World Update VI - Germany, Switzerland and Austria

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Usually around 16.00 GMT

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Here in a Nuremberg bar I remember a bunch of US G.I.s telling me they were all going to be sent to Europe next week

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Hereā€™s what was published on 19 Aug:

In order to ensure that World Update 6 reaches a very high level of quality, we have decided to move back the release date to September 7th. We are very excited about this update as it features many enhancements to the region, including new aerials and elevation maps, new photogrammetry cities, 4 hand-crafted airports , nearly 100 POIs and new discovery flights, landing challenges, and bush trips. Itā€™s a ton of content and we want to make sure that it will be great. In the meantime, here are some highlights from the World Update 6 release notes:

STABILITY

-Several crashes have been fixed across the title

NAVIGATION

-Fixed ATC radar altitude so the ATC no longer asks you to change your altitude when it is not applicable -The VFR Map now displays information for latitudes beyond 75 degrees -New AIRAC cycle 2108 is now available

ACTIVITY

-Fixed crash in autosave in bushtrip missions when the user has a non-ASCII name

PLANES

-SR22 performance and fuel consumption has been modified to better match POH -Gyro Drift is now correctly set when Aircraft Systems assistance preset is set to Easy / Medium / Hard

WORLD

-ā€œOffscreen terrain pre cachingā€ graphics settings has been added (Low, Medium, High and Ultra). If set to Ultra, all the offscreen terrain will be cached at full quality which will reduce FPS drops and LOD popping when panning the camera but may impact overall performance -Maximum photogrammetry draw distance has been further increased. As a result, photogrammetry of downtown building areas will be visible from farther away -Cities at night are now more visible on the World map

VR

-The title no longer crashes when quitting the sim in VR -Various tutorial fixes: briefs and debriefs are properly displayed, players can complete all the objectives in VR now

SDK

-Fixed group displaying issue in the scenery editor -Projected Mesh not rendered when moving camera or adding new one in the Scenery editor (we force the loading of LOD 0) -Improved some text rendering for XML gauges -Plane debug screens now correctly calculate and display GPH/gallon per hour fuel consumptions (DebugAircraftEngines & DebugAircraftTracking)

Full release notes will be released with the update on September 7th.

See the last line - so full release notes comign with the update today

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Thank you @gordongreig

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Yes, Iā€™ve had a similar experience when iā€™ve been on holiday. Itā€™s really quite funny :slightly_smiling_face:

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When I tell them that I am from Austria Iā€™m always told how much they love Fosterā€™s, how poisonous everything is and ā€œKangaroos!!ā€ :grin:

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Brilliant :slightly_smiling_face::slightly_smiling_face:

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When is the update landing?

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You seem kinda angry?

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When will then be now? Soon! How soon?

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not at allā€¦resigned maybeā€¦but anger is a useless, debilitating exercise that I gave up years agoā€¦

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Itā€™s usually around 18:00 GMT

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I am new to MSFS.
Do WU mean that only World data are changed - so everything will be downloaded via Content Manager inside MSFS.
Or MSFS itself is updated via Microsoft/Steam store platform and some other updates are download inside MSFS and Content Manager?

Thank you.

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Hi there,
First update from store and then go to content manager to finish install.

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  1. You update it through the Microsoft Store (this only has a few hundreds MBs). If you donā€™t, the game will prompt a warning and close itself.

  2. You start the game and it will update all the things they did to the game which are not directly related to the World Update 6 (because the World Update itself is optional but the bug fixes etc. arenā€™t).

  3. You go to the Marketplace in game and click on ā€œBuy & Downloadā€ for the World Update 6 which will then get the World Update content itself. It says ā€œBuyā€ but the price is 0.00.

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To add to that: You may have to reboot your computer before the MS Store even makes the update available to you. Itā€™s a strange behavior that ran into with every single update.

Disclaimer: I always shut down my PC in sleep mode though, and donā€™t shut it down completely, so that may not be an issue for you.

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Donā€™t know for sure but personally (based in the UK) I am thinking about 5.00 pm give or take an hour.

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Is 5 pm Central European Summer Time confirmed?

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Itā€™s live.

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Not yet. (based at LOWI).