How Microsoft Flight Simulator Recreated Our Entire Planet | Noclip Documentary
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We talk to Jorg Neumann (Microsoft) and Sebastian Wloch (Asobo) about the bleeding-edge technology that enabled them to recreate the digital twin of planet earth in the latest iteration of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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Edited & Hosted by Danny O'Dwyer
Filmed & Colored by Jeremy Jayne
Captions by Megan Carnes
0:00 - Introducing Microsoft Flight Simulator
3:26 - Building the Team
7:19 - Creating The Planet
15:54 - Adding the Human World
22:26 - Simulating Weather
25:51 - Designing Planes
30:09 - Where People Fly
32:34 - Credits - เกม
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Love it, thank you for making this and sharing our story!
You did an amazing job! Congratulations! A true and revolutionary achievement
@Emiliya Kazantseva dude it's only 3 months since the initial launch, give it some time...
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Yeah why should games be bug free on release(!)
@@colin-campbell I mean Xplane 11 still have bugs and CTD after years so it's normal. Give it 6 months atleast
Well and thank you guys and partners of MSFS for making a historic Flight SImulator!
"They flew home." Absolutely no lie, I got a slight lump in my throat from that. What an excellent documentary that showcases not only the phenomenal technical achievement this simulator was to make but also a great testament to the power of technology to be powerful emotional and social tools.
These documentaries are too well made. I actually teared up when I haven't shown emotion in the past years in any movie. Absolutely superb work.
Yeah, that definitely hit me.
It felt obvious that they would fly home. The first thing I would want is to see how the simulation represents something I'm intimately familiar with. I'm sure it's the same for a ton of simulated environments and open worlds, people want to see stuff they know. After you can start seeing the rest of the world.
Came here to say the same thing. Danny's delivery on that line was perfect, and the sentiment is so real.
I had a feeling it was coming, but it still hit me pretty hard.
It's quite an honor knowing I was one of the pilots mapping the aerial imagery for this simulator. Specifically, San Francisco (or the entire bay area actually), Medford, OR, Portland, OR, Dallas, TX :). All before I went and got a corporate pilot job lol
Google maps looks much better and is completely free.
"They flew Home"
Of course they flew home. Damn good documentary. Its sad that this technical Achievement got overlooked last year. This deserve much more praise and love.
You are absolutely right. It got overlooked completely in my opinion. Once i decided not to waste my time playing cyberpunk 2077, i went to gaming sites to find good games released this year, and that's when i found MSFS and has been hooked since.
I've been away from my family for 10 months now and decided to fly home.
I followed the roads to my parents actual house. Like, "my god, they did it, it's all here"
Me too
I love seeing what my home region looks like from the air!
As did I.
To anyone reading this from Microsoft or Asobo, a huge thank you! MSFS has been one of the FEW good things that happened in 2020.
Thank you so much
@@AsoboStudio the engine you made is phenomenol 🤩
@@dstutz are you serious? HahahahahahHHHHHHHHHhhaahaha
@@dstutz well make your own not the place to complain have issues help track the bugs and make the game better!
@@javierdominguez6007 Are YOU serious? Have you ever even actually played the game? It's one of the buggiest games I've ever played. Half the shit in the game is completely broken. Go look at the official forums, go look at the reddit threads. The game doesn't even have full multi-monitor support, which would be shameful for any flight sim released in 2020, but for some reason MSFS 2020 gets a pass?
imagine telling someone 20 years ago this thing exists. yeah we simulated the entire world using satellite pictures, traffic maps, filled in the details with machine learning / AI and are able to stream it to your computer in real time. and it only costs as much as any other video game
I felt a shiver of awe run down my spine reading that.
Imagine being 20 years from now and it has become commonplace... I wonder what future games will be like
@@asmoth360 minecraft with good graphics, the dream.
In 20 years from now people will say it looks bad or outdated . Minecraft already has shaders that look real enough to go in the uncanny Valley.
@@Legion849 idk this seems like something that's gonna be remembered as a huge leap forward in technology and graphics, sorta like how we think about games like Doom or Half-Life now.
