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Hopefully this is a placeholder price, £60 is ridiculous
It's £59.99 on the Windows Store too so doubt it.
Hopefully this is a placeholder price, £60 is ridiculous
They are pushing Game Pass as hard as they can i guess.
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Hm.. what's cheaper, building a VR rig or buying a plane?
Is it at launch? I thought they said it would be coming in the fall.
And I was going to get a rtx 3070 and call it a day...now it's a 3080ti i suppose *sign*
This is legitimately one of the few games I'm hyped for this year.
I never played flight simulators, do you need a degree in pilot or is there some kind of casual mode?
This is legitimately one of the few games I'm hyped for this year.
I never played flight simulators, do you need a degree in pilot or is there some kind of casual mode?
Apparently, that's due to some company scooping up a bunch of patents for Force Feedback joysticks, and charging exorbitant license fees to use them. The good news is that the majority of these patents are due to expire soon, so we may start seeing them back on the market in the next couple of years.
It's really amazing what talented members of the community have come up with to fill-in some of the natural shortcomings of vr in flight sims. Here are a couple more:
PointCTRL prototype test
Virtual Reality control device for flight simulations.Follow the development in the DCS Forum https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=218861
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Increase Your Immersion In DCS: World with VoiceAttack and VIACOM PRO 2.5!
Using VoiceAttack with the Plugin VIACOM PRO really ups your immersion in DCS World by allowing you to use your voice to talk to the AI over your coms rather...
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Yeah, the Immersion patents/licenses have always been a giant pain in the ass (hello SISAXIS...)
I wouldn't be surprised if the ideal specs for VR we're listed as the 30xx series lol
2880*1770, 90FPS, and ultra settings oh God. A plane may be the more budget friendly approach.
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There popped some upgrade thing to deluxe and Premium when the pre orders were announced. Its gone now. But probably will be back at launch.
Same happened with Minecraft Dungeons.
There are settings to change how "realistic" the controls are - the previews mention that you can run it with a regular Xbox controller, and it feels great. The DF preview specifically says that it'll never feel "arcade-y," but everything I've seen makes it look like what you're asking for is there.
I could see controller really being limited to the more basic control methods and then the game just requiring a mouse and keyboard if you wanna get into the detailed complex control systems. The console supports mouse and keyboard just fine.
Yes but that's better than before when they just said it was "on their list". At least it's officially confirmed to be coming this year.
Why? You can fly around the entire planet and it has extremly advanced physics simulation. $60 seems fair to me.
Hopefully this is a placeholder price, £60 is ridiculous
How will the game handle downloads on PC? I tried to pre-download the game on Gamepass PC but it only downloaded 12 MB of data. I think that may be a launcher, and the rest of the game will be downloaded through that launcher, but I'm speculating here. Anyone knows?
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Your speculation is right. As that is the case now with the alpha, closed beta.
Ah, alright got it.
I'm really excited to give this a go when my G2 gets here.
Oh nice, thanks. So after the launcher is downloaded, we won't need the Windows store to download and update the game correct? This is what is giving me pause about downloading the game from Gamepass.
Hmm, starting price is very high for this. This is the best I have seen so far,
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6,000 words about new features. It's coming to Steam! It's getting VR support! TONS of info in my article at Ars:
Flight Simulator hands-on: Microsoft looks different 20,000 feet in the air
The news is (mostly) great: VR, Steam, TrackIR, night flying, tons more.arstechnica.com
Sam I just want you to know that was a beautiful written article. Sure, it was about a videogame (not even an opinion piece) but it was such an informative, easy read. Really enjoyed it.
My only complain is that for some reason the embedded Vimeo videos can't go fullscreen. Not really any point in providing 4k footage if it's stuck on a tiny box haha.
I'm very excited for this game, specially to get my dad to play it (he loved the old flight simulators). Great work by Asobo.
I've been captivated by this since the first few feature videos starting trickling out. While i'm super excited right now and during launch week, my habit of not sticking to it long term might mean I'll take it for a month long test drive on GamePass PC. If i still have the urge entering month 2 I'll be sure to pull the trigger on the whole package.
Easy to see that Microsoft is going to bring it quite a bit of people that are not into plane games/sims with this one.
Easy to see that Microsoft is going to bring it quite a bit of people that are not into plane games/sims with this one.
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Found them again
Buy Flight Simulator Premium Deluxe Upgrade - Microsoft Store
This title does not support Korean, Vietnamese, Thai or Indonesian localization. The Premium Deluxe Edition includes everything from Microsoft Flight Simulator plus 5 additional highly accurate planes with unique flight models and 5 additional handcrafted international airports. The world at...
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Buy Flight Simulator Deluxe Upgrade - Microsoft Store
This title does not support Korean, Vietnamese, Thai or Indonesian localization. The Deluxe Edition includes everything from Microsoft Flight Simulator plus 5 additional highly accurate planes with unique flight models and 5 additional handcrafted international airports. Additional Aircraft...
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Not sure. There are Windows Store mixed reality games ... like Superhot VR and Arizona Sunshine.
But there's no question that I'll personally be buying it on Steam.
Thank you for the kind words, and to anybody else who read all of that. Ars's tech team is looking to fix the Vimeo embedding issue, so hopefully that'll be resolved soon.
Here's a fun tidbit: MSFS will have Achievements. None have been built into the pre-release version yet, but when you fly in the "bush trip," you have an option to "get back on track" and receive a clear map indicator of whether you're sticking with the flight path. "Doing this will void an achievement," an in-game notice says.
Incorrect. VR support will come to both PC storefronts.
Other Windows 10 Store games can call up either Windows Mixed Reality or SteamVR on a case-by-case basis, as well.
Well it's a great way to sell the new headset, and it is WMR so MS has some stake in it. It also appears to be a timed exclusive so it'll probably support the rest later. But yeah, it's pretty lame.
It also seems like the Reverb G2 has about the best visual fidelity on the market; considerably better than the Index and at almost half the price, so it will definitely do a great job at properly showcasing the visuals of the game.
Is that not a normal new game price over there?
Hopefully this is a placeholder price, £60 is ridiculous
Fair enough. As someone who lives in Canada, I know all too well the frustrations around arbitrarily paying more for goods.
I guess they just did a straight conversion then, hopefully a Steam sale will bring it down to a more reasonable amount for you.
THIS THIS THIS. The value proposition of that $120 package compared to FSX, let alone any other major flight sim platform out there, is pretty freaking high.