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February 18th, 2021 - Development Update

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FEBRUARY 18TH, 2021 – DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

Posted by: Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

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Screenshot by knight4841

 

This week, World Update III: United Kingdom released, free to all Microsoft Flight Simulator users to download. We appreciate all the feedback we have received in the forums and throughout our social spaces. We’d like to introduce (or re-introduce, if you’ve seen them already!) four flight simulator content creators from the United Kingdom and Ireland: Chewwy94TwoToneMurphyObsidianAnt, and LondonController. We love our community immensely, from content creators to add-on creators and beyond. Thank you for being a part of it!

–MSFS TEAM-

 

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DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

Click here for the web-friendly version.

 

FEEDBACK SNAPSHOT

Click here for the web-friendly version.

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THIRD PARTY UPDATE

We were buzzing this week after announcements and previews for several exciting aircraft in development: CRJ 550/700 from Aerosoft, Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IXc from FlyingIron Simulator, SR-71 Blackbird from MilViz, Spitfire Mk1a from Aeroplane Heaven and many more.

  • We have a total of 120 approved payware partners (+10 from last week) and 192 products (+16 from last week) live in the in-sim store.
  • 646 products (+36) have already been released in 3rd party stores and the in-sim marketplace. Beyond that, another 269 products (-4) from 3rd party developers are in production (147 announced, 122 unannounced). In total, over 915 3rd party products (+32) are either released or are in development.
  • Airports:
    • 583 airports (+21) are either released or are in various stages of development.
      • 408 airports (+24) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
      • 162 airports (+15) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
      • 72 airports (-3) beyond the released airports have been announced.
      • 103 airports (+0) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an airport is in production.
  • Aircraft:
    • 112 aircraft (+1) are either released or are in various stages of development.
      • 21 aircraft (+1) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
      • 10 aircraft (+1) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
      • 72 aircraft (+1) beyond the released aircraft have been announced.
      • 19 aircraft (-1) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an aircraft is in production.
  • Scenery:
    • 206 sceneries (+9) are either released or are in various stages of development.
      • 203 sceneries (+10) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
      • 15 sceneries (+0) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
      • 3 sceneries (-1) beyond the released scenery have been announced.
  • Missions:
    • 14 missions (+1) are either released or are in various stages of development.
      • 14 missions (+1) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
      • 0 missions (+0) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
      • 0 missions (+0) beyond the released missions have been announced.

 

SDK UPDATE

  • DevMode:
    • Fixed Scenery Editor issues when changing object display name.
    • New documentation is in polishing phase with improvements on page load times. All the content from old documentation was imported in the new system; we are now adding new chapters.
    • Contrail effects will soon be available in-game and the Visual Effects Editor is being reviewed and documented. We will ship it along with samples.

 

MARKETPLACE UPDATE

Today there are 10 new products and 8 updated products releasing in the Marketplace.

10 NEW PRODUCTS

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8 UPDATED PRODUCTS

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TWITCH SCHEDULE

Tomorrow, join us for a look at the new UK update! Several community members will be joining us to hop around the United Kingdom to explore the new points of interest. 

Next Wednesday at 2000Z, welcome TwoToneMurphy as a guest streamer! We will fly around his favorite parts of Ireland and learn about the history and culture of the area.

 

COMMUNITY VIDEO

A fun cinematic MSFS film edit by El Niño Del Avión!

 

COMMUNITY SCREENSHOT CHALLENGE

This past week we challenged you to take a screenshot “For the Love if IFR.” The winner is “knight4841”  and is our featured screenshot at the top of this update.  The top 10 are below. Thanks to all those who participated! Our next challenge: United Kingdom/Ireland

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NEXT DEVELOPMENT UPDATE BLOG – 2.25

Sincerely,

Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

Edited by ChaoticBeauty

No information about any of the post-patch issues, flight model, lights in the middle of runways....

AMD 3950X | 64GB RAM | AMD 5700XT | CH Fighterstick / Pro Throttle / Pro Pedals

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9 minutes ago, marsman2020 said:

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That particular bug is getting lots of attention by the team, unfortunately we gather numbers closer to the beginning of the week for the Feedback Snapshot. Happy to report we will have some messaging around that bug soon though!

 

10 minutes ago, marsman2020 said:

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No update on that particular bug today, looks like they are still investigating. I’ll be sure to post in that thread when I know more!

From the official forums.

Wow, some great screenshots this week.

Surprised they didn't have anything to say about the bugs, but I know they're more active with that on the official forum right now.

 

Well looks like I'll save some money this week with no addons on interest.  😉

The feedback snapshots have the same items since the beginning. New stuff has no chance to make It to the list if they never reset the votes.

Edited by DaWu

Lukas Dalton

Particle effects "contrails" coming soon. Nice!

They asked people to take a "For the love of IFR" screenshot and then picked a winner that was in VFR conditions.  Ha.

AMD 3950X | 64GB RAM | AMD 5700XT | CH Fighterstick / Pro Throttle / Pro Pedals

I am surprised none asked for VR performance improvement.  After I applied various community patch for G3000, G1000, VR performance is now a medium slideshow, stuttering mess.

Vu Pham

i7-13700K 5.2 GHz OC, 64 GB RAM, RTX5090, SSD for Sim, SSD for system. MSFS2020, XP-12, DCS

11 hours ago, Anxu00 said:

I am surprised none asked for VR performance improvement.  After I applied various community patch for G3000, G1000, VR performance is now a medium slideshow, stuttering mess.

Then remove the community patches. What has Asobo to do with bad community code that breaks performance?

Lukas Dalton

9 hours ago, DaWu said:

Then remove the community patches. What has Asobo to do with bad community code that breaks performance?

Ok, I should also added, VR performance prior to these patches were also awful.  The point is that there are no items on VR performance improvement, which is bad at the moment.

Vu Pham

i7-13700K 5.2 GHz OC, 64 GB RAM, RTX5090, SSD for Sim, SSD for system. MSFS2020, XP-12, DCS

2 minutes ago, Anxu00 said:

Ok, I should also added, VR performance prior to these patches were also awful.  The point is that there are no items on VR performance improvement, which is bad at the moment.

? The first item in the VR wish list is improved performance and it’s status is ‘ongoing’ ....

18 minutes ago, Anxu00 said:

Ok, I should also added, VR performance prior to these patches were also awful.  The point is that there are no items on VR performance improvement, which is bad at the moment.

I have no issues with VR performance.

Lukas Dalton

Are we still on track for Sim Update 3 next week?

 

Processor: Intel i9-13900KF 5.8GHz 24-Core, Graphics Processor: Nvidia RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6, System Memory: 64GB High Performance DDR5 SDRAM 5600MHz, Operating System: Windows 11 Home Edition, Motherboard: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX, LGA 1700, CPU Cooling: Corsair H100i Elite 240mm Liquid Cooling, RGB and LCD Display, Chassis Fans: Corsair Low Decibel, Addressable RGB Fans, Power Supply: Corsair HX1000i Fully Modular Ultra-Low-Noise Platinum ATX 1000 Watt, Primary Storage: 2TB Samsung Gen 4 NVMe SSD, Secondary Storage: 1TB Samsung Gen 4 NVMe SSD, VR Headset: Meta Quest 2, Primary Display: SONY 4K Bravia 75-inch, 2nd Display: SONY 4K Bravia 43-inch, 3rd Display: Vizio 28-inch, 1920x1080. Controller: Xbox Controller attached to PC via USB.

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