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Seb said a few times he was testing the add-ons himself, and that was a priority for them (legacy support).

I think that's a good approach. Devs would be rushing their products otherwise.

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True, I didn't pay attention. Maybe their store is in a different region. It's possible to change regions changing Windows Settings. Anyways it will be in Six days for everybody, because this is a global release date (and time).

You are probably in a country where it will actually be released on the 11/20, like Australia, New Zealand Japan etc.

At this point, 3rd party devs are just being stupid. All the airplanes that use the default WX radar are pretty much usable, much batter than having an INOP one.

I just use the Nvidia App. The new driver was available for me earlier today. AFAIK WHQL means: Windows Hardware Quality Labs. It's just MS validating the driver.

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Me too, but I think it’s their only chance.

It all depends if they will sell in the Market Place and if it will be compatible with Xbox. If the answer is yes, they have an unexplored market Fenix can’t reach.

Also important to say they did that for 2020 back then. We had two flight models, legacy and the new one.

The albatross windshield looked awesome. Lots of distortion on the edges. Unfortunately he didn't show the wipers working.

The controller profiles are totally different from 2020, you won't be able to carry over. That's a feature they improved a lot and because of that, they are not compatible.

Stream sound was messed up, it was stuttering and echoing (not just sim sounds, but also their voices). It was like someone was using speakers. 😁

Even the hated Dovetail's FSW had better lessons than MSFS 2020. They never really aimed that part of the simulation. But they improved a lot in the career mode, I liked what I saw.

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They should, yes.

Great Stream, I'm liking all the default planes so far.

Also performance is great. Much better than the older build (we saw 2 weeks ago).

It is in the Deluxe Edition.

Wow, I liked the Albatros.

FG is DX12 only. All aircrafts work with DX12. Most glitchs/bugs we had in DX12 were fixed. At least I don't see any for a while now (I used to see some lighting glitchs and missing textures at airports).

You don't need to store everything to have a functional sim. It's not different from any other simulator. If you are ok to use the other simulators the way they are today, you will be fine using 2020 beyond 2028. Just installing what you need. And if you want a simulator using a cutting edge tech, you can move to 2024 or the newer version they will be releasing in the future.

Well, like I said, you can have the full ground scenery being anabled offline. You will just need a lot of storage space. I don't see the difference between MSFS 2020 default offline scenery vs any other sim's default scenery. And like any other sim, you can install any scenery add-ons you want and use it offline. That said, I don't see why you are concerned on what will happen beyond 2028. Most people will move, and the others will have the possibility to use it like any other sim.

MSFS 2020 doesn't rely on a remote server to provide scenery. That's a misconception. You can install airports like in any other simulator. You can install any kind of scenery, like any other simulator. You can even store locally the bing imagery (auto and manual caches). BUT if you want the super high resolution DEMs, Photogrammetry, Sat imagery for the whole World etc. Sure, it's (almost) impossible to have those without connecting to a server, because not everyone would spend thousands of dollars to have petabytes of storage locally. That said, anyone will be able to keep using it, with locally stored sceneries, without any issues.