Firehawk: FPV Drone Shooter News & Patch Notes

Fix for Bluetooth ELRS connection crashes on launch

Welcome pilots!

You spoke and we have listened, the community feeling was that the new physics, while a more accurate simulation, felt floaty compared to our original version.

Since we released last week we've been hard a work rebuilding and testing to create what we feel is a significant upgrade to both simulation quality and flight feel.

We look forward to hearing your feedback and as ever let us know what you think, we are listening.

TruePlayers

The Open Alpha Multiplayer is Here!

The biggest focus of development over the past few months has been getting Firehawk ready for multiplayer. The base is now in place and we want your feedback!

Here's how the multiplayer rollout is planned:

Phase 1 : Private Alpha (Discord testing) Complete Testing the technical quality of the multiplayer mode: does the tech behind flying and shooting each other feel good and play well? We also gathered early feedback on which game modes players find most fun.

Phase 2 : Open Alpha. We are here! A collection of the most popular game modes and community suggestions in their raw form. This phase helps us learn which modes you enjoy most, so we know where to invest development time. Includes dedicated server support for the biggest regions.

Phase 3 : Open Beta A more tailored and polished experience, leaning heavily into the most popular modes discovered during the Alpha.

Phase 4 : Full Multiplayer Release The big launch, featuring proper matchmaking and a final competitive mode (we hope to one day break into esports). This will release alongside our Co-op Survival mode!

Available Game Modes

Death Race : Be the fastest to complete 3 laps. Shoot and block your rivals as you race for the finish line.
Domination : Capture the Domination Point by flying inside the sphere, then defend it from the enemy team.
Bounty Hunter : Capture the starting point to become the bounty and rack up points. Hunters score nothing, so dodge and weave to stay ahead and win.
Free For All : Straightforward chaos: one massive battle, everyone for themselves.
Team Deathmatch : Grab your friends and dominate the opposing team.
Gun Game : Show your all-round skill. First to get a kill with all 15 weapons wins — but don't crash, it'll set you back!
Capture the Flag : Guard your team's flag while capturing the enemy's.

How to join the Alpha The Multiplayer enabled Alpa build is now on steam you can access it with the password FireMultiplayer To access the build go to Library on steam-> firehawk FPV-> Properties -> Game versions & Beta -> Enter Access code FireMultiplayer and click check code

A heads-up on bugs

We expect some bugs and unbalanced gameplay at this stage, please do call them out! Just note that they won't all be fixed immediately, unless something is blocking you from playing and giving us feedback.

For any discussion or feedback, head to the community hub, our Discord, or Answer the questionnaire you will find in the multiplayer menu.

Excited to keep building this with you.

Everyone on the Dev Team

New physics new UI and Paving the Way for Multiplayer

Big news: we're rolling out our first major physics and UI update. As well as opening the doors to the public open Alpha for multiplayer!

We've been hard at work polishing Firehawk, and this update brings two of the biggest changes yet.

New physics

Firehawk now runs on its own fully custom physics engine, built with point-of-rotor thrust for far more realistic drone flight. Rates have moved to the ProBetaflight format.

We went through many iterations to land on a flight model that feels more realistic and gives you more control — while keeping that fantastic edge of unrealism that makes Firehawk FPV what it is.

A fresh look

The entire UI has had an overhaul to match the Firehawk vibe: new icons, a new colour scheme, and all-round visual improvements. This is an ongoing process, so stick with us as we keep dragging things into the 21st century.

And the big one: Multiplayer

The largest focus over the past few months has been getting the game ready for multiplayer. With that foundation now in place, we can shift back toward new content alongside our big multiplayer push.

Want in on the Alpha? Details on how to access it are coming in our next community post.

