Changelog (2022)
v0.9.86.50 - December 30, 2022
Updates on Emergency Landing: (v0.9.86.5)
· Added a new airline!
· Added a new livery!
· Added a new event!
· New map: Arctic! The aircraft may occasionally land on solid ice - but you will still need your lifevest!
· Added packed life rafts to ATR-72-200 (1x) and ATR-72-600 (2x), which can be inflated anywhere.
· Added an APU to the Boeing 727-200.
· Fixed some bugs.
· Other improvements.
v0.9.86.00 - December 24, 2022
· Added a new livery!
· Added 4 new events! Relating to engines, fuel, or hydraulics.
· Added two new types of flights - leasing flights and delivery flights. (With airline administrators!)
· New code!
· Stability update:
- Moving elements in the aircraft will not orbit around the solid aircraft anymore.
- Parts will not randomly misalign themselves during boarding.
· Other improvements.
v0.9.85.00 - December 12, 2022
· Added a new livery!
· Added reverse thrusters! (MD-82 and B727-200 are excluded from this update for legacy reasons.) They will deploy automatically shortly after touchdown.
· Added 27 new events! Including:
- Crew incapacitation!
- Gradual depressurization!
- Many events (10x) related to bleed air and pressurization!
- Lots of new events (14x) related to hydraulic failures!
There are currently 154 different emergencies and 16 other events.
· Planes now display fictional country registration flags!
· Event glossary. Hover over a notification label to find out its meaning! Remaining events without definition will be updated over time.
· Bug fixes and many other improvements.
v0.9.84.00 - November 28, 2022
· Added 3 new liveries!
· Added a new airline, for a total of 20.
· Added apron bus liveries (17x)! Each time you (or a NPC) spawn a bus, it will be painted in one of the schemes our fellow members submitted in a recent contest.
· Planes now display a unique fictional registration number! (For legacy reasons, the A320 is excluded from this feature for now.)
· New code: “36k”. Thank you for 36,000 members!
· New tools: RP wrench for Ground Crew & binoculars for Coast Guards.
· Bug fixes and other nice improvements.
v0.9.83.00 - November 7, 2022
· Added 20 new events! Including cascading failures and mid-air disintegrations.
· Added 3 new liveries!
· B727-200 now includes a flight engineer seat.
v0.9.82.00 - October 22, 2022
· Added 3 new events!
· Added 2 new liveries!
· Added a new airline!
· Boarding stairs now display the airline name.
· Forgetting to fasten your seatbelt will not make you fling on impact anymore, but you will still suffer extra damage.
· Numerous bug fixes and other improvements!
v0.9.81.00 - October 14, 2022
· Added a new event!
· Added a new airline!
· Remade seatbelts.
· Added flight crew & cabin jumpseat harnesses!
· Added a new, realistic apron bus with working doors!
· Added a button to access the Alpha version.
· Bug fixes and other improvements.
v0.9.80.00 - September 26, 2022
· Added 17 new events, for a total of 110!
· Added 10 new liveries!
· Added 2 new airlines!
· More Eaglets!
- Easy difficulty: 3
- Challenging difficulty: 5
- Hard difficulty: 7
- Insane difficulty: 9
- No daily limit for surviving rounds!
- Finding the black boxes awards 2x Eaglets!
· Added orientative values of the impact forces in the aftermath screen.
· 3 new codes!
- “28000” 28 Eaglets - Thank you for joining the group!
- “8million”
Ground Crew Role - Thank you for 8,000,000 visits!
- “new_plane” 72 Eaglets - Thank you for your likes!
· Emergencies warnings are now divided into two types of messages depending on their severity (either tagged with
or
)
· System successes are now announced as a different type of event (marked with
)
· FDR and CVR both now record data from the beginning of the game, and may be abruptly stopped due to certain events.
· Recorders can be retrieved by a prompt instead of by physical contact.
· New black box - the QAR (quick access recorder)! Given its low chance of surviving hard crashes, finding it intact will award you more Eaglets!
· NPC pilots now wear ties! Also, improved flight attendants’ uniform.
· Added many more new names for NPCs.
· Flights will be categorized into International, Domestic, or Regional.
· Added an extremely rare deadheading flight.
· Many bug fixes and other improvements!
BOARDING UPDATE
· Added a new role - Ground Crew!
· The plane may now spawn in the apron, giving time for the passengers to board it.
· Added working boarding stairs. Ground Crew may deploy or retract its stabilizing legs, and adjust step height.
· Added drivable apron buses! Transport passengers from the terminal to the aircraft.
· Added different-sized towbars. Ground Crew may attach them to their pushback trucks.
· Added three different drivable pushback trucks! Two of them have liftable cabins.
· Added placeable cones for ground crew!
· Added aircraft marshalling wands & bats!
