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- X4: Foundations
9.00 Public Beta 7 now available
9.00 Public Beta 7 is now available! Please find the full changelog below. Additionally, alongside these improvements, we are introducing a new "FPS Style" input Profile, which you can also test. If you would like to pa…
Patch notes33 changesFixCompatibility - X4: Foundations
9.00 Public Beta 6 now available
9.00 Public Beta 6 is now available! Please find the full changelog below. Thank you for your continued support and feedback during this testing phase. How Do I Take Part in the Public Beta? Every player who owns X4: Fo…
Store32 changesFixCompatibility - X4: Foundations
9.00 Public Beta 5 Hotfix 1 now available
We're just popping in briefly with a small hotfix for Beta 5. 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 en…
Patch notes4 changesFixCompatibility - X4: Foundations
9.00 Public Beta 5 now available
9.00 Public Beta 5 is now available! Please find the full changelog below. Thank you for your continued support and feedback during this testing phase. How Do I Take Part in the Public Beta? Every player who owns X4: Fo…
Patch notes37 changesFixCompatibility - X4: Foundations
9.00 Public Beta 4 now available
9.00 Public Beta 4 is now available! Please find the full changelog below. Thank you for your continued support and feedback during this testing phase. How Do I Take Part in the Public Beta? Every player who owns X4: Fo…
Patch notes28 changesFixCompatibility - X4: Foundations
9.00 Public Beta 3 now available
9.00 Public Beta 3 is now available! Please find the full changelog below. Thank you for your continued support and feedback during this testing phase. How Do I Take Part in the Public Beta? Every player who owns X4: Fo…
Patch notes54 changesFixCompatibility - X4: Foundations
9.00 Public Beta 2 now available
9.00 Public Beta 2 is now available! Please find the full changelog below. Thank you for your continued support and feedback during this testing phase. How Do I Take Part in the Public Beta? Every player who owns X4: Fo…
Patch notes43 changesFixCompatibility - X4: Foundations
X4 Foundations 9.00 "Empire Update" Public Beta is Now Live!
We're thrilled to kick off the Public Beta for the X4: Foundations "Empire Update" (9.00)! This free major update includes numerous features and reworks that influence how you engage with combat, strategy, and the econo…
Store179 changesFixCompatibility - X4: Foundations
Egosoft is Heading to PAX East 2026 - Meet Us in Boston!
We're thrilled to announce that we'll be making our first appearance at PAX East in Boston! From March 26 to March 29, you can find us at Booth #14085 in Hall B. Come hang out with the Egosoft team, play X4: Foundations…
Announcement - X4: Foundations
X4: Foundations is getting cross-platform cloud saves - possible breakage coming for Linux
Egosoft have announced that X4: Foundations is finally getting cross-platform Steam Cloud saves, but desktop Linux users may need to make some backups.
- X4: Foundations
Support for Cross-platform Cloud Saves
UPDATE: These changes have now been applied. Please take a moment to review the instructions in the original news post and follow them carefully. We're preparing some changes in order to support cross-platform cloud sav…
Patch notes1 changeGameplay - X4: Foundations
8.00 Hotfix 4 released
We’re starting the year with a hotfix aimed at resolving a reported memory leak. The update is now available on Steam. If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out our Xmas Xlog video, where Bernd talks about some o…
Announcement1 changeFixGameplay - X4: Foundations
2025 Christmas XLOG: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
As 2025 comes to a close, we're celebrating a very special milestone: seven years of X4: Foundations! In a brand-new XLOG video, Egosoft founder and Managing Director Bernd Lehahn sits down to look back at another full…
Patch notes5 changesGameplayCompatibility - X4: Foundations
What is X4? 🪐 Steam Winter Sale Pilots - Welcome Aboard!
Welcome to the ultimate space sandbox experience with X4: Foundations! In this updated overview video from earlier this year, we dive into what makes X4 truly unique among space games - especially interesting to our new…
Event4 changesGameplayStore - X4: Foundations
Nominate X4: Foundations for "Labor of Love" in the 2025 Steam Awards!
Captains, the 2025 Steam Awards nominations have begun - and we'd be truly honoured if you'd consider nominating X4: Foundations for the "Labor of Love" category! Valve themselves describe the category as follows: "This…
Store3 changesGameplayBalance - X4: Foundations
Behind the Scenes: Designing the Envoy
The X4: Envoy Pack introduced a new stealth-ready frigate, jointly developed by the Argon Federation and the Teladi Ministry of Finance. Beyond its advanced features - the Cloak stance, faction camouflage protocols and…
Event9 changesGameplayPerformance
