so sad…disapointed
Downloaded the patch tonight. The patch downloaded fine. Put my add-ons back into community folder and went for a 15min tester flight with live weather around Dublin (setting time to mid-afternoon for this test). So colourbanding does indeed seem to be fixed, it’s been a long 6 months wait since SU5.
But live weather instead. First impressions? It’s a visual mess. Huge huge towering angry black coloumns of pixelated ‘cloud’. I have never seen anything like these in Dublin, it looked otherworldly. In real life there would be a gridlock on the roads as people stop their cars to bravely step out to gaze up and photo this spectacle.
Live weather like this is an absolute non-starter for me. Why did they do this?
Furthermore on two occasions the clouds just completely changed in an instant. On take off the low level cloud just blinked out of existence from one second to the next. Again on approach an entire cloudbank disappeared, one moment it’s there then the next gone. Magic.
Having flown frequently and happily pre SU5, my flights have since dwindled away. In November I recorded just 7 flights, in December 2 flights. Now in January just 15mins this evening to see the patch.
It is sad. Live weather (based on my experience tonight) is now another area of the sim, like ATC that I will just have to leave unused. I’ll just check the weather forecast for where I’m flying and learn how to apply presets.
Having been patient for so long this feels like a slap in the face. I cannot see how they can fix this before or with SU8. My hope is they allow us select legacy live weather as an option. But I am so tired of hoping now.
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Echo your thoughts 100%.
When you watch the pre-release showcase video of the weather, it is absolutely nothing what we have now. Update after update they have taken key areas of the live weather away such as wind gusts, to what we have now. A totally broken weather system that doesn’t look good or accurately depict weather.
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100%, it’s been a steady downgrade since SU5.
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Since the issue with the colour banding has been fixed with the live 1.21.18.0 build, it would be best to move discussions regarding grainy/pixelated clouds in the following thread instead.
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I don’t think the BBC weather app has an icon to depict pyroclastic flows.
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