Hello Pilots, New HUGE update released. Thank you all for the support, ideas and help with development. You are the best community we can imagine. Also, thank you to the people who helped us with testing.
As usual, we worked on every aspect of the game. Let's start with flight physics. After reviewing comments related to the ship behavior we find out the few problems. Most of the players don't even know about auto-leveling switcher. Please press B if you would like to have a full simulator experience. (by default auto-leveling is turned off.) The maximum angle of the wing attack behavior changed.
Also, a lot of pilots complain about mission logs. We added a new button on the map menu - Contacts. It's like mission logs. Here you will contact passengers, communicate with them and follow the quest reports.
Animation has been updated as well in the hangar, on the bases. We added people around and made them move more realistic.
Another aspect which becomes better - effects. We change the rain effect, volcano and damage effects of the cargospaceway.
Our audio specialist made a great job with the sound. We normalize the sounds, updated system alerts, and effects of the engines.
In addition, we rewrote all of the quests in order to fit in the new contact panel. NOTE: you might need to start a new game and delete the previous progress because of the new system. All previous bugs with quests fixed.
Oh and one more thing. We made new clouds. It should look more realistic and consume less memory.
Details:
Clouds - New
Flight physics - updated
Auto-leveling Switcher - added
Sounds - added
Sound level - stabilized
Misson logs - added
Contact panel - added
Hangar animation - updated
Human animation - updated
Effects - updated
Quests - updated
Bugs - fixed
Report #60
Hi Pilots, Do you feel the need ... the need for news? We know you do!
First of all, thank you all for the great feedbacks and steam reviews. (IF someone forgot to make a good review please do:) ----------------------------------------- You can find us here: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/frontierpilot.net/ Discord - https://discord.gg/9Gez4ED -----------------------------------------
It was a long week. (By the way, thank you for your support and great reaction on the April Fools) We almost finished with the testing of the new update. Just need to polish a few things and it will be ready for release. Most likely next week you ll get the new update.
What else are we working on?
Sound
We will change the radio chatting lines
Sound of the ship signals
Bases
All of the bases on Raglor will be closed until you finish the tutorial storyline on Astlan.
Weather
We will change the wind layers
Make the storms more realistic
The structure of the sand storm
Adding new icons
Customization
Contacts
Map (you will be able to see map in the hangar)
Important announcement! - April Fools:)
Hi Pilots, Important announcement. Based on your negative reviews about the ship controls.
We have decided to change the course of the game.
To feet the flight model controls, we will change the space ships and futuristic ships to industrial-punk Airships.
Illustrations below, We hope you will understand our decision and support it with likes. Every potential buyer should know that why we would like to spread this news.
Also, we'll change the entire storyline. Make it closer to industrial punk reality.
Plus the name of the will be changed, that why the following update will be canceled.
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Report #59
Hi Pilots, Do you feel the need ... the need for news? We know you do!
First of all, thank you all for the great feedbacks and steam reviews. (IF someone forgot to make a good review please do:) ----------------------------------------- You can find us here: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/frontierpilot.net/ Discord - https://discord.gg/9Gez4ED -----------------------------------------
So, what can you expect in the new update? 2 major things - New map interface, mission logs (our vision), new clouds, and a lot of small things.
Also, we saw some of the topic related to the turns, we changed it a little bit, happy to see your reactions.
What we are working on in parallel. Maybe you realized that there are no windows in the rescue capsule we would like to replace the metal to glass.
In addition, we are working on ship customization. We all add colors and themes for the ships.
Report #58
Hello pilots,
We are happy to represent new clouds.
Flight physics
With each update, we updating the simulation part of the game. That why it became more difficult to control the ship in flight mode. Now you have to take into the consideration wing’s lifting force, flaps, ailerons, and aft. For example, now the wing works only under certain (real) conditions, a certain attack angle, and not only vertically but also horizontally (which previously was not taken into account) i.e. now it’s impossible to fly sideways ..only if you want to crash. Also, we add Effects of overlap, i.e. when trying to level the plane, you can get into resonance and instead of leveling, only increase the amplitude of the plane’s vibrations plus you can get the spin effect. [previewyoutube="EwY90_SRtco;full"] Besides, a crosswind has a very strong effect on flight. Precisely as a result of the fact that now the tail extension determines the direction of the hull. Those additions have a huge impact on the small ship (SCARAB) auto-leveling turn off. You would feel the rotation during the roll and the fixed angle of attack of the wing, influence of rudders, ailerons, trimmers. As a result, there are not only positive effects but also negative ones, such as lateral flow stall, flat corkscrew and other “fun moments” of aerobatics.
Record those effects and paste them to comments. It's important to us how players deal with it. Each player will get a key if he'll share the video.
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Big Update Vol.18 is out!
Hello Pilots, New HUGE update released. Thank you all for the support, ideas and help with development. You are the best community we can imagine. Also, thank you to the people who helped us with testing. [previewyoutube="FNfWg_DrTn4;full"]
New places - Archeology
Step by step we are adding new places of interest. You will be able to interact with it. In order to find those places, you 'll need to pass some quests of the scientists.
Horizont
Simulation fans requested to add an artificial horizon to the HUD. Here you go, guys.
Hangar
We had static engineers in the hangar and it looked like a dead place. Now, the situation has changed we added new elements to the hangar and animation for the engineers.
New upgrades
Since you guys love scarab we added new upgrades and quests. In total 19 upgrades have been added in the update.
Flight physics
Updated flight physics in airplane mode, and chassis control. The physics of the aircraft has been improved towards realistic calculations of the atmosphere influence on the ship. (Also bug with airflow influence on the ship has been fixed)
AR Mode + Day&Night
We fixed some of the issues connected to the AR mode and Day cycle. We Also increased FPS thanks to the tester. They should the spots in the game where FPS was extremely low.
P.S. Recommend our game to your friends, leave reviews and enjoy the game.
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Frontier Pilot Simulator Soundtracks
Hello Pilots,
By the request of our community, we released a full soundtrack list from the game. OST contains all the music from the game. It contains 7 tracks:
P.S. Recommend our game to your friends, leave reviews and enjoy the game.
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FREE DLC - OST
Hi guys, How is it going?
We received a lot of messages about the music in the game, it seems like most of you love it. What about having it as a FREE DLC? Give a like to this announcement and we make it happen at the same time as the update.
Min. 30 likes required;)
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Beta Testing - Begins
Everyone who already sends us an email with the request will get a Testing key and instructions now.
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Friday Report #56
Hi Pilots, Do you feel the need ... the need for news? We know you do!
First of all, thank you all for the great feedbacks and steam reviews. (IF someone forgot to make a good review please do:) ----------------------------------------- You can find us here: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/frontierpilot.net/ Discord - https://discord.gg/9Gez4ED ----------------------------------------- Thank you to our community and people who sign up for the beta test. We will launch the beta testing next week and most likely new updates will be available by the end of the mouths.
What will be 100% in the new update:
New Goods all over the map
New updates for scarab (you guys love this machine)
New bases
New places of interest
New trailer
Even more realistic flight mechanics
New sounds
We have a problem with new clouds maybe we ll postponed it for the late update. The map is ready but in order to show you the mission logs we would need to re-write all quests, so it will take more time. Have a look at the new cargos, bases, and places of the interests. MAke a guess what is it.
