8 Microsoft Flight Simulator Features That Blew My Mind
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Microsoft Flight Simulator is one of the most impressive games I’ve played in years: simulating not just the planes, but the world under them. Enjoy this Microsoft Flight Simulator gameplay as I explain eight Flight Simulator features that blew my mind.
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This isn’t my final Microsoft Flight Simulator review - this action was captured from a build of the Microsoft Flight Simulator alpha. I’ve been flying around the globe for the last two weeks, constantly being blown away by the scale of the world and the depth of its systems. Take the Microsoft Flight Simulator weather, for example, which is not only realistic, but lets you tweak it in real-time to adjust perfect conditions or set the time of day just so. Or those magnificent Flight Simulator cities, that use photogrammetry to accurately build entire landscapes to scale. You can even see the billboards in Times Square. It’s crazy stuff.
So while this isn’t a full MS Flight Simulator review, know that I am very impressed. Not just with the range of features, but how accessible it is: with a few tutorials even an idiot like me can take to the skies and start exploring. As you’ll see in this Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 gameplay, I go all over the globe - marvelling at how much nicer the ocean is outside of the UK - and take in the incredible cloud tech. Wait until you see those Microsoft Flight Simulator clouds for yourself: they’re better than the real thing. Mainly because you can get rid of them with the press of a button. That would be handy for picnics.
If you have any questions about Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, do pop them in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer them. We’ve got more videos coming up soon, so let me know if there’s any part of the globe you’d like to see in the next video. It’s honestly magic how accurate cities and the like look in this MS Flight Simulator gameplay. Thanks for flying with Rock Paper Shotgun and we’ll hopefully see you again soon.
Here are the chapters for this Microsoft Flight Simulator video. If you want a specific Microsoft Flight Simulator impressions, these are the topics covered.
0:00 Opening
1:28 You Can See Your House From Here
2:59 The World Building Is Genius Stuff
4:26 City Photogrammetry Will Astonish You
6:34 Night-ctime Scenes Could Be The Real Thing
7:36 This Could Be A Boat Simulator, Too
9:03 There’s Never Been A Better Cloud
10:32 You Are A Weather God
11:53 It Can Make A Pilot Of Anyone
13:16 Time To Land
#FlightSimulator #MicrosoftFlightSimulator #MicrosoftFlightSimultor2020 - เกม
August 18th, not 16th. Read my own words wrong. Let's blame the thin oxygen, yeah?
Nice
sure
Oxygen is never thin. The amount of oxygen is the same at every height. However the density of the air differs and therfore you can't get enough oxygen into your lungs at higher altitudes, because the air pressure is not high enough.;)
That's me told.
Can you please reply if I can use few clips of your video! I really want to share my thoughts on the SIm but don't have clips! can you please provide it I request
Ladies and gentlemen this is literally earth the game
Nah that would be if they added Forza
hence why there making it. showing off capabilities of what they’re developing, and what no better way to show it off than from the best view of earth, in the sky.
That would be if they added GTA**
@@jacksoncude9824 Truth is, you can see low textures and polygons by flying close to the ground. For a driving version of the game, this would've needed improvement. Also traffic on the streets would be hell to incorporate. But the map data from above won't be necessary. I hope we will see a driving version as well.
Mike P yes exactly, it would be worst then gta sa if you drove on the road on the game’s current state
My grampa used to have that old school flight sim on his pc. He really loved playing with me, whether it was lego racers, old nfs games or flight sim. He died of lung cancer a few years ago, and would absolutely love this game. He would be in awe.
I miss you grandpa. Hope youre in a better place
My deepest condolences for your loss, be strong and take care of yourself, I am sure he will continue to guide you wherever he is ❤
Play this game in his memorie and most of all. Enjoy it
Best wishes to you
@The Mac shut up
R.I.P. GRANDPA
I wish I had a relationship like that. Lucky you for getting to experience it
First rule of the internet : Don't doxx yourself.
Roreo93 nah he joking that was actually peppa pigs house
in the 90s maybe
You've probably already given up your location data to multiple corporations anyway
Finding a person's location isn't private data, sadly.
