In-game event28 Apr 2025New update: XO 1.49e “Bloodless Victory”We're happy to present you a new update to XO! Features: New achievement, Peaceful Victory New Starting Fleet, Rogue (unlocked with Peaceful Victory achievement) New achievement, Nurse the Tanks New achievement, Roll the Hard Six QoL: Selling plans in trade now has a confirmation dialog Setting a ship to Hold Fire now has a very obvious red X visual effect; I may change the effect later, but it…
This is purely a bug fix update - Attempt to fix a bug with certain Radeon cards not displaying some text in buttons *If you have a Radeon card and have experienced this issue please let us know how this goes - Fix boarding in tutorial - Fix some cases where Taker fails to seize - Improve speed of transfers - Fix precaptured ship logic - Squash about two dozen autobugs - Adjust some more events…
This update corrects a handful of bugs from yesterday's major update. Thanks so much for the bug reports, you all are just awesome people · Corrected an issue that could lead to a harvesterless/eventless game · The tutorial no longer halts after the first jump · Several events were fixed up (Lone Frigate, Overfrothed, Mining Concern, Second Command) · An issue with double trade happening on a C…
We're delighted to provide you another free update to XO! CUSTOM PLAY STYLES: You can now customize how you play XO! The Harvester wave speed can be set - including movement between jumps only, which gives you effectively infinite time at a given location. You can also now control when your game is autosaved, as well as save when you want. There are a number of other options from turning off po…
XO 1.47e " Yaw Be Careful Now " This is primarily a balance and bug fixing update Features · All Harvester warships move much, much slower now. Reapers remain the same speed. · The game now loads without displaying the ‘wait for program to respond’ dialog · New item: Hyperspace beacon · Added a number of new events · Marine, Diplomat, Shocktrooper and Mercenary boarding parties can now rescue p…
We are very pleased to release another major update to XO! SHIP THRUSTERS and MOVEMENT: All ships now use RCS thrusters for movement. This was the last major feature remaining prior to release and wow it was a massive effort. We’ve been working on this movement update since the middle of last year. Can’t wait to hear your feedback on it! NEW SHIPS: The Rover Free Trader is a medium warship that…
This is a bugfix release - thanks to your excellent bug reports here's a few things we corrected: - Added new captain’s log entries, corrected some issues - Adding spare parts for maintenance gives immediate use option - Reinforcements now properly show up at jumpgates - Fixed several boarding-related event loops - Corrected issue where enemy ships wouldn’t attack - Some pirate events were unin…
1.46c is an update to Monday's big release. - New models for all gunboats - Minerboats can now be created from the Perpetuator - Muster should no longer break jump - Possibly closed off a Harvesterless exploit - Fixed issue with HUD not positioning correctly - Several other minor bugs fixed
Gargantuan Update! XO 1.46 “Observing the Perpetual Conservancy” We thought it’d be a good idea to release a gargantuan update! NEW SHIPS: Empire Perpetuator This small Empire carrier isn’t able to repair gunboats, but has a mini shipyard aboard that can create entirely new gunboats. You’ll still need to find the crew for them... Empire Minerboat This new Empire gunboat can be used for mining o…
Welcome to 1.45, our biggest update yet! TRACTOR BEAMS: All ships can now equip a tractor beam. Tractors use lots of fuel and can be temporarily disabled by ion torpedoes. Tractors have a lot of uses: · Tractor beams, as you might expect, hold ships in place. If a ship is disabled, tractoring it will keep it from being lost in the atmosphere of a planet. You can even grab things that are alread…
Version 1.44 brings three new ships, achievements, new abilities for boarding parties, new events, a proper beginner mode, and a ton of balance and bug fixes! NEW SHIPS: Three new ships join the fleet in 1.44! The Corp Merchant ship is a small warship that makes up for its lack of speed with plenty of cargo space. The Rover Dreamer is a small food producing ship that is also outfitted with Empi…
1.43e is a small patch to fix some minor but annoying event logic bugs, and clean up some tags. Thank you Admirals for your excellent in-game and Discord bug reports!
XO 1.43 Rolling the Hard Six Version 1.43 brings several new ships, many new items, more events and a totally new way of starting the game! NEW SHIPS: Three new ships join the fleet in 1.43! The Irenic Casino ship generates ore from passengers! When passengers are aboard, right click and select the Market action to open the Casino for business; ore will be created over time at a high cost of wa…
We really, really strive to have a bug-free game. An enormous amount of time is spent testing and fixing bugs before release. But 1.42b did not live up to that. Moving forward we’re going to release to a beta branch first before updating the main branch. Beta is available to all players, just hop on our Discord for info. Thank you so much for your patience, and in particular thank you to everyo…
Huge thank you to our players and especially our awesome Discord community! Thanks to your input we keep making XO better! New Ships: Please welcome the Empire Occupier, our first carrier! You may have seen gunboats from time to time - those Empire ships without jumpdrives? The Occupier can carry up to six of those through jump. It is also able to repair damaged boats, making it a highly valuab…
While our last three updates have been very large, this (also very large) one brings the most game-changing aspects. We have much more in the works but this should be the last of the large updates. More on that below. Thank you to our players and our terrific Discord community! We’ve listened to your feedback and ideas and you will see a lot of that in this release. Sectors Instead of one large…
This update fixes a dozen or so annoying bugs and also contains a handful of minor features. We made a couple of long-awaited changes to the Rover event "The Separated" Some detail was added to the Captain's Guide Full details in the changelog!
Welcome to another massive update of XO! Real Time Fleet Jump You'll notice immediately that your fleet now jumps away visibly and in real time - warships jump away last and continue defending until finally, your battleship jumps out. During the brief jump, your battleship races ahead to emerge first. You can begin taking actions, including plotting a jump, immediately after the battleship touc…
Boarding parties Boarding parties now add a huge new high risk/high reward dimension to the game. When you launch a boarding party, a boarding shuttle streaks across space towards its target. Shuttles can be attacked, protected, disabled and rescued just like any other ship. If the boarding shuttle reaches its target, a special mission begins. You must then decide what actions to take based on…
After over one year in early access and 39 big updates since alpha release we're raising XO's price to $19.99, just ahead of our massive new boarding party upgrade! Here's an overview of what we've added since we entered early access: · Ion torpedoes · Range rings · New ships like the Pact scoutship · Harvester wave propagation · Ship and fleet upgrades · Minefields · Fleet filters · Cargo · Qu…
The Rovers now have their own unique weapon: the ion torpedo! Instead of causing damage, a torpedo hit temporarily disables a weapon. Hits also disable unarmored ships, but cannot be used to destroy a ship. What use is a destroyed ship to a Rover, right? All Fixers are now equipped with this weapon. Fixers have also been buffed to have 4 armor. Only lasers, mining lasers and shields destroy inc…
Harvesters, those purple pursuers that you love to hate, now spread in a wave! This was our most requested feature, and we’re really happy with the way it plays right now. This took a week to get working, about a week to add effects, and another week of tweaks and adjustments. This is a major change and we expect some more adjustments will be necessary. Let us know what you think on our officia…
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