Liftoff News

Update 1.2.5 brings new track elements, bug fixes and some exciting eSports promises.

• Added two new "boxed" gate variations, each in 5 different colors.
  
• Added a new flag element, also in 5 different color variations.
  
• Fixed an issue with Hannover Track 05.
  
• Fixed an issue that didn't show the correct version number
  
• Fixed collider issue with trees in Bardwell's Yard and Bando City
  
• Improved new backend system (still work in progress)
  
• Minor bugfixes
  

The competitive scene of Liftoff is ramping up in 2020. We have the regular Liftoff Pro League tournaments, the French Rotor's Cool leagues and starting this year there will be a new Liftoff division within the German eSport Rhein-Neckar club (ERN).
The new division will start with a weekly flying / training in Liftoff (every Thursday at 18 pm) and will gradually expand to more initiatives such as:

• Regular local Liftoff tournaments
  
• Tiny Whoop style activities
  
• Setting up a "crafting corner"
  
• Countless other projects.

To celebrate the official announcement of the ERN Liftoff division, this update includes some new ERN branded track elements!

A massive community milestone was reached! :o

Liftoff now has more than 10.000 pieces of community created content, available for free on the Steam Workshop! With more than 4000 racetracks and 3000 custom drone setups available the possibility are endless!

An achievement like this is only possible with the combined efforts of a creative and passionate community, a big THANK YOU for making this possible!

With massive updates and announcements imminent, 2020 will mark the start of a new era for Liftoff. We end 2019 with a small 1.2.4 update.

• Added 14 new official racetracks (not environment) completing the list from the 1.2.3 update.
  
• Fixed faulty Straw Bale and Bardwell's Yard tracks.
  
• Fixed issue with leaderboard times not always saving.
  

The team at LuGus Studios wish you all happy holidays!

We have plenty of amazing things planned for 2020, it's going to be a massive year for Liftoff. Early in the year we plan to release our new environment: Russian Woodpecker. We also hope to to do a massive engine upgrade soon, that should bring a whole bunch of improvements, including performance improvements.

You can also expect a new and exciting project announcement and the launch of a new Liftoff website to mark the beginning of a new era for the franchise. We hope you are as excited as we are, we can't wait to share with you all what we have been working on behind the scenes.

Level up and unlock cosmetics like never before!

To celebrate the release of our new official racetracks, we organise our first triple XP week.
Receive 3 times the amount of XP points for flying official tracks in Liftoff between 10 Dec and 17 Dec. Have fun!

(Liftoff Pro Account required)

The first in a series of updates that will drastically increase the number of official tracks in Liftoff. Can you master them all?

• Adding 27 new, never before seen, official racetracks (created by DerHonk and Bomba). Note: not new environments
  
• Created new backend system to continue to support massive amounts of Leaderboard data.
  
• Improved the parts and frame specs shown in the Workbench
  
• Fixed an issue with the connection between Liftoff and the Liftoff Discord channel
  
• Minor bugfixes

When we first launched the Track Builder with the Steam Workshop integration we expected to see a few custom tracks from the community every year. More than 4000 custom tracks later, we realise we had underestimated our community.

Due to the huge amounts of leaderboards (4 leaderboards per track), we are running into the limits of the number of leaderboards we can create on Steam. We've now expanded our Liftoff Pro backend system to host these leaderboards, and have migrated them from Steam to our platform. This gives us an unlimited amount of leaderboards, and the freedom to keep the monthly leaderboards for our own, new tracks and races.