The Falconeer Patch 1

Hello Falconeers!

The first patch for The Falconeer is now available to download.

Based on the feedback given in the first 48 hours there's been some changes to how mouse performance works in game, some splinter economy balancing, and general bug fixes to ensure a much smoother trip through The Great Ursee!

Patch notes are as follows :

Control Updates

- Controller changes can now be cancelled by exiting through esc or back button
- Mouse sensitivity slider in settings
- Mouse smoothing added

Economy changes

- Cash from falcons is returned on chapter change
- 50% of cash from mutagens is returned on chapter change

Bug Fixes

- C4M4 and C4M8 now respawn enemy ships if you retry the mission after having destroyed one or both ships
- Worldmap shows the correct 12 fortresses
- Mission delivery items such as the key or the packages, when they are thrown somewhere where they can end up beneath the world such as the maw, they respawn at a last known good location.

UI Updates

- Skippers reward text is now at the bottom and doesn't overlap with mission debrief
- Bird portrait now doesn't clip back and forth between mutated and not in bird seller screen
- The word keyboard should no longer appear ahead of a key binding, so it now says press R to land. Fix for localised text

Gameplay changes

- Maw stealth space is a bit roomier
- Game saves always on landing, (not just on finishing a mission), so discovery progress is kept
- Badge of seeker added to Oberons Reach store

Once again thank you for all of your feedback! If you have any bugs or issues you would like to report, please continue to do so, the easiest method being via The Falconeer Discord where you can report them directly to Tomas himself!

Download the update, get yourself out to the Ursee once more, and don't forget to leave a review!

The Falconeer has received a brand new patch!

Featuring a couple of localisation improvements, bug fixes and more - the full list can be found below :

Language Updates :

- Korean had the wrong spacing rules applied. Spaces are now correct in Korean
- Number of improvements on the Russian localisation

Bug Fixes :

- Clicking leave with mouse would cancel your mission, fixed
- Sometimes switching to the map would fail, and you'd be left with a town description in view
- If you got killed wile the camera was zooming on a cap ship or location, you'd enter a zombie mode with detached camera, you now die properly.
- Player when on fire can again dive in water to douse flames
- Delivery items could suddenly drop after launch.
- Delivery items could suddenly shatter when trying to pick up.
- Mouse would register wrong clicks in the pause menu.

Gameplay changes :

- Splash damage is now zero on the player from his own mines, in easy and normal
- Your wingman also won't die in hardcore mode.
- Delivery items now cannot shatter on ships and enemies (prevention from random despawning in missions)
- Photomode on mouse should now be smooth
- In the maw, stealth would sometimes fail to quickly, 5 second buffer added
- Fly ahead, is now also working when homebound, so a fly home will appear once the mission is done.
- Fly ahead is available in side missions
- In some cargo retrieval or salvage missions, the item would be invisible and become impossible to grab, now fixed
- Impact damage at high speeds is reduced, to prevent to many insta-kills on hitting airships.
- Falcon cawing reduced in jetstreams
- 120HZ V-sync improved on Xbox Series S/X (xbox patch will arrive later due to testing)

THE KRAKEN HAS BEEN UNLEASHED!

Attention Falconeers!

The brand new Kraken DLC update is now available to download ABSOLUTELY FREE for all owners of The Falconeer!

The Wreck Divers of Batis are renowned for their prowess in recovering relics from the depths of the Ursee, something the Mancer order exploit handily.

But recent rumours of ancient monstrosities roaming the depths have led them to approach willing Falconeers to assist them in their tasks.

Meanwhile the cartographers guild in Cartohom are using freshblood Falconeers to explore the unknown and map out the Great Ursee.

Help escort wreck divers to their diving stations, and protect them from interlopers as they raise treasure from the watery depths, be that from pirates or much older DEADLIER entities – or help to discover all the secrets that the Great Ursee hides within.

There are ample new ways to make profit and splinters in this new update – but as always, it comes at a risk…

You can find a list of the new missions, locations and general patch notes below :

New wreck-diver company location : Batis
New cartographers guild location : Cartohom
Exploration missions : Given out at Cartohom, find and discover locations in the world for splinters.
Wreck diving missions : Given out at Batis, be the eyes in the sky for wreck diving operations. See the depths of the Great Ursee first hand as wreck-divers scour the floor for relics, with a chance to encounter something else entirely...
3 new tutorial missions at Dunkle, to introduce chants and mutagens as well as some basic mechanics like fishing and jet streams.