Fixed a few pink missing texture objects. Fixed survival enemies rarely spawning inside a wall on map 6. Improved some object visuals and collisions in world 6. Fixed some spelling errors in new missions. Swarm queen no-longer attacks while crashing and dying. Fixed some enemies being able to shoot through the wall from inside the map 4 underground base. Adjusted Kamikaze drones beeping so they only beep when getting dangerously close, so its less annoying when multiple are flying around you. Added yellow light visual to Kamikaze beep to see them apporaching from afar beter. Added option in the UI toggles screen to disable Kamikaze beep sound.

The Swarmbreakers Update is LIVE! New Map, Missions, Boss, Weapons, & More!

We are incredibly excited to drop our biggest content update since the survival game mode release for Firehawk. We’ve expanded the game with a brand-new map to master, a massive arsenal of new gear, new missions, and a brutal new boss fight that will put your flying skills to the ultimate test.

On top of the new content, we’ve overhauled the visuals and done some serious under-the-hood tuning to make sure your flights are smoother and better-looking than ever.

Here is everything coming to Firehawk FPV in today’s update:

Expanding the World

Brand New Map: Get ready to explore and navigate a completely new designed environment, the REB-47 refinery.
New Boss & Minions: We’re introducing a massive new boss fight to the game. With an entire new set of moves to push your piloting skills to its limits! Also watch out for its newly designed swarming minions that will try to swat you out of the sky!
New Time Trials and Roguelike missions: We’ve added 40 new roguelike missions and 2 new time trials for you to prove you’re the best!

A Massive Arsenal Expansion

6 New Weapons: Whether you prefer rapid-fire suppression or heavy-hitting precision, these six new weapons will bring a SPARK to your playstyle.
2 New Gadgets: Unlock new tactical possibilities with two brand-new gadgets designed to give you the upper hand in sticky situations.
4 New Roguelike Drones: Change up your runs! We’ve added four entirely new roguelike drones, each bringing unique buffs, playstyles, and synergies to your loadout.

Visuals, Performance, & Polish

Graphical Overhaul: We’ve given the game a massive facelift! You'll notice significantly improved textures, lighting, and environmental details, alongside highly polished, upgraded weapon models.
Performance Boosts: We’ve optimized the graphics to ensure higher, more stable frame rates.
Bug Squashing: We’ve tracked down and patched out a ton of community-reported bugs to make this the most stable version of the game yet.

A huge thank you to everyone who has been flying with us, providing feedback, and supporting the game. We can't wait to see your clips and hear what you think of the new loadouts!

Update your game, strap in, and take flight! (Don't forget to join our Discord to share your feedback, hang out with the community and follow updates for the future multiplayer release!)

Detailed patch notes: New content: -Map 6:the REB-47 refinery -Weapons: -Arc-Beam -Electric-Bow -Napalm-Rocket -SPARK-MG -Thor Minigun -Zeus-RG

-Gadgets: -Drone Jammer -Anti-Shield EMP -Enemies: -Swarm Queen -Swarm Hunter

Graphical updates: -New lighting and fog for all levels -New weapon models for most guns -UI readability updates Bug fixes: -Fixed bug where rates wouldn't load correctly on map 3 -Can now only activate at max 10 shields to stop abusing active gadget perk -Fixed wave 70+ scaling on survival mode Other: Survival mode Leaderboards will be reset for this update

Quality of Life

While working on future content we wanted to make sure all our players are getting the best possible experience!

We've made sure that now all our users can comfortably play whatever resolution they play on and make sure they can structure their HUD in a way each of you want!

We also tackled some gameplay bugs and confusing elements in the game.

Have a blast and we'll be back with content updates soon!

Ultrawide Support:

Added ultrawide monitor support, all menu screens and ingame UI are now fully working and polished for all ultrawide resolutions!

New Toggle UI Elements:

Can now turn off/on any of the ingame UI, allowing you to play with no HUD or customize some things.

Want to make the game harder or more cinematic? Turn off hitmarkers or arrow indicators of incoming missiles, or boss health bars.

