The Q8Pilot stream as been completely useless until now as an xEnviro review. So I changed to the Virtavia stream (russian stream) and that is showing comparisons in various airports between xEnviro and MSFS Live Weather (and I don't understand russian but there is no need to). From what I've seen, MSLS Live Weather is MUCH better than xEnviro. Last airport he showed had visibility 9999 and broken clouds on METAR, which was spot on with MSFS weather and with xENviro was visibility around 1/2 mile with overcast. Completely wrong. And lots of other airports he has been showing the same thing happens. On top of that, the cloud transitions are awful, just like a slideshow as someone said before.

Looks like the xEnviro guys have a LONG way to go to even be able to be compared with MSFS live weather. For now, it is completely word not allowed.

Edited October 23, 20223 yr by Alvega

14 hours ago, ZKOKQ said:

No, I knew you would. I will not link a store on Avsim. And none of your business why. You are blocked...goodbye and good riddance.

That's no way to make friends.

Lol, Q8 is completely biased. He is not sure which one is more accurate when xEnviro shows visibility ZERO when it should be 19km and MSFS is almost spot on? LOL. 🤪

Looking at the screenshots on the product page, meh, I’ll stay with MSFS live wx.

Lol, and another airport (Calgary) that has visibility almost zero with xEnviro when it should be 7 miles (it's spot on in MSFS). Case closed for me.

He he keeps saying he thinks xEnviro looks a lot better. This guy is nuts. He didn't use to be as biased as this, this looks like a paid review to me.

Edited October 23, 20223 yr by Alvega

18 minutes ago, Alvega said:

Lol, Q8 is completely biased.

You can be as biased as you want when you can attract people to your stream by giving away free xenviro2020 copies and just out right shilling for the payware companies.

33 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

That's no way to make friends.

You could always give him a hug. 😜

26 minutes ago, Alvega said:

Lol, and another airport (Calgary) that has visibility almost zero with xEnviro when it should be 7 miles (it's spot on in MSFS). Case closed for me.

He he keeps saying he thinks xEnviro looks a lot better. This guy is nuts. He didn't use to be as biased as this, this looks like a paid review to me.

Yes, I was disappointed as well, Q8 used to be a decent source of info. This was way too blatantly obvious, and he's no longer on my list of trusted reviewers. Thankfully MSFS has brought in tons of new reviewers so there's no lack of good reviews out there. 

4 minutes ago, FlyingGoose said:

and he's no longer on my list of trusted reviewers

Same for me. 

49 minutes ago, Alvega said:

He he keeps saying he thinks xEnviro looks a lot better. This guy is nuts. He didn't use to be as biased as this, this looks like a paid review to me.

Q8Pilot has been always biased with xE in general. I bought xE in XP because of him and I regret it. What's worse, Magnus has always drama when it comes for updates. Until today, he can't get xE to work probably on XP11, let alone MSFS. 

Well, I bought it because I remembered my wife hates Applebee's.

Anyways, to save time and energy typing every little detail and having you read it, I'll save you the time.

TL;DR: It's the exact same thing as REX WeatherForce.

Personally, if I'm going to do local flying in the US or Europe, (by local I mean staying within a 100nm radius of my departure airport) this tool is actually pretty cool. I do like how the depictions look, but it needs a working METAR to give some semblance of realistic/expected looking weather.

I like chasing storms and there's a Convective SIGMET near Kansas City that I decided to check out. To be honest, the actual weather depiction was "meh" when comparing it to what it'd look like in real life. But, I personally liked how it drew the weather, even if it wasn't realistic.

 

If anything, this tool has really made me appreciate MSFS default weather and how it interpolates weather from different areas of the world. For example, I'm sitting on the ground in Mitu, Colombia...There's now METAR here. Both xEnviro and MSFS are drawing similar looking cloud coverage, and both are lacking rain (it should be raining). However, MSFS has an accurate altimeter setting, which I found to be very very cool. The xEnviro altimeter was off by about 400'.

Either way, don't expect miracles. I think this tool will have its uses, but to be honest, it's just another REX WeatherForce.

56 minutes ago, Alvega said:

Lol, and another airport (Calgary) that has visibility almost zero with xEnviro when it should be 7 miles (it's spot on in MSFS). Case closed for me.

He he keeps saying he thinks xEnviro looks a lot better. This guy is nuts. He didn't use to be as biased as this, this looks like a paid review to me.

What an embarrassing stream for the portion I watched. Disorganized rambling pulling down credibility. Critical appraisal skills is a lost art.

33 minutes ago, V1ROTA7E said:

it's just another REX WeatherForce

I think it's worse than REX Weather Force. The transitions are even worse and the weather (visibility, cloud coverage, even altimeter) is almost always wrong (in WF is much better).

6 hours ago, spearmint_flyer said:

Ding ding ding! Here’s the answer! And just like that that I am marked safe from another third party developer getting my money for something the sim does better on it’s own. 

I can’t help but notice that they didn’t clearly specify this on the website. Almost like they were trying to make me believe that it was “revolutionary technology.” 
 

 

 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/uploads/default/original/4X/2/b/e/2be96fdc547b503cf7e041d792d78e2a7095a365.mp4

Meh. Hard pass. The main developer has some not-so-pleasant customer service skills, is outright rude to some people and their product for XP was pretty much a disaster. Bugs, issues, not delivering a promised product etc.They've been on my "Do Not Buy" list for several years. After watching a few minutes of Q8 pilot talk this up like it was gold also turned me away.

I will gladly stick to MSFS default weather even though it has some accuracy issues but at least everything doesn't "reset" like the usual 3rd party programs do.

I remember when I thought how FSGRW and Ultra Weather looked in XP. Better than default but no where near how good MSFS looks.

Edited October 23, 20223 yr by Sonosusto