It’s not. By the simple fact that accurate weather cannot be described by METAR.
METAR is an indication for pilots to complement observation and instruments like the weather rarar. It’s not designed to describe weather fully and in every location, as it is a simplified depiction of weather.
This means that what is accurate is the generic weather condition, but it’ll completely lack detail and any variation more granular than what METAR stations provide, and that’s direly insufficient to create an actually accurate depiction of weather.
The default weather, albeit hit and miss (but at least is improving) is definitely more accurate because it’s dynamic and actually tries to depict reality and not a simplification of it.
The fact that people spend money for this shows just how stuck in their ways some simmers are. They’re used to METAR injection and think that’s actually accurate when it has never been.
It literally does. It completely wipes the sim’s weather. You need to set it to clear sky for it to work.
Yeah I’m with you. Asobo’s given us a super cool modeled weather system, and though it’s had some issues recently, they’re still being worked out. Looks like REX literally takes the current METAR closest to you (could be 200 nm away) and shows it everywhere. Smooth transitions aren’t really smooth from what it sounds like as the weather does have to reload when you fly to a new location vs already being there when you get there.
That’s been my biggest issue with every other sim - rapid random changes in weather. I could have clear skies and then randomly be thrown into the middle of a thunderstorm without flying into it myself. This sounds like it has a “smooth transition” which fades in the thunderstorm instead of you seeing it already and knowing what you’re flying into…
If anyone has experience with the product and it doesn’t work like I’ve described, I’d be happy to hear that & explain your experience.
We are one day left for the new update and patch, so the wise way of thinking would be to wait one day before purchasing the addon and take a decision after the patch if the default weather system is still bugged.
I am also a REX victim
If an program starts with install issues and than having problems with weather loading or showing in the rex main screen or even not loading correctly in the sim, YES than it is ■■■■.
It has fundamental bugs.
I recommend not buying it.
So who put you in charge? With that being said, I’m not spending or adding anything besides a few things in the community folder. MSFS2020 needs so much work i don’t want anything to make it more unstable.
I didn’t buy REX and probably won’t buy it ever. But can you guys take a moment to appreciate the speed with which they came out with a solution, without an SDK? The community needs this. You people have probably not seen the days when there were only 2-3 good developers of anything, and we had to wait for years and years for one little addon. Don’t like something, don’t buy. But these negative remarks are misdirected.
I think most negatives comments are because of two reasons. The product doesn’t work as it should and apparently Asobo never gave the permission to release weather add-ons, hence why there’s no support in the SDK.
Asobo probably has a good reason not to allow it right now.
My current Understanding, if you KNOW otherwise, feel free to share
The way Asobo and REX weather systems get the weather are fundamentally different.
Asobo uses a Model of weather, Rex collects data from Metars, and then injects that information into the Sim Weather generator.
Both Asobo data, or REX data get injected into the same Sim Weather engine.
Rex is probably at a disadvantage, as they may not have a full SDK to tell them HOW to do that injection correctly ?
It might be more informative, if those promoting or knocking the REX weather system, had some personal experiences with it, rather than regurgitating what they may have read on other potentially dubious forums.
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And all this crying and bleating about the cost of MSFS, and how you spent all that money on something that you are now “unhappy” about…
If you cannot afford it, you should not have bought it., or at least held back and done a little research, before spending all your allowance on a game.
Its a Life lesson .. Live within your means (or Mummy & Daddy’s )
Maybe MSFS is also a “real World” Life simulator as well
Yeah i was one of the first who bought it.
At this moment no neg comments given. Growth up late.
But thrust me - i will wait and i am not again first buyers.
Refund - mmhh i wrote an mail to support 12h ago. No reply.
I hate the term “cash grab” because it to implies a product is a scam. Some here are going so far as to suggest it’s a moral decision, whether or not to buy this addon. C’mon guys.
I know REX to be a reputable developer, so good on them for finding a way to offer a weather solution, even if temporary. Personally, it’s not a horrible solution for short VFR flights. And It’s only 20 ■■■■■ dollars.
It’s a free market. Do your research. Vote with your wallet.
Yes, agreed but there was no plan to update weather from the patch notes on this next update. Just seems so hideous not to sort it asap. Still, we live in hope.
