Fixed an issue on Linux that prevented people from being able to see ingame news and register their coat of arms.

Hi all! 👋 So as you may have noticed if you were carefully reading the discord, I've been working on a new game, and I'm finally ready to announce it - and show you a demo. 🎉

It's called Airships: Lost Flotilla, and it's an autoshooter set in the same world as Airships: Conquer the Skies. You control a single airship from a top-down view, moving it arcade-style as it automatically shoots at enemies. You then collect the burning wreckage of your foes and use it to repair and upgrade your ship.

As is traditional, there's quite a lot of upgrade possibilities with different synergies. In the demo, you get access to three ships: the cruiser, the slow but powerful battleship, and the very fast aeroplane.

Actually, that's not quite true. If you happen to have a copy of Airships: Conquer the Skies installed alongside your Lost Flotilla demo, you also get the Copter, a very fragile and nimble ship with a different control scheme.

And once you defeat the boss for the first time, you also get three captains to choose from that more radically change the way the game plays: Zoe Davies massively increases your weapon accuracy, Imani van Knorpel lets you cheaply look for and pile on repeated upgrades, and Commander Yithrak gives you double fire rate whenever you get hurt.

Why yes, you do know these people already from Heroes & Villains. So you can look forward to more captains in the full release.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/Airships_Lost_Flotilla?snr=1_5_9_

This update fixes a crash specifically on Mac.

Version 1.2.6.1 fixes a crash when checking workshop items during startup. Unfortunately, the fix means that startup now takes longer, but I'll see if I can speed it up again.

In time for Halloween, and because I felt like it, here's two new monsters for the game:

• Giant tarantulas, huge, tough spiders.
  
• Parasitical wasps that can turn your crew into clockwork zombies.

(And an interestingly horrible new event for those of you who have the DLC.)