Release Candidate 3 is now available. Thank you, everyone, for your continued testing and for providing feedback! The full list of changes can be found below.
How Do I Take Part in the Public Beta?
Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 9.00 Public Beta version. In order to ensure that beta participants are aware of the risks and rules involved, we ask all interested players to visit our forum, where they will find the rules and disclaimers, as well as practical instructions for participating in the beta. Follow this link to our forum - no registration required - to find the relevant information.
X4 9.00 RC3 Changelog:
(see the full 9.00 Public Beta Changelog in our forum)
- Improved efficiency of attack runs against capital ships by fast M ships (problem introduced in 9.00).
- Fixed Kha'ak Obliterator's shields in Battle of Omicron Lyrae Timelines scenario regenerating faster than they can be damaged (problem introduced in 9.00).
- Fixed scrap processing problems caused by Scrap Cubes containing both Raw Scrap and Allographyne (new feature in 9.00).
- Fixed ships not reliably being able to enter highway under certain circumstances.
- Fixed duplicate notifications in message ticker for some unlocked blueprints.
- Fixed missing menu side bar highlight after closing menu panel in some menus.
- Fixed Dock UI not showing when approaching certain Terran piers.
- Fixed engines on Theseus looking visually wrecked.
- Fixed excessively bright bullet impact effects under certain circumstances.
- Fixed rare crash on Linux (problem introduced in 9.00).
In case you missed it
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