Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing Reviews

This is a great game. IF and pretty much only IF you fly or plan to fly fpv drones. I use my controller do practice without spending a whole lot on crashing drones. It is very fun to fly in this simulator and helps a lot for practicing.

Physics feel very good, slipstream is nice and racing feels good. Has few nice maps, but could use some more.

Almost playing well but getting better keep low, fast and meticulous, good stuff.

Parfait pour s'y pratiquer. Lier la manette se fait très facilement et les menus sont simples.

only played 3 hours total and it seems like the real thing. at first i couldn't get the drone to hover or keep still. now i can hover, turn, and light weight go the directions i want. give me some more time and i think i'll get better.

very good. started as a complete novice. this sim is one of the best.

Amazing graphics & music! Difficult at the start, but slowly masterable, recommended ;)!

It's wild that this is the industry standard for learning fpv drone flying. I am a beginner so let me share first impressions from that point of view. Firstly the most egregious: - The first lesson on the tutorial has you simply fly in a straight line so you can focus on your throttle / altitude control. Makes sense. But for some reason, they have this tutorial set on a golf course and the starting area is not on level ground, so as soon as you take off, your drone immediately beings drifting to the left. Baffling why the tutorial is not in a completely flat part of the map. - Then you get to the tutorial step that teaches you how to make banked turns. Seems like it would be easiest to do this with a big wide open area that has maybe a few big 90 degree turns with large gates that a beginner can easily see and pass through. But no, the tutorial forces you to do very tight 20' radius figure 8's. Impossible to do if you're just a beginner. Was not helpful at all to 'brute-force' my way through this tutorial level. Here are some other issues that I came across that were more unique to me since I am using a steam link box to play on my tv in another room: - The game can’t recognize my controller's throttle input below 50 when plugged into steam link. Very bizarre. But when I run a usb cord directly from my computer, it works fine. - I can't use any bound buttons on my radio controller to pause the game. Normally if you are at a computer this wouldn't be a problem - you can always press the escape key on a keyboard. But my keyboard is in another room, so in order to get back to the main menu or restart the race, I have to either beat the race, or walk back to my desktop computer and click esc there. I also can't select 'retry' with the directional sticks on my controller once the race finishes. I have to go back to my computer and use the mouse. MY ADVICE FOR BEGINNERS WHO STILL WANT TO BUY THIS GAME: - I highly recommend you just do the "pole position" race (circuit map) for the first few hours and practice with a drone that can flip back over if it crashes (i used the racewhoop). That track has wide generous turns and large gates and is way better than doing the tutorial or other races where you'll spend most of the time on the ground. The first race in the Pit ("way down in the hole") is good too.

The best gateway drug to spending hundreds of dollars on a new hobby you can't afford. Let's hope I crash less flying for real than I do in Liftoff.

Best real world physics compared to an actual FPV Drone. Feels like I am actually flying my fpv's. This would be the best option for learning on a simulator FIRST, as it is almost exactly the same as real flying.