We're doing it again! Come and join us for a group flight in Scotland!

Following on from the event on the 26th September, I'll be running another online session this coming Saturday.

The first event really worked out well, I got loads of feedback and a little bug list to fix. Now those bugs are squished, I'm ready to do it again. I need to get an idea of how Aquila will cope with more players, and just give everyone a chance to fly together and see how it works out. :)

Therefore I will be online and in-game from 9 pm UK time (8 pm UTC), certainly for a couple of hours with the odd break or two. I’ll set up for a maximum of 32 players, and see how we go... the system running as dedicated server is an older Falcon Northwest i7 4770, 16 gb ram, SSD and a GTX 1070 ... on a 500Mbps internet connection. It should cope!

Feel free to take video, screenshots, share them here... I’d love to see all of it. Even the bugs.

More events will definitely follow, using whatever features are added. Still early days yet, but simply flying in a group was awesome on the first event... and I valued every player who joined in. Thank you!

Please check out the Tutorial Videos for a control guide, particularly for motion controllers in VR. The in-game tutorials cover the bare minimum, and not everything. Also please ensure you have version 0.9964 installed... it should do automatically on Steam. Please see the patch notes below!

The playlist can be found here: Aquila YouTube Tutorial Playlist

Hope to see you online. Feel free to get in touch if I can help in the meantime.

Graeme

Latest changes for 0.9964:

- Steam achievement added for landing in a tree.
- Extra view added for your PC screen. Select HR Headset View from the main menu options, and while in-game pressing O alternates this view on and off. It basically watches a random bird, or your bird in single player, using a pan & zoom camera.
- Various bugs fixed as to which cameras can see which elements on screen.
- New button added to the in-game GUI for Multiplayer games, which alternates a table showing You at the top, your player marker colour, and the 5 closest players and their distance in KM. Each player in a multiplayer game is assigned a random marker colour. In time, I'll make this colour selectable.