Posted April 25, 2023
TL/DR: X4 V6.0 and KE DLC was pushed out much too early, other things seem to hinder bug fixing releases now, so either you live with bugs, or AVOID to buy the new DLC and AVOID to update to 6.0, if you want to play. Postpone the update and buying of the new DLC at least 2 or 3 months, watch the Forums at Egosoft, and consider again around June if the game is ready enough.
For some reason Egosoft decided this time to push out 6.0 and Kingdom End DLC, long before it was ready. - and it shows.
The 6.0 with KE is a buggy mess, ships sticking together, docks suddenly blocked (and storing your ship, which you won't get out), missions suddenly not working, and a lot of other problems. Path finding and Autopliot are actually much WORSE than before.If in doubt, just look at the Egosoft Forums, there you will find pages full of serious bugs, reported, proved and accepted, but not fixed.
What happened?
They had a long running open Beta for 6.0, but obviously needed to push out the Kingdom End DLC early, and since the DLC needs 6.0, they pushed out both, despite the fact that the Beta Test Error Reporting Forum was still very busy with a lot of new reports every day. Regardless they pushed it out, and soon it showed a lot of problems, most of them already reported and accepted in the Beta, but not addressed in the release.
It also showed that the Kingdom End DLC (not part of the open Beta) was not play tested enough and had serious bugs and problems. They introduced a new hazardous sector, where your ships will die, because while you can fly by yourself if careful, Autopilot and AI-Pilots cannot. The gruesome path finding leads them into the hazardous areas and there they die, loosing you a ship - and all the fun too.
Normally things like that can happen, and Egosoft until now has a good record of bug fixes ASAP after a release. For the 5.0 release last year they had 4 Hotixes in the first 10 days! No more..
While bug reports and confusion can be seen of the Forums they just decided to start a NEW open Beta, for something else. And do not even fix the known bugs and problems for players who participate in the NEW Beta.
And everybody else who trusted Egosoft now waits with a annoying mess of a game, where you have to be an absolute insider (often with a fairly developed save) to find the countless 'work arounds' for bugs and problems. If there are any - many things you just have to accept.
And still not even a try to fix anything - they are all busy with the new Beta, which surely WILL introduce new bugs, in addition to all the bugs from 6.0.
Many of the current troubles come from a new Physics Engine (Jolt), which should work better, but clearly does not. Ships sticking together for minutes, you cannot even drop a probe or laser tower without it sticking to you ship and hindering your movement for several seconds, auto pilot completely broken in many cases, path finding broken, and so on. It clearly is not ready!
So the 6.0 Beta was cut short, and instead of fixing the problems now they develop something else, which should have been included in the 6.0 Beta. But this would have prolonged the 6.0 Beta significantly and pushed the release date for the DLC at least a month.
If you think that by participation in the new Beta you will see bugs fixed - think again. They work on something different and the 6.0 bugs are still in and not fixed. There is NO FIXED version of 6.0. They call the new Beta 6.1, but actually it tries to add something new which WILL introduce new bugs.
In the current state X4 Foundations is not unplayable, but it is just no fun to play with this mess. There probably will be no Hotfixes, they seem to wait for 6.1 to be Beta tested, which could easily take another month, in part because the interest in the new Beta is lower and fewer people want to test, especially after buying the DLC with all its problems...
I have the game since 4.0 and all the DLC including (to my regret) Kingdom End. I downgraded to 5.1, because I do not want to use this mess. It is playable, but no fun at all. They dumped a payed Beta on us, and everybody who does not want to Beta test should avoid the release 6.0.
So either you are willing to participate in the new Beta test (called 6.1, will introduce Ventures again) which fixes nothing of the 6.0 bugs and the countless serious problems with the new Physics, or you have to play the 6.0 mess, because developers are busy elsewhere and ignore the bugs for now. That's because they want to press the new Ventures on us, and there still are lots of new Venture connected problems and bugs, so they are busy with this in the new Beta. Fixing the 6.0 botched release clearly comes second to this. So much for Ventures having no influence on single player game...
When at least some fixes for the problems in 6.0 will come out is everybody's guess. Egosoft does not communicate, has not yet apologized for this mess but it hell bound to implemented Ventures again (with a very mixed reception, btw.) and ignores the player base, and the bugs.
This is new - Egosoft had a good record in this regard. Well no more.
