So I have noticed couple of things with the lightning everywhere and I need everyone to help me to help Asobo resolve the lightning issue or atleast find the cause of it.
I have been doing some testing and I have noticed that on my side, when live weather is enabled, the sim shows what weather we will have in the menu under “Flight Conditions”.
Usually the clouds on the global map “earth” are accurate to what game will display so it’s a good thing to take a look at various weather presets, by clicking anywhere and setting as departure.
My observations:
As you can see, different places for me show that there is differing weather according to “Flight Conditions” box.
South america shows lightning when we are here:
…but when i click to the south of where I was:
No storm.
Now I have decided to enter the game with the location chosen in last screenshot.
I’ve picked blue TBM instead of the XCub Crafters to get places faster and this is what I got:
I had lightning, despite game showing the cloudy only weather.
How weather looked:
I was in close proximity to the storm as you could see on last global map screenshot. This got me thinking about distance to storm cell being an issue perhaps.
Then I’ve picked Africa where I was not in close proximity to the storm:
No lightning, beautiful clear skies above desert.
What I need first is people to submit this kind of screenshot of in game global map, then as they load into sim, see if it actually has lightning.
I believe there may be issue with PROXIMITY to the storms. I believe either cells where lightning is are misaligned, or because of proximity to the thunderstorms, they are seen as cells that have lightning.
I hope people can make screenshots like these and help us basically help Asobo to find the cause.
So far I believe it might be proximity issue.