"They flew home"... Man i started crying... It hit me so hard this one. Great documentary on a brilliant game.
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Me too
Why did you start crying? so dumb lmao
This game is a master piece. It made me recall the first time I played flight simulator as a kid in 1995, at the time, I questioned my friends which were there with me if they would ever be able to make the entire world, realistically, for us to fly by. 26 years after, look, they did it. This is fricking awesome.
My first time was 1982. I bought it at Radio Shack for $50. Two "cities", Chicago and Champaign Illinois. I thought it was cool so never really paid much attention to scenery. Still don't so MSFS2020 didn't spend much time on my HD. Revolutionary program for sure ... just not my cup of tea.
Same here.
I finally installed this game 2-weeks ago. No, they didn't recreate the world. I quickly learned that all the hype, as usual, was ineffable twaddle. It was reminiscent of when Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 came out, and the tag line was "warning, this is not a game".
MSFS 2020 is a slight improvement over FS2004, but the vast majority of the graphics are the same, namely, "the world". Use the hype as a lesson in why you need to defend yourself against marketing.
@@onepalproductions It's stunning, I went from flying into Lukla underneath the shadow of Mount Everest, I was just flying around Burbank and compared it directly with Flight Simulator X. There's no comparison. It's ACTUALLY Los Angeles. They even have all the wind turbines out towards Palm Springs. It's a literal 1:1 mapping of the entire planet. And the old game is scaled all wrong, Alcatraz is too close to the Golden Gate bridge for example. You need to get back in your time machine and go to the future where you have holograms or stop taking drugs. Suffering from recency bias is what you are.
@@onepalproductions The entire world is there, in satellite images (may be no antartica). The fact is that I was able to find every place I looked for. It's basically google earth with planes.
"70% of players flew to the same place; they flew home"
This line made my eyes water a bit.
Did not expect that.
should have been common sense.
same here, its the first thing i did lol i've always wanted to see my house in a video game and now i have
That fact is either totally made up or it raises some serious questions about the user's privacy.
@@TheGoncas2 during alpha testing we answered many surveys, and that was one of the questions. A lot of us thought there was no way they'd get our house, in our small towns or where ever. Man we were wrong.
@@TheGoncas2 My god are you that paranoid? No one sits around scanning the sim for where every nobody like you is flying to. Please go back to your room pull the shades lock the door and quake with fear of the digital privacy monster.🙄
The Microsoft dude sounded so genuine. Like he was really passionate about that project and wanted to share his passion and exitement rather than giving a pr speech. Such a fascinating game/sim.
I’m 37 and can’t remember the last time I had that feeling of like being a child, excited you know? This gave that to me, so thank you. I grew up playing flight sim in the 90’s with my pop. Happy times
I'm 40 this year and I'm right there with you.
36 here and sharing the same emotions
First got Flight Sim in 87 when I was 8 years old. I ran it on my 286 in VGA with a sound blaster.. like a boss! My dad and I would play it together in a kind of a pilot and co-pilot sort of way. I still remember how he would always comment how he can't imagine it ever looking much better. I wish he was still here to see it now. Thx for the memories Flight Sim team.
When I flew over my home the first time I played, I looked outside and coincidentally a real plane was flying, that freaked me out for a second or two...
Wow..
Outsourced piloting :)
Haha, I'm gonna crash the plane on my house, it will be fun!
*Sees a plane outside through the window*
¡¡ABORT!! ¡¡ABORT!!
That's called 2nd person lol
im buying vr headset just for this game
A great documentary on a great sim and an awesome team! :)
Documentary? Marketing.
Loved your coverage of the development process and looked forward to seeing videos from you about this game.
Should of known this would catch your interest obsidian
@@nodakamakadon oh STOPPIT lol
Big fan of your channel! Thanks so much for watching!
It was so touching when he paused after saying "70% of the players flew back home"
Me too!!!!
Felt forced and cheesy af. Don't know what y'all are talking about. Guess some people are just suckers for that cheeseball crap.
I've only just found this video, an amazing production.
