the generator you have to build in generates a specific ammount of power so you have less energy for weapons or engines in case of 4 M Shield slots. And every part of the Hull you add gives some space for modules like weapons but also adds some weight. And more weight means you need to add more thrust with a limited generator. And if you decide to add a second generator to the design you have to reduce the number of other modules cause of the limited space inside the hull. And you could add an Design office to the HQ that gives more depth to the Player HQ besides additional research for these kind of modules and hull design parts. Edit: you could also add the Research of the different Design philosphys by reverse engenieering Ships of different Factions that would provide you Hull Parts and internal modules. Progressing through different Levels of the Research would require a specific amount of reverse engineered ships and added materials and it would add different Design Parts and internal Stuff and it could be splitted between S/M and L/XL and Station Parts so even players who are focused on pirating can get the Modules and Designs for their own Shipyards over time by Raiding.

[@lolHyperactive]

@@eagle6163 ¿Player ship faction? o_Ô an amalgamation of different races reversed engineered ships. PS: captain collins getting mentioned yoo that's our captain! PS2: indeed my squids they are good protected by me! and i will bring peace to the universe by FIRE!

[@rispruffcuts2306]

If one of my ships(pilots) is attacked I can not press F -> "show me your position" or "teleport to" , would really love to see that. (or free configurable shortcuts) Also would like to see that I can shopping some products while sitting on my ship without using mouse (simple/clean table with a cool hologram with a small touch of 1999 x:BtF - I know it sounds simple but it has an immersive feeling) Really love your game, really appreciate it. have a beautiful Day!

[@efxnews4776]

X5 when? Or there would be more DLCs for X4?

[@virkfulsarchive]

@@efxnews4776each X series can last for like 10 years, slightly a bit early to ask for X5, maybe 2028 would be a more proper time or unless they have some extreme technological breakthrough that a newer version would be needed, if X5 is made with not much difference from X4, than there's really no need of X5. Other than that, I think there are a lot of players just waiting and waiting for improvement on AI behavior. 1. Majorly on economy holes(NPCs properly adjusting buy price for their resource needs). 2. Combat behavior that ships don't fight like idiots but proper dog fighting and diving behavior.

[@deathbunny8322]

One of the best developers I have ever had the joy to play games from. Deserve every praise for X4 and the DLCs, each one is a leap in terms of features, and additions!

[@thomastoseland7113]

I will second that, as I've been playing these since X beyond the frontier. Keep going Egosoft.

[@szynkom7089]

suuuure, they really nailed the ai in the game - a huge leap into the shitter

[@darrenjames1247]

Are we overlooking the debacle, lies and accusations that Egosoft made post-release of Rebirth, then? they screwed the fanbase over right royally and then blamed the same fanbase for it - if it weren't for modders, Egosoft would likely have collapsed. They WERE a great company but in my eyes, they lost that title when they pulled a fast one over everyone.

[@thomastoseland7113]

@@szynkom7089 what do you think that they should do differently?

[@thomastoseland7113]

@@darrenjames1247 I've been trying to give constructive feedback, but that's me, on how they can potentially improve it.

[@Dark_Morning]

Awesome to hear that there is still plenty more to come! I was afraid that X4 was done when the Boron came out.

[@VeggyZ]

Yeah these guys tend to go on forever, however slowly - and I love the end results really, at least, with X4 it became one hell of a game - hard to get into, but I did, and if my previous PC's processor had a better clock speed, given the limits of the engine, I was going to do a LOT more with mods that I just couldn't... still, amazing game... X4 has everything it needs to turn into something much greater, and Egosoft ... who knows WHEN they'll stop? Maybe around the time X5 is developed - I'm in no hurry, I have a lot to do in X4, and my failing PC has been preventing me - got all the parts I need on order, though!

[@Debo0551]

I'm not usually a big fan of single player games. In fact I almost exclusively play multiplayer games. However, after having played Starfield and realizing it wasn't anywhere near as deep as I was looking for and with Star Citizen still in very early development. I decided to try this game. I had never played any of the other games in the series and well needless to say I was absolutely blown away. I've already sunk in over 80+ hours into my first playthrough and I fully intend to spend several hundred hours into this game for the next several months. Egosoft has made me a fan for life. Good job guys!

[@petarm.9263]

One of the best Devs. They continue to support the game, update it, fix, adding new stuff, etc... Definitely a buy !

[@stahlknecht7872]

Best Spacegame available ❤️

[@florianmaschke269]

Hi there. I'm an X-Veteran since the early 2000s. Over the years I had very good and sometimes frustrating moment when it comes to this game series. I'm starting with X2. It was and still is a very very good game. The implementation of the Kha'ak was a blast. Nothing was more fun that blowing these little critters to high heavens. No talk just shoot. The storyline was great and I played it a couple times just because the main story is so good. I had really bad experiences with the Discoverer at first but I always managed. I usually played with Argon ships and later on tried all the other races. It was fun... X3... uhhhh. The graphics improved. A LOT!!! The new station building ate a lot of time and the storyline was again great. I had the most fun with TC but hated their big stations and the collision models. It improved over time but I never felt really happy with the Terrans. Nevertheless a very good experience. I started a little late with X4. I took a break from gaming and started in 2020. By that time some of the early game bugs were already solved and I started with fresh on a new computer. An OH BOY... I needed a new one. Again.. the graphics improved very very hard. The storytelling still is a little short but more and more DLC's are coming and it's a lot of fun. My biggest minus point is the complicated ship menu. It was somewhat easier in 2 or 3. In X4 it appears a little too much. Managing bigger fleets is a nightmare for me and you spend a lot of time on the map menu. That is my only real point of critique so far and I'm certain you guys will do some magic in that area when you have the time. I was much easier to assign freighter fleets to you complex stations an the sector trading is pretty much useless at first. The universe needs to grow a little before you should go this way. That's my two cents on the matter. Thanks for the updates guys.

