Finally the Air Missions: Hind leaves the Early Access!
Thanks to all of you who decided to trust us and support game during EA period! Thank you for all ideas how to improve game, thank you for all bug reports and sorry about all your suggestions which we were unable to add. Also thank you to all guys and few girls too, who participated on this project!

But it's not over we will continue in updating the game! So if you will find some bug or do you have any suggestion let us know! Also I'm sure we will come back with another projects in future!

Finally check out the release trailer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99veiZgyq8

Finally, we received and implemented the Voice over! The new version 0.960 was published. There are two versions - Russian (default) and English with Russian accent. For now, even if you will play game with English language you will hear the Russian VO as default, but you can go to the "Audio settings" and change the language there.

We will happy if you will leave any feedback regarding to Voice cast in the forum. Especially native English speakers, please leave us comment what do you think which language should be default for English? Is the strong accent disturbing for you? Also what do you think in general about VO :-)

http://steamproxy.net/app/423490/discussions/0/1290690669220687356/

Thank you,

See you in the air!

We are closing full release. Here is the list of changes published today:

-TrackIR - finally we support the head tracking devices! For now we support the rotation yaw/pitch/roll. You can try control the flexible gun and missiles with your head (you need to turn on this option in Settings/Control Settings). There is also support for head tracking in 3rd person view. Let us know you opinion and what need to be improved!

-Another 3 instant action battles over the Yuzny Island location was added

-Three new achievements - two for campaign progress and the third one you can get if you will complete all 12 Instant Actions battles

-We uploaded 3 new missions to workshop
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874046546
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874042415
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874028198

-We are working on the translation for the game! Currently was published Russian, German and Portuguese. You can run the game in those languages if you will run Configure launch option and you will select the preferred language in combo box. Languages are work in progress! You may notice some errors. Auto detection of those languages according player Steam settings will be added after translation will be finished.

Stay tuned for another updates, we plan soon to add more languages localization and also Voice Over!

Today was uploaded another update! It brings few improvements, check it out:

-Thanks to talented artist Andre Cantarel we get a new artworks for the game! The primary dust one is used while loading menu, and there are 4 new artworks displayed while loading mission. Hope you will like it! The primary artwork will be used as game cover, we already replaced a store page assets!
If you like the artworks you can download them as wallpaper or so on the Andre's portfolio page - http://www.andrecantarel.com/personal-work

-We updated the menu background a bit so now is more action-like and better fit to new cover artwork. Let us know what do you think about it :-).
-Thanks to Pierre Lheureux, the DLC helicopters gets 3 new camouflages each. Some are real some are fictional!
We will try bring in new update trackIR support, finally. Thanks for patience! :-)

See you in the air!
3DIVISION

We have today released a update with three final campaign missions for our action combat flight simulator Air Missions: HIND. Besides of new missions, a update brings 2 new playable DLC helicopters Mi-8 Hip and Mi-28 Havoc. All three DLC helicopters (including Ka-50 Hokum released earlier) are now playable in most of campaign missions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smbbezqB724

DLCs are available free for all who support(ed) game during Early Access! 3DIVISION is thankful for early support and all players who already purchased Air Missions: Hind get the DLCs for free, also players who purchase until end of 2016 will get the DLCs for free

All three new missions taking place behind arctic circle. First one is about attacking the fleet of tankers floating through dangerous waters with icebergs. Second mission is for lovers of door gunner - objective is clear the oil platform from enemy, with mentioned weapon. But, because it is one of latest missions, it will be not so easy, there are many gas tanks ready to explode and ignite entire platform, you intend to capture, like a torch. Third one is about allied submarine need you escort through the dangerous area of frozen Yuzny Island.

After another few weeks, we uploaded the update for Air Missions: HIND featuring three new campaign missions and the new location.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpYOt0iAYhM

Missions:
All three missions take place above the new environment Sounteast Asia - Jungle. First of missions is Air Support - allied units are besieged by the enemy and your task is to save them. Second one is about strike to the enemy helicopter base. It's a night strike and you will try to surprise the enemy - the maximum altitude allowed during fly to AO is 60m (200 ft). In last mission you will need to find in the foggy weather the crashed helicopter.

Few other things worth to mention:

• Three new instant battle scenarios above new location (Southeast Asia). You can use new location in mission editor and in test flight too.
  
• You can turn off displaying of enemy healthbars - for some players healthbars are too unrealistic
  
• For mission editor or test flight you can use now also Training camp location
  
• There was added door control - if you landed on the ground you need to open the doors with same key/button as for gears, and only after the soldiers will aboard your helicopter!
  