@@epicn Corporations aren't "several thousand online strangers" though...
As a pilot myself, I cannot wait to get my hands on this when it’s released. Already got the premium edition on pre order! I owe the Microsoft Flight Simulator series much for inspiring my love for aviation and as a kid with no friends, this was my escape everyday when I got home from school. I hope this sim inspires a new generation of pilots in the same way it did for me.
Same here. I too am hoping it does the same. It's not too common to see new students at my school that have hours on a sim and I hope this changes that.
Is being a pilot still a viable career choice nowadays?
I wanted to be a pilot but then i realised u have to be smart so fuck that
A flight instructor did a very long video about the game and said, yes, he'd use it to teach flying.
@@jacoblyalls4026 I'll check my history later.
At 3:00 when he flies through the Tower Bridge of London, you can see his Cessna shake as he goes through a zone of high pressure.
Damnnnn nice catch that makes me so much more excited for the aerodynamics.
that was impressive.
they recently fixed that as yesterday someone tired to fly through the same bridge but it wouldn't allow them.
Brad damn I literally catched that too. I watched one guy fly through it but his plane went crazy
zone of high pressure????
career mode would be amazing. virtual airline integration too. People like having a reason for doing things, a sense of progression and focus.
It's doing it without getting in the way of the sim community that's the challenge (bar making it all optional). Like, people graft their own game on top of this by living the simulation - working as air traffic controllers in the game, etc - and you wouldn't want to get in the way of that.
For most of the flight sim market, flying is the focus, progression, and reward
There have been add-on programs that do that for other flight sims in the past. So an add-on that does this will most likely be available on the flight sim store at some point.
Well, this new FS have ground service, gate docking, pushbacks, all the things that airline pilot role-players have been wanting. So Asobo really listens to hardcore simmers, while keeping it accessible to newbies and casuals alike. Moreover, the SDK is out, meaning, keep your wallet open for modules and enhancements.
Some of A2A's planes for FSX have persistency of their mechanical condition so that they wear down as you fly them and need to be properly checked and maintained. It would be cool for all planes to have such a "my plane" feature so you could take your trusty bird round the world.
This game deserves to be in a museum, just such a monumental achievement.
why? its predecessors done the same so has its main rival.
@Will Pack Xplanes
@Will Pack rather not. dont think anyone really cares in this day of age.
@Will Pack old games almost never hold up. the nostalgia only hold you for 5 minutes. with some rare exception will you find groups of people still playing outdated games like ofp cwc, cod, arma, bf2, 1942. but as for old flight sims most of the player bases will move up, some slower than others if they have a large amount of addons invested in to it.
@@mitri5389 Im sorry but Xplane doesnt even come close.
As an avid flight simulator enthusiast for the past 11 years, it's great to see a flightsim newcomer be so excited by this new sim. The entire flightsimming community is eagerly awaiting this release and has been blown away by the previews and screenshots. With the help of addons, our current flight simulators double as world simulators, and the new Microsoft Flight Simulator takes this to the next, amazing level. The fun comes from exploring the world as much as it does exploring study level detail of the aircraft we fly, and for many even more so.
This is probably the most perfectly crafted game ever made.
Wait till you see microsoft flight sim 2040.
@@nvstewart 😁
@@nvstewart Microsoft Space Simulator 2040
@@Lance1972 if elon got his dream achieved by that time, simulator to do the flight may actually happen as a promo vid 😂
It’s gonna be life simulator soon
who’s ready to prove flat earthers wrong with a video game
Where's the curve
You dont need to prove them wrong they need to prove us wrong haha
jon c exactly
If we prove them wrong, how will we euthanize them by leading them to a cliff?
You do realize you are watching this on a flat screen? Thus proves nothing, or “nuthing” as they will claim 😆
Jesus those graphics though! We've come such a long way from where we were 10-20 years ago.
Yes i can't believe Ps2 memory cards wore 8MB
@300096586 i doubt it
I still can't believe this game actually exists
Finally upgraded to a new computer because of this game.😝🤪
Seee good games are possible........... I knew it
This existed 10 years ago in Google Earth airplane mode.