I started using MSFS way back at the beginning and now, at nearly 70 years old, I fly MSFS2020 in VR. I learnt to fly and took my private pilot's licence 30 years ago because of my love for flight sim. Ill health stopped my real flying so the advent of MSFS2020 and VR was perfect.
Did I fly home? Hell yeah :) Thank you to everyone involved.
"the cloud is so important"
Yes the clouds look amazing.
Oh THE CLOUD.
If Nadella hears that, he'll want you to pay for the clouds.
I personally would’ve liked to know how they did cloud modeling more specifically, since it’s so magical.
I still thought he was talking about the clouds until I saw this comment
Lmao I had the same thought
My 81 year old grandpa used to fly.
I can’t wait to get Flight Simulator, so I can let him do it again.
What a wonderful thing to do. It will mean so much to him.
I'm 79 years old. I have had an Oculus Rift CV-1 since it's introduction. And I have flown MSFS is some form since 1998. I will have this as soon as it releases for VR and probably on a new high end PC of Gen 4 and Nvidia 3080. I currently do a lot of mock landings and take offs in Google Earth VR. I also have a very high speed Internet Service provider. My dad lived to be 98 so I'm hoping to have serious time left to enjoy this marvel.
@@mesillahills thats awesome man! Hope you get many years to experience this awesome sim
@@mesillahills Why don’t you invest in a new headset? They’ve come so far.
@@ovwarrior Actually I own a Rift-S too. And I will probably buy a G2 as well once you can actually get them. I am also going to get a new Gen 4 PC with an RTX 3080 in it when VR releases on or about December 23rd. The 3080's are mostly sold out right now too. MS just announced it will support ALL major VR HMD's including Oculus at release on that date..
This is one of my favorite documentaries so far, you can seriously tell the entire Flight Sim team had so much heart and passion put into this
My thanks for this documentary!
Having never played a flight sim, I had a bit of Dunning-Kruger when it came to this game. I never thought it was trivial. I knew it must involve lots of data and data processing. But I would say I thought it was probably 10 times less technical than this video revealed it to be. In my mind they just took all the global imagery data, ran 'some' processing on it, hand detailed the major places, and then got some basic live weather data and ran 'some' processing on that to render the weather. I thought the hardest part was the data aggregation. I severely underestimated the complexity of processing they were doing.
To use an analogy, I thought it was more like a commercial jetliner but it turned out to be a state of the art military fighter jet. And I now have a newfound appreciation for the technical achievement that is Microsoft Flight Simulator.
"taking data and ran 'some' processing..." well, technically it is just that but the amount of 'some' is just a bit bigger and more complex ;)
they really have done a fantastic job. I took the crazy technological feats for granted just a little bit, but not now after watching this video.
Funny seeing you here.
Pretty amazing how they've recreated the entire earth.
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Well I certainly didn't expect to cry from a Microsoft Flight Simulator documentary!
Even after nearly a year flying in this sim I am still in awe of how it has turned out and how it is being continuously developed. A big thank you to all involved :-)
This sim is jaw breaking and amazing. Traveling to certain locations where I left parts of my heart and memories definitely brought tears to my eyes. Some places I will never go back to, but visiting those locations gave me feelings only those places can.
I used to live in a tropical place with islands and beaches and cool little airports that you could go skydiving from. It's quite amazing to fly around it anytime I want. My brain totally buys that I was "there" again.
32:45 Thank you 'a potato'
🙏 🥔
I definitely searched for this exact comment
The video is already amazing. The ending segment.., "They flew home" is absolutely touching. An emotional and powerful ending to the video. Well done, MSFS team!
Holy crap.I've been waiting for a game like this for years.... Next we need street racing games where we can race on any street in the world
That will probably be another 20 years
This really explains how they finally made the flight sim that I always dreamed of as a kid. I didn't understand at that young age that the technology wasn't there yet to make something this good.
Danny as soon as you said "70% of players....went home" i geniunely just had a few tears stream down my face. Brilliant documentary
This is less of a video game and more of a computer engineering project. Phenomenal seems like underselling the look and feel of this "game". TY /noclip
I hate that it gets labeled as a game. Then it means it comes with expectations to be 4k 120 fps capable ultra omega graphics or its shit.
