Pastaiolo

All those features are welcome and needed, so i am happy. I just thought that, if it was another sim implementing all those, there would be the same people going and going about how the sim is supposed to be a flight simulator and not a world simulator, so leaves moving with the wind are not needed, same for seasons, environmental sounds etc etc. 😛 The most visually changing features will be lighting and clouds. We saw a glimpse of the first, let's wait to see the latter 🙂

use the dev version for example, since it's compatible with the latest msfs version

If it's bad, it will be fixed and it will be good. If it's good, it's good.

Feel free to run XP11 with the lowest graphical settings. Also remember to wear your captain hat

I would gladly pay for such a helicopter IF they showed examples of being able to produce such a product with the quality standards we want for helicopters. The 135 is a workaround so far and the most important thing, flight dynamics, is nowhere near what it should be in a helicopter. Therefore i am (for now) very skeptical about this. There is nothing wrong for them to go from freeware to payware. What is wrong /currently/ is that payware requires an entirely different level of quality, and i don't see it happening from now based on the freeware effort.

Nope, those are two different things. File compression for download is normal for a lot of games distributed online, such as those at Steam. Once the download is finished, the files are unpacked. There is no loss of quality because of that

I thought it was fixed with the latest patch? There was something in the changelog about it

That setting indeed changes the refresh rate, lower settings lead to a lower refresh rate, a lower fps being rendered on the instruments so you get little stutters between the number updates (exclusively inside the windows) and higher fps.

If it's written in the official changelog, of course it's true. Keep in mind however that this let you download a smaller package, but then the package is extracted and you still get to the usual space occupied. It's a measure to reduced download time, not overall installation size. Mine, with few addons, sits at 150gb so far with the standard edition (and no big planes besides the WT4 CJ4 and FF320) Packing files together to reduce size is nothing new or innovative, in fact it was about time it happened. A lot of programs do the same! For othe other question, it really depends on the amount of third parties addons you are going to add so it's difficult to answer.

Sorry, i was talking more about the big usual suspects 😛

New aircrafts? Debatable. Same aircrafts already seen in other simulators? That's another thing.

Answering what? In the same topic they gave you the same answer i did. Modifying the file responsible for the water color gives you the same color everywhere, which defeats the purpose of having tropical water where tropical water is supposed to be.. It's another thing in which the gap with other simulators haven't been reduced yet..

Yeah well, don't see how. The color in the link is given by the orthophoto used in the scenery.

I wish i didn't have to be the one to make all those graphical adjustments 😞 But there is hope for XP12 in that 🙂

Oh well, at least it's just postponed and hopefully they'll stay in that general idea of "weeks"

Let's hope it is an update on XP12 work and not Austin collateral activities.

This is just the first phase with clouds being added, they are working on the weather engine behind it.

I would be curious to see all those types of clouds in XP11.

I think it's silly we can't have a normal conversation about what we (as XP11 users) would like to see in XP12 without having from one side aggressive MSFS word not allowed and from the other aggressive XP word not allowed doing equally silly claims, soon implying Austin cured cancer and made other out-of-this-world achievements. Fanboyism is bad. XP is our sim, and i think flight model wise there is no competition. But that is exactly why they need to focus a bit more on the visuals because those, for me, matters equally. And i think we are seeing lots of examples of other simulators advancing in such a department, while XP (at least for now) has nothing to show. We know something is coming for XP12, i just wish we would have something more specific to see at this point..

A static environment is always bad. No matter if it's about the graphics, the flight model, the scenery or the planes offered. Anybody who doesn't innovate is left behind soon or later. Scenery wise you have to consider that nothing changed in between Asobo offering a generic (as detailed as that can be) scenery and third parties or even individuals doing a specific, geographically limited, scenery. There will be always more details in the latter, but what matters is that Asobo gave the instruments to put those additional details into the sceneries 🙂

Since we talked a bit about clouds on different sims, i saw this video released today, thought it was pretty nice so i am sharing it 🙂

There is a difference between asking the community about something with the goal of solving the issue, and just making a topic about someone's leaving because of X. The first type of topic is helpful and engages the community in a discussion, the second doesn't.

Thanks for creating a topic about such a "worthy of being reported" news. If you don't enjoy something, take a break and see what it's like in a few months. Or do something else in your life

Give it a try, you can install DCS World for free (from Steam or from the official launcher) and use it with the two free provided aircraft. Just make sure to install the open beta channel because version 2.7 (with the new clouds and other improvements) is available only on that version. Also right now also most modules have a 50% discount. As for Vulkan, that's incorrect. DCS didn't implement it yet, it's a long term goal. However i can say that i can fly with tons of units, my advanced planes and now these clouds with no fps degradation at all, i am almost always at 60 fps. I took this little video yesterday

Topic title is misleading