I was fortunate to get in last night. Started in the queue at 2230z, loading/packages screen at 0005z, and in the sim at about 0025z. Pretty much zero problems throughout the next six hours. Performance was really good, much better than I got in MSFS2020. Focus was on GA, some bush flying and digging into the ground features and walkaround modes.
Location: US. Internet speed: ~600GB down. Specs: RTX 4070 Ti Super, settings maxed at ultra. i9 10850k
I hosted a six hour stream and wrote a very lengthy debrief of my first impressions.
In short: there is good and bad. When it’s working right, it’s great. Ran into some bugs for sure. There’s still a lot of incorrect aviation application held over from the last sim, as expected. But I didn’t get a lot of the really poor LOD loading and major errors that others are seeing. Just a few times when the LOD was a bit blurry in the distance (again, not much different than what I would sometimes get in 2020 when servers were bogged down).
If this is the baseline, server issues aside, this is going to be a great platform as it gets consistent updates and third parties really get hold of the features!