MAPS & LIVERIES – Major Update 4 – Aircraft Skins, Map Editor, New Map and more!

New Map: RAF Debden

We made a new starter map based on the Royal Air Force station Debden! This map has a runway, a few parking spots, and buildings already ready for you, so you can jump in more quickly than with the other maps.

Map Editor – Build your own starter map or freely build the airbase of your dreams!

This is a big one: Now you can design and share your own starter maps! Decide over the terrain, flora, available materials, and already set up buildings without worrying about resources and building times. Share the maps that you create on our Discord and check out what other community members created.

New Flora & Stone Assets

Our 3D artist made new trees, bushes, and stones to give the new map a new environment and look. These new assets are also available in the map editor.

New Resource: Gravel

We added new stones because now harvesting stones gives you the resource “gravel” which you need for one of the runway tiers.

Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

We have a new AA gun for you: HQ now lets you order the Oerlikon AA gun!

Predictor Lookout Post

Now you can build and assign someone to a lookout post to improve your defenses. Order it from HQ and place it near your AA guns to give them a bigger radius.

De Havilland Mosquito – Add with the free DLC

The most requested aircraft is available for Ground of Aces! You only need to add the free «Wings of Valor» DLC to your library to unlock it for your game.

What is «Wings of Valor»?

Alongside Major Update 4, we’re also releasing Wings of Valor, the first DLC for Ground of Aces. This DLC is a promise we made during our Kickstarter campaign, and today marks the start of 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 one aircraft and Ground of Aces itself is still in Early Access. As the DLC grows through future updates and receives more content, it will transition from free to paid at a later point. Players who pick it up now will receive all future additions at no extra cost. Releasing the DLC this way allows us to add the Mosquito already and begin fulfilling our Kickstarter promise step by step.

Planned content for «Wings of Valor» includes:

• Curtiss P-40 “Kittyhawk”
• De Havilland Vampire
• Another aircraft voted by the community (tba)
• An additional aircraft selected by the development team (tba)
• Digital artbook
• Decorative posters
• Two legendary pilot NPCs voted by the community
• Spitfire Mk X livery (skin)

Other Improvements

New shading

The shading has been updated to come closer to our vision of making a game with comic-style visuals and to make it more consistent.

You can see the difference in this image, which is split in the middle with the old shading on the left and the new shading on the right.

As always, thank you so much for playing and your feedback!

Don’t hesitate to leave a review here on Steam. It really helps an indie game project like ours! We will focus on monitoring the reports and feedback now and our team will make hotfixes if necessary.