Encountering and interacting with previously unknown, lawless pirate and scavenger factions, will challenge your perception of social order and justice in the X universe. In new sectors and dangerous regions, you will not only discover new ships and stations, but also encounter stellar phenomena that will significantly influence your plans and actions. What is it all about, and who are the mysterious manipulators that have learned to master a rare and vital resource? Your journey will lead you towards the answers. Set out and discover a new chapter of X4: Foundations

Let new ships terrify and enchant you at the same time

Roam through the Windfall and Avarice systems, and discover numerous new ships from the pirate and scavenger factions of X4: Tides of Avarice. Among other new ships, you can look forward to the following highlights:

• The Erlking, a terrifying pirate battleship with an experimental and unusual energy source, has been developed over many years by the Riptide Rakers, at great cost to their resources and lives, in a desperate attempt to take advantage of stellar phenomena in the Avarice system. In X4: Tides of Avarice, you will find out more about these curious events, while you upgrade the Erlking using research and resources acquired during your adventure.
• The Astrid, an incredibly lavish and luxurious yacht, projects wealth and importance. Owned by the CEO of the Northriver Company, Brantlee Northriver, it is rumoured to be the fastest ship in the galaxy. With its sleek design, the Astrid is a ship unlike anything you've ever come across in the X universe. What mysteries might it hold?

Have you ever come across a shipwreck and wished you could use it in a profitable way? In the Avarice system, the Riptide Rakers, a loosely organised group of scavengers and traders, have developed the means to salvage wrecks and use them in production. Either tow the wreck with one of the new tug ships, or dismantle the wreck right where you found it using a new deconstruction ship. Once you've reached a station equipped with a recycling module, watch your scrap metal turn into building resources.

X4: Foundations 5.00 Update

X4: Tides of Avarice is released at the same time as the extensive, free 5.00 update for X4: Foundations, which expands and improves the base game in several ways. The 5.00 update introduces a series of new capital ships. These ships have been re-imagined, and a new fleet of improved models will now be on sale in various shipyards. Several factions in the game will gradually start using these new and improved ships. The 5.00 update will also bring AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution (FSR) to X4: Foundations, using a collection of cutting-edge upscaling technologies to boost performance.

Further details about X4: Tides of Avarice, as well as the 5.00 update for X4: Foundations, will be released over the next few months as we get closer to the release date. X4: Tides of Avarice is now listed on Steam and can be added to players' wish-lists.

I been waiting patiently for Egosoft to bundle the whole game and the DLC together then I will pick this up.

Looks like it might be a while before they do any sort of compete game.

So I have been threating to buy this for a while and I have gone and done it 🤣 I bought the base game and I just know I'm going to regret it. 🤣 

Posted by: @pinback

I bought the base game and I just know I'm going to regret it.

Yep! It seems like an age since I bought the original X-Beyond the Frontier. <sobs>

In fact, it was in the last millennium, when the spectre of Y2K hung over the world!

Posted by: @cody

 

Yep! It seems like an age since I bought the original X-Beyond the Frontier. <sobs>

In fact, it was in the last millennium, when the spectre of Y2K hung over the world!

That's reminds me of being in a game shop and looking at X-Beyond the Frontier and putting it back on the shelf, must have been around about 2000. 😀  

Posted by: @pinback

looking at X-Beyond the Frontier and putting it back on the shelf

That's what I should've done!

New trailer for the addon.

Just watched this today, it does look like they are starting to work on more interactions inside and outside the ship.... which is good for better immersion. I still have X3R on the desktop just haven't launched it in a while and do plan on playing more soon. I was happy to see they are supporting that new AMD visualfx feature should be nice to get the gfx boost