The first batch of RealFlight Evolution DLC for 2024 is here! This is a good opportunity to reiterate and revise some previous DLC explanations.
2024 Quarterly Content Pack 1
2024 QCP1 includes 6 new aircraft: 4 standard + 2 premium. Clicking the individual links below will take you to the items’ Steam store pages, where you can view pictures and learn more about them.
- E-flite Air Tractor 1.5m
- E-flite Commander mPd 1.4m
- E-flite UMX Waco
- E-flite Valiant 1.3m
- Tower Hobbies ASW-28
- ViperJet
Here is a direct link to the 2024 QCP1 bundle containing all the above items.
Standard vs. premium aircraft models
What makes a premium model different from a standard one? In short, a premium model is more work for us to produce meaning you get more as a result. More what? It could be one or more of the following:
- More features – Examples include retracts, flaps, and other articulating components
- More detail – Things like scale details, an unusual or extra-complex design, multiple color schemes, and/or a full cockpit
- More variants – Includes multiple variations such as with and without floats, slats, etc.
How to buy
RealFlight Evolution DLC is available a few different ways.
- Each quarterly batch of content is available in a money-saving bundle. See the QCP1 link above for one example. Each individual item page also contains a link to the bundle that contains it.
- The Year Content Pass is a way to buy all the content for a given year--all 4 Quarterly Content Packs--at an even greater discount. When you purchase it, you get immediate access to any content that has been released so far that year. If any of that year’s quarterly content is still to come, then as it is released it will unlock automatically for you. So, whether you buy it at the beginning of the year, essentially prepurchasing all of that year’s content to come, or hold off and buy it at the end of the year after the final QCP is released and get all the content at once, or anywhere in between, the end result is the same.
- The 2023 YCP is complete and will remain available to purchase for anyone who would like to get all that content at once at the highest possible discount.
- The 2024 YCP is now available and will work just like last year's did.
- Individual items from the content packs are also available for purchase separately. If you purchase one or more items a la carte and later decide you would like to own the whole pack they came from, you can! The QCP bundle will only charge you for the models you don’t already own, and you’ll pay the discounted bundle price for them. This “complete the set” option is only possible for QCPs (YCPs do not support it).
DLC that you own will appear right alongside all the other models/airports in Evolution. Look for them by name in the selection dialogs or find them with the Quick Load dialog. For filtering purposes, as of this writing they are considered stock RealFlight Evolution models, but we are preparing to release a beta version that adds a separate DLC filtering category.
Releases Roadmap
As we touched on in the initial RealFlight Evolution release announcement, RF Evo will live in the marketplace for a number of years. DLC offers a way to keep getting more out of RealFlight without the need to upgrade your version every year or two. Software updates will come when they are ready, whereas DLC will release on more of a set schedule. We aim for a January/April/July/October pattern, but various factors can influence this, and packs may release later within their given quarter.