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Microsoft Flight Simulator - X019 - Gameplay Trailer
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It's a flight sim, the only music you'll hear is the menu more than likely. If you're lucky it will have "real radio stations" otherwise It will have zero music.
Gobsmacked at how good this looks. Like a poster said above, it would be really nice if they had a dynamic soundtrack that you can play whilst flying to add to the atmosphere.
I think the world is probably relatively low poly and owes a lot to textures being actual photographs. And their cloud tech looks amazing to be sure.
Still think it will kind of fall apart when you fly closer to the ground, but then you won't be doing that a lot.
From typical flying altitude it looks bonkers though and many of those shots could easily pass as real footage.
Still think it will kind of fall apart when you fly closer to the ground, but then you won't be doing that a lot.
From typical flying altitude it looks bonkers though and many of those shots could easily pass as real footage.
Honestly, if this comes to XCloud, Game Pass and Scarlett launch title, it's a system seller. Bundle it with all Project Scarlett Edition consoles.
Killer app/game. Could be serious 2020 GOTY contender.
Killer app/game. Could be serious 2020 GOTY contender.
Already planning to buy a top-spec PC next year just for this game.
In the meantime, just happened to pause during this close-up of the ground. Not complaining - the whole planet is going to be playable - but I guess I should temper my expectations just a little:
In the meantime, just happened to pause during this close-up of the ground. Not complaining - the whole planet is going to be playable - but I guess I should temper my expectations just a little:
Already planning to buy a top-spec PC next year just for this game.
In the meantime, just happened to pause during this close-up of the ground. Not complaining - the whole planet is going to be playable - but I guess I should temper my expectations just a little:
Yeah you'll see this stuff everywhere. When you get close to the ground, most stuff won't look fantastic
But it's a flying game so being too close to the ground isn't usually ideal
Already planning to buy a top-spec PC next year just for this game.
In the meantime, just happened to pause during this close-up of the ground. Not complaining - the whole planet is going to be playable - but I guess I should temper my expectations just a little:
To be fair as well, this is pre alpha footage, I can imagine this will be much better by launch but yeah, I don't expect it to be fantastically detailed on the ground either.
They haven't revealed too much about the flight model but they did mention that they're calculating aero from over 1000 lookup tables in contrast to X-Plane which models surfaces via blade element theory. It's my understanding that good lookup tables can yield better results as long as you're working with good data.
Google Earth VR has a similar outcome when you get really close to the ground. Looks amazing from the sky, but things become more.. uh... abstract when you get close to the ground since it's really hard for it to capture that fine of detail. I would be surprised if it changes much, but it's by and far a worthwhile tradeoff for how amazing it'll be when flying.
Not down-playing how good this looks, but have you kept up with some of the X-Plane cloud/weather plugins? It's hard to compare with the small amount of footage here, but some of those plugins are pretty amazing.
I know it's in pre-alpha and isn't final footage, but some of the 3d pop-in effect for some objects/buildings can be somewhat immersive building (especially with the cars/trucks seen driving on the roads clipping through satellite images of actual cars on the road). But, damn that Venice canal run is so good looking for a pre-alpha build.
Yeah for us it's just awesome to get another great sim game but from a commercial and educational standpoint the value add for this is amazing for Microsoft.
Oh shit yeah, I hope the same team can bring back Combat Flight Sim as well. Would love to see WW2 combat again.
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And it pushes Azure and Bing also. Nadella is probably happy haha.
Are we expecting this to come to Xbox along with flight stick support? Oddly one of my most anticipated "games" right now.
Looks magnificent. Do these games come with arcade mode or something? How different is flying something here as opposed to say GTA?
I just sent this to a friends who has been very excited about Flight Sim since I first met him 20 years ago. He was very excited by the E3 trailer, I think these details will make him very, very happy.
It seems like a ridiculous amount of data processing and rendering power being used to create a game.
I'll give it a try to see just to fly over my home town and other places I recognise. I hope there's enough assists to make it something I can do without going too far down the sim route.
it depends on how good the sat imagery is. it uses sat imagery+ ai to create the models.
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So, more seriously, there may be some "assisted" modes where you don't have to worry about various factors and can "fly the plane" around, maybe even land successfully. There may also be some "preset scenarios" where, for e.g., it starts you up in the middle of a flight and then you have to perform some kind of maneuver or landing or whatever (along with a tutorial type thing). There will most certainly be beginner tutorials which will ease you into flying smaller planes, which are honestly not that complicated to fly.
But to give you an idea, it is absolutely normal in a flight sim "game" to first chart your flight plan out properly, start up a Boeing 747 cold, which you learn by reading a Boeing 747 operation manual -- things like enabling the APU, turning on the various flight systems, do a prep check, taxi to the runway -- all of these things before your have even left the ground in your plane. I'm not saying everyone does it, or that you ever will, but many do.
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They said they will account for console players and casuals well, so I assume there will be a super easy mode