Liftoff News

Content galore! We're introducing the Dquad Addiction as the next frame to enjoy in Liftoff, among many other things in this update.

[h2]Changelist[/h2]

• Added: Hangar C03 Night Fever variant.
  
• Added: Dquad Addiction Frame.
  
• Added: Soupape antenna.
  
• Added: Dquad Addiction blueprint setup.
  
• Added: 5 post-apocalyptic frame skins to unlock in giftboxes
  
• Updated: Hangar C03 main menu background.
  
• Fixed: subscribing to player-created content in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed: while walking around in the Free Flight game mode, the original drone would still show in the placement overlay.
  
• Fixed: reset password menu now allows more characters in the username/e-mail field for those with long e-mail addresses.
  
• Fixed: container pop-in issue in the Hangar C03 environment.
  
• Fixed: some performance issues in the Hangar C03 environment.
  

[h2]Dquad Addiction[/h2]
We're excited to reveal a new frame from one of our favourite brands! The Dquad Addiction is a middle-weight frame that offers incredible strength. One year of continuously improving the design has led the company to the point where they're very confident this frame is one of the strongest out there while still being sub 100 grams.

[h2]Night Fever update[/h2]
Happy news for fans who own the Night Fever DLC: we've added a Night Fever version of the new Hangar C03 update!

Just like we do with the main version of the game, we have continued to update and grow the content available in our DLC pack in free updates. To better reflect the increase of value included, we will update the price of the Night Fever DLC to €5.99 by the end of March. If you still want to get the DLC for €4.99, now is the time!

With this massive upgrade to the HangarC03 environment, we welcome you to the workplaces of the clumsiest container yard crew ever! Their mistakes will become your favorite industrial FPV playground, in an area over 4 times bigger than the original. Discover hidden passageways among the containers, powerloop impressive cranes and try your luck mere inches above the water. We're excited!

• Added: Hangar C03 revamp.
  
• Added: new official Track and Race for The Green (06 - The Nineteenth Hole). Thank you Simon Hirst! 
  
• Updated: content settings to reduce the patch size for future updates. 
  
• Fixed: floating golfballs in The Green.
  
• Fixed: selecting a different date in the leaderboard selection of official races only showed the latest leaderboard available.
  
• Fixed: festivity items would sometimes not show up on their set date.
  
• Fixed: overall sound and music volume for the Getting Started menu is reduced.
  
• Fixed: sound effects in environments are now properly linked to their sound group and can be adjusted again in the audio options menu.
  

Ever wondered how Liftoff achieves the most authentic FPV sim experience, and why it doesn't have a gravity slider?

The Liftoff brand aims to provide the most advanced and detailed drone simulation systems on the market. Our authentic flight behavior and physics form the foundation of all Liftoff products and are the result of dozens of simulated systems working together.

We made a page dedicated to explaining all of the intricate details of these simulations

[h3]Read all about it here![/h3]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCd8GAVxZQ

We can all agree that 2020 was challenging, and though nothing can fix what was broken this year, we do hope that Liftoff made it just a little bit better for you all. The Liftoff team stays committed to making Liftoff bigger and better each year and by that we mean not just the software, but also the community that surrounds it.  



The Liftoff community has grown by over 60 000 virtual pilots this year. On several occasions in 2020, we set a new record number of players, something we are extremely grateful for. Not only have we enjoyed flying among you on the race track, we have been impressed by the massive amount of super creative track creations, community stories and videos. The sweet celebration video linked above, made by BlueCheese, is a fantastic example of that. For the Liftoff team, the community highlight of the year is definitely the weekly official Liftoff stream A Song of Pitch & Throttle, by our extremely talented and dedicated host Abdul! We love the content, the chats and the community interaction it brings! 



What can we say? 5 years in and yet 2020 has proven to be one of our biggest years so far! Not only did we release a Liftoff game on PlayStation4 and Xbox One (a massive milestone for the team), but we've also continued to make Liftoff on PC the absolute best FPV simulator it can be.  Here's an updated development timeline. 


Highlights of the year are surely the release of the Russian Woodpecker​, getting Zoroe's art in the game, the updated The Green, but most of all our massive 1.3.0 milestone update that brought a significant engine upgrade, improved performance, fewer loading screens, our much beloved Liftoff Physics 4.0 and much more. We've managed to evolve Liftoff to the next level, ready for the coming decade. After 5 years and over 130 updates, you'd think we are done, but it feels like we've only just started! 




If you have followed us for a while, you know we don't set year long development goals. We prefer a flexible approach that allows us to work with community feedback and suggestions, and focus on what's important "now" rather than what we planned upfront. That being said, we have never been more committed to Liftoff as we are now and some of our near term goals includes new game modes, further revamps of existing environments (Hangar C03 is next), new content and so much more.  Additionally, 2021 will see the release of a new spinoff sim called Liftoff: Micro Drones, of which we will reveal more in the weeks to come.


We are excited for Liftoff in 2021 and we hope you are too!  Happy New Year! :D

What if we told you we made one of the best Liftoff environments even better?

The Green got a bit of an update, adding a landmark watertower and an extensive event area, adding new layers to an already exciting environment. We can't wait to see you explore our mini-level within a level :)  On top 1.3.7 brings a bunch of improvements, additions and bug fixes.

• Updated The Green: it now contains a watertower, event area and a few other details.  (also updated in the Night Fever DLC!) 
  
• Updated: All tracks and races have been given a proper and unique name.
  
• Added: 5 new Cyber-themed frame skins and 70 new propeller skins can be unlocked through Gift Boxes in the Workbench.
  
• Fixed: RC Rates and RC Expo are now uncoupled between pitch and roll.
  
• Fixed: Paris Drone Festival street collision issue.
  
• Fixed: Throttle Mid would produce wrong results when setting it to a value of 100.
  
• Fixed: The G# music block note now has the correct soundbyte.
  
• Updated: The Ummagawd Remix frame has been assigned the Ummagawd Corp. brand.
  
• Updated: Dropdowns with values that can't fit in the text box will now slowly scroll the name horizontally.
  
• Added: A full-screen dropdown option has been added in the graphics menu. Players on the Windows platform can now select more options to select what best fits their needs.