X4: Foundations Update 2.20 Released
- New Feature (BETA): TrackIR support.
- New Feature: Direct Mouse Steering mode (also known as Classic Mouse Steering or Boresight Steering).
- New Feature: Mouse HUD mode option (changing this option to "Left Mouse Button Mode" enables any controls remapped to the right mouse button).
- Added upgrade slot and dock information to ship encyclopedia entries.
- Added resource amounts for construction to ship and equipment encyclopedia entries.
- Added trade offer amount graphs to sector encyclopedia entries.
- Added enforcement of formation skill requirement.
- Added Radius to parameters for Protect Position.
- Added Attack Targets in Range order.
- Added player-owned shipyard tutorial.
- Improved carriers launching fighters against targets.
- Improved behaviour of station subordinate traders.
- Improved time taken to generate mass traffic for extremely complex stations when loading savegames.
- Improved subordinate handling in long distance movement.
- Improved ship behaviour when docking at other moving ships.
- Fixed player-owned ships sometimes pursuing targets outside their designated area when ordered to protect a position or a station.
- Fixed yet another case involving ships moving long distances pursuing targets they attack to other sectors.
- Fixed too many empty shield/turret groups on L/XL ships (not retroactive, only affects newly fitted ships).
- Fixed Paranid and Teladi stations using Argon piers (not retroactive, only affects newly built stations).
- Fixed Shipyards, Wharfs and Equipment Docks sometimes offering maximum price for resources they don't desperately need.
- Fixed newly-built stations sometimes not respecting nearby station plots.
- Fixed several instances of NPCs teleporting to their destinations instead of walking.
- Fixed NPCs not paying for subordinate ships ordered at player-owned shipyards.
- Fixed NPCs potentially vanishing if reassigned while moving to certain locations.
- Fixed NPCs sometimes not getting out of chairs when requested.
- Fixed player gliding around after getting up under certain circumstances.
- Fixed never-ending conversations with NPCs via the target monitor.
- Fixed credits not being returned when cancelling an order to upgrade a ship.
- Fixed shipyards potentially building ships which they should not be able to build.
- Fixed NPC ships potentially waiting forever to restock at equipment docks.
- Fixed ships in flight immediately coming to a standstill when their orders are cancelled.
- Fixed case causing ships to stand still incorrectly.
- Fixed case that resulted in ships not going where they wanted to.
- Fixed flight behaviour of marines on boarding pods when doing Claim and Boarding operations.
- Fixed carrier-based fighters not launching to engage hostile targets.
- Fixed direct subordinates of carriers that could not dock once never trying to dock again.
- Fixed player-owned ships telling player that they are awaiting orders if they have further orders or are subordinate to anyone other than the player.
- Fixed player-owned free traders not selling cargo that is in their cargo hold that is also in the player-defined list of wares to trade in.
- Fixed ships attacking wrecks.
- Fixed ships stopping to attack build storage while travelling long distances.
- Fixed ships getting distracted by hostile targets in highways.
- Fixed some missions treating inactive Jump Gates as active.
- Fixed welder drones launching from destroyed construction vessels.
- Fixed ship chassis construction resources not being displayed.
- Fixed ships under construction being destroyed when they are put into storage.
- Fixed ships under construction not moving down when being put into storage.
- Fixed wrecks of certain objects (especially small Laser Towers) not being cleaned up properly and accumulating over time.
- Fixed being able to accidentally disable your own station for several hours by hacking a control panel.
- Fixed station build menu forgetting unconfirmed loadout changes after returning from the encyclopedia.
- Fixed formation leader speed limit when formation wingmen are trying to catch up.
- Fixed capital ships trying to avoid asteroids that they can just fly through without problems.
- Fixed weapons on player ships sometimes following view direction even while not seated in ship.
- Fixed estimated missing resources displayed at equipment docks and shipyards sometimes being incorrect.
- Fixed orders to equip ships not being able to be cancelled when waiting for resources (does not affect existing orders).
- Fixed issues with ship movement in multi-layer formations.
- Fixed police ships sometimes patrolling the wrong sector.
- Fixed Deploy Object mission allowing object to be placed further away than requested.
- Fixed missing localisation of objective text in Build Station mission.
- Fixed some mission briefing text errors.
- Fixed war missions potentially building up over time.
- Fixed war mission not treating contested sectors correctly.
- Fixed notification "All trade operations completed" being displayed too often.
- Fixed wrong reason given for penalising relations if the player attacks a ship that is currently being investigated by police.
- Fixed wrong reason given for penalising relations if the player builds a station in policed space on a plot that hasn't been paid for.
- Fixed station building mission not transferring ownership of corresponding build storage.
- Fixed display for filled percentage of engine and turret groups being the same in the ship build menu.
- Fixed missing hull/shield bar elements in the map menu if more than 50 objects are listed at once.
- Fixed encyclopedia not showing 3D models when opened from another menu.
- Fixed info menu inaccessible for some supported objects (e.g. nav beacons).
- Fixed calculation of unread entries for faction licence entries in the encyclopedia.
- Fixed position of an element in the docking UI when flying a capital ship.
- Fixed inconsistent crew notification on completion of a mining order.
- Fixed muzzle-flash and firing position for some turrets.
- Fixed turrets and shield generators sometimes left floating when Construction Vessel changes activation state.
- Fixed shield generator obscuring space suit docking bay on Behemoth.
- Fixed inability to enter spacesuit from Sunder.
- Fixed some Argon character body mismatches.
- Fixed joystick hot-plug issues on Linux.
- Fixed mouse look not working while sitting in a docked ship.
- Fixed double clicks inadvertently closing menus.
- Fixed menus slowing down over time (especially noticeable when keeping map open).
- Fixed several causes of menu crashes in various menus.
- Fixed several causes of crashes.
Update 2.21 (341463) released on 2019-04-01:
- Improved GPU auto-selection.
- Improved handling of new ship construction at shipyards and wharfs to not overload or block them.
- Fixed wings assigned to use a formation that requires zero piloting skill arbitrarily changing their formation to some other formation.
- Fixed stations built for NPCs as part of Build Station mission being unknown afterwards
- Fixed subscription missions in progress being removed after a certain amount of time.
- Fixed factions still placing orders for ships at player owned shipyards even when disallowed.
- Fixed excessively loud venture mission completion sound.
- Fixed gamepad/joystick mouse emulation under Linux.
- Fixed cause of rare freeze.
- Fixed several causes of crashes.