April 22nd, 2021 - Development Update

[frankla 44]

1 hour ago, BijanStudio said:

Seasons hasn't been pushed back. It's been removed. The feedback screenshot has been updated. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/blog-april-22nd-2021-development-update/394579

At the same time, they accepted my application so my season pack will be on "Marketplace Partner Program".

The wish list you linked to is  a partial list starting at 25 and higher and missing the top 24 wishes.   In that list, even helicopters are not mentioned.  So I doubt that is any indication of seasons being removed.

Edited April 23, 2021 by frankla

[BijanStudio 896]

4 hours ago, frankla said:

The wish list you linked to is  a partial list starting at 25 and higher and missing the top 24 wishes.   In that list, even helicopters are not mentioned.  So I doubt that is any indication of seasons being removed.

Scroll down. Top 24 wishes is there at the bottom. 

[slashed2 53]

The one on the bottom is VR.  The web friendly link has the top 24 wish list and seasons is #20.  Looks like whoever puts these together got mixed up and put the top 24 bugs and the bottom 24 wishes.

[Amon1973 1,421]

18 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

In other words, they do not know what they broke. With the last world update, they botched the scaling of aircraft controllers which is, in a first approach, not a scenery feature but they don’t know what is going on. Sweet.

A bit of an enigma are Asobo, in one respect they came be amateur in what they do, yet sometimes they can be brilliant, we just don't know what Asobo we are about to get every update.

[harrry 322]

20 hours ago, Riah069 said:

And on that day. Satan will be skating to work 🙂

As for fsx I fail to understand why they did not retain the well planned Joystick and Controller mappings they had developed for that.  (If anyone needs them both controller and joystick maps are in the original box booklets for fsx.  They work and people do have a degree of familiarity even if they had made a few changes for their own needs.

Edited April 24, 2021 by harrry

[AirlinePilot83 86]

3 hours ago, BijanStudio said:

Scroll down. Top 24 wishes is there at the bottom. 

I don't think seasons have been removed. Seems like it's a mistake

On the main website Seasons are still listed as planned:

https://www.flightsimulator.com/april-22nd-2021-development-update/

[Dominique_K 10,149]

2 hours ago, eaim said:

A bit of an enigma are Asobo, in one respect they came be amateur in what they do, yet sometimes they can be brilliant, we just don't know what Asobo we are about to get every update.

They have a typical organizational problem compounded by a conflict of objectives. They can be technically brillant engineers, if the management lacks of maturity, the product suffers. And the user with it.

Look at the ESC key bug. The likely explanation (conjecture) is that they asked some developer to rectify the Honeycomb controller issue. The guy tweaked this and tweaked that and did the job but nobody afterwards checked whether everything was back to normal. Playing the game 5 minutes would have shown the bug. The patch went to the assembly line (or whatever they call it in the software industry) without any oversight.

Asobo was a little studio before MFS  and is handling now four projects : MFS for xBox which is the priority, MFS for PC, which is less of a priority because the bulk of sales are in, the SDK which is even less a priority as it is designed as a goodwill gesture toward the industry, and I suspect strongly from what I’ve read, version 2 of their Plague Tale.

And Microsoft is motivated by the commercial goal to release the Xbox version before Thanksgiving. Let us have a little laugh, will you ? Straight from their site 

Q: Xbox release date?

Jorg – ... it will be released when we think it’s great to hit the market! 

You couldn’t invent this 🤣.

 

[meerkat 86]

11 hours ago, BijanStudio said:

Seasons hasn't been pushed back. It's been removed. The feedback screenshot has been updated. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/blog-april-22nd-2021-development-update/394579

It seems they have only removed the second page of the feedback snapshot. If you open the "web friendly version" (https://www.flightsimulator.com/feedback-snapshot) then you find #20    458 votes | Seasons | Started | 2021 

Strange... But IIRC they mentioned some progress with seasons in some dev Q&A session. So let's hope they will improve the possibilities for floral design - I'm sure your work won't be obsolete. There's always room for improvement over the vanilla solution (remember the various trees for FSX and P3D).

[crimplene 634]

I am not entirely sure why someone claimed that seasons had been removed. It's Top Wish #20 in the above list.

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

44 minutes ago, crimplene said:

I am not entirely sure why someone claimed that seasons had been removed. It's Top Wish #20 in the above list.

Probably because they were looking at the post in the official forums, where the first part of the Wishlist snapshot (1-24) is missing.

Considering that all snapshot images are correctly included in the very first post of this thread, and that I explained immediately after that the Wishlist has been expanded to 48 items, I'm not sure how all that confusion occurred in the first place. 😄

9 hours ago, eaim said:

A bit of an enigma are Asobo, in one respect they came be amateur in what they do, yet sometimes they can be brilliant, we just don't know what Asobo we are about to get every update.

I agree. Considering the incredible, even if somewhat rough, application they delivered us at launch, some of the newer issues feel really silly. Sometimes I wonder if they've lost some key people from the project, or if management/organisation was screwed up at some point.

I think we will start seeing better overall stability once they get the Xbox launch and DirectX 12 update out of the way, which means they get to ditch the DirectX 11 render path and have one common source code, and when they successfully reduce the crazy high amount of concurrent branches. Maybe early 2022, but if the situation does not improve by then, I will start losing faith in the project really fast.

Edited April 24, 2021 by ChaoticBeauty

[frankla 44]

12 hours ago, BijanStudio said:

Scroll down. Top 24 wishes is there at the bottom. 

Thats VR wish list. Dont go there.

Edited April 24, 2021 by frankla

[BijanStudio 896]

3 hours ago, crimplene said:

I am not entirely sure why someone claimed that seasons had been removed. It's Top Wish #20 in the above list.

How can someone not read what I posted? 🙂

I am talking about the official forum. It's missing but it's available in web friendly version. Another place have it for 2022 and another place for 2021. So now there are 3 versions of snapshot feedback.

 

[109Sqn 1,564]

40 minutes ago, BijanStudio said:

How can someone not read what I posted? 🙂

 

20 hours ago, BijanStudio said:

Seasons hasn't been pushed back. It's been removed.

I think people did read what you posted.

[BijanStudio 896]

5 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

 

I think people did read what you posted.

Others did read ... but crimplene didn't. And my respond was toward crimplene, not others. (as you can see I quoted him and not others)  So you didn't read either  🙂

Crimplene posted it's not missing. I was talking about the official post that was missing season. It's still missing but as other mentioned. it's in ONLY in web friendly version.

 

 

 

Edited April 24, 2021 by BijanStudio

[109Sqn 1,564]

1 minute ago, BijanStudio said:

So you didn't read either

I did read, thank you, or I wouldn't have replied. Saying something hasn't been pushed back, but has been removed was misleading. "Missed off the list" might have been a more accurate phrase and would have avoided confusion. Saying removed certainly helped promote that your seasons package was going to be in the Marketplace though...😏