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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

38 points by theodorejb 3y ago

fabiensanglard 3y ago
WOW. When I think of what I used when I started (Flight Simulator 4).
piloto_ciego 3y ago
Having worked as a professional pilot for many years… the visuals in this video look… I don’t know, more real than real? Ad hoc medevac in a caravan is something I’ve done a time or two… this is kind of surreal. Very cool.
kylehotchkiss 3y ago
Incredible work! Wish it wasn’t limited to just Xbox, I’d love to run this on iPad one day
- zaptrem 3y ago
  I think you can play it on iOS via MS’s cloud game streaming service. https://www.xbox.com/en-us/play/games/microsoft-flight-simulator-standard-40th-anniversa/9pmqdm08snk9 https://www.xbox.com/en-us/play/games/microsoft-flight-simul...
- goosedragons 3y ago
  It'll be on Windows/Steam too.
daly 3y ago
I was an early user of the flight simulator back in the day. I logged over 2000 hours on the original flight simulator. I kept my flight hours in a log book. I used actual physical maps. I visited every airport within 500 miles of Meigs Field. I flew in all kinds of weather. I bought every extra option. I visited local pro shops and bought a dozen flying books. I highly recommend "Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche". Best book ever. I took private pilot flying lessons and knew exactly how to fly. I pre-paid for the new MS Flight Simulator. I bought pedals and a yoke. I bought a new, high-end laptop that exceeded the specs. Once the flight simulator arrived I flew it every day for 2 weeks. Half of every day was spent downloading updates. I spent 5 hours talking to a pleasant fellow in India trying to correct errors. I spent hours talking to other MS support people. In fact, for those 2 weeks I spent more hours on the phone with MS support than I did flying the plane. When it worked it was truly an amazing program. Mostly it didn't work. Constant updates broke everything. I sent back the pedals and yoke hardware. I cancelled the flight simulator. MS kept my money. Your (flying) miles might vary but I would not suggest buying this program.
- delta_p_delta_x 3y ago
  > I pre-paid for the new MS Flight Simulator. Not that it's your fault, rather than the video game industry's for foisting this stupid standard on us, but rule number 1 is: never pre-order a game. I broke my own rule for Cyberpunk 2077, because I thought 'hey, it's CDPR, they can't do anything bad', and got a badly broken game that didn't even play properly until several months after release. Never again. I don't care how big or how fast the hype train is going; I will never ever pre-order a game again. I was in the alpha and beta for MSFS, and my experience was the same as yours: it took hours and hours to update inside the program, and it felt like the developers had no idea what a CDN was. I still wanted the fancy graphics, so I actually did wait, since I got it essentially for free. Not worth it. I ended up going back to X-Plane 11, which actually runs properly.
- joezydeco 3y ago
  From reading the early press releases on FS2020, I was under the impression that Asobo created a pretty app to view satellite imagery and the simulation part came afterward. After tying FS2020 like you did, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft decided to do a complete rewrite.
catketch 3y ago
Get this on Apple vision pro at launch
- joezydeco 3y ago
  You can use it with some headsets like Quest2. Results vary, though.
netsharc 3y ago
Hmm, heli missions? Gives me SimCopter vibes...
mcaravey 3y ago
These activities remind me a lot of playing SimCopter. Nothing quite beets the anxiety of getting shot at by some baddies in the city I built while trying to drop a rope ladder on a train. Great times. Generally, I really appreciate them putting stuff like this in the game though. Even though I’ve played flight simulator since the early days, I’ve always had a hard time engaging because I don’t enjoy flying for flying’s sake. It’s also part of the reason why I prefer the Forza games or other arcade racers over pure simulators. Obviously I’m not cultured enough but then again, I’m also a very casual gamer.
jourintown 3y ago
Look forward to that.
polishdude20 3y ago
Can it please run at least reasonably well in VR without requiring two RTX 4090's? I feel like VR is the next big thing for this game if only more people could run it
pcdoodle 3y ago
Wow, I fire 2020 up every 6 months to see if it stops crashing with newer patches. Never felt like I got the $60 value out of it.