@@dennylui Hopefully you have a beast of a graphics card too cuz you need like the gpu already from the last generation (before new one now), a card like geforce 2080ti to run at best settings and high resolution, but that card cost like almost 1000$ lol. Amd made some great cards now that will do this game justice, or geforce rtx3080 too, but lacks availability.
@@dennylui i have 2011 technology to play top games today. Basically an i7 with 8 threads and a 1080 graphics card and 16 gb of ram. It's good for anything.
The fact that this runs makes me cry. They're wizards, Harry. THEY'RE WIZZARDS!
me too...
i was about to cry
Can I fly to Hogwarts?
0:25 As someone who has been playing flight simulators for years, you did an outstanding job flying and explaining things :)
Oh, thanks so much! Glad it wasn't a disaster.
@@rockpapershot It wasn't a disaster and I thoroughly enjoyed the video :)
My Dad the entire world would be in any edition of the game
@@roldykrojas so what's the difference, just some aircraft and a tiny bit more details in airports?
@@saketnaik1 Yes, more aircrafts and handcrafted airports.
12:37 Yes there is a button that is designed to make the wings specifically fall off. Airline pilots spend years of training to not press this button in particular!
I'm reminded of Jack Swigert on Apollo 13, who taped a piece of paper with the word "NO!" written on it just to make sure he didn't jettison the Lunar Module by mistake. There must be hundreds of notes like this in 747 cockpits around the world!
@Ashton Beck twas a joke, I believe
If this makes our mouths water in 2020, just imagine 2030's video game progression...
Poutanas Malakopoulos Imagine. Improved 3d textures, improved satellites. Real Time traffic in cars. Improved rendering. The possibilities are endless...
Throw in VR. and you'll never leave your house.
Basically the matrix.. future games include tastes smells and feelings..
"This is the house I grew up in and this is me seconds before crashing into the house I currently live it..." that absolutely broke all my ribs laughing. For which I thank you as I really needed a laugh right now.
I thank you cause I really needed all my ribs broken
I live right beside an international airport and I’m pretty sure at some point a plane is going to fly over my house as I fly by in a plane
Could you imagine a game like GTA with access to the entire earth?
Edit: It's a hypothetical. I'm not trying to debate with everyone the possibility of Rockstar actually doing this.
Lol utter chaos do you play gta online I do I know
then the game size will be over 1tb and it take decades to create it
@@toku5829 True but with constant growing technology. 1T wouldn't even be big in a few years. Just saying, it would be remarkable.
Toku no actually that’s totally wrong you don’t have idea what you’re speaking
You would need a million TB for that lol
For the first steps into a procedurally generated scan of the actual globe, this is not a bad start, dayum. Just imagine where this sort of technology will take us in future! Imagine playing a video game set in your own neighbourhood or town, being able to see all the details of your own street in other types of games. Insane.
you're already playing it
fsx has done the same more then 10 years ago. xplanes not to be left out.
It's not a first step, but it's another step forward.
SE Asia, please! Nobody with this Beta *ever* covers that part of the world. Thailand, Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, etc. Also, S. America (yay, Amazon!). And please make sure the conditions are bright and clear so we can see what you're trying to show us!
Will do!
There is an article on TheVerge where one developer says that he wants to specifically focus on SE Asia, South America and other "neglected" areas in the future.
Exactly. Everyone covering western and EU. Asia fans are sobering lol. Please fly in Philippines
@@89DerChristian Yes, I saw that, too! I still haven't seen any but the very briefest coverage of SE Asia or S. America in any of the preview/Beta videos! Frustrating!
@@captainkwok1236 Philippines would be great! In fact, Indonesian Archipeligo, too! Such beautiful parts of the world! And the stunning Maldives!
8:56 that would be such a cool easter egg if there is a giant monster casually swimming in that sea that sometimes jumps out
thought that too. damn stuck up people ;P
Just build it yourself with the SDK ;) Probably one hour's worth of work.
We finally have a game that has the entire world as the map.
But still no free roam on foot or cars.I wish it will done by 2030.
Eeeeeeerm......