[@Crono33100]

Ihr seid echt eins der geilsten deutschen Entwicklerstudios. Ich habe schon vor 20 Jahren als Kind das (für ein Kind viel zu komplexe) X2 gespielt. Mit X3 bin ich nie warm geworden, aber X4 ist einfach nur geil.

[@Erduk]

Looking forward to seeing the future of the game.

[@david8157]

Very pleased to hear X4 is "far from finished"... I hope you guys will build a classic on these Foundations

[@BeLeHoSt]

X4 Foundations is my absolute favorite game, thank you for this enrichment in my life. This is the first space game after VGA Planets from Tim Wissemann that has captivated me so much. When I'm on the map in X4 it kind of reminds me of the old days when you passed floppy disks with the next turn. You are feeding my inner child, thank you. Your work is a master piece.

[@darctalus6661]

EGX London 2023 was great. Thank you for coming! It was nice meeting you all! :D

[@Romitch]

Thanks for XLOG! We really appreciate that! I hope podcasts will return someday.

[@FlynTie]

Just one month short before the 24th birthday of the X franchise and it still goes strong! I hope you folks order some pizza for everyone and sit down for a moment and take look at what you have accomplished. Keep up the good work, i enjoy it a lot. :)

[@ReinisIkass]

Thanks again for making my all time favorite game! :)

[@Exil_mh]

I'm glad you're working on that end-game mode, I've been waiting for something like that for a long time. I'm curious what else will come with 7.0

[@rrfarmer2000]

Long time player here, really love the direction this is going. Great news about the end-game war stuff. Glad to hear some focus is being put on non-first-person view. I hated when this was the norm starting in Rebirth. Would love to play the game fully with camera views as we did in X3, with the ability to just see space and a little UI, No cockpit blocking your view, no having to walk around with a character. The X series really is the best (non mmo) space IP!

[@planexshifter]

Thanks EgoSoft! I’m in awe of this game. It’s so very complex and detailed but runs amazingly well for what it is. Just creatively and technically, you all are on a different level than most developers.

[@darthdev]

A labour of love!!! ❤ Egosoft the Masters of the Universe (Sandboxes) 🙌

[@Preywinder]

I can wholeheartedly suggest X4 to anyone and everyone. Such an awesome game, thanks Egosoft! I feel like more external camera functionality would be good for a number of players, but I personally love the immersion of being in 1st person as you described :) Proper multiplayer would be amazing. I think I get why it's something Egosoft have not delved into, but rather than try to host anything on their side, make a multiplayer option that had to be hosted by one player (or on a server spun up by said player) and their friends join the hosted session, that would be amazing. There were 6 of us on my Discord all playing X4 at the same time recently, but of course we were all separate. Something I think would be a cool focus is more on-foot gameplay. For example, add more corridors and rooms to large ship internals and allow the player to physically board another ship with his/her marines. I know these two game mechanics have been mentioned literally thousands of times before though, I'm far from the first 😂

[@Gitubu]

Thank you Egosoft, I'm having a blast with X4. Stories, music, immersion, congrats to the whole team!

[@parsaM96]

really bech? you having a blast with story? the F***ing fetch quests? you prob like candy crush a lot then!

[@ZaiketsuKumori]

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[@MrGhosthacked]

Excellent update - looking forward to enjoy more of your work.

[@nopileos712]

Moin moin . Vielen Dank für diese tolle Spielserie welche ich seit Teil 1 mit Freude spiele. Macht so weiter.. ich freue mich über jede Erweiterung🌻

[@HanniballShow]

Looking farwards to more x4! My Wishlist: 1. A more fleshed out player owned sectors: allow/disallow factions enter, mine, trade or build. 2. Paying your staff, F.eks 10 credit for 0-1 star 50 for 1-2 star 100 credits for 3-4 and 200 for 5 star. And the payment could be per ingame hour. It dose not need to be alot. But it will add up when you have a big fleet. This will force the player to not spirle out of controll after getting a shipyard and just flood all the sectors with player build ships. And just paint the galaxy green with out any problem. Paying rent on station to the factions that own the sector, so if you own sectors and allow other factions to build in player owned sectors you wil get the rent from other factions building in your sectors.

[@AndrewLabelle]

Rad! Thanks for the updates!

[@Breathtaker]

🎉🎉🎉 Guys need more likes.

