Airships: Lost Flotilla News

Thank you all for your continued interest and support for Lost Flotilla - nearly 3000 of you have now played the demo!

To help me develop the game further, could you fill out this short questionnaire on weapon balance?

I also have another small bugfix / user experience update today:

One thing that's been confusing to people is what the S key actually does in the controls. It doesn't make your ship move backwards - it's a toggle for the engines so you don't have to hold down W the whole time you want to move. I've updated the little informational graphic at the start of the game and the name of the keys in the settings to hopefully better communicate that:



And since several people have requested it, I've also added a captain with no special abilities so you can continue playing the baseline game after unlocking captains.



Finally there's two bug fixes: the game no longer crashes if you have zero escort slots, and the kraken's attack areas are now shown correctly.

Over two thousand of you have already played the demo of Airships: Lost Flotilla!
Thanks to all of you! 😊

To celebrate this and because Airships: Lost Flotilla is part of the Endless Replayability Fest I just added the Science Vessel to the demo.



You can check out the new ship in the demo now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2858150?utm_source=Steam&utm_campaign=DemoUpdate1

[h3]Detailed patch notes:[/h3]

• Unlocks now make more sense: at the end of a run, you get all ships you cleared the minimum level for.
  
• Fixed a crash when adjusting music volume.
  
• Fixed a crash from confused tentacles.
  
• Added a new ship for you to try, the Science Vessel.
  

[h3]I am happy to announce my new steampunk autoshooter game.🎉[/h3]

It's called Airships: Lost Flotilla, and it's an autoshooter set in the same world as Airships: Conquer the Skies. You control a single airship from a top-down view, moving it arcade-style as it automatically shoots at enemies. You then collect the burning wreckage of your foes and use it to repair and upgrade your ship.

As is traditional, there's quite a lot of upgrade possibilities with different synergies. In the demo, you get access to three ships: the cruiser, the slow but powerful battleship, and the very fast aeroplane.



And once you defeat the boss for the first time, you also get three captains to choose from that more radically change the way the game plays. Zoe Davies massively increases your weapon accuracy, Imani van Knorpel lets you cheaply look for and pile on repeated upgrades, and Commander Yithrak gives you double fire rate whenever you get hurt.

So go and check out the demo, let me know what you think in my Discord, and do put the game on your wishlist. The full release is planned for later this year.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2858150?utm_source=SteamAnnouncement&utm_campaign=Reveal