Celebrating 5 incredible years of X4: Foundations

[Gregory]

Time flies when you're navigating the vast expanse of the universe! It's hard to believe, but today marks the 5th Anniversary of X4: Foundations. From distant galaxies to intricate space stations, every moment of this journey has been an incredible experience, made even more special by your unwavering support and enthusiasm.

As we celebrate this milestone, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all our players and fans. Your passion, feedback, and community spirit have been the guiding stars of this adventure, fuelling our commitment to creating a truly immersive and dynamic space simulation.

To commemorate this special day, Egosoft's founder, Bernd Lehahn, has prepared an XLOG episode for you on our YouTube channel. Join him as he reminisces about the game's exciting journey and gives a sneak peek into what the future holds.

Thank you for being a vital part of our X4 community. Here's to many more years of exploring the stars together!

Happy Anniversary,
- Team Egosoft

[chew-ie]

Congratulations [to us all]! =)

edit Woah.. dat Behemoth!

[Tamina]

Congratulations Egosoft.

This company and its games are truly unique and outstanding on the market. I am very thankful for your work and dedication to be who you are.

Thank you Egosoft, thank you to each and every person.

[Caldari Navy]

Super exited about 5th year of x4 really congrats EGOSOFT

Btw behemoth E wt* you just killed me looks absolutely FANTASTIC im getting next level game vibes really even pelican e is cool but that behemoth just freking cool actually looks like battleship

THANK YOU EGOSOFT

Small wishes... more battleships

[Karvat]

Bernd mentioned an "unusual" DLC coming in next year and an hopefully an announcement soon.

PLEASE, let that be a game mode with procedurally generated universe (map), factions, and diplomacy to bring this game to the next level of an absolute sandbox masterpiece.

Seeing this company growing in the past 18 years has been amazing, much love and congrats for these 5 and 20 years milestones!

[iniochos]

Don't tell me that I am already 20 years older.



All the best to the Egosoft team and all of us.

[EGO_Aut]

Any celebration gifts heavy fighter mk4 would be nice.

Merry next 5 incredible years

[Axeface]

Congratulations Egosoft, you deserve the success.
And it will really round out the game visually to have the argon and teladi ships updated and I'm glad to see the teladi are keeping the mushroom vibe rather than a full redesign.
One thing though, are you sure about the E naming scheme? Tbh I didnt like it with the Paranid and if you do the same with argon and teladi much of the games ships will have this E too. Wouldnt it be better to give the old ships a suffix rather than the new ones?

[Tempest]

Congratulations Team! and thank you Bernd for that little sneak peak.

i consider myself to be a very late endgame-phase player, and thus haven't really touched X4 in a decent while, but "the next big thing" seems to be always on the horizon for X4, and i will not hesitate to jump back into the saddle again to sink ungodly amounts of time in this game .

[Crimsonraziel]

Congratulations Egosoft, you deserve the success.
And it will really round out the game visually to have the argon and teladi ships updated and I'm glad to see the teladi are keeping the mushroom vibe rather than a full redesign.
One thing though, are you sure about the E naming scheme? Tbh I didnt like it with the Paranid and if you do the same with argon and teladi much of the games ships will have this E too. Wouldnt it be better to give the old ships a suffix rather than the new ones?

They all have one. Vanguard, Sentinel and E

[Dj_FRedy]

All the best for Egosoft as a company and Congratulations X4.

[Alan Phipps]

I've put nearly 4,000 hours of vanilla gameplay into X4 and that's a phenomenal payback in terms of fun gameplay and immersion for one game. Nothing else has come close though X2, X3R, X3TC/AP and XR were all prior contenders in their turn (not so much FL sorry - wrong timing for me). I'm happy to continue to support Egosoft's ongoing development with volunteer duties to the extent that I can. Well done to the team!

[chew-ie]

Wouldnt it be better to give the old ships a suffix rather than the new ones?

From a technical pov, not really. Adding new stuff: cool. Changing old stuff which is just left in to not break anything: not cool.

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Also: hooray for the HUD extension (gravidar on the left)

[mr.WHO]

Ohhh, it's already great update.

3rd person HUD
Argon and Teladi ship update


I hope they will also update Argon and Teladi Large turret model, like they did with Paranid one.


oh and Egosoft is one of very few game developers I'm happy to throw my money at yearly DLC

[Falcrack]

Ohhh, it's already great update.

3rd person HUD
Argon and Teladi ship update


I hope they will also update Argon and Teladi Large turret model, like they did with Paranid one.


oh and Egosoft is one of very few game developers I'm happy to throw my money at yearly DLC

15 bucks for a new DLC every year is peanuts.

[Teladi CEO]

Looks brilliant! Both the new behemoth and pelican are gorgeous !

[Crimsonraziel]

I hope besides new models for existing ships there are some new old ships like Megalodon and Pteranodon. (They need them for the endgame crisis!) And maybe Terraformer CPU ships, pretty please!

[Salaco]

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?

[Ormac]

Well done everyone.

I was most excited just watching the change log and announcements scroll through the top right monitor.

Oh and the Pelican E looks good.

[Tamina]

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?

The head-camera is moving independently from the cursor. I am not into that stuff but couldn't that be just eye tracking software? I think support for that was added quite a while ago.