This looks like good fun. I really hope they do make it more interactive. Like have a character you can walk around and interact, it would increase the personal connection with the full experience of learning to fly in different circumstances. Afterall, a pilot does leave the cockpit and has a life. Having pride as you leave home, get to and walk through customs, interact or just view the passengers around you before boarding the plane. Or, go to a red bull race and get out to cheering spectators. My point is, making it interactive would give a fuller, more realistic experience, especially if they keep up the photo-realism. I just wish it wasn't so long before release, I want it.
Whyyyyy did i buy msfs 2020 ... 2024 is way cooler :( Aurora is in msfs 2020 via a mod, i actually wonder if msfs 2020 owners premium or ultimate get a discount on this new sim
Since I can only give you one hands up the regular way, here are the rest! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Even though I love flying, the reason I put this sim away for some time now is exactly this. The lack of purpose of my activities. Goals to pursue.
Please stop! If they’d give us something like that I would be in heaven!!! I was using Air Hauler 2 for some time. But I don’t find it that intuitive to switch apps from sim to spreadsheets & back. I also like relaxing on my Xbox instead of my desk more often than not. Asobo accomplished the impossible. Why not integrate a carrier/economy into it?? I know that “it’s not a game, it’s a sim”. But we are not all professional pilots that need training. And even if we were, then we wouldn’t get such training from our homes on our couch in front of an Xbox. So, it is a sim but with the ultimate goal to be fun. Like a game. And is clearly marketed to a gamers target group.
The Mountains are what i've been wanting most. The last City Update had some awesome terrain/cliffs around Monoco. Lots of beautiful scenery is under represented in the current sim, hope this can address some of it.
There's no real reason they couldn't be playable characters. They've already got a movable external camera in the form of a drone camera. All they'd need to do would be add constraints for height and speed and attach it to an avatar. They probably wouldn't bother with animations of you entering the aircraft like in Star Citizen, but walking up to a door, highlighting the enter hotspot and suddenly being in the pilot seat wouldn't be much of a stretch. Much easier to do than NPC crew moving stretchers or being lowered in an external winch.
We always see them walking to the plane and it seems to be zooming in every time. I don't think that zoom is the video editing of the trailer which suggests that it's a cut scene.
That's what I thought, but how to do explain the camera and the remove me assets on the airline implying a walk around was necessary, answer me this! 😄
@@dtrjones The Piper Commanche by A2A has a walkaround feature where you click through the viewing locations on a diagram of the plane in order to view the areas you need to. I imagine it might be like that but with the avatar included.
I'm still waiting for multi-player support that allows me to have a friend riding along with me as passenger/copilot. I'd love to be able to chat with a friend who is sitting beside me as I take them on a tour somewhere, or vice-versa. Extra points for full head and hand tracking of your copilot's avatar in VR mode.
i hope it isn't just a list of 20 disconnected missions, in the same area, one for a particular activity. It would nice is either they popped randomly on the world map, or emulated something like NeoFly , where you build a career and go down particular routes
I know I am dreaming here, but I would love a world simulator. We have standalone Train, Truck, Flight, Ship, and many more "simulators". It would be amazing to integrate all of them into one world simulation. There is so much data available via ADS-B, Marine traffic AIS, weather, traffic, transit, and much more to feed into AI when real world players are not filling in the blanks. A dream, but what a sim it would be.
Would love something like that, but the cost involved... sheesh that would be expensive. Also the development time... no dev company would last long enough to do that. Cloud Imperium Games are trying to do that in space with Star Citizen, and look how much backlash they are getting because they haven't released yet. People simply aren't willing to wait long enough to get a 'world simulator'.
watch out for outerra world sandbox, they are developing exactly that. trains, boat, cars, trucks ,bicycle and on foot, all in one 1;1 earth..... a older tech demo is still available called "outerra anteworld"
4:25 in one of the previous videos from Asobo, Jorg talks about how they're using AI to populate whole world with more detail, so it could be that we can expect this amount of detail everywhere. That said, it is a trailer, so obviously they'd pick the better looking spots etc
Yes agreed. The scene with the rocks and the vegitation, trees etc are all AI placed assets. It's clear the procedual tech for ground vegetation has also improved. Looks pretty good. We need to be aware that many of the scenes could be set dressing for mission content, but I believe also a lot is part of the core rendering system when photogrammetry isn't being deployed.
I bet they have cherry picked the best looking bits for the trailer. My worry is that using AI as opposed to hand editing by humans will create a lot of weird anomalies.
Just curious if the new sim will have a native persistent mode. As an inveterate Around the World flyer in light GA singles, I would like nothing better than to land, taxy, park and tie down. Then next flight, fire up the sim and walk to the aircraft in exactly the same position/configuration that I left it, save environmental factors. Then call for fuel, walk around, inspect, preflight and then depart to next location. I’m not in the least interested in the more gamified aspects, but would love canned persistence.
@@CasepbX Because having an easy tool to customize pilotsto place a copy of oneself (or Oblivionesque atrocity against God, Nature and good taste) into cockpit for screeshots would be fun and also a nice feature for Machinima makers.
@@CasepbX Because I like to use the first person camera walk around the plane in fs2020, i set WASD to camera dolly/truck and my throttle hat / arrow keys for pan tilt, fun for stuff like looking in the back of the MD10 Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, but also I have mods to that add things like wheel chocks, "Remove before flight covers", wear and damage, so i open the door, move the camera outside and look if the plane is ready to fly or not, Also like to call the fuel truck over or taxi to a gas pump instead of the magic fuel menu. I can see my co-pilot's model in the cockpit with me, and ground handlers walking around. But... For a game in 2020, only being able to choose between "Male or female", "Military flight gear, Airline uniform, or a hoodie" and then what skin tone, this gives 27 combinations. I switch to 3rd person view and "Who is that in the cockpit, oh wait that's me" I feel no attachment to my character. The simulator could be made so much more immersive and realistic if these features were just developed a little bit more. This version is finally getting a career mode and character customizations and a wee bit of RPG elements would only help than. Imagine if next after making your character, you had to pass flight school, fly around on small GA aircraft like Cessna or a SR-22 or such, then get a commercial lesson done(aka the tutorial), then start doing missions and advancing your virtual carrier. Perhaps some system to rank up in the business, earn awards / medals / trophies. Helps give motivation to actually play as it feels like I'm progressing towards something, so add in some character customization to make me feel attached to my character, so I'll want to get my all their certifications to unlock all the missions, then go actually do them. tl;dr it will make more people play the game for longer, i think.
