Rumors on World Update 5?

[chatman 29]

I know Update 4 is not even released but I'm curious if there are rumors (or even solid information) on update 5 (and beyond)?

 

Thx

[bobcat999 8,483]

Short answer - No.  They should announce news just before or around the release of update 4.  That is the usual way.

As for rumours, they are just that and fairly useless, but people are saying Africa, Asia, or South America should have some love!  

Personally, I would like to see Australia, New Zealand and Oceania get some attention, or continue with Europe, as Southern Europe and Scandinavia are also good candidates.
You never know, if 'other influences' come in to it (if you know what I mean), we may see Russia or the Gulf States pushed up the list. 😀

[Farlis 2,287]

If they stay in Europe (which I don't hope) then I'd like to see Italy.

Including custom modeled Mountains a la Frank Dainese's Dolomiti and Brenta sceneries he did for FSX and X-Plane.

[Pastaiolo 1,688]

Mars

[Chock 17,769]

Narnia, or possibly Utopia, in which case I hope they'll include Cloud Cuckooland International Airport.

Edited March 2, 2021 by Chock

[duckbilled 310]

Caribbean and Mexico need a lot of work.

[Krakin 5,766]

12 minutes ago, Chock said:

Narnia, or possibly Utopia, in which case I hope they'll include Cloud Cuckooland International Airport.

Forget utopia, Zootopia is where it's at!

[fakeflyer737 992]

Canada needs a lot of work. 

[cianpars 1,165]

Iberia?

[meerkat 86]

1 hour ago, fakeflyer737 said:

Canada needs a lot of work. 

Nope, my garden needs a lot of work. So much weeds, and the shed must get some paint.

[Phantoms 800]

Australia 😉

[AnkH 2,266]

I know I dont gain friends with this, but I would prefer that they first put all efforts into those things we already have and polish the sim in its current state before releasing further world updates. Seriously, unless you start concentrating all your flights on GB only, you wont really profit from the last world update at all, dont you? I mean, I did my first two, three VFR flights in England and Scotland only after the World Update 3 and I was not that much baffled compared to other regions in the world. For those living in the region of the update it is for sure great, but for the rest? Same goes for Japan, I did one single flight over there since the World Update 1. 

However, I struggled and continue to struggle from many scenery issues still present (or even added by one of those World Updates) such as coastline bugs, poor mesh, bad satellite imagery, buggy photogrammetry, missing watermasks, morphing terrain in mountains, buggy snow depiction, no seasonal changes, lod issues and so on. They would better use the full power of their scenery dev team to address those bugs and glitches first... 

But then, that is just my opinion. If they would announce World Update 5 being DE, CH and AT, I would probably change my mind 😉

[duckbilled 310]

6 minutes ago, AnkH said:

I know I dont gain friends with this, but I would prefer that they first put all efforts into those things we already have and polish the sim in its current state before releasing further world updates. Seriously, unless you start concentrating all your flights on GB only, you wont really profit from the last world update at all, dont you? I mean, I did my first two, three VFR flights in England and Scotland only after the World Update 3 and I was not that much baffled compared to other regions in the world. For those living in the region of the update it is for sure great, but for the rest? Same goes for Japan, I did one single flight over there since the World Update 1. 

However, I struggled and continue to struggle from many scenery issues still present (or even added by one of those World Updates) such as coastline bugs, poor mesh, bad satellite imagery, buggy photogrammetry, missing watermasks, morphing terrain in mountains, buggy snow depiction, no seasonal changes, lod issues and so on. They would better use the full power of their scenery dev team to address those bugs and glitches first... 

But then, that is just my opinion. If they would announce World Update 5 being DE, CH and AT, I would probably change my mind 😉

I do agree with you. My desire for the Caribbean and MX to be updated is related to the issues you listed. I'm far less interested in detailed POI's in Mexico City. In fact, I think stuff like that is pretty small potatoes and should be left to 3PD's.

I think Asobo is probably contractually required to release these regional updates. No update = no paycheck.

[Shack95 2,658]

If I could choose between a „clean-up world update“ and a regular world update I‘d go for the former as well, but I‘m not sure if it works like that in terms of resource management. 

[RXP 2,338]

It might be nothing at all, but did you notice the hidden Dash 8 in Quantas Link livery in FS2020?

WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.13.17.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Packages\fs-base-ui\html_ui\Textures\PlaceHolder\Market\Plane03_Large.png

They've definitely spent time modeling it at least to take the screenshot. Maybe World Update 5 will be Oceania with 1 new aircraft?

NB: was there already since 1.7.12.0, use IOBit Unlocker to open sesame without corrupting your WindowsApps folder.