So there's this game called The Crew 2
@@kenbee1957 Only the US
Dharani Dharan lol as an American I apologize for other Americans’ ignorance.
that's not new for flight sims
Haha I loved this guy's sense of humour and the way he presented. Instantly liked and subbed without thinking.
Great to hear.
Been ready Rock Paper Shotgun’s website since 2009 or so just got to know they had a TH-cam channel yesterday when I was going through MSFS content. Good to hear what those quirkishly humorous lad sound like in real life.
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Holy shit... speechless how good it looks.
This video single handedly made me excited for this game
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@@rockpapershot it's your dulcet tones and your ancient meme references, Matthew
We need SAILING simulator with this engine and nice water algorithms damn it
Yes , there is a lack of good marine sims. But stormworks is good if u wanna be coast guard or a crew man on a tanker
Will Pack fax
Absolutely. While we’re at it, a sports/supercar simulator too.
@@richardcavell Meh that's just GTA
Silent hunter 4 has the whole earth but it's old graphics. Someone could mod it into this game probably. There's a new one coming out called crush depth.
my eyes, the sheer beauty of this game is just... I'm speechless.
The only way to improve this game is to own a house with a landing strip in real life.
If the road is wide enough then you do have a landing strip
Those exist.
My family does lol...
@@VOID_DEATH lol...
@@VOID_DEATH Are they adopting anytime soon?Asking for a friend
9:31 holy shit this is literally the greatest game i've ever seen
Mate, it really is. Very chilled out and peaceful when gliding around some absolute stunning but isolated parts of the world
Man, my first sim was FS2002, never would that child have dreamed of flight simulators becoming this detailed but less than 20 years later, here we are. *tear drop*
I flew the grand canyon a couple evenings ago, closest I'll probably ever get to the real thing as disabilities prohibit long flights, it was quite impressive, I showed a screenshot to a colleague who has been there and he was surprised at how good it looked in ultra settings
"I don't think I could even take off when I tried flight simulator 95 as a child." Ah that brings back memories, exactly the same for me. Tried again with a later flight sim and either couldn't take off or just never got the hang of the actual flying so I tended to stay away from them, thinking I'll jump back in with this one and give it a proper go this time.
As a kid I played Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator WW2 Europe Series. My nan had a flight stick, and I spent hours on it whenever I went to visit her.
One of my few memories of MFS 95 (my first video game) was actually managing to take off.
No idea how five yo me did it
I remember it well too. Managed to take off but I had no idea where I was suppose to go, so I flew to Paris only to find out I ran out of fuel over the Atlantic and crashed LOL
The streets of New York looked more like scenes from "I Am Legend"
This guy has everything a youtuber needs; humor, a friendly character,and brilliantly edited content.
Today my test results came back positive for COVID-19. As I’m quarantined for the next 2 weeks I look for videos to inspire me. You did an excellent job here! I can’t wait to spend countless hours flying this gorgeous piece of work. Thanks.
Speedy recovery and wishing you well.
This is truly amazing. Awesome video. As an aside everyone should try and use Google Earth VR at least once. It doesn't have this level of detail but it's awe inspiring to experience.
Its a shame they are the competition. If they could have partnered up with Google it would have been photogrammetry all around the world.
I've lost so many hours in that, it's marvellous. Just gliding about seeing amazing landscapes then spotting some little town and diving into street view for a proer nosey. As close to the feeling of actually travelling as you can get just sitting at home.
Yeah, Google Earth VR blew me away when I first tried it! I'm looking forward to this doing the same thing!
No hot drinks, but you owe me a new monocle.
lets just take a second to appreciate how good this narration was. I give big props you had a very good energy throughout the video and it really made it something to watch rather then skip through.
The thing i look most forward to is not even the planes, but to simply be able to explore and pretty well experience other parts of the world. This is amazing.
Thank you for this beautiful video, and I really appreciated the highlights you pointed out! So looking forward to the release date!!!
Thanks for watching!
If they keep working on this and keep improving the quality, adding airplanes and helicopters. This could honestly be the most sold game in history
Fighter jets.. dcs.. military invasions..
it will never be that. Games like this are very very niche games despite being good games.
