How Do I Take Part in the Public Beta?
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.
In case you missed it:
X4 Diplomacy Update (8.00) Public Beta Now Available (Steam News)
X4 8.00 Public Beta 5 Changelog:
- Improved tolerance of police to ships or stations with illegal wares if relations are good.
- Improved handling of some ships fleeing from attack.
- Fixed failed Trade guild missions sometimes still handing out rewards.
- Fixed Panel Hack guild missions aborting prematurely.
- Fixed Steal Module Blueprint agent action not rewarding Ship Fabrication Bay blueprints (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed faction agents spawning at stations of systems that are not connected to via active Jump Gates (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed subordinates set to Docked but given manual orders automatically engaging hostiles while in transit back to commander.
- Fixed ships assigned to agents retaining commander (new feature in 8.00).
- Fixed travel bubble effect intensity when going through super-highways (problem introduced in 8.00).
- Fixed transporter door of Barracuda not closing properly.
- Fixed several causes of crashes.
You can find the full 8.00 Changelog in our forums.