- DRL SIM 4.1 Release Announcement - 18 May 2023
Hello Pilots, In this release you will find a new map to explore! Silicon Valley brings you an epic soccer stadium, with lively surroundings, gaps, and dives galore. With this map comes the Race in the Cloud track, as well as 4 alternate tracks of different difficulties. We've also brought to the playing field an update to Pro Pilot mode (Pro Mode + Damage), a crash/shake animation upon impact and crash/impact audio. Also, the ability to adjust the drone trail width while spectating and watching replays. You will now have a Damage symbol in Multiplayer races on the race order panel when another player sustains damage. The crash systems sensitivity has been updated to provide a better experience upon impact. Tournaments now allow you to go back to previous tournaments and see the entire bracket, check results and replays! Additional improvements/updates, including: - 2 new Draganfly dron…
- DRL SIM 4.0 Release Announcement - 6 June 2022
Hello Pilots, We're really excited to share our latest updates with you! The development team has been grinding to bring you a new Onboarding mode, a new Search & Destroy game play mode, a DRL Pilot flight mode, upgraded Replay system, and an irresistible new Mega City map with three (3) brand new tracks! The new Mega City map features a futuristic metropolis where users can navigate the city from above the skyline, around and inside of massive high rise buildings and architectural landmarks, through city streets and urban parks, down through underground highways, through a monorail station and even into a multi-level underground subway station. While this map is addictive to fly in Freestyle mode, we've included expert-designed Basic, Medium, and Hard tracks to accompany this new map; Let's see who can stay atop the Leaderboards on these fresh tracks! The new Search & Destroy game mode…
- DRL SIM 3.12 Release Announcement - 21 January 2022
Hello Pilots, Today we are bringing you our latest update. We start this update with some new features courtesy of Allianz. These include a brand new race track called "Allianz Eagle." This track was named for the Allianz Eagle gate, which is our first animated gate in the sim. You can also now use this gate to build your own tracks with it. Allianz also brings us 2 new drone skins and 3 branded motors that you can use on drones you build in the workbench. This update also includes a number of community requested features including the ability to change the colors of checkpoints and the race line. We have added the ability to reset your leaderboard time on a track. We also received feedback from pilots who are trying to complete the in-game achievements that it was very hard to know your exact progress on an achievement. To address this, we added a new achievements screen under the prof…
- DRL SIM 3.11 Release Announcement - 10 December 2021
Hello Pilots, We have another exciting release for you today. We are starting off with our new circuits feature, a campaign mode type of experience. There are 6 new racing circuits for you to fly with each offering 5 race tracks where you will earn a cumulative time after completing all of the tracks in a circuit. You also have the option to race against a bot inspired by a DRL pilot at 4 different difficulty levels. You can see how you stack up with the new circuits leaderboard filter. We also are including several community requests in this release including the ability to toggle off drone trails, making the breadcrumbs menus clickable, adding a random option to multiplayer map selection, and adding an option for resetting all of your leaderboard entries. A release would not be complete without bug fixes. You can find a list of those fixes below. Please let us know what you think of t…
- DRL SIM 3.10 Release Announcement - 20 August 2021
Hello Pilots, We are bringing you a quality of life update today that contains mostly bug fixes and performance improvements. It addresses problems reported with the race line, Campground map performance, and some tournament issues. Speaking of our tournaments, we run community tournaments every Thursday at 5pm EDT (on our NA server) and every Sunday at 3pm EDT (on our EU server). We encourage you to come out and join us. These tournaments are a great way to practice at any skill/experience level. As with all of our updates, your feedback is encouraged and we always look at it as a way for us to improve. Please reach out to us on Discord or via our help desk if we can assist you with any issues. Thanks for your ongoing support. Full list of changes: -Implemented a number of performance improvements for Campground map -Multiplayer bots will default to being 7" to get more competitive mat…
- DRL SIM 3.9 Release Announcement - 10 June 2021
Hello Pilots, We are excited to bring you our latest update. We start off with a number of big updates courtesy of the U.S. Air Force. The first big update is the introduction of the oft-requested Night Mode, a version of the U.S. Air Force Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Base, with night lighting featuring 3 brand new race tracks. The U.S. Air Force also brings you a number of new features when you are creating your own drones including a rebranded workbench, 3 new U.S. Air Force branded skins, and 2 U.S. Air Force branded motors. In addition to the U.S. Air Force Boneyard Night Mode, we are bringing you our most graphically advanced map to date, the Campground. This map features a lake, cabins, power lines, cars, bridges, and even a train tunnel for you to fly through. We are kicking off the launch of this map with 4 new tracks for it. Next up we have our paid skins feature where we are bri…
