Introducing X TECH 5 and kicking off 6.00 Public Beta

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[Axeface]

That, I was not expecting! Gotta go look at them and break down any future design language changes for the Argon and Teladi.

Edit: The Albatross!! Holy moly.... Now i'm super excited for any possible Teladi rework.
Its also very interesting (and thank god) that these are not 'Shipname E' or something, and just straight replacements. Wonder if a new and better way to implement changes was found rather than adding a new one and phasing out the old? (still wish the new paranid ships wernt 'E's).

[Teladi CEO]

Wow this is super exciting! The new Teladi design looks awesome so I am eagerly waiting to see it in game! Obviously this is just a Teladi scheme to take more of my hard earned credits to buy their construction ships.

[Nulric]

These are really good looking new assets. Makes me wish they were more consequential ships, like destroyers/carriers etc, but that in no way takes away from their value here. Glad to see the construction ships get unique designs and specs, and again, they look awesome!

[Thomas2052]

These are fantastic.

Trying to justify having one in the fleet now!

[Raptor34]

These are really good looking new assets. Makes me wish they were more consequential ships, like destroyers/carriers etc, but that in no way takes away from their value here. Glad to see the construction ships get unique designs and specs, and again, they look awesome!

I second that. I love the new designs and they look good. I hate that of all things it's builders, even freighters give me more bang for the buck, so to speak.
But I like that part about unique stats though, perhaps just like in X3, these "builder ships" might be able to do something more. Though I guess stat changes does not mean more turrets...
Well whatever, if I want to sit in a builder and have it auto trade, I could still do that.

Otoh the first look at a Boron big ship worries me, the design style is not exactly to my taste. The builder is whatever since I'll barely see it, but combined with what we've seen of their other capitals, it does worry me. I just hope the Guppy suits my tastes, it'll be a real Monkey's Paw to always want a L carrier and get something I hate the look of...

[Axeface]

These are really good looking new assets. Makes me wish they were more consequential ships, like destroyers/carriers etc, but that in no way takes away from their value here. Glad to see the construction ships get unique designs and specs, and again, they look awesome!

I second that. I love the new designs and they look good. I hate that of all things it's builders, even freighters give me more bang for the buck, so to speak.
But I like that part about unique stats though, perhaps just like in X3, these "builder ships" might be able to do something more. Though I guess stat changes does not mean more turrets...
Well whatever, if I want to sit in a builder and have it auto trade, I could still do that.

Otoh the first look at a Boron big ship worries me, the design style is not exactly to my taste. The builder is whatever since I'll barely see it, but combined with what we've seen of their other capitals, it does worry me. I just hope the Guppy suits my tastes, it'll be a real Monkey's Paw to always want a L carrier and get something I hate the look of...

Why do you think there is an L carrier? You got that confirmed?

[mr.WHO]

Why do you think there is an L carrier? You got that confirmed?

This might be a long shot, but in X3 I loved to use Elephant as makeshift carrier as it had more internal storage than others.
X4 Raptor has more internal storage as well, so I hope they keep such logic for split.

[Raptor34]

These are really good looking new assets. Makes me wish they were more consequential ships, like destroyers/carriers etc, but that in no way takes away from their value here. Glad to see the construction ships get unique designs and specs, and again, they look awesome!

I second that. I love the new designs and they look good. I hate that of all things it's builders, even freighters give me more bang for the buck, so to speak.
But I like that part about unique stats though, perhaps just like in X3, these "builder ships" might be able to do something more. Though I guess stat changes does not mean more turrets...
Well whatever, if I want to sit in a builder and have it auto trade, I could still do that.

Otoh the first look at a Boron big ship worries me, the design style is not exactly to my taste. The builder is whatever since I'll barely see it, but combined with what we've seen of their other capitals, it does worry me. I just hope the Guppy suits my tastes, it'll be a real Monkey's Paw to always want a L carrier and get something I hate the look of...

Why do you think there is an L carrier? You got that confirmed?

Someone did a datamine on Reddit and supposedly there is a L Guppy that's a Light Carrier.

Why do you think there is an L carrier? You got that confirmed?

This might be a long shot, but in X3 I loved to use Elephant as makeshift carrier as it had more internal storage than others.
X4 Raptor has more internal storage as well, so I hope they keep such logic for split.

Current Elephant is still an XL though, but it also depends on whether they rebalance it to reflect their new paradigm of carrier storage. Personally I expect them to nerf builder ship ship storage to the landing pads x2 the new ships use. Maybe a little more but nowhere near the original where it was 40 across everything.

[mr.WHO]

Someone already recorded beta video of new CVs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCfZxVuxxl8

[adeine]

New builder ships are here - 6.00 Public Beta 5 now available!

We have a big surprise for you in our next beta update. Up to now in X4, all factions have used the same builder ship model, but this all changes today in the new public beta. Of course this means that the new ships will also be in the release version, as soon as the 6.00 public beta process has finished.

In the 6.00 update for X4, the existing builder ship model for the Paranid and Teladi will be replaced by the following new models:

Fantastic (unexpected) news, the new models look great

[mr.WHO]

The also seems to be animated/deployed - looks at the Kyoto on screenshot and at the video I posted.

[Tempest]

Ok, now you are just showing off Egosoft !

Hurray for the station-construction changes previously. (and now also we get to look gorgeous while doing our construction work)

[mr.WHO]

Now, if we would finally have Medium turret weapon stats to be reballanced according to race instead of copy/paste.

Then 6.0 would be absolute perfection.

[surferx]

New builder ships are here - 6.00 Public Beta 5 now available!

We have a big surprise for you in our next beta update. Up to now in X4, all factions have used the same builder ship model, but this all changes today in the new public beta. Of course this means that the new ships will also be in the release version, as soon as the 6.00 public beta process has finished.

In the 6.00 update for X4, the existing builder ship model for the Paranid and Teladi will be replaced by the following new models:

This is exciting news.
They are beautiful, thanks so much for the design work by the team. It always seemed strange that all the factions' builders were identical other than the specs for the individual models.
The Boron builder Orca got replaced. I heard Boso Ta just now, "I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo goo a'joob"

[Tamina]

These are really good looking new assets. Makes me wish they were more consequential ships, like destroyers/carriers etc, but that in no way takes away from their value here. Glad to see the construction ships get unique designs and specs, and again, they look awesome!

I "third" that. They look so tasty that I kind of wish they wouldn't be builders but this is meant as a pure compliment. Egosoft should be praised much more for what they are doing. They truly deserve all the hearts of the gaming community, but life is unfair I guess.

[mr.WHO]

I think we are missing one CV - Gannascus from Tides of Avarice - that makes ToA stands off as sub-par even more.

[MegaJohnny]

Gorgeous! Artists have knocked it out of the park yet again.

[Dj_FRedy]

Those new models look very cool, more things to tinker with.

[Panos]

Any indication if we going to see SSE4.1 back?

I know AM3 users with Phenom II have issues however, their CPU is well outside the minimum requirements either way which is the Intel 4000 series. Phenom II came out in 2008, the minimum requirement for Intel is from 2014 which includes SSE4.1 and 4.2. They could upgrade to a Heavy Machinery (Buldozer, Piledrive etc) for peanuts which supports SSE4.1

Don't punish everyone else with lower performance, having CPU newer than from 15 years ago.