April 23rd, 2020 Development Update

[dtrjones 356]

8 minutes ago, aleex said:

Just one thing to "complain about". Not a no buy, just something good to be noticed 🙂 

Slightly picky 😉 older planes probably have halogen bulbs, but we know Asobo have put LED's onto there planes, the Cessna 172 has LED lights in it's wing.

[YMMB 234]

30 minutes ago, MatthewS said:

Yes.. but it's got to be "photo mode" surely?

Why do you think such a mode exists?

[Tuskin38 6,880]

7 minutes ago, YMMB said:

Why do you think such a mode exists?

Leaked screenshots from a couple weeks ago showed it. Plus I doubt all this would be done in real time.

Edited April 23, 2020 by Tuskin38

[DaWu 779]

The whole sim is a photo mode. Photo mode lol....

[Amon1973 1,431]

19 minutes ago, aleex said:

Just one thing to "complain about". Not a no buy, just something good to be noticed 🙂 

It just opens up an opportunity for @simbol to bring his FS Lights Reborn add on over to MSFS.

[jhnWik 51]

what blows me away is how good things like trees look at ground level, it's amazing at 10,000 feet and at 10 feet.

sick detail

Edited April 24, 2020 by jhnWik

[sightseer 895]

Nearly every cloud in every pic of the last four updates (not all) has been just incredibly realistically colored imo.  I think (i hope) they've fixed the cloud lighting/coloring problem.

There are just so many great pics now!  could easily be photos.

[BaronKen 147]

Once more, fantastic screenshots to drool over. In the shot of the Cessna just after a rain shower, I swear I could smell the wet concrete and feel the humidity standing next to the plane... 🙂

[Ident 203]

It still blows my mind that these screenshots are from the base sim, of default aircraft....IN ALPHA!

Edited April 24, 2020 by Ident

[Ident 203]

Has anyone noticed that some of the tail numbers on the GA planes are not the old AS-XXXX stuff but different in some of the pics yet the liveries are still the same. What does all that mean?

[Kpeters 42]

1 hour ago, MatthewS said:

Very good...  7GB VRAM? What card would that be 1080? 2080?

I have an RX480 that's 8GB

[mp15 138]

i'm very happy with these pictures

[Theboot100 404]

Man this round of screenshots look amazing

[MikeT707 1,181]

If you look closely in this image, you will see tree or bush vegetation on top of the crops in certain places. I wonder if Asobo will do anything to create vegetation (corn or wheat stalks, soybean plants, rice, citrus trees, etc.) that might match farm crops. Perhaps it is something they could partner with a third party like Orbx to provide this level of detail.

We could then have missions for crop dusting and perhaps have Microsoft Flight and Farming Simulator 2020. 

@Wobbie - I am looking for a thumbs up on that one. MSFFS 2020

[decker89 110]

2 hours ago, MikeT707 said:

Imagine taking a virtual walk in a million beautiful places on the planet, especially with the environmental sounds and seasonal effects that the sim will offer. Gives a new meaning to low and slow.

That screen shot has as good of graphics as is in the latest Farm Simulator. The crazy thing is this is just some place on the Earth scaled map where farm simulator is no more than a couple square miles.

Looking at this is ruining farm simulator for me, makes it feel so limited now.