Airships: Lost Flotilla news & patch notes

Hey folks 👋 The Steam Awards are just around the corner. I would be super happy if you would nominate Airships: Lost Flotilla for the “Best Game on Steam Deck” Award.

Cheers and a big thank you, David

• Fixed fear auras, so e.g. Magnificent Cannons now do something.
• The Nomad Caravan now has an appropriate mass.
• You can now configure a custom windowed resolution by editing Data/Settings.json in the game install folder.
• Fixed Steam Rich Presence.

Airships: Lost Flotilla is currently 30% off as part of the Metaroot Publisher Sale! If you’ve been meaning to dive into my steampunk autoshooter. Now’s your chance. Fight your way through waves of enemies on your way to a safe harbour. Destroy your foes, harvest wreckage, and upgrade your ship. Meanwhile my other game, Airships: Conquer the Skies is also featured in the Celebration and now part of a brand-new bundle with Forts! Check it out here: Forts x Airships: Conquer the Skies Bundle Whether you like strategic ship design or chaotic top-down battles, there’s something for every airship enthusiast in this sale. Thanks for playing, and I hope you enjoy the skies!

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• Increased armor of Sky Fortress from 1 to 2.
• Reduced number of Devil Circle projectiles from 4 to 3.
• Reduced number of Great Devil Circle projectiles from 7 to 5.
• Halved the time that scavenger escorts are slowed down after picking up wreckage.
• Increased the chance of encountering Nomad Caravans.
• Fixed Can't Touch This achievement.

Here's the promised content update for Lost Flotilla! After the release, I inevitably thought of some more things that it would be cool to add to the game, which is why we're here.

The update adds six new ships, for example the Carrier. It's quite sluggish and doesn't have many weapons, but it makes up for this by having two modules that spawn escorts. The new ships get unlocked over time, as you defeat the new enemies. The game also now tells you how many ships you have left to unlock.

Speaking of enemies, there's several new enemy sets and associated manual pages to research. There's new aerial wildlife like legionnaire jellies and giant flying crabs, as well as new people to meet and fight. One particularly cool new set of enemies is the aerial jungle, which is bursting with horrible life like sky roses and giant mosquitoes.

There's also new weapons, like the slow-firing but powerful bombard, and new modules, like the kitchen, which lets you gain more loot from all that delicious wildlife.

Finally, there's also several new captains that tweak the way the games are played and have some interesting synergies, such as Zuzugaut, who cancels all enemy resistance to fear - letting you terrify robotic enemies and bosses - and build on top of that.

Apart from all the new stuff, there's a bunch of balance tweaks and bug fixes, and yes, you can finally rearrange your weapons.

That's it! I hope you enjoy the update, and let me know if you run into any issues.

Airships: Lost Flotilla is part of the Steam Summer Sale, and you can currently get it for 25% off. If you’ve been thinking about picking it up, now’s a really good time: This will be the last time the game is this cheap for a long while. Once the sale ends on July 10, I’ll be raising the price to better reflect the scope of the upcoming major update. You might remember I announced the update a little while ago: I’m still hard at work on it, and it’s turning into something substantial. Expect more content, improvements across the board, and a shiny set of Steam achievements to aim for. So if you want to get Airships: Lost Flotilla at its lowest price, now’s the time. And if you already have it: thank you! I can’t wait to show you what’s next. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45001113/dd0b5a1900495631aeaabf739a86d18306217b70.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45001113/a41399b0ae56dcbea4e74ebee5bcbb809485570a.png

• Enemy shots now have a dark outline.
• Added color highlighting mode.
• Background is darker when you set background visibility to zero.
• Hitting escape during end of level summary now shows pause menu correctly.
• Game no longer selects exit button by default when you come back to the main menu.
• Fixed layout of captain selectors when you have a lot of captains.
• Fixed a number of rare audio-related crashes.

• Fixed plink damage being unable to kill players, which means getting enough armor no longer makes you invulnerable.
• Grenades and flak guns now have fuses, which means that they will explode once they've reached the distance to their intended target.
• Increased reload time of flak gun from 0.6 to 0.8 seconds.
• If you restart a wave after dying, empty weapon slots are no longer refilled with weapons from the starting version of your ship.
• Damage dealt is now added up correctly in post-wave stats.
• Shot speed changes no longer affect range.
• Added mods screen translations.

• Manual entries can now unlock multiple things. Use e.g. unlockWeapons instead of unlockWeapon with a list of weapons to unlock.
• Added fuse flag to WeaponType.
• Added levelStartScrap and playerShotSpeedPc to EquipmentType.
• The game now uploads the correct English name and description for mods even if your game is not currently set to English.
• Mods now default to using non-premultiplied alpha for images, which means translucency effects work the way you'd expect them to.

• Go to the workshop
• Subscribe to the mods you want
• Launch Airships: Lost Flotilla
• Go into the mods screen
• Enable the mods you want to use
• Hit Apply

• Consult the extensive modding documentation
• Join the discord to get help and community

• Selecting Brother Zinn and then hitting escape in the difficulty selection now resets the ship selector properly.
• Remaining time in On Dragons research is now shown correctly.
• There is now an upper limit to the number of Shellflies the Shellfloater spawns.
• You can no longer have more than one monocoque upgrade. That would be a uh, polycoque, which makes no sense.