Who cares about that? Most of us just want a realistic flight model, realistic graphics, a decent frame rate and for it to not crash! I'd rather them put effort where it's need not of frivolities.
@@somecallmetim42 You are aware that the hypothetical developers responsible for a character creator system are not in fact detracting from work done for the flight model, rendering, and optimization because that's not their job in the pipeline?
@@aaronmurray2277 its a technique to render your gaze in VR at a higher resolution than your peripheral vision in order to enhance performance. It is used to great effect in DCS and MSFS suffers badly for not having it currently
When I watched the trailer, it's clear that on the ground details will be like that everywhere because it's mostly AI generated. That 'walking around' is 2 things. Firs is just simply a photo mode like in most other games. The other is just pretty obviously cinematics, like the current game has, but now it shows the NPCs. Also, this game will be pretty epic.
Aside from the release date, there was just speculation on what was already in the original announcement videos. I hope that there is a path to instrument rating and a pilot/airline career. Furthermore, I hope that there will be good integration with map software, including approach plates&airport details, so that you don\t have to switch out of VR to use them.
Just not the kind of game it is. I don't know how easy it is to add third person character movement to a game, but to do it in a convincing way you need resources. This is a flight sim, is not suddenly going to become a complete open world simulator. Maybe this is Microsoft's ultimate goal for some distant future version, but the level of detail to pull this off well for the entire globe is just not something they're capable of right now.
What I want from 2024 is a properly thought through piece of software. ATC that works. Other player flown aircraft you can interact with rather than just fly through and otherwise ignore, being able to hear that aircrafts ATC transmissions. Properly configurable aircraft wear and failures so that career mode addons like Neofly can do interesting things. A proper anti-cheat option so that player organised air racing (without a host who screams PLANES MUST BE STOCK! all year and then lets someone code their own autopilot in the final race) can happen and true E-sports can start forming. However, what I think we're going to get is an addon missions pack being sold as a brand new sim at full price.
ATC should and can be done via AI there is already a product on the market that does that for MSFS2020 which is super realistic ATC BeyondATC its called
That doesn't bode too well :-( The current iteration of AI has a reputation for creating very weird anomalies lol. I guess half the adventure will be in discovering and taking screenshots of the weird $h1t going on lol
@@somecallmetim42 well we will see but that's the only way they could have done it. The world is very, very big. It looks good in the trailer at least.
@@somecallmetim42the AI rendered my house in the Central Belt of Scotland as a mock Tudor house like they have in Chester or Portsmouth! The exterior walls of all the houses around here are either stone for the older ones or roughcast
Film, product or game trailers are designed to raise questions not give answers, the point is that you then feel compelled to buy the product, watch the movie etc, to get those answers you have been wondering over. It is called marketing.
I seriously hope it's something respectable. Given the countless $$$ I've already spent for 2020 in terms of the premium edition, add-ons and Navigraph id definitely not want to spend another $$$$ on a new PC
I think it will be the same or just very slightly over MSFS 2020. Especially since they learned (and still learning) how to optimize it with 2020. And then you still have FSR 3, Frame Gen..
How cool would it be to be in first person mode, walk around the aircraft, then climb in the aircraft seamlessly. I just wish that what is seen in the trailer are not simply cut scenes.
tbh I always wanted bush pilot / air ambulance / mountain rescue missions in a flight simulator so this is very gratifying. Sort of seems more constructive, hopeful and positive than endles first-person shootemups with endless violence.
I have a feeling a lot of these jobs are going to be more instanced than anything, I can't imagine a game where you can fly around and find different fires all over the world with the amount of detail and computing power that would take. Interested to see how they pull this off.
It had to be an entirely new release, its been entirely recoded on dx12 not dx11. It absolutely would not work as an update for 2020 as they are fundamentally different on a coding level.
As a licenced non-instrument rated private pilot I do enjoy the opportunities that MSFS 2020 offers to experience different aircraft types and practice instrument flying in IMC which I can't do in real life (and don't want to !). I can also get a good idea what it might be like to fly into different airports and environments around the world. I've spent quite a few bob on good hardware and all in all I think its fantastic to have this level of simulation in my sitting room. However I don't think I've seen anything in the trailers for MSFS 2024 that would get me too excited. Sounds more like a christmas stocking filler for kids !
I'm really hoping the new wear and tear system and tornado's they add will mean some form of destruction to the plane is possible so we can simulate emergency landings. Obviously the tornado might play a part in utilizing the wear and tear system but again it could also just fade to black like usual saying "Hey you flew into a tornado dummy"
I hope they fix the performance issues with the CPU main thread, which is the most frustrating for me, seeing my GPU at 40% and stuttering all over the place. Other than that, hyped about this.
As far as I understand that's a relic of the old FSX engine that was a base for FS2020. And as they stated engine refurbishments as the main reason for making FS2024 I really hope that would addres performance issues.
This looks like they're trying to create a "Microsoft World simulator" and I think that would be the next step with people being able to do all sorts of things; driving, boating, exploring and even photography
I don't know and I'm not holding my breath about it, but having some sort of 1st/3rd person game play would increase the simulation level, as we could do some ground level activities, such as pre-flight inspections, or even ground crew on a multiplayer server.
2020 isn't that bad in VR... apart from the annoying POI marker you can never remove, and the fact the menus seem to choose when they want to appear, VR wasn't too bad. I always play 2020 in VR. I've seen much worse VR games tbh lol.
@@davewills148You must not have tried any of the modern generation of headsets. From an immersion point of view it blows head trackers out of the water imho.
@@MrMontanaNights Until its ''Small Form Factor'' instead of that eyesore you now have, until its completely untethered, and when its at $4.99, and not $1000+ for a stagnant, lazy , cash grab, and have to fumble around like a blind man.......its jurassic tech
Jump Pilot/Skydive Pilot would be good. Working out the wind direction and jump direction without busting airspace in some places. Pressing the green button to jump etc. Crop dusting Search and rescue. Mustering cattle in a chopper Logging Construction using Helicopter’s Sling loads. Real life air crash situations ie could one repeat the Gimly Glider incident or when the pitot covers are not taken off etc etc.
