Thanks man. Kind of surprising no ray tracing.
Wow if this is cloud based then I wonder if I could just stream it.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator New Videos (Best Looking Game of All Time?) | Tech Alpha Registration Open
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Thanks man. Kind of surprising no ray tracing.
Wow if this is cloud based then I wonder if I could just stream it.
Not 100% sure. Maybe its linked to the A.I Learning side of things. A recent video did talk about how they do the skies etc and factoring in actual humidity etc, so maybe lighting it link to that perhaps.
Some rainstorms have been shown, so based upon how crazy they are going detail wise, we can expect all the weather.
Blown away with the latest footage. The tech used to populate the landscape is a game changer never seen anything like it before.
some locations on bing maps is are like 5-8 years old and really low quality, I open they got a refreshed satellite data set in the works. it seems like some areas did however, I just looked at some places I remember looking at 3 years ago and it seemed it got an update about 1.5 years ago (and this was central europe), so I imagine some places in asia/south america/africa could be really outdated and low quality due to how satellites are prioritised.
Thats actually quite easy, they shade and color with ingame engine, the raw data they get from cloud is probably just grey with some metadata information how to color it.
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Cache shouldnt be too big, like probably max 20-25gb or something, as you generally will be flying over quite small part of the whole globe.
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Traffic is procedurally generated and follow somehow the roads, but you can clearly see in some scenes vehicles flying around through bridges, outside of roads or through parked cars as its path is not correctly aligned with roads represented in game.
The game's website says its coming to Xbox One :)
Folks probably shouldn't hold their breath for a Switch port though outside some xCloud integration.
This game makes me want to get a nice HOTAS setup. Fingers crossed for a bundle with Scarlett that includes one.
This is rendering like... the whole world, right? I had no idea.
I can't wait to get it, if so. Won't have a PC capable of playing it, but will wait for consoles.
I can't wait to get it, if so. Won't have a PC capable of playing it, but will wait for consoles.
There will obviously be flat textures, especially looked up close. What's so impressive is that they say the Seattle area, for example, that was flown a lot in this preview session, is all auto generated. Look at the coast line, or small piers sticking out into the water. That's hard to get right. So many details that could go wrong. And it already looks this good. There's some super high level auto gen going on here. The buildings too, that are not 3D on Bing.
The videos are absolutely amazing. I'd love to see them treat it as a platform where people can build games or mods or or interactive experiences on top of, or inside it.
I would pre-order right now based on these videos, but just had the realization it is going to be free with Game Pass so I already have it. Microsoft is really coming back strong.
I would pre-order right now based on these videos, but just had the realization it is going to be free with Game Pass so I already have it. Microsoft is really coming back strong.
Looks incredible, albeit boring.
But incredible graphics nontheless.
Looks like a game you play to just relax.
But incredible graphics nontheless.
Looks like a game you play to just relax.
Yeah most sim games arnt the most exciting. I love the Euro/American Truck Simulator games but I wouldn't call em exciting. They are game you play and do something else like listen to music or a podcast. If you really dig it then the game can stand alone but I'd admit that I'm not that person. The idea of building up my trucking empire helps me with playing ATS
Yeah that's why I'm hoping they use this as a launching pad to build toward their combat flight sim series as well.
I enjoy flight sims but find the combat sims more fun in terms of gameplay and variety.
i don't think they could compete with DCS on that front to be honest
I mean I think there's room for both. DCS serves the more hardcore people and the way it functions is quite a nickel and dime approach with all the modules/planes you have to buy.
Having a simple complete WWII combat flight sim with a campaign and online play built with the technology behind this game would be amazing and enough to market to an audience apart from DCS.
The biggest surprise of Microsoft Flight Simulator: it makes Bing cool
We spent hours exploring the pre-alpha’s landscapes, streamed in from the cloud
www.polygon.com
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Yeah that's a rip.
Have they talked about mod support at all? That was a huge thing for me, finding community made planes and downloading them. I spent hours looking for those and installing them on Flight and Train simulator.
apparently they're already talking to add on developers so i guess there's gonna be some form of official support
Yeah I just hope it's decently easy to mod for enthusiasts and doesn't have anything dumb like, idk banning you.
One day we'll get to a stage where procedural generation algorithms and base assets are so complex and powerful in AI computations that satellite data will be interpreted with such detail that we'll be able to get out on the ground an exist in a remarkably convincing 3D world, from surface to the skies.
This, for a game in just 2020, looks absolutely un-fucking-believable.
This, for a game in just 2020, looks absolutely un-fucking-believable.
Imagine what small indie devs could do with such resources.
Staggering how real this looks.
While that's obviously all PC footage it'll be interesting to see how both base and X Xbox consoles deliver this.
While that's obviously all PC footage it'll be interesting to see how both base and X Xbox consoles deliver this.
One of the devs from Asobo said that they were flying through Dorian but they still need to fix physics on the eye of the storm.
Aka real life real time weather conditions in game, if I interpreted that correctly. Which is completely insane and awesome.
It uses mapping data to pull this off. So not likely unless Microsoft has a time machine and can go back and map the 1940s. (I do desperately still want it though).
Yeah, this is like only 7-10 years off.
It will probably start with some city being fully scanned by drones and used in one game.
Looks better then google earth tho. Graphics wise and yes entire world.
40.000 airports also.
