MSFSofficial - Twitch
[Edit 1]
Changed the title of this post to reflect that the livestream has ended.
[Edit 2]
YouTube link to the original stream is here.
Here is a timeline of the major discussion areas. Not all of the questions asked & answered are listed below, and the timeline is approximate - the times & topics are as accurate as my in-real-time one-fingered typing would allow, so probably contains some errors & omissions. 
| Elapsed |
PCT |
Topic |
| 00 |
10:31 |
Stream Begins |
| 07 |
10:38 |
Introductions |
| 09 |
10:40 |
City Update 06 & Local Legend 15 Feedback |
| 10 |
10:41 |
Roadmap |
| 11 |
10:42 |
SU 15 Main Improvements |
| 19 |
10:50 |
SU 15 Gx3X Touch Overview - Charles Wang, Working Title |
| 31 |
11:02 |
SU15 A320 v2 Overview - Michael Standen, IniBuilds |
| 41 |
11:12 |
Q & A Session 1 |
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Unintentional Data Wipes / PC, Xbox code bases / FOV & pincushion distortion |
| 48 |
11:19 |
Will AMD FSR 3.1 be added / Other areas in helicopter flight models being developed |
| 50 |
11:21 |
Stutters on final approach / Memory optimization improvements & airport approaches / Way to move extra content to another drive from within the game |
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Chat Q: Something like a sim health monitor be an idea? Asobo know the best requirements - could this be expanded to software like knowing if a 3rd party addon is causing an issue with the sim code? simstaller points us in the right direction but if there was a health check option - maybe the sim could self-diagnose an issue or conflict? |
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Plan to Open world hub to more developers? |
| 58 |
11:30 |
Shallow Water Update |
| 60 |
11:32 |
Q & A Session 2 |
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Historical weather / Bing aerial imagery / DX11 tile popping, DX 12 tile bleed-through issues / London & Stockholm improvements |
| 69 |
11:41 |
City Update VII - European Cities II: Barcelona, Madrid, Nice, Monte Carlo, Porto, Stockholm. Scheduled for May 28th |
| 71 |
11:43 |
Local Legend 16: Short SC. 7 Skyvan âFlying Shoeboxâ - Michael Standen, IniBuilds |
| 76 |
11:48 |
Q & A Session 3 |
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DX 12 tile bleed-through issues (more discussion) |
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World Hub - add default library objects / Liveries for static aircraft / New gound physics - why not all aircraft? / Sound system |
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Marketplace program requirements / Plan for Dev support for rest of 2024 / Plans for 2020 after 204 is released. |
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New SDK Livestream |
| 92 |
12:04 |
Open Q & A from chat |
| 99 |
12:11 |
SU15 now scheduled for May 7th-ish |
| 103 |
12:15 |
RoadMap 2024 / Top Gun Maverick leaving Marketplace 05/25 (Will not be removed from your PC) |
| 106 |
12:18 |
MSFS 2024 aircraft: Beluga & A400M - iniBuilds / Flightsim expo 2024 June 21-23 Rio Las Vegas |
| 108 |
12:20 |
End |
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SU15 will be the last MSFS 2020 sim update âthis yearâ.
Focus will now be on MSFS 2024
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Regarding the SU15, Neumann said they will need at least one more week. So it wonât come out next Tuesday.
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Did they said anything about the shutdown bug?
glad to here about the updated bing maps, 2023 visuals. Thatâll be really nice. My next question is hoping to find out if photogrammetry will be expanded further due to the updated maps, and or if it will for another reason. ie Chicago west of ohare, others mentioned Dallas and Phoenix.
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I have conflicting thoughts on photogrammetry, at least how it exists today. Itâs funny you mention Chicago. I spent several hours âfixingâ a lot of photogrammetry issues where many radio towers are just obliterated and where bridge after bridge after bridge has âwaterâ flowing over the top of the roadway.
On balance, I prefer photogrammetry over no photogrammetry, but I really wish for a day where quality improves to the point where the things I mention are no longer issues.
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Kind of you to put this together for the community, thank you!
The youtube video should be out tomorrow. Cheers!
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The SKYVAN wohooo at long last! excited! Grew up seeing that plane! Our Military still uses it for paradropping purposes.
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Iâd just like to express my gratitude that MS and Asobo host the Dev Q&A, and take time to answer questions. Thank you. It is reassuring to see the commitment to development. Itâs easy to forget (or be unaware of) how complex MSFS is, and how much work it can be to fix one aspect or another.
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Could the Top Gun Maverick DLC still be downloadable from the content manager?
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Not a fan of the repeated Europe focus on updates nor the lackluster airplanes for local legends.
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They said itâll be accessible still as long as you downloaded it from the marketplace originally. So yes.
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Such a shame about the Top Gun DLC getting removed, I love flying the Darkstar for long distance travel and was hoping it would get ported into FS2024.
Also Iâve made a couple of liveries for it, so Iâm going to miss being able to use those in the next sim. 
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Who said it wonât be in the next sim?
Didnât they said if you have it it wonât be deleted?
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Iâm just assuming that since they are removing it for downloading now, they wont be putting any effort into updating it to make sure it is fully compatible with the next one.
Made a backup all the files I could find, just in case it is compatible as it is.
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Heh, ETA I donât want to spoil any surprise as little as it may be, but now theyâre talking Brazil so it makes senseâŠ
I think we - the community and MS/AS - would all like to see other areas of the world represented in World & City Updates, but not all areas of the world have the âhigh definitionâ data required to create them, nor may MS/AS be able to get the licensing rights to either create the data or use existing data.
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Interesting that theyâre holding back some PC features in the beta vs Xbox. Curious to see if some real memory optimization is going to happen on PC. Possibly some 2024 tricks? Even if they could only get CPU multicore use in this engine from ~25% up to 50% and open up additional ram use would be huge. âfindingâ 512mb ram on Xbox means they figured how unlock or unload something.
I wouldnât hold my breath⊠my guess is any PC improvements will be in MSFS 2024⊠and if they ever make it to 2020, it wonât be for a while. Just my opinion, though, as it seems theyâve said a few times that the current sim is at its âmaximumâ when it comes to any additional improvements.