[@mauromartorelli]

Thanks to all of you at egosoft for giving us X4 ! ! ! ❤❤❤

[@Lc4Hunter]

You guys are crayz - in the most positive way :) Looking forward to all of that. X4 has become really really great and enjoyable since it was released. Your "foundation" has been extended extremly well and thanks to the release of the modding tools, we will be able to add a bunch of new stuff for the players :)

[@LuckyBZ]

This game is great, i played x2 400 hrs, and buy x4 week ago, already played 100 hrs

[@RickardFriman]

Great news Bernd! So happy with the success and continued support of this great game!

[@OldManGibb]

Awesome, Thanks a million for the update.

[@CraigHarrisonshortdog24]

A few Ideas... 1.) allow 3rd person while controlling the on foot player, the same as already exists with ships. 2.) Add space suits and helmets to npc's when "outside," simply for immersion purposes.. 3.) Have the marines on board large ships holding weapons or at least have holstered weapons. Just a re-skin. Make them look more like space soldiers. 4.) Add a seat for the player behind the pilot in a few of the fighters when they are a passenger when there is room to. Im addicted to this game... have been an X fan for years. Great work on such an amazing game.

[@kanrakucheese]

I don't think there's actually animations for crouching and jumping. You can see crouching just lowers your character down if you wedge yourself into the front of a cockpit and go into third person. Animation overhaul, updating from the ancient middleware modders can't interact with, would be great though

[@ZlothZloth]

But... they aren't space soldiers. You paid people you found wandering around a pittance, stuck them in boarding pods with MAYBE a day's worth of training, and sent them off to attack similarly trained "soldiers." If you give them guns, give them paintball guns - that's probably about the level of combat going on in X4 ship boarding battles. ;)

[@NinjaDPunch]

Love X4 always return to it. Its great to hear theres still work ongoing. Thank to Egosoft.

[@mbasemann]

Love yall. Thanks for being you.

[@Centrioless]

Really love the current state of the game. Cant wait to try this major update in the future

[@geldonyetich]

I think the Existential Crisis problem goes largely unsolved in any open world sandbox, and I look forward to seeing your idea. Even if it's not a perfect solution, I appreciate any work done to solve this. I suspect that this new perspective may be useful for improving fleet AI, which should go far to help the X universe feel more alive. Keep up the great work, Egosoft team!

[@alejandrotaudil3689]

Kudos, deserve every praise for X4 and the DLCs!

[@hlpbgh]

I bought X4 a while ago, but didn't start playing it until 2 months ago. I thought I'd play it about as much as I did X3, but I've since put 300+ hours into X4. Love what you guys have done, will definitely keep supporting in the future.

[@soulhunter8567]

Sounds great, i will love the external camera features, keep up the good work and Thanks for transparency!

[@dawudmc]

Great work, thank you!

[@Miszkaaaaa]

That's great news! I really love the lore and X4 feels like home! I would love to have a feature to build new gates, which point to new generated sectors with random events - maybe new Xenon sector? A few lost sectors from common wealth? The undiscovered lands...

[@303otto]

von XBTF bis heute mit X4: ihr macht einen echt tollen Job! Danke Bernd und Danke an dein Team!!

[@Fireath]

Really excited for the third person ship control features!!! X4 has so many beautiful ships and it's exciting to hear that I'll be able to spend more time actually looking at them! Now if we could just get the option to skip quest cutscenes that we've seen before.

[@Faeozz]

Thanks Bernd! 640 hours in X4 and counting :)

[@specrtre]

one of the coolest games I finally try a year ago. I'm glad I did. The updates are awesome Egosoft is one of the few developers that actually seem to work with the community. up there with Hello games. Though it was more then I expected since I really wanted to just be a merc lol was expecting to have to be a business man too. Not to mention the great friendly community that likes to give help to newbs like myself. Awesome that guys support mods too. The only thing I really look forward to now is the time to finally sit down and play the game.

[@dndhatcher]

Thank you for the continued communication and continued development of enhancements to an already good game.

[@SCARRIOR]

Big features 1. Wars - I thought you could already do war with other factions? Claim a sector of space, build a shipyard, harvest resources, attack others 2. External cockpit view - I don't see how this is a big feature, I can change first person to third person in a C++ game in a matter of minutes with just a few lines of code. If this will be the focus of next year, then meh :P What you should do- -1 World build, the universe feels lifeless and static -2 Incorporate advanced AI so that individuals can found their own empires, companies, and have their own wallets -3 Give the ability for a universe editor, so that someone can customise their own galaxy -4 Create a story for the kha'ak, they are seriously undeveloped, and feel like a nuisance placeholder. -5 Improve the graphics of the game, the graphics of the game as a whole is basically 2011ish x rebirth graphics, with the interior graphics of ships, stations, etc, being 2008. -6 If you won't do number two, then you should at least add some independent companies like OTAS, Plutarch, etc as potential adversaries to your corporate plans, rather than have a faction versus player.

[@Paul-nl3oy]

You all have done a great job working on and improving X4. Looking forward to seeing what else is planned.

[@lelibrepanzer4913]

Egosoft are my favorite devs by far , they are always try harding to improve and make the best game possible for us and we feels their passion when we play their games , thank you guys for keeping the game updated

[@storytsunami]

this End Game Crisis definitely sounds intriguing. If you're going the route of facing off against the other factions, I would definitely recommend giving all the non-Terran factions their own Battleship comparable to the Asgard. Otherwise it'll be a breeze for those of us that have the money and parts to spam out 50+ Terran Battleships no problem. Anyway, thank you guys for continuing work on this game. It's definitely one of my favorites!

