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After a very long silence… Sky Knights is getting a major update. It’s honestly a bit surreal to write this. The last update was over 5 years ago. A lot has happened since then—both for the game and for me personally. I’m now a father of two (7 and 3), and I’ve been working full-
Polish! In preparation for an upcoming full release, it was time to polish some of the smaller stuff in there. The minimap now looks considerably sharper, the missiles have new exhaust particle effects as well as some other minor improvements. Take nice screenshots in offline mod
New Map! It's ice cold winter here in Sweden, and despite what they say about viking blood, I can't say I really particularly enjoy it. Luckily this new Sky Knights map takes us to the sunny Caribbean. Sun, beaches, yachts, umbrella drinks... and a rain of 1000 lbs bombs! This ma
Christmas Challenge! Christmas is closing in to round this strange year off. This month we will run a shorter season beginning now and ending in early 2021. Everyone who wins at least 20 pvp matches during this season will unlock an exclusive Desert Camo skin for the Su-27, norma
Pilot voices! One of the most iconic things in air combat is pilot lingo. We all love those "Fox 2!" calls before launching a heatseeker towards an enemy tailpipe. In Sky Knights, they have unfortunately been missing. Until now. Five pilot voices have been recorded, with over 200
Sell your upgrades! I always wanted to change the Race shop so that you don't have to buy the upgrades every time you made a new attempt on a track. So you kept the upgrades that you had bought between lives. However, I also wanted you to be able to swap them out if you changed y
Squashing them bugs! In my ambition to keep Sky Knights 100% bug free, it's necessary to sometimes forget about making new stuff and just fix the glitches before they start to add up. This philosophy has paid off resulting in a maintainable code base, very few bugs and less playe
New radar implementation! On real military jets, the radar is typically a forward looking thing located in the nose cone. Despite this fact, when I first created Sky Knights I wanted to keep things as simple as possible (I still do, to some extent), hence I implemented the radar
New Co-op campaign! Long time Discord veteran, Patron, tech wiz and awesome person Turavis has contributed with a co-op campaign! Actually, he handed me the draft for this months ago, but I admit it was challenging enough for the testing to take a considerable time! I'm hyped to
Winning Streaks! Some players have expressed concern over the time it takes to reach ACE rank during a season. While ACE should of course be something really hard to get, I'm inclined to agree that it has been a little extreme. As a response to the feedback, I've added a Winning
Skins! The tech required for changing the default skin for fancy ones is now in place. This feature is still in limited testing. At this time, there are two ways to unlock skins: 1) A challenge is in place, for this season only, where you can unlock the Viggen Splinter Camo by wi
Defend the Motherland! In this new challenging co-op campaign, you'll take off towards the northern parts of Siberia to defend the Motherland. Grab a friend or two, or three (or pick some people up on Discord) and fly the mighty PACT aircraft like the Su-27 Flanker and the MiG-29
Show us your design! Last update introduced the Co-op game mode, in which you and your friends battle through a campaign of custom rules matches. We're now adding the next layer on this feature, enabling you to create your own custom campaigns, and even share them with other play
New Co-op game mode! This update introduces a new game mode, in which you take on challenges in the form of matches with customized game rules. For instance, in one match you may be restricted to only flying the F-16 in a 2 vs 4 scenario. In another there may be no enemy aircraft
New season! Free Wings! Season 16 is over, and Season 17 (The big Christmas season!) is now starting! Nice flying everyone and big congratulations to the TOP 10! This season we got three player who reached ACE RANK, generating three 50-wing vouchers that any player may use, so be
Uncapped frame rate Since the day of launch, Sky Knights has been locked to 60 FPS. By popular request, I have now provided an option to either set an alternative frame rate cap (25, 30, 60, 80, 120 and 144 is available) or to disable the cap completely. To be clear, we still rec
New HUD This is something I've wanted to take care of for a long time. The original HUD was inspired by a fighter aircraft hud, with bars along the edges, indicating speed and such things. While this certainly made sense, given the theme of the game, it was quite problematic that
New AAA models We've finally put some proper AAA models in there, replacing the old ones. These new ones have rotating turrets and cannons that can tilt upwards. The muzzle flash particle effects should look much better now as well. Go ahead and bomb them, or just casually fly ov
Click for trailer! The Su-17 Fitter The time has finally come for the PACT faction to get a tool comparable with the recently released AJS 37 Viggen. Unlocking it! Finish Race number 4 under the required time. After that is done, you can put the mighty Su-17 in your PACT deck! Wh
Balance! Tweaks! Fixes! This was meant to be a small update, adressing some minor balance issues. The more I worked on it, and the more I talked to the player base, the more inspired I got to keep polishing things. In the end the change list got pretty big. Thanks a lot for all t