X4: Foundations Update 2.20 Released

✦AI summary6h

Update 2.20 and 2.21 introduce new steering modes, TrackIR support, significant AI behavior improvements for ships and NPCs, and numerous stability and UI fixes.

▲Buffs11

Ship AI
- Protect Position:Added a radius parameter to Protect Position, allowing better control over patrol areas.→Added m
- Added a new order to attack targets within a specific range.→Added
- Carrier Launch:Improved how carriers launch fighters against targets and fixed cases where they wouldn't launch at all.
- Fixed ships attacking wrecks, build storage, or getting distracted by targets in highways.
Encyclopedia
- Added upgrade slot and dock information to ship encyclopedia entries.→Added
- Added resource amounts required for construction to ship and equipment entries.→Added
- Added trade offer amount graphs to sector encyclopedia entries.→Added
Stations & ShipyardsAdded a tutorial for player-owned shipyards to help new players.→Added
General Stability
- Improved automatic GPU selection for better performance.→Improved
- Fixed menus slowing down over time, particularly when the map is kept open.→Improved
- Fixed several causes of crashes and rare freezes.→Reduced

✚Bug fixes2

Stations & Shipyards
- Fixed Shipyards and Wharfs offering maximum price for resources they don't desperately need.
- Fixed newly-built stations sometimes ignoring nearby station plots.

◆Other changes4

Controls
- Added beta support for TrackIR head tracking.→Added
- Added Direct Mouse Steering (Classic/Boresight) mode for more precise ship control.→Direct
- New HUD mode option allows controls remapped to the right mouse button to function.→Left Mouse Button Mode
Ship AIFormation:Formation skill requirements are now strictly enforced.→Enforced

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Controls3 Ship AI5 Encyclopedia3 Stations & Shipyards3 General Stability3

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X4: Foundations · Mar 18, 2019

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