Major Update! XO 1.48 “Wave Bye Bye”

We're delighted to provide you another free update to XO!

CUSTOM PLAY STYLES:

You can now customize how you play XO!

The Harvester wave speed can be set - including movement between jumps only, which gives you effectively infinite time at a given location.

You can also now control when your game is autosaved, as well as save when you want.

There are a number of other options from turning off politics altogether to controlling how frequent lifeboats appear.

Starting fleets were also separated from game difficulty.

If you have ideas on things you’d like to see added here, we welcome your feedback on the Steam forums or our Discord.

I’ve playtested a fair bit, but setting the Harvester wave to expand only while you jump might make the game too easy, so we may need to come back and balance that one after I’ve had more player feedback. Do please chime in.

We also took the opportunity to clean up the NEW GAME dialog, and add options for saving the game when exiting to the main menu and quitting.

RESOURCE DETAIL:

Hovering the Fuel, Water or Ore icon now give you a comprehensive breakdown of how much you can store, where you can store it, how much you are collecting and how much you are using.

This took a little over two months to fully implement. We expect there to be some small issues, please let us know if you see anything that doesn’t look right. There’s a lot going on in there.

MOVEMENT:

We spent an absolutely epic amount of time polishing up movement, which proves that a) rocket science is really, really hard and b) we’re not rocket scientists.

Ships and boarding parties are much better at not overshooting their targets compared to 1.47. We expect that there are still some bugs in movement, please report them when you find them.

Captains be advised that if you order a ship to try and intercept a target that is moving towards you, your ship almost certainly will overshoot trying to reach the target as quickly as possible. Use waypoints or Ctrl+ orders for finer control.

NEW SHIPS:

The Pact Tender is ordinarily equipped with a tractor beam, although it can later be upgraded to a laser. It is a fast, lightly armored ship able to seize and salvage other vessels.

The Empiric Armorer The Armorer is used by the Empire to permanently add armor to ships. Passengers must be placed aboard the armorer in order to operate the factory.

NEW ITEMS:

Mk V Armorplating permanently adds +5 repairable armor to any ship in your fleet, but permanently reduces acceleration and top speed. Be advised that adding too much armor can cause a ship to be unable to move.

Turbo Thrusters and Slow Burners allow you to increase acceleration in exchange for a lower top speed or increase top speed at a cost to acceleration. Both items are permanent. At the moment, they can only be found as cargo items and in trade. Should we add a factory ship for them?

The Quantum Container contains a mystery upgrade. The longer you wait, the better it is!

The Superplotter is even faster than Networked Computers at reducing jump plot times. And yes it can be stacked with Networked Computers.

MINIMAP ICONS:

Ship classes are now visualized on the minimap: cargoships appear as circles, farmships as drops, industryships as boxes and warships as triangles. Stations, mines,