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Falconeers!

Thanks to all of your votes, The Falconeer has been put into the top 100 finalists of the IndieDB 'Indie of The year' Awards!

Thanks to each and every one of you for your support!

Round 2 of voting has now begun, with 5 days remaining to help decide the overall winners of the competition!

It would be incredible if we could count on you to rally once more for The Falconeer and get your votes cast for this round!

Voting literally takes a couple of clicks, Simply :

Tap this link
Tap RPG Genre
Tap The Falconeer, DONE!

You can even vote for multiple games this time round, so feel free to show support to some of our other Wired friends games - Such as Deliver Us The Moon and Those Who Remain which can be found in the 'Adventure' Category

Also, there's been some strange pictures of The Falconeer popping up lately, we're pretty well versed in the layout of The Great Ursee, but this doesn't seem like anywhere we recognise... strange!

We'll keep you posted whilst we investigate!

Attention Falconeers!

The annual IndieDB 'Indie of The Year' awards have just begun!
A nine day celebration of all the greatest Indie titles that we've enjoyed, and the opportunity to see the ones that you enjoyed the most listed in the coveted top 100 indies, or even crowned as the Indie of the year!

Not only that - but you also have the opportunity to win games just by casting your vote!

If you've enjoyed your time in The Great Ursee, then feel free to represent The Falconeer in the awards! (It only takes a moment and will give us a cool badge to put on the Steam page!)
And of course once again a reminder that your Steam reviews are worth their weight in gold - so please feel free to leave one if you haven't already!

You can vote for The Falconeer by clicking right here!

And stay alert Falconeers, there are some very exciting surprises for you on the horizon!

Attention Falconeers!

The PC version of The Falconeer has received a new update - log in now and get it downloaded for some Fast Travel and faster warbirds!

[h2]Gameplay Changes[/h2]

• Speed for all player birds increased by 10%
  
• Rate of fire increased for Magnetar rifle and Lightning Caster, to improve early game difficulty
  
• Home/story location now indicated on the map
  
• Fast travel now possible to friendly and neutral locations via the worldmap, outside of missions or battle.
  
• Epilogue now remains unlocked after getting to the Treefall mission
  
• Animations for the bird wandering if getting no input, now a lot more random and subtle
  
• 2 and 3 star guns reduced in price to help in early game
  
• XP rewards from escorts and trader/persistent ship destruction reduced.
  
• pirate unit health reduced by 13%
  
• Dreadnot speed increased to be as fast as civilian cutter and mancer praudicus
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Bird collector achievement fixed
  
• Ace of Aces, Steel Surgeon and other achievements required one to many kills, fixed
  
• Skipping battlemap animations with mouse now fixed
  

[h2]UI Updates[/h2]

• Bird name added your stats
  
• Cinematic zooms can now be disabled from the settings menu
  
• Difficulty displayed in main menu, help players be informed on the option and current state.
  
• Story Mission indicated clearer so people don't miss these.
  
• Chapter screen now gives more information on each chapter.
  
• Controller menu flight axis settings re-ordered with the best mouse option coming up first
  
• Controller menu now highlights if certain controls (mouse/camera) cannot be inverted
  

[h2]Localisation Improvements
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• Japanese localisation improved
  

The final segment of our Let's Play series is now LIVE!

Commander Ivy has recovered Gary from the clutches of the pirates - and now they face down the final chapter of The Falconeer.

They are going live RIGHT THIS SECOND - drop on by and send them your energy!

Wired Productions Twitch Channel


We're uploading all of these streams to youtube for those that miss them live, so if you want to catch this....unique....adventure through the Great Ursee over the weekend, so keep your eyes peeled to our Youtube channel!

We've been having a (spikey) whale of a time playing through The Falconeer as part of our Let's Play series - and right now Commander Ivy is dealing with.... crab problems of EPIC preportions!

You can catch her live right this second on Twitch and watch her soar into chapter 3!

Wired Productions Twitch Channel


We're uploading all of these streams to youtube for those that miss them live, so if you want to catch this....unique....adventure through the Great Ursee, keep your eyes peeled to our Youtube channel for the full series - the second episode is available right here!

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You can catch these streams live every day until Saturday at 15:00 GMT / 07:00 PST / 10:00 EST