Liftoff News

Blades spinning
A solemn cutting of the first of the corn
An offering is made

Each year we bring back the age old Lughnasadh harvest festivial, a celebration held on the first week of August, dedicated to the celtic god Lugus. Let's celebrate!

Find and harvest (activate) all LuGus cubes in a single environment during the LuGus festival event to unlock the time limited "LuGus Fest" achievement.

Fixing some long standing bugs and including a bunch of community requests, Liftoff update 1.4.7 brings some extra shine to the polish.

[h2]Changelist[/h2]

• Added: Favorite content system. Mark the content you like the most as your favorite, and have it show up at the top of the lists during level selection. Content can be marked as favorite in the level selection and track selection screen.
  
• Added: A new random race can now be started with the click of a button from the race finish screen. (Requested by Krazyzock)
  
• Added: In the track builder, a tracks and races can be reloaded from file to help track builders using external tools. (Requested by Tau Muon)
  
• Added: Direct flight mode actions can now be bound to buttons/switches. You can now bind and switch to a flight mode directly. (Requested by Bravedan)
  
• Updated: LOS user interface has been tweaked. The circle indicator is bigger and should now show up further away. (Requested by Snorklingmonkey)
  
• Updated: A new splash screen sequence. A big thank you to all our brand partners, you are awesome!
  
• Fixed: Liftoff Arena Race 03: bots cheating a gate.
  
• Fixed: Sharing content on the Steam Workshop now has the 'Share' button working again. If you haven't yet accepted the Steam Workshop EULA, you will be notified with a popup.
  
• Fixed: Some network connections made with the Liftoff Pro service were made while the player wasn't signed in.
  
• Optimized: Polling for input has reduced latency.
  
• Optimized: The drone HUD has improved memory usage to reduce frame spikes.
  
• Optimized: The pause menu has improved memory usage.

The following changes were included as quick fix updates for the previous update, but weren't documented afterwards:

• Fixed: Night Fever skins not showing up to select when the Night Fever DLC was installed.
  
• Fixed: Walking around during free flight would freeze the camera after resetting the drone.
  
• Fixed: Leaving a multiplayer game to the lobby would not load the other available games properly.
  
• Fixed: The Liftoff giftbox would have its bottom-part teleport away when trying to open it.
  
• Fixed: When receiving a frame skin from the Liftoff giftbox would make the program crash.
  

[h2]Liftoff: Micro Drones Summer Brawl[/h2]
We'd like to put some extra attention to an initiative for Liftoff: Micro Drones. We are giving away up to a $1000 worth of FPV store vouchers. The only thing you need to do is play!
Want to know more? Check this out!

[h3]6 E Q U J 5[/h3]

1.4.6 Introduces some much requested improvements and fixes. Enjoy!

[h2]Changelist[/h2]

• Reintroduced optional camera noise (press C), this effect is slightly different from before.
  
• Added: A.I. data for races in the Short Circuit, Hangar C03, The Woodpecker and Liftoff Arena.
  
• Added: all-time best leaderboards for official races. You can view these in the leaderboards section as well as the top 3 coming by in the multiplayer room.
  
• Updated: when crashing or resetting during a tournament tryout, the score screen is now shown instead of going back to the tournaments selection screen again. The score screen now allows to directly do another tryout.
  
• Updated: leaderboards should load a lot faster than before.
  
• Updated: displaying a large leaderboard now allows to load chunks of scores in batches of 250 entries.
  
• Updated: Steam Workshop sharing panel to only allow to share content when the Steam Workshop EULA has been accepted.
  
• Fixed: drone setups with no blueprint saved in the file would make Liftoff hang in a loading screen.
  
• Fixed: a player could join and start a multiplayer game without having all necessary content loaded.
  
• Fixed: steam player information not always caching correctly.
  
• Fixed: issue with showing an error while signing up for a Liftoff Pro account, even though registration succeeded.
  
• Optimised: disk and memory usage of certain track items, potentially loading certain tracks faster on older hard drives.
  

Special lantern festivals are held all over the world, at different times and for different reasons. Some have floating lanterns, others have them flying, in our very own homage to these beautiful events we have them doing both! Go explore these time limited lighbaring landscapes in our 2 week in-game festival.

A picture is worth a 1000 words and so is this in-game event. No special features, no achievements, no XP points, simply beauty to discover... or as our artist Vincent prophetically proclaimed "Here's some floaty stuff you can chase". Enjoy!