Krakin

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.

There's zero evidence that weather in this sim was ever downgraded due to consoles. There was only one issue with clouds when SU5 dropped back on 2020 and that was colour banding. Hardly something that would affect performance either way. This issue was then fixed in SU6 bringing the clouds back to normal, then came the METAR update in SU7. This is where things really went south and is came as a result of the requests of HARDCORE, SUPER SERIOUS SIMMERS who fly on VATSim. This created METAR bubbles, and horrific ball clouds that were actually TOO thick! In an attempt to fix this, Asobo actually over corrected and released the current transparent mess in SU10. Looking back, there were actually people who saw the issues with transparency right away but they weren't taken seriously. It wasn't until someone did the treads with the comparisons to pre SU7 clouds that it became clear that something really was amiss. In one of the Dev Q&As, Seb acknowledged the issues with transparency and said this shouldn't be a difficult thing to fix because the clouds have LITTLE IMPACT on the sim's resources. He then said we'd see the improvement in 2024 but here we are today. This is the full timeline of the situation with weather depiction across both sims. This had NOTHING to do with Xbox and everything to do with a bad live weather algorithm that made survived the transition to 2024.

Microsoft and Asobo are gearing up for the next Developer Q&A, so they're now taking questions. As a result, I'd like to take this opportunity to bring weather to the forefront. If you think it'll be pointless or a waste of time then this thread is not for you. We all know that Asobo are aware that a lot of us are not happy with weather but all we've gotten so far is, "We're working on it". Despite this, I've heard Seb say things that have left me wondering if they truly understand what the issues with the weather are. That being said, I'm calling on your help to get this to the forefront. I want Asobo to at the very least, let us know what the PLAN is. Something of some kind of substance that lets us know that they understand what needs to be worked on. Cloud types Cloud transparency (There's too much) Dangerous Weather (Jorg recently acknowledged it) Continued Weather Radar Improvements These are some of the points I think most of us want to hear about. The link is below. I think if enough of us ask for feedback, we just might get them to say something that can assurance that these points will be addressed. I'd really appreciate your help with this! https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=DOleTfW1U0CKGfGUBpefSC514zEw69dNgYt5cTX3tEZUQkFXNTZXNldFRFY3Q0pSODRXRDNFRDZRRS4u&route=shorturl

We literally just got an update that added apron lighting to default airports. Something that's been requested for a while but we completely forget that and spew hyperbole saying MSobo doesn't care and won't do anything. I remember people in this very thread who said Asobo would never work on weather radar too. Saying certain improvements won't come because the sim is going through "gamification" is a load of nonsense too. Am I the only one who read this beta's patch notes? There's a ton happening under the hood that'll allow devs to make even more realistic add-ons. Career mode is not dictating everything that happens in the sim. Free flight is more free than ever.

Something similar happened to me post SU6. I was flying the Courier and the flight plan took me right into the path of a mean looking cloud. I'm used to this being inconsequential but boy did i get knocked around! In hindsight, I would have definitely deviated lol. That being said, the way weather looks definitely needs an overhaul.

You can always count on Giuseppe to ask the right questions! Weather and a number of other great topics are addressed in this interview so be sure to give it a watch.

Ok great. Now where's my weather update???

Well this is why I chuckle when people try to say 2020 is the better sim. I'll take this one for a spin tonight.

Please explain.

Is the prop brake bug fixed?

You're the first person I've heard saying that recently.

Even with those 2D trees? You must be a magician lol

As someone who owns both, I can tell you that nothing said in this thread is worth downgrading to 2020 for. My issue with the clouds, for instance, is actually way worse in 2020! You don't hear me complaining about the old sim because I don't use it anymore.

Those of you seeing better weather are almost certainly feeling the placebo effect. Live weather in this sim is just incompetent, especially when it come to the way it renders transparent clouds instead of thin but opaque layers. If they only got rid of the transparent clouds, the weather depiction would get a massive uplift.