[@TauShasla]

Boron endgame crisis. We took their bofu and now they will have their revenge

[@cdean2941]

The first person focus is one of the many charming things about this game, IMO.

[@CaptainShack]

I really enjoyed this little breakdown discussion of the work your doing on future version. The larger faction control sounds interesting. Looking forward to the future versions!

[@artfact2]

Very excited for the End Game Crisis! Thank you for keeping the support going for this giant gem of a game.

[@GidLuu]

thanks for your great work. I love these games and have spent many hours playing with x4 foundations. ❤

[@dworkin7110]

Fantastic game. One of my favourite games of all time. Unforgettable moments in emergent gameplay.

[@bakeryclerk7434]

EGOSOFT STUDIO ROCKS!!!

[@Pixx2266]

You guys awesome! Please! Pretty please take inspiration from the "More ship rooms" mod. It adds so much for so little to the immersion! Thanks for everything Egosoft!

[@darthvegan]

Thanks for making such a fantastic franchise!

[@pearlcanopus8441]

Nettes Infovideo. Gefällt mir. Ich bin nach dem Schauen von LetsPlays mit der 1.0 als Neuling des Franchises in X4 eingestiegen. LetsPlays und Tutorial haben mir über einige Hürden geholfen. Das Bugfest der 1.0 zum Vollpreis hatte mich seinerzeit extrem geärgert und ich ließ das Spiel ewig liegen. Zwei, drei Minor-Versionen später lief es gut und ich habe mich ins Abenteuer gestürzt. Exploration on it's best. In dieser Hinsicht kann es für mich nicht genug Sektoren geben. :) Ich kam seinerzeit bis hin zur Werft. Leider kaufte dann kaum noch irgendwer Schiffe, weil die Xenon in diesem Spielstand ohne mein Zutun fast ausgerottet waren. Die einhellige Meinung der Fanboys: Die KI der Xenon war herunter"gedummt" worden. Industrieschiffe werfen sich nicht in Kämpfe. Andererseits war allein die Tatsache, dass das Spiel mehr "casual" als seine Vorgänger sein sollte, eine Möglichkeit für mich als Neuling, in dieses komplexe Spieluniversum einzutauchen. Ich bin kein Kämpfer und fühle mich von Kämpfen massiv gestresst. Ich habe kein besonderes Interesse, selbst zu kämpfen. Drum stressen mich auch die notwendigen Kämpfe der einzelnen Story-Plots, die ich dann oft nicht weiter verfolge. Bei meinem ersten und letzten Versuch, den Paranidenplot zu spielen (auch dieser kampflastig), hatte ich einen Bug, dass ein bestimmtes Schiff, das ich treffen sollte nicht da war. Das kann durchaus daran liegen, dass es grade massive Xenon-Bewegung in jenem Sektor gab. Solche "game-breaking bugs" und "glitches" waren und sind leider frustrierend und demotivierend. Umso besser fand ich den Pionier-Plot (Segaris-Pioniere). Wenn es in dem Kampf gab, so habe ich den nicht als solchen empfunden. Das Torus-Rätsel war gemein und ich hab natürlich geschummelt bzw. auf die Erfahrung Dritter zurückgegriffen. Wofür ist das Internetz den sonst da. ;) Als Explorer habe ich natürlich die neuen Systeme der Split und Terraner gesuchtet. Out-of-Sector waren die Kämpfe von Version zu Version immer anders schlecht ausbalanciert. Mal so und mal so. Nur so nebenbei: Ich spiele nach dem Erkunden der friedlichen Systeme fast ausschließlich in der Kartenansicht. Dabei nutze ich Auto-Trade, um die Beziehungen zu den Rassen zu verbessern. Das dauert länger aber funktioniert auch in der 6.0 tadellos, so lange die Wirtschaft an sich funktioniert. Dabei lege ich die Station, auf der ich mich dabei aufhalte in irgendeinen, wirtschaftlich für mich irrelevanten Sektor, da es immer wieder Bugs gab, die In-Sector massive Probleme bis hin zur spontanen Flugunfähigkeit von 5*-Piloten verursachten. Auto-Mining, In-Sector-Kampf, Drohnenverhalten, etc. Mir fehlt nach dem Befrieden der einzelnen Rassen in den Plots im Endgame einfach eine funktionierende Wirtschaft neben dem Schiffbau und dem Kampf. Terraforming ist da ja mehr das Schauen auf herunter laufende Zeitangaben und den Reward braucht man bei einer entsprechenden Wirtschaftsleistung kaum noch. Das erinnert mich an langweilige Browsergames oder Tabellenspiele. Auf einen fetten Endkampf habe ich persönlich gleich gar keinen Bock (siehe oben). Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob die bisherigen Ideen für Endgame-Kontent die richtigen bzw. der Weisheit letzter Schluss sind. Eine bessere Idee habe ich aber leider auch nicht. Soweit kam ich nie. Durch manche Änderungen an Spielfunktionen kam es aber immer mal wieder dazu, dass ich neustarten musste, um alle neuen Feature nutzen zu können. Insbesondere wenn bei Start neue Rohstoffe oder ähnliches generiert oder eben neue Features eingeführt wurden. Das Spiel lag daher bei mir zuletzt über 2 Jahre auf der Festplatte und verstaubte. Nun mit 6.0 bin ich wieder eingestiegen und hab die Bedienung komplett neu lernen müssen. Dank der unübersichtlich verschachtelten Menüs wieder nur mit Hilfe des Internets. Ja, ich hätte auch dieses Mal das Tutorial spielen können. Da werden viele Tastenkürzel erklärt. Auch das Forschungsgameplay könnte noch etwas mehr Liebe vertragen. Ressourcen nötig? Fein, kein Ding. Passt für mich. Dass aber auch die komplexesten Forschungen relativ schnell erledigt ist und es z.B. keine mehrstufigen, aufeinander aufbauenden Forschungen über die drei Level der Mods oder Scanmöglichkeiten hinaus gibt, finde ich persönlich etwas lahm. Ich starte die Forschung, der Manager kauft den Kram ein und Boso macht sein/ihr Ding. Unterm Strich dauert es dadurch schon etwas länger. Aber es stellt keine echte Herausforderung dar. Dass man eingangs eine kleine Mission fliegt... Meh... Kampf... ist ok. Mit mehr Abwechslung dürfte es auch davon gern mehr geben. Es muss ja nicht jedes Mal ein Storyplot mit gesprochenen Texten sein. Zumal die Sprecher, ich sage es mal höflich, ins kleine Budget passten. ;) Teilweise wird Text gelangweilt und dem Kontext gegenüber falsch betont runtergekurbelt. Leute, dann lieber nur den Text einblenden. Besonders übel fiel mir das während des Schauens eines LPs bei einem Haupt-Char im Vigor-Plot auf. Ein wenig störend oder besser irritierend empfand ich auch immer, wenn Storysequenzen getriggert wurden, die gar nicht zur aktuell verfolgten Mission gehörten, nur weil man in der anderen Mission einen bestimmten Stand erreicht oder jene Mission einfach nur erhalten hatte aber nie bewusst zur Kenntnis nahm. Dies hat mich häufig verwirrt, weil ich den Zusammenhang mit irgendeiner beliebigen, anderen Mission in dem Moment nicht erkannte. Dass die UI ein gewaltiger Hindernis-Parcour ist, habt ihr selbst ja schon mitbekommen und sucht nicht umsonst Entwickler dafür. Es ist die hohe Kunst, die Komplexität eines Spiels nicht vollständig beim Spieler abzuladen. Makromanagement mit der Möglichkeit des Mikromanagements verknüpfen. Verlinkungen von Schiffen, Personal, etc. von überall, wo man es aufrufen kann nach überall, wo man damit etwas anstellt. Weniger verschachtelte Menüs, in denen man Funktionen ohne Internet- oder Videoanleitung wiederfindet, wenn man mal ein, zwei Jahre nicht oder es zuvor womöglich noch nie gespielt hat. Die Komplexität auch in der UI schrittweise erhöhen, damit der Spieler eine Lernkurve und die Belohnung durch Erfolg haben kann. Im kalten und tiefen Wasser Schwimmen zu lernen, ist keine Lösung für jedermann. Abwechslung in die Sektoren zu bringen und diese auch mal wirklich gefährlich zu machen ist super. Auch aus Sicht des Explorers ist bloßes Durchfliegen eines Sektors eher langweilig. Die KI muss mit solchen Änderungen aber auch Schritt halten. Rezensionen und Kritiken auf z.B. Steam haben mich trotz meiner Neugier auf die Sektoren abgehalten, die letzten beiden DLCs zu kaufen. Lasst euch aber von Rezensenten nicht abschrecken, die einen dunklen Sektor als Frechheit bezeichnen. Schließlich ist das die Normalität im Universum... Sowohl die Dunkelheit als leider auch die Trolle. :) Im Großen und Ganzen kann ich Bernd und Egosoft nur zustimmen: X4 ist trotz der erreichten Meilensteine und des gewaltigen, überwiegend positiven Spielerlebnisses noch weit davon entfernt, fertig zu sein. ;) Bleibt bitte dran. Trotz aller Haken und Ösen spiele ich dieses Spiel immer wieder gern und wenn, dann spiele ich auch länger. Meist kann ich mich dabei auch super entspannen. Dies auch nicht zuletzt Dank des grandiosen Soundtracks.

[@13deadghosts]

Thank you for the Infos :) And have a nice weekend everyon :)

[@danielgiebel4313]

Ich persönlich würde mir wünschen, dass die Interiors der Fraktionen angepasst werden. Abgesehen von den Split-Korridoren sind alle Räume austauschbar und werden von allen Fraktionen genutzt. Mit dem Update der Bauschiffe habt ihr mich echt positiv überrascht! Ansonsten würde ich mir wünschen, dass die grundlegenden Module der Stationen auch eine optische Variante für die Fraktionen bekommen. Ich würde vorschlagen, dass man nur das Grundmodul weiterhin kaufen/ finden/ stehlen muss und die optische Anpassung dann beim Bauen wie ein wählbarer Skin gemacht wird. Ansonsten bitte weiter so! Aus dem mageren Grundgame habt ihr echt ein vollwertiges X4 gemacht! :)

[@MrVi70]

EGOSOFT GRAZIE! I think this game is closer to an Eve Online than a 4X game like it can be: Sin of the solar empire.