• We tried to fix a bit the MCLOS guiding system for joystick/gamepad, let us know if it's better! Also if you will fail the MCLOS training, and you will reach the debriefing you will be asked if you which to skip this mission (some of players found this mission too hard)

WIP stuff for next update:
Next update should be a final content update for Air Missions: HIND - game should finally reach Alpha version. You can expect:

• 3 or 4 new missions
  
• 2 new frozen locations (Yuzny Island coast and the Artic ocean)
  
• New winter camouflages
  
• Ships and Oil platform with possibility to land on it's heliports

Check a WIP screenshot's:

With the new update, Air Missions: HIND offers full Steam Workshop support. Players can now easily create and share missions with other members of the community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrqD0dTiRL4

The newly added Mission Editor lets players bring their creativity to life and should leave nothing to be desired. From specifying objectives, to appointing targets, to creating spawn points, through to deploying units into the battlefield, almost every aspect of a mission can be determined. Furthermore, all available aircrafts, vehicles, soldiers, and weapons are at the players’ command.

The editor supports both single- and multiplayer game modes. Mission creators, who prefer to play together with friends, can set up co-op missions with support for up to five players. Following frequent request from the community, the Mission Editor allows to specify weapon reloading procedures: creators can decide whether an aircraft needs to return back to the landing zone, or whether it will be able to reload mid-air.

New Units
The update also brings various new units to the game: besides the new TOS-1 rocket launcher or the Mig-21 jet fighter aircraft, players now have the opportunity to command and control unmanned aerial vehicles.

To complete the update, players can now choose between three degrees of difficulty. Easy, normal, and hard modes offer the right severity level for novices, advanced players and experts.

After another few weeks, we uploaded the update for Air Missions: HIND featuring two new missions and the new helicopter!

https://youtu.be/mJoPuuj5wyw

Missions:
One of the missions is about airfield and city attack in Easter Europe. On the airfield there are six enemy helicopters prepared to stop you! The next mission is something for "lovers" of Evacuation mission: the "Evacuation 2" mission :-), sorry guys! But hope this mission will have better reputation, because there you need to land of the rooftop to pick up soldiers, plus you are asked to demolish two of the tall buildings!

Helicopter:
We have added Ka-50 helicopter flyable in coop missions, instant battles and test flight. You can unlock also the Vikhr (AT-16) laser guided missiles, which is completely new guidance in compared to SACLOS or MCLOS missiles. The Vikhr missiles are guided by laser, so you need just activate missile control (or autohover) pick the square cross to your target, wait while target will be locked, and fire the missile - that's all! Note that if missile is on it's way to the target you can't lock new target, because helicopter has only one laser, however you can fire second missile to same target.

Few other things worth to mention:

-We make a better sound (thanks to my friend Jaroslav for tips about sounds)! We added low-pass and reverb effect to distance emitters. I think it turns nicely into improvement of game's sound!

-Added two new settings to difficulty - Friendly fire option and possibility to get damaged helicopter by close explosion.

-Possibility to turn off the camera auto-centre in cockpit view or external view, for pilots who using the software mapping the TrackIR to mouse.

-You can now demolish the buildings.

-Fixed a bit physics during hovering and flying in "Pilot" mode.. It is better now? Let us know!

-And other small fixes as you reported in forums or we discovered!

See you in the air!

After few weeks, we finally uploaded the update for Air Missions: HIND featuring two brand new missions with CO-OP support!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuR9k-Ya1wY

This two missions taking place in Eastern Europe. In first mission "Destroy communication" you will be deployed behind enemy lines to destroy the bridges and radio station. In second mission "Lurking in the trees" you will helps the allied ground forces find the lurking tanks. For this objective we highly recommend to use the Infra camera. You can play both missions in CO-OP mode.

Except this two missions we tried to improve some other things, here is the list:

• Improved boarding of persons - Like in mission "Evacuation" or in "Destroy communications" missions, now the passengers approaching helicopter, and you must wait until they will aboard your helicopter.. previously it was done by some predefined cutscenes, now should be more natural. Also, this is half-way to support the door animation (open/close) we would like to add in future, after landing you will require to open the door before passenger will aboard.
  
  We would like to also improve in future the Test Flight mode and turn it into some "taxi" mode where you will pick-up the passengers and cargo.
  
  
• Joystick support improvements - now there are natively supported three flightstick devices (for players who love to play with flightstick, throttle and pedals as separate devices). We added the invert option for tail rotor (useful for pedals configuration)
  
  
• New control settings screen - we added several new options like hot switch into infra camera or you can now customize toggling style for weapon control, autohover, focus to target or infra camera. There are available two options "hold to activate" or "toggle on/off". Notice: Due to this change you may experiencing that some of your previous inversion settings could be reset to default!
  
  
• Another small detail - we added the rotation of wheels during vehicle movement! In future we would like to add also the dust particles.
  
  
• Implemented the first version of bomb view, when you hold the key for focus to target while you have bombs or dispenser armed, camera is focused to area where will bombs impact terrain.
  
  
• We tried to fix the stuttering of helicopter in casual mode on machines with lower FPS. Hope it's better now!.
  
  
• English text was revised, let us know if it's better now, we appreciate any feedback!

That's end of the briefing! See you in the air, pilots! (or in forum, please report when something not working as expected! :-) )