Increase crosshair size toggle:

New toggle option to enlarge crosshair if you were finding it hard to see on smaller screens like the Steam Deck.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed friendly soldiers sometimes getting stuck during a escort troops in map 4, if troops still get glitched during pathing if they are stuck for more than a minute they count as escorted and mission continues.

Fixed rare case of enemy turrets being able to spawn underneath buildings in map 2 desert survival mode

Various other minor fixes and polish.

UI, Map & Visual Fixes:

Flip Drone UI improved. Now updates UI based on assigned input. Default keyboard input set to \.

Activate Gadget UI also updates UI based on assigned input. Default keyboard input set to \.

Some visual changes for enemies like tanks to help differentiate between them

Various UI fixes and map collision/visual fixes across the board.

Support Fixes:

Auto Callibration button now available in game. (takes you to menu to callibrate)

Added Help link to controller guide in Controls

We're excited to release a fresh new gamemode for Firehawk which will test your FPV skills to the limit!

Survival mode brings an intense new game mode where you pick and map and then battle against increasingly difficult waves of enemies and bosses as long as you can.

Each wave you complete, you'll be offered a selection of new increasingly powerful weapons and drone upgrades, to try and keep up with the onslaught. You'll also be offered drone and stat upgrades, so you can decide how you shape your drone as you progress through the waves.

Earn cash as you progress then hunt down the shop dropship when it spawns to get even more powerful upgrades.

We had a lot of fun making and testing this new mode and we think it plays really differently to the existing roguelite mode, so jump in, try it out and if you want to chat to us about the update, do join our growing Discord!

Thanks for all your support so far, you keep playing, we'll keep adding cool (most requested) stuff, watch this space for updates on what comes next! Bug Fixes:

Weapons correctly stop firing at enemies mid dying animation.
Calibration no longer appearing every time you start game on SteamDeck

QOL:

Can now play free roam with no weapons equipped
Realistic Gamepad users can now use autofire
Rates can now be changed without using the slider click the value and you can input your preferred values.
You can now use gamepad throttle mode in realistic FPV mode (for players that want to use rates on gamepad)

TruePlayers

We are currently working on a completely new game mode, details to be released soon but in the meantime a security update was required by all Unity games which we needed to address, we thought you might also appreciate a highly requested improvement to the shop, some bug fixes and a couple of fun new perks

Perk boost pickups:

New Dual weapon boost, when active equip a dual wield of each of your guns and spray with double the firepower!
New Ultra Minigun, when active equip a super powerful minigun with no energy use to obliterate enemies!
New Ultra Beam, when active equip a super powerful energy beam to disentigrate enemies!
New Shield boost, grants a shield allowing you to tank more damage.
Height boost perk reworked, now is Defence and Height boost. Additionally halves all incoming damage while active.

Shop:

Shop weapon stop increased from 2 -> 6

Weapon cost buy prices and sell values increased.

New shop mystery discount weapon section, 1 random weapon with random discount is purchasable.

Mystery discount weapon is a random weapon from all unlocked/locked weapons, this lets you sometimes get a chance to use weapons you've not unlocked yet.

Bug fixes:

Taking damage after landing in complete mission shuttle fixed, player is now shielded once landed.

Map 4 structure collision hitboxes improved.

Some data collects having collision with projectiles fixed.

Sometimes losing your current run progress on quit to main menu mid run fixed.

Quality of life:

Difficulty select screen now saves your difficulty selection and in future opens will default to your last selected difficulty,

Improved loading times on drone selection screen and weapon switch screen.

Pause screen text more clear on when your roguelike progress is saved on quit, vs when its lost if you quit mid mission.

We are hard at work on a new content update but in the meantime, we managed to fix all issues on the mac build and it's all working great now. We'll be back soon with news on the exiting new gamemode and when it will be dropping!

As ever any issues you encounter, hit us on discord or Steam discussions and we'll be happy to help.