I'm not at all bothered about seeing animated models of people and animals walk about, what I really want is for them to fix the stupid immersion breaking bugs that have been present in Microsoft Flight Simulator since it came out 4 years ago. I just hope they finally fix the vertical water, gigantic trees and overgrown post apocalyptic cities, car driving up the sides of buildings etc etc and it would be a nice bonus to actually have it run smoothly on a high end PC and not crash.
i'm concerned that there has been too much work done on visuals and not on physics, flight dynamics and actual real world weather... their last Q&A they didn't seem to get what someone was getting at with the question about a weather radar, ofc they were referring to WX radar support.... don't get me wrong, whaat asobo and microsoft have achieved is breath-taking.. i just hope that the right areas have recieved the same attention as they graphics
I think they've said multiple times that they license the weather data from metar blue so it would be up to that company to allow mods/devs to use their API
@@OutkastWonderers yeah the data is licensed. But the wx weather radar is about how the data is transformed in the simulator. Either that or just allow for companies like active sky to just replace the whole atmospheric engine like they did with p3d etc... That way they use their own data and not that of meteo blue.. Sorted
The main reason I stopped with FS2020 was there really wasn't to do but just fly from point A to point B. The idea of having something to do, including virtually living out the dream of flying for the RFDS...or Air Ambulance as per the sim, is enough to get me back in flight simming. Now to think of entry level yokes etc, that don't cost the Earth.
I am so glad that you mentioned it! Ever since the first trailer I thought there would be a first-person mode ("walk-mode") where you could walk through airports, to your airplane, open the doors, etc. I hope so much that they will add this in one way or another. I am convinced that this would immensely improve realism and induce a feel of scale for the player (especially for the more casual one). As it has been shown several times (I think about 7-8) in both trailers, I think that they are very much hinting at it being a part of the new sim.
I like what I see so far. One of the things I loved about Flight Sim X was all the missions and things you could doin the sim besides just flying here and there. I do wish they had given us some kind of idea on the system requirements. I know there has been a lot of speculation on these but nothing concrete. I do hope we can transfer all the aircraft and other stuff from FS2020 to FS2024. I have got to have my Icon to fly in the new sim or I will cry. I also want a the discover flights and landing challenges to get transfered over as well.
I am very curious as to whether there will be spacecraft, given the banner with the words "The sky is not the limit." I wonder if this is an indication that the transition from atmosphere to low earth orbit (space), as well as flight characteristics while in space--including realistic reentry effects--will be simulated more accurately. That would be incredibly exciting.
The people walking around planes will be cutscenes with your customized avatar. Probably part of career mode when you "begin a mission". Taking pictures will just be a photo mode, not walking around.
That’s not an NPC you’re walking behind out to the aircraft. That’s you as the pilot walking out to do a preflight. This was designed for FS11 affectionately titled “FS11 something to do”. Paul Lange discussed this in the design advisory board. This concept goes back 15 years. You could drive to the airport, do a walk around pre-flight etc etc. it was all about a career path in aviation and simulating real life. It’s finally happening for FS2024.
As a real ATP pilot and user (sometimes frustraded by it) of FS2020,I think is promissing,bu I did NOT see what I ALWAYS see while flying : veihicle traffic! why they left it tottaly off? and how about night time? and there is any improvement to weather?
Walking around in a game like this is cool because you get a better sense of scale. Also it makes you feel like you aren't the plane, you are person in the plane controlling it
Do you have a couple petrabites of storage on your PC? If not I think you do need a constant connection, if you want to have all the detail, if not you can play the base game without the photogrammetry.
@@matthew-005 from what i can tell , i have it on PC, you do not need Gold, it might not populate the world with other real players, but you will get online streaming of the world
the deer photo make me think that indeed there is third / first person walking in this game. My only concerns are retrocompatibility with current add on and the possible split in the community
I think you'll have the option to enter first/third person view, within bounds (i.e. within a certain range of your chosen aircraft and/or within the bounds of an airport/airstrip). I very much doubt it'll be along the lines of "you can go literally anywhere" in first/third person - there'll be a limit. This has potential and even in combat flight sims people are asking for a feature where you can walk around your jet and do pre-flights so perhaps MSFS 24 will be the pioneer of this new feature. In terms of detail, there could very well be hand-crafted regions however they could have pulled some LOD trickery, so that the game figures out where you are in the world (when you enter 'person view') and ups the randomly generated detail in that area specifically. I'm liking the 'activities' focus in this one - might even consider getting this one myself - however I'd prefer a proper 'career mode' - whether that be as an airline pilot, or a SAR/Fire bomber pilot, or a Redbull air racer. Either way, I'll be keeping my eyes on this one.
Iam wondering ..Do you have to have game pass to play or can you just buy it for pc? How will you navigate thru storms in a airliner with no 3d WEATHER.. They copied the passengers like in gsx pro
If they do indeed implement "earth legs" I just hope that it is better thought through than another company's implementation of "space legs". Overall I'm excited though and hope that it gives the replayability/motivation that I was missing in the end in MSFS2020.
I wish they'd add Beer's Powder effect on clouds. It would improve so much the photo realism of the sky. (just take a look at Horizon Forbidden West clouds)
Some of the purist will complain that these career modes are turning the sim into a "game". But, to get the younger folks simming, great graphics and missions make the sim much more engaging. I will certainly be racing and doing some firefighting. As an aviation and sim enthusiast I am looking forward to the upgraded graphics and hopefully some under the hood performance improvements. I'm quite happy with 2020 and any improvements are welcome.
I think it's ingame cinematics. You'll have set missions within a career path, and the cinematic will show at the start or during the mission, like the pilot walking towards the commercial jet, it'll show that, then morph into the cockpit view where you take control of the plane. Or in the helimed missions, once you've touched down at the required spot, you'll get the cinematic of the passenger compartment being loaded with the patient.... That's what I reckon anyway. As for the photo of the bush plane and the deer, looks like they are putting in a photo mode, which isn't uncommon, a lot of the 'pretty' first person shooters (horizon zero dawn etc) have a photo mode that freezes the game and allows you to 'take photos'. Very much looking forwards to the career modes though. While I like flying aimlessly, having a reason to go places is also good. Looking forward to the S&R career. I love flying helos, and Search and Rescue 4 was one of my fav games, and no-ones really done anything like it since. Hoping this will fill my precision helo flying itch.
I have so many complaints/requests for asobo and msfs about this sim. 1: the development process should be way more transparent. I understand why they are so secretive, but at the same time thats one of the things that killed ksp2. Its not like msfs has any competitors or anything, so just EXPLAIN THINGS MORE! 2: Make 24 free, or at the very least, severely discounted for those who already own 24. I don't want to spend 70 dollars for what will essentially be an upgrade for my existing sim for the first few updates. 3: please release a semi functional game this time. I'm really sick of games that are delayed over and over again, only to release a bug filled nightmare that takes months or years for the devs to get in order.
