Hello. Just want to remind people and myself, or even better, Asobo team about several things yet to come:
Yes I know, they’re prioritizing 2024 now. But.. I’m sure that several months are just not enough to fix most of 2024 issues. So whether they still have time, or intention to deliver several things above, I’m not sure…
They have there hands more then full on MSFS2024.
I think they will put updates for MSFS2020 on hold for a while. 
msfs2020 will never get the "new photogrammetry " and other eye candy features the 2024 version has. They could do it, but not going to . msfs2024 gets all the goodies , that is the selling point for the 2024 version so they not going “enable” it for the old version …
How do you know?
It’s possible some of the improvements are linked to the new engine. But you’re right: they WON’T do it, even if they could. Would completely defeat the point of selling a new product.
Good thing for 2020 users is: World Updates will available for 2020 and 2024, and with the Eastern European WU they already started implementing some new TIN around Dubrovnik for example. So I’m expecting Rio de Janeiro to look really cool after the next WU in both sims.
..there is no new engine … Asobo uses the very same ACE engine they used for the 2020version. The biggest change they had to implement is the streaming of most data , compared to 2020 …
Didn’t you know that MSFS 2024 still use same photogrammetry data as 2020?
the base data might be the same , but how A.I applies that data ( better " life like " textures to match the original data ) is different .
Didn’t they enable all of the new DEM and photogrammetry from FS2024 for the entire country of Germany in FS2020?
Curious to know when WU19 is happening, feels like a verrrry long time since a world update
@Timwintle1979
According to the latest roadmap shown in the February Developer LiveStream, sometime in March:
I somehow get the feeling they bit off more than they can chew. They should have just stuck to 2020 and improve all aspects of it/resolve issues. 2024 shouldn’t have been released until at least late 2025 or early 2026.
In that Dev update Jorg mention that he “hopes” WU 19 will be on March 11. Was this later confirmed afterwards?
Thing is, once they decided that the sim was going to be based on a streaming model, they had to release FS2024 as soon as possible. I think many can agree that it was too soon. I think those same people can agree that it was Microsoft’s marketing department that forced it.
But I can only speak for myself and my own opinion of what happened.
That makes sense. It has potential but the forced streaming model has put many people off, including myself, and many have reverted to FS20 as a result.
I just cannot get the game to look decent on Xbox, no matter how fast the internet, or what else I do such as disable live traffic and increase rolling cache size - the game pales in comparison to FS20’s sharp, clean, and pristine visuals with great draw distances and LOD in general.
It’s not the Xbox - it is lack of optimisation and servers that just can’t keep up. I will just play FS20 mostly for now, so glad I tried FS24 only on Gamepass otherwise I’d be so mad right now, LOL
