What do you think the "Nice surprises" for Christmas teased by the devs in the Q&A could be?

An working Airbus A320neo autopilot

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New planes like for FSX!Thanks at your free developper’s!

Sounds like a bit of a dig at PMDG, A2A etc…our little darlings at Aerosoft are so good they can make the current SDK work into a systems aircraft…strewth, was that Santa on a trial flight, that flew over my house…?

Santa arriving in a helicopter?

A full working sim even the airliners (AP problems solved)

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Floats for my Caravan.

/A glider

A DC-3

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Maybe we’ll get the “press any key to start” back? :wink:

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DX12 and VR!

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August 2020 graphics! Or even earlier!!

Christmas surprises (plural)? I doubt the sales promotion plan of the generous MS marketing guys is a sock full of unexpected early bug/feature fixes.
More likely, a few things (not all free) that can be widely advertised before Xmas to increase Xbox Series S/X sales and get the money people are willing to spend at that time of the year. :slightly_smiling_face:
Something free so that it does not look like just money-grabbing (POI and challenges to especially please gamers?), something that was promised anyway (charts?) and something long-term simmer would be willing to pay for (airports, planes?).
Not complaining though.

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My guess (or rather wishful thinking) is either winter season (which is partially there but manual only ATM), and/or some new plane

VR was announced to be available before Christmas already so not a surprise anymore

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Great try to keep the thread positive, but the sarcastic “fixed AP” responses are all too predictable I’m afraid - looks like you might be fighting a losing battle, which is just a shame and embarrsing for those people.

To try to get back on topic, I think it will be a snow bound remote landing challenge with Christmas lights - a bit like the Halloween event. Plus maybe the pre-order liveries pack with a Christmas livery or something like that

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Going to be a landing challenge. Why would they add a plane when the ones they have aren’t working?

That could be SO MANY things – probably many of which, we would not want !!!
Thankfully, the NDA will stop you spilling the beans …

or maybe - just maybe - the surprise to Alpha Testers was only announced during Q&A but never delivered ?
Who knows… :wink:

Hmmm. DX12.
Now that would brighten up an otherwise depressing CoViD Christmas!
There’s absolutely no chance of it yet, but, Yep, you get my vote.

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I think “The little House” knows something about it … Weeeeeeeeeeed !!!

Google it !!!

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This was meant as a reply to N6722C:

I am completely dense on this, so if you could give me more hints I would appreciate it,
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North Pole airport made from Bing “Crosby” map data :blush:

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Maybe changing seasons or perhaps a way to have all ai planes display real airline paint skins?

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