February 6th-ish, 2020 – Development Update

[MatthewS 761]

3 hours ago, Carts85 said:

Check again, there is definitely some on and off.

I'm talking about the lights changing dynamically...  every night the lights are somewhat different, and also depending on the time of night....   3am, you would not expect as many lights as at 6pm.

Also, sometimes street lights flicker (faulty "bulb")... would be cool if every now and then there's a flickering light (maybe say 1% of street lights).

[Poppapete 13]

The %age of street lights flickering/not working will depend on what country. From my experience in Nigeria it would be 50%.

[precog 98]

The water is so clear in that Sydney shot you see the harbour tunnel 😉

[rick celik 1,243]

4 minutes ago, precog said:

The water is so clear in that Sydney shot you see the harbour tunnel 😉

Haha I’m sure they’ll fix that if we give feedback, also, they better make sure that the car traffic is congested min 15 hours out of 24 hours a day around Sydney or else Sydney won’t be complete. 🤪

[Muhamad Aliff 10]

i really hope got user screenshot from South East Asian Country, those are immersive screenshot.

[rtodepart 761]

I think ill spend the first few days after this is released trying to pick up my yaw looking around . I really hope we can walk around .....

[in2tech 588]

FEATURE DISCOVERY SERIES

• EPISODE 6 IS COMING SOON!

We are putting the finishing touches on our next episode in the Feature Discovery Series! Episode 6 will provide an in-depth look at the airports we are building in the next generation of Microsoft Flight Simulator. You should expect an update on the official date for release in our next update (02.13).

 

Does this mean we might get the Airport Discovery on 2/13, or on 2/13 we will get the date when we will see the Airport Discovery? And NOT being in Alpha testing ever, I think we will be able to walk around. That shot in the hangar looks like a walk around camera shot or maybe we will have ton's of new camera angles which can basically be used like we are walking around. I still think we will be able to walk around though. I think they will bring that idea over from FSW, and wasn't there a add on at one time for a sim to walk around? If so maybe we can walk around the hangar, ( and other areas ) and find the pilot leather jacket, hat, gloves, etc... to pick up. Once again if those 2 dudes in the original trailer in the hangar are talking to each other, it will be cool. It's gonna be a long year up ahead!

We need a time compression/advancement key for 2020 🙂 Everyone  hit the T ( for time compression/advancement ) key on their keyboard at the same exact time, and make it happen! I'll check back later and see if it worked 🙂 And I'll check Steam to see if it is On Sale 🙂 Another joke people! When you have 16 GB RAM you have to laugh a lot 🙂

[LHookins 3,102]

6 hours ago, tweekz said:

I said that I wish you could walk around your own aircraft in a hangar, do the pre flight check, maintenance work... (like with some high quality addons). Maybe some of those features are implemented.

I'd love if the pre-flight were done in avatar mode where you walk around and have click spots on the aircraft for things to check.

Hook

[FDEdev 955]

23 minutes ago, LHookins said:

I'd love if the pre-flight were done in avatar mode where you walk around and have click spots on the aircraft for things to check.

That's the beauty and the advantage of big aircraft. You don't touch anything during the walkaround 🙂

[Mace 1,896]

5 hours ago, MatthewS said:

Also, sometimes street lights flicker (faulty "bulb")... would be cool if every now and then there's a flickering light (maybe say 1% of street lights).

I just turn down my antialiasing for that.

[HighTowers 1,434]

Well while the update was brief, there certainly are some gems to be taken from it. First thing that came to mind is the same as everyone else on here for the 1st hangar shot of the TBM. Nice intro a real world photo. Wait what!??

Night lighting implemented on the buildings looks great, although seems a bit blurry. Either its my eyes, or its raining. The details keep getting better. I think missions will be quite fun when its like that.   Thanks for keeping us in the loop about the DR update, discovery series and further alpha testers prospects.   Exciting stuff. 

[siggy 154]

10 hours ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

Oh wait, the first picture is a screenshot? I thought it was a photo teasing the next partnership announcement or something.

It's incredible, there are even rain puddles on the floor, they must have left the hangar doors open for too long or the rain was as heavy as it is here today.

[anden145 2,273]

This sim just gets better and more impressive with every screenshot! 

Wow!

Edited February 8, 2020 by Anders Bermann

[pmb 5,137]

9 hours ago, Krakin said:

Cheers, man. Worked like a charm

It worked for me, too. Unfortunately only once. Probably I'll have to log off from the MS account again.

Kind regards, Michael

[flxwng 23]

A bit sad that we didn't get to see or hear any info regarding the partnership series update, which they delayed last update.

Otherwise, the shots look amazing.