- 2021 DRL SIM Tryouts - 10 May 2021
Welcome to the 2021 DRL SIM Tryouts, a player-to-pilot esports competition, open to anyone at least 18 years old by July 1, 2021, who wants to be the next professional DRL pilot. The SIM Tryouts Champion will be offered a professional DRL Pilot contract to compete in the 2021 DRL Allianz World Championship Season. To enter, head to the Tournaments section of The Drone Racing League Simulator and click on the 2021 Tryouts card. From there, you can register and join once the tournament opens on May 10th at 10am EST. Players will have until May 16th at 11:59 pm EST to set their fastest time in the Qualifying Round. The Top 24 players will advance to the online tournament on Thursday, May 20th at 7pm EST. SCHEDULE May 10th - May 16th Qualifying: DRL 2020 - Biosphere Top 24 Advance May 20th at 7pm EST Quarterfinals (4 Groups of 6 / Top 3 from each group advance): Track 2 Semifinals (2 Groups…
- DRL Sim 3.8 Release Announcement - 19 March 2021
Hello Pilots, You’ve been waiting patiently for the next set of features to come out and today we bring you a monster of a release. We start off with two features that have been highly requested - Offline mode and a Favorite System. Yes, you can now play the sim offline when you are traveling or don’t have an internet connection. You can also now put all of your favorite tracks in a single folder, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple menus in between races to find the track you want to race. Next, we bring you a custom bot feature and bot improvements. For the custom bot feature, you can now race against any player you want from the leaderboard. You can build a field of up to 5 pilots to race against with the new “custom” option in solo race. For the bot improvements, we bring you a default of racing against DRL Racer 4 bots. In the past, you would get matched up against dr…
- DRL Sim 3.7 Release Announcement - 1 December 2020
Hello Pilots, We are happy to bring you our latest release. This release features the first 9 tracks from our 2020 season, which can be found under the new Virtual Season card under solo race, multiplayer, or freestyle. You will also find many of the new assets from the current season now available in map editor for you to design your own tracks with. We look forward to seeing what you can create. This release brings a number of performance improvements that we expect you will find improve your experience in the sim. Please note that OSX users might be asked to give disk permission again when installing this update. Stay tuned to our website for the latest on our 2020 season. Lastly, remember that we hold community tournaments every Sunday at 3pm and 7pm EST. You can stay up to date on these in our Discord server on the tournaments channel. Thanks for your ongoing support of the sim. We…
- U.S. Air Force Boneyard Map Release - 5 July 2020
Hello Pilots, We are excited to bring you a new map today, the U.S. Air Force Boneyard. This map will be used for today’s Fanduel DRL Sim Racing Cup event at 4pm EST. This map will have a freestyle track and 2 race tracks in this release, “Stratotanker” and “Sim Racing Cup 8.” The Sim Cup track will be added shortly when today’s race begins. The Boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is the world's largest military aircraft maintenance facility and home to thousands of decommissioned aircraft. Although this map is not an exact replica of the real boneyard, it has hundreds of planes including KC-135 Stratotankers, F-15E Strike Eagles and A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthogs” to fly over and explore. We encourage you to check out these new tracks and see how you stack up to your fellow sim pilots. Thank you for your ongoing support, DRL Sim Team
- Weekly Community Tournaments: Sunday Night Flights - 26 June 2020
Hello Pilots, We are excited to announce "Sunday Night Flights", a new weekly community tournament series, that we will be running on Sundays at 7pm EST. The first tournament will be Sunday, June 28th. We wanted to set up these tournaments based on requests from the community. These tournaments will not be hosted or streamed by DRL staff, but you are encouraged to interact with each other on Discord throughout each tournament or even stream them on your own channels. These tournaments are for fun/practice and prizes will not be awarded. You can access and register for the tournaments via the “Tournaments” card in the sim. The tournament for this week will open Saturday evening for registration. The tournaments will follow nearly the same format as the Tryouts tournaments where there will be a 15 minute qualifier, followed by 4 quarterfinals, 2 semifinals, and a final. Each round from th…
- Fanduel DRL Sim Racing Cup - 16 May 2020
Hello Pilots, We are pushing a small release today that includes the Fanduel DRL Sim Racing Cup card that you can find under the Solo race menu. As the competition progresses, tracks will be added here and you can see how you stack up on the leaderboards against these elite pilots. The 2020 FanDuel DRL SIM Racing Cup will feature 12 elite DRL pilots battling it out on the DRL SIM, the true-to-life drone racing simulator, across eight events for the chance to be crowned the series’ Champion--all to support Covid-19 and raise money for Direct Relief to get protective gear for frontline workers. Tune in on NBC Sports and Twitter to see all of the action: May 16th @ 2:30pm EST - Level 1 Biosphere May 24th @ 3pm EST - Level 2 Atlanta May 31st @ 2pm EST - Level 3 Miami June 7th @ 12pm EST - Level 4 The Bridge June 14th @ 1pm EST - Level 5 Ohio Crash Site June 20th @ 12pm EST - Level 6 Adventu…