Nah - it’s a simulator. It’s a fantastic one. The leap from p3d/xplane to this is just astonishing.
@@final3119 It has ultra graphics settings so what's the problem . Microsoft advertises it as a game.
@@Legion849 Because the only games playing at 4k 120 FPS are hall shooters and games like CS:Go... not games that you can see all the way out to the horizon while simulating 50 other AI aircraft, accurate weather and lighting, streaming in gigabytes of imagery and photogrammetry.
@@final3119 It's literally labeled as a flight simulator.
@@OneWheelMan people label and call it a game
What an amazing job you did with this documentary, Noclip - thank you! And huge thanks to Asobo, Microsoft, the partners and all the third party developers for what you have collectively brought to us. I really have no idea how TH-cam didn't recommend this to me until now. I've been obsessed with MSFS 2020 since its release (and obsessive in my hunt for a graphics card that will run it!) - ah well, I'm here now. My wife and I just sat here unable to tear ourselves away. This one is getting saved for later.
Also, thanks MS and Finishing Move Inc for allowing your fantastic in-game music to be used.
32:00 Aw, Jorg - that made my eyes a little bleary. But yes, the timing turned out to be perfect.
The delivery of that "They flew home" made me tear up. Amazing documentary as always, you guys.
“They flew home.” Not a dry eye in the house
That fact is either totally made up or it raises some serious questions about the user's privacy.
@@TheGoncas2 No, it's not made up, and no, it doesn't raise serious questions about the user's privacy. All they're doing is taking the player's IP address to get an approximated geolocation, which practically all sites on the internet collect in order to give the user a relevant and coherent experience based on where they live, among other useful applications. The player's real geolocation would then match with the same geolocation inside the game when the player is flying over there or close to it. I'm not 100% sure if they indeed did this, but i'm certain that would be one easy way to do it.
@@TheGoncas2 Cmon, this gives you issues with privacy? You're on youtube, using a device which constantly tracks you and everything you do, surrounded by other people's devices which also can track you, with no way of opting out. And you're complaining that this sim knows where you live?
@@eagleflies8681 Probably locating more accurately than through IP. Microsoft has access to accurate WiFi-positioning databases, etc. Also most devices, even PCs, can self-report their position nowadays, and Microsoft doesn't exactly have a great track record of not spying on people.
What the documentary didn’t explain is that they garnered this data from a survey of a representative sample of players.
That "They fly home" part hit harder then a 20ton semi truck
I remember the excitement I had in the 80's when Flight Sim came out. This new version gives me the same goosebumpy thrill, I feel like a kid again!
Same here 🤩🤩🤩
It’s the ONLY reason I want to update my ageing computer.
Then I got a thrill from flying from Meig's field to Champaign using it's representation of VORs. The simple monochromatic "scenery" was really unimportant to me. The new scenery still manages to escape my attention (more into the aspect of flight the program is intended to simulate).
@@josephj6521 BINGO ... you have touched upon the number one reason Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) was created.
@@Deploracle I miss Meig's field and Gates Learjet^^
thanks for the video - i spend well over half of my time in the sim flying around my old home of central idaho, been away for 30 years and miss it, makes me feel like i am home for a few hours - l am very thankful to all who made this flight sim possible and given me so many hours of joy flying all over the world
This took an unbelievable amount of mind effort. I've never seen a game like this before. A "Game". It's hard to call it a game. It's a masterpiece.
Dammit Danny. I'm sitting here on Thanksgiving, the first one I've had to spend away from friends and family, and your closing sequence made me cry. Well done.
Be well mate, Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for watching and for keeping your family safe!
This is less of a video game and more of a computer engineering project. Phenomenal seems like underselling the look and feel of this "game". TY /noclip
My father .. passed away recently at the age of 76...I was watching this documentary with tears hurting my eyes reminiscing about dad having found a mobile app for this flight simulator,,, he would fly in the out back.....he went to Easter Island... the pyramids...my heart filled with happiness remembering the joy on his face..#priceless. thank you for all you do .... From NEW ZEALAND 💕
aww Man bless you, Sorry to hear that.
