This is almost playable, it would be awesome if in your next release you added a setting that further reduced graphics quality I don’t care if I’m flying over a blurry green and brown mass of earth I just want to try the game. Anyway this update made it a lot faster than the .01 but still not at all playable for me.

Im glad to finally test out a release of this! Even at its current state its extremely fun. Also I am able to run it on full settings at native resolution with absolutely no problem. Great work!

Hi, loving the game so far. Have been keeping my eye on this for about a bit over a year now, was so excited to finally see a release :D. 0.01 was playable but at very low FPS and had a very steep learning curve. 0.02 however gives me a very stable frame rate and I can fly some pretty sweet lines. Here’s a challenge for people reading: Fly your favourite line a few times then try and see if you can do the very same line but upside down. (tip: When you’re flying upside down, fold in both arms and push the stick up slightly to maintain a steady glide ratio)

Okay now for some constructive criticism. 🙂 I love how the second version handles however at points I feel he goes a bit too slow. In the first version I noticed how you could achieve much faster speeds when carving down the mountains. Would love to possibly have that amount of speed back or have various modes with different levels of control (beginner, intermediate, pro) beginner being slower but more forgiving up to pro being the fastest but each movement has much more dramatic effect on the player.
Secondly, I also loved the map in the first version. There were much more dramatic lines to fly and would really test your skill. The second version seems a little…..flat? I guess. But this may be due to optimisation.
Lastly…..for now 😉 as stated above, in higher resolutions the character seems to be easier to take out of the screen. Would love for an option (once paused) to change camera angle to a static one mounted on the player. Possibly thinking it may work if the camera is mounted to his torso.

But thankyou for creating something which others have failed so hard at trying to achieve. I thought Just cause 2 base jumping was good, waited and waited for them to bring out wing suits….. thoroughly disappointed. However Just cause 2 has nothing on Volo. This is the single most amazing wingsuit/skydiving simulator out there. Keep up the good work and I am looking VERY forward to version 0.03.

Now if you don’t mind me I’m off to watch all of you videos again 😛

-ShadyGreenPie

The camera is a bit glitchy for me, as I cant seem to find the player at most times. When he flys up or down or whatever, he goes past the camera and disappears from view. This leaves the camera looking at the floor. And once I recenter it by moving it around, same thing happens. Make a generic third person shooter kinda camera and that camera. Amazing work, its great on my computer except that.

This game is awesome!! even in this alpha it is easily worth 15$ for me, will donate asap. keep up the good work. No lag 60 fps for me on a 6850 card. Whatever you add to the game, just remember to please keep some type of mode like this, just to fool around in, no objectives or scoring. the physics in this game are simply phenomenal!

http://youtu.be/7QcDVfNukHg Heres Another great vid good lines Please watch all if in a hurry click red button for the 2 best lines cant wait for 0.3 and guys i have mediocre cpu video card is all with unity dual core 3ghz 3gig ram nvidia g 550ti

Hi!
I followed the game now since a few years and I am super happy to play it now I spended already a few hours now with this game, and I have to say its fuxxn addictive! 😉 …the first version was not playable for me with a Gforce Gt 630m/ 4095MB 8GB ram and intel core i5-2450M, I was quite surprised to see that this game is so “hungry” the new version works quite good now and how I said I am super happy to play it finally. Its a awesome job and exactly the kind of game I like, with all it’s difficult controls and the time u need to master it!

I had a idea about the setment of the controls, I realized I dont use the camera stick to much and I found closing the legs and arms digital is sometimes not precise enough to really fly as close as possible all the time. What I would really like to see is the possibility to set the arm and leg controls on the second stick for those who want it, right now it have to be on a botton.
I mean pushing the stick to the front for closing the arms, pulling back closing the legs and to the side just closing one arm. It would be necessary to get a botton to close arms and legs at once, ore just give the possibility of duple setting one control. ( like closing legs on the stick and on X for example)
I dont know how difficult this will be for you to make, but I think it really would give you even more control and freedom over ur character.
Let me know what you think about!

But really thanks for this game! You are doing a great job and I am happy that someone is motivate to push something like this! I really hope for you, you gone have a lot of success with this game!
Cheers, and CYA!

This needs to be on Kickstarter!

