Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 News

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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Thank you to everyone who has downloaded the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 1 pre-release beta test build! Since its launch last week, our team has been very carefully reading your feedback and bug reports on the forums. A new pre-release build with more fixes and improvements is coming soon for beta testers. If you would like to enroll in the beta to help test the next major release of MSFS 2024, you can find instructions (for PC-MS Store, PC-Steam, and Xbox Series X|S) here.

We are also pleased this week to share with you an updated Feedback Snapshot, now expanded to show the status of the Top 96 bugs as voted by members of our forums. There is also an updated Wishlist for the Top 24 feature requests for MSFS 2020 and 2024.

Finally, our next Developer Livestream is now confirmed for Wednesday, February 5 at 10:30am PST (1830 UTC). Follow our official Twitch channel to receive a notification when our panel of Jorg, Seb, and Martial go live to discuss the future development plans for Microsoft Flight Simulator and answer the most frequently asked questions the community submitted to our web form over the past few weeks. As always, the panel will also answer live questions from Twitch viewers, so be sure to tune in if you didn't have a chance to pre-submit a question!



- MSFS Team

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