When is SU16 beta coming?

[ElasticSack182]

@SpeedDemon996

The longer they take, the better it will be, hopefully.

Unfortunately not the case with SU15 and its delays… we will see. I’m trying to be patient.

[SpeedDemon996]

And on we march

[meh1951]

@SpeedDemon996

Are we being slowly lured into getting MSFS24

I wish we could pay our money and start testing. I don’t think it would hurt as bad as going through this.

[Miataboy7635]

They posted this roadmap at the fsexpo showing SU16 for august and now I saw a couple of posts telling SU16 will be release after MSFS2024 or next year ? The problem they delayed the B707 and it’s schedule to be release alongside the SU16. I sincerly hope SU16 is still planned for august.

[ElasticSack182]

SU16 beta will be before MSFS2024 is released. It was scheduled to come out in January 2025 as SU15 was going to be the last update for MSFS2020. So I’m sure there is confusion for some. But yes there will be a beta before 2024, now whether it’s released as a final build before 2024 on Nov 19th that’s a question we will have to wait for. I’d love to have the LOD restored to what it was in SU14. If we keep the current build for people who want their Avionics and non ABO performance that’s great. The beta SU16 build can be for us that what the visual fidelity returned to series x.

I wouldn’t read too much into the delay of the 707 other than AH listened to the C46 thread and want to spend more time on the 707, as they didn’t feel it was ready, was my interpretation of the post there. Nothing to do with SU16 and the GDK issues. Looks like now they are planning to release it along side SU16 in a few weeks/August. When it was scheduled to come out July 2nd… seems you’re information gathering is a bit staggered.

Boeing 707-320C Update

Hi simmers, We know that many of you were looking forward to the release of the Boeing 707-320C today. We apologize for not getting the word out sooner, but as we were reviewing the release candidate, it was clear that the aircraft still needed some more work in a few areas and we decided to give the team at Aeroplane Heaven more time to ensure a high quality release. We don’t have a specific new date yet, but the plan is to release the 707 alongside Sim Update 16. Ultimately, what’s most impor…

[Miataboy7635]

Well. I just hope the B707 will not be pushed after 2024 or next year, I’m so eager to get it.

[ElasticSack182]

Now I’m wondering if we will even get a beta as Jorg said it would be a small update and they played with calling it a GDK update or SU16 small update. I sure hope we get a beta and they don’t drop this on us and say “it’s all fixed, don’t worry.”
Some clarification would be great on this. Is the 707 releasing with the SU16beta? Or is the 707 being released with SU16 final build? Is the beta beginning in August? Or is this System Update just being released sans beta?

[GimbalAxis]

Since there are many of us enrolled in beta testing, it would seem prudent to release SU16 as a beta test first, to avoid the risk of sending it as a final release with uncaught issues

[Steeler2340]

@ElasticSack182

SU15 was going to be the last update for MSFS2020

… in 2024 - just for the record, before others pick that one up

But yes, the SU 16 is now scheduled (AFAIK) for 2024 already, as others (including you) have already mentioned. And whether SU 16 will then be the MSFS 2020 final simulation update (SU) is anybody’s best guess (I hope not ;)).

Happy flying!

[ElasticSack182]

@ElasticSack182

Yes this was the last Dev Q&A live stream at the beginning of June.

@Jummivana

One thing I did add was Sim Update 16. We had a good old discussion on whether it should be called SU16, because it’s most of the GDK thing, but, as it so goes, I think there’s two crash bugs we want to look at, the time zone thing we just looked at, so I think we’ll end up calling it Sim Update 16. Just realize that it won’t be some epic sequel to SU15, which had like tons and tons of things. It’s going to be smaller but we’re going to try to get this done the moment we have the GDK.

From my understanding once they get the GDK where they want it, our LOD and sim will run much better.

Yea if people scroll up you’ll see I already posted this. Weeks ago.

[Steeler2340]

@ElasticSack182

Yea if people scroll up

This is the internet™: no one ever scrolls up let alone reads what has been posted 1 hour ago

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[ElasticSack182]

Oh okay

[Flyboy709063]

This is helpful in case anyone hasn’t seen it from last weeks update:

Our team is currently working hard on the upcoming Sim Update 16 (tentatively scheduled for September 5) and, of course, the November 19 launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 ! Even though everyone is super focused on these two upcoming releases, our panel of Jorg, Seb, and Martial will be taking the time to talk to the community and answer many of your most frequently-asked questions during our next Developer Livestream on Wednesday, August 14 at 10:30am PDT (1730 UTC) . As always, this event will be broadcast live on our Twitch channel. If you would like to pre-submit a question to the panel in advance, you can do so using this web form.

[RidgyPandora426]

Do you seriously,honestly think they are going to make this sim any better at this stage!
The damage has been done!
Move on and concentrate on the next one.

[BigCow74]

@RidgyPandora426

Do you seriously,honestly think they are going to make this sim any better at this stage!

Yes.

I mean, just today, they released a large batch of World Hub improved airports.

[SpeedDemon996]

Yes absolutely, they’ve already announced SU16 for a Sept 5 release. Catch the dev steam on 14th Aug to learn more!

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[autopylit88]

Glad to hear there is another SU update coming in Sept. Whatever they release yesterday (world hub updates, marketplace updates) seem to have introduced micro stutters I have never seen before. It was fine yesterday morning before the update, but after, it was a little jumpy in flight and at airports I’ve never had an issue at before. Some coding on the backend had to have been changed, hoping for a hotfix sooner than later.

And yes, I have checked all my settings, they are the same, I cleared the rolling cache, none of this mattered. The little stutters are still there. This was not a good update.

[CurrentFoil3744]

@autopylit88

(world hub updates, marketplace updates) seem to have introduced micro stutters I have never seen before.

This seems highly unlikely. Are you sure there were no other changes on your system or that you are testing airports or with an aircraft you have not used in a while? Updated driver? Windows changes or are you on Xbox?

[autopylit88]

absolutely positive nothing changed other than the update to MFS. It was running fine, I closed MFS, came back an hour later, was forced to update, and boom, performance issues.

[Eelis61]

And you, of course, restarted sim after update?

-eelis-