Happy New 2011 Year!

Dear Pilots,

We wanted to take a second and wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year! But before we ring in 2011, we want to share some highlights and interesting statistics about ROF in 2010 with you. It’s been a busy 12 months

• The project now includes more than 2,613,012 lines of code (excluding comments and additional modules)
• During development 15,880 individual tasks have been completed
• You have left 195,100 posts and 15,180 threads on our forum
• 6 new Versions of ROF and 2 Hotfixes were released in 2010
• ROF ownership changed hands and the Development Team was seamlessly brought over to the new company and moved to new offices
• We have added many new environmental elements and modules such as: Windsocks, Cloud shadows, Dynamic Lighting and New Shaders
• We created technologies and support for Multi-Seat and Multi-Engine aircraft such as a bombsight and gunner stations. We have also released the first model in this series, the Handley Page O/400.
• We created three new game modes and begun work on a fourth. Single Player mode “Quick Mission" was released along with two Multiplayer modes “CTF” (Capture The Flag) and “TDM” (Team Death Match) A complete re-design of the “Career” mode was begun in earnest.
• The second DVD and Digital release, entitled Rise of Flight: Iron Cross Edition was released worldwide.
• 8 new combat aircraft were released including the Fokker DVII F, Albatros DII, Nieuport 11.С1, Airco D.H.2, Fokker E.III, Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Triplane, Handley Page O/400. The Gotha G.V. also entered the development process before year end.
• More than 1,700 new official skins were added for existing aircraft.
• 8 new Aircraft Bundles and 3 types of Demo-Upgrades were added to the ROF Store.
• We added the Gift feature to our Store and ran multiple aircraft sales in support of our loyal community.
• We added Pre-Order capability to the Store.
• The first competition for the best video-promo, revealing interesting and talented creators in our community - First Place, Second place and Third place.
• Our friends held the first online-championship based on ROF
• But the most important fact is that you have flown 334,000 hours in the virtual skies of ROF from May 7th 2009 to December 27th 2010.

We hope that 2011 will be also become a very exciting and interesting year for ROF and its awesome community. Once again, thank you very much for your support! Happy New Year 2011 to you and all your family and friends!

New Gotha pictures