A topic about this same subject - with another title - was justly closed. Please keep polite in this one.
For the XBox-folks, who wonder where MSFS comes from, what was improved in MSFS since release ? The first months I was not in yet, maybe some of the old club can answer that. I bought my MSFS Premium/Deluxe license back in October 2020.
At that time, updates mainly repaired communication and procedures in passenger aircraft. There were many AP wishes, when I became a member of this forum, I found RL pilots discussing complicated subjects involving Nav-maps and garmins…
In that period, for me, the most spectactular improvement was rudder handling at takeoff and ground airflow on landing, back in december, and the rudder improvements that followed. The ground airflow made landings with GA aircraft more difficult and much more fun.
Also, there was some point, I think in februari, coasts and water got improved. Less holes and wild level differences. I started to fly the Pacific, Bali, the Caribean…
With the UK world update, MS/Asobo added my favorite place and landing challenge, which is Out Skerries. Also, I like to fly the southern coast of GB, which really improved with the WU.
The Nordic and SU-5, scenery got worse and framerate got better, and stuttering went away. With SU-5 Hotfix 2 we got Ultra back and the frame rate went low again. But the stutters I had before the Nordic stayed away. Trees and building distances need improvement… but I think the PC version survived the XBox port.
A smaller issue that got solved with SU-5 is autopilot start when departing up high. Previously, one aeleron key or one elevator key turned the aircraft in a spin. That one got solved. When i now forget to switch off the AP it just compensates a bit what I do, instead of crashing me.
SU-5 also improved the UI. It is much faster now, especially restart, and restart challenge. Enjoy that, I do more landing challenges now. There are some things not handy, I had to go cockpit legacy mode and tweak with Interface Scaling, to get the tooltips small again, and… I want my minutes time setting back… but all in all, MSFS dialogs feel more responsive now. I can open the camera menu in Ultra mode, before the Nordic there was no way for me to do that in Ultra, on my low end (XBox-S class) hardware.
The World update Netherlands/Belgium/Luxemburg/France was fun for me, because I’m Dutch. I could suddenly fly over very familiar places like Rotterdam. Also I love the French Alps… and Paris…
We can fly under most bridges now.
Also the most silly bug in MSFS was also solved with the XBox-release: I now see a startup title “Take the Pilot’s seat”, previously it came up with “Set your Experience”…