X4: Foundations News

We would be infinitely grateful if you'd consider us for the Steam Labor of Love Award. You can nominate us right in this news (look up), on the X4: Foundations store page or through the Steam Awards Nominations page.

X4: Foundations is about to celebrate its fourth anniversary and we appreciate your support and feedback every day.

Thanks for everything and keep on having fun in the X-Universe!

We are pleased to announce that we will be part of the Indie Arena Booth at gamescom in Cologne this year. Indie Arena Booth is a collaborative booth featuring a curated selection of games from around the world.



From Wednesday, 24 August 2022 to Sunday, 28 August 2022 you can find us at the Indie Arena Booth in Hall 10.2 of the Kölnmesse. Each day, various team members will be present and looking forward to chatting with you. If you are not yet familiar with X4, you will of course have the opportunity to try out the game on-site.

A quick word to manage expectations: we will not be making any new announcements at this year's gamescom. It will be a little longer before we are ready to reveal the next chapter of X4.

Here are a few more related links on the topic of gamescom:

• www.gamescom.global
• www.indiearenabooth.de

See you in Cologne!

Our latest player survey will ask you questions about your personal progress in X4: Foundations, your satisfaction with the game, your wishes and priorities for the future of the X series, and your feelings about the X series and Egosoft outside of the game. By taking part in our survey, you will be helping us to make the X series even better.

Please visit this link to participate in the survey.

Thank you for your support!

We don't usually create a news item for every hotfix, but we're making an exception for 5.10 Hotfix 3 of X4: Foundations, which was released today.

As many of you are aware, it's been quite a while since you were last able to access the paint mods that are in your online inventory for X4: Foundations. The reason for this is that we have been working on extensive changes to the Ventures feature of the game, which is part of the same online functionality as the paint mods. Since that work is still ongoing, and we don't want to keep you from your favourite paint mods any longer, today's hotfix re-enables the option to log in to your Egosoft account and access your paint mods.

Please note the following points about 5.10 Hotfix 3:

• The most basic online functionality is re-enabled, i.e. you can log in to, and out of, your Egosoft account from within the game.
  
• You will be able access any paint mods that are in your online inventory, with the same limitations and conditions as before.
  
• You will NOT be able to build new venture docks or send ships on ventures, and you will not see any menus related to this.
  
• You will NOT receive any "visitor" ships from other players.

We apologise for any inconvenience over the past few months, while the online inventory service was unavailable. As a small gift, you will receive ten units of the Alpha Zone paint mod (pictured below) when you log in to your Egosoft account. The paint mods will be available in both existing games and new game starts.

You can link your game to your Egosoft account in the settings section of the Egosoft forum.



As mentioned in a previous item in April, we would like to reassure you that we're not quite done yet with our vision for X4. However, the next item on the agenda for the game is some way away, so we won't be able to get into specifics about it for quite a while.

Thank you for your continued support.