UpAndAway
Up-style RV flight MVP with stock game balloons and an anchor
About this mod Author’s original text
UpAndAway
Turn the RV in RV There Yet? into a balloon-powered flying machine inspired by classic airborne-adventure cartoons.
Features
- A visible bundle of ten balloons attached above the RV.
- Physical lift and altitude hold instead of teleporting the vehicle.
- An independent throwable anchor with visible behavior.
- Airborne forward autopilot.
- Stock combat helicopters that pursue and attack the RV.
- A stock Nail Gun used as a dart weapon; three registered hits destroy the active helicopter.
- A spawnable cassette containing a public-domain 1921 recording of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.
Controls
| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| F4 | Spawn the Ride of the Valkyries cassette inside the RV |
| F5 | Spawn the stock Nail Gun/dart weapon inside the RV |
| F6 | Toggle ten balloons and smooth lift |
| F7 | Toggle altitude hold (nine balloons remain visible) |
| F8 | Throw or retract the independent anchor |
| F12 | Toggle the primary stock helicopter encounter |
| Б (OEM_COMMA) | Toggle forward autopilot after enabling F7 while driving; it remains active after leaving the seat |
| Ж (OEM_ONE) | Spawn three additional pursuing helicopters; every press adds another group |
The keyboard bindings above assume a Russian layout. Б is the physical comma key and Ж is the physical semicolon key.
Installation
Install Mod Manager or r2modman and launch with Start modded. The required unreal_shimloader dependency is installed automatically.
Status
This is an experimental physics MVP. Back up important saves. Multiplayer behavior has not been fully validated, and extreme numbers of helicopters may reduce performance.
The mod reuses stock game meshes, interactables, projectiles, helicopter logic and vehicle physics. Its custom balloon bundle and audio dependency are shipped as an Unreal Engine IoStore package.
Music attribution
Ride of the Valkyries is the 1921 American Symphony Orchestra recording distributed by Project Gutenberg and Wikimedia Commons as a public-domain recording in the United States.
Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
- Most mods rely on the game's mod loader — the usual route is a community mod manager (such as r2modman): pick this game, install, and it handles the loader and dependencies.
- For a manual install, put the mod files into the matching Mod / plugins folder inside the game directory.
- Launch the game to confirm it loaded; mods with listed dependencies need those installed as well.
Install locations vary a lot between mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: