Forever Skies News

Greetings scientists,

Our latest hotfix is now live on the main branch. Here is the full list of changes:

CHANGED:

• Changed spawning points of Copper Towers and Silicon Towers so they do not spawn in the close vicinity of bigger locations
  
• Charged Bolts can be found as loot on Overgrown Towers in the New Nature (green) biome
  

FIXED:

• Fixed a bug with collisions on many locations, which prevented or made it hard to explore them
  
• Fixed a bug with huge FPS drops when players were about to leave and right after they left a lift to the Underdust
  
• Fixed a rare bug with missing Copper Elements on a lower ramp of a Wind Farm
  
• Fixed a rare bug with invisible walls blocking players from fully exploring Wild Habitat & News Nature Territory
  
• Fixed a rare bug with Water Purifier being stuck in progress while there was no water being purified
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a memory leak in the airship’s physics when building a larger airship base
  
• Fixed a bug where players not following the main quest path could get blocked by the Sleeping Lily plant seeds not spawning if the seeds were picked up before the quest requested it
  
• Restored the Invite button in the Sessions Menu
  
• Fixed a bug where players can get stuck in “Way Back Home” quest if they used “Unstuck” during the quest at the Cosmodrome
  
• Fixed a bug where players with older saves weren’t able to research and craft Encrypted Flora Hologram, being blocked in a quest progression
  

KNOWN ISSUES:

• There are FPS drops while descending to the Underdust locations in the Lift. We are working on fixing this.
  
• Sometimes the game crashes for the host upon exiting the game.
  
• There’s a rare bug where the radial menu (C key bind) stops working and requires a save and reload to start working again
  
• There is a bug where the player’s position while using the Medical Station changes when the airship is flying
  

Even more fixes coming soon, that's all for now.

Team Far From Home








More fixes coming soon, thats all for now...

Team Far From Home

[h3]Greetings scientists,[/h3]

It’s been a little over a month since Forever Skies launched into 1.0, and we will be sharing more details about our post-launch updates and game status soon.

However, for now, let's talk about the elephant in the room. Many of you probably noticed that our Steam review score dropped following the launch of 1.0. We received quite a lot of negative reviews from players for a variety of different reasons.

We want to ensure the community that we appreciate your constructive criticism, and that we’re reading all posted reviews to understand your feedback so that we can plan for future content, hotfixes and patches. We will do our best to address as many of the reported issues and suggestions as possible, and at the same time, ensure we stick to our promised roadmap plans. But we want to allow more people the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions about the immediate and long-term future of Forever Skies, so it’s time for our next AMA.

We will be posting a dev AMA in just a few weeks, but for that, we need your questions! This AMA will be posted in text form on Steam & Reddit. It will also be posted in video form on YouTube.

No question is off the table, but please keep it respectful and ensure it follows Steam's Rules & Guidelines

Ask us about anything from our first post-launch update, to asking if we’re drinking enough water…(probably not btw)

Drop your questions in the comments, and we will select as many of them as possible!

Team Far From Home

Greetings beta scientists,

We've just updated the beta build, with a bunch of new fixes. Here is what changed:

CHANGED:

• Changed spawning points of Copper Towers and Silicon Towers so they do not spawn in the close vicinity of bigger locations
  
• Charged Bolts can be found as loot on Overgrown Towers in the New Nature (green) biome
  

FIXED

• Fixed a bug with collisions at many locations, which prevented or made it hard to explore them
  
• Fixed a bug with huge FPS drops when players were about to leave and right after they left a lift to the Underdust location
  
• Fixed a rare bug with missing Copper Elements on a lower ramp of a Wind Farm
  
• Fixed a rare bug with invisible walls blocking players from fully exploring combat locations
  
• Fixed a rare bug with Water Purifier being stuck in progress while there was no water being purified
  
• Fixed a rare bug with an airship being slowed down to 0 km/h when building while it was flying
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a memory leak in the airship’s physics when building a larger airship base
  
