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

[Matthew94]

Anyone hear anything?

[Alan Phipps]

Well, there's this.

[Imperial Good]

It is currently not known what is install for X4 in the future other than it is big (the lengthily delay) and will have a ton of bug fixes (dozens of reports are marked as fixed for the next major version).

[Eyeklops]

It is currently not known what is install for X4 in the future other than it is big (the lengthily delay) and will have a ton of bug fixes (dozens of reports are marked as fixed for the next major version).

Browsing the tech support and beta forums I've seen numerous "fixed in a future build" messages from the devs. Some of those messages are over 3 months old and I'm like.....*waiting* lol.

I'm sure they have good reasons for the long periods of time in-between patches but I'd not complain if they hotfixed some of the AI...hmmm...looking for the right word here....*quirks*...yes...quirks more often.

[Alan Phipps]

Just a feeling of mine and not based on knowledge, but I suspect that they want any fixes/improvements/rethinks to work effectively not only with the current release version but also with whatever they might be working on now. It's usually more difficult to develop something new if the baseline keeps changing.

[A5PECT]

Towards the end of last year, Egosoft qualified for a government grant, where they listed a planned project titled "X-22".

My personal guess/hope is that it's a standalone expansion for X4 Foundations, as X3 Terran Conflict and X3 Albion Prelude were to X3 Reunion. It might explain the gap in updates to Foundations, and the devs holding back completed changes and fixes during that time.

[Pejot]

My hope is they want to work out fixes and expansions to all factions at the same time instead of changing one by one. Like new paranid ships or station interiors. That's why it could take more time cause it might be released as single big update instead of going faction by faction.

[csaba]

Captain Collins seems to suggest that something big is coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pag7jeUIZ0

[Raevyan]

I really hope it’s not the venture thingy…

[Felicitus Bigbeaver]

Dear Egosoft,
I've now played 3034 point 9 hours on X4 (steam). I obviously now need to pay you some more money. Whens the next expansion appearing?

[Jeraal]

I really hope it’s not the venture thingy…

+1 to that

[chew-ie]

I really hope it’s not the venture thingy…

+1

[adeine]

Towards the end of last year, Egosoft qualified for a government grant, where they listed a planned project titled "X-22".

My personal guess/hope is that it's a standalone expansion for X4 Foundations, as X3 Terran Conflict and X3 Albion Prelude were to X3 Reunion. It might explain the gap in updates to Foundations, and the devs holding back completed changes and fixes during that time.

Clearly, '22' is a secret hint at the second letter of the alphabet (they just want you to think it refers to the year), doubled up to indicate plural. Boron update confirmed

[XoSPECTRE]

More battleships and boron and more random big events like incursion pleasee

[Marco Nero]

More battleships and boron and more random big events like incursion pleasee

+1

The game really need this, the venture is a mini multiplayer thing in which i do not have interest.

[Teladi CEO]

Based on what’s in the game files I would assume ships sectors and factions.
In the files they are a few split ships including a gunship and battleship and for the xenon a carrier. I would guess they would give battleships to the other factions but they did not give the Paranid one in their make over so I don’t know.

[XoSPECTRE]

Based on what’s in the game files I would assume ships sectors and factions.
In the files they are a few split ships including a gunship and battleship and for the xenon a carrier. I would guess they would give battleships to the other factions but they did not give the Paranid one in their make over so I don’t know.

Sounds like my X4 dream but dont belive it ... what gaming company in those days give players what they want ?

But xenon carrier would be awesome..

And about split Battleship there is some old files whith python bs allready viewtopic.php?t=423735

[mr.WHO]

I hope ventures croak and die - it's really a dead end feature.

In the files they are a few split ships including a gunship and battleship and for the xenon a carrier. I would guess they would give battleships to the other factions but they did not give the Paranid one in their make over so I don’t know.

Sorry to break your dream, but Egosoft confirmed it long ago that both Gunship and Battleship are just scrapped models that won't be ever finished.

As for unused entires in the game file - we had a lot of those ever since X2 and none of those ever got finished - they are simply junk/concepts/leftovers.

[Rei Ayanami]

More battleships and boron and more random big events like incursion pleasee

Borons? Yes.
Incursions? Yes!
More Battleships? Well, I think Egosoft needs to be careful in that matter. The more battleships get introduced, the less special they feel. Also, the more battleships are around, the less relevant are destroyers. Before adding new ships to existing factions I'd rather have them completely rebalance most of the current ships first, because there are many which are just not worth using, which too weak for their intended jobs, as well as some stats being totally underutilized when they could be used as a means to make ships more different (such as radar range or missile capacity).

[Teladi CEO]

I hope ventures croak and die - it's really a dead end feature.

In the files they are a few split ships including a gunship and battleship and for the xenon a carrier. I would guess they would give battleships to the other factions but they did not give the Paranid one in their make over so I don’t know.

Sorry to break your dream, but Egosoft confirmed it long ago that both Gunship and Battleship are just scrapped models that won't be ever finished.

As for unused entires in the game file - we had a lot of those ever since X2 and none of those ever got finished - they are simply junk/concepts/leftovers.

Dang it then! I was hoping.