Heliborne Collection — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Community Announcement from your Community Manager | 2023-04-28 | Greetings, Pilots. We have an important announcement from your Community Manager - Marcus a.k.a Chairborne. Dear fellow Heliborners! It's been two years now since I have begun working as the community manager for our beloved Heliborne. When I started I had high hopes of revitalizing the game and, like so many of you, ideas for new features. Due to other priorities and the use of resources for those, the expectations could not be fully realized. Now, it is time for me to move on. I thank all of you for your support and cooperation. I also want to express my thanks to each and every one at Klabater. For me, as someone who was not at all familia |
| European Server Maintenance - Heliborne: EE | 2023-04-06 | Greetings Pilots, The servers in the European region are currently not working for Heliborne: Enhanced Edition (it works for Oldborne). This is due to server maintenance that is currently underway. We are in touch with our partners to minimize the effects on you, and we are working hard to ensure that the maintenance is completed as quickly as possible. We are unable to provide an estimate of how long the maintenance will last, but rest assured that we are doing everything we can to manage it as quickly and efficiently as possible. Please bear with us during this time, and we will keep you updated once the server is back. Thank you for your p |
| Community Announcement - Authentication Issues | 2022-09-21 | Attention Pilots! Recently there have been problems with logging into Heliborne occurring. The issue is that whenever a player tries to launch the online game, the message: "Steam Authentication failed" pops up. We are aware of that issue, so we immediately took steps and made contact with Steam - it seems, however, there are some difficulties - the connection with Steam tends to fail from time to time; as we wait for their reply, we are investigating possible error sources. One of the concepts is that it could be connected with an authentication certificate or software/OS update. We are contacting Photon regarding the issue. Intensive work o |
| Community announcement | 2022-09-06 | Hello Heliborne Community, It came to our attention that recently, there were comments from some Heliborne community members that we will close the servers. In short, there is no such plan, nor is there such need. Therefore, we are not going to shut down the service. Consequently, you do not need to worry about your game being discontinued. As mentioned in earlier messages, we will reveal further development plans for the franchise as soon as we gather the necessary resources. Meanwhile, please refer to our Community Manager Markus, a.k.a. Chairborne for more details. Thank you a lot for your attention. |
| Klabater Publisher Sale 2022 | 2022-05-05 | AHOY, OUR DEAR COMMUNITY! We’re very proud to share this special event with you - Klabater Publisher Sale 2022 We offer our entire catalog with exceptional deals for a week starting now, prices even up to 90% off! Many of the games just got their deepest discounts ever, so if you ever wondered whether to purchase any game from our portfolio, but haven’t yet, now is the right time! BEST MONTH EVER! OUT NOW Take part in a roller coaster of emotions with Louise embarking on a road trip of a lifetime through the late 1960s USA, trying to show her son Mitch how to navigate the often cruel modern world. Your choices matter! https://store.steampower |
| Connectivity Issues On Consoles | 2022-03-04 | Hi there, Pilots! We've been reading your reports on the connectivity issues plaguing your playthroughs recently on PS4 and Xbox - we’ve identified the possible key culprits behind these problems and we are currently investigating how to take care of these ASAP. To share some light on the source of the problem, it seems there are differences in the Photon service between PC and consoles, one of them causing a randomized problem affecting connection time out’s and eventual disconnections from server. We are diligently working to fix the above on our end and we are in direct contact with the Photon support team. We aim to resolve these issues b |
| Black Weekend Heliborne Revival | 2021-11-18 | Hello aviators! Let's meet once again, let's do this as we did it last time and let's roll and prepare ourselves for some aerial strikes. I would really like to invite you all to a friendly encounter once again. As always, we will have a couple of rounds, and will determine who is rusty and who is not. This time it could not be that obvious. November is a time of sales, so our good ol' Heliborne will have some as well - it means, new blood could arise and prove their place in the hierarchy. Or will they? Let's meet on Saturday, NOVEMBER 27th. Join me at 6 PM CET / 9 AM PT / 12 pm ET and get those rotors into motion. Hope to see as many pilots |
| Saturday Night Heliborne Revival | 2021-10-06 | Hello fellow helo drivers! I would like to invite you all to join me once again in our beloved "Oldborne" like we did in the good ol' times. Let's meet together on this Saturday, October 9th, and have a couple of rounds, what do you think? Meet me at 6 PM CEST / 9:00 AM PDT for some - hopefully - full matches! As always, I count on you! Markus, -Chairborne- PLEASE NOTE, that there happen to be a mistake in the date, as it tells the event starts on Friday. The meeting will occur on SATURDAY - 9th. |
| SECOND Chopper Jockey Roundtable | 2021-08-10 | Hello again pilots! I am really happy to once again invite all pilots to another round of the event: Chopper Jockey Roundtable. Time for round II. All available aviators are invited to join in on Heliborne classic ("Oldborne"/Legacy) on Saturday, August 14th, at 6:00 PM CEST - (9:00 AM PDT). I'd be really glad if we create as many matches as possible, be it PvP or PvE - it all depends on what's your demands, pilots. Let's make an aviation encounter and test your hand to decide who, currently, is the best helicopter pilot. For more information, reach me on the Heliborne Discord, Chairborne #1506. I hope to see you on Saturday! Markus, aka Chai |
| First Chopper Jockey Roundtable | 2021-05-07 | Hello pilots! I am glad to invite you to a new, incoming event in our beloved game Heliborne: Our first "Chopper Jockey Roundtable"! All available aviators are invited to join in on Heliborne classic ("Oldborne"/Legacy) on Saturday, May 8th, at 5:00 PM CEST. Let's find out how many PvP or PvE matches can we create! And how many of you, fellow pilots, can we meet during the event! What's more: All of you, participating players will have a unique chance to win a code to one of Klabater's games of choice: - Help Will Come Tomorrow - We. The Revolution - Crossroads Inn There will be granted ten codes per game (30 codes total). For more informatio |
