1 minute ago, MatthewS said:

It's almost perfect except for the oversized 🌲

Asobo, just add a scaling factor to the ".ini" file, so that users who want to constrain your default over-scaled trees (by tree type) can do so 🤔

If I could set "treescale_conifer=.75"  to reduce those conifers by 25% then that video would look almost real, IMHO.

I understand your pain and we all are aware of the issue, yet again we dont know for sure which version of the sim we are seeing...I would like to see something from the Beta to get an idea if any progress have been made or that they will leave it like it is. By then I will agree with you it will be desirable to have a way for ourselves to tweak the trees and other stuff we see out of place..

42 minutes ago, bonchie said:

There's the point to point flight everyone has been pining for. For whatever flaws the sim may have, and I really wish we could discuss them here, there's no denying that the visual experience is just next level overall. Not perfect, but next level.

I finally managed to download in full quality. It's fantastic.

Alright, that's it, I'm not concerned anymore, I'm just buying this Honeycomb now 🙂

43 minutes ago, MatthewS said:

With such a rushed release, nowhere even near the Christmas holiday season, I think the "bean counters" are pulling the plug, so I hope it doesn't stay like it forever, closed in their issue tracker with a tag of "good enough". 🤦‍♂️

Microsoft announced layoffs a few days ago.  Either way, I am happy to be getting this sooner than later.  

46 minutes ago, MatthewS said:

With such a rushed release, nowhere even near the Christmas holiday season, I think the "bean counters" are pulling the plug, so I hope it doesn't stay like it forever, closed in their issue tracker with a tag of "good enough". 🤦‍♂️

My take: MS will announce next week that MSFS2020 is one of the launch titles for the XBox Series X, which will probably be released around Thanksgiving or Christmas. Releasing it for PC now allows more testing and more polishing before then.

Obviously we both are simply speculating.

Did you guys see the footage with the 320 taking off from Courchevel? If not, search on the "famous site" for 以假乱真！微软模拟“地球”全新实机画面

Edit: There is another one, a 747 taking off at night (越来越像地球Online了 微软模拟飞行上海夜景展示)

Edited July 19, 20205 yr by schneper32

2 minutes ago, schneper32 said:

Did you guys see the footage with the 320 taking off from Courchevel? If not, search on the "famous site" for 以假乱真！微软模拟“地球”全新实机画面

Yes it was in the early post of this thread is an old leak..

Just now, adino said:

Yes it was in the early post of this thread is an old leak..

Ah, my bad then. Didn't see those yet.

32 minutes ago, helloo said:

Microsoft announced layoffs a few days ago.

Ouch.

1 minute ago, schneper32 said:

Ah, my bad then. Didn't see those yet

One of the buttons lets you sort by date and also the date is shown below the video thumbnail (mm-dd)...  I think this thread has seen all the old Bilibili leaks (dated prior to 19/July).

35 minutes ago, helloo said:

Microsoft announced layoffs a few days ago.  Either way, I am happy to be getting this sooner than later.  

Well that explains it, as always.  Don't expect MSFS to progress much now, IMHO.  Asobo will be announcing layoffs too I guess, what size is the team, 200+ ?  That's just not sustainable.

Oh for heaven's sake, let's not get in a panic mode!

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-layoffs-confirmed-across-its-divisions-report

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Business Insider has earlier reported that the Microsoft layoffs hit under 1,000 jobs, including some at its MSN.com online news site and its Microsoft Azure cloud division.

 

The MS layoffs were mostly in sales, marketing and some company they had acquired - increased automation played a role. There was some in Azure division too. I wouldn't go reading too much into it yet. MS do this every fiscal year as they re-evaluate business lines. They're making good money right now on the games side so doubt they'd be scaling back hugely right now. But naturally as the FS2020 moves into production they're going to reallocate or let go some resources. No company keeps a full team working on a project forever as smaller add ons in the future require less people. 

Since Asobo is an independent contractor for MS, they have more than enough other titles to occupy their staff. MSFS ain't their first or only rodeo pardner! 😅

11 minutes ago, n4gix said:

Since Asobo is an independent contractor for MS, they have more than enough other titles to occupy their staff. MSFS ain't their first or only rodeo pardner! 😅

They aren't a big publisher, but rather as you said, a small contractor which partners with game publishers:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Asobo-Studio-EI_IE636131.11,23.htm

Actual revenue for Asobo is hard to come by since they are privately held, but I have to believe that their MSFS contract will probably increase their revenue substantially.

19 minutes ago, n4gix said:

Since Asobo is an independent contractor for MS, they have more than enough other titles to occupy their staff. MSFS ain't their first or only rodeo pardner!

Yes and exactly why, when Microsoft stops giving them money, Asobo stops working on MSFS and switches focus to something else.

Microsoft have lost interest, execs are questioning, "what's the flight simulator thing, how long have we been working on it, 3 years, really?", hence the big push to release MSFS for PC early, and get the XBOX version finished.

When the money flies off, the project dies off.

Edited July 20, 20205 yr by MatthewS