Airport CEO News

Hello everyone! We're finally back in full action after a few weeks of low productivity and it feels great to be back. Alpha 34 is currently being tested on the experimental branch with loads of new features and system to take note off and we're digging into the testing phase in this week's development blog Dev Blog 143: Back in business with Alpha 34 on the experimental branch.

Feels amazing to be back and starting off the decade with more ACEO development!

Best regards,

// Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Happy holidays airport CEO!

We're back just before Christmas with a little holiday update, consisting of a few important bug fixes but also a small, well perhaps not so small in size, Christmas present!



The Airbus A350-1000, flown by Olympus, is now available! If you have an existing contract with Olympus at your airport you will need to cancel and re-accept it in order to make sure that the 350 is included in Olympus's fleet generation.

As you can see, all aircraft are currently wearing little santa hats as part of the holiday spirit. If you do not want them you can disable it by pressing F10 opening the development panel and pressing the relevant button.

Alpha 33.50-0 brings an initial fix to the issue where passengers in some cases could not access rooms built on upper or lower floors, and also an initial round of fixes for the secure zone disappearance error. In this update we're also adding experimental support for Russian, Czech and Turkish! You can try it out by going into the gameplay panel and switching language by pressing the associated flag.

Lastly, we at Apoapsis Studios (Alexander, Olof and Fredrik) would like to thank you all for this year and hope to see you in the next one - we'll be taking a short holiday leave (although we'll most likely pop by the community now and then) but will be back in early January kicking off with the experimental release of Alpha 34 and a new round of features!

Merry Christmas and fly safe!

Here are the patch notes for the Alpha 33.50-0 update:

[h3]Release notes - Airport CEO - Version Alpha 33.50-0[/h3]
Bug

• [ACEO-19813] - Exception thrown in secure zone merging process causes secure zones to disappear
  
• [ACEO-20021] - Incorrect fetching position can cause persons not to find their way to rooms on different levels
  
• [ACEO-20402] - Incorrect rich text tag for French causes tag exposure in tutorial text
  
• [ACEO-20407] - Keys hidden by incorrect game version number caused key to be fully exposed in UI
  
• [ACEO-20485] - Vehicle depot and service vehicle parking lot has incorrect node settings causing strange vehicle exit behavior
  
• [ACEO-20588] - Aircraft santa hats spawned on new aircraft despite being turned off in development console
  
• [ACEO-20589] - Vehicle depot and service vehicle parking lot connection nodes driveable causing strange vehicle path finding behavior
  

New feature

• [ACEO-11855] - New language: Russian
  
• [ACEO-20607] - New language: Turkish
  
• [ACEO-20608] - New language: Czech
  
• [ACEO-20611] - New aircraft: Airbus A350-1000
  

// Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

If you haven't noticed it already, Airport CEO now officially supports French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese! Although these languages have been supported as of a minor update for Alpha 33, we've held off with the official announcement to perform another round of quality assurance with the localized text out in the wild. We are as of today happy with the quality of the translations in their early access state and are therefor now ready to claim official support for these languages. Here are a few answers to a few questions you might have...

[h3]How do I change language?[/h3]
Launch into the game's main menu and go to the gameplay settings menu. Click on the preferred language's flag and accept the prompt by pressing "OK". The game will now reboot into your preferred language version.

[h3]Why is some text on the experimental branch not localized?[/h3]
The experimental branch is our fast paced development branch where we primarily focus on implementing features and content. When new content is added, the text we produce for the interface is written in English and the translation of that text is automatically placed in a localization backlog. Once we've accumulated enough text to be localized, or once we deploy a new major update, the text in the backlog will be translated.

[h3]Why is some text on the default branch not localized?[/h3]
Then you've found a bug! Airport CEO consists of over 17500 words and in an early access state it's possible for something to slip through. Bug report it using the in-game panel and we'll get busy fixing it!

[h3]Why is the word "[insert any word]" incorrectly translated?[/h3]
Airport CEO consist of a lot of complex industry terminology. We would love your feedback on the language you've chosen in the game and you can send it directly to us via the bug reporting panel, or reach out to us via any of our social channels!

[h3]Can I help out translating?[/h3]
Yes you can! Airport CEO is translated using Localizor and we'll always need your native language expert help on translating the texts of the game. Learn more about it here or head over immediately to Airport CEO on Localizor to get started!

S'amuser, que te diviertas and diverta-se!

Good afternoon airport CEO!

It's time for a small stabilization update for Alpha 33 with another round of important fixes. Specifically an issue you've reported a lot with passengers that do not show up in time for check-in when the airport is under heavy load has been fixed, along with a few other important solutions.

Here's the patch notes for Alpha 33.8-0:



Bug

• [ACEO-19057] - Passengers can board large aircraft without a stair truck parked at stand
  
• [ACEO-19074] - Vehicles can in rare instances caused by a very specific construction case get stuck and not reach final target
  
• [ACEO-19136] - Waring sign text on large stand reversed
  
• [ACEO-19806] - Passengers don't always arrive at airport
  
• [ACEO-19928] - Increase minimum thread clamp value to 4
  
• [ACEO-20142] - Low passenger ratio setting can cause a flight to generate zero passengers
  
• [ACEO-20143] - Reloading a save during boarding can cause the boarding process to close
  
• [ACEO-20215] - Missing notification text for ServiceCarController.cs.key.0
  

Hello airport CEO!

It's a new Wednesday and time for another, very exhaustive, dev blog digging into the future of Airport CEO and more specifically the upcoming R&D update. Read all about it in Dev Blog 142: Revealing The R&D Update!

Best regards,

Fredrik, Alexander & Olof - Apoapsis Studios