The game is not dead, new update coming very soon

Hey everyone,

I know I've been silent for a long time on both itch and the mobile stores. If you are on the discord, you could know that during all this time, I was still working hard on the game.

The reason it took so long was because I had to pretty much remake most systems from scratch. The code was made when I was a beginner dev, I learned all of it while making the game and the technical debt accumulated quickly.

Today I just started to feel like the web was finally entangled, that I could start working on adding content now, and it now feels like the update is closer than ever.

Here are the most crucial changes you can expect in the upcoming update :

4 new mystery aircrafts and a few variants of existing ones.

Remade Hurricane model with detailed cockpit.

Boats and torpedoes.

Completely remade camera editor, more intuitive, more functionality, cleaner interface.

Controls vastly improved, almost feels like wart thunder now ! All other controls have been reworked including mouse stick and gunner controls.

Simplified aircraft editor for modders. Way easier to use now, anybody with decent 3d modelling skills could now make their own aircrafts. 

A looooot of smaller changes, I don't remember all of them cause it's been such a long time since the last update, I didn't write everything.

Finally what I consider the most important, overhauled aircraft simulation : 

1. Landing gear. Feel the bumps on the ground when taxiing. Split landing gear animation. Vastly improved suspensions. Vastly improved taxiing physics for turning and braking.
2. Engines and propellers. Realistic boost values with simulated manifold pressure. Realistic propeller efficiency for various types (fixed pitch, two pitch, constant speed). Engines takes light damage when boosting for longer than what is recommended on official documents. More realistic and better sounding startup sounds. 
3. Remade airfoil physics. Hard to explain but it will feel better, less jittery.

It's fair to say that this will be by far the largest update sky on fire has ever seen, however, we are still a good distance a way from the 1.0 and the steam release, there is still so much to do. This game is my life's work and we will see it through to completion.

Thank you for engaging with sky on fire 1940. Without all of your support the game would truly never have came so far.