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June 25th, 2020 - Development Update

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June 25th, 2020 Development Update

POSTED BY: MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR TEAM

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As we head into July, the team is excited for many of the deliverables we have planned for next month, starting with Alpha 5!

In our post next week (07.02) we’ll provide a release date for Alpha 5, and a timeline for the Closed Beta release.

This week, we are proud to introduce NavBlue in our Partnership Series update below!

  • MSFT TEAM 

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ALPHA 5 IS COMING EARLY JULY!

The team is currently in the final testing phase for Alpha 5. We will announce the release date in our July 2nd update.

Full build notes will be released along with the build.

 

ALPHA INVITATIONS

New invitations are being sent out today!

Reminder, if you are currently an Alpha tester, you will be automatically granted access to the Closed Beta.

 

PARTNERSHIP SERIES UPDATE – INTRODUCING NAVBLUE!

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MORE AMAZING SCREENSHOTS FROM ALPHA TESTERS

 

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NEXT UPDATE – 07.02

Sincerely,

Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

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Solid update! 

I feel for testers for having to deal with those watermarks though - shame it had to come to that they look annoying.

We're getting regularly updated charts and nav data included in the sim!

I'm laughing myself dead!

Microsoft statement months ago: Every single raindrop is calculated physically.

First video, upper left corner, exactly the same raindrops appear again and again! 

Well, at least it looks good. But the statement seems fictitious. 

Is that a solar eclipse in the last imagine?! I used to play around in fs2000 trying to get the 1999 eclipse to happen. 😂

Great to see the charts being included as well as Navdata. Navblue might sound like a new company but you should look up the history but parts have been around for quite a while in various forms. 

Edited by JohnH90

11 minutes ago, DiscoSweat said:

Solid update! 

I feel for testers for having to deal with those watermarks though - shame it had to come to that they look annoying.

You kinda block them out after a bit. There's a very loud vocal minority complaining though.

Interesting....though charts seemed like an extra purchase 

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16 minutes ago, Deleted said:

I'm laughing myself dead!

Microsoft statement months ago: Every single raindrop is calculated physically.

First video, upper left corner, exactly the same raindrops appear again and again! 

Well, at least it looks good. But the statement seems fictitious. 

Thats strange. That is not the same raindrops ive seen in other videos. Maybe they have some parts of it disabled in the alpha for some reason.

The watermarks don't bother me when I'm testing because there's so much eye candy to process 🙂. And good to hear we get access to the beta.

20 minutes ago, nikita said:

We're getting regularly updated charts and nav data included in the sim!

No way to know for sure but I would guess that there may be an extra charge in the for of a subscription for that service.

Sam

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Just now, shivers9 said:

No way to know for sure but I would guess that there may be an extra charge in the for of a subscription for that service.

Yeah that's what I wrote above.  "Charts services post launch" 

Services meaning payment required hehe

Which makes me wonder what will happen to Navigraph

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These short clips like the rain take off above make the aircraft look like they are flying on a string sort of like all the Carenado stuff. This is in Alpha but something I have noticed and will be watching in the future clips.

Sam

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8 minutes ago, Cyrex1984 said:

Thats strange. That is not the same raindrops ive seen in other videos. Maybe they have some parts of it disabled in the alpha for some reason.

Or it's disabled on certain graphics settings, or it was too performance intensive that they had to get rid of it.

Edited by Tuskin38

It’s good to know we will have updated Nav data and charts included on the sim. 
 

Having everything working together out of the box is a really great improvement.

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4 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

Which makes me wonder what will happen to Navigraph

The day this sim comes out is not going to be the end of the world as we know it. Believe it or not, there will be other sims in use!! LOL

Sam

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