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A few skeptics believe Absolute Territory to be a run-of-the-mill arcade game (point to where you want to go) due to the help of the flight assist computer that is used to correct trajectories. Well, now you can turn it off, removing all velocity limits, and fling yourself off into the deep deep cold of space.

For greater control (and now adding true 6 axis of freedom) a toggle for the throttle to slip it into reverse has been added.

The new controls (Toggle flight computer, and reverse thrust) are not bound, as whenever I release an update with new default controls it breaks players existing control bindings. With that said, if you find your controls are not working, reset your bindings from within the Controllers and Key Bindings menu.

Patch Notes 2.3.0 Release (20211222)
Overview
Flight Assist can be turned off for a 'float mode' experience.

Gameplay

• Added - Flight Assist can be turned off (no default binding)
• Added - Reverse throttle toggle (no default binding)
• Added - Visual indicators when flight assist turned off, with X,Y,Z local velocity indicators
• Added - Projectiles now inherit velocity from the shooter
• Fixed - Target Offscreen Indicator was fading out when the selected target was behind the player (didn't happen in VR mode)

Simulator Modes

• Fixed - Text elements were no longer displaying in Simulator Waves and Gauntlet (broken in 2.2.0)

Patch Notes for 2.2.0 Release (20210912)
Overview - Early enemy fighter weapons feel less overwhelming due to the fast firing rate

Gameplay

• Amend - Track IR anchor point made same as VR
• Amend - There are now two versions of the laser bolt cannon (Rapid Firing and Standard)
• Amend - Vomitoria and Drosophilia now use slower firing laser bolt cannon
• Amend - Updated weapon lore entries for the laser bolt cannon variants
• Amend - Updated the 21 Absolute Territory missions to include the new standard laser bolt cannon. Added briefing text highlighting when new ships are made available. Added briefing text to make known about experimental laser weapon being available in mission 20

Simulator Modes

• Amend - Wave and Gauntlet to include the new standard laser bolt cannon

Campaign Menu

• Amend - Removed Tutorials as a campaign item selection (they are still available under Simulator menu). They no longer have skip dialogue, since all tutorials are available and there was no need to skip

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Absolute Territory features:

• WW2 style space fighter dogfights in first and third-person views and optional VR mode
• Single-player campaign with 21 missions and 6 Imperial Hegemony space fighters to fly
• Choose weapon loadouts based on missions requirements
• Newtonian physics with arcade force values balanced for fun
• Flight Computer for RCS to compensate for zero drag in space
• Improve your combat skills against waves of increasingly difficult opponents
• Take the ultimate challenge of The Gauntlet

Absolute Territory is a futuristic single-player mission-based space dogfighting with the familiar feeling of good space sims. Fly 21 missions with a variety of search & destroy, assault, patrol, escort, and scan objectives. Choose from several space superiority fighters, customize loadout from over a dozen weapons, manage power settings, and use directional thrusters like an elite pilot.

Ship and Weapon Selection

Chose your ship type from fast-moving glass cannons to slow hard-hitting tanks. Outfit your chosen ship with a variety of deadly weapons. Make sure you chose both ship and weapons wisely to enable the completion of your mission objectives.

Dogfighting with arcade-sim mechanics

Engage in gripping dogfights with Newtonian physics. Arcade forces are used for an arcade-sim experience, allowing for responsive controls to pull off hair-raising maneuvers making yourself a harder target for enemies. AN RCS computer will compensation for all directional changes, turn too hard and you will but yourself into a slide, or worse find yourself a sitting duck while your ship adjusts speed. Fight against a variety of enemy ship types from light to heavy fighters, transports, and large warships.

Absolute Territory is not pure arcade or pure sim. Its arcade-sim.

Power management

Distribute power across engines, shields, and guns for an advantage over your opponent or get yourself out of sticky situations. Power to engines gives faster acceleration and increased top speed, for shields faster recharge rate and overcharging, and guns for faster recharge rate for longer sustained firing of heavier weapons.

Advanced flight mechanics

Engage slide, match speed, and directional thruster mechanics to keep your target in your gun sights. Warships and transports are not defenseless and come armed with flak turrets. Use component targeting and de-teeth these ships of their turrets. Then move in for the kill.

VR and Standard mode

The recent 2.0 update added VR mode. Use this to your advantage for improved situational awareness in the cockpit. Identify the biggest threats with a glance before turning to engage.

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Greetings Pilots!

Allow me to introduce you to this huge title update for Absolute Territory bringing all-new VR mode! For those without VR headsets, there is a host of visual improvements and upgrades to pleasure your eyes.

To VR or not to VR?

That is your choice. Make it a good one :)

VR provides a first-person experience piloting every starfighter available to fly. Each fighter has a 3D modeled cockpit to look around for improved situational awareness. The HUD display is presented in futuristic hologram-vision with 3D curving to keep every element in your view without cluttering up the cockpit.

Warp to new horizons

To keep you firmly seated in your cockpit, warp speed has been invented for transitioning to new areas during multi-staged missions faster than the speed of light.

Visual Enhancements

A range of visual enhancements brings increased fidelity to the original graphics along with:

• Increase fighter texture quality for all Endophora fighters.
• Lighting improvements for explosion effects.
• 16 new skyboxes (updated in campaign, tutorial, waves, and gauntlet modes) along with their own unique lighting

New Game & Graphics Options

PCs have always been synonymous with configurability. 2.0 brings a wide range of video options to configure to either increase performance or increase visual quality.

The Enhanced Graphics option brings greater flexibility for increasing performance at the cost of visual quality or increasing visual quality at the cost of performance. Or you can just keep it disabled and use the default settings for the chosen Overall Quality setting.

User Accessibility

• You can disable all camera shakes if you suffer from motion sickness.
• Field of view adjustment in Standard mode.

Simulator Modes

• Longevity brought to Waves and Gauntlet with ship selection. Test your flying skills with all 6 Imperial fighters along with full weapon load-outs.
• Gauntlet now provides shield recharging and ammo restock at the end of each mission.

Where the rest?

Check out the latest patch notes for the full list of new features, improvements, and bugfixes in Absolute Territory.