This update adds more detail to life behind the controls. Traffic alerts respond to changing encounters, vehicles reflect the miles and hours they have accumulated, and pressure changes affect what your character hears. Alongside those additions are clearer ATC responses, improved navigation, more informative local news, and a wide range of terrain and rendering fixes.

More capable traffic alerts

TCAS has received a substantial upgrade, with expanded voice alerts and guidance that responds as an encounter develops.

• Tracks relative movement and altitude to distinguish a developing conflict from traffic that will pass clear.
• Evaluates multiple threats when selecting a vertical maneuver, with climb, descend, maintain, reduce, increase, and reversal advisories.
• Updates the displayed instruction and target vertical rate as the situation changes, and cancels obsolete voice instructions.
• Shows crossing indications and makes level-off instructions clearer on the overlay.
• Adds a dedicated TCAS audio/system test. Hold Ctrl while using your Aural Warning Test binding to start or cancel it.

Vehicles that reflect their use

Accumulated mileage and flight hours now affect vehicle performance. Wear gradually reduces available power and increases fuel use; aircraft also develop additional aerodynamic drag and play around the center of the flight controls.

The effects are capped, and full flight-control travel remains available. Wear is calculated from the vehicle's recorded usage, giving a well-used vehicle a different feel from a fresh one.

Keyboard steering has also been retuned for a more gradual response.

Pressure, sound, and cockpit detail

• Pressure-driven hearing effects: changing cabin pressure can produce ear pops and temporarily muffle in-game sounds, including communications. Hearing clears smoothly as pressure equalizes.
• Updated ear-pop recordings and sequencing make the effect more varied.
• Interface sounds remain clear when the character's hearing is muffled.
• Improved windshield damage: varied fracture patterns stay attached to the glass as you look around, remain visible over clear glass, and disappear after the windshield is repaired.
• Night-vision recovery: fixed lingering whiteout near cloud tops. Lightning that does not illuminate the scene no longer retriggers the effect, and weaker flashes no longer keep an earlier whiteout from fading.
• Corrected E-10 cargo-bay interior visibility.

Clearer and more consistent ATC

• Takeoff clearance matters: ATC can address departures made without a transmitted takeoff or dustoff clearance. Detection respects radar visibility, and warnings fit into the controller's normal radio schedule.
• Departure history persists through cancellation and recontact, with handling to avoid duplicate penalties for the same departure.
• Help identify airspace violators: ATC can ask an eligible nearby pilot to report an unidentified aircraft's type or visible markings. What can be reported depends on range, daylight, and weather. These requests are optional.
• Better explanations for pad arrivals: when weather prevents a visual approach, ATC reports the visibility and ceiling and explains the options to continue under vectors, change destination, or request assistance.
• Local pad-approach altitude handling is separated from visual-landing permission. Changing weather can require a fresh landing-zone-in-sight report before visual release.
• Fixed Confirm Visual menu actions so their numbered, translated labels remain clickable and identify the relevant traffic or landing-zone report.

Navigation and the Deois map

• Aligned route overlays: the turn-by-turn line now shares the street map's projection and drawing area, keeping directions aligned with the displayed roads.
• Reduced repeated recalculation requests so you have time to follow a replacement route's entry or U-turn instruction.
• Turn-by-turn road guidance is enabled only in cockpits equipped with the street-map display.
• Improved how city road surfaces meet the surrounding terrain, including the appearance and lighting of connections to player-built roads.
• Restored the Deois terminal-control-area ring on the moving map after the tower waypoint changed.
• Parking on the web atlas: the Deois interactive map now includes 51 mapped parking records. Toggle the Parking layer, use the selector, or search by parking-spot ID or vehicle name to inspect their locations and approximate vehicle footprints.

Terrain, clouds, and world stability

• Corrected terrain-cell selection and transition orientation where sections of the planet's map meet.
• Fixed reported terrain spikes and gaps at map boundaries, with more consistent shared edges between neighboring terrain patches.
• Improved terrain-map projection and visibility checks near those boundaries, reducing missing map sections and scenery that incorrectly disappears as you turn the camera.
• Improved cloud geometry across planetary map boundaries and corners.
• Corrected distance calculations for nearby terrain lighting and fog.
• More resilient server updates: a terrain-calculation error affecting one vehicle no longer prevents later vehicles and scanner updates from being processed. This addresses cases where ATC and recorded flight data could retain an old altitude while an aircraft continued moving.

Transport, sonic booms, and local news

• DIHV tracking: scheduled DIHV transports now use server-driven movement and normal scanner telemetry. Sinker guidance can track the moving transport across the relevant reference frames.
• Improved the velocity reported by automated flight playback and corrected repeated sonic booms caused by fluctuations around Mach 1.
• Richer incident reports: local crash news now draws on the incident type, recorded occupants and cargo, recent radar-visible flight history, and local weather.
• City surface-incident reports can identify nearby named streets and intersections, making the location easier to recognize.

The immigration portrait also keeps its captured pose after a photo is taken.

Thanks to everyone exploring the world, testing its systems, and reporting what you find. Your feedback continues to shape Vieneo.