AUGUST 25TH, 2022 DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

Posted by: Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

Screenshot by IronWings_VP (Twitter)

Earlier today at gamescom in Cologne, Germany, the team was proud to make some new announcements about Microsoft Flight Simulator. See below for details:

Local Legend VI: Junkers F 13: The world’s first all-metal transport plane, this innovative and highly influential aircraft is available now from the in-sim Marketplace for USD $14.99.

City Update 1 (CU1): a collection of five new photogrammetry cities from Germany: Hanover, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Bonn, and Cologne. CU1 is available now for free from the in-sim Marketplace.

New 40th Anniversary Edition details: we announced some more content that will be included when this FREE UPDATE releases in November. This is in addition to all the content that we previously unveiled at the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase in June. Today’s new announcements for the 40th Anniversary Edition are:

• Three new planes: Curtiss JN-4 Jenny, Grumman G-21 Goose, and Hughes H-4 Hercules (aka the “Spruce Goose”)
• Four classic airports, including Chicago’s Meigs Field, the long-time default starting location in many previous editions of Microsoft Flight Simulator
• Twenty missions from the franchise’s past

Finally, public testing for SU10 continues. Last week, we deployed a new build to testers (PC only) that was specifically targeted at improving performance in DX11 mode. The feedback from testers about DX11 performance with this build has been very positive so far. We will soon be releasing another SU10 beta build, this one for both PC (MS Store & Steam) and Xbox players. If you are participating in the SU10 public test, stay tuned for more information.

MSFS Team

 

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

Since many members of the team are currently in Germany to attend gamescom, there is no new Development Roadmap this week. We have included the most recent Roadmap from August 18th. Click here for the web-friendly version.

 

FEEDBACK SNAPSHOT

Since many members of the team are currently in Germany to attend gamescom, there is no new Feedback Snapshot this week. For the most recent Feedback Snapshot, see our Development Update blog from August 11th. The web-friendly version is available here.

 

MARKETPLACE UPDATE

Click here for the web-friendly version.

There are 46 new and 23 updated products in the Marketplace today. Marketplace updates generally go live on Thursdays between the release of this blog post and 5pm PT.

FIRST PARTY UPDATES:

New on PC and Xbox ✅

 

46 NEW PRODUCTS: 23 ON PC, 23 ON XBOX
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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 ✅	New on PC and Xbox ✅
New on PC and Xbox ✅	New on PC and Xbox ✅	New on PC and Xbox ✅
New on PC ✅	New on PC ✅	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 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 ✅
	Updated on PC ✅

 

SDK & THIRD PARTY UPDATE

Since many members of the team are currently in Germany to attend gamescom, there is no new SDK or Third Party Update this week.

 

TWITCH UPDATE

We stream weekly on twitch.tv/MSFSOfficial. Friday, August 26 is Namibia Day (also known as Heroes’ Day within Namibia), the national holiday for this southwest African nation. To commemorate the event, this week’s community fly-in will see us fly over the majestic Namib Desert, a uniquely beautiful part of the world where windswept dunes meet the Atlantic coastline. Event details here. All are welcome to participate!

 

COMMUNITY VIDEO

It was recently the two-year anniversary of Microsoft Flight Simulator’s PC release on August 18, 2020. To celebrate this anniversary, YouTuber Ausflight 360 created this beautiful video showcasing some of the planes, airports, and global scenery from MSFS in stunning 4K resolution. Check it out!

 

SCREENSHOT CHALLENGE

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

This past week our Screenshot Challenge was “Two Years of MSFS”. We loved seeing your screenshots and reading about your memories and stories of your time in MSFS, so this week so we added a few extra runner-ups! Here they are:

Screenshot by DaveBGaming (Forum)

Screenshot by Elevatorisbest (Forum)

Screenshot by Fabelousefab (Twitter)

Screenshot by Ikulin09 (Twitter)

Screenshot by Mifaman701 (Forum)

Screenshot by MihamaBlend (Twitter)

Screenshot by mutsumi01210 (Twitter)

Screenshot by Parorng (Forum)

Screenshot by pommes_l (Twitter)

Screenshot by RJFig (Forum)

Screenshot by salad_msfs (Twitter)

Screenshot by ScenicAtol37419 (Forum)

Screenshot by tsujiKa_air (Twitter)

Screenshot by ukaka5656 (Twitter)

Screenshot by ZILLNIAZI17 (Forum)

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NEXT DEVELOPMENT BLOG UPDATE – September 1st, 2022

Sincerely,

Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

Edited August 25, 20223 yr by ChaoticBeauty

I wonder how Meigs Field is going to work. I mean, I'm as mad as the next guy that Daley bulldozed it but... For the most part I like flying the world as it is, not as it was.  I assume we'll be able to turn it off when we want to do flights in 2022?