Thanks for that! I've ben waiting for news of a release date - I was getting worried that it would be delayed with not having heard a date yet. They've certainly left room to release some more trailers in the run-up to November. As you said, many unanswered questions.
The grass will have to be so much greener for this to be worthwhile. I do appreciate the attention to detail on display here but let’s not forget how the msfs2020 trailer portrayed something similar. All in all if it delivers then we outta get something special.
The colour of grass depends on where you live. In my part of Australia the grass can go from green to brown in three weeks and back to green in three weeks as the seasons change.
Grass could be greener but what about areas such as desserts where there is no/limited grass? It may be difficult for you to judge your purchase decision based on the grass alone without a fairly extensive analysis of multiple areas.
In a previous release of info from Microsoft they mentioned that the AI would create extream detail close to the ground and provided a before and after view of a random mountainous area. I think this detail will be everywhere albeit perhaps the quaity will very dependent of the satelite imagery that goes into it. As for the ability to walk around in first person why not? In 2020 you can closely simulate this with the free camera. This would be a fairly simple addition. After all walking is much easier to simulate then a fully functional jet airliner or helicopter. There are already cars and boats that can be added on and driven around on the ground/water.
My guess for the release date was practically spot on,it was based on the christmas sales season and so made sense to me.I look forward to seeing how the people who dive in and try it react...............................................
Great info Ant! For me everything hangs on will it download and play well without waisting time jumping through hoops bs! I have a great system and fast internet but if devs don't have it working by release then I'll buy something else!
While I think the idea of getting out of your plane and walking around is great, I can't imagine this will be a third-person perspective kind of thing. Perhaps we will just inter-mingle with NPCs in a free-camera roam kind of feature. It would UH-MAZE-ZING to have a customizable character we can walk around in 3rd person with, but if I've learned anything from Cyberpunk 2077 "that takes away from the immersion."
Ok Microsoft… if you want me to buy 2024, you need to make 1st/3rd person characters that you can customize and walk around with. And modeling jetliner interiors on base aircraft will absolutely sell me.
It would be nice if one could become the pilot as you leave the cockpit and actually do the walk around outside the aircraft before a flight then stop being it as you re-enter the cockpit
And now the 7800X3D and the 4090 are going to be outdated as now you need the 9800X3D and a 5090 to have the full experience the sim may have to offer.
So far its a shop winfow, how much is in game footage, how much scripted, hard to tell. I'm keeping my powder dry and the bar not to high until the first actual reviews come in. It's still kind of exciting though.
To be honest it kinda looks all over the place content wise. Although if it delivers then this will be just as amazing as the release of MFS. For me the selling point should be walking in and out of the aircraft. Train Sim World has this feature and feels very organic, no transitions/TP to pilot seat by clicking the door. I can accept not being able to walk wherever you want, like limited to an area around the aircraft or not able to enter buildings etc... But seeing multiple shots of movement outside the plane would disapoint me if it's just a scripted scene you watch during some boring load screen. There are many extension ideas after this feature. Avatars would have more sense to this sim if you could possibly interract with other players in game. Perhaps someday you could load multiple aircraft and fly them by hopping on board without having to return to menu. Even invite a friend to the copilot seat. Of course not setting the expectations for this on release. This would be just future features to have later. Heck even in a DLC I would buy it (Elite did it way before)
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I hope they have it so you rescue people all over the virtual earth like in euro truck. And that way you get to see every where.
This looks like good fun. I really hope they do make it more interactive. Like have a character you can walk around and interact, it would increase the personal connection with the full experience of learning to fly in different circumstances. Afterall, a pilot does leave the cockpit and has a life. Having pride as you leave home, get to and walk through customs, interact or just view the passengers around you before boarding the plane. Or, go to a red bull race and get out to cheering spectators. My point is, making it interactive would give a fuller, more realistic experience, especially if they keep up the photo-realism. I just wish it wasn't so long before release, I want it.
@@MaZEEZaM I wish that could happen but it won't sadly.
Whyyyyy did i buy msfs 2020 ... 2024 is way cooler :( Aurora is in msfs 2020 via a mod, i actually wonder if msfs 2020 owners premium or ultimate get a discount on this new sim
Wait, you sound English but the factor75 seems like it is USA delivery only. You haven't mentioned anything about to which countries they deliver.
I still want career mode, starting in a cessna, getting certs, etc. all the way through flying a 747.
Since I can only give you one hands up the regular way, here are the rest!
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Even though I love flying, the reason I put this sim away for some time now is exactly this. The lack of purpose of my activities. Goals to pursue.
@@foteinimantzali8691 and an economy, from renting, school costs, making money from flying, getting different jobs, etc.
Neofly?
Please stop! If they’d give us something like that I would be in heaven!!!
I was using Air Hauler 2 for some time. But I don’t find it that intuitive to switch apps from sim to spreadsheets & back.
I also like relaxing on my Xbox instead of my desk more often than not.
Asobo accomplished the impossible. Why not integrate a carrier/economy into it??
I know that “it’s not a game, it’s a sim”. But we are not all professional pilots that need training. And even if we were, then we wouldn’t get such training from our homes on our couch in front of an Xbox.
So, it is a sim but with the ultimate goal to be fun. Like a game. And is clearly marketed to a gamers target group.
Same, too bad we're probably never going to get it.
People: looking at planes, fire, water
Me: look at the trees!
Look at the pointy mountains!
I'm exactly the same lol, but passengers in jetways too😳
@@mammid9622rip GSX
@@NZ255 good, can't stand using them anymore
The Mountains are what i've been wanting most. The last City Update had some awesome terrain/cliffs around Monoco. Lots of beautiful scenery is under represented in the current sim, hope this can address some of it.
Aurora Borealis, at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, located entirely within your computer?
.... Yes....!
@@Bag_monkey May I see it?
@@marchhare05 No...
The time of year has nothing to do with it.
@@Bag_monkey SEYMOUR THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE
Those third person scenes are likely gonna be cutscenes at the start and end of the missions. Not actually playable characters.
It says "explore our world", and shows you walking in first person. You can take a picture of a deer.
There's no real reason they couldn't be playable characters. They've already got a movable external camera in the form of a drone camera. All they'd need to do would be add constraints for height and speed and attach it to an avatar. They probably wouldn't bother with animations of you entering the aircraft like in Star Citizen, but walking up to a door, highlighting the enter hotspot and suddenly being in the pilot seat wouldn't be much of a stretch. Much easier to do than NPC crew moving stretchers or being lowered in an external winch.
We always see them walking to the plane and it seems to be zooming in every time. I don't think that zoom is the video editing of the trailer which suggests that it's a cut scene.
