We are excited to bring you a new map today, the U.S. Air Force Boneyard. This map will be used for today’s Fanduel DRL Sim Racing Cup event at 4pm EST. This map will have a freestyle track and 2 race tracks in this release, “Stratotanker” and “Sim Racing Cup 8.” The Sim Cup track will be added shortly when today’s race begins.
The Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is the world's largest military aircraft maintenance facility and home to thousands of decommissioned aircraft. Although this map is not an exact replica of the real boneyard, it has hundreds of planes including KC-135 Stratotankers, F-15E Strike Eagles and A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthogs” to fly over and explore.
We encourage you to check out these new tracks and see how you stack up to your fellow sim pilots.
Thank you for your ongoing support, DRL Sim Team
Weekly Community Tournaments: Sunday Night Flights
Hello Pilots,
We are excited to announce "Sunday Night Flights", a new weekly community tournament series, that we will be running on Sundays at 7pm EST. The first tournament will be Sunday, June 28th.
We wanted to set up these tournaments based on requests from the community. These tournaments will not be hosted or streamed by DRL staff, but you are encouraged to interact with each other on Discord throughout each tournament or even stream them on your own channels. These tournaments are for fun/practice and prizes will not be awarded.
You can access and register for the tournaments via the “Tournaments” card in the sim. The tournament for this week will open Saturday evening for registration.
The tournaments will follow nearly the same format as the Tryouts tournaments where there will be a 15 minute qualifier, followed by 4 quarterfinals, 2 semifinals, and a final. Each round from the quarterfinals to the finals will have 6 pilots and 5 heats. The scoring system used will be the point system used in Tryouts.
Thank you for your ongoing support of the sim.
Fanduel DRL Sim Racing Cup
Hello Pilots,
We are pushing a small release today that includes the Fanduel DRL Sim Racing Cup card that you can find under the Solo race menu. As the competition progresses, tracks will be added here and you can see how you stack up on the leaderboards against these elite pilots.
The 2020 FanDuel DRL SIM Racing Cup will feature 12 elite DRL pilots battling it out on the DRL SIM, the true-to-life drone racing simulator, across eight events for the chance to be crowned the series’ Champion--all to support Covid-19 and raise money for Direct Relief to get protective gear for frontline workers.
Tune in on NBC Sports and Twitter to see all of the action:
May 16th @ 2:30pm EST - Level 1 Biosphere May 24th @ 3pm EST - Level 2 Atlanta May 31st @ 2pm EST - Level 3 Miami June 7th @ 12pm EST - Level 4 The Bridge June 14th @ 1pm EST - Level 5 Ohio Crash Site June 20th @ 12pm EST - Level 6 Adventuredome June 27th @ 3pm EST - Level 7 The Kingdom July 5th @ 4pm EST - US Air Force Boneyard
Thank you for your ongoing support of the sim. Please let us know of any feedback you have.
DRL Sim Team
Release Notes:
Added Fanduel DRL Sim Racing Cup card
Added Track 1 of Fanduel DRL Sim Racing Cup card
Tournament system changes to improve useability
Spectator mode improvements
DRL SIM 3.6 Release Announcement
Hello Pilots,
We hope you are all safe and well. We bring you a small update focused on bringing the new DRL scoring system to our tournament system.
In addition to the new scoring system for tournaments, we have also added the ability to assign custom colors to pilots so it is easier to follow their progression through a tournament.
Lastly, this release brings a number of bug fixes which are detailed below.
Please let us know of any feedback you have as we are constantly striving to improve the sim.
Thank you for your ongoing support!
Release Notes
Tournaments: - New DRL 2020 scoring per including sudden death and golden heat - Ability to assign colors to pilots - Ability for tournament to be private
Bug fixes: - Excessive multiplayer notifications and snooze not working - Spectator timer showing 00:00 during races - Standings scrambling during races - Frame rate drop watching replays - Timer intermittently in spectator mode starting at 2 plus minutes and then going back to 00:00 as race starts - Props not spinning in multiplayer while "in-game" status - Props spinning when idle - Garage battery size copy/label changes - PS4 controller when detected showing as Xbox controller - DRL Sandbox tracks washed out when using low/lowest graphics
If you want to join the community, please feel free to join our Discord server or Facebook Group via the links on the bottom bar of the Sim. If you have any issues or just need some help, feel free to reach out via the Steam Discussion Boards or on our Zendesk.
