Discussion + Poll: World Update X: United States and US Territories (1.26.5.0)

Nice it got a good brush over. I do enjoy flying in the USA as it has such a different aviation culture than here in Europe. It sometimes seems like every remote municipality has at least a small airfield which is nice.

I enjoy the SkyWest schedule from Salt Lake City a lot. (At the Pilots Life app). Fly an hour north and you’re in the greens of Washington, an hour east for the Rockies, south for some beautiful deserts and west for the sunny beaches. I’ll be departing Italy soon again and head back to Utah. Great fun!

(And with regards to the community turmoils: I suppose it wasn’t necessary to keep this a big surprise. But come on, World Update 11 will probably bring new places to explore for us.)

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A little disappointed not to see China in WU10, but thanks to Asobo for bringing this update

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After game restart I was able to install it eventually.

Thanks for the awesome update guys it’s all about fun this is what it’s about . Love the surprises this week and also the Beechcraft . Simply beautiful and well done !

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That looks great. The dockside cranes could do with some work though. I find PG often makes a bit of a mess of that sort of object.

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I don’t understand why MS/Asobo would use NYC in the video for this update, when NYC still has the same photogrammetry as release, which is still missing everything from 2014 on.

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I think any paid scenery/airports overlays on top any WU update layer so they don’t conflict?

Example: here’s LatinVFR’s KSAN San Diego (including the city in the background) with WUX installed:

Here’s WUX - USA II, loaded into the same gate 8, with the paid scenery disabled:

So the two things come to mind:

  1. The WU stuff is appreciated as it’s free, but it doesn’t really model things super accurately sometimes (that gate is wrong etc).

  2. Paid content ‘excludes’ WU stuff nicely, so no corruption so far.

EDIT: Bonus city shots comparison, and I think I prefer the look of the hand modelling down low vs the photogrammetry melted look. < 5000 ft it’s probably the otherway around.

WU X USA II city

LatinVFR KSAN on WU X

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Same Here (Steam)

Same for me and I 'm from France, I love fly in USA with my Waco, I regularly cross the country, stop to an regional airport and search videos on the web for a virtual visit of the city , a lot of fun!

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how it is the performance with the new photogrametry update?

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Exactly what I do! Especially that I live here in Southern California and knowing all the areas around LA and Orange County

Photogrammetry planes have been covering London & it’s surrounding area’s a lot the last couple weeks (along with many other UK cities). Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Edinburgh & quite a few more. Whether it’s related to MSFS, who knows. Here’s hoping.

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Downloading the updates for the other wu’s+deluxe etc. seeing lots of updates downloads aircraft files and bush trips that are none US based have they undocumented fixes for these? Given the SU delay…

Unprecedented, a slight FPS GAIN on release day!

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I’m still mystified why they didn’t reveal what the world update was in the steam the other day seeing as they said they would and it’s not as if they could keep their options open and maybe release a different country instead.

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really good news

Liking the new update approach where it updated straight at the splash screen and didn’t direct me to the Store. Nice. Easy update so far, downloading 4Gb in the content manager now, so obviously a bunch of asset updates improving other world updates plus premium upgrade, Reno etc too

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Same happening to me. But i bet there is some updates in there but no mention in patch notes about them. I hope Arlanda will be fixed.

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Somehow the new update 1.26.5.0 is not showing up for me. Tried logging in and out of MS store and XBOX app to no avail. And I also have to launch MSFS with admin rights or else it wouldn’t boot. Anyone having the same issue? help

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How hard is it to make the filters save for the world map??? I need to turn of the stupid landmarks on the world map every single time I open the game. All these new POI are just spam and fills the whole world unnecessarily