For the past year and a half, Cloudbase Game Labs has been working diligently to bring you a truly state-of-the-art VR experience, utilizing the latest developments in game engine technology. This required a significant re-engineering of the software, and tons of testing with our beta testing team. It was important to us that this release was stable, and runs well on a variety of hardware.
We are pleased to announce the public release of Freeflight Experience Version 2. This release brings a huge set of new features and capabilities, but perhaps most important, it runs more smoothly than before, even with all of the added detail.
All existing customers are entitled to a free upgrade to the most recent version. You can simply download using the provided link, and continue to use your license code. It is recommended you completely uninstall the old software and manually delete (or rename) the folder containing saved weather and settings.
Version 1.57 will still be available to download and will be supported for the foreseeable future.
Besides the significant graphical improvements, this new version features:
- Improves wind sounds for better airspeed awareness
- Flat screen mode for non-VR users
- Global simulation thermals, of ridge-lift, leeside sink and mechanical turbulence
- Ability to define and select your own launches and landing spots globally
- Many new bespoke sites
- Improved glider dynamics
- Simulation of weak-link breaks and lockouts
- Support for force sensor based input and TrackIR for non-VR users
- Support for Google Earth 3D tilesets with photogrammetry based trees and building where available.
And many many more.