X4: Foundations 9.00 Empire Update is Out Now!

[EclipseBomberFTW]

This update is AWESOME! My favorite game for years has been Elite Dangerous. They just had a big new feature release and I haven't even downloaded it because I've been glued to 9.0.

Please tell me that the XENON CRISIS is something I can continue to trigger because it's the most fun I've ever had in X4. I just lost my oldest ships that I've had for years to a mess of rabib ravengers. I was standing on the bridge of the lead ship when I exploded all around and dear friend, Cpt Whatshisface, went down with his ship. I flated in space and watched the battle rage on. I wasn't even mad or thought for a second to hit the quickload button. It was such an awesome experience that I just roll played it out.

The ending of this battle was perfect. I was just starting to wonder how I was going to get out of my situation without cheesing it when I heard a familiar voice over the comms, politely telling me to follow boarding procedure. I spun around and my screen was filled with the bright white hull of RESCUE 3. After the battle commenced I had ordered my rescue ships to rescue all in range. They came and picked me up and once we picked up the rest of the survivors they took me straight to our headquarters, the mighty Gargantua 3. It was the greatest experience I've ever had in a game.

[Mr.Killer]

I have a question, been a long time away, and started the game, got updated to 9.00 and I got the question about the new map option, but I want to turn it off, I do not know where, can anybody tell me where to turn that new map option off?
Thanks in advance...
I need to get used to the different colors and the behemoth firing irradically two bolts in different angles? Weird update...

[Alan Phipps]

@ Mr.Killer: Please describe the new 9.00 map option you mean as there are a few.

Usually capital main armaments (if all the same and unmodified) firing at different angles means that the ship fired at the earliest possible opportunity when only one (or some) frontal weapon(s) could see and align with the target. That usually happens with close crossing targets or from a turning capital.

[Mr.Killer]

Oh my, the first time I was asked for a new map option, and I was distracted and read half seeing that I could turn it off if I wanted, I know, stupid, but it has to do with sending ships in mapview, now when I click on a ship, a line is tethered to my mouse pointer, does that make sense?

[Mr.Killer]

I made a screenshot, it confuses me deerly....


https://ibb.co/QvTzpT44


I uninstalled the game, I had enough for two hours struggling... This is what updates can do to you.

[lotaris3412]

I'm really looking forward to not needing to use the X.org session in Linux any more. X4 has been the blocker game keeping me from using Wayland. There are other problems, but X4 is the only game blocking Wayland that I regularly play.

Eh I purposely uninstalled Wayland for X11. Wayland has way too many issues to keep it installed. I'll test it every once in awhile, but their idea of development is unintelligible.

I have not used Linux for games yet. Work has RHEL-like distro. RHEL itself includes only Gnome DE.
For some major versions RHEL had both Xorg and Wayland; user could choose either for next Gnome session.
I have disabled Wayland support, so can start only Xorg-based session -- brief tests of Wayland were always foul.

In latest, RHEL 10, there is only Wayland. There are commercial graphical applications that support RHEL 10,
but they instruct to set environment variable that forces the application to act as X11 client, i.e. to use XWayland.
I have not used DE on RHEL 10 yet, not even installed one, so cannot comment on how fragile that is.

For the last year I've been using a Fedora re-spin (bazzite-nvidia-open) for all my gaming. Much of that is through proton, but there are a handful of native Linux games that work fine (and one that doesn't [Project: Gorgan]). X4 runs fine for me using Xwayland. I've been using X11 since the Project Athena days almost 40 years ago and Wayland was indeed a mess not too many years back, but they seem to have made a lot of progress. I don't have a need to have enterprise apps display on my gaming box, so I've not missed the lack of native X11. I'd say give it a try and see how it performs for you.

[vvvvvvvv]

I made a screenshot, it confuses me deerly....


https://ibb.co/QvTzpT44


I uninstalled the game, I had enough for two hours struggling... This is what updates can do to you.

Disable "mining" mode on the map.

[Uwe Poppel]

I made a screenshot, it confuses me deerly....


https://ibb.co/QvTzpT44


I uninstalled the game, I had enough for two hours struggling... This is what updates can do to you.

To turn off all the (confusing ) lines, go to the filter menu on the right side of the screen (funnel icon) and turn off all the lines there.

The issue about the map color for Mining has already been addressed (Trade was already turned off, do the same with Mining).