38 points by theodorejb 3y ago

WOW. When I think of what I used when I started (Flight Simulator 4).

Having worked as a professional pilot for many years… the visuals in this video look… I don’t know, more real than real? Ad hoc medevac in a caravan is something I’ve done a time or two… this is kind of surreal. Very cool.

kylehotchkiss 3y ago

Incredible work! Wish it wasn’t limited to just Xbox, I’d love to run this on iPad one day

zaptrem 3y ago
I think you can play it on iOS via MS’s cloud game streaming service. https://www.xbox.com/en-us/play/games/microsoft-flight-simulator-standard-40th-anniversa/9pmqdm08snk9 https://www.xbox.com/en-us/play/games/microsoft-flight-simul...
goosedragons 3y ago
It'll be on Windows/Steam too.

daly 3y ago

I was an early user of the flight simulator back in the day. I logged over 2000 hours on the original flight simulator. I kept my flight hours in a log book. I used actual physical maps. I visited every airport within 500 miles of Meigs Field. I flew in all kinds of weather. I bought every extra option. I visited local pro shops and bought a dozen flying books. I highly recommend "Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche". Best book ever. I took private pilot flying lessons and knew exactly how to fly. I pre-paid for the new MS Flight Simulator. I bought pedals and a yoke. I bought a new, high-end laptop that exceeded the specs. Once the flight simulator arrived I flew it every day for 2 weeks. Half of every day was spent downloading updates. I spent 5 hours talking to a pleasant fellow in India trying to correct errors. I spent hours talking to other MS support people. In fact, for those 2 weeks I spent more hours on the phone with MS support than I did flying the plane. When it worked it was truly an amazing program. Mostly it didn't work. Constant updates broke everything. I sent back the pedals and yoke hardware. I cancelled the flight simulator. MS kept my money. Your (flying) miles might vary but I would not suggest buying this program.

delta_p_delta_x 3y ago
> I pre-paid for the new MS Flight Simulator. Not that it's your fault, rather than the video game industry's for foisting this stupid standard on us, but rule number 1 is: never pre-order a game. I broke my own rule for Cyberpunk 2077, because I thought 'hey, it's CDPR, they can't do anything bad', and got a badly broken game that didn't even play properly until several months after release. Never again. I don't care how big or how fast the hype train is going; I will never ever pre-order a game again. I was in the alpha and beta for MSFS, and my experience was the same as yours: it took hours and hours to update inside the program, and it felt like the developers had no idea what a CDN was. I still wanted the fancy graphics, so I actually did wait, since I got it essentially for free. Not worth it. I ended up going back to X-Plane 11, which actually runs properly.
joezydeco 3y ago
From reading the early press releases on FS2020, I was under the impression that Asobo created a pretty app to view satellite imagery and the simulation part came afterward. After tying FS2020 like you did, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft decided to do a complete rewrite.

catketch 3y ago

Get this on Apple vision pro at launch

joezydeco 3y ago
You can use it with some headsets like Quest2. Results vary, though.

netsharc 3y ago

Hmm, heli missions? Gives me SimCopter vibes...

mcaravey 3y ago

These activities remind me a lot of playing SimCopter. Nothing quite beets the anxiety of getting shot at by some baddies in the city I built while trying to drop a rope ladder on a train. Great times. Generally, I really appreciate them putting stuff like this in the game though. Even though I’ve played flight simulator since the early days, I’ve always had a hard time engaging because I don’t enjoy flying for flying’s sake. It’s also part of the reason why I prefer the Forza games or other arcade racers over pure simulators. Obviously I’m not cultured enough but then again, I’m also a very casual gamer.

jourintown 3y ago

Look forward to that.

polishdude20 3y ago

Can it please run at least reasonably well in VR without requiring two RTX 4090's? I feel like VR is the next big thing for this game if only more people could run it

pcdoodle 3y ago

Wow, I fire 2020 up every 6 months to see if it stops crashing with newer patches. Never felt like I got the $60 value out of it.