The amount of passion that went into creating this game is outstanding. I truely think this is a feat in video game design, it's revolutionary and perfectly resembles what true sim gaming should be and strive to be. I'm not a huge sim gamer, but for those who are this must be a dream come true.
Yes, the first time I started up MSFS I did indeed fly home. I teared up when Danny said that. 😢
How did you know my Uncle had a bungalow in Kansas?
Because of the POWER OF CLOUD COMPUTING
They are always watching
same lol
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@Jonny B Please join! You will be saved!
omg, this is such a well made documentary. As someone who makes and works on docs for a living - and who loves flight simulators as a hobby - I was set to be disappointed. Boy was I wrong. This is so well produced. It's detailed and fascinating. Thanks for answering nearly all my how-did-they-pull-off-making- MSFS2020 questions!
What an absolute pleasure it was watching this. The part about "where people fly" really got me.
"Hey, I'm as close to you as I can get."
Me: *UGLY CRYING*
Yeah
Ever heard about a "phone call"?
@@NipapornP How about a Phone call while flying!!!!
@@SgtRum That's just as well! ;)
Cringe
Me: "Oh a new Noclip documentary ! Nice. What's that, 'Flight Simulator' ? Cool, I won't end up crying this time, it's just planes !"
Narrator: "It was not just planes."
*30m later*
Noclip: "They flew home."
me: *sobbing hard* damn those planes are nice
Photogrammetry give such a deep emotion as well
Yea, I can't believe I got a lump in my throat over that
I had the same exact reaction ^^ You wouldn’t believe a plane sim game would be so emotional 🥰
Me to. Weird ✈️✈️
Well done to you and all involved in this well produced documentary. Very professionally done!
This is so amazing. Anyone know the legality of using the super realistic looking in-game aerial footage as stock footage say in a music video?
I think you can, as gameplay footage can be monetizable on TH-cam
Pretty sure you aren't stealing Intellectual Property of a big map of the world. But, courts are corrupt, so it would be a crapshoot...
check the game's EULA, it is probably covered there.
Just claim the footage is from a personally developed project that is ironically similar to Flight Simulator 2020 or claim it is real life.
@@journeytree Lies like that won't go over well in court. Your lawyer will advise against that strategy.
Absolutely phenomenal! I teared up in the end. One of your best, Noclip! Well done :)
This doc makes me wanna upgrade my PC, get a flight stick and experience the game on my own. Great job on the doc, Danny and Jeremy - and thank you for your work!
Do it !
Good luck getting a HOTAS or even a simple USB flight stick right now. The ones actually in stock are being scalped at insane prices.
@@XinKotetsu Yep, my local MicroCenter's HOTAS stock is non-existent.
You don't even need it, a mouse and keyboard is flyable and gives you a sense of awe about the game just being able to fly above your local city from its local airport.
@@scottmcqueen3964 Is a gamepad good too?
Agreed, this doco sets a new standard for noclip. Well done and thank you for everything you do!!
Fantastic documentary! Great acknowledgment of all those involved! I've been watching the development of this game for almost a year. And though I still don't have it yet (might be a gift), I would be so forgiving of any graphical errors or the like. Because I understand the scale at which this game is made. The details to deliver to me something attainable in as realistic a version of any game that is currently on the market.
I love this game! I appreciate so much about it. And yet, I haven't even played it.
Keep flyin'!
Fantastic doco. Jorg Neumann resume is incredibly lengthy & impressive, back from the Origin days! I've put in over 650 hours into FS2020 since launch and love it. The dedication the team at MS / Asobo has put in, as well as the engagement with the community is truly amazing. They've really managed to pull something incredible off here.
I live for these docs! I don't even have to play (or know) the subjects, the presentation of noclip makes me fall in love with them
Come Play With Us, You won't regret it!
Oh man, that was an amazing job, and "they Flew home" hit me at a personal level. Here I am sitting in quarantine in SoCal - alone for almost a year since I am teleworking.
this is so incredible, i don't have words. thank you for taking up the challenge and creating this
THIS deserves GAME OF THE YEAR. It wasn't even nominated for fucks sake.