That's what I thought, but how to do explain the camera and the remove me assets on the airline implying a walk around was necessary, answer me this! 😄
@@dtrjones The Piper Commanche by A2A has a walkaround feature where you click through the viewing locations on a diagram of the plane in order to view the areas you need to. I imagine it might be like that but with the avatar included.
I'm still waiting for multi-player support that allows me to have a friend riding along with me as passenger/copilot.
I'd love to be able to chat with a friend who is sitting beside me as I take them on a tour somewhere, or vice-versa. Extra points for full head and hand tracking of your copilot's avatar in VR mode.
Yeah this would be awesome. Can take the Mrs with me in the cockpit instead off her just watching over my shoulder.
i hope it isn't just a list of 20 disconnected missions, in the same area, one for a particular activity. It would nice is either they popped randomly on the world map, or emulated something like NeoFly , where you build a career and go down particular routes
I know I am dreaming here, but I would love a world simulator. We have standalone Train, Truck, Flight, Ship, and many more "simulators". It would be amazing to integrate all of them into one world simulation. There is so much data available via ADS-B, Marine traffic AIS, weather, traffic, transit, and much more to feed into AI when real world players are not filling in the blanks. A dream, but what a sim it would be.
It will need much more graphics improvements to make this possible but i think in 20 years or so it will happen.
Would love something like that, but the cost involved... sheesh that would be expensive. Also the development time... no dev company would last long enough to do that.
Cloud Imperium Games are trying to do that in space with Star Citizen, and look how much backlash they are getting because they haven't released yet.
People simply aren't willing to wait long enough to get a 'world simulator'.
watch out for outerra world sandbox, they are developing exactly that. trains, boat, cars, trucks ,bicycle and on foot, all in one 1;1 earth.....
a older tech demo is still available called "outerra anteworld"
I think MSFS set a foundation for things to come.
Add VR to in the mix, and I will never get out again :)))
Once you land it loads the Microsoft Deer Hunter 2024 module
setup camp tent up and spend the night there lol kewl
4:25 in one of the previous videos from Asobo, Jorg talks about how they're using AI to populate whole world with more detail, so it could be that we can expect this amount of detail everywhere. That said, it is a trailer, so obviously they'd pick the better looking spots etc
Yes agreed. The scene with the rocks and the vegitation, trees etc are all AI placed assets. It's clear the procedual tech for ground vegetation has also improved. Looks pretty good. We need to be aware that many of the scenes could be set dressing for mission content, but I believe also a lot is part of the core rendering system when photogrammetry isn't being deployed.
I hope all the National Parks and wilderness areas look as good as Yosemite and Monument Valley do in the trailer
I bet they have cherry picked the best looking bits for the trailer. My worry is that using AI as opposed to hand editing by humans will create a lot of weird anomalies.
2020 already looks incredible. Any improvements is just a bonus at this point.
It was confirmed at FS Expo presentation that you can walk around and you can also carry out pre-flight checklists.
I like how they have addressed MSFS biggest weakness by adding some fun reasons to fly.
Just curious if the new sim will have a native persistent mode. As an inveterate Around the World flyer in light GA singles, I would like nothing better than to land, taxy, park and tie down. Then next flight, fire up the sim and walk to the aircraft in exactly the same position/configuration that I left it, save environmental factors. Then call for fuel, walk around, inspect, preflight and then depart to next location.
I’m not in the least interested in the more gamified aspects, but would love canned persistence.
Imagine if you pop into the sim and it prompts you to create your pilot. Through a character editor. That would be cool.
Why?
@@CasepbX Because having an easy tool to customize pilotsto place a copy of oneself (or Oblivionesque atrocity against God, Nature and good taste) into cockpit for screeshots would be fun and also a nice feature for Machinima makers.
@@CasepbX Because I like to use the first person camera walk around the plane in fs2020, i set WASD to camera dolly/truck and my throttle hat / arrow keys for pan tilt, fun for stuff like looking in the back of the MD10 Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, but also I have mods to that add things like wheel chocks, "Remove before flight covers", wear and damage, so i open the door, move the camera outside and look if the plane is ready to fly or not, Also like to call the fuel truck over or taxi to a gas pump instead of the magic fuel menu. I can see my co-pilot's model in the cockpit with me, and ground handlers walking around. But...
For a game in 2020, only being able to choose between "Male or female", "Military flight gear, Airline uniform, or a hoodie" and then what skin tone, this gives 27 combinations. I switch to 3rd person view and "Who is that in the cockpit, oh wait that's me" I feel no attachment to my character. The simulator could be made so much more immersive and realistic if these features were just developed a little bit more. This version is finally getting a career mode and character customizations and a wee bit of RPG elements would only help than. Imagine if next after making your character, you had to pass flight school, fly around on small GA aircraft like Cessna or a SR-22 or such, then get a commercial lesson done(aka the tutorial), then start doing missions and advancing your virtual carrier. Perhaps some system to rank up in the business, earn awards / medals / trophies. Helps give motivation to actually play as it feels like I'm progressing towards something, so add in some character customization to make me feel attached to my character, so I'll want to get my all their certifications to unlock all the missions, then go actually do them.
tl;dr it will make more people play the game for longer, i think.
Who cares about that? Most of us just want a realistic flight model, realistic graphics, a decent frame rate and for it to not crash! I'd rather them put effort where it's need not of frivolities.
@@somecallmetim42 You are aware that the hypothetical developers responsible for a character creator system are not in fact detracting from work done for the flight model, rendering, and optimization because that's not their job in the pipeline?
all I ask is Microsoft and Asobo properly adding quad views/dynamic foveated rendering into MSFS 2024 that's it, get that right I'm in
I agree, but they should do it with AI like Meta/oculus/facebook showed.
What is quad view and dynamic foveated rendering?
@@aaronmurray2277 Google it.
@@aaronmurray2277 its a technique to render your gaze in VR at a higher resolution than your peripheral vision in order to enhance performance. It is used to great effect in DCS and MSFS suffers badly for not having it currently
When I watched the trailer, it's clear that on the ground details will be like that everywhere because it's mostly AI generated. That 'walking around' is 2 things. Firs is just simply a photo mode like in most other games. The other is just pretty obviously cinematics, like the current game has, but now it shows the NPCs. Also, this game will be pretty epic.
Cool, we can get back into some Mach 1 hot air balloons ...
Aside from the release date, there was just speculation on what was already in the original announcement videos.
I hope that there is a path to instrument rating and a pilot/airline career. Furthermore, I hope that there will be good integration with map software, including approach plates&airport details, so that you don\t have to switch out of VR to use them.
