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Flight Simulator - Feature Discovery Series Episode 6: Airports - "All airports in the world, 37 000 of them manually edited, 80 carefully made
- Thread starter Theorry
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Absolutely incredible. The more I see of this the more I wonder if Microsoft has bigger plans for this detailed model of Earth and its cities. You don't put this much work in for a flight sim, do you?
They're going after Google Earth.
Nope, nothing on pricing yet. The game is coming to Xbox Game Pass. So I assume everything that's been announced so far will be included in the base game.
You say "the airport" as if it's only 1 and not every airport in the world, including small strips in fields. It's an incredible amount of work.
Contract work. Most of the content work in games nowadays is outsourced.
You go from one airport to another several times in the game. Unless someone discovered infinite fuel you won't be flying around all the time. And for a game like this landing on a realistic airport is far more exciting than landing on the same airstrips over and over
I don't think that every building is precisely modelled, so they definetly won't be unique.
I expect a lot of copy paste buildings used for towns.
I definetly don't think the game is remotely precise to the real world either (in terms roads buildings etc, perhaps the world has been shrank too?). However it doesn't mean they couldn't reuse the world for something else, but Def not as an actual navigation tool.
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Ready to do the 15 minute Vomit Comet from Denver to Colorado Springs
what a spirited ride THAT is...
what a spirited ride THAT is...
Isn't it using satellite imagery to be a 1:1 recreation? Pilots will be able to straight up train using this, so I'd be surprised if they're messing with the scale of the world or making it unable to be used for accurate navigation within the game.
For the same reasons pilots are paid a very high salary, those 2% are the most critics.
Reproducing the landing condition is the best part.
I don't think so and I am quite curious too.
First time Flight Simulator used satellite imagery in version 5.X (so between 1993 and 97) , the world (yes, even non gamer) was blown away.
They will managed to do it again almost 30 years laters.
People want to see real-world airports like that from not only a visual standpoint, but to get the experience of landing and taking off at real-life airports. I can see why people are excited for that.
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They said they arent gonna do a like a sub thing. More a idea of base game for set price and dlc content of adding new airplanes after launch wich can be paid.
Lots of people RP this too on special servers, this will take it to the next level. It's like those funny old men who dress up like a train conductor and use model trains, but much more than that.
This is not true, you should watch some videos on the sim. It's a 1:1 recreation of the world using satellite imagery and AI to recreate everything. Videos we've seen from people that have tested said they could fly around cities they know and recognize everything by sight.
AFAIK they mentioned that they are planning an Xbox One version during the reveal, which indicates that the minimum requirements will probably not be too high for the PC version.
This video goes into how they recreate the world using 2 petabytes (2000 terabytes) of map data:
Flying across the world is boring now LOL
The game is literally called "flight simulator", the nature of the game is right on the tin. Different strokes for different folks. If you want to play a game with action there's a ton of those for you out there.