We need a new category; The Best Engineered Game
It isnt a game, its a sim, but I get where youre coming from.
@@zat5176 there's a category called simulation aka its a game
@@zat5176 I don't think It's realistic enough to be considered as a simulator, xp11 is better
wtf how come??
It's so far advanced above anything ever made basically??
An absolutely fabulous documentary. Thank you for that and it may have been technical but it was as engrossing as hell. I know for sure that if it had been me flying then I would have tried to go home. In fact if I eventually buy it then it will be the first thing I try to do even if the craziness has passed on by.
What an excellent documentary! Thanks for making it and sharing it us!
Thank you for this documentary. It is amazing. Those people you featured and the work they are doing is nothing short of breathtaking. Stuff we can easily take for granted.
Read the comment thinking "really, people are tearing up over this...okay?"
30 minutes later: Lump in my throat, happy tear in my eye
Realising the beauty of technology when we work together, trust people and look for the good
“Going home!” The narration at the bench was filmed at my home town, San Leandro. Great place to watch incoming planes! The jets are landing at Oakland Airport, rwy 30.
Thank you! I was wondering and was pretty convinced it was Bay Area but hadn't found the spot - Mulford Point.. I can just see the bench he's sitting on on G Maps.. damn, this technology is the best gift a super-curious geo-nerd like me could ask for..
Normally I’d never care for something like this, but you manage to make things so awe inspiring and just overall beautiful content (for lack of better words). You basically can breath life into subjects that are usually boring and I think we all appreciate that.
This sim really is a technological marvel. Great documentary !!
Always was from the beginning in the 80's.
I remember that Crackdown 3 was supposed to demonstrate what the power of the cloud could do for gaming. That sadly flopped, but it looks like Flight Simulator is accomplishing that instead.
It didn't flop. Epic bought the underlying cloud technology that the entire Crackdown 3 concept was built on, so they had to rebuild the entire game without it (which is why one could easily argue that actual product we ended up with has no real hook, in story or gameplay).
@@julianreed7 That explains a lot
This is a brilliant film. I grew up practicing on FSX since 2007. It helped developed my passion for aviation. Now I am a pilot and I still practice procedures on FSX today. The attention to detail is incredible.
Beautifully presented. Last bit of home story is touching. Felt warm. Thanks
As I sit here hundreds of miles from home, you got me teary at the end. Awesome video.
Thank you for this insight into the development of MSFS. I took a nearly 15 year break between FSX and this new version, and the advance of technology is really breathtaking. But I am also amazed by the human side, that every simmer can experience when Jorg, Seb and Martial go live on Twitch and tell us about the newest developments in this awesome, continuing project ...
A couple of times through this video I looked away from the screen and when I looked back again I couldn't tell if I was looking at the game or real life footage. What a triumph of technology this turned out to be. And a triumph of a documentary, too, of course! I have even more respect for this product and the people behind it now.
At this point, I didn't even realize what I'm looking at either
Such an incredible wholesome ending, amazing dev team too. Great work, fantastic documentary!
This is such a great documentary, thank you for sharing it !
“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” - G.M.
Even though I already heard a lot of this, still watched it all the way through. Thank you noclip, really fascinating!
Outstanding video. Thank you for the stunning production quality
OMG... been "playing" this sim since its inception in 1982 and the current version for the last 3 months. Watched literally hours and hours of videos about it...
And this is one of the, if not THE, most interesting ones... thanks!
Great work; one of this channel's best, imo.
The editing is just bliss. I love how everything has such a wider lens from story telling to literally the cameras. It feel's like a deep dive.
This is a great doc about a great sim.
Thank you for giving me insight into a "game" that has brought me joy for decades now.
This was good. Thank you for letting it get a good step beyond surface level technical details.
As always, amazing documentary. Your channel is a blessing, your hard-work is not unnoticed and I can't understate the impact your work has. Please, keep doing these for as long as you can!
Beautiful.
yess ive been waiting for this one
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Outstanding video. Images, commentary, editing, everything is top notch.
