Merry Merry !!!! And a GREATZZZZZZ 2023 for ya All, Healthy, Joyful, full of nice addons and developments in our flight simulation platforms, that help us forgetting about the not so good things in our lives - problem being when they also start making us forget about the good ones too 🙂

Edited December 26, 20223 yr by cagarini

17 hours ago, longhaul747 said:

Seasons and general weather engine improvements.

I hope this will be a major focus in 2023 as well. I think the weather in general looks very good most of the time, but in some situations it’s not convincing yet, for instance heavy thunderstorms and big cumulus clouds often look rather weird.

One of the more annoying issues that’s been there since release is the glass textures sticking out in low visibility. I was landing into Detroit the other day to see what the heavy snowstorms look like in the sim. As I was descending through the soup, a few miles before touchdown those dark windows of the terminal buildings came into view, floating in the grey-white void. It looked terrible. Apart from that the weather at the airport looked great, very atmospheric, which made those windows standing out all the more annoying. I hope this gets addressed at some point.

Edited December 26, 20223 yr by Shack95

Seasons!

Historical weather via MeteoBlue or wtv...

On 12/25/2022 at 12:39 PM, omarsmak30 said:

My biggest and only wish:

- rewrite the buggy AI traffic system 😅

 

11 hours ago, cappy42 said:

Merry Christmas all!

Vitolo, have you tried:  https://flightsim.to/file/8614/airports-lights

I agree with many others mentioned.  I would add one more:  The ability to change aircraft in sim.

Yup, its a lifesaver in many areas, but it would be nice to have that option for default and with worldwide coverage. Also without messing up with 3rd party airport sceneries.

-KPHX - Still haven heard a single thing from Flightbeam.

-The ATC window to popup when they talk to you like it was in FSX.

-Developers to pay attention to parking sizes and airline assignments.

-  And last my biggest pet peeve.  Asobo to implement a new system in which rivers and water don't just go over photogrammetry. It looks so stupid and is so hard to fix.  I spent hours doing New York City and every time I fly around there is still more.  Also, going along with that the weirdness of trees on bridges and other PG buildings.  So time consuming to fix.

Things I'm excited about that have already been announced.  FSS E175, Island Sim KSLC, Milviz or Asobo ATR series.

So many fantastic suggestions here! If even half of them are implemented (and we know that some of them are already being worked on), it will be very good progress.

 

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by F737MAX

• Add the ability to select your arrival gate on the planner screen so you don't need to select it after you land. 
• Fix the green tint in the scenery.
• Fix the artifact trails that happen with light poles, wind socks, AI aircraft, etc. during the twilight hours.
• Fix AI traffic - specifically on the ground so that it doesn't feel like we are taxiing around with a bunch of knuckleheads.
• ATC - just... well... yeah...
• Fix AI communications so it doesn't ask for clearance right away when you start the flight. Or at least make it wait until after the airplane has some power and the radios are turned on.
• Find a way to increase the number of objects that can be shown in the airport while on the ground. I think the sim is wasting resources on loading too many objects that can't be seen from your current position while you are sitting at the gate. Dump everything else - at least until the airplane starts moving.
• Move some stuff to other cores. It would seem that MSFS is the perfect candidate for this. Road and AI traffic don't need to be tightly synced with what I am doing, so get them off of the main thread. Grab a core and give it it's own thread for managing AI traffic. Weather should be the same. Maybe think of this in reverse. Put the aircraft and it's systems on it's own core and let the scenery, weather, and everything else do what they do now. I have a ridiculous amount of unused CPU power in my current system. MSFS runs at about 23-28% CPU utilization yet to get better performance, the only real answer is for me to buy a CPU that can run a single core faster than my current CPU can. That seems silly. Use more of what I already have. Cloud generation screams for it's own core. Get that outta my main thread for sure.

Given all of that, I'm thankful that we have what we already have. In my mind, the current state of MSFS is leaps and bounds beyond where I was with P3D the last time that I flew it (v5.2, I think). I used to have many issues just getting flights set up properly. I had to load some add-ons manually before each flight and simply getting all of the bits and pieces set up properly (consistently) before each flight was a chore. I recall many times getting 10 or 15 minutes into my preflight only to realize that I had forgotten a step somewhere and had to restart the flight. Everything I have in MSFS just works when I start a flight. I rarely have to start a flight over because of a set up issue. When it does happen now, it's usually because I forgot to select either the departure or arrival airport in the addon linker when I started my flight. It must be the egg nog. 

