JUNE 2ND, 2022 DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

Posted by: Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

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We are excited to release our long-awaited Local Legends #4 – The Savoia Marchetti S.55, now available in the Marketplace for PC and Xbox! Learn more about the aircraft here. We will soon add the aircraft manual as well, which will be located here once live.

MSFS Team

 

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

Click here for the web-friendly version of the most recent Development Roadmap.

 

FEEDBACK SNAPSHOT

Click here for the web-friendly version of the most recent Feedback Snapshot. Unfortunately, we do not have an updated version of the Feedback Snapshot today as promised due to internal time constraints. The most recent can be read here.

 

SDK UPDATE

• Roadmap:
  • Sim Update 10:
    • Terrain & Weather Radar Drawing APIs
    • NavData API
    • Aircraft Editor V2
    • Game rendered in a window in the DevMode

• •  
• DevMode:
  • With the game rendered in a window, we fixed some resizing lag issues. Now we stretch the view and only resize when the mouse is released to save performance.
  • On XML gauges using NanoVG, we fixed an incorrect text position in formatted text with several strings on the same line.
  • We fixed the developer cam focus on objects.
    • Vision Effects Editor:
      • We fixed a crash when trying to update VFXs on a ModeBehaviorInstance without Sim.
    • Scenery Editor:
      • We fixed the “add a jetway” button that created invalid jetways.

• WASM:
  • We fixed the loading of standalone modules after sign out / sign in.

 

THIRD PARTY UPDATE

• As of 05/28, we have now approved 251 (+0) third parties into the in-sim marketplace and – so far 150 (+2) have released 1,147 products on PC (+11) and 862 on Xbox (+29).
• In total, 2,171 products (+19) have already been released in 3rd party stores and the in-sim marketplace. Beyond that, another 562 products (+2) from 3rd party developers are in production (305 announced, 257 unannounced). In total, over 2,733 3rd party products (+21) have either been released or are in development.
• Airports:
  • 1,528 airports (+16) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 1,300 airports (+13) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 752 airports (+2) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 119 airports (+4) beyond the released airports have been announced.
    • 109 airports (-1) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an airport is in production.
• Aircraft:
  • 382 aircraft (+0) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 132 aircraft (+0) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 95 aircraft (+0) have been released in the in-sim PC marketplace.
    • 68 aircraft (+2) have been released in the in-sim Xbox marketplace.
    • 170 aircraft (+0) beyond the released aircraft have been announced.
    • 80 aircraft (+0) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an aircraft is in production.
• Scenery:
  • 734 scenery packs (+5) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 650 scenery packs (+6) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 167 scenery packs (+2) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 16 scenery packs (+0) beyond the released scenery have been announced.
    • 68 scenery packs (-1) are not announced, but the dev let us know that scenery is in production.
• Mission Packs:
  • 89 mission packs (+0) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 89 mission packs (+0) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 25 mission packs (+0) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 0 mission packs (+0) beyond the released missions have been announced.
    • 0 mission packs (-0) are not announced, but the dev let us know that they are in production.

 

MARKETPLACE UPDATE

Click here for the web-friendly version.

Released Tuesday, May 31:

New on PC and Xbox ✅

 

Released Thursday, June 2:

New on PC and Xbox ✅

 

There are 20 new and 18 updated products in the Marketplace today. Marketplace updates generally go live on Thursdays between the release of this blog post and 5pm PT.

20 NEW PRODUCTS: 10 ON PC, 10 ON XBOX
New on PC ✅	New on PC and Xbox ✅	New on Xbox ✅
New on PC and Xbox ✅	New on PC and Xbox ✅	New on PC and Xbox ✅
New on PC and Xbox ✅	New on PC and Xbox ✅	New on PC and Xbox ✅
New on PC and Xbox ✅		New on PC and Xbox ✅

 

18 UPDATED PRODUCTS: 10 ON PC, 8 ON XBOX
Updated on PC and Xbox ✅	Updated on PC and Xbox ✅	Updated on PC ✅
Updated on PC ✅	Updated on PC and Xbox ✅	Updated on PC and Xbox ✅
Updated on PC and Xbox ✅	Updated on PC and Xbox ✅	Updated on PC and Xbox ✅
	Updated on PC and Xbox ✅

 

TWITCH UPDATE

We stream weekly on Twitch.tv/MSFSOfficial! June is Pride Month, and we here at the Microsoft Flight Simulator team are proud to celebrate with all our LGBTQ+ players and fans. Members of the MSFS team will be attending the National Gay Pilots Association (NGPA) Wings Over Iowa event this weekend, but for those of us who won’t be there in-person, we can instead attend virtually via this Community Friday Fly-In. All are welcome to participate!Click here for details.

Next Wednesday, June 8th, Jayne will continue her flying lessons with ForderLearnToFly in the Beechcraft Bonanza G36. Join us and learn together!