[@Narthanael]

With 500 Hours in X4 and 400 Hours in X3 TC and like 200 in vanilla X3, I can say with certainty, that the X series is my favorite Game(series) ever. You have the Eve online experience without needing to be online, you have the Stellaris experience from the ships view and all the Citybuilding/Ressource Management Aspects of Games like Cliff Empire/Cities Skylines (Sim City lol). You can just walk around your ships and on Stations that you Design yourself!!!!!111 How Awesome is that!!. And it looks and Sounds like a 500 Million Dollar Movie! For the Endgame Crisis: I think it should be with one of the "Alien" Alien Races (Kha'ak/Xenon/Sohnen) I can already declare war on the Commonwealth Species if I want to some boost to their forces won't do anything to me, it would even hurt them because I'm pretty sure they buy the majority of their ships at my Shipyards and Wharfs. The whole Kha'ak M0 situation was something special and being blocked by the Sohnen from killing them off completely makes sense too. I know the Lore is sown sparsely for very good reasons, but there is still a lot you can do. The Kha'ak could have build an entire M0 Armada with their Jumpdrives, and the Xenon can realistically control large portions of the galaxy which is not connected by jumpgates. (And yes I know Xtended is a mod but their Sohnen ships where just dope in X3) The Sohnen are those silent 5D Chessmasters in the background you could easily write some Endgame Crisis around them (Player got to powerful and threatens their Race-cooperation experiment for example). It could literally be just another experiment of them to throw a hard challenge at you without it being some kind of pest control action (which you would logically not be able to win against anyways) I know it will be good regardless, for such a small German Game Studio you have always delivered. You are like the Noctua equivalent of Game Design (yes I know they are Austrian).

[@earlnuclear]

There's no stopping to the X4 train!

[@artean4700]

Great to hear there are plans for X4 extending years ahead! Currently, X4 is the best space game there is, all things considered. I do hope you will continue to improve on the graphics engine. AMD FSR 2.1 and/or Nvidia DLSS would be terrific. Even though fps often are limited by CPU, that is far from true in every scenario. And, in addition, X4 is in dire need of modern anti aliasing.

[@beastalan]

yeah. Even Basic TAA would be a huge step up from MSAA and FXAA

[@Desmolas]

I've never been left wanting from the graphics in X4. The art is fantastic and the engine does just fine. It looks pretty great. Would these features make a significant difference?

[@markhackett2302]

If you're "doing it right", you can't see the "poor graphics" because everything is "too far away", or there are so many things on screen, you can't stop to pixel hunt and find that the models are 2010s, not 2020s. The aim of this game is simulation, not graphical fidelity. Forza it is about graphical fidelity, not simulation. You don't get 200 cars on the screen and the crowd are not CPU controlled AI agents, because that game isn't for that, so the "spare capacity" from NOT doing that can be spent on graphical wow. AA being easier to do, for example, or working on space GPU cycles, not spare CPU cycles, DLSS/FSR2 helps IF it frees up CPU cycles for "better things".

[@beastalan]

@@Desmolas Yeah it would make picture much cleaner, get rid of aliasing on objects, and its much less demanding performance wise than MSAA.

[@repatomonor21]

Awww yeah, more stuff to do!

[@DrowChyld]

Thank you for making this for us.

[@onlytwogenders420]

Just bought this game, absolutely into it. Would love tons more single player fun.

[@anorax001]

Bernd and his team are incredible. Absolute pleasure to play the X games from one of my all time favourite developers.

[@nb-dm7gm]

I'm very happy for you, Egosoft!

[@DADoofFlo]

Sounds great. Also really love the communication of upcoming features. Not sure whether that was a thing before, I mightve missed it, but in any case I love getting those updates.

[@huibjuhh]

Thank u for your hard work on this game! keep on going

[@T0asty-]

I just bought this last month and wowie is it good. Ended up getting all the dlc. Keep up the awesome work! :)

[@DerFreiegedanke]

Thanks for the Update! I hope we will see big late game performance boosts in the future. Most X4 runs end in the system breaking down and nothing works well anymore.

[@KaptifLaDistillerie]

Never really played a X game before, I picked up X4 like 2 months ago and I already have over 150 hours. I look forward for two things mainly, more optimization and more immersion. I'm using a mod that brings back a marine armor suit that wasn't used anymore and it looks really great. One suggestion I have for more immersion would be some scripted cutscenes of marines boarding depending on how successful they are and that would appear on the communication screen. It would feel like something in the lines of Total War Shogun 2 agent actions, which was a great immersive feature.

[@Xadagain]

I really love the fellow countrymen from egosoft. I made sure to buy the game without a discount and I hope that egosoft has received a little more.

