digital Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 This title came as a bit of an unexpected shock back at the last E3 event - the classic flight simulator is getting a major overhaul and reboot. It is planned to launch on PC first followed by Xbox and is rumoured to be included with the xbox game pass. I have to say having seen some of the alpha gameplay and trailer footage, the visuals on this game look absolutely stunning and highly realistic, blowing it's closest competition out of the water. It is slated for release sometime later on in 2020. Is anyone else quite excited to see how this game turns out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I wish to try out two new such similator one being the flight simulator and another being the raft simulator. I am waiting for the releasse of both , hopefully play once the lockdown is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m76 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 So I just played MS Flight Simulator 2020. Kind of disappointed, it looks much less impressive in person than on the promo videos. And the AI generated landscape is what you'd expect, tried loading up my home city, and it looks awful, nothing like in reality. The buildings look nothing like their real world counterparts, not even their heights and styles are correct most of the time. I expected at least the bigger more unieque buildings to be textured with real world oblique imagery, but sadly no. Everything has the same stock texture on it, so the whole city is a single shade, it all looks bland and lifeless. Roads are not even modelled at all, it's just a lo-res satellite imagery streched on a heightmap. And the rivers seem to flow over bridges not under them. Ground vehicles are disproportionately oversized compared to reality. I've even seen cars driving under water. As it stands google earth's 3D view looks much better than anything in this game that is not hand crafted. And the installer is awfully lazily programmed. The game downloads one file, then uncompresses it on your PC, and only then starts to download the next file. It's slow. In the end I'm glad I only paid $1 to play it. But I'm sure hardcore simulator fans would find it more interesting. Although the flight model didn't seem like anything special. It doesn't seem all that different than the last game in the franchise I played many years ago. X-Plane seemed much more robust than this 10 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) Recent reviews on Steam indicate the game has some issues with Microsoft Flight Simulator. The game has been released to mixed reviews from users, talking about lockups, glitches, freezing and lots of issues tied to its launcher. It isn't very clear at this stage if the game is coming to console despite it apparently getting added to game pass. The fact it also circumvents the 2 hours of playtime and refund policy on Steam is also pretty low. Edited August 19, 2020 by Shagger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazycrab Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I wasn't really following it but I did notice a couple of reviews that seemed to be pretty impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreiMirfi Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I have the CD for Flight Simulator 2007, got it as a gift. I didn't play it a lot, but the game was interesting. I'll check the trailer for the 2020 version, and I'll see how it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 Now that we are in 2022, I wonder if they cover more flights and also the airports along the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
