Thanks, that's encouraging. While I don't have this specific setup I imagine if that model works mine should as it binded everything automatically for the PC version.
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Flight Simulator on Xbox Series X and Series S screens
- Thread starter Theorry
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Thanks, that's encouraging. While I don't have this specific setup I imagine if that model works mine should as it binded everything automatically for the PC version.
It's real scale/time, but I'm pretty sure you can speed it up.
Thank you. Sounds excellent.
Can't wait to fly from London to New York and see nothing but water for hours :D
Seriously, that game looks unreal. Impressive that this scale is even possible on consoles.
It is, to the best of my knowledge, a perfect 1:1 mapping of the real world thanks to topographical data. It's also Flight Sim by franchise name and design, so the core market is people (including professionals) literally real-time flying as it actually is. There's usually speed up tools and whatnot if you want (I haven't played with these in FS2020 yet), but otherwise yeah. A flight to London to Berlin will be real time, and real to scale. Cities are real to scale. Rivers and lakes are real to scale.
Flying by Everest is real to scale.
EDIT: I should say "near perfect". Things don't always render as well as they should, either because of engine and algorithm limitations or because of weak topographical data. Some areas of the world and cities look a lot worse than others. Some region have low resolution satellite data for textures. Is what it is. But they're always updating and improving parts of the algorithm to increase the procedural rendering quality. I remember at launch mountains, like Everest, generally looking pretty shit.
It's the full size Earth at 1:1 scale. Flights take the same time they do in the real world. Otherwise it wouldn't be much of a simulator. :)
Full 1:1 Earth has been part of Flight Simulators like this for well over a decade now.
I have no idea how this works, but can I jump into a plane somewhere on the planet and fly, for example, over the Himalaya with my kids?
For hours long flights, I liked having them on as a background while reading a book.
www.eurogamer.net
Yeah. You can just start in the air close to an attraction if you want. Though there are usually airports/strips within a few minutes of any famous spot to take off from.
Flight Simulator speeding up time explained: How to increase the sim rate and 'fast travel'
How to change the simulation speed in Flight Simulator, including how to speed up time and fast travel explained.
www.eurogamer.net
Yeah. You can just start in the air close to an attraction if you want. Though there are usually airports/strips within a few minutes of any famous spot to take off from.
Man, those Series S screens are looking great. Series X looks incredible. It seems pretty much right up there with what I remember the PC version looking like on an RTX 2080.can't wait to take to the skies again. I might just have tk fire the game up on PC again soon.
Yep. There's a world map. I haven't played in several months, but I'm pretty sure you can either start at any airport in the world and fly from there, or just pick any spot on the map and start there, right in the air.
It was pretty easy for me to, for example, pick an airport in Egypt and fly over the Pyramids. Personally, I find part of the fun of this game is picking exciting locations, finding the closest airport, and finding a way to fly over it. Any favorite is flying over places I've been to for vacation. It was super cool flying over San Francisco, and spotting all the cool attractions I saw less than a year earlier.
Yep. There's a world map. I haven't played in several months, but I'm pretty sure you can either start at any airport in the world and fly from there, or just pick any spot on the map and start there, right in the air.
It was pretty easy for me to, for example, pick an airport in Egypt and fly over the Pyramids. Personally, I find part of the fun of this game is picking exciting locations, finding the closest airport, and finding a way to fly over it. Any favorite is flying over places I've been to for vacation. It was super cool flying over San Francisco, and spotting all the cool attractions I saw less than a year earlier.
You menu map is the entire Earth, with every airport listed, alongside countless points of interest. You can select a location, or put in GPS coordinates (easily found on any map service). And from there just load in wherever you want, mid flight in the air. Topographical map data covering layout and heightmaps, including satellite imagery, will be downloaded and applied to the landscape. And these things combined with procedural algorithms within the engine will render the scene. You can, if you like, tweak weather conditions and time of day in real time too, mid flight. You can pause and look around. You can keep flying. You can turn on a wide assortment of accessibility features to make flight extremely easy with a controller, if you just want to sight see.
