Yes, I find the many bugs frustrating (looking at you, mouse freelook). But it would sit much better with me if I knew they were all on a list somewhere and being worked upon.
It’s the radio silence that upsets me the most. I realize I can go through the bug reporting page and look for the ones that say logged. But that’s not exactly a comprehensive list and doesn’t necessarily include those that Asobo has discovered rather than being user reported.
I’m not even expecting a fix date. Just give us a simple list of what bugs you know about and that are in the pipeline to be fixed. That way I can quit wondering if I need to search to see if every one I encounter has already been reported or if I need to do so.
C’mon MS/Asobo, throw us a bone. This release has been so badly botched, this is the least you could do. I work in software development myself, so don’t try to tell me such a list doesn’t exist anywhere.
“Best” is of course very subjective. MS/Asobo think it’s things like having every single heliport in the world mapped in the sim, or tracking every single trans-atlantic ship, or having stones on the ground you can trip over.
For me, I’m a flight-simmer. I know I will never fly a plane in real life, so simming is the closest I can get on a regular basis. And when I fly in the sim, I’m in the cockpit. It surprised and saddened me that the trailer was almost exclusively exterior views - I wanted to know what was improved from my POV as a pilot, not how good it looked when a celebrity walked to the plane, or how good it looked standing under a crop-sprayer. The trailer did not show how it looks to the helicopter pilot when lifting a structure into position, only how it looks from the outside. Great animation for a game, not really useful for a flight sim pilot.
So yes, I do get annoyed whenever they tell me how good it is that we can now see tyre tracks on the ground - although as a pilot, I can’t see them unless I U-turn the plane specifically to look at them. Meanwhile, ATC are still speaking nonsense to me, I do not have access to a map (with the EFB failing in VR), and my performance has dropped so that they can put flowers in the grass.
My definition of “best” is certainly different from MS/Asobo.
So… if I may offer a little bit of tension-easement…for a moment. Imagine you are going back to work for day 1 after the holidays. Not only do you have the normal catching up to do, but you and everyone you work with has this big glaring problem staring them in the face. The decision makers, managers, all of them, have to look at everything before them here in the forums and other places online, all the bug reports, all of everything, and then they have to discuss how to move forward, and how to address people about it. This takes a big chunk of a day. Let’s just…chill.
It is very naïve to think that they shut off the lights at 5 pm on Dec 23 and left and then they all come back this morning. Corporations don’t operate this way, especially ones the size of MS.
They have been people aware of this the whole time, but yet the holidays was an excuse, much like other recent events.
Ok, so the holidays are behind us, some of the heat has burned down (mostly because people are out of gas, not out of sparks or oxygen)..
We haven’t heard anything in weeks – Clearly some server side work is being done but for some reason devs don’t want to keep us up to speed on what that actually has been.
Are we going to return to a normal cadence of Dev/community posts now?
I think its an opportunity missed for MS/Asobo not to post what is going on server side, because a lot of people (myself included) aren’t even launching the sim regularly since there has been no indication that anything has actually been done.
I’m not going to lie and say I’m quitting or anything, I know it’ll get there. But right now I’m not using it much. I imagine I’m not alone.
I feel like MS/Asobo is blowing a lot of the positive image they had prior to Nov16 with the silence. If I wanted to be ignored, I’d start buying apple products.. Or maybe a Cyber truck
But seriously, can anyone on the community team give a hint here? Is some communication inbound or should we all just go take a long nap?
I don’t think most of us actually need to imagine it.. Most of us are doing it right now and commenting here on our lunch break.
I don’t know a job that gives me much time to get back on the horse. I’m not asking for a remark today – I’m talking Weds Thurs, their normal communication days.
Secondly - The people who post here on the forum aren’t the coders. The people posting here have a job of communication on behalf of the company, they aren’t reading bug reports or fixing things. They are compiling and preparing the next communication based on reports from the appropriate departments.
If the actual coders were spending time reading the forums very much, I assume they’d on someones short list.
I know that my company frowns on devs such as myself spending time on consumer facing webpages, that aren’t actually feeding our work.
Their last official post was 11.12. That’s quite some time before the holidays. The problem is of their own making. I think the community managers filter things on the forum for MS/Asobo.
We’ve been chilling since the last comms. It didn’t help the game get better.
Our normal Development Blog posts will continue starting this Thursday. Most of the community side of the team is returning this week, along with folks from both MS and Asobo. There of course were some that worked the past few weeks as well, though there wasn’t much communication as the community team was out.
However we are almost back and will be catching up on forum threads, social posts, Discord messages, emails, etc. now.
The entire team is working hard towards our first Sim Update and we are reporting bugs, user sentiment, and recommendations for fixes internally. Our goal is to tackle important bugs as effectively we can to get the sim in a better state for our users.
It’s fairly obvious that the trailer was showcasing what was different from its predecessor. It also has to look dynamic and engaging. If it was all interior cockpit views, (a) most people wouldn’t notice the difference, (b) you couldn’t tell the helicopter was lifting a structure or spraying a field. You would just see a cockpit with scenery outside it. More people will buy a flight sim because it offers exciting new features they didn’t have before than will buy it because the interior shadows look better.
