SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2023 DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

Posted by: Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Forum user JohnStarp, featuring a Boeing 787. If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below!

The National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada have begun! Some of the members of the Microsoft Flight Simulator Community Team are attending with a booth set up where you can fly the Reno Air Races yourself with hardware provided by Thrustmaster, Next Level Racing, and MSI Gaming. If you’re at the Air Races, come say hi! For the occasion we are also holding a Reno Sale in the Marketplace. You can find a full list of sale items available here.

On September 11th we released a new test build (1.34.15.0) for the Sim Update 13 public beta. Full release notes can be found on the forums here. This test build continues to work on stability improvements in the beta, and testers continue to give valuable feedback as we approach Sim Update 13 public launch. Beta participants will have also noticed a small update on Wednesday 13th. This update has no release notes, but provided a few minor package updates.

Speaking of Sim Update 13’s public launch: we have a new Development Roadmap today, and readers might notice that the Sim Update 13 release has moved to September 28th. This is to allow the team more time to investigate and address some of the feedback that testers have provided over the course of the beta. Readers might also notice that the day prior, September 27th, is our next Developer Livestream! Senior Community Manager Jayne will be joined as always by Jorg, Seb, and Martial to discuss recent progress and take questions from the community.

Lastly, we’re sending well wishes over to Steam, and offer our congratulations for their 20th birthday! Can you believe it’s beginning its third decade? As part of their birthday celebrations you can save 35% on the Standard, Deluxe, and Premium Deluxe editions of Microsoft Flight Simulator until the offer ends on September 19th. Get in for a slice of that cake!

– MSFS Team

 

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

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

MARKETPLACE BACKLOG

Current Backlog: 589 Total*

*The MS test process is currently going through iteration, so our backlog numbers are fluctuating.

BACKLOG: NEW PRODUCTS

	Testing Status
Content Type	Initial Processing and Validation by MS	Handed off to 3P for Functional Testing	Functional Testing in Progress by 3P	Functional Testing Signed off by 3P	Total
Aircraft	86	5	0	2	93
Mission	26	14	6	0	46
Scenery	57	1	3	8	69
Livery	38	8	5	6	57
Airport	93	13	4	10	120
Other	43	10	14	0	67
Total	343	51	32	26	452

BACKLOG: UPDATED PRODUCTS

	Testing Status
Content Type	Initial Processing and Validation by MS	Handed off to 3P for Functional Testing	Functional Testing in Progress by 3P	Functional Testing Signed off by 3P	Total
Aircraft	25	6	2	2	35
Mission	0	0	0	0	0
Scenery	5	0	0	1	6
Livery	22	10	2	0	34
Airport	34	9	11	3	57
Other	2	0	3	0	5
Total	88	25	18	6	137

 

SDK & THIRD PARTY UPDATE

The SDK and Third Party Updates will return in a future Development Update blog.

 

COMMUNITY FLY-IN

 

COMMUNITY VIDEO

Following on from last week’s cinematic video theme, this week’s community video is produced by Practically Geek, who is well renowned for their seamless releases in this genre.

Highlighting the ATR 42/72-600 aircraft, Practically Geek shows off the turboprop airliner throughout a variety of flight stages all over the globe, and in a plethora of different airline paint schemes.

The ATR 42 and 72-600 is the first edition in our Expert Series lineup and has recently received a new update, which can be downloaded via the Content Manager now!

 

SCREENSHOT CHALLENGE

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

This past week’s Screenshot Challenge was “The Sun“:

Weekly Screenshot Challenge Winner: JohnStarp (Forum)

Screenshot by Cspielman63 (Forum)

Screenshot by Dejani4899 (Forum)

Screenshot by HolmesCZ6127 (Forum)

Screenshot by IceManDBB (Forum)

Screenshot by Ikulin09 (Twitter)

Screenshot by Johnny_aircargo (Twitter)

Screenshot by KotetuP (Twitter)

Screenshot by ScenicAtol37419 (Forum)

Screenshot by tsujiKa_air (Twitter)

Screenshot by ukaka5656 (Twitter)

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NEXT DEVELOPMENT BLOG UPDATE – September 21st, 2023

Sincerely,

Microsoft Flight Simulator Team

Edited September 14, 20232 yr by David Mills

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Seems to have gone very quiet about the scenery portal or whatever they call it.  It was supposed to be July wasn't it? 

So SU13 is now scheduled for 9/28?  In previous Development Updates it said SU13 was releasing on 9/21. 

At least they postponed for a week, Maybe further fixes/improvements incoming....

2 hours ago, TexasGary said:

So SU13 is now scheduled for 9/28?  In previous Development Updates it said SU13 was releasing on 9/21. 

well, and now it was postponed. no big deal. 

Speaking of Sim Update 13’s public launch: we have a new Development Roadmap today, and readers might notice that the Sim Update 13 release has moved to September 28th. This is to allow the team more time to investigate and address some of the feedback that testers have provided over the course of the beta. Readers might also notice that the day prior, September 27th, is our next Developer Livestream! Senior Community Manager Jayne will be joined as always by Jorg, Seb, and Martial to discuss recent progress and take questions from the community.

Edited September 15, 20232 yr by Ray Proudfoot
Converted to standard bold text for readability.

Many of those screenshots could be real images.  Flight Sim has come so far since the early days.

On 9/15/2023 at 8:50 AM, bobcat999 said:

Seems to have gone very quiet about the scenery portal or whatever they call it.  It was supposed to be July wasn't it? 

This month. May be the cause of the one week delay to the release of SU13?

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We are hopeful the release will be alongside Sim Update 13 in September

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/scenery-gateway-system-world-hub/240399/309

 

Whatever the cause of the delay, I prefer to wait for fixes to have a better FS experience than something rushed to meet an inconsequential deadline.

26 minutes ago, F737MAX said:

Whatever the cause of the delay, I prefer to wait for fixes to have a better FS experience than something rushed to meet an inconsequential deadline.

True!  I was just asking.

I haven't been doing much with MSFS  lately but it is always good to come back to it.

sp

 

23 hours ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

I haven't been doing much with MSFS  lately but it is always good to come back to it.

sp

 

{sarcasm} Don't worry the MSFS team have not been doing much with MSFS lately (vacation) maybe it will pick back up in the fall. {/sarcasm}

I have been enjoying the summer months outside myself instead of sitting in front of a P.C.