ON FIRE – Major Update 6 – Fires, Firefighting, Control Towers, Accidents

Firefighting Tasks & Management

Crew members can now be assigned to the new Fight Fire task in the Crew Management window. Like Building or Gathering, Firefighting now has its own work priority. Crew members assigned to this task will even wake up from sleep to respond to emergencies.

Air Traffic Control Towers

Build an Air Traffic Control Tower from the Buildings menu and assign crew members to it. Each assigned air traffic controller reduces the chance of airplane accidents by 1% for aircraft operating within the tower’s range.

Three tower variants are available, each providing a larger operational radius: Metal, Brick, Concrete.

Airplane Accidents

Aircraft now have a chance of experiencing an accident when taking off or landing at your airbase.

The chance of an accident happening depends on airstrip tier, pilot flying skill, and the air traffic control tower in the airstrip range. However, which event will happen is determined by the airplane health points. The more damaged an aircraft is, the more severe accidents are possible.

Useful info:

• Planes can have wobbly, overshooting, smoking, or even burning landings.
• The aircraft will receive a landing defect and must be repaired to become operational again.
• Planes have a small chance to crash into the ground when they have too few HP
• We added a camera follow button to the event log entry.

What is “Wings of Valor”?

This DLC is a promise we made during our crowdfunding campaign and we are now building it up piece by piece. Wings of Valor exists thanks to the incredible support of our backers, who made it possible for us to lay the foundation for additional content beyond the base game.

Wings of Valor is available for free in its current state, as it currently includes only part of its planned content and Ground of Aces itself is still in Early Access. It will transition from free to paid when we launch the 1.0 version of the game. Players who pick it up now will receive all future additions at no extra cost.

Planned content for “Wings of Valor”:

• Another aircraft voted on by the community (tba)
• An additional aircraft selected by the development team (tba)
• Digital artbook
• Two legendary pilot NPCs voted on by the community

Twitch Integration for Livestreamers

Alongside Major Update 6, we’ve also implemented a brand-new Twitch Integration that allows viewers to actively participate in a livestream.

Chat participants can assign names to crew members and vote on events that affect the airbase. They can help the streamer with useful deliveries or make life considerably more chaotic with additional attacks, random fires, or exploding furniture.

Are you a Twitch streamer and want access to the Twitch Integration?

On the 27th of July, we’ll launch a campaign on Dare Drop, where Ground of Aces streamers can complete challenges and unlock rewards for their communities. The Twitch Integration will be part of these challenges. Find our Dare Drop page here:

If you don’t use Dare Drop, you can register your interest with this form. We will check your Twitch account, and if you’re eligible for access, we will send you access to the Twitch integration:

Thank you for playing and supporting Ground of Aces! Don’t hesitate to leave a review here on Steam. It really helps an indie game project like ours!

We will monitor the new reports and feedback that will come in now and over the weekend.

– The Blindflug Studios team