• Fixed a bug where players not following the main quest path could get blocked by the Sleeping Lily plant seeds not spawning if the seeds were picked up before the quest requested it
  
• Restored the Invite button in the Sessions Menu
  
• Fixed a bug where players can get stuck in “Way Back Home” quest if they used “Unstuck” during the quest at the Cosmodrome
  
• Fixed a bug where players with older saves weren’t able to research and craft Encrypted Flora Hologram, being blocked in a quest progression
  

KNOWN ISSUES:

• There are FPS drops while descending to the Underdust locations in the Lift. We are working on fixing this.
  
• Sometimes the game crashes for the host upon exiting the game.
  
• There’s a rare bug where the radial menu (C key bind) stops working and requires a save and reload to start working again
  
• There is a bug where the player’s position while using the Medical Station changes when the airship is flying
  

Thats all for now, more fixes coming soon.

Team Far From Home

Greetings beta scientists,

Today's patch notes for hotfix Ver.1.0.1:

[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• Fixed block on "Power up the computer to retrieve data" quest that was not completing on old saves
  

Thank you for all your feedback so far; it makes these hotfixes possible. Keep talking to us!

Team Far From Home

Greetings scientists,

Patch Ver.1.0.1 is now available to download. It includes a whole host of fixes and improvements based on your feedback. So, thank you for your input! Full patchnotes below:

[h2]CHANGED: [/h2]

• Virus Scanner should now work with a gamepad.
  
• UI Scale (and text) Setting moved from Gameplay Settings to Graphics Settings
  
• Ingredients Auto Crafting is now turned on by default.
  
• Improved the quality of the AI Tree’s surrounding environment.
  
• The Rainwater Collector can now only be placed on the floor.
  
• The Swimming Colossal Lifeform building will be blocked if the creature hasn’t spawned.
  
• Furniture Memory Cards spawn even if the player hasn't created the Furniture Fabricator on their airship yet.
  
• Water Tanks stored water is now a part of “craft from storage” QoL.
  
• Underdust Research Computer was moved to the Lab area.
  
• Sheds that require a knife to pass through the Thick Creepers won’t spawn until the player acquires Copper.
  
• The correct message is now shown when the balloon's maximum size limit has been reached.
  
• Changed Cooking Station’s interaction to Hold on Gamepad.
  
• Changed Virus Sample Analyzer’s interaction to Hold on Gamepad.
  
• Changed Recycler’s interaction to Hold on Gamepad.
  
• Changed Garden Pots’ interaction to Hold on Gamepad.
  
• Finalised the “Their Fault” mural’s art.
  
• Finalised the “Still Life” mural’s art.
  
• Dust Firecracker item should now not be removed from the Inventory upon death on Easy and Normal difficulty.
  
• Dust Firecracker Seed item should now not be removed from the Inventory upon death on Easy and Normal difficulty.
  
• Charged Bolt item should now not be removed from the Inventory upon death on Easy and Normal difficulty.
  
• Dust Firecracker Seed can now spawn on Overgrown Tower.
  
• The Cosmodrome’s dome opens later to prevent players from reaching it before raising the rocket.
  
• Memory and performance optimization fixes.
  

[h2]FIXED[/h2]

• The sound of the Swimming Colossal Lifeform in the Silent City biome has been removed temporarily. Players reported it being heard from far away for an extended period of time.
  
• Fix for missing Half Walls and Bloom Half Walls’ research. If you already have research from the Overgrown Tower and Workshop’s Research Computers, you will have to go to these locations and get them again to get the half walls.
  
• Fix for invisible collisions in the Underdust Locations blocking the way for some players.
  
• Fixed a memory leak that happened while eating rotten food or drinking dirty water. As a temporary solution, we removed the post-processes from these actions.
  
• Fixed a bug where a crane structure appeared as a simple grey texture.
  
