APRIL 8TH, 2021 DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

Posted by: Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

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Mark your calendars! We are excited for our next live Developer Q&A slated for Tuesday, April 13th at 10:30 am PDT (1730Z) on Twitch to discuss World Update 4 as well as future updates coming next month. Not only that, but we recently announced in the forums a quarterly SDK Q&A that we will bring to you live on April 21st at 10:30 am (1730Z) as well. We can’t wait to chat with the community again and answer more of your questions.

– The MSFS team

 

 

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

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FEEDBACK SNAPSHOT

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KEY:

SU = Sim Update (3, 4, etc.)

WU = World Update

ASAP = As Soon as Possible

TBD = To Be Determined

Several Releases = Fixes will come over a series of updates

Ongoing Fixes = An item we will continually be working on

Planned = Scheduled to be worked on

Under Investigation = The team is currently looking into the issue

Not Planned = We will likely not work on this

Started = Work as started on this item

 

THIRD PARTY UPDATE

• As of 04/04, we have now approved 149 (+0) third parties into our marketplace and, so far, 75 (+4) have released 301 products (+21). In total, 802 products (+25) have already been released in 3rd party stores and the in-sim marketplace. Beyond that, another 286 products (+1) from 3rd party developers are in production (154 announced, 132 unannounced). In total, over 1,088 3rd party products (+25) are either released or are in development.
• Airports:
  • 695 airports (+19) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 508 airports (+14) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 249 airports (+18) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 77 airports (+5) beyond the released airports have been announced.
    • 110 airports (+0) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an airport is in production.
• Aircraft:
  • 126 aircraft (+0) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 30 aircraft (+1) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 23 aircraft (+1) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 74 aircraft (-1) beyond the released aircraft have been announced.
    • 22 aircraft (+0) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an aircraft is in production.
• Scenery:
  • 241 sceneries (+5) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 238 sceneries (+8) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 20 sceneries (+2) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 3 sceneries (-3) beyond the released scenery have been announced.
• Mission Packs:
  • 26 mission packs (+1) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 26 mission packs (+1) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 3 mission packs (+0) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 0 mission packs (+0) beyond the released missions have been announced.

 

SDK UPDATE

• Documentation:
  • We added a Package Installer sample (Visual Studio solution with both Wix & Custom Action DLL projects). The installer will automatically detect Store and/or Steam Community folders and install your packages into them.
  • We created a new tutorial for creating liveries.
  • We also updated the modeling documentation.
• Dev Mode:
  • We fixed a bug that would not properly reset fonts when using Reset Settings.
  • We also fixed a crash in the Project Editor, which could happen when loading a project that already contained built packages.
  • In the Aircraft Editor, extend time and retraction time can now be set to 0 for fixed gear.
  • In the soon-to-be released Airport Wizard, we fixed an issue with empty airport ICAO list.

 

TWITCH SCHEDULE

Check out what’s coming on Twitch!

 

COMMUNITY VIDEO

The community has been enjoying this silly, fun, free mod, a Cardboard Spitfire:

 

COMMUNITY SCREENSHOT CHALLENGE

This past week we challenged you to take a screenshot of a “spontaneous landing.” The winner is the featured screenshot in todays Development Update. for a creative take on the challenge! Thanks to all those who participated! Our next challenge: My Friends and I.

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NEXT DEVELOPMENT UPDATE BLOG – 4.15

Sincerely,

Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

Edited April 8, 20215 yr by ChaoticBeauty

That Whitehouse screenshot is awesome!

How does Asobo manage to write something so devoid of actual information ?

Development roadmap doesn't go past this month.....no Marketplace update.... 

Less and less information every week.

Edited April 8, 20215 yr by marsman2020

21 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

How does Asobo manage to write something so devoid of actual information ?

Haha yup. It’s like a politicians bible. Full of waffle. Or one of those newspaper articles that takes an entire 3 pages to get to a point that could be made in one sentence. 

26 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

How does Asobo manage to write something so devoid of actual information ?

It is actually Microsoft's community mangers team who write that lol 

 

17 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Full of waffle

At least you can eat a waffle. There aint not too much in this update that is palatable LOL

Tony

40 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

It is actually Microsoft's community mangers team who write that lol 

 

Maybe Asobo send them a post each week full of interesting and informative facts and the MS people carefully remove every single one of them to leave this bland  empty mush ?

@ChaoticBeauty

I’m so late to give you you’re weekly 🌲🌲🌲, that your weekly update topic has already fallen to page 2. For a second I thought you hadn’t even posted it yet since it fell off the first page.

7 hours ago, Matchstick said:

How does Asobo manage to write something so devoid of actual information ?

My mother always told me: If you have nothing to say, don't say anything.

 

Another week another dribble, I'm only reading it to see if they'll ever expand and make these updates useful, I could be waiting awhile.

 

Meanwhile have they abandoned VR already? They had an entire team working on the implementation, wishes are STILL "TBD" and Bugs have barely any acknowledgement after 3+ months...

8 hours ago, marsman2020 said:

Development roadmap doesn't go past this month.....no Marketplace update.... 

Less and less information every week.

The only explanation is that they have nothing to say because there is no significant developments beyond the end of April. What else ?  They are fully committed and working to rewrite for the box. You know like ‘which button of the xbox controller should we use to initiate a side slipping ?’.

The good side of it is that we won’t have a dreaded update soon, beyond France&Benelux.

But I might be a bit optimistic here. They have showed the last three days that they can introduce a bug without an update. Not a word about the many users complaining about the reset of stats and preferences after the packages out of date bug. 

A last thing we got our ration of ‘can’t wait’ and ‘excited’ but no ‘awesome’ . I feel cheated.

Well at least they fixed the bug that was preventing the correct font from resetting in Dev mode. 

That's a huge relief.

It becomes more and more clear what exactly the goal of MSFS is........XBOX.....not Simmers.

They care for the big money.....we simmers do not bring them BIG money.....the GAMERS at XBOX do, because they buy their product in MASSES.

Honestly I did expected this as soon as they announced XBOX. The XBOX market is so much bigger compared to what we simmers would like to see. I estimate we do not even reach 5% of the GAMERS market who are expected to buy MSFS.

We are simply not worth the development.....(at the moment.....and after that it is a ?)

Marcus  

Edited April 9, 20215 yr by mpo910

27 minutes ago, mpo910 said:

They care for the big money.....

We are simply not worth the development....

😂

Never getting old.

Edited April 9, 20215 yr by crimplene