Krakin

Improved density, sure but cloud types and shapes remain too limited for me to call this a fix.

You don't know that for a fact.

No stutters for me. Some people have reported that reinstalling the sim sorted the issue for them.

The fix for the drag bug in now in SU 7.1beta

If you want to call gigantic polygons stitched together tessellation then have at it. If the side by side photo from Asobo is not enough to make you understand it then you probably don't know what it is.

Oh really? https://fselite.net/content/everything-we-learned-about-microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-at-the-global-preview-event/ You can see Microsoft's own comparison if you scroll down to "The World" section.

When I said the ground everywhere in 2020 is flat, I meant the ground. The ground in the old sim has gradients, sure, but there is zero tesselation in the ground mesh. So if you're doing bush flying, you don't have to think about where you land. As long as there's no obstacles, you just land and your plane is greeted with a flat ground everywhere, which again is extremely unrealistic. In 2024 you are forced to come in low and assess where you're going to touch down because there is far more variation in the condition of the ground and that's not just at river banks and shorelines but everywhere.

Link?

No one so far has ever been able to articulate what this supposed "video gamey" concept is supposed to look like. I mean if we want to talk about video gamey, I'd say a sim with 2D sprites for trees and smeared cliff faces would certainly fit the bill. I guess it is all subjective because there's no flight sim on the planet that represents my part of the world better and it isn't even close. You say there are only two clearly superior things. Just two to get the majority of the userbase to switch over? Amazing! In 2020, I'd love to see you be able to pan around with the mouse while maintaining control of your aircraft. I'd love to see your windshield wipers work. I'd love to see your planes actually have inertia in their flight models without a third party dev injecting external physics calculations. I'd love to see 2020 generate seasons that aren't just summer and winter. I'd love to see the ground not be completely flat everywhere in an extremely unrealistic fashion. I'd love to see it have distant lightning instead of limiting it to only about 2 miles around your aircraft. I'd love to see your default airports have apron lighting. I'd love to see ALL of your default aircraft have cabins and I could go on and on. Maybe you missed it but we're a long way from November 2024

2020 has inferior trees, ground scenery, lighting, weather, textures, flight planning, atc, flight model etc. when a dev makes a plane for 2020 and 2024, the 2020 version is inferior 99% of the time. Why would I mess with so much inferiority? This isn't to say 2020 is a bad sim but that 2024 is just a lot better. Uninstalled over a year ago and I'll probably never have a reason to go back to it.

Here we go with the baseless conspiracy theories 🙄

That's correct. If the last CEO of the gaming division said it is cheap for them to make use of Microsoft's existing infrastructure, who am I to disagree? Jorg has made it very clear that the cost which justified putting out another sim was man hours.

Recurring revenue is already achieved through their marketplace. The reason we got 4 years of 2020 is because the architecture of the sim could not handle the changes the community was asking for, without a massive overhauling of it. The career mode certainly required a ton of work, as well as all of the new bells and whistles the new sim got. Four years is not a trend yet and we've barely scratched the surface of what 2024 can do since seven sim updates in, we've mostly gotten bug fixes. I don't think they've made nearly enough money from the current marketplace since it was out of commission for a long time as well.

Are you 100% sure the console versions are the cause?

Heads up guys. The Dev Q&A is happening this Wednesday, so get your questions in asap if you haven't already! I also want to thank all of you who have submitted questions already. I really appreciate you guys. Well I really thought it would be happening next week but it looks like they're ready to roll.