While we have had three postings over the last few days regarding news from PMDG including a new video tease and comments from RSR regarding pricing, I can't find any reference to the forum posting in which the video itself was posted. The content is shown below:

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Captains,

Happy Saturday to you all. This has been another busy week in the PMDG 737 test program, with the beta team putting the airplane (and the dev team!  ) through its paces.

Now that we have dozens of users operating the airplane as a true airplane simulation, as opposed to our fairly regimented and un-adventurous test/debug sessions, it has dramatically increased the rate at which service reports are being entered into our tracking system. During the first week of beta testing we opened 114 new reports and resolved 78 of them, leaving us with a net gain of 36 so far this week.

The items being reported fit mostly into a couple of unofficial groups, with texture/model/graphic/clickspot/animation issues making up the vast majority of the items that were speedily resolved. There are the usual, expected smattering of system functionality reports from the tech team and beta testers with a lot of knowledge of the airplane, and then we have a new and interesting grouping that I describe generally as "PMDG vs. The Sim" stuff, where our system design is originally predicated on theories that work well in other sim platforms but require modification/adjustment/new ideas in order to work well with MSFS.

We also have the development team's favorite unofficial group, the "offensive initials not allowed?" grouping. In this group you will find reports of issues within long, well-tested systems that simply stop behaving properly on the new platform for reasons that don't make much sense to anyone... Hence the unofficial name of the group. Debugging these ones takes some group ingenuity because we still don't have a clear view of code execution when working with MSFS since the debugging tools are still in development. Asobo promised us in October that we'd have what we need by mid 2022, however- so we are very much looking forward to shedding this drag in the next few months! 

We are chipping through all of them slowly and methodically and the airplane we have now is already vastly improved over what we had a week ago. We will be pushing a new build out to our beta teams this weekend and overall this product is in better than average condition for the first week of testing. If we wished, we could put the product in your hands tomorrow and it would be good-to-purpose for nearly everyone. We want to be sure to get the fit-and-polish work done, and clean up as many of the items that we are seeing that might possibly be disruptive to you in normal operation, so we keep toiling away at it.

This is a fun period of development because we finally get to see what our beta team thinks of the product. Most of these guys have been with us a very long time and they know us well enough that they don't have to say nice things to preserve our feelings. They know what we are trying to accomplish and they do a superb job of ensuring that we have an honest, unvarnished view of how the product stands up against others in our history.

We aren't quite ready to take the restrictions off of the beta testers, but possibly next weekend or the weekend after, we may begin to let them show you what they have been working with, and we will let them give you their impressions, show you images, answer questions and tell you about performance. In the mean time, we know you guys are dying to see the airplane in more than just a screenshot, so I took a few minutes to cobble together a quick video overview for you.

Don't tune out after the first 90 seconds... You'll miss the best parts.

Have a nice weekend, everyone- and remember- at PMDG it always pays to stick with Rob's Wall of Text until the end. 
 

It seems that we no longer need to read the tea leaves regarding beta testing progress, to wit, "overall this product is in better than average condition for the first week of testing", along with the hopeful news that with regard to the beta testers, "...possibly next weekend or the weekend after, we may begin to let them show you what they have been working with, and we will let them give you their impressions, show you images, answer questions and tell you about performance."

So, something to look forward to......

 

This looked a little concerning if it needs fixing before release. Makes it sound like we are still months away.

 "We also have the development team's favorite unofficial group, the "offensive initials not allowed?" grouping. In this group you will find reports of issues within long, well-tested systems that simply stop behaving properly on the new platform for reasons that don't make much sense to anyone... Hence the unofficial name of the group. Debugging these ones takes some group ingenuity because we still don't have a clear view of code execution when working with MSFS since the debugging tools are still in development. Asobo promised us in October that we'd have what we need by mid 2022, however- so we are very much looking forward to shedding this drag in the next few months! "

@jrw4

That stuff was gone over somewhere into the video preview thread. Since it was 3-4 pages deep I’ll leave this topic open in case people missed this info in the other topic where it was mentioned.

 

Yeah, there's 3 threads currently on all this stuff...lol

@cmpbellsjc I was not able to find the actual posting or a link to it in this forum. I may have missed that, but I thought it was worth having the original here for no other reason than the interest that was shown in the video. But if we have the link elsewhere (or worse yet the whole RSR post), please do remove this one.

Didn't miss it, just tired of hearing about it. Got old a while ago.

Edited February 20, 20224 yr by Daytona125

Feels like we are constantly strung along here with drama on this entire thing...

It's close, will be out soon after the sim releases, there are blockers from Adobo that will take months to solve, then it's close, now we are back to maybe being months due to lack of debugging tools.....