• I'm heading over to Airships: Conquer the Skies to do a bugfix update there.
• Then, I'll be working on a bigger update for Lost Flotilla with some more content and achievements.
• I'm also starting to think about what my next project should be - more on that later.

• You can now fight the final boss with the assistance of the church, which gives you a Great Blessing, which gives +40% HP, +10% reload speed, +10% escort reload speed.
• Showing piercing amount on weapons.
• Gun Skyboats and other escorts no longer go so close to their enemies that their shots miss.
• More visible non-OS cursor.
• Can no longer ram enemies that are still spawning.
• Laine's ability now works for all control schemes.
• The Exterminator's accuracy decrease is now shown properly in the ship stats.
• Upgrading wrecker escorts is no longer free.
• Went over fire damage per time and resistances for all enemies and bosses.
• Further performance improvements.
• May have fixed stutter happening during screen shake caused by gamepad issues.

• Stelas work again.
• Improved performance.
• Higher contrast for selecting map nodes.
• Lord Brizendine no longer makes explosive weapons piercing, which caused them to not actually, you know, explode.
• Fixed two puzzles in the manual. If you're looking for clues, have another try at the traitors and the moons.

Fixes

• Flak gun now indicates that it stuns enemies.
• Wrecker Mothership fight no longer decreases pirate rep.
• Clearer Greed Stela text: the enemies need to be in the stela radius, not you.
• Shredder Saw Mk2 now does more damage than Shredder Saw.
• "Win with a turn rate of at least 300 degrees per second" unlock now works.
• Fixed appearance of reduced background visibility on high resolutions.
• Damage bonus now applies to tentacles.
• Tentacles should no longer become weirdly huge and disconnected after a while.
• Tentacles now knock enemies away consistently.
• If you have lots of possible screen resolutions, this no longer breaks the settings screen layout.
• Ram damage bonus on struts no longer shown for ships that can't have a ram.
• XP gain modifiers on amulets no longer shown for the Clockwork Cruiser.

Balance

• Explosions are now more effective against minibosses and bosses.
• Increased tentacle damage: 4 -> 6 for normal tentacles, 8 -> 10 for heavy tentacles.
• Slightly increased miniboss HP.
• Mechanical Owl escorts now do a respectable amount of damage.

• The Ruin Idol no longer makes you near-invulnerable, but instead makes you unable to repair, as intended.
• Added missing translation of (New) in manual
• Removed Unlock Izegbe from Revenant Kraken that would lead to crash.
• Winning with two guided missiles now unlocks the relevant research.
• Fixed shellfly graphics glitch.

• The shellfloater boss no longer repairs itself each time it opens or closes. That wasn't intentional, and made it uh very very hard to fight.
• The game no longer defaults to all bosses being guardians.

• Write a review on Steam.
• Recommend Lost Flotilla to a friend.
• Share your favorite moments with me.
• Get the Airships: Lost Flotilla Supporter Bundle

Here’s what’s new in Lost Flotilla:

• Add the game to your wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/Airships_Lost_Flotilla/ - More wishlists means a better placement during launch.
• Tell your favourite streamers and YouTubers that you want to see them play Lost Flotilla. They can contact [email protected] to get a key.
• Tell your friends, your cat, and the hooded figures that keep on appearing in your dreams.

🥳 The Steam Release of Airships: Lost Flotilla will happen on the 23rd of January 2025! 🥳

• Add Airships: Lost Flotilla to your Steam Wishlist: Here
• Tell your friends or your favorite content creators about the game

• One new ship, the nimble and powerful torpedo boat, unlocking at level 12. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45001113/2a77210c34273365534b76a1b65d70a2ec39636a.png
• Polish and Brazilian Portuguese translations contributed by players. (Thanks!)
• Bug fixes.

• Spanish translation courtesy of Yakub on the Discord
• Chinese translaiton is now up to date
• You can no longer become stun locked: After you are stunned, you have a grace period of 5 seconds where you can't be stunned. This does not apply to your enemies.
• In mouse control mode, you can now turn your ship without moving it by keeping the cursor close to the center of the screen.

• Changed difficulty curve to make the start of the game a bit easier and the end harder
• Rebalanced enemy numbers in some levels
• More escorts in shops
• Reduced tentacle knockback
• Doubled tentacle attack speed
• Halved saw attack speed
• Reduced Pirate Boat HP from 8 to 7 (which means one Suspendium Cannon shot now kills them)
• Reduced Deck Gun damage from 7 to 6 and Heavy Deck Gun damage from 12 to 10
• Owls, Anarchists, and Fungi now produce more scrap
• Firefighting Training now increases firefighting speed by 15% instead of 10%
• Reduced XP cost of refreshing the shop
• Wrecker escorts no longer have a value and upgrade cost of 0

• The worm eye on cultist warships no longer flips back and forth
• Wrecker ship funnels now produce smoke
• Heated shots now produce flame trails
• End of level and end of game screens now show multiple columns so you can see your whole build

Detailed patch notes:

• Unlocks now make more sense: at the end of a run, you get all ships you cleared the minimum level for.
• Fixed a crash when adjusting music volume.
• Fixed a crash from confused tentacles.
• Added a new ship for you to try, the Science Vessel.