 

9 minutes ago, eslader said:

I wonder how Meigs Field is going to work. I mean, I'm as mad as the next guy that Daley bulldozed it but... For the most part I like flying the world as it is, not as it was.  I assume we'll be able to turn it off when we want to do flights in 2022?

 

You may uninstall it as you can any other Asobo mod

1 hour ago, eslader said:

I wonder how Meigs Field is going to work. I mean, I'm as mad as the next guy that Daley bulldozed it but... For the most part I like flying the world as it is, not as it was.  I assume we'll be able to turn it off when we want to do flights in 2022?

 

I understand, but in all honesty how often will you fly close enough to even notice unless that is your destination.  Case in point, here is a link to my screen shot post from a flight into Midway today.  I flew right by that former Meigs location, and busy at 170 knots managing the approach, just under an overcast, with the city of Chi-town to distract me, I didn't even think about the Meigs location, much less notice it.  Just saying....
https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/623292-under-the-radar-ok-how-about-under-the-clouds/

Edited August 26, 20223 yr by fppilot

1 hour ago, btacon said:

You may uninstall it as you can any other Asobo mod

Ahh, it's not part of the base update. Gotcha.

1 minute ago, fppilot said:

I understand, but in all honesty how often will you fly close enough to even notice unless that is your destination. 

I fly in and out of ORD all the time, and I notice the Meigs location every time I'm coming in from over the lake because I, too, spent a *lot* of time at Meigs in the old sim days. 😉

 

 

6 minutes ago, eslader said:

Ahh, it's not part of the base update. Gotcha.

I fly in and out of ORD all the time, and I notice the Meigs location every time I'm coming in from over the lake because I, too, spent a *lot* of time at Meigs in the old sim days. 😉

 

From the south from over CGT?  OK, understand.  Today I was on the PANGG3 arrival via FWA HALIE STERE, so I was out further over the lake on the way to Midway.  I fly GA and light personal jet (Hondajet) and KORD is not often my destination.  But I am familiar with the route along the shore from CGT to DEERE from my days with flights from KIND.

Edited August 26, 20223 yr by fppilot

1 hour ago, eslader said:

Ahh, it's not part of the base update. Gotcha.

The 40th Anniversary update sounds like it is a base sim update, just like the GOTY update last year.

You can uninstall any handcrafted airport via the content manager even ones included in the base sim.

Edited August 26, 20223 yr by Tuskin38

@ChaoticBeauty Late pine for you today. I’m on vacation in St Marteen and my duties here are obviously slipping 😂😂😂

9 hours ago, cmpbellsjc said:

@ChaoticBeauty Late pine for you today. I’m on vacation in St Marteen and my duties here are obviously slipping 😂😂😂

Gee, I wonder where you're going to spend a lot of time getting jet blasted. 😉

 

1 hour ago, eslader said:

Gee, I wonder where you're going to spend a lot of time getting jet blasted. 😉

   Skiathos was just as good when I was there in May.  Maybe even closer to the aircraft than Sint Maarten.  I loved it!

9 hours ago, eslader said:

Gee, I wonder where you're going to spend a lot of time getting jet blasted. 😉

 

😂😂😂

Thats what my wife said. Actually I’m not going to submit myself to the sand blast experience, but there are so many great vantage points to watch the planes coming and going. Unfortunately the biggest thing flying here is the Air France and KLM A330’s. Would love to have been here back in the days of the KLM, Air France and Corsair 747’s.

Aside from that, once here it made me realize how good a job FlyTampa did on TNCM and the surrounding area. After simming there for 15 or so years, when I landed and got out of the airport I almost felt like I’d been here before.

On 8/26/2022 at 5:46 PM, cmpbellsjc said:

once here it made me realize how good a job FlyTampa did on TNCM and the surrounding area.

Yeah. The last time I was there was back before MSFS came out and I just had the default p3d scenery. When I installed the FlyTampa scenery I was very impressed with how close they got to the real thing. I actually like flying into that airport now. It looks right, there isn't a giant lake where the fuel depot is supposed to be, and the ocean looks a lot more like the Caribbean than it ever did in previous sims.

 

Edited August 28, 20223 yr by eslader

1 hour ago, eslader said:

Yeah. The last time I was there was back before MSFS came out and I just had the default p3d scenery. When I installed the FlyTampa scenery I was very impressed with how close they got to the real thing. I actually like flying into that airport now. It looks right, there isn't a giant lake where the fuel depot is supposed to be, and the ocean looks a lot more like the Caribbean than it ever did in previous sims.

 

I was over at St Barts yesterday and could say the same about it and the job FT did with it as well. I went to that hill above the runway that the planes pass through on approach and got some really good videos of the planes coming over and diving in towards the runway. It was pretty close looking to what FT represents in the sim. Another one that made me feel like I’d been there before.

Definitely. St. Baarts in previous sims was a waste of time. I've spent tons of time perfecting landings there in this one.