The different versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator have had 1:1 recreations of the whole globe for literal decades.
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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
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Not at launch as far as we know but they are looking at it as a future update.
I thought this game immune from Warz inspired trolling. Seems I was wrong.
Yes, we're seeing it happen with this game lol
Needs more 3rd person shooting huh?
Wow. Just wow.
ETS, ATS and this. I'm going to need to subscribe to a few more podcasts!
EDIT - All airports.... can I land at John Travolta's gaff?
ETS, ATS and this. I'm going to need to subscribe to a few more podcasts!
EDIT - All airports.... can I land at John Travolta's gaff?
I'm very very excited about everything in this video and hope they give it a beautiful physical collector's edition.
I love the simulation aspects of the airport as much as the flight itself, I would never separate the two, so I don't skip anything, from starting the engines, to setting up a flight plan, to deciding the necessary fuel, to asking permissions, to taxiing to the runway using proper taxiing speed. Sometimes, depending on the airport size, there may be busy traffic inside the airport, like other planes taxiing, taking off and landing on the same runway you use, so the traffic controller will guide you when to wait and when to keep going. Of course you can always arcade everything and cut corners (literally), but that's not what simulators are for. The simulation is exciting, it's integral part of my excitement.
I prefer to play in short sessions so I usually choose short flights, like San Diego to LA, Marseille to Nice, Liverpool to Dublin, etc... these flights take about 30 minutes in the game. For instance, since I read your post and you made me curious, I did a short flight with a 747 from Bruxelles to Amsterdam and it took me 7 minutes in the first airport, 16 minutes the actual flight and another 5 minutes in the destination airport. Total time 28 minutes (gate to gate) of which almost half was spent in the airports.
The time spent in airports varies a lot for each player, how long are the flights they choose and how much they want to engage the simulation systems.
I love the simulation aspects of the airport as much as the flight itself, I would never separate the two, so I don't skip anything, from starting the engines, to setting up a flight plan, to deciding the necessary fuel, to asking permissions, to taxiing to the runway using proper taxiing speed. Sometimes, depending on the airport size, there may be busy traffic inside the airport, like other planes taxiing, taking off and landing on the same runway you use, so the traffic controller will guide you when to wait and when to keep going. Of course you can always arcade everything and cut corners (literally), but that's not what simulators are for. The simulation is exciting, it's integral part of my excitement.
I prefer to play in short sessions so I usually choose short flights, like San Diego to LA, Marseille to Nice, Liverpool to Dublin, etc... these flights take about 30 minutes in the game. For instance, since I read your post and you made me curious, I did a short flight with a 747 from Bruxelles to Amsterdam and it took me 7 minutes in the first airport, 16 minutes the actual flight and another 5 minutes in the destination airport. Total time 28 minutes (gate to gate) of which almost half was spent in the airports.
yes but you can also choose to 'warp' to different points in the flight, so if you don't wanna stick your plane on autopilot for 10 hours, you can jump forward to key moments (like descent, approach, landing, etc).
I flew my plane to where my house should be, and whatever sat maps they're using seem to be about 10 years out of date, as it's still an empty lot.
I mean this is absolutely amazing, I am not super interested in flight simulators but this is awesome. I would love it if someone could use map data like MSFT did to create a realistic whole world FPS where you could have multi stage battles across the world.
This video details a little about how they created it using bing data
This video details a little about how they created it using bing data
Love the transparency. Although I feel like I'm looking at the sausage being made.
Imagine the next Truck Simulator game using this technology.. even though I realize thats a totally different beast since it puts you close to the ground.
Imagine the next Truck Simulator game using this technology.. even though I realize thats a totally different beast since it puts you close to the ground.
This is like a game of the forever or something to that effect. I'm going to buy it just for the sheer curiosity of it all. It's a tech piece that will be a great game. I'm already guessing that this will be my game that shows my wife this is why I spent _______ on my Xbox Series X. The XB1 isn't doing this.
You know, seeing those airports made me realize this is probably great for seeing where to go for vacation next. It's one thing to see hear about places or see pictures. It's another to fly there in my living room.
For towns etc there's 3D stock buildings wherever the AI thinks it's seen a 3D building in the aerial photo data. It won't be totally accurate but you should see something.
I hope this game has a large robust career mode, where you start off as a courier in a small biplane and can progress up to an airbus etc
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Excellent, will definitely try it out. Push my setup to the max.
Fucking beautiful! Now give me a 1942 version of Europe and put me inside a Spitfire and call it Combat Simulator... The circle is complete
I hope they simulate getting your baggage lost or destroyed ;)
37 000 manually edited... Now I can't stop thinking about how many people who worked on that(please be many), that had to have been soul crushing work.
I only wanna see my local airport and the surrounding area in game because thatd be super neat. I wonder and care more about the business model and technology behind the game though rather than fly a 747 around.
I was super excited to play this in VR but honestly I'm not that pumped for the flat version at all. Did they confirm VR support won't be in at launch or do we still not know? I have no interest in playing a game like this on a monitor anymore after getting used to DCS and Elite in VR.
You don't have to be, you can decide to download regions and have it locally as well.
That's my plan, at least for areas around me. Southern UK/Northern Europe. Hopefully data streaming/terrain data can be stored on another drive and not the game itself.
I'm not up on the latest information so this may have changed but when asked about it after their first preview event they said it was a high priority but that doesn't sound like it would make launch to me. This is one direct quote from Microsoft Flight Simulator head Jorg Neumann:
For some maybe, but the majority is either shit- or bullshit jobs.
Filling someone else's pockets with your surplus, getting the scrums for yourself
Way off topic though so let's just marble at them clouds shall we?
Ah thanks for pulling that quote. I've been looking into it more and it seems like it hasn't been confirmed or denied but I think your take is accurate - VR support at some point but probably not at launch - due to the way they talk about it.
It usually is except for the early ones and one they tried before they killed it (and I thought they lost interest in ever putting out another one until they announced this one).
I'm so excited for this... all I want to know now is when is it going to be out and how well can my computer play it (and if/when they put out VR will my graphics card be good enough for that).
Basically, take my money damnit!
MS just needs to buy Asobo already. Between this and A Plague Tale, they are certainly a talented studio and would be a great first party.