Release date

Voice of Reason

We'll bring more news about the release date later this week. Thank you.

pedwards

Thank you for the update.

Rhinozherous

@Voice-of-Reason said in Release date:

We'll bring more news about the release date later this week. Thank you.

Can we consider today as later this week? :)
JK, looking very much forward to the Dukes!

GunStrauss

https://www.justflight.com/articles/black-square-dukes-development-update-april-2024

Voice of Reason

@Rhinozherous Sorry, yes we posted this news about the release, sorry for the delay.

https://www.justflight.com/articles/black-square-dukes-development-update-april-2024

Rhinozherous

Thank you!

ramonesg

So on last development update from the MSFS team sim update 15 is targeting to be release on April 30th , any ideas how long after that the duke will be released?

Derek

@ramonesg

It will really depend on what effect SU15 has on the software and until it releases we have no real sense of that - hence the need to delay it until after SU15 releases.

Lemny

While they are still two weeks away, are you planning to make additional videos or giving preview version to popular youtubers? Would like to see something about the flight model.
Are you releasing them at the 30. along with SU 15?

Black Square

I need at least a day or two to test with SU15, but we are planning to release very shortly thereafter. Asobo often sneaks in last-minute changes with the public version of the sim update that didn't appear in the beta builds, so I always have to be careful.

Unfortunately, we were supposed to go right from the YouTube videos to the YouTube/Twitch previewers without this big gap, but the SU15 delay put a stop to that. We are planning on getting the preview build to some reviewers before SU15 in about a week. I would love to demonstrate the aerodynamics, but my beta testers and I were unable to come up with a compelling way of showing off something so subjective on video. I could simply demonstrate the aircraft performing within 2% of the POH values in various maneuvers, but that doesn't make for a very exciting video. If you have any ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks for asking!

Lemny

Yep, sounds legit... It's hard to demonstrate that in a video.
Doesn't matter anyway, because none of your other planes ever disappointed me and you can "shut up and take my money". 😄😍

GunStrauss

@Black-Square said in Release date:

I could simply demonstrate the aircraft performing within 2% of the POH values in various maneuvers, but that doesn't make for a very exciting video. If you have any ideas, I'm all ears. Thanks for asking!

Actually, that sounds pretty interesting! Or maybe you have someone who've been flying it in real life? Asobo made some interesting videos like this while discussing their new CFD-system a year or so ago.

Rhinozherous

Finally Asobo gets his... moving. Lets hope for not another delay by them. Looking forward to this awesome module!

mysticfm

Ugh. Another delay for SU15 … now it’s slated for sometime in the second week of May. Which means more delay for the Dukes, too, I assume. Maybe I’d better just put the yoke back on the bookshelf for now.

Lemny

hmpf… that‘s a bummer. 🙁

Voice of Reason

We'll be checking what this means to the release date and we'll reply back here when we have a better idea. We'll do what we can to ensure the Duke delay isn't too lengthy.

Lemny

That would be great. I wouldn’t mind if something is not working 100% until SU15, but I can’t wait to get my hands on that baby.

brennan

Even before the latest disappointing news I did wonder whether, if the initial delay was solely due to the ground physics, we could have an initial release with stock and then get the enhanced behaviours in the (likely to be one anyway) patch later.

I suspect it's not that easy (never is) but I can dream :-)

GunStrauss

A pre-release that requires SU15 beta could be interesting... ?

brennan

The original delay statement was phrased as a "suggestion from the Beta team" not that the product was hard locked to SU15.

To be clear - I'm not in petulant simmer mode here, merely inquiring gently whether it could be decoupled as an interim.