Months since the last update; anyone know what's next in the pipeline?

[mr.WHO]

no copy/paste stats across the board

This is the way

Moreover, in addition to getting rid of copy/paste stats, it would be good if Egosoft rethink/remade the whole ship stats as well, adding the heat dissipation and power generator back to ship hull, instead of into the weapon.
I mean I was happy to hear Terran ships suppose to have superior heat management, yet it's only a lore backstory that has complete total zero revelance to actual stats (which, yet again are mostly copy/paste from the non-Terran races/ships/equipment).


Some new/changed things in X4 are simply a dead end, so Egosoft should thing what was better in X3 and bring it back to X4 SA / X-22.



Ohh and one more if important thing:
- the crew training and management GUI still needs more work to not be a chore hell jump through flaming hoops (aka HQ, research, terraforming - by the time you can train crew in HQ, you simply doesn't care anymore).

[adeine]

- adds missing terraforming for other races (e.g. Paranid, Split, Terran) with emphasis on galaxy changing rewards (e.g. liek the one that decrese amount of pirates, or boost Antigone)

What the game needs is hostile Xenon terraforming. Add some stakes to Xenon conquering and holding territory for longer periods of time.

This, alongside making the workforce system more relevant by making it so all workforce originates from habitable planets/systems and has to be ferried to stations by physical (AI controlled) shuttles and requiring workforce for the production of nonbasic wares would make the game so much more immersive and strategically engaging. Supply or terraform a planet well and stations will thrive, blockade it or starve it out and it will have dramatic consequences for the stations it supplies. Build in the proximity of a big habitable planet with readily available workforce? Better be ready to pay high prices for plots and face stiff competition for your wares. Build in a far-off uninhabitable sector with great market opportunities? Better make sure you can protect the TP shuttles coming your way or you will be unable to make any use of your stations. Logistics wise, corridors of space would suddenly be relevant.

It's such a huge missed opportunity, and I wish they'd make better use of the game systems that are there but don't really synergise at the moment.

[solarie99]

How much longer do we need to wait for a tidbit news of new dlc ? please give us a little to start rambeling on about.

[mr.WHO]

How much longer do we need to wait for a tidbit news of new dlc ? please give us a little to start rambeling on about.

No new DLC, there will be new stand alone game based on X4 - Egosoft said they will give more info by the end of this year.

[Alan Phipps]

"No new DLC, there will be new stand alone game based on X4" Hmmm, have the devs actually said either of those snippets anywhere?

I see some devs joking, but no comment or confirmation from them, in this player speculation thread here.

[Karvat]

"No new DLC, there will be new stand alone game based on X4" Hmmm, have the devs actually said either of those snippets anywhere?

I see some devs joking, but no comment or confirmation from them, in this player speculation thread here.

Is there any place where we can discreetly purchase reliable rumors about the upcoming?

[Alan Phipps]

Yes, most probably in a quality pizza shop in Würselen

[XoSPECTRE]

I hope Egosoft not wasting time ln some side game and will relase full dlc whith more battleships and more agresive xenons or some new incursion faction

[mr.WHO]

I see some devs joking, but no comment or confirmation from them, in this player speculation thread here.

Those public german goverment grants to Egosoft were accurate with information of all 3 X4 DLC.

The X-22 grant state, it will be a stand alone game in X-universe and gameplay description suggest it should be similar to existing games (e.g. no Soccer game inside X-universe ).

[Caedes91]

Sounds more like they have not yet decided on what to actually do in the first place. Whether to update, DLC, new game or abandonment. Either way, not a good look...

[Rei Ayanami]

Sounds more like they have not yet decided on what to actually do in the first place. Whether to update, DLC, new game or abandonment.

How did you come to that conclusion? They have not announced anything specific, just that there will be news at around the end of the year.
That does not mean abandonment, that does not mean they haven't decided what to do at all, it just means that they are planning to announce something but don't want to tell us yet.

[A5PECT]

Sounds more like they have not yet decided on what to actually do in the first place. Whether to update, DLC, new game or abandonment. Either way, not a good look...

Right, because game development lead times aren't inherently massive, and a small studio making a staggeringly complex game for the company's size can totally spare the resources to run bloated marketing and social media departments that farm engagment 24/7.

[Smart_Bomb]

The community is pouring with ideas...