Liftoff News

Preparing for some of the next big updates, 1.4.4 irons out a few kinks still standing. Thank you for your feedback!

[h2]Changelist[/h2]

• Fixed: main menu loading stuck at 50% because of a drone loading error.
  
• Fixed: the music radio in the pause menu didn't show.
  
• Fixed: multiplayer fixed drone setups not being selectable.
  
• Fixed: downloading a drone in the multiplayer menu didn't allow to select them in the drone selection.
  
• Fixed: camera angle restriction on the Dquad LRX frame now has sensible values.
  
• Updated: adjusted flight controller settings during flight are now immediately applied to the current drone. No more additional reset is required.
  
• Updated: Immersion RC logo has been updated to the new logo.
  
• Updated: the Rapid Sightseeing achievement now also requires to finish a race in the Short Circuit environment.
  
• Systems prepared for the DJI FPV dlc

The Liftoff team is excited to announce an exciting collaboration with the world-renowned drone manufacturer DJI.

A virtual version of their flagship DJI FPV drone will become available in Liftoff: FPV Drone racing for a limited time, as a free DLC pack. The DLC contains a fully flyable DJI FPV drone, an authentic HUD, and a virtual twin of the DJI FPV Remote Controller 2.

It will be available on the Steam platform on PC, Mac and Linux.

Showing our love to the community, we celebrate valentine in our 3 day in-game event.

Collect all the hearts in a single environment during the Valentine's Day event and unlock the "Heart Collector" achievement.

Thank you for being being a part of the Liftoff community, we love you all!

A small update with some quick fixes. Read the changelist below:

• Fixed: Black screen issue in multiplayer when a drone reset was requested. This could occur in multiple scenarios (switching between flight/spectator modes, drones resetting in the background, etc.)
  
• Fixed: Authentication error message where the information was not displayed properly when trying to sign in to a Liftoff Pro account from a different Steam account.
  
• Fixed: Issue with the tournament management system.
  
• Added: Additional logging is enabled to track down a rare issue where the room creation would get stuck in the 'Creating room...' state.
  

Customary when we release a big milestone update are the quick-fix updates that follow soon after. These past few days we've pushed a series of fixes to smooth out the experience further. Thank you so much for your feedback!

[h2]1.4.1 changelist[/h2]

• Fixed: rooms disappearing in the lobby.
  
• Fixed: Liftoff-logo hanging in infinite race when no bots/ghosts are flying with you.
  
• Fixed: Night Fever skins not loading in the drone editor.
  
• Fixed: Soupape V2 antenna weight.
  
• Fixed: uncolorable skins having custom colors applied anyway.
  

[h2]1.4.2 changelist[/h2]

• Optimized: removed entities in the game code that could cause CPU spikes.
  
• Fixed: changing flight mode is now saved between drone resets.
  
• Fixed: foodstands in the Short Circuit environment don't pop anymore.
  
• Fixed: the Bluecheese paddock in the Short Circuit environment has its visuals restored.
  
• Fixed: the button assignment popup now shows the current action being re-assigned again.
  
• Fixed: some errors in the French translations.
  
• Removed: the white bar in the multiplayer ranking bar, which visually separates in-game players from players in the lobby, has been removed.
  
• Fixed: the multiplayer chat did not hiding with the rest of the UI when pressing F1.
  
• Fixed: the battery now doesn't drain anymore before the start of a race, while waiting for others to start.
  
• Fixed: issue with multiplayer classic and dropout race not progressing as expected.
  
• Fixed: the multiplayer 'disconnect' issue where this would happen after a (long) loading time.
  
• Fixed: Updating an existing item on the Steam Workshop now completes as expected.
  

[h2]Disabled Vulkan on Windows[/h2]
We have noticed some issues that got reported are related to Vulkan rendering, and do not occur with the standard rendering. We have now disabled Vulkan rendering as an option for Windows.
We are hopeful this might eliminate a lot of issues for people.