DRL Sim Tryouts 2020
Welcome to the 2020 DRL SIM Tryouts, a global competition, open to anyone 16 years or older that seeks to find the next professional DRL pilot. The winner of the tryouts competition will earn a professional pilot contract to compete in the 2020 DRL season. And for the first time ever, DRL is giving away $75K in total prizes throughout this epic, two-month tournament. Score a top place on the leaderboards. Compete in weekly tournaments. Tune-in to watch the action. Everyone has a chance to win.
It’s simple to get started. Players must complete 3 heats on the Tryouts Map, and you’re automatically qualified to join the weekly online tournaments. There’s no time cut off. If you can complete the map 3 times, you’re qualified to compete.
Once you qualify on the Tryouts Map, you can join any of the 12 weekly tournaments held every Tuesday and Thursday between Feb 18th - March 26th. Each week is a different track. During the tournament, you have 30 minutes to set your fastest time in a Solo Race. The Top 24 will battle it out bracket-style to become the overall winner. Every tournament winner automatically advanced to the Finals.
Mark your calendars: Tuesday, February 18 at 3:30pm ET Thursday, February 20 at 9:30pm ET Tuesday, February 25 at 3:30pm ET Thursday, February 27 at 9:30pm ET Tuesday, March 3 at 3:30pm ET Thursday, March 6 at 9:30pm ET Tuesday, March 10 at 3:30pm ET Thursday, March 12 at 9:30pm ET Tuesday, March 17 at 3:30pm ET Thursday, March 19 at 9:30pm ET Tuesday, March 24 at 3:30pm ET Thursday, March 26 at 9:30pm ET
Tune-in on April 2nd at 9pm to watch the DRL SIM TRYOUTS FINALS, where the top 12 winners from each of the weekly online tournaments will go head-to-head for the ultimate prize: A contract to join the 2020 DRL Allianz World Championship season as the official DRL SIM PILOT.
Want to go from gamer to pilot? Now's your chance. Enter the Tryouts and you could be one of DRL's next professional pilots.
DRL SIM 3.5 Release Announcement
Hello Pilots,
It’s the time of year that you have all been waiting for - Tryouts! This release offers you the opportunity to compete for a chance to compete for up to $75,000 in prizes and become a professional DRL pilot. Be sure to visit the Tryouts website for all of the details on this year’s event
We also bring you 3 brand new frames to build your dream drone. These are the OAS Hobby Volk v2, the Rotor Riot CL1, and the Five33 Switchback.
To enhance the experience for all pilots during Tryouts, we made a number of improvements to our tournaments system and spectator mode.
This update includes a few slight adjustments to drone tunes. As a result and to ensure fairness, leaderboards have been reset.
As we are always striving to improve the sim, please send us all feedback, comments, and questions you have. The detailed release notes are listed below.
Release Notes
Game - Tryouts
Garage - Added Rotor Riot CL1 - Added Five33 Switchback - Added OAS Hobby Volk v2 - Default drone for new players to Racer4 - New drones default to private
Physics - Slight updates to drone tunes
Missions - Added ability to complete Quest 3 missions in Pro mode
Multiplayer and Tournaments - Added ability for spectators to access all options - Added ability for spectators to see timeout - Changed text of tournament register button to "Details" - User is alerted when notifications are in queue - Times/scores from tournaments are reflected on leaderboard - Adjusted group seedings to ensure a more fair distribution - Small UI/UX improvements
Map Editor - Improved cheat detection and warning system - New track default difficulty is now easy
Bugs - Fixed MultiGP mesh colliders which reduces issues with getting stuck in MultiGP gates - Resolved issue with Super G flipping backwards - Corrected loophole where leaving timer running for 30 minutes reset at 0 - Resolved difficulty options shifting and not working properly when filtering tracks - Addressed issue with voting options being reversed - Fixed problem where upon completion of Q3M2, drone keeps flying and crashes into stands - Fixed bug where toggling restart switch when crossing finish line causes a lock up - Corrected issue that allowed for a head start by having throttle up before start countdown completed - Resolved problem with forfeit/quitting causing leaderboard to scramble - Fixed a few typographical mistakes in various missions
If you want to join the community, please feel free to join our Discord server or Facebook Group via the links on the bottom bar of the Sim. If you have any issues or just need some help, feel free to reach out via the Steam Discussion Boards or on our Zendesk.