- DRL SIM 3.6 Release Announcement - 30 April 2020
Hello Pilots, We hope you are all safe and well. We bring you a small update focused on bringing the new DRL scoring system to our tournament system. In addition to the new scoring system for tournaments, we have also added the ability to assign custom colors to pilots so it is easier to follow their progression through a tournament. Lastly, this release brings a number of bug fixes which are detailed below. Please let us know of any feedback you have as we are constantly striving to improve the sim. Thank you for your ongoing support! Release Notes Tournaments: - New DRL 2020 scoring per including sudden death and golden heat - Ability to assign colors to pilots - Ability for tournament to be private Bug fixes: - Excessive multiplayer notifications and snooze not working - Spectator timer showing 00:00 during races - Standings scrambling during races - Frame rate drop watching replays…
- DRL Sim Tryouts 2020 - 3 February 2020
Welcome to the 2020 DRL SIM Tryouts, a global competition, open to anyone 16 years or older that seeks to find the next professional DRL pilot. The winner of the tryouts competition will earn a professional pilot contract to compete in the 2020 DRL season. And for the first time ever, DRL is giving away $75K in total prizes throughout this epic, two-month tournament. Score a top place on the leaderboards. Compete in weekly tournaments. Tune-in to watch the action. Everyone has a chance to win. It’s simple to get started. Players must complete 3 heats on the Tryouts Map, and you’re automatically qualified to join the weekly online tournaments. There’s no time cut off. If you can complete the map 3 times, you’re qualified to compete. Once you qualify on the Tryouts Map, you can join any of the 12 weekly tournaments held every Tuesday and Thursday between Feb 18th - March 26th. Each week i…
- DRL SIM 3.5 Release Announcement - 3 February 2020
Hello Pilots, It’s the time of year that you have all been waiting for - Tryouts! This release offers you the opportunity to compete for a chance to compete for up to $75,000 in prizes and become a professional DRL pilot. Be sure to visit the Tryouts website for all of the details on this year’s event We also bring you 3 brand new frames to build your dream drone. These are the OAS Hobby Volk v2, the Rotor Riot CL1, and the Five33 Switchback. To enhance the experience for all pilots during Tryouts, we made a number of improvements to our tournaments system and spectator mode. This update includes a few slight adjustments to drone tunes. As a result and to ensure fairness, leaderboards have been reset. As we are always striving to improve the sim, please send us all feedback, comments, and questions you have. The detailed release notes are listed below. Release Notes Game - Tryouts Garag…
- DRL SIM 3.4 Release Announcement - 18 November 2019
Hello Pilots, We are really excited to bring you this jam packed update. We start you off with DRL’s newest signature drone, the Racer 4. Next, we have a brand new map called Drone Park. This came from our concept of a futuristic drone park and we hope you have as much fun flying it as we did creating it. In addition to the Racer 4, this update includes the Floss v3 frame. To add more to your drones, we’ve added some GoPro Hero 5 attachments and mounts for multiple frames. One of the things that we enjoy seeing are all of the great tracks the community builds. We’ve added new shape style gates to create one more option for creating new and unique tracks through the map editor. Additionally, this update includes enhancements to the lap system. Please note that since there are physics changes in this release that the leaderboards have been reset to ensure fairness. We thank you for your o…
- DRL SIM Showdown - 31 October 2019
Top 3 from each tournament win Gift Cards from Pyrodrone, GetFPV, Rotor Riot or Kwadbox. Watch Live on Twitter for more chances to win! https://twitter.com/droneraceleague 1st Place = $100 USD 2nd Place = $50 USD 3rd Place = $25 USD Track: Dust Town (Featured Tracks) Must be 13 years or older to enter For Schedule Info and rules see https://drl.io/drl-sim-showdown/
- DRL SIM Showdown - 31 October 2019
Top 3 from each tournament win Gift Cards from Pyrodrone, GetFPV, Rotor Riot or Kwadbox. Watch Live on Twitter for more chances to win! https://twitter.com/droneraceleague 1st Place = $100 USD 2nd Place = $50 USD 3rd Place = $25 USD Track: Dust Town (Featured Tracks) Must be 13 years or older to enter For Schedule Info and rules see https://drl.io/drl-sim-showdown/
- DRL SIM Showdown - 28 October 2019
10 Tournaments / 10 Chances to Win Top 3 from each tournament win Gift Cards from Pyrodrone, GetFPV, Rotor Riot or Kwadbox. Watch Live on Twitter for more chances to win! https://twitter.com/droneraceleague 1st Place = $100 USD 2nd Place = $50 USD 3rd Place = $25 USD Must be 13 years or older to enter For Schedule Info and rules see https://drl.io/drl-sim-showdown/
- Special Sale Event - 7 October 2019
We are excited to announce a limited time promotion we are running on the DRL Sim. For the next 2 weeks, the DRL sim will be on sale for $9.99. Take advantage of this opportunity to download the simulator and learn to fly like a pro.