Egosoft has joined the list of Studios I do not trust enough to buy near release. From now on I may or may not buy anything from them, but surely not at release!
Well done Egosoft....
:(
For some reason Egosoft decided this time to push out 6.0 and Kingdom End DLC, long before it was ready. - and it shows.
The 6.0 with KE is a buggy mess, ships sticking together, docks suddenly blocked (and storing your ship, which you won't get out), missions suddenly not working, and a lot of other problems. Path finding and Autopliot are actually much WORSE than before.If in doubt, just look at the Egosoft Forums, there you will find pages full of serious bugs, reported, proved and accepted, but not fixed.
What happened?
They had a long running open Beta for 6.0, but obviously needed to push out the Kingdom End DLC early, and since the DLC needs 6.0, they pushed out both, despite the fact that the Beta Test Error Reporting Forum was still very busy with a lot of new reports every day. Regardless they pushed it out, and soon it showed a lot of problems, most of them already reported and accepted in the Beta, but not addressed in the release.
It also showed that the Kingdom End DLC (not part of the open Beta) was not play tested enough and had serious bugs and problems. They introduced a new hazardous sector, where your ships will die, because while you can fly by yourself if careful, Autopilot and AI-Pilots cannot. The gruesome path finding leads them into the hazardous areas and there they die, loosing you a ship - and all the fun too.
Normally things like that can happen, and Egosoft until now has a good record of bug fixes ASAP after a release. For the 5.0 release last year they had 4 Hotixes in the first 10 days! No more..
While bug reports and confusion can be seen of the Forums they just decided to start a NEW open Beta, for something else. And do not even fix the known bugs and problems for players who participate in the NEW Beta.
And everybody else who trusted Egosoft now waits with a annoying mess of a game, where you have to be an absolute insider (often with a fairly developed save) to find the countless 'work arounds' for bugs and problems. If there are any - many things you just have to accept.
And still not even a try to fix anything - they are all busy with the new Beta, which surely WILL introduce new bugs, in addition to all the bugs from 6.0.
Many of the current troubles come from a new Physics Engine (Jolt), which should work better, but clearly does not. Ships sticking together for minutes, you cannot even drop a probe or laser tower without it sticking to you ship and hindering your movement for several seconds, auto pilot completely broken in many cases, path finding broken, and so on. It clearly is not ready!
So the 6.0 Beta was cut short, and instead of fixing the problems now they develop something else, which should have been included in the 6.0 Beta. But this would have prolonged the 6.0 Beta significantly and pushed the release date for the DLC at least a month.
If you think that by participation in the new Beta you will see bugs fixed - think again. They work on something different and the 6.0 bugs are still in and not fixed. There is NO FIXED version of 6.0. They call the new Beta 6.1, but actually it tries to add something new which WILL introduce new bugs.
In the current state X4 Foundations is not unplayable, but it is just no fun to play with this mess. There probably will be no Hotfixes, they seem to wait for 6.1 to be Beta tested, which could easily take another month, in part because the interest in the new Beta is lower and fewer people want to test, especially after buying the DLC with all its problems...
I have the game since 4.0 and all the DLC including (to my regret) Kingdom End. I downgraded to 5.1, because I do not want to use this mess. It is playable, but no fun at all. They dumped a payed Beta on us, and everybody who does not want to Beta test should avoid the release 6.0.
So either you are willing to participate in the new Beta test (called 6.1, will introduce Ventures again) which fixes nothing of the 6.0 bugs and the countless serious problems with the new Physics, or you have to play the 6.0 mess, because developers are busy elsewhere and ignore the bugs for now. That's because they want to press the new Ventures on us, and there still are lots of new Venture connected problems and bugs, so they are busy with this in the new Beta. Fixing the 6.0 botched release clearly comes second to this. So much for Ventures having no influence on single player game...
When at least some fixes for the problems in 6.0 will come out is everybody's guess. Egosoft does not communicate, has not yet apologized for this mess but it hell bound to implemented Ventures again (with a very mixed reception, btw.) and ignores the player base, and the bugs.
This is new - Egosoft had a good record in this regard. Well no more.
Egosoft has joined the list of Studios I do not trust enough to buy near release. From now on I may or may not buy anything from them, but surely not at release!
Well done Egosoft....
:(
Post edited April 25, 2023 by Marilith01