DRL SIM 3.4 Release Announcement
Hello Pilots,
We are really excited to bring you this jam packed update. We start you off with DRL’s newest signature drone, the Racer 4.
Next, we have a brand new map called Drone Park. This came from our concept of a futuristic drone park and we hope you have as much fun flying it as we did creating it.
In addition to the Racer 4, this update includes the Floss v3 frame. To add more to your drones, we’ve added some GoPro Hero 5 attachments and mounts for multiple frames.
One of the things that we enjoy seeing are all of the great tracks the community builds.
We’ve added new shape style gates to create one more option for creating new and unique tracks through the map editor. Additionally, this update includes enhancements to the lap system.
Please note that since there are physics changes in this release that the leaderboards have been reset to ensure fairness.
We thank you for your ongoing support of the simulator and welcome any feedback you have.
- Additional validation of parts bench tests - Made adjustments to default rates - Adjusted super rate value max for pitch/roll - Applied battery sag as default for all drones
Maps
- Drone Park
Tournaments
- Enhancements to give DRL hosts greater control over tournaments
UI/UX
- New timeout functionality - New hotkey system - Created new forfeit functionality - Added option to disable in-game chat - Updated startup experience to show more descriptive messaged during connection/loading process - Adjusted FOV slider on solo race/freestyle screen - All community tracks will now be displayed in freestyle - Repositioned battery meter to bottom right
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with force graph opening by default - Resolved issue with group numbers out of order - Corrected issue with graph lines overlapping - Fixed modular scale gizmo bugs in Map Editor - Resolved issue with repeated beeping on reset in Mixed Medley mission - Corrected overlapping elements on Tournament qualified page - Fixed issue with Xbox controller sensitivity - Resolved problems with "Detect Quality" - Corrected problem with Xbox reset switch - Fixed issue with Spektrum controller not being detected properly - Resolved lighting issues on Swatch map - Corrected problem where bots/ghosts were added when room was full - Fixed issue with snap functionality in Map Editor - Resolved issue with being able to fly underneath map in Gates of Hell - Corrected issue with new drones defaulting to public - Fixed issue with drone audio not working as a spectator
If you want to join the community, please feel free to join our Discord server or Facebook Group via the links on the bottom bar of the Sim. If you have any issues or just need some help, feel free to reach out via the Steam Discussion Boards or on our Zendesk.
DRL SIM Showdown
Top 3 from each tournament win Gift Cards from Pyrodrone, GetFPV, Rotor Riot or Kwadbox.
Watch Live on Twitter for more chances to win! https://twitter.com/droneraceleague
1st Place = $100 USD 2nd Place = $50 USD 3rd Place = $25 USD
Track: Dust Town (Featured Tracks)
Must be 13 years or older to enter
For Schedule Info and rules see https://drl.io/drl-sim-showdown/
DRL SIM Showdown
Top 3 from each tournament win Gift Cards from Pyrodrone, GetFPV, Rotor Riot or Kwadbox.
Watch Live on Twitter for more chances to win! https://twitter.com/droneraceleague
1st Place = $100 USD 2nd Place = $50 USD 3rd Place = $25 USD
Track: Dust Town (Featured Tracks)
Must be 13 years or older to enter
For Schedule Info and rules see https://drl.io/drl-sim-showdown/
DRL SIM Showdown
10 Tournaments / 10 Chances to Win
Top 3 from each tournament win Gift Cards from Pyrodrone, GetFPV, Rotor Riot or Kwadbox.
Watch Live on Twitter for more chances to win! https://twitter.com/droneraceleague
1st Place = $100 USD 2nd Place = $50 USD 3rd Place = $25 USD
Must be 13 years or older to enter
For Schedule Info and rules see https://drl.io/drl-sim-showdown/