[@Avatarbee]

Exciting news. What I am really hoping for is some sort of AI solution because currently I feel like there is this uncomfortable gap in progression where the player is at the point where they need more ships as escort to complete more dangerous missions (like destroying Hives) but isn't yet at the point where they can easily replace lost ships so every casualty hurts a lot and the mission becomes unprofitable. Perhaps something like ships that are a part of the player's wing being able to utillize more complicated AI so that the universe does not suffer too much strain.

[@markhackett2302]

Almost all the problems are pathing ones. There are oddities. The "Defend" role goes too far away from the defended ship. I've abused that against Xenon to kite them away from the K they are protecting so I can rush back to take out another gun, then run off and kite the returning "fighters" again. Rinse, repeat, kill the K. If defend kept CLOSE to the ship, sure I'd run off, regenerate my shields and come back as fresh as before. But I wouldn't be able to cheese the fighters away if some/all were set to "Defend" and let me leave. Same with exploding capital ships. Any ship (possibly apart from Xenon/Kaahk) on hearing "Explosion imminent" turns and runs away to avoid the explosion. Sticking around shooting at other fighters saves shields/hull against those fighters, but when the capital blows up, the shield/hull goes anyway. Boosting away costs shield, but an exploding capital will strip those shields anyway. If you could get your wingmen to defend you AND STAY NEARBY, you are the lead, the main target, but you can't get swarmed, because if they try, they get swarmed harder, all YOU have to do is avoid fire. If they split up to take out every fighter, you are a better pilot, so are "free" once you killed your attacker, to team up and annihilate one team mate attacker, then both of you take out another attacker, and again, and again, and again. If your defender is 100km away, it can't stop you from being swarmed, and if it is outgunned, you can't help them. Now what they are doing may be 100% what is intended. In which case there needs another command/role to do "close support".

[@Avatarbee]

@@markhackett2302 I suspect that switching targets might be a expensive action which might be why ships tend to get hyperfocused on their targets so that they don't have to evaluate whether it's time to switch targets. I did not know that ships usually flee when there is about to be a explosion. In my experience they just blow up with the module/ship. One of my biggest gripes that I haven't mentioned yet is that ships seem to use the same AI no matter what size the ship is. So L ships and above will always try to boost and drain all their shields even though boosting does basically nothing. Makes their constantly regenerating shields super pointless.

[@markhackett2302]

​@@Avatarbee It'd be part of the decision tree, same as any pathing, in fact. It WOULD increase the time to traverse that tree to land on a decision, but so would having more orders, either you have to chop and change roles or roles mean "no orders" (because orders are made by roles) or have to have a bigger decision tree taking CPU cycles. I haven't written the game, so I completely know I don't know if the reason it isn't done is "well you can't do it with this design of the code". The ships don't flee. YOU do, when you pilot a ship that can flee, but the AI doesn't. IMO they should. Xenon don't care, they are an AI, not a living thing, and the Kaahk, though living, may like ants "sacrifice" warriors to save the colony. The role mostly defines what orders are issued. So Intercept means "Attack small fighters" irrespective of if it is a small or XL ship. Etc. What is different is you can't get a Behemoth main gun on a Nova. Nor can you fit a pulse laser to the main battery of an Oddy. So I'd count "different size ships" as no fundamental difference to "different loadouts". If Attack orders with Behemoth main guns does A and Attack with Pulse lasers does B, then it is the same as discerning on size. Except more flexible. A pulse fitted Nova is a very different ship to a plasma fitted Nova. A Nova attacking a fighter is very different from a Nova attacking a capital ship. InRe: L ship boost, yes, but I also don't think anyone other than the S class should EVER boost. L ships don't get much speed from it, but Ps (for example) get a lot of speed, but never manage to regen the lost shields by the time they got back into combat, unless I never bothered with attacking them, making boost irrelevant. So I'd say the default is Boost Off, but in combat "Boost" may be a pathing option, just never bothered with for L/XL class ships, almost never chosen for M class, and often chosen as a "Get Out of Dodge" option for the S class. Makes it redundant except "forbidding" means NOBODY can choose boosting, but it might be a requirement ALL the time, not just in the "Attack" order, and for Attacks, it should DEFAULT to off, it only "makes sense" for interceptors that want to make engagement happen at distance from more valuable assets, and that is a role thing, not an order thing. Again, IMO.

[@TormodSteinsholt]

One thing I would wish above all else is a "re-acquaint with controls" feature. X4 has stayed with me for very long and is a game that I revisit once in a while. But the biggest hurdle is to remember what each button on joystick and thrust controller actually do. And the first time I enter combat, I should be able to pause the game and just go over the buttons for targeting, power distribution, wingman orders and such. The feature would simply be a screen and when I press a button, a message would tell me all things that button does. So that I could immediately practice the muscle memory and try out the workflors and decide if I should change it.

[@Ricolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Good Stuff! Please add an FPS mechanic for when boarding ships so you can board with your marines etc. It would make it super immersive. If people don't want to do it just have the option to do it like normal.

[@jh5kl]

yes please

[@Xeoah]

Go play star field. Shooter mechanics would be silly in this game. The xenon and kha ak which are the 2 major enemies are not possible to board.

[@Ricolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

@@Xeoah Or just let us have nice things?

