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50 hours into this game. Its a real love hate relationship. I love the scenery, graphics, weather etc. I hate all the missing features from previous versions and all the bugs I come across. Seems alot of die hard flight sim guys are pissed. This game really was a HUGE jump from the last one at least scenery wise.

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Coming across the lake during sunset. Really taxing the GPU here. Not sure why the screenshot is fucked up.
Flying through some weather. Nice rainbow.

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I still play almost every night. Explore, stunts, Challenges. The past few updates have really improved the playability on my old rig. I want to get more into the sim aspect. Right now, I just throttle up and look at pretty things.
 

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Agreed. There was one update that took my perfectly mapped out neighborhood and turned one story storage facilities into 10 story office buildings. There are also trees that are like 150 feet tall but I saw you can modify the tree coding to more realistic tree height levels. I still haven’t played with any add-ons, which I think has made for the flawless stability I’ve seen while playing.
 

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Agreed. There was one update that took my perfectly mapped out neighborhood and turned one story storage facilities into 10 story office buildings. There are also trees that are like 150 feet tall but I saw you can modify the tree coding to more realistic tree height levels. I still haven’t played with any add-ons, which I think has made for the flawless stability I’ve seen while playing.

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I feel like they fix stuff but also break stuff every patch.

I like to fly with the live weather to give some variety, wind, and changing weather but the live weather has been so very very wrong. Refreshing in the flight plan screen or in the game does nothing. It can be cloudy with low visability and wind IRL and I would select live weather and have no clouds and perfect visibility. Alot of the times the winds always say 2 or 3 knots at 270. The live weather never matches the local METAR.
 
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Yeah, same. I’m happy with a running game. There’s an F-15 on the way I’m geeked for from DC Design’s that’s been in the works for a while. Fully developed for the new game. No supersonic in the game yet (coming next year) so it’s only subsonic until then.

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Thrustmaster T.Flight Hotas One. Seeing what happened in the racing sim market earlier this year, I bought it ahead of the game’s launch for $60-70. They’re now on back order and what’s out there is $150, a ridiculous price for this entry level piece.
 

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Yeah, same. I’m happy with a running game. There’s an F-15 on the way I’m geeked for from DC Design’s that’s been in the works for a while. Fully developed for the new game. No supersonic in the game yet (coming next year) so it’s only subsonic until then.

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What do you mean no super sonic?
 

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What do you mean no super sonic?

From the developer:

“Microsoft apparently do not consider supersonic flight a "priority" - it won't appear until mid-2021 at the earliest. The Eagles can reach 620 knots at sea level though, so they don't hang around - you'll definitely be the fastest thing in MSFS for some time to come. Everything is limited to below Mach 1 until it's fixed.“
 

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Some packages in your community folder may not have been updated and, as a result, may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behavior. Please move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title if you suffer from stability issues or long loading times.

After you download the update, please go to the Marketplace if you’d like to download the US Update (approx. 4 GiB).




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Airports
  • KATL – Atlanta International
  • KFHR – Friday Harbor
  • KDFW – Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
  • KSWF – New York Stewart International Airport
Points of Interest
  • Chimney Rock
  • Crazy Horse Memorial
  • Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown MA
  • Fort Jefferson
  • Washington Monument, Washington DC
  • Capitol, Washington DC
  • White House, Washington DC
  • Wright Brothers National Memorial
  • Mount Rushmore
  • Biltmore Estate
  • Devils Tower
  • New River Gorge Bridge
  • United States National Arboretum
  • Bixby Creek Bridge
  • Chesapeake Bay Bridge
  • Sunshine Skyway Bridge
  • Mackinac Bridge
  • Navajo Bridge
  • Astoria-Megler Bridge
  • U.S. Grant Bridge
  • Lowry Avenue Bridge
  • Lewis and Clark Bridge
  • The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge
  • Fort Knox
  • Monument Rocks National Natural
  • Coronado Heights Castle
  • Ellis County Courthouse
  • Monument Valley
  • Yosemite El Capitan
  • Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado
  • Shiprock, New Mexico
  • Haystack Rock at Canon, Oregon
  • Half Dome, Yosemite
  • Dworshak Dam
  • Hoover Dam
  • Oroville Dam
  • Alcatraz (water tower and lighthouse only)
  • Fort McHenry, Baltimore
  • Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls
  • Glen Canyon Dam
  • Las Vegas Strip (Night)
  • Confederation Bridge
  • Johnson Space Center Houston (visitor’s center)
  • Kennedy Space Center Florida (visitors center)
  • Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (memorial site)
  • Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii
  • National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  • Gulf of Mexico, Oil Rigs
  • Airport Graveyard, Tucson
In addition to the USA world update, several fixes and improvements have been added to the sim. Thanks to players’ feedback, we are continuing to bring content and adjustments to Microsoft Flight Simulator. Please find below items on which we’ve been working on for this update.

PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY
  • Several crashes were fixed to improve overall stability of the title
  • Optimization on photogrammetry loading
  • Offline air traffic aircraft are now properly removed at a long distance. This caused a performance degradation over time.
PLANES
  • From handling and flight model improvements to auto-pilot fixes, a general review of all planes has been made for this update.
Airliners
  • Fixed: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental fuel consumption issue
  • Fixed: Airbus A320neo fuel consumption issue
  • Reduced yaw oscillation on the Airbus A320neo by further reducing yaw gain
GENERAL AVIATION AIRCRAFT
  • Pipistrel Virus SW121: Fixed – Cruise speed adjusted (previously too low) in the aircraft selection menu
  • Cessna 152: 5% more elevator authority
  • Cirrus SR22: Fixed - The mixture control is no longer set to Automixture
  • Cessna 208 B Grand Caravan EX: Fixed – invisible spoiler removed
  • EXTRA 330LT : Engine reactivity increased
  • EXTRA 330LT : Fixed full castoring tail wheel animation and allowed up to 90° rotation
  • Robin Cap10 : Allowed 90° range of motion for full castering rear wheel
Garmin glass cockpit equipped aircraft:

  • Added visual notification on PFD when deactivating AP
  • Flight director is now automatically turned on when AP is enabled and cannot be disabled
UI
  • The data consumption value calculation has been fixed
  • Fix input feedback on some devices
  • The livery name should now be correctly displayed in the menus
  • The weather image in the flight plan should now be correct in all cases
  • Some accuracy for the live time have been fixed
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the checklist eye button to be selected
  • The bushtrip menu should no longer freeze
  • Switching from online to offline in the menu should no longer freeze the title
  • Fixed some behaviors that resulted in having the World map search not responding
INPUT
  • Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant default preset has been added (GA Twin engines configuration)
  • CH Throttle Quadrant default preset has been added
  • CH Flightstick Pro default preset has been added
  • CH Combatstick default preset has been added
ACTIVITY
  • The logbook should now properly log unfinished flights (either via return to main menu or via landing and shutting down the engine and Master)
  • The landing challenge target should now be properly displayed after restarting the activity
WORLD
  • Streetlights of smaller streets and roads should now be displayed more randomly
  • Workers on an airport should no longer randomly freeze and stop being animated
 
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