New credits bonus modifier for harder difficulties: Harder difficulties give more xp and throw tougher enemies at you sooner, so we're giving bonus credits to help balance out the tougher missions. Hard +5% credits Brutal +10% credits Impossible +20% credits Weapon balance: Las, beam and energy weapons improvements: A lot of the kinetic weapons like the AM rifle and Miniguns have been outclassing the beam weapons. We don't want to do lots of nerfs so instead we are buffing a lot of these under used weapons. Across the board they have a new direct hit damage bonus added and their laser/beam hitboxes have been increased. Las-rifle: As a low capacity starting weapon it should be quite weak, but it feels outclassed too much by mid-range weapons like the AM rifle so we wanted to buff the Las a bit. Buffs: NEW: Las weapon Bonus direct hit damage added Laser radius increased by 100%, easier to hit moving targets now Las-Mg: Buffs: NEW: Las weapon Bonus direct hit damage added Laser radius increased by 100% Rotary Heavy Laser: Buffs: NEW: Las weapon Bonus direct hit damage added Beam radius increased by 100% Base damage 30 -> 40 Damage per upgrade 3 -> 4 Light energy beam: Buffs: NEW: Beam weapon Bonus direct hit damage added Beam radius increased by 50% Base damage 3 -> 7 Energy cost decreased 4 -> 3 Energy beam: Buffs: NEW: Beam weapon Bonus direct hit damage added Beam radius increased by 50% Base damage 12 -> 15 Energy cost decreased 7 -> 6 Heavy Energy beam: Buffs: NEW: Beam weapon Bonus direct hit damage added Beam radius increased by 50% Base damage 35 -> 40 Energy cost decreased 9 -> 8 Minigun: We wanted to keep the minigun powerful, but slightly changed its upgrades so it doesn't delete everything so fast at max upgrade level. Upgrades give slightly less damage but now give bonus accuracy Small Buffs: NEW: Per upgrade accuracy +2% Small Nerfs: Per upgrade damage reduced: +2 -> +1 (base damage remains the same) +10% energy drain Hmg Small Buffs: Base damage 20 -> 25 Dragon Small Buffs: Base damage 14-> 16 Napalm Small Buffs: Base damage 10-> 13 Airstriker Small Buffs: Base damage 12-> 15 Grenade launchers having their accurate arcs and large AoEs were outclassing the rockets a lot, we're slightly increasing their energy cost so they're less spammable and we're buffing rockets so there's more choice in what's the best explosive weapon to pick Grenade launcher Small Nerfs: Energy cost increased 50 -> 60 Gas Grenade launcher Small Nerfs: Energy cost increased 50 -> 60 Rocket launcher Small Buffs: Rocket projectile speed increased by 40% Base range 650 -> 750 Rocket Salvo Buffs: Rocket AoE 8 -> 10 Base damage 25-> 40 Rocket projectile speed increased by 40% Base range 650 -> 750 Twin rocket launcher Buffs: Rocket projectile speed increased by 40% Base range 650 -> 750 Energy cost decreased 70 -> 60 Gadgets: We're reducing some of the capacity requirements on gadgets to allow more variety bringing them in runs. Some of the lesser used gadgets have their capacity lowered quite a lot. Recover (Heal/Max Energy) Gadget Buffs: Decreased required capacity 7 -> 4 Energy Boost Gadget Buffs: Decreased required capacity 6 -> 4 Ram Gadget Small Buffs: Decreased required capacity 3 -> 2 Block Damage Gadget Small Buffs: Decreased required capacity 3 -> 2 SAM Missile Counter Flares Damage Gadget Small Buffs: Decreased required capacity 3 -> 2 High Gear Gadget Small Buffs: Decreased required capacity 4 -> 3 Start Shield Gadget Small Buffs: Decreased required capacity 5 -> 4 Regen Shield Gadget Small Buffs: Decreased required capacity 7 -> 6 Damage Boost Gadget Small Buffs: Decreased required capacity 5 -> 4 Last Resort Gadget Small Buffs: Decreased required capacity 2 -> 1 Active shield Gadget Small Buffs: Decreased required capacity 2 -> 1 Bug fixes: Rare chance of capital ship boss appearing early in the run fixed Using flip drone to glitch out of the landing ship on time trials fixed Fixed a bug with weapons firing super fast on FPV mode

The Time-Trial Throwdown is here!