[@ffs635]

I know its been long since the release of this video, but i have to beg to you guys: add factions battleships. Love asgard, but being the only battleship other than Erlking, and locked behind the terran economy and standing, really limits the player. Been enjoying the Kingdom's End and the new physics (love game as a whole to tell the truth) Keep it up guys!

[@stephan4921]

I've been saying for years, having planets/colonies play a bigger role would be really awesome. I know landing on planets etc. will probably not happen and that's not what I mean. I'd love for planets/colonies to be implemented in a much more abstract way, where they basically function as massive resource sinks or maybe some moons to mine raw materials for processing. Planets having a fluctuating population and abstract wealth score, depending how the player and other factions can supply them, being able to develop or colonize planets and extract some wealth long term. Build different buildings, factories, farms, entertainment, etc. etc. Something a bit like stellaris, endless space, or whatever other game, I think bringing some more 4X to X4 would be great. The immersive first person space flight/combat experience is great, but I personally fell in love with the X games for it's empire building mechanics and there hasn't been enough development in that regard imo.

[@vertauris]

Best gaming company around. fine and honest work that pays out

[@crym77]

I'm one of those "advanced players" who will enjoy faction conflict! :D

[@texx8205]

I'm really greateful you continue with developing X4 game, fleshing it out more and more with each update and DLC rather than starting new game from a scratch. There are still many things that can be explored or improved within the universe (not only new areas or ship) and it would be a shame if you didn't try to tackle all those options and possibilities. Really look forward to what next years bring to X4. Keep up the good work!

[@scottjordan4474]

Don’t why I’ve never seen this game recommended to me. Since I bought the entire game and dlc I’ve been addicted to it. I played Star Trek online and elite dangerous. This game is a perfect balance the graphics look amazing. I just wish I could set the uniform for my crew. I can’t wait to see what the next year brings.

[@greydracoplays]

Im glad that there is more to come for X4. KE dlc was lacking any sort of mid-end game content (except terraforming) so Im exited for the news on more things to do later in game in 7.0. Looking forward for more X4 in the future. Getting more xenon ships (J(XL carrier) Q(L destroyer) LX(S heavy fighter) and may be L size miners) would be really nice for a change. And I would love to see xenon getting their missiles/torpedoes back for S/M anti capital ability.

[@kudeareimil9091]

Controlling the ship from external camera with no "inertia" effect while rotating the cam is the most important change to come for me! Being able to ALSO control the ship like in EVE Online would be a blessing and add sooooo much to overal flexibility of playstyles! Can't wait!!!

[@Yolo_Swagins]

I, verry much addicted to this game, i regret nothing :D

[@jh5kl]

😂

[@Graylegs]

Love the game! Boron ships are beautiful btw!

[@llN3M3515ll]

I haven't played for a while, but I really love the end game challenges as a feature addition. I got to the end game, and it got just way to boring. I was looking forward to it the whole game, owning sectors, and multiple ship yards etc. Finally get there and it's like now I am overpowered, and there are no challenges, nothing to work toward, and that is when I put the game down. Would be cool to have a set of challenges which put you on the backfoot in the endgame. Maybe addition of dynamic events in the end game based off of player power. Or even through out the game, kind of how stellaris does it, large scale random dynamic events that disrupt the game flow.

[@LecherousLizard]

- Faction-specific interior designs (it's quite hilarious to land on Boron station, get into the "stock" elevator, go through two sets of doors, one "stock" another Boron, into a Boron corridor, only to go through another two sets of doors, in the opposite order and into a "stock" manager's office) - CHAIRS for L/XL ships. I can't believe anybody would have their capital ship designed without as much as a place for the captain to sit on potentially days-long journeys. - NPC variety, especially in the hairstyle department (it's quite exasperating seeing half of the galaxy's population sporting a comically large afro)

[@avern40000]

X4 motivated me to buy $1000 value virpil controls. Not ED or SC games. I thought 6.0 would be the last update. This news about 7.0 made me happy.

[@jpinard]

Love you guys!

[@tomrobinson2450]

Great to have an update om what you are working on. Late game opt in crisis sounds like it has excellent potential so keep up the good work. Maybe as part of the next DLC we could see a rework of some of the original 3 factions ships. You have done such a great job with the last two DLCs the Argon, Paranoid and Teladi ships now feel out of place!

[@ben8929]

The Paranid ships already got remade and they look really good now

[@tomrobinson2450]

@@ben8929 did all of them get redone or only the capitals?

[@marcfisher9579]

I'm SOOO happy for you guys!!! ❤ You deserve all the support you can get. You are living the secret dream of every developer - making a game the way YOU want and not worrying about ever becoming mainstream AAA hit and make billions of $$$ in microtransactions. I have HUGE amount of admiration for you and hope to one day also live the dream ☁

[@trlavalley9909]

If this trailer is anything to go on looks like they are finally updating the character art and I am so pumped to see that in game.

[@Sheppardsg1]

tnx you again for cdkey egosoft :) ur the best

[@minntal8536]

Late game I spend 99% of my time in map view managing my empire. Would be SUPER NICE if notifications popped up and are accessible while in map view. Getting a notification while in map view and hoping back into first person real quick or navigating over to the extensive logs and trying to figure out what happpened is a pain in the butt.

[@ThaWolfX]

YES YES YES, thats all i wanted to say, btw Im opting in!