Wreck diving mission outcomes

Come up empty handed or encounter dangerous sea creatures like Sarks. (Roughly 25% chance)
Find sunken ships for a 300-1200 splinters reward. (Roughly 50% chance)
Uncover ancient relics, vehicles and temples for up a 1600 splinter reward. (roughly 25%)
Encounter the mighty Kraken! (Rare chance)
Encounter the deadly Mosaurs of the Ursee! (Rare chance)

Game Update Patch Notes

Gameplay

- Turning Speed of enemy birds reduced by 10-25% to provide smoother dogfights and decrease difficulty.
- Enemy AI adjusted to prefer smoother turns and tactical retreats to add more of a chase.
- Mission difficulty more accurately indicated
- Enemy warbirds can now roll to avoid incoming fire
- Locked targets now have off screen edge indicators

Effects

- Debris and anything falling into the Ursee had incorrect or none-existent FX – now has generous splashes.

UI

- Improved the store interactions, along with a confirm to purchase / sell mechanic.
- Settings sliders now respond to mouse properly and can be dragged
- GUI arrows in perch menu and chapter select blink
- GUI arrows in perch menu disappear when not needed
- The word chapter is removed from the chapter selection GUI

Audio

Magnetar rifle and lightning caster have impact sounds, adding weight to their firing.
There is plenty more Ursee to be discovered, so strap yourselves onto your Warbirds and get out there!

A Kraken Competition!

We've teamed up with RAZER to provide this fantastic competition, where you can win a Razer Kraken Ultimate gaming headset - and a copy of The Falconeer on Pc to go with it!

To enter, soar over to the link below and get your entries in before January 2nd 2021!

Win a Razer Kraken Ultimate Headset

Ascend Falconeers!

1.2.0.0 Now live !

Balancing

- Magnetar rifle damaged lowered by 30%, DpS was much to high .
- lightning caster rate of fire increased, to match DpS of Magnetar
- RoF of RazorBeetled reduced a bit, to prevent overwhelming swarm fire.
- purify chant, reduced effectiveness to only critically explode subtargets 30% of the time.
- First enemy encounter in epilogue removed, to prevent being spotted later"
- Shard and Oberon's Reach no longer have low level side missions (no deliveries or salvage and such). Only warfare side missions.
- Default mancer player bird lowered several stats
- added a trader for future stuff to Port Remit

Improvements

- Battlemap and Dialogue sequences now auto-continue without input
- Worldmap now snaps and attracts to markers, making navigating it easier
- Worldmap now has a center reticule
- Worldmap now has a custom map pin you can set with SELECT and shows up on your compas.
- moved a gate for the southern time trial to make it less daunting
- Cinematic zoom on enemies disabled during stealth sequences
- Mouse controls improved on world map

Visuals

- New color appropriate nozzle firing FX, that scale with weapon quality.
- Player rider model has had a major detail upgrade, gone is the ultra angular rider in your photomode shots.

fixes

- inverted control settings would revert when opening the controller menu
- prevention of fast travel prompt remaining stuck
- fixed ace of aces achievement to the correct count
- Swapping out a weapon in a store , will refund your old weapon value.
- charging in a storm will not change the type of ammo-pot, if the pot being charged is more valuable than the "charged" result. So if you charge a high value green pot in a blue storm,, it will remain a green pot..
- Mouse hitbox for settings button scaled up to include entire button area
- flap sounds where inconsistent during boosts

1.2.0.1 now live

Various fixes

- enemies are prevented from spawning more than 450 meters away, to prevent them wandering off during misisons
- lip sync audiosource analysis fixed to channel 0,to prevent random out of range errors
- roaming surface ships are now initialized at a random origin correctly, (no more pirate ships crossing the maw)
- roaming surface ships now have proper collision avoidance between themselves (prevents ships clipping thru each other)
- Buying back your old bird (class default) showed the right amount, but was using the wrong value
- Gui Animations are now framerate independend
- some text could "fall" due to infinite linebreaks
- whirlwinds now always give 100% energy refills and boost a bit more
- bird gains a tiny bit of energy from straight flight
- exploding ammo won't explode or cause errors if you are fully out of ammo
- custom map marker would never be removed on click, when set to mouse control and aim
- edge target indicator behaved wrong when behind you (i.e. stuck in the corner too much)

