You Are a Bird

othercrow

Released
Mar 6, 2020
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Updates & announcements

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  1. Developer post

    New more accurate flight controls, land on tree branches, fancy realtime GI.

    New controls, play the tutorial! Changes New flight controls for Roll/Yaw that more accurately fit bird flight mechanics into the limits of 3-tracker VR. The old way of rolling was too far off from how birds actually roll. See tutorial for the new controls. More aggressive auto d

  2. Developer post

    Fixed game not launching. You may need to verify game files.

    Issue with Steam launch config is fixed. Play button will now start the correct executable. You may need to verify game files for this change to apply:

  3. Developer post

    The Big Update is here.

    A complete rewrite of You Are a Bird in Unreal Engine 5. Massive quality improvement in all areas. Realtime procgen is out in favor of much more detailed 56 square km island. The "beta" branch has been disabled as it's no longer needed. If you still want to play the old version,

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    Beta Update 3

    How to opt into the Beta In your Library: Right click You Are A Bird Click Properties Click Betas Choose beta from the Beta Participation dropdown Close Properties Wait for the update to complete. If the Beta is not working on your PC yet, just set Beta Participation back to None

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    Beta Update 2

    Changes Camera now locked to the bird's skeleton instead of the other way around for more accurate bird movement. Move your head up and down to peck at things on the ground while landed. Reduced unwanted flapping just from moving your head around. Reduced camera clipping through

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    Beta Update 1

    Changes Catch rabbits with your claws and carry them away. Can't eat them yet. Control your claws with left grip and right grip. Fast forward time from the pop-up menu. More dynamic wing physics and animation Bird's head moves with your IRL head. You can ride the deer. Better vis

  7. Developer post

    Unreal Engine 5 Beta

    I spent the past 100,000,000 years remaking YAaB in Unreal Engine 5 and you can try it ~right now~ Beta features Expect bugs and performance issues at this stage. Calibration eliminated! Better wing controls: roll naturally with your wrist instead of triggers Temporal Super Resol

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    You Are A Bird - Massive World Update

    Added roll to the flight system, squeeze your triggers to gently roll to either side. Flight math re-written for smoother flight and better control. Added infinite procedural world generation. World regenerates from a fresh seed every game. A bunch of new music added. Revamped da

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    April update is here!

    Hey friends, the April update is here! It took a ton of work to get this running but there's finally a new massive island to build the rest of the game on. IMPORTANT NOTE: Your settings and calibration from previous versions will be lost. Please update settings and re-run calibra

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    You Are A Bird - v0.1.1 Update

    Excited to finally get the first update out to you! Please try it out and let me know what you think , many of these and a lot more in-progress changes come from player feedback. Content Day-night Cycle - 24 hour cycle with new dynamic light and sound. Better Eating - Peck chunks