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Genre: Racing, Simulator, Sport, Indie

Liftoff

Easter egg hunt!


What better way to celebrate spring than with a good old Easter egg hunt!

Find all easter eggs in a single environment during the Easter event and unlock the "Easter Egg Hunting" achievement. Have an egg-cellent hunt!

Launching: Lifterium


From now on, learning to fly in a simulator won't only save you money, it will make us money too!

Changelist



  • Added Lifterium
  • Minor bugfixes


Lifterium explained!


The Liftoff team is excited to launch the next big hype in crypto; the Lifterium coin! Powered by the combined processing power of more than 300.000 virtual flight controllers, Liftoff will be mining for Lifterium while you fly in Liftoff. The Liftoff team has taken great care to limit the impact on your gameplay experience, you will hardly notice the impact on performance, we promise!

To motivate you to get those virtual flight controller juices flowing, we have hidden virtual coins in all Liftoff levels. As a thank you to your financial contribution, collect all the coins in a single environment, during the next 24 hours will award you the "Fools Gold" achievement. Happy mining!

St. Patrick's Day!


Wishing you a pot of gold this St. Patrick's Day.

Find 5 pots of gold in a single environment during this event and unlock the "Leprechaun Madness" achievement. Pro tip: rainbows are a lucky charm! ;)

May every petal on the shamrock bring you joy and good luck.

DJI FPV now available as a free DLC


LuGus Studios, creators of the Liftoff™ drone simulator series, and world-renowned drone manufacturer DJI are teaming up to bring the ultimate FPV drone experience to Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing.

As part of a temporary Downloadable Content pack (DLC), the DJI FPV drone and related products are made available to download and fly in the virtual skies of the Liftoff™ world. This optional DLC is completely free for anyone with a copy of Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing on Steam.

The DJI FPV system is a flagship product line created by drone technology innovator DJI. Their new DJI FPV drone system combines the power of first person drone flying with their established hi-tech camera systems. They have achieved this through an unparalleled commitment to R&D, a culture of constant innovation and curiosity, and a focus on transforming complex technology into easy-to-use devices.

The team at LuGus Studios will honor those achievements by providing an equally powerful and easy-to-use digital twin. In Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing, DJI FPV fans can now practice flying in normal and manual mode in a safe simulated environment.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1891780/Liftoff__DJI_FPV/

Update 1.4.5 released!

Due to ongoing events in Europe, we have decided to update the name of the "Russian Woodpecker" environment to simply "The Woodpecker". Being set in Ukraine, we felt this was an appropriate name change. We have also decided to stop the ongoing tournament in that level, called "Radio Active" earlier than originally planned. Thanks for understanding.

Our thoughts go out to the people affected by these events.

Changelist:


  • Fixed: 'Undo' and 'Reset to default' buttons in the Flight Controller Settings menu didn't do anything.
  • Fixed: Some drone parts could be built with the wrong skin applied to them.
  • Updated: 'The Russian Woodpecker' environment has been renamed to 'The Woodpecker'.

Update 1.4.4 released!


Preparing for some of the next big updates, 1.4.4 irons out a few kinks still standing. Thank you for your feedback!

Changelist


  • Fixed: main menu loading stuck at 50% because of a drone loading error.
  • Fixed: the music radio in the pause menu didn't show.
  • Fixed: multiplayer fixed drone setups not being selectable.
  • Fixed: downloading a drone in the multiplayer menu didn't allow to select them in the drone selection.
  • Fixed: camera angle restriction on the Dquad LRX frame now has sensible values.
  • Updated: adjusted flight controller settings during flight are now immediately applied to the current drone. No more additional reset is required.
  • Updated: Immersion RC logo has been updated to the new logo.
  • Systems prepared for the DJI FPV dlc

DJI FPV coming to Liftoff soon!


The Liftoff team is excited to announce an exciting collaboration with the world-renowned drone manufacturer DJI.

A virtual version of their flagship DJI FPV drone will become available in Liftoff: FPV Drone racing for a limited time, as a free DLC pack. The DLC contains a fully flyable DJI FPV drone, an authentic HUD, and a virtual twin of the DJI FPV Remote Controller 2.

It will be available on the Steam platform on PC, Mac and Linux.

Valentine's day event


Showing our love to the community, we celebrate valentine in our 3 day in-game event.

Collect all the hearts in a single environment during the Valentine's Day event and unlock the "Heart Collector" achievement.

Thank you for being being a part of the Liftoff community, we love you all!

Update 1.4.3 Released
A small update with some quick fixes. Read the changelist below:


  • Fixed: Black screen issue in multiplayer when a drone reset was requested. This could occur in multiple scenarios (switching between flight/spectator modes, drones resetting in the background, etc.)
  • Fixed: Authentication error message where the information was not displayed properly when trying to sign in to a Liftoff Pro account from a different Steam account.
  • Fixed: Issue with the tournament management system.
  • Added: Additional logging is enabled to track down a rare issue where the room creation would get stuck in the 'Creating room...' state.

Update 1.4.2 released


Customary when we release a big milestone update are the quick-fix updates that follow soon after. These past few days we've pushed a series of fixes to smooth out the experience further. Thank you so much for your feedback!

1.4.1 changelist



  • Fixed: rooms disappearing in the lobby.
  • Fixed: Liftoff-logo hanging in infinite race when no bots/ghosts are flying with you.
  • Fixed: Night Fever skins not loading in the drone editor.
  • Fixed: Soupape V2 antenna weight.
  • Fixed: uncolorable skins having custom colors applied anyway.


1.4.2 changelist



  • Optimized: removed entities in the game code that could cause CPU spikes.
  • Fixed: changing flight mode is now saved between drone resets.
  • Fixed: foodstands in the Short Circuit environment don't pop anymore.
  • Fixed: the Bluecheese paddock in the Short Circuit environment has its visuals restored.
  • Fixed: the button assignment popup now shows the current action being re-assigned again.
  • Fixed: some errors in the French translations.
  • Removed: the white bar in the multiplayer ranking bar, which visually separates in-game players from players in the lobby, has been removed.
  • Fixed: the multiplayer chat did not hiding with the rest of the UI when pressing F1.
  • Fixed: the battery now doesn't drain anymore before the start of a race, while waiting for others to start.
  • Fixed: issue with multiplayer classic and dropout race not progressing as expected.
  • Fixed: the multiplayer 'disconnect' issue where this would happen after a (long) loading time.
  • Fixed: Updating an existing item on the Steam Workshop now completes as expected.


Disabled Vulkan on Windows


We have noticed some issues that got reported are related to Vulkan rendering, and do not occur with the standard rendering. We have now disabled Vulkan rendering as an option for Windows.
We are hopeful this might eliminate a lot of issues for people.
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