Today's Developer Q&A is scheduled to begin at 10:30 AM PST, or 30 minutes from now. Prepare yourselves!

This Q&A will feature:

1. Talk around World Update 4.
2. A preview of Sim Update 4, with footage from Sebastian.
3. A preview of World Update 5.
4. Talk around the Feedback Snapshot.
5. Live questions from chat.

An agenda has been posted here featuring more detail on the presentations, as well as the questions that will be asked: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/dev-q-a-4-13-agenda/390068

The stream will be available to watch at: twitch.tv/msfsofficial

Edited April 13, 20215 yr by ChaoticBeauty

New plane coming in a couple weeks, an Ultralight that I missed the name on

The stream has already started, and after some footage from beyond the trailers, a new Asobo plane was announced. The ultralight Top Rudder Just 103 Solo, coming 27 April.

It's not free. $9.99 possibly.

 

Turboprop updates starting with the next sim update, and will improve over several updates.

Edited April 13, 20215 yr by Tuskin38

When they said "it's an ultralight" my first thought was: boooorriiiiing, we already have plenty of ultralights... but THIS open, low and slow style ultralight really adds something new to MSFS for enjoying the scenery...

Just heard: it's going to cost 9,99 (I guess in USD and EUR, GBP probably slightly less)

Edited April 13, 20215 yr by pstrub

Right now they're showing videos on turboprop and rudder improvements in the Cessna 172 (which will also be ported to other planes), and in general Sim Update 4 will heavily improve the accuracy of secondary characteristics like adverse yaw.

Sim Update 4 will also include performance optimisations for glass cockpits and, and in later updates, for memory consumption and GPU usage. They're also talking about improvements to live traffic, landing smoke effects and weather radar that, if I heard correctly, will be included in Sim Update 4.

World Update 5 is the Nordics, coming June. Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland.

Edited April 13, 20215 yr by ChaoticBeauty

World update 5: The Nordics: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland

Real Time Air Traffic updates coming with the next Sim Update. Landing FX, new filtering that will allow more to spawn at once, something about approach ATC related to

Updates to the weather radar.

Next world update is, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland.

Aiming for June release (Jorg said it could be earlier, June is just the latest it could be)

Airports (if I heard correctly)

EKRN

BIIS

ENSB

ESSA

There's also one in Finland which I didn't catch.

Edited April 13, 20215 yr by Tuskin38

4 minutes ago, pstrub said:

World update 5: The Nordics: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! 💗💗

Really looking forward to the nordic countries! Norway and Iceland were among the first places I flew in after the release - Iceland still lowres in many parts, so I'm more than happy to see it's getting a world update now!

One more Asobo plane announcement, ATR 42-600/72-600. Coming in 2022 apparently, in collaboration with Aerosoft.

If I heard correctly, it's still in the early stages, but the external model is nearly ready.

Edited April 13, 20215 yr by ChaoticBeauty

Co-Developed with Aerosoft from the sounds of it.

Coming 2022

Edited April 13, 20215 yr by Tuskin38

Sim Update 4 will have some more fixes for the Garmin panels, but Working Title will be taking over for the later updates.

They are very excited for the performance and memory optimisation the engine team has put on the Xbox branch. Sebastian is estimating a 3x improvement in memory usage, less disk swapping and shorter loading times.

He is also saying that the reduction in tree draw distance was not intended, they reduced the tree size in half but they want the density to be back to what it was a few months ago. They will be introducing more tree customisation sliders in the near future.

Jörg says that SIm Update 4 will bring improvements to live weather, but the biggest ones will come with Sim Update 6.

Edited April 13, 20215 yr by ChaoticBeauty

ATR-600 Yeah! I prefer the ATR to the other one Q

Have they said when SU4 will come? Is it bundled with WU5 as mentioned in the last q&a?