New Content

• 1 new combat mission: Convoy Assault
  
• 1 new airplane race: Indy Air Race
  
• 2 off-road car races: Riding Dirty & Snow Crawl
  
• 3 on-road car races: Airstrip Drag, Gold Prix, & Motor Mirage
  
• New stock airplane: Bush Plane
  
• Convoys added to Krakabloa and Maywar. Like the battleships, they will become hostile if engaged.
  

New Parts

• Parachutes! Slow down and safely descend. Carrier landings are now a breeze. Choose your favorite colors.
  
• Fuselage Inlets! Build better replicas with a customize-able air intake for your jet engines, built directly into the fuselage.
  
• Tractor wheels! A new wheel type option for the resize-able wheels.
  

AI

• AI spawning dialog options enhanced and expanded. Now includes positioning and AI modes.
  
• AI will attempt a landing when a Final Approach location is selected.
  
• Aggressive AI mode! Orchestrate your own battles. If they have weapons, get ready to feel some heat..
  
• AI now works with cars! If vehicles turn over during a race, they will automatically flip back upright after a short delay. Aggressive cars will chase you down in a crazy game of kamikaze chicken.
  
• AI opponents will be properly placed on the ground in races. Manually spawned AI will be re-positioned on the ground.
  

3D Printing & Exporting Designs

• EUCL3D 3d printing
  
• Export the 3D model (OBJ file) of your design. Print your own creations. Fool around with it in some 3D modeling software.
  

Modding

• Updated mod tools to support adding our assets (ships, turrets, bridges, AA tanks, etc.) onto custom maps.
  
• Added two new XML-only attributes to control surfaces: "activationGroup" (0-8) and "activationGroupLocksInput" (true/false).
  

Other Features & Tweaks

• Redesigned stock airplanes: Vertigo & Sea Plane.
  
• Increased length of CoM, CoL, and CoT gizmos.
  
• Added a small amount of spread to bullets.
  
• Zooming the flight mode camera with the mouse wheel is now a bindable input.
  
• Performance tweaks.
  
• Game engine upgrade (Unity 5.3.4 -> Unity 5.3.6f1).
  

Bug Fixes

• AI will no longer spawn underwater, appearing as if they never spawned at all.
  
• The AI flight bug when the plane was perpendicular to target.
  
• Improved the fuselage properties flyout dialog.
  
• Removed the Fix Rotation warning message.
  
• Fixed a bug where jet engines would randomly stop working.
  
• Fixed a few tool-tip issues in the designer.
  
• Removed excessive undo steps when nudging on PC/Mac.
  

New Parts

• Resizable Wheels - Because why not make this game SimpleCars too?
  
• Car Engine - So you can power those new wheels!
  
• Beacon Light - Light up the skies.
  
• Shock - Since you'll be building cars now, you'll need these.
  
• Piston - Sometimes you just need to push parts away from each other.
  
• Hinge Rotator - Finally, right?
  
• Small Rotator - It's a slimmer version of the current rotator.
  
• Extra Large Jet Engine - For all you airliner lovers.
  

Major Features

• Snowstone Island featuring a hidden enemy base with a laser defense system.
  
• Maywar Island is a huge desert with things you'd expect like a racetrack, windmill farm, and oh ya, those pyramid things.
  
• Sky Park City has ramps, racetracks, and a lot of fun stuff to drive around on in your new wheels
  
• Also added over twenty smaller islands scattered throughout the ocean.
  
• 6 new races unlockable by discovering them in sandbox mode.
  
• 12 achievements for the new races.
  
• 2 new songs
  
• Added discoverable locations
  
• Made the locations dialog awesome
  
• Added elevator trim
  
• Replaced some training levels with an interactive tutorial
  
• Added search filters to the load aircraft and subassemblies panels
  
• Performance improvements
  
• Added a dialog to spawn AI planes in sandbox
  

Minor Features

• Added a heading indicator
  
• Added a new stock aircraft (dune buggy)
  
• Added damper and spring settings for new wheels and also existing landing gear. You can tweak these values if you notice you still have too much bounce (or if you want more bounce)
  
• The fuselage part can now be resized by 0.25 increments
  
• Jet engine sound now changes pitch with throttle.
  
• Split settings XML into two separate files so that progress-related settings can be saved to the Steam cloud.
  
• Improved flyout menu in flight scene
  
• Game engine upgrade (Unity 5.1.4 -> Unity 5.3.4)
  
• Added Circular fuselage corner type
  
• Updated the ModTools
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with part rotations getting messed up when creating a sub-assembly
  
• Fixed a bug with the color tool where it was hard to color parts in cramped places
  
• Fixed a bug with fuselage blocks where their connection points were not accurate while flying. This will only take effect on new fuselage blocks pulled out from the part list so as to not impact existing designs.
  