The Hunter Update

The Hunter is available for unlocking

- the reward item should always fade out on a mission debrief
- the map reticule won't flicker in and out when zooming (it does hide if you start using the mouse, but that is intentional)
- the kraken main tenticle now doesn't dissapear suddenly when you kill it|
- the wreckdiver cinematic zoom now has a discovery notification text
- the fly ahead notification will always disappear after use
- the landing notification now has blinking text to alert the player better

Gameplay Changes

- You won't be punished for friendly fire in the prologue
- Red and green ammo can overcharge in storms
- Prologue charging tutorial will work with coloured ammo and not block
- Intercept force after friendly fire only spawns when near a perch/settlement
- Intercept force spawns is based on the last killed enemy if you are civilian

UI

- Map/compass guidance always pops in after some distance from it
- Save/load indicator moved to the left
- Some of the worst offending text sizes scaled up (main menu, settings, shop and item names)
- Landing indicator is now centred at the top of screen

Bug Fixes

- Pirate ships can no longer take the mawbridge >northgate route that led them past the prologue area
- Charging from red or green ammo now correctly changes the ammo count from these upgraded pots.
- Game-time slowing to 50% when landed prevented.
- Buying your old bird back now refunds the proper amount, default birds refund zero
- The miraculous survival chant now can't lead to a half-dead situation where the camera de-locks upon death
- Windows version now forces the use of the dedicated GPU rather than the default on-board GPU. (for instance on laptops with two
- Improved water shader performance

- Fixed wrong button prompt in Prologue for targeting.
- Button prompts now blink in Prologue.
- Trying to land in Prologue now shows warning that the feature is locked.
- Prologue balloon section removed.
- Prologue bombing section removed.
- Bombing side mission tutorial added to Dunkle.
- 'Paths to Shard' mission fixed when cargo is shot off.
- Mosaur skin glitch fixed.
- Fly ahead prompt forcibly deactivated on fly home.
- Ammo recharging when perched fixed for each difficulty.
- Fixed random progress on several achivements when first starting the game.
- Small dead-zone created for the dive maneuver, to prevent accidental dives.
- Landing and fly ahead moved into the screen safe zone.

Atuns Folly Update

Live the pirate life with ‘Atun’s Folly’, a free new update The Falconeer!
Announced during Wired Direct – you can catch a birds eye view of all the exciting new content added in the trailer below!

Trailer

• Partake in criminal acts to become a pirate! and navigate the perilous waters of the Great Ursee, be a menace and see your pirate levels increase!
• Discover Atun’s Folly, a unique new pirate settlement atop of a giant turtle.
• Experience epic new pirate missions, as you take down trading vessels, steal loot and attack Imperial or Mancer forts.
• Complete mini story side quest and return to civilized society by defeating legendary aces that stalk the pirates (mini boss level fighters).
• Take on a new pirate assault story mission targeting Atun’s Folly (when you are not a pirate), starting from Castellus.
• Conquer fearsome new enemies ridden by legendary aces including the formidable Phoenix, mighty prehistoric Pteron and the menacing Ormir drake.
• Dual wield a new Pirate Magnetar Rifle, for maximum damage.

Ascend Falconeers!

A brand new patch is now available to download, featuring pt-BR text language support, better keyboard and mouse implementation, visual upgrades, bug fixes and more!

Full patch notes are as follows! :

** PC Specific **

- The settings and control menus now respond to mouse better. You can click on left to go left or right to go right in a setting.
- Resolution switcher now goes up and down logically.
- Mouse control + Aim control scheme does not drift the bird all over the place when in a cinematic zoom.
- Reduced the tendency of the bird heading towards a tracked target when holding the target tracking button while using Mouse Control + Aim Control schemes.
- Mouse controls now restored to the Worldmap menu.
- If multiple game controllers are connected, the input system will now revert to the controller type you set as your flight axis

Language

- Added Portuguese Brazilian language text support.

UI And Settings

- Added a gamma slider to settings.
- Photo-mode bindings within control menu now has a title.
- Added colour coded button icons for Xbox X, Y, A and B buttons.

