Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing - LuGus Studios

Fixing some long standing bugs and including a bunch of community requests, Liftoff update 1.4.7 brings some extra shine to the polish.

Changelist
  • Added: Favorite content system. Mark the content you like the most as your favorite, and have it show up at the top of the lists during level selection. Content can be marked as favorite in the level selection and track selection screen.
  • Added: A new random race can now be started with the click of a button from the race finish screen. (Requested by Krazyzock)
  • Added: In the track builder, a tracks and races can be reloaded from file to help track builders using external tools. (Requested by Tau Muon)
  • Added: Direct flight mode actions can now be bound to buttons/switches. You can now bind and switch to a flight mode directly. (Requested by Bravedan)
  • Updated: LOS user interface has been tweaked. The circle indicator is bigger and should now show up further away. (Requested by Snorklingmonkey)
  • Updated: A new splash screen sequence. A big thank you to all our brand partners, you are awesome!
  • Fixed: Liftoff Arena Race 03: bots cheating a gate.
  • Fixed: Sharing content on the Steam Workshop now has the 'Share' button working again. If you haven't yet accepted the Steam Workshop EULA, you will be notified with a popup.
  • Fixed: Some network connections made with the Liftoff Pro service were made while the player wasn't signed in.
  • Optimized: Polling for input has reduced latency.
  • Optimized: The drone HUD has improved memory usage to reduce frame spikes.
  • Optimized: The pause menu has improved memory usage.
The following changes were included as quick fix updates for the previous update, but weren't documented afterwards:
  • Fixed: Night Fever skins not showing up to select when the Night Fever DLC was installed.
  • Fixed: Walking around during free flight would freeze the camera after resetting the drone.
  • Fixed: Leaving a multiplayer game to the lobby would not load the other available games properly.
  • Fixed: The Liftoff giftbox would have its bottom-part teleport away when trying to open it.
  • Fixed: When receiving a frame skin from the Liftoff giftbox would make the program crash.

Liftoff: Micro Drones Summer Brawl
We'd like to put some extra attention to an initiative for Liftoff: Micro Drones. We are giving away up to a $1000 worth of FPV store vouchers. The only thing you need to do is play!
Want to know more? Check this out!


Jul 2, 2022
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Jun 14, 2022
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing - LuGus Studios


1.4.6 Introduces some much requested improvements and fixes. Enjoy!

Changelist
  • Reintroduced optional camera noise (press C), this effect is slightly different from before.
  • Added: A.I. data for races in the Short Circuit, Hangar C03, The Woodpecker and Liftoff Arena.
  • Added: all-time best leaderboards for official races. You can view these in the leaderboards section as well as the top 3 coming by in the multiplayer room.
  • Updated: when crashing or resetting during a tournament tryout, the score screen is now shown instead of going back to the tournaments selection screen again. The score screen now allows to directly do another tryout.
  • Updated: leaderboards should load a lot faster than before.
  • Updated: displaying a large leaderboard now allows to load chunks of scores in batches of 250 entries.
  • Updated: Steam Workshop sharing panel to only allow to share content when the Steam Workshop EULA has been accepted.
  • Fixed: drone setups with no blueprint saved in the file would make Liftoff hang in a loading screen.
  • Fixed: a player could join and start a multiplayer game without having all necessary content loaded.
  • Fixed: steam player information not always caching correctly.
  • Fixed: issue with showing an error while signing up for a Liftoff Pro account, even though registration succeeded.
  • Optimised: disk and memory usage of certain track items, potentially loading certain tracks faster on older hard drives.
May 24, 2022
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing - LuGus Studios


Special lantern festivals are held all over the world, at different times and for different reasons. Some have floating lanterns, others have them flying, in our very own homage to these beautiful events we have them doing both! Go explore these time limited lighbaring landscapes in our 2 week in-game festival.

A picture is worth a 1000 words and so is this in-game event. No special features, no achievements, no XP points, simply beauty to discover... or as our artist Vincent prophetically proclaimed "Here's some floaty stuff you can chase". Enjoy!
Apr 9, 2022
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing - LuGus Studios


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!
Mar 31, 2022
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing - LuGus Studios


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!
Mar 17, 2022
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing - LuGus Studios


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.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing - LuGus Studios


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/
Feb 24, 2022
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing - LuGus Studios

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'.
Feb 21, 2022
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing - LuGus Studios


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.
  • Updated: the Rapid Sightseeing achievement now also requires to finish a race in the Short Circuit environment.
  • Systems prepared for the DJI FPV dlc
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