Absolutely Mike. I have flown the DC6 for 150h from Europe ziggzagg across Africa, up to Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, down to Australia and across the Pacific. Now I‘m parked in Jackson Hole and then came SU5. I took the C152 for 2 flights, one in around London to check what the complaints are about and one along the US west coast out of Redding KRDD. I‘m disgusted by what I see. I use TrackIR on a 4K TV screen and the visuals are absolutely terrible compared to even SU4. I had stable 30FPS before and no stutters, 22-27FPS in the DC6, it was okay. I could have saved a bit with a scaling of 80 without any visual disadvantages. But stand now with SU5 I can as well just fly P3D. I have my scenery popping up in front of the cockpit there too but no loading stutters when I move my head. The ground textures are washed out now and the user interface is so broken that I hardly dare to click on something. The mouse is flickering, clickspots sometimes work and sometimes not. I‘m certainly none of those believers who tell everyone that that‘s how Asobo shows us that the xbox version is the only future of the sim, that‘s nonsense. But currently the sim is hardly useable on PC and I don‘t expect Asobo to be able to rule out the problems until SU6. Maybe 7, if this year at all. Aerosoft (Mathijs) has states that SU5 encrypted files that have been accessable before so they have to stop development of their traffic tool. I assume AIG will have huge problems too. Their advantage may be that it doesn‘t matter how many hours it takes as their product is freeware but commercial developers will certainly have to reconsider now. I would not be surprised if some of the highly anticipated devs who have already announced their addons would announce a halt of MSFS development shortly. And be it to put a bit of pressure on Asobo. It‘s certainly a kick in the butt for them that the great partner Aerosoft went to the public with it.
My personal opinion of SU5 is that it‘s an impertinence. Nobody can tell me that they haven‘t been aware of what they did, it‘s not their first game or update. They completely ignored that they have a running PC version and broke it deliberately with a big sim update just to squeeze it into a gaming console that has never been designed to carry a complete and sophisticated flight simulator. XBox’ capabilities are hardly comparable to other consoles and still it shall handle a flight sim which barely runs on multi thousand dollar PC systems. People who have been lied at about release features by probably paid youtubers and instagram „influencers“ and who have upgraded their systems have watched their computers getting old with a sim that has never been optimized for these PCs and now as they have spent another couple of hundreds of dollars/euros on addons and flight controllers they are faced with an update that breaks many of those addons and peripherals. We can hardly expect anything to resolve within the next months, Asobo‘s CURRENT focus is clearly the console. They might stabilize the PC version but they won‘t work on the LOD issues or UI for sure. It‘s the eigth month now, 4 months remaining. My expectation is a proper MSFS2020 in early 2022. I know Asobo‘s roadmap and dev screenshots but they have broken so much that I doubt that they can solve it by their habit of adding new features.
Yes I‘m frustrated, I wholeheartedly admit it. I‘ve planned on A2A aircraft, Comanche, possibly Aerostar, on the NG3, on the ATS Antonov 2, on the Fenix A320. Maybe even a surprise PMDG Jetstream. But right now I‘ve lost all hope for anything good in 2021 in MSFS. Tonight I‘ll finally do some VR AT6 flying again since I’ve finally rules out my P3D stutters and tomorrow I guess I‘ll spend my old and trusty 744 a tank filling
. She hasn‘t crossed the pond for a while now lol.
. She hasn‘t crossed the pond for a while now lol.
