Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 News

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Many of you are eagerly anticipating the inclusion of the Marketplace. We are excited to share that the Marketplace is coming shortly, as we are making final tweaks to ensure it meets everyone’s expectations.

• Fixed rare crash during airport generation
  
• Fixed crash when selecting livery after reloading the game while not flying the default variation
  
• Fixed crash when using ‘Skip to’ feature at beginning of exam.
  
• Fixed potential crash when switching ON/OFF the VR mode during a flight
  
• Renamed “Bandwidth” to “Download” in DisplayFPS panel to avoid misinterpretation by the community
  
• Optimized texture memory usage of WASM gauges
  
• Fixed crash when closing the game during package mounting.
  
• Fixed crash when many avatars meet up online
  
• Fixed crash on Xbox that would occur when accessing areas close to the antemeridian, such as the Savusavu Airport (NFNS) for instance
  
• Improved loading times for packages with lots of individual files
  
• General Bug Fixes
  
• Fixed an issue where the controller was losing inputs if the user went into the filters advanced map layers leaves the sub menu then go back in it
  
• Fixed an issue where going to the world map filters layers would sometimes soft lock the user when going to another page
  
• Fixed community packages preventing streamed packages with the same name from being found by the sim.
  
• Fixed wrong HUD color (purple/white instead of green) on some aircraft
  
• Fixed scene flickering on Xbox sometimes when memory usage is high
  
• Added profanity check on Callsign and FlightNumber in aircraft configurator
  
• Fixed a bug where non selectable aircraft were not taken into consideration by various system after a mount/unmount or after a Build Package
  
• Fixed an issue where going into a showcase “Fixed camera” in the camera panel would cause the camera to go in the cockpit view when reopening the same panel
  
• Fixed multiplayer nameplate display range to low
  
• Fixed UI render issue of items outside of their frame
  
• Fixed Deluxe/Premium/Aviator content not being streamed when booting the game for the first time
  
• The camera panel no longer forces the cockpit view when opened
  
• Fixed swapped colors between Offline and Online friends
  
• Fixed missing music on legacy Discovery flight Activities
  
• Fixed CLOCK_HOURS/MINUTES_INC/DEC events not behaving as expected
  
• Fixed several time-related issues such as ZULU/CLOCK SET events not behaving as expected
  
• Fixed usage of real time instead of flight time when initializing switches (fixes light issues when starting a flight with a sim time that is different from the real time)
  
• Fixed community packages being duplicated inside content.xml on each boot. Already existing duplicates are removed from file on boot.
  
• Increased screen exposure under heavy cloud cover
  

• Fixed FS2020 planes exterior lights bleeding into cockpit when displayed in FS2024
  
• Fixed wrong font selected when rendering XML Gauge elements
  
• Forced 2024 SimVar AMBIENT LIGHT SENSOR to return a very high value if requested from a 2020 sim (can happen if referencing an instrument that has been updated in 2024)
  
• Fixed textures referenced in FX files not properly loaded when the package is streamed
  
• Fixed emissives brightness
  

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MSFS Team

The biggest news in the flight sim world this week is the release of the A350 Airliner from developer iniBuilds! This highly-anticipated aircraft is available now for PC simmers via the MSFS (2020) in-sim Marketplace and from the iniBuilds website. To celebrate the release, we have partnered with iniBuilds to give away a free A350 Airliner to the winner of this week's Screenshot Challenge! Read on below in the Community section for more information on how to enter the contest.

Feedback opportunity! The dev team is currently looking for player feedback about the speech quality (text-to-speech) in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, particularly for languages other than English. If you would like to help the team improve the quality of the spoken dialog in MSFS 2024, please take a few moments to complete this short web form.

Finally, the team remains hard at work on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 1 (SU1) and the in-sim Marketplace that will release alongside it. While we currently do not have a launch date to share, we are planning to release a new beta build to testers in the near future. Stay tuned for updates.

- MSFS Team

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In this week's Development Update blog, we are pleased to share with you new versions of the Feedback Snapshot and SDK Update. You can see them both by reading on below.

On Wednesday, we released a new pre-release test build for Sim Update 1 to volunteer beta testers from the community. In case you missed it, you can read the release notes for SU1 beta build 1.3.19.0 on the forums here. The team remains hard at work resolving issues identified by testers enrolled in the beta, and we aim to have a release quality build available soon. Thanks again to everyone who has joined the beta and shared their feedback and bug reports on the forums. Your contributions are incredibly valuable to us as the dev team continues their work on SU1.

- MSFS Team

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Public beta testing for Sim Update 1 (SU1) continues, with a new pre-release test build (1.3.13.0) being released to beta testers yesterday. You can read the release notes on our forums here.

Regarding the final release of SU1, if you saw last week's Developer Livestream, you may recall that the panel mentioned we were tentatively targeting February 18th for the release. After carefully reviewing Sim Update 1 Beta feedback to ensure the best possible experience for all simmers, we have decided to take a bit more time before its release. While it won’t launch on February 18th, we appreciate your patience and look forward to sharing another update in next Thursday’s Development Blog.

- MSFS Team

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On Wednesday, we hosted our latest Developer Livestream on our official Twitch channel. In case you missed it, you can watch the VOD on our YouTube channel embedded below. The regular panel of Jorg, Seb, and Martial were also joined by Chris Burnett from Working Title to discuss future development plans for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Among the many topics covered were:

• Insight and introspection regarding the MSFS2024 launch and the current state of the sim
  
• A thorough status review of many of the top bugs as upvoted by members of the community on our official forums
  
• Target launch dates for upcoming releases (please note that all of these dates are targets only and could potentially change in the future):
  
  
  
  • Sim Update 1 (and the MSFS2024 Marketplace): February 18
    
  • World Update 19: Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname: March
    
  • Sim Update 2: April (with the public beta beginning shortly after SU1 launches)
    
  • Sim Update 3: June
    
  
  
• Preview video for the upcoming Famous Flyer 11: Cessna 185F
  
  • This plane is the first of four upcoming planes which will be provided FREE to all MSFS 2024 simmers
  
  
• And much more!
  

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The livestream lasted more than two hours and covered many topics, so we encourage everyone to watch the the video above if you have time.

- MSFS Team

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