NEW PLANE! The new plane is a turboprop - the ATR-72! Highlighted features:
· Two variants: ATR-72-200 and ATR-72-600
· The -200 cabin is divided into two clearly different classes
· Propeller engines (deformable)
· 3-seat cockpit
· Cockpit ceiling emergency exit
· Retractable jumpseats
· Interior paneling
· Interactable curtains
· Luggage compartments
· Detailed exterior (including pitot tubes, static probes, and numerous antennas)
v0.9.79.00 - July 19, 2022
· Added a whopping 34 new events, most of which are related to hydraulic failures!
· 2 new liveries!
· Other improvements.
v0.9.78.00 - July 11, 2022
· Added 8 new events including explosive depressurization!
· Added 3 new liveries!
· Added a new airline!
· Bug fixes and many other improvements.
v0.9.77.00 - July 4, 2022
Added a new plane with two variants! It can be found in 32-player servers.
v0.9.75.00 - June 28, 2022
Updates on Emergency Landing: (v0.9.75)
· CRUISING UPDATE:
· You can now fly above 30,000 ft (10,000 m)!
· Planes may accelerate to higher speeds, up to Mach 0.72 (860 km/h or 535 mph or 465 knots)!
· Improved landscape (skyscape).
· Enhanced terrain.
· Cabin depressurization may only occur above 10,000 ft.
· Added a new event related to this update!
· Reduced lag.
· 5 MILLION VISITS UPDATE:
· TWO new codes!
· Added THREE brand new events!
· Added a new airline!
· Added a new livery!
· Improved simple liveries.
· Improved exhaust gas effect! It is disabled by default; go to Settings to enable!
· Added skidding after landing. Planes will not just drop or stop suddenly!
· Added prompts that allow you board life rafts easily and without loss of stamina.
· Officially released spectator mode (T).
· Keyboard shortcuts: press keys 0-9 to adjust FOV (key 5 = default FOV).
· Option to toggle event notification pop-ups.
· Many bug fixes.
v0.9.74.40 - June 12, 2022
· Added 1 new event!
· Added 5 new liveries!
· Added 1 new airline!
· TWO new codes!
· Minor bug fixes.
v0.9.74.00 - May 21, 2022
· Added a new livery!
· Added sprinting!
· Added stamina and oxygen bars!
· Removed S/O NPC.
· Bug fixes.
v0.9.73.50 - May 18, 2022
· Added 3 new liveries!
· Added 2 new airlines!
· Now, players without Cockpit Access won’t able to access the cockpit, even if the door is open.
· Fixed bugs.
v0.9.73.00 - May 12, 2022
· Added codes! Redeem your reward in the Eaglets menu (“+” button). Stay tuned for the first code!
· Added 2 new liveries! Also, every existing livery may randomly have a solid-colored vertical stabilizer.
· Added randomized single- and double-colored liveries, with 20,160 different fuselage colors which can be matched with tail fin and engine nacelles colors (812 million different combinations).
· Added FOV slider.
· Added option to disable auto-respawning after dying.
· Added sliding cockpit windows in MD-82 and B727.
· Flight attendant-related prompts are not shown while role-playing as passenger, flight crew or rescue team.
· Added boarding signs.
· Disabled Teleport to Cockpit button.
· Fixed bugs.
v0.9.72.00 - May 7, 2022
· Added flight numbers!
· Added 3 new events!
· Added a new livery!
· Added an option to toggle default terrain water.
· Added an Eaglets leaderboard!
· Failing to fasten your seat belt will now have more obvious consequences.
· It should be harder to escape for people who inflate their lifevests prematurely.
· Reduced the occurrence of vertical stabilizer structural failure due to tail-mounted engine explosions.
· Improved fall damage.
· Fixed bugs.
v0.9.70.00 - April 30, 2022
· Full landscape revamp! Let us know what you think.
· Added a new event!
· Added 2 new airlines!
· Added 3 new liveries!
· Ability to swim in the new water pretty much like in the old one.
· Improved airports with ILS antenna arrays, ground marks, approach lighting, PAPI, glideslope antenna, and other details.
· Some static structures are now breakable!
· Added credits so you know the awesome people who contributed to the game!
· Pilot UI and FDR data units are shown in feet or knots.
· Other improvements, including non-sticky slides and gas exhaust effect.
· Physics rendering now adapts to workload.
· Fixed bugs.
v0.9.64.00 - April 18, 2022
· Added a new event! Wonder what it could be…
· Added 5 new liveries!
· Added 3 new airlines!
· Added a new tool - firefighter ladder! Use it to access the plane even if airstairs are jammed and slides are destroyed.
· Corvettes and frigates are now shown in the minimap, labeled as “Ship”.
· Fixed bugs.
v0.9.63.80 - April 8, 2022
· Added a new event!
· Added 3 new liveries!
· NPC names and HP bar are now displayed on top of their avatars.