Gameplay

- For normal and easy difficulty, all ammo is now refilled upon landing anywhere inhabited.
- For hardcore difficulty all ammo is now refilled at your home, pyro pots are refilled anywhere inhabited.
- Upon death you no longer lose any ammo pots you bought, only splinters.
- After completing a chapter, every mission of that chapter is now listed and can be replayed
- Storms have been made slightly more dangerous with increased flying effects.
- Diving into the water will now always stop ammo overcharging within storms.
- Mission combat events now de-spawn and reset only at further distances.
- Pirate Hunters are cleared for clean-up after the player redeems their status as pirate.
- Pirate Hunters may now spawn if you load a new game.
- Splash damage from exploding turrets fire reduced.
- Rocket fire damage reduced by 20%.
- Increased the health of the Dreadnot during Treefall mission.

Visuals

- Storms have been visually improved and can now be spotted from a distance.
- Increased the default range of the compass and the scaling of compass items.
- Made character portrait animations snappier.
- Character portraits now have different idle animations which won't sync together.
- Characters within their portraits now have roughed up hairlines.
- Tree of Souls is now less cluttered and visually improved.
- Caves have been visually improved.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed an issue whereby some ships were intersecting rocks and ending up in strange places.
- Fixed a flicker which occurred when the compass is switched between exploration and combat mode.
- Added a missing race marker.
- Fixed issue where fish could be caught within caves.
- Added additional preventions to stop wreckdive cutscenes from not displaying.
- Fixed issue with level up warning popping-up in the main menu.
- Splash damage limited so insta-kills of ships is less likely.

Let us know what you think about the new control changes, especially regarding Keyboard and Mouse!

Any issues or feedback you want to give directly you can do so in the official Falconeer Discord

And don't forget we are currently running a competition to get your best snapshots of the Legendary Aces included in the Atuns Folly update - go cause some trouble and take some fearsome pictures and you might just win some game keys for sharing them with us on Twitter

minor update, fixed AO not engaging

-AO was accidentally forced off on PC,,.fixed

fixed , fishing bug

- Fishing is now working again

The Falconeer Edge Of The World Patch Notes

Hello Falconeers!

Today is the launch of The Edge Of The World (as you may have heard!) Which is OBVIOUSLY worthy of LOTS of celebration!

As part of the expansion launch we have also got a HUGE amount of updates in our latest patch, all based off your feedback to Tomas since the launch of Atuns folly earlier this year.

Update 1.4.25.0 contains the following :

New Content Added

- Added Edge of the World DLC mission content
- Added Mawspring Neverin and The Benthic locations for the DLC
(Available even without DLC)
- Added new DLC classes, Arbiter and Corsair
- Overhauled prologue
- New voice acting for ALL the content added in the last 8 months.
- Map expanded
- Added shocklance weapon

Bug Fixes

- Missiles will target proper center of target
- Resolution switching will select a lower resolution when using gamepad left (instead of always going higher)
- Mouse resets upon take off
- Fixed magnetar impact not showing (again)
- AI no longer targets submerged debris
- 15th temple issue solved, the temple of assula is no longer counted.
- Travel ahead could remain visible in the wreck dive cutscene
- Some wreck diving cutscene creature animations were broken
- Camera unlinking and bird going wobbly after death should now be prevented
- Prevented ships from respawning with a rotation offset caused by sinking

Visual Changes

- Emotion animations integrated for NPC portraits
- Spotlights added to imperial and mancer turrets at nighttime or during storms.
- Added red lights to bow of Mancer Questor
- Added red lights to weaver head
- Cinematic zoom now always zooms at center of target

Gameplay Changes

- Upon starting a new chapter , if your base ammo is destroyed you get 3 new pots
- Diving mechanic now redesigned, hold brake button while heading down and you can keep diving for as long as you want/possible.
- Diving manoeuvre now gains you energy.
- Bloodlust, rage and resistance chants now have a visual and audio effect ingame when they are consumed.
- The 6 splinters in the seachantress sequence now accurately represent your campaign progression
- Using your movement axis to skip dialogue sequences has been replaced with the hold for 1 second functionality, inline with other sequences
- Shortened the distance map fast travel is allowed
- Going pirate now instantly updates the map to represent the new status
- Flying home during a mission, takes you to the mission starting point instead of home.
- Rebalanced a few key turrets to prevent ship insta kills of all turrets.
- Limited the raw quantity of turrets a missile can deal splash damage to
- Exploration missions no longer show the target to discover on map or compass
- Shrine and settlement defense and assault missions, now target a more diverse selection of locations
- Level cap has been increased , unlockable thru the items of assula (3 out of 4 are locked to the DLC)
- Bird stat levelling has been rebalanced, and max value set to six instead of 5