• Fixed an issue where the props of destroyed AI planes don't despawn when the AI Plane despawns.
  
• Fixed some issues with tree collisions on Krakabloa.
  
• Updated the mod tools to fix a bug with cloning parts (not cloning the 'Shares Rigid Body' setting).
  
• Fixed a scrolling issue in the parts panels after a part description was opened.
  
• Fixed rounding issue for the 250lbs bomb
  
• Fixed an issue where connected fuselage pieces could not be sized down to 0.25 units
  
• Fixed gaps in the headers on menu pages
  
• Fixed misspelling in Wright Isles discoverable locations
  
• Fixed brake spelling errors in controls dialog
  
• Fixed an issue where level progress might not be saved in some scenarios.
  
• Fixed some display glitches with various particle systems
  
• Fixed an error log spam issue in the SAM Evasion challenge which could result in low framerate
  
• Fixed a memory leak related to the music
  
• Fixed a targeting box color issue with AI traffic in sandbox mode.
  
• Fixed an issue where guns with low fire rates could not fire
  
• Terrain tweaks
  
• Fixed AA tanks flipping upside down on missions
  
• Fixed a bug with islands not being unloaded in some situtations
  

XML modding additions

• Jet engines now have a power multiplier that is XML mod-able
  
• Added scale XML attribute to parts, so now with XML modding you can scale them by any amount. This has not been tested on every part, so use at your own risk!
  
• Added massScale XML attribute to parts, so you can scale mass of a part via XML.
  
• Added support for disabling part to aircraft collisions via XML-modding (disableAircraftCollisions="true")
  
• Jet engines' and VTOL ports' exhaust colors are XML-moddable.
  
• Control surfaces can now be bound to VTOL and Trim inputs through XML only.
  
• Added LandingGear, FireGuns, and FireWeapons as options for input controllers via XML modding
  
• Added XML property to prevent pistons from breaking (preventBreaking="true")
  
• Added slip settings for wheels in the XML for advanced XML modders
  
• Added disableBaseMesh attribute to JointRotators XML so you can disable that mesh,
  
• Bullet tracer color is now XML mod-able
  

New Islands

• TWO NEW BIG FEATURE ISLANDS, but you'll need to find them yourself.
  
• Also added over twenty smaller islands scattered throughout the ocean.
  

New Parts

• Resizable Wheels - Because why not make this game SimpleCars too?
  
• Car Engine - So you can power those new wheels!
  
• Beacon Light - Light up the skies.
  
• Shock - Since you'll be building cars now, you'll need these.
  
• Piston - Sometimes you just need to push parts away from each other.
  
• Hinge Rotator - Finally, right?
  
• Small Rotator - It's a slimmer version of the current rotator.
  
• Extra Large Jet Engine - For all you airliner lovers.
  

Features and Tweaks

• 6 new races unlockable by discovering them in sandbox mode.
  
• 12 achievements for the new races.
  
• 2 new songs
  
• Added discoverable locations
  
• Made the locations dialog awesome
  
• Added a heading indicator
  
• Added a new stock aircraft (dune buggy)
  
• Added elevator trim
  
• Replaced some training levels with an interactive tutorial
  
• The fuselage part can now be resized by 0.25 increments
  
• Jet engines now have a power multiplier that is XML mod-able
  
• Jet engine sound now changes pitch with throttle.
  
• Jet engine/VTOL exhaust scale is now XML mod-able
  
• Aircraft are now a little bit more resilient to collision damage
  
• Added search filters to the load aircraft and subassemblies panels
  
• Split settings XML into two separate files so that progress-related settings can be saved to the Steam cloud.
  
• Bullet size no longer scales throughout flight
  
• Bullet tracer color is now XML mod-able
  
• Performance tweaks
  
• Game engine upgrade (Unity 5.1.4 -> Unity 5.3.4)
  

How to get Beta

• Open the Steam client
  
• Right click on the game in your library and click “Properties”
  
• Click the “Betas” tab
  
• From the “Select the beta you would like to opt into:” drop-down select public-test
  
• Steam should start downloading the public-test version of the game. You can also verify that you are playing the public test by checking the version in the “About” menu from the initial menu: 1.4.0.1
  

Rules

• Submit your own designs. Predecessors from a design of another player will not be allowed.
  
• You can only submit one plane per tournament. Choose your best.
  
• To keep your plane a secret, you may submit an unlisted plane. However, that plane will become visible to the public once the tournament begins.
  
• Each tournament will be unique, with its own set of rules. Any violation will result in disqualification.
  

Rewards

• The winner of each match will receive a 50 point bonus.
  
• Both planes that face off in the final match will receive a 150 point bonus.
  
• The Sky Cup winner will be awarded a 500 point bonus.