Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 8.00 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.
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>> X4 Diplomacy Update (8.00) Public Beta Now Available (Steam News)
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X4 8.00 Public Beta 6 Changelog:
- Added Ministry of Finance to list of factions available for diplomatic interference (new feature in 8.00).
- Added separate travel bubble effect in cockpit view (new feature in 8.00).
- Removed excess SETA items and replaced them with respective component parts.
- Improved mining by allowing operations in sectors with hazardous regions for ships with blacklists that explicitly allow activities in such sectors.
- Improved station alarm visualisation by reducing size and number of alarm drones.
- Improved shield impact effect by reducing intensity when viewed from up close.
- Improved performance of travel bubble effect (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed Brantlee Northriver's Competition mission in Tides of Avarice story sometimes not progressing into race.
- Fixed Boron Herald missions sometimes not unlocking Queendom of Boron for diplomatic interference (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed thrusters not being included in pool of potential equipment blueprints in Steal Equipment Blueprint agent action (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed not being able to invite diplomat after contacting Yaki in Treacherous Shallows mission in Yaki Investigation story (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed missing blueprints when Quettanauts relation is set past ceremony level in Custom Gamestart.
- Fixed pirates almost never collecting loot dropped by ships.
- Fixed case of pirates sometimes attacking victim after loot was dropped.
- Fixed tug ships not noticing when disarming turrets results in salvage being left behind.
- Fixed S/M ships having problems navigating certain dock areas (problem introduced in 8.00).
- Fixed diplomatic agent ships not counting towards limited ship count (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed being able to reassign agents to other roles (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed ware ids being displayed in Diplomacy result screens (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed current influence display in Diplomacy menus not updating (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed missing diplomacy gift hints under certain circumstances (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed Fate of Heretic's End sometimes not being shown in Agent Action menu (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed menu crash when diplomacy action finishes under certain circumstances (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed broken Object List and Property Owned tabs in Map menu under certain circumstances.
- Fixed ships being replaced with Ship Replacement showing -1% progress under certain circumstances.
- Fixed missing or stuck station module mouse-over texts in Station Build menu under certain circumstances.
- Fixed missing mouse-over texts for truncated dropdown options.
- Fixed travel effect persisting when ship is destroyed (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed not being able to reliably hit XEN L Seismic Charge Turret Mk1 when using aim assist.
- Fixed Rattlesnake front lower L turrets sometimes not being able to fire.
- Fixed being able to jump out of interior of Hyperion.
- Fixed thumbnails of some weapons and turrets being cut off.
- Fixed player logo not appearing on Split Mamba and Split Wyvern (Mineral).
- Fixed missing light in Terran Security Office.
- Fixed several causes of crashes.
You can find the full 8.00 Changelog in our forums.