I think that many of the issues that the user base has been clamoring for fixes for will be addressed in due time. I think we're seeing the results of dependencies. The devs have a plan, and plans come with orders of operation. One item must be in place before the next can be started. Clouds is one of them. Until Asobo stops working on the basics (winds, CFD, etc.) they really can't "finalize" the clouds. All of the other stuff has to come first. They are making progress. Not in baby steps, but big, giant, toxic masculinity steps (insert Tim Taylor grunt here).

Happy New Year everyone!

   

 

PMDG 777

Leonardo MD-82 reworked sound pack.

Fenix IAE engines.

A good G.A. Lancair Legacy

Classic tower and flybye views and reworked camera system.

Happy Holidays.

 

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by jbdbow1970

Many of mine are many of yours but my absolute number one at the moment is....

• Fix the disappearing airport ground textures when using DX12. DX12 runs so much better and smoother on my machine it's unreal but I can't use it because of this one issue where the textures disappear. It's the number 1 thing I would like to have in the sim right now.

 

The rest in no particular order are:

• AI and ATC that actually works and is usable. All of it is utter junk and I can't have any of it on. Even the airport vehicles are hopeless. They just drive at you and park in your face refusing to move. It would be nice is airliners followed arrival and departure procedures but one thing at a time, eh?

• Barrometric pressure settings in millibars, (while I'm on the subject of ATC)........... I can't believe this is still not a thing.

• Some sort of dynamic TLOD. I don't need 200 or 300 on the ground at Heathrow as I'm trying to taxi about. It would be nice to have it and have it increase as per my requirements as I climb though. If this was a thing then it really would be an improvement to the airliner flying experience.

• Cirrus cloud layers

• Why do I have to put up with that moronic fish eyed distorted nonsense in external cam? Why can't I just adjust the zoom and distance myself? And where did the "Tower Cam" go?

• Graphics setting profiles. I just made a thread about this. I would like to be able to have profiles so I can have an airliner graphics profile and a GA one and I would like it to include photogramatry on/off etc.  Much like how the controller profiles work.

• I would like to see that system they are working on that allows users to fix airports signs and taxi lights and poorly placed trees etc and then submit them so we can start correcting the mess that is default airports.

• Correctly named taxiways and gates

• Properly lit airports at night.

• I'd like them to sort it so we can have a properly working weather radar.

• Seasons

• PMDG 737 EFB that I can do my performance calculations on

• PMDG 777 That arrives with an EFB.

• A2A Cherokee

• The night sky looks terrible. The stars look really low resolution and seem massive. It just doesn't look right.

• Aurora Borealis

• FS Traffic

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by Jazz

49 minutes ago, Jazz said:

Barrometric pressure settings in millibars, (while I'm on the subject of ATC)........... I can't believe this is still not a thing

This indeed. I mentioned it too.

So how can we make this a thing? Is there a thread already at the official MSFS forums to vote on? I can't seem to find any...

On 12/26/2022 at 9:39 AM, Shack95 said:

for instance heavy thunderstorms and big cumulus clouds often look rather weird.

Clouds can look amazing but also sometimes truly awful, https://ibb.co/GT8K8jM and https://ibb.co/ZJn8WZZ for example.

 

Both max settings but looks really bad. I don't think was this bad on release.

2023 = The first overhaul of MSFS (actually second after night lighting which they overhauled rather quickly after 1.0 release to public) and should be: Clouds and atmosphere. Still needs a lot of work.

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by KERNEL32

- ATC/AI improved and refined (live traffic getting their proper models in FS, no more wide bodies at GA airports)

- Optimization of VR taking more priority than has been the case in the past (improving visuals and performance)

- A longer range study level Business Jet (Global Express 7500, Gulfstream G700, etc.)

- PMDG Tablet (EFB)

😏

Edited December 27, 20223 yr by Dillon