Given the large bugs that have been pushed out in prior updates, I wonder what was so broken that the people "upstairs" decided to delay.  Must be really bad.

Download this mod and go enjoy a flight.

https://flightsim.to/file/7748/egpg-cumbernauld

That's today's UK update.

Edited February 11, 20215 yr by DJJose

thats not the end of the world...or is it?

I am very pleased that they are trying to work out the bugs. They have been hasty in the past and as we all know that brings issues to the sim. They should take their time and get it right. I hope on update day things will go smoothly. 

Whatever the reason for the delay it's fine. We'll all survive for another 5 days. It's no big deal at the end of the day.

It's delaying Sim Update III.  To be honest I don't give two hoots about the UK, other then it's nice that they are making the world better for us.  The Sim Updates are what I want.  Sim Update III was originally scheduled for 2/28, before this UK Update went south.

I don't know how they can say 'locked in' for next Tuesday if they are still trying to iron out problems. 

Seems to me they are really struggling and putting themselves under pressure.

Even though I live in the UK, i really am not too bothered about the scenery update.  They should have just dealt with the scenery spikes (and maybe some other mesh problems) with a hot fix and I would have been happy with that for a while.

I always worry about these big updates, and I am beginning to think that smaller targeted updates just dealing with one issue at a time would be better.

Just now, bobcat999 said:

I always worry about these big updates, and I am beginning to think that smaller targeted updates just dealing with one issue at a time would be better.

They tried that after the sim released with the every-other-week updates and it didn't work well either.

So if every-other-week updates didn't work, and every-four-weeks also doesn't work.... I don't know what to think.  I guess they could to go "when it's done" updates.  Faster didn't work.

The best solution would have been do actually finish the simulator before they released it instead of releasing it 3/4 done. 

Takes courage to pull an update at the last minute and annoy everyone. Either they really, really, really want to make it perfect... Or something major broke and needs a fix.

At least it shouldn't be a repeat of the spikes screw up again.

Guys be positive! LOL

23 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

It's only the second delay.

First it was delayed to 2 February, then to 9-11 February, and today to 16 February. It was originally slated for 26 January.

4 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

They should have just dealt with the scenery spikes (and maybe some other mesh problems) with a hot fix and I would have been happy with that for a while.

I always worry about these big updates, and I am beginning to think that smaller targeted updates just dealing with one issue at a time would be better.

Their decision not to push the fix for the terrain spikes with a hotfix keeps backfiring every time they delay the UK update. I still don't understand how they thought this would be a good idea. It's going to be a rough ride if we will have to wait at least one month for fixes to the previous major update's bugs, only to come across more bugs.

1 minute ago, marsman2020 said:

They tried that after the sim released with the every-other-week updates and it didn't work well either.

So if every-other-week updates didn't work, and every-four-weeks also doesn't work.... I don't know what to think.  I guess they could to go "when it's done" updates.  Faster didn't work.

The best solution would have been do actually finish the simulator before they released it instead of releasing it 3/4 done. 

I share your frustration Mars. If I remember correctly though, it actually wasn't too bad at launch.

Other then scenery updates (Japan, USA etc.), I am not sure we have gained much since, but things have certainly been broken.  Water, clouds, mesh, water masks... is it me or were all of these not too bad at launch?

Pretty sure the community will discover additional bugs next tuesday in seconds, considering what slipped their QA with the last updates, I really wonder what happened with this one today. Maybe one of the devs actually tested the update? /sarcasm off

Whether it's released today, next week or the week after is completely irrelevant.   Some will complain, some won't, some will find issues with it immediately, some wont, some will complain its too slow, others will commend for trying to do the right thing.

Whether it's good bad or indifferent, there will be positive people who just fly, and non-positive people who complain and until it's actually released, we won't know who are going to do either..  well we know some, but not all.

For me, in the current climate, whether its today, next week or next month is pretty irrelevant in the grand sheme of things apart from knowing when to empty my community folder, as its mostly all UK stuff 🙂

Graham

8 minutes ago, AnkH said:

Pretty sure the community will discover additional bugs next tuesday in seconds, considering what slipped their QA with the last updates, I really wonder what happened with this one today. Maybe one of the devs actually tested the update? /sarcasm off

I am not sure it is sarcasm actually. Maybe one of them acually tested the release version we get rather than their fancy version they seem to have and keep going on about - you know, the one with the decent water under the bridges they use for the videos!