9:25 ... going out form that cloud made me go WOW!!! for real.. loudly. This game is really something else.
Just amazing. Best video overview of the game I have seen so far. Thanks!
VR,go in and stay.
Thats the Plan...
Best vid i saw.
I really start crying watching this, the game is extremly beautyful, and I can't wait to explore all of the places i want to travel in real life.
Thanks for all the info about the game and not just the flying! As the virtual tourism aspect is what is interesting me this review really makes the game attractive. I think I will have fun with the weather systems!
13:47 "John, you're about to crash into the Empire State Building!" - "Oh, that'd be cool!"
Seriously.. if this technology goes straight to GTA and incorporates it into being able to drive cars around Earth and walk on foot I am afraid people will not be getting out of the houses.
That's probably the point.
I can't imagine how godly modding can be in this game
The clouds and seas look stunning! I hope more detail into roadways and bridges can be done in larger capital cities like Rome, hell, even I would be happy to contribute to the mapping of my local area!
Beyond how obviously amazing this game looks, my comment is to commend the review itself. Thank you for speaking well, and not so fast that you are trying to auction off the product. The points you make and demonstrate are very well done. It is refreshing to see a review that is on point and flowing methodically. Well done!
Would love to see footage over Norway in the next episode! Maybe from the whole west coast, as there are beautiful fjords, islands, and mountains here.
Wow that would be cool maybe a Scandinavian episode would be really cool
"Hey there's a signature on this fjord"
This is the future this is absolutely phenomenal wow just wow the level of detail oh my ♥️♥️
Loved the emergency exit gag in your opening. Very creative. Take my like 👍
"giving Britain's beaches their iconic shade of yuck, for example" got a pretty good chuckle out of me. :D
I'm absolutely shocked by how good this looks. I always thought, how on earth don't we have a decent, great looking, accurate flight sim in 2020. Well apparently we do.
If you need a location to film for next episode I can recommend my hometown Münster in Germany. It's a pretty good looking city an apparently uses the photogrammetry method. Also the university campus is blured out on bing maps and I'd be curious to see how/if that translates to the game.
Why is it blurred out on bing maps?
Some blurred areas - military bases, for example - have the landscape automatically filled in with features that fit the surrounding area. Will see if it's like that.
@@tarcisofilho4878 No Idea. The weird thing is that it's not blured on Google Maps and they didn't even blur out all the buildings the university owns.
Nice video dude.Beautiful visuals,and funny commentary.That cloud watching romantic line LOL
Thanks so much!
This was an awesome review!!! Very descriptive!
Flight Simulator 20: When the buildings have more details as in GTA V 😂
Mutombo Mabombo gta 5 has bad graphics ???
@@azain9470 Who said that?
When a game built in 2020 has more detail than a game built in 2013...
@@MarkOleksander difference is, GTA is a small part of California, while Flight simulator is the entire world
@@kieferplayzftw1324 Also remember the world is on the cloud, gta is fitted locally...
The clouds in this game. I've never seen anything like that.
RPS. Top marks for the into you have done for non "simmers". I first started flying with early MS flight simulation nearly 30 years ago and am ready to return to the fold. For many new comers this will be just a game but if you have a genuine interest in Aviation it can and will become a Flight Simulation where you not only fly planes, but learn navigation (including flight planning), weather, mechanics, principles of flight, avionics and flight rules both visual (VFR) and instrument (IFR). Its an amazing world to explore.
This is the most creative game review I've ever seen. Can't wait to play this game!
This Video made my cry.. I WANNA PLAY THIS !!!!!!!!
Not long before we can land somewhere, disembark, and walk around the environs.
FSX + Mudrunner + ;)
Awesome video! I used to fly twice a month for work for 5 straight years up until the pandemic... Watching your video makes me realize how much I actually miss air travel. Can't wait for the game release.
MFS is a good antidote to being stuck indoors.
this is the most helpful MsFS explaining video so far
One of the finer gems of 2020, this is something you've dreamed about and thought it could never be made. Here we are folks!
Why this wasn't in the showcase, i will never know :-(. Microsoft sometimes...
