How do I take part in the Public Beta?
Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 6.20 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.

• Fixed unresponsive Croupier NPC after being hired by player (improvement to fix in 6.20).
  
• Fixed player-owned black market trader sometimes appearing on player HQ.
  
• Fixed silent music during pause screen or while saving (problem introduced in 6.20).

How do I take part in the Public Beta?
Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 6.20 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.

• Fixed being able to reassign croupier NPCs via the station info menu.
  
• Fixed controllers drifting in low framerate situations under Linux.
  
• Fixed ships sometimes having trouble docking at extremely large player stations.
  
• Fixed Teladi Trading Stations not having trader corners (problem introduced in 6.20).

How do I take part in the Public Beta?
Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 6.20 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.

• Fixed casino welfare module not being unlocked after selecting it for custom gamestart.
  
• Fixed Boron story custom gamestart unlock states not updating when loading save.
  
• Fixed The Fan story starting even if it was set to be complete in custom gamestart.
  
• Fixed Split story stalling in certain custom gamestarts.
  
• Fixed charging weapons cooling down while they are holding shots to be released.
  
• Fixed wharves and shipyards potentially having multiple ship dealer shops with only one having anyone serving.
  
• Fixed trade station dock areas on player stations sometimes not having any shops.
  
• Fixed wharves sometimes not freeing up docking bays for additional ship construction.
  
• Fixed ships sometimes being moved to internal storage before finishing docking.
  
• Fixed police sometimes mistaking compliance for refusal to comply.

Having recently made some fundamental technical changes to the X4 graphics engine in our public beta branch, we're reaching out to specifically invite you to test the latest public beta version (6.20 Public Beta 6) of X4: Foundations on Steam.

Your experiences and impressions, especially concerning graphical effects across various hardware configurations, are of great importance to us. We need as much feedback as possible to further optimize the X4 experience.

Please read the specific test request and report your feedback in the forum thread.

How do I take part in the Public Beta?
Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 6.20 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.

Thank you for your support!

How do I take part in the Public Beta?
Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 6.20 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.

• Fixed silicon carbide production module visually jumping when getting closer.
  
• Fixed overly dark dockarea on Argon Colossus with reflection probes enabled.
  
• Fixed certain sounds being too loud while the game is saving.
  
• Fixed graphical issues with some AMD driver versions. (re-enables volumetric fog that was disabled in 6.20 Beta 4)

• Fixed graphical issues with some AMD driver versions (workaround disables volumetric fog when affected drivers used).

How do I take part in the Public Beta?
Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 6.20 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.

• Fixed incorrect behaviour of item traders and station interiors during Heretic's End HQ introduction.
  
• Fixed M ships sometimes not being able to undock from stations with only one M docking bay.
  
• Fixed busy shipyards being indefinitely blocked by docked capital ships if their build is scheduled behind others.
  
• Fixed trade ware buy/sell offers being removed when disabling manual buy/sell amount.
  
• Fixed getting stuck in floor when getting up under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed long delay before NPCs appear on some stations.

How do I take part in the Public Beta?
Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 6.20 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.

• Fixed Dal sometimes not starting Covert Operations plot when prompted.
  
• Fixed Tidebreak station not having any NPCs walking around.
  
• Fixed ships failing to dock at some stations with covered dock areas.
  
• Fixed ships having trouble docking at very large stations from some positions.
  
• Fixed player space suit weapon groups being reset after teleporting during a space walk.
  
• Fixed hacking of turret control panels not affecting missile turrets.
  
• Fixed some cases of characters warping after using a lift on Boron ships.
  
• Fixed possible freeze when manually docking a ship that has a trade order loop.
  
• Fixed Object Information in Map menu sometimes not loading when querying some S or M ships.
  
• Fixed menu crash when upgrading multiple ships in Ship Configuration menu under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed graphical issues with some AMD driver versions (workaround disables volumetric fog when affected drivers used).

How do I take part in the Public Beta?
Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 6.20 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.

• Added option to choose Start menu background scene.
  
• Improved capital ship movement when clearing gates on transition.
  
• Fixed Venture inventory items sometimes not being available in new games.
  
• Fixed Nila dropping unlimited Spacesuit Bombs in Astronomical Observations mission.
  
• Fixed Numanckaret not ending conversation after Queen's Audience in Boron story.
  
• Fixed ships moving to attack, but not firing upon targets, they're not authorised to.
  
• Fixed some player-owned ships not being commable (problem introduced in 6.20).
  
• Fixed loading savegame after installing Tides of Avarice sometimes resulting in missing Avarice stations (improvement to fix in 6.20).

How do I take part in the Public Beta?
Every player who owns X4: Foundations has the opportunity to download the new 6.20 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.

• Improved mines by disabling explosion if hit by bullets before reaching safety distance from launching object.
  
• Improved fighter behavior while carrying mines (further improves improvement in 6.20).
  
• Improved gate traversal while attacking.
  
  
• Fixed Trade Obstruction mission sometimes losing briefing text and objectives if conversation is started.
  
• Fixed not being able to bring Axiom back to Arcadian Endeavour in M or L-sized ships in Blueprint Data Theft mission.
  
• Fixed Yu t'Knk sometimes being missing during End of Oppression mission of Split story.
  
• Fixed wrong mission guidance during Rebellious Thralls mission of Split story.
  
• Fixed player ships not being created if player is below docking relations during Seem Valuable and Zyarth's Coffin missions of Split story.
  
• Fixed Extending Storage Levels of HQ for Research mission completing wrongly in HQ story (problem introduced in 6.20).
  
• Fixed upkeep missions to extend storage auto-completing (problem introduced in 6.20).
  
• Fixed loading savegame after installing Tides of Avarice sometimes resulting in missing Avarice stations.
  
  
• Fixed escape pods appearing hostile when they shouldn't be.
  
• Fixed ships that were on ventures when Multiverse Team Seasons beta testing ended sometimes not returning properly.
  
• Fixed memory leak resulting in out of memory errors in very long play sessions.