| Chairborne as the new Heliborne Community Representative | 2021-04-13 | Hello Heliborne Community, My name is Markus, and some of you may know me under my in-game nickname “Chairborne”. Being 45 years old, I am rather old for a gamer, or it only seems like that to me. Ever since the first 8-bit home computers came out in the mid-1980s, I enjoyed computer gaming, primarily military and simulation software. My professional background as a retired soldier and paramedic/firefighter has given me some inside look into the world of helicopters. So it is no wonder that once I came across Heliborne, back then still in early access, I immediately got hooked on the game. It is safe to say that with almost 2000 hours spent i |
| Patch 2.2.1 and the lookout for CM! | 2021-03-16 | Greetings Pilots! In today’s update, we have three important pieces of news for you. Firstly, Daily Deal with a special price. Secondly, we come with the next portion of fixes, this time, as brought up earlier, for Heliborne Enhanced Edition. Thirdly, a recruitment announcement - we are looking for a worthy pilot to become our representative of PC and Xbox editions. Read more below. DAILY DEAL Steam supported us with a Daily Deal, which means we are featured on the main page for 24 hours. Heliborne Collection will be exposed to more Steam users, so we expect new players to join the game soon. Former community, your support to the new pilots i |
| Heliborne Collection update | 2021-02-25 | Greetings Pilots! We have an important message and updates to pass on today. We’ll try to keep it short and not tl;dr. Briefly: New launcher - new Steam product name - Heliborne patch - Discord updates - brief development status NEW GAME LAUNCHER In today’s patch, we introduced a new launcher. From now on, you can choose what Heliborne edition to play without switching between the branches. This will make the Heliborne game structure more transparent for the new customers, and we hope not much more complex for existing ones. NEW STEAM PRODUCT NAME We implemented a new naming system - the main game on STEAM is now called Heliborne Collection. |
| Patch 2.2.0 | 2020-12-17 | Greetings Pilots! 2020 is coming to an end (hopefully!), but we managed to squeeze in one more significant update for you. Thank you for your patience so far. Thanks for supporting our game and providing us valuable feedback throughout the year! We hope that Heliborne, despite turbulence, was an enjoyable destination during the compulsory lockdowns, and hopefully, next year, there are going to be voluntary entries only ;-) Meanwhile remember - Red over white, you’ll be alright! Here comes the 2nd major and the last in 2020 patch note. System: Added new, free camouflages. FPS no longer drops when looking towards the center of the map. Brightne |
| Patch 2.1.0 | 2020-11-19 | Greetings Pilots! Patch 2.1.0 is here! It's one of the major patches planned for Enhanced Edition. We plan at least one more huge update later this month, so please stay tuned. This one however is very important, since we have changed the UI according to notes and reports from our community. Hope you will enjoy it. New: The lobby received a second full UI overhaul. Most of the helicopters received new (fake) names and descriptions due to licensing restrictions. Changed: Simplified water for Tonkin, Africa, Fznamznon. Removed yellow glow from helicopter models on Binomo. Water reflection no longer appears when water transparency is turned off |
| Enhanced Edition update coming soon | 2020-11-06 | Greetings pilots! To begin with, we apologize for missing the expected release date of the PC update and would like to thank you for your patience. It required more work than we estimated, but in the end it lead to several positive events. First, we decided to further expand the team with a new Senior Unity Developer who will now help to speed up the progress with Heliborne franchise. Second, part of the team has been assigned to development of the Xbox build and now it is finished! We have started to test it internally and will share the results soon. As for the PC update, our current plan is to release it next week. See you soon! Team Klaba |
| Enhanced Edition — When the next update will be released? | 2020-10-06 | Greeting pilots! We haven't been releasing updates for a while, so let us tell you about what is happening with Heliborne development right now. The team is currently working on fixes of the Enhanced Edition. We are planning to release the next update in mid-October. Although it should fix most of the known issues, we still want to take some time and hear your feedback before we would upload the Enhanced Edition back to the main branch. As of today, most of the visual issues are fixed. Right now, our priority is the UI. You gave us a lot of feedback in that regard, so we have completely rebuilt all the main screens, including squadron builder |
| Database incident — free points to all players! | 2020-10-06 | Hello pilots! Here is a short update on what happened on Sunday. As we have found out, there was an attempt to damage our server provider's network structure. Unfortunately, Heliborne database was affected. We have managed to restore most of it, but part of the data from October 1st to October 4th has been lost. We have also migrated to a different provider and taken measures to eliminate the risk of such incidents in future. Still, some players have lost part of their progress. To reduce the impact on your game progress we will send all the players 2000 of progression points. Team Klabater |
| Game progress issue | 2020-10-04 | Hello pilots! We are aware of the issue with the game progress and are now investigating. We will update the announcement as soon as we have any details on that. Sorry for the inconvenience! UPDATE : We have restored both databases (the Enhanced Edition and the Legacy version). Expect more details on the incident tomorrow. Team Klabater |
| Patch 2.0.4 is LIVE! | 2020-08-31 | Hey guys! We are working hard in order to deliver the updates, you, as a community desire. Today we are bringing another patch! Here you can find the Patch Notes: Version 2.0.4 Changed: - Less debugging garbage when debug mode is disabled. - More network debugging garbage when network debug is enabled. - Base network configuration adjusted for higher client compatibility. - The ‘Apply’ button removed from the multiplayer lobby. - Fog density reduced across all scenes. Fixed: - Some minor UI fixes. - General VFX fixes. - Collision on ‘fnamznon’ maps adjusted. Removed: - Linux: Support for OpenGL Core removed due to stability and shader issues. |