Celebrating 5 incredible years of X4: Foundations

[Rinne]

It's been a great 5 years and I'm really looking forward to 7.0!
The video looks nice and I'm curious what the endgame crisis will be.

The first part of the video aboard the Astrid looks like it's in VR.
Am I hallucinating? Why is nobody else commenting on that?

Lino mentioned on Reddit that it's just image stabilization in post, because the source footage was a bit janky.

[mr.WHO]

The real question is - will we make it till 10.0 ?

[Hicky]

Twenty years since X2, Five for X4. God I feel old.

[chew-ie]

Twenty years since X2, Five for X4. God I feel old.

Start a new game and talk to a boron - you'll feel better in minutes

[mr.WHO]

Twenty years since X2, Five for X4. God I feel old.

I've been with the series since X-BTF

[alt3rn1ty]

Love that more work has been done on the ships, overhauls on those take a long time, but the game needed those to get a good standard of aesthetic (or thematic) detail across the different races.

But the main thing that caught my eye was the word "expansions", plural. And thats in addition to 7.00 update/s.

I'm happy with the outlook .

BRING ON THE BETA!

[Falcrack]

X: Beyond the Frontier was released in 1999.

X-Tension was released in 2000.

X2: The Threat was released in 2002.

X3: Reunion was released in 2005.

X3: Terran Conflict was released in 2008.

X3: Albion Prelude was released in 2011.

X Rebirth was released in 2013.

X Rebirth: Teladi Outpost was released in 2014.

X Rebirth: Home of Light DLC was released in 2016.

X Rebirth: VR Edition was released in 2017.

X4: Foundations was released in 2018.

X4: Split Vendetta was released in 2020.

X3: Farnham's Legacy was released in 2021.

X4: Cradle of Humanity was released in 2021.

X4: Tides if Avarice was released in 2022.

X4: Kingdom End was released in 2023.

X4: Mystery DLC will release in 2024?

I think it won't be too long in the grand scheme of things before we start hearing about an X5 game. Assuming the world hasn't blown up before then.

[alt3rn1ty]

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I think it won't be too long in the grand scheme of things before we start hearing about an X5 game.

Well we already know they have an X5 folder on dev hard drives
I'm still going to need an updated machine to cope with X4 to be honest, and then X5 will push the boundaries of system specs once more .. sigh!. I am a slave to Egosoft .

[Hicky]

Twenty years since X2, Five for X4. God I feel old.

I've been with the series since X-BTF

Yep been here since the beginning. Makes me feel even older now just thinking about it.

[S!rAssassin]

Since all base factions receives E-capitals with same specs, factions also should receive new unique capitals.

[BlackRain]

Can't wait for the new stuff! And damn, it has been so long, ugh.

[mr.WHO]

Here is a question about Existential Crisis - we know there will be differen crisises, but will we be limited to:
- one at time
- one per gameplay

I have bad aftertaste from Stellaris, where you can have only one crisis per gameplay.


IMO for X4, I'd like to be able to trigger multiple crisis per gameplay, even at the same time if possible.

[xant]

I have bad aftertaste from Stellaris, where you can have only one crisis per gameplay.

Actually, now you can check a box to allow for all three to happen in one game, and via slider you can scale its power up to x25.

[mr.WHO]

Actually, now you can check a box to allow for all three to happen in one game, and via slider you can scale its power up to x25.

Oh, nice - I want something like this in X4

[Caldari Navy]

Im afraid its x4, if its combat crysis player just send 1 asgard or one erlking and end crysis in few minutes and if economy crysis its just gonna be one big frustration .

[chew-ie]

Im afraid its x4, if its combat crysis player just send 1 asgard or one erlking and end crysis in few minutes and if economy crysis its just gonna be one big frustration .

I sincerely hope said "combat crisis" will eat Asgards for breakfast. Everything else would just be your normal excursion to a Xenon core sector. (which can only be done a couple of times per playthrough, afterwards the Xenon become extinct)

"Combat crisis": Something like multiple Trantor incursions at once per faction and some floodgates opening up in multiple corners of the galaxy as part of an invasion (either Xenon or Kha'ak OR better: BOTH). Kha'ak and Xenon should also send in the big guns this time (Xenon J, Xenon Battleship; Kha'ak capital ships including a battleship)

[S!rAssassin]

Kha'ak capital ships including a battleship

Oh, I've miss REAL Khaak threat so much...

[mr.WHO]

I miss the variety of Xenon ships from X3

J, Q, PX, LX

I hate fighting the same ships since X-Rebirth

[Caldari Navy]

Im afraid EGOSOFT dont know how to make combat challenge for player i mean it whith full respect , i love what they doing just not sure about battleships in x4 few pathetic dps destroyers ... hmm syn and rattlesnake will not save everythink.

I meam ... s and m combat is perfect, even player vs ai npc
Never cant get enough how xenons haunting me down in faulty logic how they constatly intercepting you like dog sheep. Its cool

But l and xl combat .... its just doesnt work

[ZeroAffex]

Love the Egosoft crew and am so happy to be a part of this awesome community. Looking forward to many more years of X games, hopefully lots more X4 and beyond! Happy holidays gentle devs!