53 minutes ago, RALF9636 said:

To me that looks like a scene from a Disney movie. It doesn't look realistic at all.

Fine for you to think that it doesn't look hyper realistic, but it's not supposed to.

It looks like a static weather preset deliberately made to make the shot look very pretty for a short trailer for the Xbox / gamer crowd.

We really are overanalysing a 153-second teaser trailer at a gaming showcase event.

FSExpo is where flight simmer content will be shown.

Edited June 12, 20241 yr by F737MAX

56 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

Additionally I want to see dense stratus clouds so I can break out of the bases at the ceiling given on the metar. 

You can achieve this in 2020 using a preset.  Solid stratus for hundreds of miles with a breakup for a few miles then solid stratus again.  Finally a nice breakthrough using VNAV.

Life is too short to depend on live weather. 😃

sp

Edited June 12, 20241 yr by Sky_Pilot071

There’s 6 months until release and they have a massive team working on this. Jorg stated that there would be updates to the weather engine and it’s quite possible those changes aren’t represented in that trailer and are being developed still. 

4 minutes ago, Bdub22 said:

There’s 6 months until release and they have a massive team working on this. Jorg stated that there would be updates to the weather engine and it’s quite possible those changes aren’t represented in that trailer and are being developed still. 

It's a nice thought and might be true, but I'd be surprised if they still have a ton of updates to make to the engine this late in development. I guess nobody really knows what we'll see, but I'd be surprised if we saw something leaps and bounds better than 2020. I'd guess incremental improvements are the name of the game w/ this stuff most of the time. Luckily for me I'm perfectly happy with incremental improvement, but I know not everyone feels that way.

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Edited June 12, 20241 yr by Dermot McClusky

Some supposed non-kids throwing tantrums and coming up with wild takes based on a 2+ minute trailer meant for a non-simming audience, and then yammering on about how MS/Asobo are catering to "Xbox kids" is... the height of irony most delicious.

I'm actually starting to enjoy all these epic triggerings, next-level assumptions, occasional entrances by the usual diehards with the usual desperate attempts to dump on MSFS, blinders-on insistence that "MS/Asobo will for sure do X!" while they've already said/shown they'll do Y, etc etc.. It is at least entertainment to keep us occupied until the new sim arrives :)) So please keep at it, this hopefully also has the side effect of making MS/Asobo reveal concrete details sooner (not that it'll help calm all the craziness here anyways lol).

Edited June 12, 20241 yr by lwt1971

2 minutes ago, lwt1971 said:

Some supposed non-kids throwing tantrums

I'm curious as to whether you edited that post to be MORE or LESS vicious lmao

😇

1 hour ago, B777ER said:

 Typical Jorg probably has no clue it’s an issue and Asobo just stuck their collective head in the sand. 

I LOL'ed. hahahahaha

I will be surprised, pleasantly surprised, but surprised, if the weather and atmosphere are substantially different than what we have now. It may be tweaked but there are real hard limits to what can be done across multiple platform hardware and keep performance at an acceptable level. I do not have any real expectations in this area -- I am also content with the weather -- so at least I will not be at all disappointed. 

The clouds argument gets a giant eye roll, because i play fsx and 2020 let alone 2024 looks incredible.

 

however, i will agree with the point of haze or more specifically nitrous oxide. There are days in Houston/austin where you cant even see the skyscrapers during rush hours. In toxicology we understood it as an inversion layer when increased sunlight, nitrous oxide from cars gets converted to ozone, especially if it hasnt rained in a while. I would hope OP knew that

Edited June 12, 20241 yr by Sweetd31

Joerg will be judged by how many copies his home entertainment game a.k.a. MSFS 2024 will sell, not by if MSFS is the most realistic Flight Simulator or by a specific single niche feature for us AVSIM experts. like it or not, Xbox game studios is a video game publisher, not a developer of  professional pilot training tools.

"Matt Booty was promoted from leader in the Minecraft games business to corporate vice-president of Microsoft Studios. ... Booty said that with the large number of studios ... and their Xbox Game Pass service, the Studios .... are designed to attract a large number of players. In an interview in November 2020, Phil Spencer said ....regarding the future of the Xbox brand that he intends to put more focus on outputting RPGs, which had to that point been underserved"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Game_Studios

I just hope that there's a slight improvement from FS2020. I remember what we started with. As long as they're a little better, I'll be happy.

Here is a good example of what OP is referring to with respect to ozone or haze. I must admit it would be cool to see this during rush hour when air quality is poor or dangerous. It is super common in big cities. 

7 minutes ago, Sweetd31 said:

I must admit it would be cool to see this during rush hour when air quality is poor or dangerous. It is super common in big cities. 

like so?

x-plane 12's  atmospheric lighting is about the only reason why I sometimes fly it.

p.s. this is KSEA, that's why the air is better than KIAH

Edited June 12, 20241 yr by turbomax

Just now, turbomax said:

like so?

multiply that by like 12 lol and you'll know what it is like to live in houston