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Rumour: Flight Simulator for Xbox Series release date June 15 (update: or July 20)?
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Maybe because its "less big" ?
As the game has been announced already for console and we kinda know everything already of flight sim because its out for a year.
guess not that important in the swing of things
flight sim isn't a traditional console game
Microsoft will be at both events, so they need to show something on Game Fest. They could show for the first time there and show again at E3.
Microsoft is buddy buddy with Geoff and it's a way to throw him a bone and make an announcement without letting it take up time in the big show.
Yes there are various complexity settings, controlling with the controller on some of the easier settings is quite easy. You can also turn off much of the complexity in terms of flight procedure if you want (pre-flight checks, taxi procedures, checking in with towers, getting a landing area assigned etc.)
There's a free camera/drone camera you can use that is separate from your plane. I think it's meant to be used to take photos but you can freely fly around with it with seemingly no limit
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Take a simple plane, spawn on the runway, full throttle and it'll take off by the end of the runway.
More or less. You can turn the controls down to be super basic (in fact, you can set the plane on literal auto pilot and you don't have to control shit). You can start already in the air with a flight path marked.
Basically, yes. You don't need to go through all the starting up the plane and taking off every time if you just want to fly over Paris and check it out.
Every time I think about flight simulator i think about how Kenan's character in snakes on the plane had to land the plane and when they asked him where he learned how to fly he tells them he learned on flight simulator on the ps2
awesome. I'm so excited to just look at everything. I love looking at google maps. after I do some of that maybe I'll try the actual game stuff.
This game was made for you!
I'm the same as you. Google Earth VR was on my GOTY list when it came out.
Flight Sim was my GOTY last year for the same reason. It's virtual tourism. It's amazing.
I ran this on my PC and it ran OK, but I would love the ease of playing this on console. I wonder if they are shooting for 30fps since the game is so heavy.
Man I thought the Digital Foundry guys would be able to take a little break after catching up on the launch period.
IIRC, this game scaled okay graphically but the CPU usage was not very good at utilizing more than four cores. Will be interesting to see how much optimization has occurred on that front.
I think that's a given since the games in this genre usually play fine at even sub-30fps. I guess it's because you don't really get immediate visual feedback of any changes when flying a real plane?
IIRC, this game scaled okay graphically but the CPU usage was not very good at utilizing more than four cores. Will be interesting to see how much optimization has occurred on that front.
I think that's a given since the games in this genre usually play fine at even sub-30fps. I guess it's because you don't really get immediate visual feedback of any changes when flying a real plane?
I would be shocked if it isn't 30fps on console. And that's fine for a flight sim. It's all very slow movement, slow panning, nudging sticks.
It should be able to hit 60fps easily when high up or over countryside. But dense cities will kill the performance. Better just to lock it all down for consistency. 30 is great for Flight Sim.
I wonder how it'll run on Series S. My Dad was a heli pilot and I've shown him Flight Sim as a "wow look at this". He'd probably enjoy the full pc HOTAS VR setup if he had the opportunity, but cost wise... No.
If Series S runs it well enough maybe he'd get one to play lol
If Series S runs it well enough maybe he'd get one to play lol
Will play it on console, as my ( gaming ) laptop is not going to cut it with high / ultra settings. Beautiful game, though. The vibe is just sublime!
Yeah I am totally fine with it. Even unlocked on my machine fluctuating between 30-50fps it still felt pretty smooth to play. It would be nice if they would let you uncap it for VRR displays.
I would assume Quick Resume is basically a no-go for this game, right? It has to constantly be pinging the servers for data, doesn't it?
Either way, I'm excited to finally have a system powerful enough to run Flight Sim, and I'm going to try to damndest to figure it out.
Either way, I'm excited to finally have a system powerful enough to run Flight Sim, and I'm going to try to damndest to figure it out.
You can play it offline. It doesn't pull in any fancy map stuff though obviously, it's a cut down experience.
You can lose connection while playing and reconnect and it doesnt kick you or anything. So technically could support Quick Resume...
I could see this being a cold open to Microsoft's show. Whatever the case, I'm excited to try this out on console.
I know they were starved for announcements, but I kinda feel like this release should have been kept quiet and then announced / shadow dropped at E3.
Been off the forum for a bit getting my vegetable garden up and going and now I return to see THIS!
Probably in my top 3 of Most Anticipated titles for Series X.
FS was supposed to be "Summer 2021" and the 15th of June ain't Summer the last time I checked....so sounds too good to be true, but I'll gladly take it if it happens.
Probably in my top 3 of Most Anticipated titles for Series X.
FS was supposed to be "Summer 2021" and the 15th of June ain't Summer the last time I checked....so sounds too good to be true, but I'll gladly take it if it happens.
I spent about 100 hours with the PC version last summer as a flight Sim noob with a controller. It's amazing. Can't wait to see the console version.
Figured it'd be dated and release soon from the Xbox+Bethesda presser, and this seems about right.
Seriously, I'm beyond excited for this for the same reason. I loooooove traveling.
Should be great. PC graphics card requirements are crazy low. It's CPU hungry and the Series S has the same CPU as the Series X.
The recommended GPU for the game (not minimum, the recommended) is a 970, which was a mid-range card that came out six years ago, or a year after the OG Xbox One to put into context.
Like, it's not gonna do ultra settings at 4k. But, then, most PC Flight Sim players aren't either.
This would be amazing, I can't wait to just fly around different places that I want to visit in real life lol.
