Official Discussion: March 17, 2022 Development Update

A new dev roadmap should come with the next dev update. On the current roadmap it is said that between March 21 and March 25 dev roadmap will be updated for April to June.

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Normally when a new World Update is coming there is also a nice preview, some pictures and video. Did I miss that with the WU9 update?

the preview video comes alive at the same time world update it is released

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why not share the detailed content of the WU 8 Iberia just a few days out before the release now ?

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I really hope they dont ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā–  up my purchases. LatinVR airports come with landmarks in Spain…

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And Ceuta & Melilla in the North of Africa, specially Melilla could be of interest because of GEML. The airport lacks of ILS because it would need equipment installed in moroccan territory (which claims the sovereignty if the city).

It hasn’t been specified yet if Iberia just refers to the peninsula given that name or to the countries forming it (and their overseas territories).

Maybe because they don’t need to, Asobos inbaked seasons are coming this year. :grin:

-eelis-

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Another lacklustre weekly ā€œupdateā€;

  • Feedback Snapshot missing, not that it makes much difference to the VR section as that hasn’t been updated in months anyway…!

  • No information for the Xbox Update last week; common decency to supply information on that would’ve been good a few days ago but still absolute radio silence, shameful really and appalling customer service.

  • Some pics or a video on the upcoming World Update would’ve been nice to see, you know to bulk up the update with some actual relevant information for this week.

18+months on from release, I was hoping these weekly updates would get better, but if anything they’ve gotten worse and it appears as if MS don’t care too much about them either judging by this one.

I’ve wasted my time reading these every week, when will I learn to ignore them!?

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I’m pretty sure the update was for airac data

A 7gb update for AIRAC data? Doubtful, even so my point remains valid.

IndiaFoxTecho has a Facebook page where they are pretty good at providing information.

A recent post from them there discussed the ongoing snags with Microsoft and the current state of play. Worth checking out.

I would trade all the fluff for a few, honest bullet points on what Asobo is actually working on.

I used to read these line by line, but quickly caught on to how little new info there is from week to week. Now I 1) look at the pretty pictures 2) immediately skip to the marketplace to see if Xbox is getting a new plane, and then I’m out.

Some issues with these updates:

  • Very little information is actually ā€œupdatedā€
  • The info that does change is surrounded by static language (way too much fluff). Sorry, I’m not re-reading the entire ā€œupdateā€ every week if nothing has changed. At least changes could be highlighted or in a different font color. This will never happen because then we’d see how little actually changes.
  • ā€œResolvedā€ and ā€œNo update plannedā€ items stay on the board for months.
  • Still no view into what aircraft are coming to the marketplace. On a QA call the devs said they’d consider giving us some insight. I guess we know their answer to that question.
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Yes I’m aware of this I talked with them nearly a year ago

Quite possible that the scenery dev might need to do a quick edit and update.

Have seen it with previous world updates and Orbyx/FlyTampa sceneries. They pushed fixes pretty quick.

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I wouldn’t base my entire opinion of their customer service on a patch without patch notes, most apps I have have hotfixes pushed that doesn’t get their own patch notes. As for the update, I recon it included

  • AIRAC data, as mentioned
  • A fix that removed the 787 from users that obtained it by accident, and
  • Maybe some patches related to Xbox Cloud Gaming, as I recon the console and the Cloud shares versions among them.

I don’t get why people get so angry about this lol. Just play, and enjoy it! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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:slight_smile: up there with Benelux and Australasia…

Bro I’ve legit been banned on Twitter twice for trying to push for more information to the community leading to anything xbox and so has my friend like anything xbox is non existent literally then you will have a mod come on here and say thats all hog wash well I literally half to ask for my family’s phone to see the weekly dev update news I tried to fight for the xbox community its just second best almost as if Microsoft said here port this game to xbox Asobo and they gave the task to someone that isn’t even hired yet im not talking smack I’m just concerned for us xbox folk literally

Sorry, I am a noob to SDK but what is the meaning of:

  • We now automatically unhide the parent when one of its children is unhidden.

I found this terminology hilarious. I remember I even once saw message in log saying something like ā€œchildren may not behave wellā€ :sweat_smile:

Tell that to the Xbox users suffering crashes ever since this update went live.

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haha I do agree my friend but there are far much more things to list unfortunately I like the forums somewhat so I don’t wanna get toasted here but I do agree I’ve had 3 crashes todaybut with in a 7 hour period not to bad