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I was there and talked to them, don't expect anything major on scenery from above 5000 to 35000+ they are all generic texture and building, repeat will be there from object, texture and so on. They did not want to show these, are not related to unfinished, you will see some detailed scenery the rest of the world all generic,The 3d trees are rendered in very very low altitude and in short range, a line appears when this is draw. From above it look like XP11 a bit enhanced but nothing major improvement on this area, but this is Austin philosophy, he clearly stated tons of time, not a surprise. Another thing Austin talked, the performance won't be anything near XP11, expect significant drop.

When P3D started it was garbage 10 year ago, we are not even at 2 months....What p3d did in 10 years is marginal improvement, forced people to spend thousand of $ to fix default or getting at acceptable level, countless draw back was implemented forced developer to works again on each patch\update.

Sebastian Wloch just talked about this as a last point in the Q&A They did not deliberately change any drawing distance. They are actually working on increasing it further on upper levels on update, because it will come with an absolutely negligible performance and bandwidth impact, will be benefit for higher altitude Q&A sessions They were very honest and open about the issues, admitting they had tried to squeeze in too much in within the two week sprints, which resulted in not enough testing being done. They explained that some bugs only appear in specific scenarios which makes it harder. They are working to improve internal processes around this. They will introduce a community testing group, where dedicated users can test the patch in advance to find issues, along with their own testing. DirectX 12 work ongoing, this is done for the new features mostly, such as ray-tracing and less for performance related things. VR: Closed beta target late October, early November. First with focus on WMR devices. WorldUpdate 2 will be for US and they were very excited about the quality of this! SimUpdate, next one is coming in early November They work all the time to improve airports, a dedicated team both in-house and from OrbX are working to fix issues in airports. So they want us to keep reporting issues and those will be dealt with They mentioned the issues regarding LOD, AA and any such issues were not intentional, they are looking into it Improved draw distance up to 30000ft is been looked into Particle system was mentioned, ongoing work, will be available in the SDK for 3rd party devs They will do more improvements for the G1000 systems, this wasn’t planned at first but feedback from both the community and 3rd party devs have made them rethink and they will do more improvements around this An obstacle database will be introduced, which should help adding radio towers and such objects Visibility request also been looked at, aerosol slider improvement and lighting related to this will be worked on ATC improvements ongoing work and some cool features being looked at together with Microsoft China Night light issues still worked on, two different solutions, one rather easy and one that requires more work Press any key to start will be removed “soon” Metric units will come in an update, no time frame for it Shared cockpit and some other features for next year, main focus on solving bugs right now Xbox version been worked at, optimizations, such as memory optimization will benefit PC players too, one such was introduced in last patch They also talked about continues CPU optimizations to use more threads and some issues have already been solved

No need link since it's invented, listen to official statement here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rl_onmgoV8&feature=youtu.be&t=2997 There will be several FREE update for SIM (improvement\new feature) and Free World Update ( Bing map\modelled airports\activity), official DR MAP\ MSFS Web site will give you all information you need. This is 10 years development process.

Really? there is monthly update for PC and they stated it won't go to xbox until the pc version is solid. You wont see any xbox version anytime soon. To avoid any speculation read MSFS DR MAP, MSFS Web site, interview from MS staff this is the only official information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rl_onmgoV8&feature=youtu.be&t=2997