• Fixed a bug where recycling Crossbow Bolts gave the player Technology Tokens instead of the proper resources.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Technology Printer was showing as damaged in the Workshop.
  
• Fixed a bug where a Client was not able to perform the Move operation when they were holding a Repair Patch.
  
• Fixed a bug for grid snapping behaviour on walls when the airship was rotating in the game world.
  
• Fixed a bug which caused the Tool Charger to clip through the Cockpit’s beams.
  
• Fixed a bug for invalid snapping in the horizontal axis.
  
• Fixed a bug which caused plants to shake when the ship is moving.
  
• Fixed a bug for missing Interactive materials (the scanning material) when using the Extractor on Scrapwing Hatchery.
  
• Fix for disappearing Item Select prompt on HUD after entering/exiting the pause menu.
  
• Fixed a bug which allowed players to open the save menu on a gamepad even when there were no existing saves.
  
• Fixed a bug where doors in The Workshop were showing a missing entry text.
  
• Fixed a bug where a Research Computer was placed inside a Poster on the Wind Farm.
  
• Fixed a bug which caused the Underdust Science Laboratory ladder to be skewed.
  
• Fixed a bug where plant growth time was not affected by fertilizer for clients in co-op.
  
• Fix for a bug where sometimes the AI voices played without post-process sound effects.
  
• Fix for a bug where Memory Cards bought in the Artifact Trade Station were too big.
  
• Fix for a bug that causes ladders with locks not to restore their state after loading on the client-side.
  
• Fix for a bug where players’ names were visible even if the HUD was hidden.
  
• Fix for a bug where Crustpede was levitating inside a turbine on the Wind Farm.
  
• Fix for a bug where a Large Oxygen Bottle was displayed as a Small Oxygen Bottle on the level.
  
• Fix for a bug because of which the player was not able to pass through an Infected Garden Shed.
  
• Fix for a bug which caused a Docking Plank to be heard from anywhere in the world, now it should only be heard near the device.
  
• Fix for a bug which allowed a player in Co-op to start extraction of an object that was already being extracted by another player
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed a player to interact with an Overgrown Tower lore tablet only once.
  
• Fix for a bug on Radio Tower variants where the player could fall into a corner, from which they could not get out.
  
• Fixed issues with interactions on Medical Station, Chairs, and Bed when the airship was rotating.
  
• Fixed a softlock on the Ruined Greenhouse Tower for when the player lands at the Ruined Greenhouse, even if they have no radar. The quest to build a Radar continues until the player builds one.
  
• Fixed bug for missing Electrolyte Pill on the Infected Garden locations
  

[h2]KNOWN ISSUES: [/h2]

• If your airship is unable to fly, we need your logs. More logs mean we can investigate this more thoroughly. If it happens to you, send us your save file along with such logs (they’re to be found in \SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Forever Skies\ProjectZeppelin\Saved\Logs\
• On some PC’s, DLSS Frame Generation causes crashes at the start of the game. If you have such crashes, remove a “sl.pcl.dll” file from steam\steamapps\common\Forever Skies\ProjectZeppelin\Plugins\Nvidia\Streamline\Binaries\ThirdParty\Win64. Warning: This might prevent you from turning on the DLSS Frame Generation setting.
  
• There’s a rare bug where the radial menu (C key bind) stops working and requires a save and reload to start working again.
  
• Sometimes the Airship gets stuck, and the players are unable to move forward/backwards. If this happens to you, first try removing your Airship Turbines and placing them back on. If that fails, please reload the save and check if this helps. If not, report it to our Feature Upvote by using the “Send Feedback” button in the pause menu. If known, include the repro steps for this bug.
  
• Players report having invisible walls in some locations, which prevent them from moving forward. If this happens to you and you are playing on a PC, please send us the save file from this location to [email protected] along with the description of the problem and a screenshot of the exact location.
  
• Legacy Building mode doesn’t allow attaching Engines to the room’s frames.
  
• Translations for some texts are missing.