New Microsoft Flight Simulator Announced

[ZXR]

If the game is anything like the trailer, im buying. hell yeah

[Results45]

On 6/11/2019 at 9:46 AM, Zeddex said:

If the game is anything like the trailer, im buying. hell yeah

Pretty sure Microsoft saw what Dovetail Games did to FSX (they acquired content & rights from Microsoft in 2014, released the DLC-heavy Flight Sim World on Steam, then shut it down last year and subsequently switched to Unreal Engine for Train Sim World) 

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And how their other competition are fairing (X-Plane 11 and DCS World):

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And were like: WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT! 

[D13H4RD]

Really kinda hyped for this, ngl. 

 

 

[Anomnomnomaly]

On 6/10/2019 at 12:56 AM, trag1c said:

 

Looks like Microsoft Terrorism Simulator is on the way with no official release date as of yet. Jokes aside the trailer was recorded is 4k60p and it looks absolutely stunning.

 

 

 

 

I have to admit... I flew planes into very tall buildings in Flight Sim back in the 90's... After 2001 it just wasn't as fun any more.  Damn terrorists spoiling things for the rest of us.

[Big Head Tech]

On 6/9/2019 at 10:16 PM, Dylanc1500 said:

Well it looks like this is going to be a multi terabyte project.

Indeed...

[Falkentyne]

22 hours ago, Results45 said:

Pretty sure Microsoft saw what Dovetail Games did to FSX (they acquired content & rights from Microsoft in 2014, released the DLC-heavy Flight Sim World on Steam, then shut it down last year and subsequently switched to Unreal Engine for Train Sim World) 

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Train Sim World (UE4)

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And how their other competition are fairing (X-Plane 11 and DCS World):

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And were like: WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT! 

I'm sorry, but the flat painted textures of cars in parking lots when the plane was landing just did it for me.  I'm emotionally scarred for life.  I mean...we had that stuff during the Geforce 2 Era. Yikes....

[trag1c]

14 hours ago, Anomnomnomaly said:

 

 

I have to admit... I flew planes into very tall buildings in Flight Sim back in the 90's... After 2001 it just wasn't as fun any more.  Damn terrorists spoiling things for the rest of us.

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[Results45]

On 6/12/2019 at 10:32 AM, Falkentyne said:

I'm sorry, but the flat painted textures of cars in parking lots when the plane was landing just did it for me.  I'm emotionally scarred for life.  I mean...we had that stuff during the Geforce 2 Era. Yikes....

Yeah I wouldn't hold my breath for a flight sim with photoscanned 4K parallax textures and ray-traced lighting, ambient occlusion, shadows, and reflections:

 

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It might take devs another 5 years. 

[JZStudios]

22 hours ago, Results45 said:

Yeah I wouldn't hold my breath for a flight sim with photoscanned 4K parallax textures and ray-traced lighting, ambient occlusion, shadows, and reflections:

 

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It might take devs another 5 years. 

Considering it's literally the entire planet, I don't know what you people are expecting. 1500 feet up and you won't even see the cars in the parking lots. It's not like the entire game takes place on ground level.

[The King of the Undead]

32 minutes ago, JZStudios said:

Considering it's literally the entire planet, I don't know what you people are expecting. 1500 feet up and you won't even see the cars in the parking lots. It's not like the entire game takes place on ground level.

it will if I am flying! That or the inside of something I didn't mean to crash into.

[Glinch]

If it doesn't have hot air balloons buzzing the tower at mach 3 in multiplayer, it's not Microsoft Flight Simulator for me.

[imreloadin]

The real question is can I hit a giraffe and watch it turn into a red mist in glorious 4K???

 

If not then HARD PASS!!

[straight_stewie]

I feel like most people in search of a visually stunning, hardcore flight sim have already moved to DCS.

Now, if we could just convince someone to make a sim with the features of DCS in the world that the trailer showed, that would be worth spending serious money on.

[The Benjamins]

On 6/12/2019 at 1:32 PM, Falkentyne said:

I'm sorry, but the flat painted textures of cars in parking lots when the plane was landing just did it for me.  I'm emotionally scarred for life.  I mean...we had that stuff during the Geforce 2 Era. Yikes....

Do you also remember those maps/levels being a 1:1 scale of whole planet?

[trag1c]

16 hours ago, straight_stewie said:

I feel like most people in search of a visually stunning, hardcore flight sim have already moved to DCS.

Now, if we could just convince someone to make a sim with the features of DCS in the world that the trailer showed, that would be worth spending serious money on.

DCS is by far the best out there but if you want to fly an airbus or anything like it good luck lol. I love my A10 packages but your missing big aircraft.

[unsungheroist]

bu bu bu i want to fly Lockheed C-130 Hercules

[Results45]

19 hours ago, Glinch said:

If it doesn't have hot air balloons buzzing the tower at mach 3 in multiplayer, it's not Microsoft Flight Simulator for me.

 

Yep! Can't wait to see this in 4K! 

 

 

1 hour ago, unsungheroist said:

bu bu bu i want to fly Lockheed C-130 Hercules

 

Would War Thunder, Arma 3, and DCS mods do for now?

 

 

 

 

more C-130 gameplay........

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[Glinch]

1 hour ago, Results45 said:

Yep! Can't wait to see this in 4K! 

Lima Oscar Lima 420 Requesting mayday.

[Anomnomnomaly]

Just a quick reminder to all those saying it's covering the 'WHOLE' globe... 2/3 of this planet is water... do you think they're going to actually texture map 'ALL' of the water too?

[Results45]

13 hours ago, Anomnomnomaly said:

Just a quick reminder to all those saying it's covering the 'WHOLE' globe... 2/3 of this planet is water... do you think they're going to actually texture map 'ALL' of the water too?

It's not that hard considering it's just the same texture and wave-grid. Now if you ray-trace it all..........

[RevoltTrain]

@AlwaysFSX

[Ross Siggers]

On 6/11/2019 at 12:40 AM, Arika S said:

if it doesn't support modules that people have already bought in FSX i don't see a lot of people moving over

Wait do you really see the game engines being similar enough that this would work? As in, the companies releasing the content putting a little work to get a version for new FS.

I don't know the inherent differences, but it sounds like driving the 'standard' cards in GT5  Probably an exaggeration, I know some of the content looks great. But that sort of thing is taking the original FSX engine to the limit. I can't imagine it'd be easy to just, move content over.

[Arika]

6 minutes ago, Ross Siggers said:

Wait do you really see the game engines being similar enough that this would work? As in, the companies releasing the content putting a little work to get a version for new FS.

I don't know the inherent differences, but it sounds like driving the 'standard' cards in GT5  Probably an exaggeration, I know some of the content looks great. But that sort of thing is taking the original FSX engine to the limit. I can't imagine it'd be easy to just, move content over.

Graphics engine absolutely not, but the underlying simulation systems could theoretically be brought over. Especially since it's a Microsoft created platform. just look at what Lockheed Martin was able to do with the ESP engine in P3D.

 

Hell even DCS World's core Simulation can be traced back to Flanker 2.5 from 2002.

 

 

 

[JZStudios]

On 6/16/2019 at 7:00 PM, Glinch said:

If it doesn't have hot air balloons buzzing the tower at mach 3 in multiplayer, it's not Microsoft Flight Simulator for me.

Ground pound 69 signing off. Rotatay.

[Glinch]

7 hours ago, JZStudios said:

Ground pound 69 signing off. Rotatay.

TRIKE69 Requesting IFR clearance to 40000ft.