· Fixed bugs.
v0.9.63.70 - April 1, 2022
· Added evacuation slides lights!
· Added a new event!
· Fixed bugs.
· Reduced lag.
v0.9.63.00 - March 25, 2022
· Replaced the old terrain water with a custom one.
· Added more camera options, including cinematic mode and different POV options.
· Added a new map to make landings more interesting. Note: if there is no airport in the game, you may only spawn emergency vehicles near the plane.
· Added a new event - Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT)!
· Reduced lag.
v0.9.62.00 - March 14, 2022
· Added an aftermath screen, showing round stats (number of survivors, and total passengers and crew members), survivor usernames, and a seat map!
· Added 8 new flight attendant items! Some food flavors are randomized too.
v0.9.61.00 - March 11, 2022
· Get 3 Eaglets for every friend that joins you after you’ve invited them!
· Get a MONTHLY reward of 20 Eaglets by just for staying in the group!
· Get 2 DAILY Eaglets for joining the group!
· Get as many Eaglets as black boxes you find - no daily limit!
· Get Eaglets by playing other games made by us!
· Want more? Get the new gamepass to earn DOUBLE as many Eaglets by completing tasks!
v0.9.60.00 - March 6, 2022
· New event!
· Added sliding windows in DC-10 cockpit. No need to grab a crash axe anymore!
· Added a new tool: cabin flashlight! It can be equipped after a blackout
· Added more emergency equipment: first aid kits. They can be found around the plane, and are less effective than paramedics’ medkits
· Bug fixes
v0.9.59.00 - March 3, 2022
Added the Douglas DC-10-10!
This new plane has some special features which make it very special:
- Much, much bigger than any of the current planes in the game
- Two aisles
- Three cabin sections
- New seats and jumpseats
- More passenger seats (110 with the current layout)
- Deformable engines
- 10-wheeled landing gear
- Access to the avionics bay
- And much more!
The new plane comes along bug fixes and 2 new liveries! New servers are those with an increased capacity of 30 players.
v0.9.55.00 - February 25, 2022
· 10K members update: Black Eagle livery!
· Improved the shop layout, with proper purchase buttons and relevant descriptions of each perk
· The plane may only take off after reaching VR, which shares a similar value among the existing aircraft (around 250 km/h or 135 knots)
· Made AI smarter. They are able to brace again, and most of them should be capable of reaching exits themselves
· Improved terrain with decorations (wind turbines in ground maps)
· Added a small chance of deadheading flights, where most AI passengers are off-duty cabin crew
· Bug fixes
v0.9.53.00 - February 14, 2022
· Added a new hard event - phugoid! Depending on pilot’s handling, this can scalate to an unrecoverable stall. Be careful!
· Bug fixes and other improvements.
v0.9.52.00 - February 3, 2022
· Fire is more deadly, it can damage passengers refusing to leave their burning seat, and it can spread to players.
· Added 2 more liveries!
· Fixed bug that prevented some players to serve items in trolleys (v0.9.51 patch live since 18:30 UTC).
· The plane’s will to fly will not prevail against physics in runway overruns.
· We didn’t improve bots, but we added more NPC passengers so the cabin feels less empty.
· Added trailing marks along the ground during belly landings or due to engines and wings ground collisions.
· Fixed FA jumpseats not folding.
· Made takeoffs smoother.
· Improved crash landings.
· Bracing is more effective on preventing damage.
· Slightly increased crash landings survability.
· Reduced runway overrun occurrence
v0.9.50.00 - January 31, 2022
· 4 new events! (Related to engines, cargo, and center of gravity.)
· 3 new liveries! The ones you asked for the most.
· More Eaglets! Now you earn 1 Eaglet each time you find a black box. Also, you earn more Eaglets for surviving (depending on the difficulty), and 3x for inviting players into your server!
· Landing headlights! PIC will be able to switch them on/off once we release the new controls
· Better physics (landings shouldn’t be so hard and deadly while buttering; there can be moving objects inside the cabin with acceptable physics).
· **Better performance. **Still working on improving touch-device players experience
· Pilots are not forced to pull up anymore. They can now pitch down to 300 m even if there are no emergencies.
· Slides can now be rendered inoperative due to fire.
· Bug fixes: the plane is not held by missing gear; jumping, standing, or walking during landings will not fling you away; engines will not be functional if ripped off the plane; patched the bug that crashed the game; NPC and players seating positions are 100% randomized (passengers won’t clutter on the forward or the aft part of the cabin); many other glitch patches
v0.9.41.00 - January 1, 2022
· Added leaderstats in the player list, showing total flights and survivals
· There is also an in-game currency - Eaglets! These can be bought with Robux or earnt by completing tasks
· Added brand new shop where you can spend Eaglets to get many perks
· All your data (Eaglets, survivals, flights, etc.) will save!
· Fixed some bugs