Rumor: Prepar3d V5 beta has started

[Petraeus 147]

18 hours ago, Wise87 said:

The comment is I'm not familiar with the language

Same language as Baton Rouge, Bayou Sauvage etc. (hint! 😉

[chapstick 2,757]

3 hours ago, ailchim said:

So let me get this right.  You are dismissing a possible upgrade to an existing product, of which we don't know the content, in favour of a possible new product, of which we don't know the content? 

We have a much better idea of what MSFS will bring versus the next version P3D. And given how little growth the P3D base program has seen over V4, there's little reason to be optimistic about any sort of dramatic improvements in V5.

[michaelth 76]

Nice thread. In the former Soviet union, they would have two newspapers: the Prawda, which means "Truth", and the Isvestija, which means "News". There was the saying "the Truth has no news and the News have no truth".

Go flying,

Michael

 

[Mikelab6 89]

There is still hope for P3D if we can fly it in VR and can't with MSFS.

Mike

[FDEdev 955]

13 hours ago, Chapstick said:

And given how little growth the P3D base program has seen over V4, there's little reason to be optimistic about any sort of dramatic improvements in V5.

Exactly. Especially since not even the pretty basic bugs like mixture, turboprop simulation etc. still haven't been fixed P3D and I doubt that they will re-write the whole aerodynamics model in any future version.

[Dominique_K 10,149]

On 12/14/2019 at 4:58 PM, cepact said:

I've heard rumors that the beta tests for Prepar3d V5 has started yesterday, any additional infos ?

Thanks for the HU

On 12/14/2019 at 9:08 PM, Anders Bermann said:

What do you mean "affirmative way"? 

What affiliation does the author have with Lockheed-Martin?

He's a developer in a very well known large addon company

 

 

 

[Dominique_K 10,149]

1 hour ago, FDEdev said:

Exactly. Especially since not even the pretty basic bugs like mixture, turboprop simulation etc. still haven't been fixed P3D and I doubt that they will re-write the whole aerodynamics model in any future version.

Thinking that MS will not come to the institutional market (flight schools and military) boasting of their new flight modeling and terrain accuracy (targeting !) would be a dangerous assumption for LM to do. This is where the big margins are.

[tutmeister 710]

There will likely be a commercial version just like last time.

Microsoft won't target professional customers with a home user sim. If there isn't a new esp type product available at launch then there will be shortly afterwards. It is more likely that people like LM will license that.

[JoeFackel 760]

And another P3D thread where some MSFS guys sing the "P3D is dead" song.

Looks like a case of "premature evaluation" of a product that isn't even in Alpha at this moment 😎

[Reader 2,021]

I think it is but that those who know this cannot tell anyone.

Or is it that they can tell that there is one but not what it is.

Or is it that they can tell what it is but not what it does.

The rumour (rumor) mongers are having a feeding frenzy

Speculation without information can apparently be highly

exciting but it can also be tedious and intrusive when it

appears everywhere, whether on topic or not.

[FDEdev 955]

4 hours ago, JoeFackel said:

... a product that isn't even in Alpha at this moment 

? When was the last time you visited the Avsim forums?

[cepact 517]

I just noticed that the author of the "rumor" is Richard Bui from Orbx (Wildweasel on Libertysim), so this isn't a rumor anymore, we can say for sure that P3D V5 beta test started last thursday. 

[Bob Scott 7,721]

7 hours ago, JoeFackel said:

And another P3D thread where some MSFS guys sing the "P3D is dead" song.

Looks like a case of "premature evaluation" of a product that isn't even in Alpha at this moment 😎

I'm officially adding "premature evaluation", along with "expectile dysfunction", to the official vaporware vaunting vocabulary.  😁

[BillCusick 75]

16 hours ago, w6kd said:

I'm officially adding "premature evaluation", along with "expectile dysfunction", to the official vaporware vaunting vocabulary.  😁

Now Bob...keep it clean....

This thread is wandering....🤣

Regards

Bill