X4: Foundations space simulation has begun! You can now download the
extensive free 4.00 update to the base game (Steam | GOG), which expands and improves it in numerous ways. Gameplay changes include completely new features such as Terraforming, new options for managing hostilities, improved fleet control, and a new emergency eject feature. On the technical side, the 4.00 update brings volumetric fog effects, improves the fading-in of asteroids, and adds a visual shield impact effect. This is only a fragment of the changes in the largest free update of X4: Foundations to date. A complete list of changes (with around 400 entries) is available in the Egosoft forum. Further details of these, and other new aspects of the 4.00 update, can be found on our website at www.egosoft.com or in the game s news section on the Steam website.