Volo airsport debug –
Controls must be manually recalibrated and set before initial use in order to provide best control interface
stuttering of model in the arms during the initial dive to increase speed. Shakiness is removed by applying input of any kind. Seems that the lack of input makes the model inherently unstable but any control remedies the issue.
Landscape of v. 0.1 was awesome and allowed for much more dramatic and deep lines. V0.2 skimps on detail but the difference in performance was not noticed. I could run both programs without issue on Fantastic in 1600 x 900 resolution fullscreen.
The skydiver will leave the view of the camera during intense or extreme maneuvering, especially when pulling up quickly. Hard to control the wingsuit when you have no idea of the orientation. I suggest adding a roll meter of some kind, similar to that of modern-day airplanes. The instability of the flyer makes it prone to rolling over in extreme moves which makes maneuvering a potential nightmare. A real wingsuitist would be able to notice if they were upside down.

The camera could also be optimized. Its hard to get the camera to do what it needs to do without sacrificing the wingsuit line. I’ve had the most success flying without messing with the camera at all and just flying blindly when the character leaves the screen. An option to zoom the camera in and out would be ideal so players could set the camera to what they need in order to fly at their best.

Add options to adjust volume in game.
Add options for more jump locations within the Island map in V0.2 . This doesn’t have to be in game just yet. You could simply have similar dialogue boxes to the ones on the start up screen where you adjust resolution and stuff. These options would allow for higher starting altitudes or starting on another side of the mountain. This would give the player a much larger assortment of lines to fly, making the testing phase more fun for everyone.

wingsuitist constantly pulls right. This can be fixed through player input. By always keeping the left stick pushed somewhat left of by using the left trigger to yaw left, the tendency to go right can be reduced.

Controls could be further refined in order to be less twitchy and prone to instablilty. By making the left stick movement a non linear function, you could change the way input is received. Since the game requires more finesse than full commitment to one direction ie pushing the stick all the way down to pull up at the greatest rate. There should be less sensitivity in the middle of the left stick range because this is where the player will be pushing it for the majority of the game. The game is not played using all up or all down or all left inputs and therefore the inputs for these moderate inputs should be easier to use. This could decrease the learning curve and make the game more appealing to a larger audience. Maybe have different difficulty settings as well.

Handy tips for the game – Use Y to close front wings and deaden the controls so that you can adjust up and down without the reactions being so extreme. Be warned using Y will make it harder to maneuver and make quick turns. If you need to make a quick adjustment due to the boulder you just saw, release y for a bit and then press it again once the adjustment has been made.

Also, use A to adjust flight angle quickly. Use this to pull out of steep dives or pull out turns that you could not have made with all wings open.

All in all, this is an awesome game. I’ve spent hours already playing the alpha and I have to say I’m addicted. I can’t wait to see how your game develops into a project that blows the original B.A.S.E Extreme Edition game out of the water.

I would like to see that ability to stop tracking and perform acrobatics like in BASE Extreme but that’s way down the road. Just saying 🙂 Thanks for the work you’ve put into this game so far.

Reminds me of PilotWings for the Nintendo 64! I can’t put this down man. Plays with no issues 1920×1080 windowed with fantastic quality settings on my Radeon 4800.

If you could add walls or make the water show up better that would be a great improvement in the short term while I’m playing the alpha.

well done.

First off, I’d just like to let you know that the game is great. I love the new flight physics, however the new terrain is sorely lacking great runs, the 0.0.1 map was much better. For 0.0.3 maybe keep the new physics and revert back to the old terrain. Just my 2 cents, keep up the good work

This is amazing! I’m really impressed with the level of control you have. I’ve been playing this all afternoon with a friend and we agreed that if you get around to making a full version of the game, it’d be great to see some co-op in there. Maybe trying to match each other’s runs or something.
Keep it up! 🙂

Getting 60 fps w/ i5 3570k @ 4.4ghz and GTX 660ti SC+ on fantastic settings. Also, any ETA on .03??

please make it work on keyboard on the next release i cant wait

Hey please the game for me is not responding my xbox controller please make a 0.03 with controls on keyboard pleaaaseee!

plz help me in remaping controls for keyboard anyone

it would be cool if you could watch your replay from dif camera angles

Hnnnnngh I somehow missed this blog post; so cut that for two months I could have been playing this. Donated! Please hurry a keyboard/mouse version out the door, even just leaving out everything else you’ve worked on since. I just want to play this thing so badly (even ordered a 360 controller online just now; way too keen).

i love the game the physics and game play of it are amazing, but i was wondering if you could add a first person mode? i have seen it in a game before this is much better though and it made the game a lot more enjoyable and exiting to play.