Developer Asobo has published a brand new slate of patch notes over on the official Microsoft Flight Simulator website (opens in new tab), which is available on PC, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S.

Headlining the new update are several stability and performance updates. You’ll hopefully see fewer crashes both in-game and on the world map after the update launches, and you’ll see fewer crashes relating to the offline AI traffic. Elsewhere in Microsoft Flight Simulator, the game will no longer freeze for a prolonged period of time when connecting or disconnect any peripherals, like VR headsets (VR came to Microsoft Flight Simulator late last year in an update).

There’s also a fix for the correct runway to appear during the landing challenge in Nice, and pilots are now displayed in the external plane view camera during the landing challenge in Isafjordur. Finally, achievements will no longer be rewarded in error for certain landing challenges, and the new update has fixed various flight planner bugs relating to Garmin devices, the VFR map, and more.

Elsewhere on the official game’s website, developer Asobo provided a roadmap for Microsoft Flight Simulator further down the line. You can check out the complete update roadmap for yourself just below, which runs through to September 2021, which sets the stage for new planes, world updates adding new locations, and much more.

Microsoft Flight Simulator only just launched on the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S earlier this week. It’s available through Xbox Game Pass on both consoles, and has already implemented all the previous update that the game received on PC, including real-time snow, the big UK and Ireland world update, and much more besides.

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Microsoft confirmed (opens in new tab) that this edition of Flight Simulator is the fastest-growing in the series’ entire 38-year history (when you think of truly old-school Microsoft gaming, you should think of a Boeing 737 instead of Master Chief). That community of players has taken flight more than 50 million times collectively – that’s an average of 25 flights per player – and traversed more than 3.5 billion virtual miles.

The previously announced virtual reality update coming on December 22 will now also add special Microsoft Flight Simulator livery to the entire fleet of launch planes. On top of that, the Rufus and Sam liveries from the Microsoft holiday commercial starring a bunch of dogs will be added for the Pitts Special. The update will also introduce real-time snow to Flight Simulator’s weather simulation, as well as real-world ice coverage.

While it’s currently a PC exclusive, Microsoft Flight Simulator is coming to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in summer 2021. Asobo Studio’s plans for next year also include three large updates to the Flight Simulator simulation itself, as well as 4 or 5 more world updates to expand the places and sights you can already find around the world (one of which will be the UK update currently slated for January).

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