It's time to put your pilot skills to the ultimate test in our new contest. We're looking for the fastest and most stylish players out there!

The Challenge

All you need to do is complete the Event Trial Chimney Dive Time-Trial in the game and record yourself! Once you've got your best run, follow these steps:

Join our Discord server. https://discord.gg/qr2z3AGpvr

Upload a clip of your run to YouTube or Streamable.

Post the link in the dedicated competition channel on Discord.

Submission are open From 5/9 9AM UTC To 9/9 3PM UTC

The Prizes

We've got two ways to win:

Fastest Time: The player with the quickest recorded time-trial run will win a key of the game!
Coolest Clip: Show off your most impressive, creative, or just plain awesome run for a chance to win a £10 Steam gift card!

Good luck, and may the best pilots win! Winners will be contacted through discord.

* The fastest time on the highscore will not win, we need the video footage proof.

*All clips submitted might be used on the game social media pages.

New difficulty selection: 5 new difficulties to pick from! Easy, Normal, Hard, Brutal, Impossible Normal ( the current default ) difficulty now has less frequent indoor missions, and they only appear later on in the run. Easy with less enemy health/damage and no indoor missions. Completing a run on normal unlocks Harder difficulties with scaling enemy damage/accuracy, etc, more crash damage and the usual indoor mission frequency. To reward your skills on harder difficulties you gain more XP, across the new Hard, Brutal, and Impossible. New run completion Medals on drones: Complete a run to get a difficulty medal on that drone See how many drones you can collect them on, or see if you're able to get an impossible run medal complete on your favorite! New free-roam mode: Fly through any of the 5 maps with no missions or enemies in the new Freeroam mode! Practice your chimney dives and indoor flying without the extra pressure. New reworked UI: We heard your feedback on the UI! A new full clean-up and major improvements of the UI. More improvements are still in the works for things like the pause and settings menu, but we hope the new main/loadout menus show we're dedicated to polishing the UI. Please let us know your feedback for the new look on the Discord and Steam forums. Auto save game mode selected, means when you play before when you next open the game you'll auto skip selecting which controller your using News functionality button on main menu Discord button on main menu Time trials overhaul: 3 New split timetrial leader boards, for FPV controller, Console Controller, and Arcade (mouse/keyboard or console controller on arcade). This allows for more fairness in the leader boards. Reworked some time trials so you can't just bomb enemies from outside buildings. Removed delay at end of time trials. This means your current times have been reset, but we're hoping with the new reworks and improvements you'll be happy to set new even better scores on the new 3 leader boards. New time trial: Chimney dive trial on Map4 added New time trial contest functionality (More info soon!) New missions: New destroy/collect intel missions across maps 3,4 and 5 for more variety during runs 5 new map 3 missions 9 new map 4 missions 8 new map 5 missions Map 1 and 2 are up next for having more missions/current mission improvements Gameplay improvements: Indoor areas improved so there's less clutter and bigger entrances. Player no longer collides with destroyed enemy wrecks. FPV autofire targeter lock on no longer firing at dead bodies multiple times after death. FPV autofire targeter lock on no longer fires at enemies behind bubble shields. New functionality for mapping switches to Autofire and Flip drone Balance: Enemy movement, stats, boss abilities all have unique scaling across new difficulty modes. Hacker drones health buffed, hack speed/power buffed Beam charger trucks health buffed, now displays healthbar Hitman unlock challenge changed from 10,000 kills to 2000 Bug fixes: Enemy riflemen soldiers sometimes shoot through walls fixed. Energy drain from homing weapons trying to lock on enemies out of lock radius fixed. Some floating enemy spawns fixed Energysurge gadget resets on reset trial Various other minor bugs & polish Known bugs: Tabbing out causes the mouse to stop working sometimes, tabbing back out/in fixes this. Can take damage during the 1 second grace period after landing in the shuttle after completing the mission.

