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Dev Blog 144: Soon releasing Alpha 34, beginning work on Alpha 35 and...

Dev Blog 143: Back in business with Alpha 34 on the experimental branch
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

Airport CEO Alpha 33.50-0 released (The Holiday Mini Update)
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:

Release notes - Airport CEO - Version Alpha 33.50-0


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


// Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Airport CEO now available in French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese!


Bonjour/hola/olá CEO de/del/do l'aéroport/aeropuerto/aeroporto!


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...

How do I change language?


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.

Why is some text on the experimental branch not localized?


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.

Why is some text on the default branch not localized?


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!

Why is the word "[insert any word]" incorrectly translated?


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!

Can I help out translating?


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!

// Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Airport CEO Alpha 33.8-0 released
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:

Release notes - Airport CEO - Version 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


// Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Dev Blog 142: Revealing The R&D Update
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,

// Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Airport CEO Alpha 33.7-47 released (The Queen's Mini Update)
Hey, hey, hey, airport CEO!

As we wrote in yesterday's dev blog we've got another little Steam autumn sale surprise update for you. Alpha 33.7-47 brings a few fixes but most importantly introduces the Queen of the Skies to Airport CEO!



The 747 is flown exclusively by Swiftly and if you have an existing contract with Swiftly at your airport you will need to cancel and re-accept it in order to make sure that the 747 is included in Swiftly's fleet generation.

Release notes - Airport CEO - Version Alpha 33.7-47


Improvement

  • [ACEO-19906] - Number of path finding worker threads now initially set to number of CPU cores (this can be manually changed via GameSetting.json)

Bug

  • [ACEO-19755] - Check-in cancels with high number of departing passengers
  • [ACEO-19858] - Aircraft movement not smooth when landing and taking off

New feature


// Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Dev Blog 141: Stabilizing one and developing the other
Hey hey airport CEO!

Here's another dev blog digging into the stabilization we're doing on Alpha 33 and the continued development of Alpha 34. Lots of interesting stuff to read about, so don't hesitate but indulge in Dev Blog 141: Stabilizing one and developing the other!

Best regards,

Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Airport CEO Alpha 33.7-4 Released
Good morning airport CEO!

It's time for yet another default update. Alpha 33.7-4 brings a lot of improvements including early access testing of several new languages, a new path finding worker thread solution, new a check-in desk allocation system and loads of other fixes.

This update especially targets you who've had issues with stalled passengers and employees in a late-stage airport with around 2k+ passengers or more. This is by far the bulk of our current bug report backlog and to solve it we've overhauled a large part of how the simulation engine distributes and calculates paths across multiple requests. We'll dive deeper into this in today's dev blog!

Here are the full patch notes for this update:

Release notes - Airport CEO - Version Alpha 33.7-4



Improvement

  • [ACEO-19040] - Overhauled path finding system to better accommodate multiple complex path requests and to avoid stalling path finding queue
  • [ACEO-19686] - Notification now alerts if a service car left without ramp agents urging the player to construct a staff room closer to the service car stops
  • [ACEO-19704] - Auto save feature will now maintain the five most recent auto saves instead of overwriting the same save
  • [ACEO-19781] - Aircraft cabin cleaning truck now selects offloading waste depot by distance and load


Bug

  • [ACEO-19012] - Overhauled check-in desk allocation system to enable better load distribution and avoid issues with immediate closing at the time of opening for delayed flights
  • [ACEO-19110] - Taxiway one-way markers sometimes appear below taxiway line
  • [ACEO-19234] - Wrong floor displayed in main panel when investigating object
  • [ACEO-19366] - Persons stuck in secure area outside terminal cannot reset themselves
  • [ACEO-19388] - Fuel trailer truck can in rare instances spawn without trailer
  • [ACEO-19461] - Template tool not properly reset if trying to place a new object without deselecting it
  • [ACEO-19478] - Fuel depot accidentally connects with fixed road nodes on vehicle depot
  • [ACEO-19578] - No notifications spawned when contractors cannot find a way to a floor different than the ground floor
  • [ACEO-19631] - Contractor offload site has incorrect max queue value causing contractors to fail leaving airport
  • [ACEO-19632] - Adjusted vehicle entry points for small fuel depot and service vehicle parking lot to avoid spinning effect on vehicle enter
  • [ACEO-19637] - Concrete tiles on lower floors disappear after loading
  • [ACEO-19647] - Object description and name not correct for certain items in build panel
  • [ACEO-19653] - Check-in and boarding desk doesn't remove staff zone when demolished
  • [ACEO-19654] - Queue can be built on different floor than its parent desk
  • [ACEO-19656] - Chance of aircraft go around balanced to occur less
  • [ACEO-19681] - ULD trailers can in some rare cases when loading baggage for a flight not spawn ULD containers
  • [ACEO-19684] - Baggage bay description confusing
  • [ACEO-19698] - Transit structure queue full warning displayed too often
  • [ACEO-19715] - Service vehicles force align trailers when parking at stand for baggage transfer
  • [ACEO-19739] - Wrong description text for cleaning and catering in turnaround progress monitor
  • [ACEO-19794] - Remote boarding process can in rare instances deadlock due to incomplete boarding checks
  • [ACEO-19822] - Runway spawns world notification icons before construction is completed
  • [ACEO-19835] - Baggage spawns outside body aircraft for narrow body end aircraft when offloading belt loader truck
  • [ACEO-19841] - Text needlessly updating in some management panels after first time panel loading
  • [ACEO-19874] - Object description panel generates dummy orphaned game objects in root causing potential memory leak
  • [ACEO-19875] - When a tree is removed it can dump its overlay handler causing orhphaned game objects


New feature

Airport CEO Alpha 33.6-0 Released
Good evening fellow CEOs!

We hope you're having a chill weekend and to make it a little bit more chill we're deploying Alpha 33.6-0 which brings a new round of stabilization fixes, specifically targeting the stuck airside shuttle buses you've reported a long with some capacity improvements for large aircraft in relation to check-in.

We'll be back with more updates late next week!

Release notes - Airport CEO - Version Alpha 33.6-0



Improvement

  • [ACEO-19457] - Number of check-in desks per flight is now dependent on passenger count (1 per 75 departing passenger)


Bug

  • [ACEO-18993] - Conveyor belt rotations can in some cases become overridden when placed with template tool
  • [ACEO-19358] - New airport screen in rare instances fails to fully load
  • [ACEO-19373] - Missing notification on transit structures if they are at max capacity
  • [ACEO-19405] - Path finding request can fail immediately after passenger deboards a transportation vehicle
  • [ACEO-19449] - Previous queue anchor point ground floor spawn bug persists on older saves
  • [ACEO-19454] - Persons can in certain instances get stuck on taxi stop due to incorrectly generated secure zone tile
  • [ACEO-19466] - Price of objects are not always same as in description
  • [ACEO-19471] - Check-in desk and baggage claim does not update UI when connecting to baggage bay
  • [ACEO-19479] - Incorrect check system can cause airside shuttle buses to get stuck when deboarding onboard passengers

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