I didn’t say it was .Tidal has posted the official blog link above.
At the moment, the direction of the sim is not heading my direction.
Bought a new airport today from OrbX (obviously not from Marketplace) and a flight from England to Bromma ended up in CTD 30 minutes from touchdown.
Absolutely made me so angry.
Of course this is how it works with PC gaming but come on, this system of delivery and design is a hit or miss.
The cheerleaders will tell you that they will fix this and the other…based on a democratic system with votes? Ask a bunch of kids if they want candy or carrots for dinner, I am sure you will get a democratic answer to that…
I’ve just installed a 3060 to replace my tiny GT1030 … So now where’s that roll back to SU4 thread? 
Just kidding, my values haven’t changed. This is a sim is for everyone and not just those that can afford the biggest hardware. 
Well I can confirm the night lighting has been fixed by the latest hotfix (just out), looks fab again. Some nighttime flying awaits.
Yes, that’s why it has changeable settings. And they have 100% downgraded the ULTRA settings and it’s not right.
The best thing they could possibly do, in my opinion, would be to put the sim back to how it was before SU5 and then just do one thing at a time, make sure it works and implement it explaining what they have done every time. Not trying to do a million things where they seem to have no clue of the consequences on other things. The flight sim community is a patient community on the whole. We will wait if we know things will be good. But please Asobo, stop breaking things, and give us the graphics we had back on release. Clouds, textures, AA, draw distances being the main things they have downgraded.
If you don’t have the best hardware run lower settings or accept lower FPS, it’s unfair to force those with top hardware to run lower settings, which is what is happening now.
What’s the proof making you say 100%?
LOD distances have been shown to have been reduced, there is now shimmering and all sort of AA mess that wasn’t there and there are plenty of shots showing the degradation in ULTRA clouds and textures from earlier versions of the sim to now.
I stored the following pics from someone here from another thread, reminding me on how it looked like a year ago:
This kind of ambient lighting on all of these pics made it look so real to me. The objects (buildings, trees, etc.) were darker and perfectly fitting into the surrounding colors, shadows and lighting casted by the sun. Some of them for me even look like they were taken by a photographer in real life.
I never was able to recreate this kind of photorealistic scenery lighting anymore since SU5. Currently all objects are just bright, washed out and the colors somehow feel “unrealistic” to me right now. Hard too explain, but looking at these old fotos reminds me always again that things have changed.. for me not to the good graphicswise, but it’s just a personal opinion.
Let’s see what SU6 and SU7 will bring us!
I’ve just come back after not bothering to play since SU5, there is definately a difference (downgrade) to graphics and clouds for me, I feel like I am flying in a square box where everything within it gets full render and anything outside of it looks blurred / potato. Its very disappointing for mountain areas.
I am just downloading the store update and “hot fix” which is a grand total of 1GB, huge for what I would call a hot fix.
Anyway, I am going to play the game since I spent so much on it, but it does not look like it used to, the render box is terrible and definately downgraded for GTA players.
If its not fixed by the time the new X-Plane is released and that plays as good as it supposedly looks, I will probably jump ship to X-Plane. The render boundary is just so annoying.
Also unless I missed a check box somewhere, the flight history now seems to be broken…
Is this real? I have been away from the sim for a few months. It seems like everything is going downhill. ■■■■. Glad I held off with major investments…
I guess beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, as these look awful in my opinion. Very over-saturated, reminds me of FSX with an ENB mod enabled. Are you sure these were not edited afterwards? Comparing these shots to some of my own screenshots from when the game launched and your shots are much darker and more underexposed than mine.
i flew couple of times, don’t see the altitude issue that was there after SU5 andd before SU6. Now, I can level at 34000 feet without ATC telling me to climb. Be sure u have STD or 29.92 after 18k.
That looks pretty good, in line with what I see on Ultra (I have 3090), but it is not as good as they used to be. I can’t put my finger on exactly what but something has changed with the clouds. I flew through a lightning storm yesterday, landing at LFKX, everything looked spectacular at low altitude and the weather effect was as incredible as ever.
But… I also flew into Charles De Gaulle and I can clearly see a difference, especially rendering distance and something has changed with the clouds as the person said above.
If they fixed the render boundary or gave us a slider, I’d be ok with it, but its a pity about the clouds.
With last fix the night lightning was fixed, but for one thing.
Airport runways lights are dimmed when watched by side. An example:
( https://gamerdvr.com/gamer/darksch666/video/143921732 )
Can check easily simply approach any runway with lights from side.
Have to report the issue.