Improved quad mech enemy lockon/damage hitboxes
Fixed clear landing zone mission enemies not spawning
Fixed remaining vehicle enemies who would sometimes not take damage. (Sureshot Gadget)

1.0.2 Features: - Added Flight mode settings: Allows you to setup 2 different modes to switch between with a single button press or switch. Changes angle and fov. Go to gameplay settings to set flightmodes values and setting, map a button or switch in Config menu. This helps with indoor flying - Fixed bug with mapped axis showing blank in config/Calibration - Fixed not being able to choose fpv mode for Linux FPV controller or steamdeck fpv controller users Bugs: Fixed rare bug where player loading into mission would glitch and when they took off their drone would leave them behind. Fixed bug where players lock on/homing weapons fire at their own flares. Fixed bug where escorting friendly troops would sometimes get stuck. Fixed bug where projectiles would sometimes stop mid air and not hit enemy vehicles. Fixed bug where on some ultrawide resolutions the continue button after a mission wouldn't be visible. Run Balance: Repairing price reduced by half. (Each health point repaired costs 1 instead of 2.) Finishing the final mission gives you a bigger lump bonus of blueprint xp. Weapons: Dragons breath flame shotgun small buff, base damage and upgraded damage increased slightly. Homing missile weapons small buff, projectile turn rate increased by 30% Grenade launcher weapons nerf, aoe range reduced by 25% Enemies: Killing bosses rewards a bigger reward of credits and blueprint xp. Sky reaper health and hack ability speed buffed slightly.

Small hotfix to show correct key for flip drone when using FPV controllers

Firehawk is the new name for Nexus FPV, we felt is was a much better fit for the project and a lot easier for people to find!

We've been hard a work adding tons of new levels, enemies, weapons, drones and so much more and we cannot wait to share everything with you on the 22nd of August!

Dominate the skies!

All controllers are supported, a roguelite mode, two maps, six time trials with Steam Leaderboads, ten drones, loads of weapons and so much more.

We're excited to release and hear from you, let us know here or on Discord how you get on with it, what you like, don't and what you'd like to see in the future,

Dominate the skies!

We're in the final stages of prepping a demo for public release! Don't forget to join the Discord to stay in the loop. The Demo will contain time trials over two levels and a sneak peak at the main roguelite mode on map one! Stay tuned for more!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45313689/a8d264a2cca53f3190d8d3b91222a14fe25db267.jpg Welcome Pilots! We're gearing up for the first private playtest and we'd like to invite you! We're looking for people on both FPV controllers and mouse and keyboard for this first test, that have time to talk to us about there experiences with the physics and controls (and have some fun along the way!). Please use the linktree below to join our discord and fill out the playtest application if interested! LINKTREE We'll be picking 10 for the first round and then expanding in future tests! Looking forward to meeting you, TruePlayers Team

Firehawk: FPV Drone Shooter news & patch notes

Firehawk: FPV Drone Shooter news & patch notes

The Swarmbreakers Update is LIVE! New Map, Missions, Boss, Weapons, & More!

Expanding the World

A Massive Arsenal Expansion

Visuals, Performance, & Polish

Quality of Life

Ultrawide Support:

New Toggle UI Elements:

Increase crosshair size toggle:

Bug Fixes:

UI, Map & Visual Fixes:

Support Fixes:

The Challenge

The Prizes

Steam news for Firehawk: FPV Drone Shooter