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Development Update Blog - September 15, 2022
We would like to give a sincere thank you to everyone who have participated in the Sim Update 10 beta over the last several weeks. Your feedback and reports have been very valuable in getting the update ready for it’s final version. Speaking of, we will have more information to share very soon about the release date for Sim Update 10.
We are also excited to say that we have a booth at the Reno Air Races this year. If you are attending, stop by and say hi to our team members!
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Development Update Blog - September 8, 2022
The full release of Sim Update 10 is on its way, slated for next week! While we are pinpointing the exact day of release, our team is currently adding in our final changes and updates for SU10. Beta users can expect one final test build coming shortly. We have also been closely working with NVIDIA regarding our DX12 optimizations and we plan to release SU10 in conjunction with an NVIDIA driver update that will help one of the first issues our Beta users discovered (graphical glitches and artifacts).
It’s been incredibly helpful to have so many community members test Beta builds with us, so thank you for everything. We are excited for this release and looking forward to what’s next – World Update 11: Canada, and the 40th Anniversary Edition (Sim Update 11)! You will find an updated Development Roadmap below.
With August now in the rearview mirror, many of you will be returning to school for the new year or starting college. For those studying an aviation-related field, we wish you the best of luck and hope your experiences with Microsoft Flight Simulator will serve you well in your educational endeavors.
Sim Update 10 beta testing continues. Thank you to everyone on PC and Xbox who have been testing last week’s 1.27.17.0 build and posting feedback and bug reports on the forums. Your feedback truly is invaluable to the dev team.
Finally, today’s Marketplace update includes the Carenado PC12. You can read more about this versatile plane, the world’s most success single-engine turboprop, over at Xbox Wire. You can also watch a trailer video below.
Earlier today at gamescom in Cologne, Germany, the team was proud to make some new announcements about Microsoft Flight Simulator. See below for details:
Local Legend VI: Junkers F 13: The world’s first all-metal transport plane, this innovative and highly influential aircraft is available now from the in-sim Marketplace for USD $14.99.
City Update 1 (CU1): a collection of five new photogrammetry cities from Germany: Hanover, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Bonn, and Cologne. CU1 is available now for free from the in-sim Marketplace.
New 40th Anniversary Edition details: we announced some more content that will be included when this FREE UPDATE releases in November. This is in addition to all the content that we previously unveiled at the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase in June. Today’s new announcements for the 40th Anniversary Edition are:
Three new planes: Curtiss JN-4 Jenny, Grumman G-21 Goose, and Hughes H-4 Hercules (aka the “Spruce Goose”)
Four classic airports, including Chicago’s Meigs Field, the long-time default starting location in many previous editions of Microsoft Flight Simulator
Twenty missions from the franchise’s past
Finally, public testing for SU10 continues. Last week, we deployed a new build to testers (PC only) that was specifically targeted at improving performance in DX11 mode. The feedback from testers about DX11 performance with this build has been very positive so far. We will soon be releasing another SU10 beta build, this one for both PC (MS Store & Steam) and Xbox players. If you are participating in the SU10 public test, stay tuned for more information.
Today, August 18, is the two-year anniversary of our release on PC, and what a busy day it was! Earlier this morning, we launched the third plane in our series of Famous Flyers, the v-tail Beechcraft Bonanza V35. We also hosted another of our Dev Q&A sessions with Jorg, Seb, and Martial. If you missed it, you can watch the video here (Twitch only for now, YouTube version coming tomorrow). One highlight of the livestream was the reveal of the next World Update: Canada!
Finally, Jorg announced that we have made the difficult decision to delay the release of Sim Update 10 for approximately two more weeks. This will give the developers additional time to resolve some issues reported by our community beta testers, especially concerning PC performance.
Thanks to you, all our players, for making the last two years so special for the flight sim community. We look forward to sharing more aviation adventures with you for many years to come!
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Development Update Blog - August 11, 2022
Thank you to all players who have been participating in the on-going Sim Update 10 public beta and sharing your feedback and bug reports with the developers. The team at Asobo remains hard at work on SU10, and we are currently preparing a new beta build to release to testers soon.
If you have not yet seen the news, our next Developer Q&A livestream is coming up next week, on Thursday, August 18 at 1730Z. Unlike previous Dev Q&A sessions, this one will be specifically about SU10. If you have any questions for Jorg, Seb, and Martial, please submit them for voting in the forums.
Yesterday, Xbox Wire publicly announced that Microsoft will be appearing at gamescom 2022 hosted in Cologne, Germany from August 25-28. Microsoft Flight Simulator will be one of the featured products available for a hands-on demo at gamescom.
Finally, we recently concluded the Microsoft Flight Simulator Reno Air Race Series Presented by Tobii. Seven qualified finalists competed in four races (one each for the four classes: T-6, Biplane, Jet, and Unlimited), and Flightlevelzero from Berlin, Germany was crowned the overall winner. All seven finalists will receive an Eye Tracker 5 courtesy of Tobii, and Flightlevelzero will additionally receive a TCA Yoke Pack Boeing Edition compliments of Thrustmaster. The races themselves were intense and exciting with many dramatic lead changes and overtakes. If you weren't able to watch the event live, you can check out the replay on our Twitch channel.
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