Hello Pilots,
We are excited to bring you our latest update. We start off with a number of big updates courtesy of the U.S. Air Force. The first big update is the introduction of the oft-requested Night Mode, a version of the U.S. Air Force Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Base, with night lighting featuring 3 brand new race tracks. The U.S. Air Force also brings you a number of new features when you are creating your own drones including a rebranded workbench, 3 new U.S. Air Force branded skins, and 2 U.S. Air Force branded motors.
In addition to the U.S. Air Force Boneyard Night Mode, we are bringing you our most graphically advanced map to date, the Campground. This map features a lake, cabins, power lines, cars, bridges, and even a train tunnel for you to fly through. We are kicking off the launch of this map with 4 new tracks for it.
Next up we have our paid skins feature where we are bringing you our first animated drone skins available for purchase. You can check out these skins under the new “Store” card where you will find skins like “Party Time,” a celebratory skin decked out with animated confetti. Our initial launch includes 2 individual skins available for purchase as well as a pack of 4 skins.
In our last update, we mentioned that our experience points system was being released as a beta. Today, we are simplifying that system where you will have a cumulative level and a weekly level.
We are also adding 3 new achievements today. You can now earn an achievement by winning 5 tournaments, creating 5 maps, and/or building maps that see at least 20 leaderboard times logged on them.
We’ve heard a number of community requests to add more statistics to the sim. To this end, you will now find information on your fastest lap, slowest lap, number of crashes, and finish percentile (relative to your time on the leaderboard).
Lastly, we have included a number of improvements including more work on the race line system as well as bug fixes. You can find a complete list of those below.
As always, your feedback and ongoing support are valued. Please let us know what you think of this release as we are constantly striving to bring you the best simulator that we can.
Bug Fixes
- Corrected issues with World Traveler achievement
- Resolved problems with camera boxes appearing on tracks
- Reverted multiplayer forced Racer4 default changes to resolved bugs
- Made Bridge map accessible in Map Editor
- Resolved issue with drone rotation on rates screen
- Resolved problems with various loading animations not working/loading
- Fixed problem with network disconnected dialogue message going out of box
- Made additional improvements to race line consistency
- Fixed issue where spectator name and time would not display when using spectator mode