Because it's not ready for the console yet.
@@rotaryperfection Neither was that bunch of games shown in CGI
@@eversonalmeida9866 EXACTLY
@@eversonalmeida9866 Not sure what you're talking about?
It's also not really new, they announced it last year at E3 and have been hyping it since and it will have released within weeks of the showcase. That being said it still would have been cool.
Beautiful game. Nice piloting. Thanks so much for the informative video, sir. Your #1 fan, this is Stan.
this was a surprisingly excellent video, great job.
this guy is really really good in his job. Well said everything.
All that waiting for me finally is paying off cant really wait anymore!
I can not wait to play this game, I lived in Nepal for over 6 months on a Missionary Trip & keep reminiscing about it
This is the best MSFS video I' have ever watched! Thank you for making my day!
6:22 MY HOME CITY!!!
Honest question: How hard would it be to add in a whole boat/ship simulator in this game. Like you take a boat from London to new york or go down the mississippi.
Very, very, very, very hard
They basically rendered the whole planet in this game.....as seen from quite high up in the air.
Doing the same thing from the ground (or sea) would be impossible. Not hard, impossible
And doing both, air and sea.....well, I already used the word impossible
KEN BEE I mean, when he landed on water in the video, it didn’t look half bad. Technically, adding boats instead of planes wouldn’t be too hard either, since they have weather data added already (wind speed, direction, etc.)
@@kenbee1957 I wouldn't say impossible. Nothing is really impossible given the right resources and money.
this makes me want to go back to all my old pictures and look at the location data and see it in the game
This video answers all the questions I had initially - the perfect trailers and previews had me in relative disbelief about what this offered. Now I better understand the limitations and flaws I’m more in awe of what the developers have accomplished and can’t wait to give this a go.
I had no idea that the makers of this game made A plague Tale, I honestly never expected that.
Right????!
The two games could not be any more unrelated
😅
My geography teacher: “research about San Francisco for your next project”
Me: “nah” *goes to San Francisco in this game*
Cool teacher: Guys, today we're going to visit Rome in MSFS!
Nick S. haha
Dude, your humor made this even much more enjoyable. +1
Got it yesterday, it's the best looking game I've ever seen
The wife is worried when this game comes out she wont get any loving for months.. she's right!!
😐 feel bad for her
4:55
oh no
Wow! Thanks for the video, I'm hooked.
Such a ridiculously creative introduction. Subbed just for that!!!
Is there a cinema making mode or something
Enabling developer mode give you access to a free cam which you can move around to capture the perfect shot.
they should really capitalize on this game and add cars,ships, trains, everything simulator, rebrand it as earth simulator
The game only works because it was meant to be seen from above
okay .. the emergency exit skit was pretty genius i have to admit , got my like and sub lmao
A brilliant review. Intelligent and concise. Have had the sim only one day and it's unbelievable. Haven't touched 0.00001% of its potential. The customisation capability is out of this world.
Thanks so much!
now i cant wait
I will have to. Can't afford a pc or the game.
Althepsyphros PC game pass is 5$ a month comes with more than 100 games including this
@@markus8994 what is that? I don't have a good pic
Althepsyphros search it up. Xbox game pass for PC
I wonder if they put Easter eggs in the game?
I heard that they removed all apple stores and HQ from the world
@@GoldFlightSim nice one m8!
Yeah, if you type XcL in nthe flight management computer it turns into Excel
Thanks rps, not being a flight sim person I would have completely missed out on this... ❤
For many years ive been praying for a game that you can explore the entire world. Dream to come true and the game has so many options its so good
Except GTA style bro,ı wish Rockstar or another company can make this by 2030s.
I want to fly over bermuda triangle
Microsoft Flight Simulator: I can see me house from here The Game.
A brilliant review and commentary - which makes a real change these days where TV channels etc seem to be inhabited by annoying 'look at me - aren't I great' types. The right blend of information, humour and assurance that even I could have fun with this game. Thank you so much for posting. I'm off to put my name down for a copy now.
Hi John. Thanks for the kind words. It means a lot!
Wao! The night time flying over cities is absolutely gorgeous!