Will X4 be playable in STEAM offline mode?

[spooidz]

I tried searching for the term "offline" and keep getting this error:

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So, to the question. I never use STEAM online mode unless I am forced to. Will X4 be playable in STEAM Off-Line mode?

Thank You

[Axeface]

Yes of course it will, why would you think otherwise? There is no online component to the game.
I'de be shocked if you cant.

[Alan Phipps]

@ spooidz: I confirm the search error for 'offline' in the forums using the Egosoft Advanced Search.

Even using Google Advanced search of the forums, I did not get any significant hits relating to playing X4 in Steam offline mode.

[TrashAngelMP]

I wonder how game will react to mods in this case because for example in another game, Rimworld namely, if you go offline then game will disable all mods you installed via workshop, basically game force you to play online.

[SIMON POPPLEWELL]

It's a single player game so I would imagine that you wont have any problems playing offline. Although you will have to go online sometimes for updates etc.

[Alci]

Yes of course it will, why would you think otherwise? There is no online component to the game.

mods, updates, both crucial for this game one would say it's unplayable without both

[Axeface]

Yes of course it will, why would you think otherwise? There is no online component to the game.

mods, updates, both crucial for this game one would say it's unplayable without both

You can install mods and updates and then put steam back in offline mode to play.

[Fedora01]

Can I be honest and say that this is an odd question? Putting Steam in offline mode has little to no effect on games, save for if they're not up to date. Even then it would only affect your ability to play online only games, unless there's something I'm missing?

[fcth]

You can install mods and updates and then put steam back in offline mode to play.

You can, though there is at least some chance it won't work. I know Cities: Skylines had (has?) a problem where it would silently drop all your mods if you played in offline mode. In theory offline mode should be fine, but in practice I'd imagine it doesn't get much testing.

[Xenon_Slayer]

@ spooidz: I confirm the search error for 'offline' in the forums using the Egosoft Advanced Search.

Forum server status updated to "Fine (?) <30% on fire"

But yeah, I don't think there's going to be much of a difference if you play with Steam offline. The main thing we want with you being online is that you have the most up to date version.

[AleksMain]

@ spooidz: I confirm the search error for 'offline' in the forums using the Egosoft Advanced Search.

Even using Google Advanced search of the forums, I did not get any significant hits relating to playing X4 in Steam offline mode.

You ought to use NoSteam instead for search.

Historically the Egosoft have provided the NoSteam EXE for all previous X games, so perhaps they'll do the same again after some reasonable time has passed.

For example: How do I use the NoSteam executable? (X Rebirth)

[spooidz]

You ought to use NoSteam instead for search.

Historically the Egosoft have provided the NoSteam EXE for all previous X games, so perhaps they'll do the same again after some reasonable time has passed.

For example: How do I use the NoSteam executable? (X Rebirth)

I had forgot about that, but that is down the road.

For all the responses above thanks. I guess we'll find out the exact STEAM play after release but I was planning on getting the pre-order so asked.

X3-TC had retail non-steam distribution at the same time as STEAM. And you could even start non-steam using the STEAM files pasted into a standard folder (it was just a copy of retail release). Don't know if that continued for AP and Rebirth.

With there not being a retail non-STEAM copy for X4, unless I missed a link, it will have to be played with STEAM. Some STEAM games have also been locked down to STEAM versions of launchers.

Since there is no option at this point I wanted to see if this release had any other STEAM forced functions for play, whether STEAM Cloud saves or forced on-line requirements. STEAM isn't as bad as some other play-portals, but without a retail non-Steam release, it's better to try to ask up front.

[GCU Grey Area]

Can I be honest and say that this is an odd question? Putting Steam in offline mode has little to no effect on games, save for if they're not up to date. Even then it would only affect your ability to play online only games, unless there's something I'm missing?

Main reason I prefer to play offline is because I strongly dislike steam's insistence on immediately updating games.
Even if auto-updates are disabled it simply won't let you start a game until it's been updated.
This can be annoying if you're perfectly happy with the version you have installed & each time there's a new update it breaks several mods, or ruins a game currently in progess.

One current example which bugs the hell out of me: Fallout 4.
There are quite frequent updates but these days the only content is their expensive paid mods, which I have no interest in whatsoever.
Nevertheless those updates still install (even if you buy nothing) & still keep breaking my game,
often for several days until the creators of the mods I do use have time to update their own work.
Only viable solution is to keep steam offline as much as possible so my installation of Fallout 4 doesn't find out about those updates, or at least as few of them as possible.

Have also had issues with Civ 5 & 6, where I'd prefer to maintain a consistent version until I've finished a particular run.
Can get very annoying if an update suddenly rebalances a particular aspect of the game & suddenly the entire empire revolts
& a game which has been running for perhaps 50 hours or more (I like slow games on huge maps), suddenly has to be abandoned as unrecoverable.
Better by far to stay offline & only let games update when it's convenient to do so.

[Combat Wombat]

Most games these days made by devs that care have all the major versions or a rolling list of a few versions available. So if you have a stable version you like you just set it to that in Steam and it never updates to newer versions until you set it back. Stellaris, Empyrion do it, and Rebirth does it but only with the last 32-bit version for some reason.

[Sahvion]

I wonder how game will react to mods in this case because for example in another game, Rimworld namely, if you go offline then game will disable all mods you installed via workshop, basically game force you to play online.

Then it must be something with your game, because I play Rimworld offline quite often and never had mods disabled.

[KarlHemmings]

My reason for offline mode is that when I travel I almost never have decent internet connection and so standalone offline is more or less essential.