41 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Try starting the game from inside the MS Store or the Windows XBOX app.

Tried with same result. Xbox actually needed its own update but that didn't help either...

2 hours ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

Just tried to Open MSFS and it won't even get past 1st screen.... These updates are such cluster fcks.

It happened to me too. So I just let it sit there for about 5 minutes and then suddenly it opened. Now it opens quick and easy. Sometimes it takes awhile after you DL the first update at the checking for updates screen. And then the next screen just hangs there for several minutes looking like nothing is happening. But eventually MSFS booted up. (this has happened to me before with other SU and WU).

 Not a single new photogrammetry city? Like Honolulu ? What a fail. Seems rushed and unfinished 

57 minutes ago, AndrewB said:

Does anyone have a list or the airports that come with WU13... The MS comments don't cover all the airports included.

Thanks

Content manager. Type World Update XIII in search window. Click on the list icon - 3 horizontal lines. It will show every package in WU XIII including airports. I counted 12 airports. 

 

Doing the above shows that 11.57 GB of the 20.54 GB total are for points of interest. So, there must be a lot of POI !

50 minutes ago, Fielder said:

It happened to me too. So I just let it sit there for about 5 minutes and then suddenly it opened. Now it opens quick and easy. Sometimes it takes awhile after you DL the first update at the checking for updates screen. And then the next screen just hangs there for several minutes looking like nothing is happening. But eventually MSFS booted up. (this has happened to me before with other SU and WU).

Unfortunately this just closes and never makes it to screen 2 where it can sit... No process running.

Have to say this is the best update so far from Asobo. Did my usual 10 steps of checks one at a time and update was faultless. Did a quick test flight in the TBM, PHNL to PHKO in Hawaii and all was good scenery looked very nice.

Now doing a longer IFR flight in the TBM from Bali International to WAHL at 16000 feet. So far not a glitch and the scenery around Bali was spectacular. So all in all a very good update with no problems. Ill take that.

I counted wrong, there are 15 new airports in WU13.

01 AGGN NUSATUPE (SOLOMON ISLANDS)
02 AYGF GUARI (PAPUA NEW GUINEA)
03 AYLK KOKODA (PAPUA NEW GUINEA)
04 AYTI TAPINI (PAPUA NEW GUINEA)
05 NCAI AITUTAKI (COOK ISLANDS)
06 NTTB BORA BORA (FRENCH POLYNESIA)
07 NTTM MOOREA (FRENCH POLYNESIA)
08 NZFX PHOENIX (McMurdo Station, Antarctica)
09 PHKO KONA (HAWAII)
10 PTMO MOKIL (MICRONISIA)
11 PTNG SAPWUAHFIK (MIKRONESIA)
12 PTPI PINGELAP (MIKRONESIA)
13 PTPN POHNPEI (MIKRONESIA)
14 SCIP MATAVERIA (EASTER ISLAND)
15 WAHQ ADISUMARMO (JAVA)

I left 08 McMurdo off this map because it's way down fairly near the South Pole

2,3,4 are so close together look like only two airports, but it's three in Papua New Guinea.

Wow, Easter Island is way out there all alone. No wonder the natives used to be so isolated and never knew for sure anybody else existed in the world.

 

13 hours ago, St Mawgan said:

The Palm Trees are fantastic!

You got that right 😄 🌴

I'm stuck on the checking for updates screen now also.  

I've let it run for almost an hour and still no luck.

I had not downloaded the WU content just the sim update itself and the ATR .
 

*Edit:  renaming the community folder solves the issue.  I wonder which add on is messed up now."

Edited April 26, 20233 yr by Jeff Nielsen

My game got updated, but I get a black screen the whole time the game is loading in.

What a completely underwhelming update. It's basically a bunch of POIs and a couple of unfinished airports.

I just don't understand Asobo/Microsoft at all, why do half a job on these things. So for example, the first place a flew around was Hawaii, which should literally be a paradise on earth:

• No updated ground textures at all. Still low res, blurred ground textures with that horrible sickly green vegetation colour.
• The water masks look worse than ever around Honolulu
• The main airport - why didn't they update the airport? Isn't the airport a crafted one? Such a missed opportunity.
• The new airport they added on one of the southern islands looks completely unfinished, has no terminal building and the worst ground textures between the runways ive ever seen, like someone had set fire to the ground.

Bora Bora looks worse than it did last time. it has huts in the water but even some of those look like they are missing as you have the impressions under the water but no models. The water masking can induce a fit with the wave impressions on them. The ground textures on the island are all low res and where the trees don't exist you get that ugly sickly vegetation colour. Oh and theres a large hole in the top of the mountain.

Fiji is not much better, again why haven't ground textures been updated? Its just utterly bizarre and a half assed job. Yes its free but cmon.

More time spent on quality rather than quantity should be the approach here, this is a long term project according to them. The sim would be in a much better state (don't get me started on the current issues that exist after SU12) if they took their time and released updates when they were good and ready instead of sticking to rigid roadmaps.

Edited April 26, 20233 yr by Ant1975uk

17 hours ago, St Mawgan said:

Hawaii looks magnificent. I'm going to fly over the Kamaka factory if I can find it.  

Has it changed any? Looks just like some POIs have been added. The terrain data and imagery seem the same as before and no new photogrammetry. 

5 minutes ago, Gstove said:

Has it changed any? Looks just like some POIs have been added. The terrain data and imagery seem the same as before and no new photogrammetry. 

To be honest I had never flown there before but it looked good to me so I presumed it was an improvement. 

36 minutes ago, Gstove said:

Has it changed any? Looks just like some POIs have been added. The terrain data and imagery seem the same as before and no new photogrammetry. 

Unfortunately hasn't been touched apart from a few buildings.