Interested in testing out the latest content for SimplePlanes? Now available on Steam for beta testing!

New Content

• 1 new combat mission: Convoy Assault
• 1 new airplane race: Indy Air Race
• 2 off-road car races: Riding Dirty & Snow Crawl
• 3 on-road car races: Airstrip Drag, Gold Prix, & Motor Mirage
• New stock airplane: Bush Plane
• Convoys added to Krakabloa and Maywar. Like the battleships, they will become hostile if engaged.

New Parts

• Parachutes! Slow down and safely descend. Carrier landings are now a breeze. Choose your favorite colors.
• Fuselage Inlets! Build better replicas with a customize-able air intake for your jet engines, built directly into the fuselage.
• Tractor wheels! A new wheel type option for the resize-able wheels.

AI

• AI spawning dialog options enhanced and expanded. Now includes positioning and AI modes.
• AI will attempt a landing when a Final Approach location is selected.
• Aggressive AI mode! Orchestrate your own battles. If they have weapons, get ready to feel some heat..
• AI now works with cars! If vehicles turn over during a race, they will automatically flip back upright after a short delay. Aggressive cars will chase you down in a crazy game of kamikaze chicken.
• AI opponents will be properly placed on the ground in races. Manually spawned AI will be re-positioned on the ground.

3D Printing & Exporting Designs

• EUCL3D purchasing available for mobile players.
• Export the 3D model (OBJ file) of your design. Print your own creations. Fool around with it in some 3D modeling software.

Modding

• Updated mod tools to support adding our assets (ships, turrets, bridges, AA tanks, etc.) onto custom maps.
• Added two new XML-only attributes to control surfaces: "activationGroup" (0-8) and "activationGroupLocksInput" (true/false).

Other Features & Tweaks

• Redesigned stock airplanes: Vertigo & Sea Plane.
• Increased length of CoM, CoL, and CoT gizmos.
• Added a small amount of spread to bullets.
• Zooming the flight mode camera with the mouse wheel is now a bindable input.
• Performance tweaks.
• Game engine upgrade (Unity 5.3.4 -> Unity 5.3.6f1).

Bug Fixes

• AI will no longer spawn underwater, appearing as if they never spawned at all.
• The AI flight bug when the plane was perpendicular to target.
• Improved the fuselage properties flyout dialog.
• Removed the Fix Rotation warning message.
• Fixed a bug where jet engines would randomly stop working.
• Fixed a few tool-tip issues in the designer.
• Removed excessive undo steps when nudging on PC/Mac.

PC/Mac

We plan on running the beta for the next few days, to give us a chance to correct any bugs found by this incredibly helpful community. Hopefully, we can release the final 1.5 update on Steam by next week, with your help!

Mobile

We will release the new update on mobile very soon! We are in the process of submitting the update to all of the app stores now. We are just running the beta on Steam first, because it is the easiest way to get it out there and turn around to address any bugs found by our beta testers. Mobile players will get a chance to play the update soon enough. Don't harsh our mellow, man.

How to Play the Beta on Steam

• Open the Steam client. You need to own SimplePlanes on Steam.
• Right click on the game in your library and click “Properties.”
• Click the “Betas” tab.
• From the “Select the beta you would like to opt into:” drop-down dialog, select public-test.
• Steam should start downloading the public-test version of the game. You can also verify that you are playing the public test by checking the version in the “About” menu from the initial menu: 1.5.0.0

Find a Bug? Make a Post!

Please create a new forum post, with the bug tag, if you discover any game glitches. We will be working through these posts throughout the next few days to refine the update. Thanks for your help!