100% mission dependant cutscenes, they will not let us walk around and take pictures of the pretty wildlife.
Why do you think that?
Why not? This would be very easy to add in to the sim.
Maybe just walking in missions (like in detroit become human or heavy rain), with scripted events with npcs like tourism or rescue
Just not the kind of game it is. I don't know how easy it is to add third person character movement to a game, but to do it in a convincing way you need resources. This is a flight sim, is not suddenly going to become a complete open world simulator. Maybe this is Microsoft's ultimate goal for some distant future version, but the level of detail to pull this off well for the entire globe is just not something they're capable of right now.
@@brentcalaway Not so sure about that.
I’ll believe it when I see it. MSFS 2020 was supposed to be Uber detailed.. but I still end up with buildings that look like Dresden 1945.
What I want from 2024 is a properly thought through piece of software. ATC that works. Other player flown aircraft you can interact with rather than just fly through and otherwise ignore, being able to hear that aircrafts ATC transmissions. Properly configurable aircraft wear and failures so that career mode addons like Neofly can do interesting things. A proper anti-cheat option so that player organised air racing (without a host who screams PLANES MUST BE STOCK! all year and then lets someone code their own autopilot in the final race) can happen and true E-sports can start forming.
However, what I think we're going to get is an addon missions pack being sold as a brand new sim at full price.
ATC should and can be done via AI there is already a product on the market that does that for MSFS2020 which is super realistic ATC BeyondATC its called
@obsidian they already confirmed that ground detail is being handled by AI with a tech they call 3D from 2D.
Does that mean it will all look there in Yosemite?
That doesn't bode too well :-( The current iteration of AI has a reputation for creating very weird anomalies lol. I guess half the adventure will be in discovering and taking screenshots of the weird $h1t going on lol
@@somecallmetim42 well we will see but that's the only way they could have done it. The world is very, very big. It looks good in the trailer at least.
@@somecallmetim42the AI rendered my house in the Central Belt of Scotland as a mock Tudor house like they have in Chester or Portsmouth! The exterior walls of all the houses around here are either stone for the older ones or roughcast
there you go i thought so :) AI RULEZ
So when will we get Microsoft Space Simulator?
Come on Microsoft, KSP2 seems to have failed us, we place our trust in you.
Film, product or game trailers are designed to raise questions not give answers, the point is that you then feel compelled to buy the product, watch the movie etc, to get those answers you have been wondering over. It is called marketing.
i wonder what recommended PC spec will be
I seriously hope it's something respectable. Given the countless $$$ I've already spent for 2020 in terms of the premium edition, add-ons and Navigraph id definitely not want to spend another $$$$ on a new PC
I think it will be the same or just very slightly over MSFS 2020. Especially since they learned (and still learning) how to optimize it with 2020. And then you still have FSR 3, Frame Gen..
They said it would be lower, because most of the computing will be done in the could
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@@thedumbgeek2597 You know you can edit a previous comment, right?
Walking around would be wonderful in VR.
How cool would it be to be in first person mode, walk around the aircraft, then climb in the aircraft seamlessly. I just wish that what is seen in the trailer are not simply cut scenes.
Can't wait for A2A to make a study-level human walking.
Probably need to win the lottery to afford the massive PC to run this.
nah they have optimized it for many PCs with current AI tech and NVIDIA tech it wont be a problem im sure
They really should have called it MSFS 25
Or MSFS Beyond
the fact that you can get out and take pictures of wild life kinda makes me think we will be able to control characters
tbh I always wanted bush pilot / air ambulance / mountain rescue missions in a flight simulator so this is very gratifying. Sort of seems more constructive, hopeful and positive than endles first-person shootemups with endless violence.
I have a feeling a lot of these jobs are going to be more instanced than anything, I can't imagine a game where you can fly around and find different fires all over the world with the amount of detail and computing power that would take. Interested to see how they pull this off.
This should have been an update. Not entirely new release.
It had to be an entirely new release, its been entirely recoded on dx12 not dx11. It absolutely would not work as an update for 2020 as they are fundamentally different on a coding level.
As a licenced non-instrument rated private pilot I do enjoy the opportunities that MSFS 2020 offers to experience different aircraft types and practice instrument flying in IMC which I can't do in real life (and don't want to !). I can also get a good idea what it might be like to fly into different airports and environments around the world. I've spent quite a few bob on good hardware and all in all I think its fantastic to have this level of simulation in my sitting room. However I don't think I've seen anything in the trailers for MSFS 2024 that would get me too excited. Sounds more like a christmas stocking filler for kids !
I'm really hoping the new wear and tear system and tornado's they add will mean some form of destruction to the plane is possible so we can simulate emergency landings. Obviously the tornado might play a part in utilizing the wear and tear system but again it could also just fade to black like usual saying "Hey you flew into a tornado dummy"
I hope they fix the performance issues with the CPU main thread, which is the most frustrating for me, seeing my GPU at 40% and stuttering all over the place. Other than that, hyped about this.
As far as I understand that's a relic of the old FSX engine that was a base for FS2020. And as they stated engine refurbishments as the main reason for making FS2024 I really hope that would addres performance issues.
This looks like they're trying to create a "Microsoft World simulator" and I think that would be the next step with people being able to do all sorts of things; driving, boating, exploring and even photography
I don't know and I'm not holding my breath about it, but having some sort of 1st/3rd person game play would increase the simulation level, as we could do some ground level activities, such as pre-flight inspections, or even ground crew on a multiplayer server.
Hopefully the VR support doesn’t suck like it did with 2020.
2020 isn't that bad in VR... apart from the annoying POI marker you can never remove, and the fact the menus seem to choose when they want to appear, VR wasn't too bad. I always play 2020 in VR.
I've seen much worse VR games tbh lol.
VR....is that crap still being used, VR is stagnant and dated, upgrade to Tobi
@@davewills148You must not have tried any of the modern generation of headsets. From an immersion point of view it blows head trackers out of the water imho.
@@roadsweeper1What POI marker? I don’t get any on the Q3. Sounds like a setting?
@@MrMontanaNights Until its ''Small Form Factor'' instead of that eyesore you now have, until its completely untethered, and when its at $4.99, and not $1000+ for a stagnant, lazy , cash grab, and have to fumble around like a blind man.......its jurassic tech
Jump Pilot/Skydive Pilot would be good. Working out the wind direction and jump direction without busting airspace in some places. Pressing the green button to jump etc.
Crop dusting
Search and rescue.
Mustering cattle in a chopper
Logging
Construction using Helicopter’s
Sling loads.