Pop in the GPS coordinates of your childhood home and if it hasn't been knocked down the game will put you there. It'll render the roads you lived on, and put little houses where all the houses are.
You're right! DLing 97GB. Praying this means we can get right in on launch day with no in-game installer.
It's kind of amazing (alarming?) that we're less than a week out from release, and we've seen almost zero footage from the console versions.
Yeah it was pretty rough. Buckingham Palace was being rendered as a block of flats.
Here's some of the UK update comparisons:
Yeah it was pretty rough. Buckingham Palace was being rendered as a block of flats.
Haha thats great.
I remember flying over a local village and the church was rendered as a generic building but when I flew over recently it had been updated to a church.
Can't wait to fly in 4k.
Yeah it was pretty rough. Buckingham Palace was being rendered as a block of flats.
Here's some of the UK update comparisons:
Speaking of which, do we know what updates are going to be included in XSX version ?
Or everything is server-side so the streamed data are always up to date ?
Yeah it was pretty rough. Buckingham Palace was being rendered as a block of flats.
ah the ideal alternate reality where the monarchy were overthrown 🥰
Yeah, I'm still on the edge because of this. The first stream of this game in this thread was good but with low bitrate 1080p stream quality, you can't really say much in comparison.
I want it to look exactly like on the 4K PC version videos and exactly as pixel sharp and detailed. But I'm maybe expecting too much and setting myself up for disappointment. 😅
Yea I have no doubt it looks great, but I also have no doubt DF will nitpick the hell out of it lol.
Looking forward to giving it a go on my XSX next week. Is it easy to play just with a controller?
God this looks so f***ing great.
Kinda wish we could install the world updates beforehand so that we're ready to go on tuesday.
Ok, this 100% looks better/smoother than my PC.
*Throws PC in the bin*
The Series X will run this game as good as any video you've ever seen of a 2080 tier PC running it. It'll look as pixel sharp and detailed.
Yeah it was pretty rough. Buckingham Palace was being rendered as a block of flats.
Here's some of the UK update comparisons:
Are these city upgrades included in the latest updates or do you have to pay for them?
Yes, there are. You can make shortcut in your scheduled travel
Those particular updates have to be installed on top.
In 2022 is scheduled (my) Italy Word Update too. Can't wait
Most likely not.
One of the streamer didn't have them installed so I'm assuming they're a manual download in the in-game menu as seen on the screenshot above.
They're free. You should find them and download them in the menu.
They're free, but you need to download them in game.
There's a whole in-game storefront for mods/updates etc. You just click on them in there and download whichever ones you want.
Those particular updates have to be installed on top.
RIP SSD Space with all those world updates
And that's why they're all separate, optional downloads inside the client rather than being title updates forced upon everyone.
You can download just the ones you want.
For context, the UK and Ireland world update is about 4GB.
So the better quality ones are on top of the map streamed from the cloud? I've noticed they had some better looking locations in some updates.
Online I'm reading that this is a Play Anywhere title, so I guess yes (as long as you're talking about the Microsoft Store version and not Steam, but you know that).
Eurogamer says it is at least.
Yeah. You've got a few options when it comes to the quality of the world.
Offline mode - the worst choice. But there if you need to play offline. You can download a 56GB optional pack to avoid this.
Regular install, streamed - maps are more detailed and all the data is streamed from the cloud as you play. Very good. The smallest install option.
World updates - As above but with with extra detailed landmarks and buildings that have to be installed separatly to the main game as regional 'World Updates'. They've done a ton of these and they do stuff like add in proper models for landmarks (like Stonehenge for example) or for cities (so proper Buckingham Palace etc). Each region is about 4gb each on top of the regular 40 something GB install.
Tnks for the explanation, my SX might just become the FS machine.
They said it's exactly the same build as on PC. Everything available from MS will be on both platforms. 3rd party mods obviously can't guarantee that, but all of the world and sim updates will not only be available on both, but will be perfectly in sync.