What an amazing video and thank you so much for making it and sharing it.
When you watch this video it really does make you appreciate just how much hard work and dedication that has gone into making MSFS 2020 happen. Many thanks to all that have been involved in this entire project.
The last few minutes of the video I found to be very emotional and beautiful and certainly had my eyes watering.
That was a really good documentary, just makes you wonder yet feel calm.
This documentary made me feel emotional...
I can’t wait to play it.
I've been a user of MSFS since 1997 and no other sim/game has more hours on record. But this version... This is really something else. It feels different, more dynamic. The way I was able to trace my regular 3 hour driving route ONLY by visual reference down to the individual building. I knew exactly where I was every single moment. And those visuals... the lighting. They way being at high altitude looks EXACTLY like real videos. If there's a way of being in love with a piece of software then this is it. Also really appreciate the video. Great work as always.
Oh man, at 31:20 this is what I would have framed this whole documentary with - the incredible coincidence that when air travel globally was almost entirely shut down, FS2020 comes out with an unprecedented digital replica of the planet that allows us to fly to anywhere in stunning photo realism. For sure it's helped me to 'fly' on trips to see family destinations that I have been unable to do owing to the pandemic. It's been very cathartic for me during these crazy times.
You chose perfect music for this. Damn good.
@ Patrick Pachal - I second that 👍
Fun fact: much of the music that plays is actually from the game itself!
@@RaviVemula2 Omg really? Thank you for this information. A must have for me then just like No Man's Sky 👍
@@Yurei83 The only music in the game are in the menus though, there's no in-game music
@@Yurei83 no problem! You can find most of the songs used in the game and trailers on SoundCloud by the artist Finishing Move!
Didn't think the flight sim vid was gonna be the one to make me cry. 10/10
Outstanding, thank you all for such great work.
Thank you Noclip for this amazing documentary. I cant wait to get my hands on a copy and explore the world
It always amazes me how far we have come since space invaders and pong.
It's an incredible and foreign feeling to go from wireframe and simple polygons to this in one lifetime. I've started with MFS 4.0. I can't put into words how I feel. I am thankful that I've lived long enough to witness this technological marvel. I tear up just a little.
NoClip's documentaries are so well put and impressively entertaining. Thank you for your work
This simulator is so real that in some scenes, I couldn't even tell if it was real or not.
& then some person comes along & says "oh it's just flying planes round google earth..."
But it is.
It's not really a game.
Bing finally has an use.
@@yeetleslaw8529 Actually players found a way to import Google Earth data into MSFS.....
Naw dude. When I was in highschool 15 years ago, I met this old vet who was like 60 or 70 at the time. Disabled and what not, all he did was play MFS and one day he heard about me being good with computers from one of his Tennant's who lived in his house. I was friends with this tennant and he just randomly gave my name to him and thats how I learned about Microsoft Flight Simulator. A new update came out requiring 256 MB of video RAM and his GFX card only had 128. I had an extra 1GB card at my house that I gave to him because 9 recently just upgraded from nvidia to ati and back then ati was wayyy sharper than nvidia so I was ok with 512 instead of 1gb and since I had him show me what exactly was lagging with the simulator (because maybe he just needed a bump in CPU or system RAM for some loading times), the entire game was lagging in windowed mode and at super low resolution like 600x400 so when I put that 1gb card in omg this game was literally top tier quality. I assumed it was like a $200 game or $1,000's because it was military since he was in. The military. I thought it was exclusive stuff hahahah but seriously, after seeing this game on windows xp I just knew it was a serious program. I might not like flying around the planet all that much but I know other humans might and this game is the best game of its type. No other game compares to it. And I haven't legitimately even seen any updates in 15 years. I wish I had a 1gb ati card to give him for even better sharpness back then. I still think about that to this day. I wonder what it looks like now.
@@ebridgewater There is a challenge and a goal, it's a game.
Please don't stop making these documentaries. I love them too much.
What an amazing video of techies and nerds producing something amazing... Congrats to all involved, even the tiniest of inputs made a great difference.
When he said 70% of people flew home I teared up
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