Real life air crash situations ie could one repeat the Gimly Glider incident or when the pitot covers are not taken off etc etc.
I'm not at all bothered about seeing animated models of people and animals walk about, what I really want is for them to fix the stupid immersion breaking bugs that have been present in Microsoft Flight Simulator since it came out 4 years ago. I just hope they finally fix the vertical water, gigantic trees and overgrown post apocalyptic cities, car driving up the sides of buildings etc etc and it would be a nice bonus to actually have it run smoothly on a high end PC and not crash.
i'm concerned that there has been too much work done on visuals and not on physics, flight dynamics and actual real world weather... their last Q&A they didn't seem to get what someone was getting at with the question about a weather radar, ofc they were referring to WX radar support.... don't get me wrong, whaat asobo and microsoft have achieved is breath-taking.. i just hope that the right areas have recieved the same attention as they graphics
I think they've said multiple times that they license the weather data from metar blue so it would be up to that company to allow mods/devs to use their API
@@OutkastWonderers yeah the data is licensed. But the wx weather radar is about how the data is transformed in the simulator. Either that or just allow for companies like active sky to just replace the whole atmospheric engine like they did with p3d etc... That way they use their own data and not that of meteo blue.. Sorted
My quantum computer is on order and should arrive around 2056.
The main reason I stopped with FS2020 was there really wasn't to do but just fly from point A to point B. The idea of having something to do, including virtually living out the dream of flying for the RFDS...or Air Ambulance as per the sim, is enough to get me back in flight simming. Now to think of entry level yokes etc, that don't cost the Earth.
Can’t wait to do the firefighting missions
I am so glad that you mentioned it! Ever since the first trailer I thought there would be a first-person mode ("walk-mode") where you could walk through airports, to your airplane, open the doors, etc. I hope so much that they will add this in one way or another. I am convinced that this would immensely improve realism and induce a feel of scale for the player (especially for the more casual one). As it has been shown several times (I think about 7-8) in both trailers, I think that they are very much hinting at it being a part of the new sim.
I like what I see so far. One of the things I loved about Flight Sim X was all the missions and things you could doin the sim besides just flying here and there. I do wish they had given us some kind of idea on the system requirements. I know there has been a lot of speculation on these but nothing concrete. I do hope we can transfer all the aircraft and other stuff from FS2020 to FS2024. I have got to have my Icon to fly in the new sim or I will cry. I also want a the discover flights and landing challenges to get transfered over as well.
Im wondering what the computer specs are to run this at a steady 40fps.
I am very curious as to whether there will be spacecraft, given the banner with the words "The sky is not the limit." I wonder if this is an indication that the transition from atmosphere to low earth orbit (space), as well as flight characteristics while in space--including realistic reentry effects--will be simulated more accurately. That would be incredibly exciting.
The people walking around planes will be cutscenes with your customized avatar. Probably part of career mode when you "begin a mission". Taking pictures will just be a photo mode, not walking around.
Oh it will be walking around all right. Who will be the first person to walk across every continent?
That’s not an NPC you’re walking behind out to the aircraft. That’s you as the pilot walking out to do a preflight. This was designed for FS11 affectionately titled “FS11 something to do”. Paul Lange discussed this in the design advisory board. This concept goes back 15 years. You could drive to the airport, do a walk around pre-flight etc etc. it was all about a career path in aviation and simulating real life. It’s finally happening for FS2024.
MSFS 2024 is probably going to be dead-on complex & even more equipped & w/nice aircrafts.
Do we have to wait 2-3 years for VR implementation?
As a real ATP pilot and user (sometimes frustraded by it) of FS2020,I think is promissing,bu I did NOT see what I ALWAYS see while flying : veihicle traffic! why they left it tottaly off? and how about night time? and there is any improvement to weather?
Walking around in a game like this is cool because you get a better sense of scale. Also it makes you feel like you aren't the plane, you are person in the plane controlling it
You have to have a constant online connection though don't you?
I think you can pre cache a specific area to fly in
If you want to stream scenery, yes. Otherwise you can only use offline terrain, which is closer to X-Plane in quality.
Do you have a couple petrabites of storage on your PC? If not I think you do need a constant connection, if you want to have all the detail, if not you can play the base game without the photogrammetry.
@@danielpena-un8vl No PC just an Xbox without a gold subscription.
I like flying games and just heard about this game and don't know how it works.
@@matthew-005 from what i can tell , i have it on PC, you do not need Gold, it might not populate the world with other real players, but you will get online streaming of the world
Looks amazing.....hopefully this is a sneak peak of things to come. Fingers crossed they get it right from the get go!! 😎
I can create my own adventures in the sim. That is the beauty of imagination! I don't need to be told how to enjoy the sim.
It looked good. I definitely want to engage in those "remote cargo" runs
the deer photo make me think that indeed there is third / first person walking in this game.
My only concerns are retrocompatibility with current add on and the possible split in the community
I hope they will start making other games in this game world, such as Train Simulator.
I think you'll have the option to enter first/third person view, within bounds (i.e. within a certain range of your chosen aircraft and/or within the bounds of an airport/airstrip). I very much doubt it'll be along the lines of "you can go literally anywhere" in first/third person - there'll be a limit. This has potential and even in combat flight sims people are asking for a feature where you can walk around your jet and do pre-flights so perhaps MSFS 24 will be the pioneer of this new feature.
In terms of detail, there could very well be hand-crafted regions however they could have pulled some LOD trickery, so that the game figures out where you are in the world (when you enter 'person view') and ups the randomly generated detail in that area specifically.
I'm liking the 'activities' focus in this one - might even consider getting this one myself - however I'd prefer a proper 'career mode' - whether that be as an airline pilot, or a SAR/Fire bomber pilot, or a Redbull air racer.
Either way, I'll be keeping my eyes on this one.
Iam wondering ..Do you have to have game pass to play or can you just buy it for pc?
How will you navigate thru storms in a airliner with no 3d WEATHER..
They copied the passengers like in gsx pro
3:22 Slipstream FTW! I can finally live out my Mark Hamil android bounty hunting LARPing at a global scale.
If they do indeed implement "earth legs" I just hope that it is better thought through than another company's implementation of "space legs". Overall I'm excited though and hope that it gives the replayability/motivation that I was missing in the end in MSFS2020.
