March 18th, 2021 - Development Update

[RaptyrOne 1,411]

Wakes for AI ship traffic is there. Nothing about wakes for float planes though?! Surely that is a 1000 times more important? Integration between float planes and water in this sim are comical at best. This whole “let the community vote” thing is just dumb”.

People don’t know what they want until you show them. (Henry Ford).

Time to be innovative, not follow the masses when it comes to sim development. That is how this will become truly great.

 

[Dominique_K 10,146]

I am baffled

- by the change concerning the turbo prop engine logic « issues ». Scheduled for SU4 before, it is now spread over three SU. Does it mean that we wont have a decent turboprop engine before 2022 ?

- by the solution they work on for the excessive icing effect. An Off switch ? They are kiddin’ right ? The Lotus L-39 in FSX had well represented icing, they can’t do it now ? 

Edited March 19, 2021 by Dominique_K

[Dominique_K 10,146]

2 hours ago, RaptyrOne said:

Wakes for AI ship traffic is there. Nothing about wakes for float planes though?! Surely that is a 1000 times more important? Integration between float planes and water in this sim are comical at best. This whole “let the community vote” thing is just dumb”.

People don’t know what they want until you show them. (Henry Ford).

Time to be innovative, not follow the masses when it comes to sim development. That is how this will become truly great.

 

Very true on both accounts (wakes and voting system).

The voting system reminds me of a safety valve on a pressure cooker.🤣

[Victoroos 205]

I just saw the timelaps. Looked good.. but, wait, are there really no Stratus clouds on that 9 hour flight? I usually do some vfr in in msfs so didn't notice yet, but now..

[Scottoest 1,561]

4 hours ago, RaptyrOne said:

Wakes for AI ship traffic is there. Nothing about wakes for float planes though?! Surely that is a 1000 times more important? Integration between float planes and water in this sim are comical at best. This whole “let the community vote” thing is just dumb”.

People don’t know what they want until you show them. (Henry Ford).

Time to be innovative, not follow the masses when it comes to sim development. That is how this will become truly great.

 

They've already previously said that the wishlist with community voting isn't some mechanism to literally write their dev roadmap for them - it's just a means for the community to express the things they want most, which Asobo then take into consideration when deciding what to add to the sim.

Much the same as the buglist doesn't literally decide which bugs are solved first, as you can see by the release windows for all items being all over the place.

I think it's fine as a means to let the community essentially petition them about issues or features - which is all it is.  And most of the things in both lists are no-brainers to begin with.

[ConstVoid 110]

I wonder what the status 'Matches FAA' means for 'ATC Incorrect Phraseology'? Is this what they're aiming for in SU IV? If so, they're continuing to alienate most of the rest of the world - matches ICAO would at least please a greater number of people, but automatically switching between the two based on location would be best.

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

Man, what a muddle. I used to have high expectations for the sim. I was all excited. 7-8 months later, I now read these forums for updates and just take a back seat. This looks like it will be at least another year before one could consider it out of 'beta' state. Depending on your own take of course. This is merely my opinion. 

[regis9 4,014]

7 hours ago, Pilot53 said:

So instead of actually fixing the icing, they are just going to add an off button?  Really??? Come on Asobo.

This is the one thing that stuck out for me too in an otherwise good update. 

Please fix it Asobo, don’t just let us turn it off.  Hopefully this is just an Interim step.

Edited March 19, 2021 by regis9

[omarsmak30 4,068]

58 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Man, what a muddle. I used to have high expectations for the sim. I was all excited. 7-8 months later, I now read these forums for updates and just take a back seat. This looks like it will be at least another year before one could consider it out of 'beta' state. Depending on your own take of course. This is merely my opinion. 

yeah indeed. The thing is, the alternatives are just so so, you open XP and then you realize that we are sort of paradox love and hate relationship with MSFS lol. Still, I can't believe they introduced this stupid performance issue instead of actually improving on the performance.  

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

57 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

yeah indeed. The thing is, the alternatives are just so so, you open XP and then you realize that we are sort of paradox love and hate relationship with MSFS lol. Still, I can't believe they introduced this stupid performance issue instead of actually improving on the performance.  

Yup. It’s like being stuck in a flight simming limbo. That’s why I’m giving it a test for a while. See what happens. Just popping in the forums instead. 

[Dillon 2,197]

19 hours ago, Flic1 said:

The recent performance issues caused by the last update shows 'ASAP' (#5 on bug list).  The "Dreadful Performance" bug has been on that list for a while so that is something different than the latest problem we have...which is equally as "dreadful".  ASAP to me implies they may hotfix it....

'May fix it' is the big question...😶

[Dillon 2,197]

17 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Thing is it is not a tree density issue, it is a tree draw distance issue 😄

Correct, my mistake just in case they mistake what many are saying and fix the Tree density issue and not the draw distance problem.  Been to this party before.😶

[Tuskin38 6,497]

On 3/19/2021 at 1:03 AM, Pilot53 said:

So instead of actually fixing the icing, they are just going to add an off button?  Really??? Come on Asobo.

They're fixing it too.

[Concodroid 84]

On 3/18/2021 at 9:37 PM, Tuskin38 said:

They've said adding DirectX 12 won't have a big performance improvement.

I believe you, but I want to know where they said that

[bobcat999 8,482]

6 hours ago, Concodroid said:

I believe you, but I want to know where they said that

I heard them say it on a twitch stream a few months ago.  Basically they said it will allow them to generate better features graphically, but it is not expected to give much in terms of a performance improvement.  Slightly disappointing I know!  😕

Edited March 22, 2021 by bobcat999