 

COMMUNITY VIDEO

We know many of you feel the need for speed and are loving the new Top Gun Maverick DLC, but for those sim pilots out there who prefer civilian aviation, it’s been a great month for plane releases. Between the DC Designs Concorde, the Just Flight BAe 146 Professional, the Leonardo MD-82 Maddog, the PMDG 737, and the Fenix A320, it’s truly a wonderful time to be a virtual airline captain in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Another jet recently released for both PC and Xbox to the in-sim Marketplace was the HA-420 HondaJet from developer Marwan Gharib. YouTuber AvAngel recently put this new plane through its paces. Is it worth a purchase? Find out by watching AvAngel’s review video below (spoiler alert: YES!).

 

SCREENSHOT CHALLENGE

You can submit your screenshot via Twitter with #MSFSchallenge or the Weekly Forum Post ! This week’s screenshot challenge: Rainbows

This past week our Screenshot Challenge was “Need for Speed”. In celebration of our Top Gun: Maverick DLC, we chose a few additional runner ups this week:

Screenshot by tsujiKa_air (Twitter)

Screenshot by aran2057 (Twitter)

Screenshot by DaveBGaming (Forum)

Screenshot by ArcanePython931 (Forum)

Screenshot by dlh747 (Forum)

Screenshot by camebacfromhell (Forum)

Screenshot by jienbacktory2 (Twitter)

Screenshot by isaiahnparadise (Twitter)

Screenshot by pommes_l (Twitter)

Screenshot by mach219 (Forum)

Screenshot by TidalPompano527 (Forum)

Screenshot by ACEofSPADES1086 (Forum)

Screenshot by TidalPompano527 (Forum)

NEXT DEVELOPMENT BLOG UPDATE – June 9th, 2022

Sincerely,

Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

Edited June 2, 20224 yr by ChaoticBeauty

Sim update 10 now 23/08.. glad they are taking their time to get it right

3 minutes ago, kand said:

Sim update 10 now 23/08.. glad they are taking their time to get it right

they were talking about delaying it last Q&A so they could have a longer beta testing period, looks like they decided.

 

For those wondering about World Update X, the area it will cover will be announced on the 12th during Microsoft's Game Conference.

Edited June 2, 20224 yr by Tuskin38

8 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

they were talking about delaying it last Q&A so they could have a longer beta testing period, looks like they decided.

 

For those wondering about World Update X, the area it will cover will be announced on the 12th during Microsoft's Game Conference.

There's also a "surprise" major release slated for June. It's likely the WU, the local legend, and the surprise release are all related since they usually disclose details about them beforehand. 

Nice to have a little bit of mystery - need some excitement to cling onto over the summer while we wait for SU X. 

🌲’d

47 minutes ago, kand said:

Sim update 10 now 23/08.. glad they are taking their time to get it right

This means, iff they get it right... after that time. Personally, I would have preferred July. I don't speak about new features like DX12, but there are a number of disturbing issues in ground performance, VR, and Bush Trips which are overdue to be solved (IMHO, of course). 

I hope they release the beta in Early July. I am not afraid and took part in all betas so far.

Kind regards, Michael

1 hour ago, kand said:

Sim update 10 now 23/08.. glad they are taking their time to get it right

It's fine if MS taking their time as long they do actually get things right first time, we all know that just because they have gave themselves a few month between Sim Updates that bugs can still sneak through, they're just less likely.

Really hope that SU10 will bring working weather api so that planes like the PMDG 737 and Fenix A320, FBWA320NX, etc can incorporate them into their cockpits.

1 hour ago, kand said:

Sim update 10 now 23/08.. glad they are taking their time to get it right

Or; France comes to a halt at the start of August for a three week holiday....

Can anyone tell me what island it is at the beginning of the promo video for Local Legend 4? It's from 00:13 to 0:41 on the footage. There are some most realistic and beautifu coast cliffs from MSFS. I'd really fly there and see.

19 hours ago, captain420 said:

Really hope that SU10 will bring working weather api so that planes like the PMDG 737 and Fenix A320, FBWA320NX, etc can incorporate them into their cockpits.

That's what they've been saying, the SDK section of the Weekly update mentions it.

22 hours ago, kand said:

Sim update 10 now 23/08.. glad they are taking their time to get it right

Pushing it back is one thing but that's not the same thing as actually listening to what we tell them during testing and acting on it.

tldr

We changed our minds.  SU9 bugs and low FPS will remain for the rest of summer.  We thank you for your purchase.

Just out of curiosity what ever happend to the Antonov An-2 that was supposed to be one of the first local legends releases ? Is that still stuck in legal limbo because of licencing issues ?

5 hours ago, alberchico said:

Just out of curiosity what ever happend to the Antonov An-2 that was supposed to be one of the first local legends releases ? Is that still stuck in legal limbo because of licencing issues ?

The Q&A before last Jorg said they got final approval from Antonov, so I'm not sure what is holding it up.