I wish they'd add Beer's Powder effect on clouds. It would improve so much the photo realism of the sky. (just take a look at Horizon Forbidden West clouds)
Some of the purist will complain that these career modes are turning the sim into a "game". But, to get the younger folks simming, great graphics and missions make the sim much more engaging. I will certainly be racing and doing some firefighting. As an aviation and sim enthusiast I am looking forward to the upgraded graphics and hopefully some under the hood performance improvements. I'm quite happy with 2020 and any improvements are welcome.
This level of detail what was everyone was expecting from MFS 2020.
I still don't understand why some hardcore fans are angry that MSFS2024 gets developed.
A330-200 supposedly by IniBuilds looks amazing. Still the place for 300 variant which Aerosoft promised to release but didn't yet.
I think it's ingame cinematics. You'll have set missions within a career path, and the cinematic will show at the start or during the mission, like the pilot walking towards the commercial jet, it'll show that, then morph into the cockpit view where you take control of the plane. Or in the helimed missions, once you've touched down at the required spot, you'll get the cinematic of the passenger compartment being loaded with the patient....
That's what I reckon anyway.
As for the photo of the bush plane and the deer, looks like they are putting in a photo mode, which isn't uncommon, a lot of the 'pretty' first person shooters (horizon zero dawn etc) have a photo mode that freezes the game and allows you to 'take photos'.
Very much looking forwards to the career modes though. While I like flying aimlessly, having a reason to go places is also good. Looking forward to the S&R career. I love flying helos, and Search and Rescue 4 was one of my fav games, and no-ones really done anything like it since. Hoping this will fill my precision helo flying itch.
I have so many complaints/requests for asobo and msfs about this sim.
1: the development process should be way more transparent. I understand why they are so secretive, but at the same time thats one of the things that killed ksp2. Its not like msfs has any competitors or anything, so just EXPLAIN THINGS MORE!
2: Make 24 free, or at the very least, severely discounted for those who already own 24. I don't want to spend 70 dollars for what will essentially be an upgrade for my existing sim for the first few updates.
3: please release a semi functional game this time. I'm really sick of games that are delayed over and over again, only to release a bug filled nightmare that takes months or years for the devs to get in order.
I wonder if there will be a mission editor sort of like dcs for example, where u can set triggers and plan scenarios, to be shared with community
Thanks for that! I've ben waiting for news of a release date - I was getting worried that it would be delayed with not having heard a date yet. They've certainly left room to release some more trailers in the run-up to November. As you said, many unanswered questions.
I believe the videos of people walking around is just simply cutscenes for whatever role you’re playing. Just my opinion
To me, this looks more like an adventure game than a flight simulator... we will have to wait and see
The grass will have to be so much greener for this to be worthwhile. I do appreciate the attention to detail on display here but let’s not forget how the msfs2020 trailer portrayed something similar. All in all if it delivers then we outta get something special.
The colour of grass depends on where you live. In my part of Australia the grass can go from green to brown in three weeks and back to green in three weeks as the seasons change.
Grass could be greener but what about areas such as desserts where there is no/limited grass? It may be difficult for you to judge your purchase decision based on the grass alone without a fairly extensive analysis of multiple areas.
The “greener grass” statement was meant in terms of msfs2024 as a whole :)
Are they still gonna have tornadoes in the game?
And are we gonna be able to see solar and lunar eclipses in the sim??
In a previous release of info from Microsoft they mentioned that the AI would create extream detail close to the ground and provided a before and after view of a random mountainous area. I think this detail will be everywhere albeit perhaps the quaity will very dependent of the satelite imagery that goes into it. As for the ability to walk around in first person why not? In 2020 you can closely simulate this with the free camera. This would be a fairly simple addition. After all walking is much easier to simulate then a fully functional jet airliner or helicopter. There are already cars and boats that can be added on and driven around on the ground/water.
My guess for the release date was practically spot on,it was based on the christmas sales season and so made sense to me.I look forward to seeing how the people who dive in and try it react...............................................
Great info Ant! For me everything hangs on will it download and play well without waisting time jumping through hoops bs! I have a great system and fast internet but if devs don't have it working by release then I'll buy something else!
Any idea regarding necessary computer specs needer to run MSFS24? Cheers
While I think the idea of getting out of your plane and walking around is great, I can't imagine this will be a third-person perspective kind of thing. Perhaps we will just inter-mingle with NPCs in a free-camera roam kind of feature. It would UH-MAZE-ZING to have a customizable character we can walk around in 3rd person with, but if I've learned anything from Cyberpunk 2077 "that takes away from the immersion."
Ok Microsoft… if you want me to buy 2024, you need to make 1st/3rd person characters that you can customize and walk around with. And modeling jetliner interiors on base aircraft will absolutely sell me.
They also need to add passengers and cars that you can drive on roads.
@@jimj2683 this is a flight simulator, not a drive simulator
For a gamer like me who didn't buy MSFS a few years ago , this might make me buy the newer version. Looks alot better with alot more to do in game. o7
Will anything improve VR with a new reissue of MFS?😊
It would be nice if one could become the pilot as you leave the cockpit and actually do the walk around outside the aircraft before a flight then stop being it as you re-enter the cockpit
It's starting to look like The Sims - Airport DLC
To me, the gray-volcano clouds are gone. Finally...
And now the 7800X3D and the 4090 are going to be outdated as now you need the 9800X3D and a 5090 to have the full experience the sim may have to offer.
honestly i want combat flight simulator (WW2 with these graphics)
So far its a shop winfow, how much is in game footage, how much scripted, hard to tell. I'm keeping my powder dry and the bar not to high until the first actual reviews come in. It's still kind of exciting though.
Guarantee it won't look anything like this on console if it releases on Series X/S, I'll be surprised if it even releases at all on console
and here I was planning on getting Flight simulator 2020. guess I should wait,
I really hope they fix the flight model so it's more really than what we have now.
After still feeling dicked from FS2020... I'll be waiting until at least 6 months after release to even consider it
To be honest it kinda looks all over the place content wise.
Although if it delivers then this will be just as amazing as the release of MFS.
For me the selling point should be walking in and out of the aircraft. Train Sim World has this feature and feels very organic, no transitions/TP to pilot seat by clicking the door. I can accept not being able to walk wherever you want, like limited to an area around the aircraft or not able to enter buildings etc... But seeing multiple shots of movement outside the plane would disapoint me if it's just a scripted scene you watch during some boring load screen.
There are many extension ideas after this feature. Avatars would have more sense to this sim if you could possibly interract with other players in game. Perhaps someday you could load multiple aircraft and fly them by hopping on board without having to return to menu. Even invite a friend to the copilot seat. Of course not setting the expectations for this on release. This would be just future features to have later. Heck even in a DLC I would buy it (Elite did it way before)