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Can I ask a different question, putting the scenery apart, is it a decent flight sim?

• bitxbit 6y ago
  It’s probably the best flight sim to date. I see huge potential for addons to leverage the map data. Perhaps an arcade mode to make it more accessible to casual gamers.
  • ppod 6y ago
    Overall maybe, but I'd say the jury's out on the flight model vs X-Plane, and it (currently) doesn't model airliner systems quite to the level of the payware X-plane airbuses or the Zibo boeing. It really crushes X-Plane on weather currently.
    • Stevvo 6y ago
      X-Plane's flight model is unquestionably better.
      • TylerE 6y ago
        I think that is very questionable. X-Plane handles some edge cases better for sure, like stall/spin. The feel of MSFS is much much much more real... like how there's always a little bit of turbulence.
• dudus 6y ago
  Apparently yes. I watched a few pilots on YouTube that were beta testing and praising the way different planes behave as highly realistic.
• dawnerd 6y ago
  Yep, there’s just the usual post launch bugs from complex systems. If you’re just flying GA then it’s for sure the best out.
• g_p 6y ago
  It's a very good (and new) simulation model. The issue is that it's pretty buggy, and performance is varied. I think there is real potential for it to be optimised into being much better (very poor use of multi core CPU for example), but that's a pretty fundamental rewrite you'd need for that. That it isn't built with DX12/vulkan is again disappointing and I doubt will be something that's addressed in an update, though I'd love to be proven wrong!