Latest Changes and Other News

This page will track the latest changes, future plans and progress for the Epic Clouds. Its a good place to keep up with version numbers.

Plans

• There will be some more updates to do as the weather engine for MSFS changes following sim update 4, October 2025. Hopefully I will get some additional tools and fixes that will help to increase the realism of the clouds.
• It is still my aim to get the Epic Clouds into the Microsoft Marketplace since that provides access to the XBox, PS5 and Switch devices.

Microsoft Bug Affects the Epic Clouds

Version 2.2 has been released to mitigate its effects.

There is a known Microsoft bug which becomes active when the sim’s Measurement Units are set to ‘Hybrid’. In this situation, the wind values in weather presets will be treated as kilometres/hour by multiplying them by 1.852. The net result is that all wind values are nearly doubled for no reason. This causes a problem in the Epic Clouds because the Winds Aloft values were high already and that has erroneously elevated the wind speed at lower altitudes quite drastically in some cases.

Until this bug has been cleared by Microsoft, all the winds aloft speeds have now been lowered to moderate values so that they no longer adversely affect the lower altitudes.

Selling Via JustFlight

JustFlight have agreed to sell the Epic Clouds on my behalf. Although I supplied the text and screenshots to build their web page, I have no control over their website. I will keep the files on Flightsim.to updated in parallel with JustFlight.com, but bear in mind that JustFlight.com may take up to 7 days to process updates and notify users, whereas I can load an update onto Flightsim.to directly. Therefore, if you see an update on Flightsim.to, you can be sure an equivalent update will soon appear on JustFlight.com as well.

Selling Via MSFS Marketplace

The application to the MSFS 2024 Marketplace was started in October of 2024, now more than 12 months ago. In a recent Dev Stream broadcast by Microsoft, they stated that there are about 1800 applications waiting in that queue. A few months ago they said there were 300.

I have tried to contact the Marketplace to see what is happening but there is no direct email route and my queries via support have failed to get anywhere. It appears that all I can do is wait and hope that the queueing process is working correctly.