Official Discussion: August 19th, 2021 Development Update

[Jummivana]

Read the latest Dev Update here:

[BLOG] August 19th, 2021 Development Update

[image] Screenshot by MrGoose5897 In order to ensure that World Update 6 reaches a very high level of quality, we have decided to move back the release date to September 7th. We are very excited about this update as it features many enhancements to the region, including new aerials and elevation maps, new photogrammetry cities, 4 hand-crafted airports , nearly 100 POIs and new discovery flights, landing challenges, and bush trips. It’s a ton of content and we want to make sure that it will be …

Please use this thread for feedback and discussion.

[BarerHarmony980]

Hopefully the world map and Fly crashing issues are among the stability fixes mentioned on this dev update.

[CopperNu]

Great preview of what’s to come with the update.
Glad to see that the requests by many people were heard and we get more graphics options
Looking forward to try it out!

Wondering if the 4 airports are known already?

[RebuffedBee9595]

Thank you. Can you please confirm the terrain popping fix includes trees and buildings, and not just ground terrain?

[Kuang129693]

@Jummivana you have stil the old roadmap in your post.

[SeedyL3205]

Hi @Kuang129693,

The Development Roadmap is updated quarterly. The Feedback Snapshots are updated every week.

Thanks,
MSFS Team

[TundraJeans3649]

What about xbox loosing mouse control - very annoying.
Please fix this in next update.

[Kuang129693]

ah ok… might be some confusion because the roadmap show the 26.8 as release date for WU6.

[PopsMcDaddyo]

Nothing at all about wind gusts or weather at all???!!?!?!?

Weren’t some fixes from Sim Update 5 supposed to be fixed in World Update 6 (yes WORLD update 6 due to the magnitude of issues SU 5 created).

Maybe I’m completely wrong…

[gadwin777]

I’m glad that Microsoft/Asobo are finally considering an “opt in” beta. Also, I think it’s a good idea to push back this update, so we get a more stable update.

[ChaoticSplendid]

Is the Junkers Ju 52, which was announced for a release along with the DACH World Update, still coming on the 24th or the week after? Might be worth placing that on the roadmap separately.

[Jummivana]

Good question. The Junkers Ju 52 is aligned with WU 6 release, so consequently that will also be coming out September 7th now as far as I’m aware.

[fwr0]

Well, the roadmap has been changed - SU6 has been given a new release date. The picture of the roadmap has not been changed, and is still showing the old, now incorrect, date. This is just inviting chaos for the sake of “that’s not the way we do things around here, son”

[MSGX88]

I havent been the biggest fan about SU5 or the many undocumented/unannounced changes.

However im glad you decided to delay the update, id rather have you all delay stuff than push it out the door broken

[Jummivana]

I’m happy to remove the roadmap seeing as it is confusing some. Unfortunately we just don’t have an updated one to replace it with at the moment.

[dlebedev]

So, this is that on August 24 there will be no corrections, and everything will only be on September 7?

[bagolu]

Ouch !

Nothing about the huge trim problem !

[Ju1ius2416]

either very incomplete changelog or a few to go… ;/

@Ju1ius2416

• Toggle to mouse view, adjust the seating position via the arrow keys and the mouse will jump to the upper left corner and/or dissapear.

Summary

• occlusion culling is slow so that objects and trees pop in only after looking in the direction for 1-3 seconds. (this is on buildings, vegetation, nightlights and texture resolution!)

• completely different set of textures for differen LOD loading (depending on flightlevel)
• “Tree draw distance to the horizon” - stright up a lie. (you can only and to en extend archive this with setting LOD 400-600 via config)
• massive amount of floating lights (for example at LOWI)
• missing autogen, or wrong assets/achetype even missing entire airports (EGPH)

Summary

• Stuttering and framedrops when panning
• mouse/trackIR freelook stutter/acceleration due to input smoothing (bug?)

• blocky pixelated waterreflections AND smal repeating water pattern
• pixelated clouds
• AP on GA Aircraft seem to just not work regardless of use of WTGarmin mods
• Cessna Longitude AP swaying left and right at higher altitudes
• dents and grooves in the ground
• flooded bridges and harbours
• icing even with disabled icing.
• handcrafted objects floating/jumping + invisible hitbox
• scenery/airport objects floating
• low bandwith usage and photogrammetry bandwidth warning breaks game (despite fast and reliable connection)
• Shimmering oversharpening on trees
• General degredation in AA (ghosting artifacts)
• Colours, lighting and bloom are still too bright/washed out in SDR - looks like a cartoon now to such an extent I avoid flying during the day unless it is cloudy

Summary

• Ground textures often seem blurry especially in the distance (more tham before)

• Night lighting has a sepia mask look to it in SDR
• B747 / B787 Taxi issue’s (won’t turn left or right)
• B747 CTD after attempting to load flight plan
• A320neo autopilot, sway left/right
  A320neo autopilot, not following routed flight plan
• Multiplayer - random disconnects and reconnects
• Simulator FPS decrease’s after an hour + of flight.

[Paco572]

Not a word about the sim crashing while trying to take a screen shot in HDR with the XBOX game bar…

It worked before, I took over 5000 screen shots on my now cancelled around the world trip.

WOW…

PACO572