Tested 1.8.3.0 a bit, i mean played, here's my observations

[gordongreig]

Pretty much none of this is my experience. I flew for 3-4 hours last night, and had no issues, improved frame rates etc. Specifically:

@SuperDoooodYa

The long loading time that used to be before the main menu feels like it’s simply been pushed out to the loading of the first flight. At least we don’t wait forever to get to the menu anymore.

Not my experience. Load time is more than 90 seconds faster and load from menu to in flight much quicker for me

@SuperDoooodYa

FPS is Noooooooooooooooooooot better. Stop with the placebo effect. If anything, it is worse.

I get 5-10 FPS improvement

@SuperDoooodYa

Epic minecraft textures, I’ve been sitting there for a minute and that’s still the best it can do. Not ideal…

PG looks like that close up. Nothing to do with the new patch. You can turn it off if you don’t like it. See many many posts on this

@SuperDoooodYa

There is still a massive pause of like up to 20 seconds, shortly After changing the time of day in flight… even though you can clearly see it’s already successfully changed.

Not my experience - it’s pretty instant

@SuperDoooodYa

I hear the wind, but the plane doesn’t seem to feel it…

Not my experince - I get a lot of wind buffeting

@SuperDoooodYa

There is still a fine translucent line right across the horizon or something

Never seen this in game

@SuperDoooodYa

Even in the menu, the hanger you can see there’s this awful vingette or whatever it is effect

I think that is intentional

@SuperDoooodYa

Active pause can still cause your plane to gradually accelerate or decelerate on its own, leading to your demise before or when you unpause. But it’s not as bad now, i think

See many threads on this topic. NEVER use active pause - always use SET PAUSE ON and SET PAUSE OFF to achieve a proper pause that doesn’t crash your plane

@SuperDoooodYa

The default cockpit view has your pilots face basically sitting on the dash

See the many many threads on the camera system, including the ones about fixing cameras to the outside of the plane etc. See also this thread on my camera set up which works well for me Pilots POV, adjusting seat height - #20 by gordongreig

@SuperDoooodYa

Then the game Forgets your custom view,

Never happened to me

@SuperDoooodYa

Highways along mountains and coasts are still weird wacky wonderland creations.

All transitions between water and land are wrong, in the entire world, without good effects, crashing waves, or anything.

None of these are related to the patch

@SuperDoooodYa

This never happened before this patch, though I hadn’t done any bush flights yet

Never tried the bush flights myself

@SuperDoooodYa

I started a flight somewhere with super high winds live weather and still got nothing

Works perfectly for me - world map shows the winds, in game winds match the winds as far as I can tell

@SuperDoooodYa

Upon starting a flight, it was dark out, i toggle live on and off, and got a completely different time of day and only then did the weather draw in. So launching with live conditions does not actually work

Need to understand more about the setting you used and whether you did “live” or “preset” with live weather selected to understand this better

@SuperDoooodYa

Somehow the game has already managed to occupy half of a 1TB drive already, and i can’t even tell how much of that is the legit install… which seems to be in at least two places, parts of it. No idea. No user would ever be able to figure it out. So at some point, maybe when the next patch drops, i’m going to have to uninstall and start fresh… that’s another like 5 hours to download, maybe 7… .maybe 9.

Makes no sense this unless you changed the install folder. How big is your rolling cache file? My install file (including community airports etc) is 125Gb. I have a 250Gb rolling cache. That’s it. I could delete/reduce the rolling cache as I don’t think that needs to be anything like that big.

@SuperDoooodYa

World map pans with left mouse yet the other cameras in the game pan with right mouse.

And?

@SuperDoooodYa

Drone camera makes no attempt to even use the mouse even though it’s A) right there and B) would control the camera even Easier than a controller and C) the rest of the game extensively uses a mouse for everything, very effectively, and D) All other Cameras use the mouse.

Have you tried it with a controller? It’s brilliant and much more intuitive than a mouse could ever be for that purpose IMO

@SuperDoooodYa

There has been no crashes for me. Not one.

Similarly for me

@SuperDoooodYa

And ■■■■ can it ever be gorgeous

You’re not wrong