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PostMicrosoft Flight Simulator (PC, Xbox, Game Pass)
by OrangeRKN » Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:20 am

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Explore the World
Travel the world in amazing detail with over 2 million cities, 1.5 billion buildings, real mountains, roads, trees, rivers, animals, traffic, and more.

Earn Your Wings
Hone your pilot skills in a variety of aircraft from light planes to commercial jets with an experience that scales to your level with interactive and highlighted instrument guidance and checklists.

Test Your Skill
Fly day or night with live real-time weather including accurate wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, rain and lighting.






It was cool to see this making a return, and it certainly looks pretty. I'm not bothered about the flight simulation part, but if you can also just turn on easy mode and simply explore the world, this could be a pretty way of doing it

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Monkey Man » Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:51 am

Out on XB1 & Game Pass as well so will give it a go.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Peter Crisp » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:00 am

It's going to be really interesting to see just how detailed cities and terrain can become on a next gen version.
It could become quite a graphical showcase.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by NickSCFC » Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:10 pm

Remember having this on my old IBM Aptiva 2 decades ago...


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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Garth » Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:33 pm

Quite like the look of this, just even for exploring the world.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Photek » Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:35 pm

It's on gamepass... so I'll give it a whirl.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Tomous » Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:36 pm

Have to say I was a bit disappointed when they revealed this was “just” a new Flight Simulator.

The graphics are incredible.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by rinks » Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:38 pm

Monkey Man wrote:Out on XB1 & Game Pass as well so will give it a go.

Oh, nice. I didn’t pay attention to that bit last night as I assumed it was PC-only.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by SEP » Mon Jun 10, 2019 2:02 pm

I never thought I'd see the day when a new MS Flight Simulator was announced. I'm incredibly happy at this.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Cheeky Devlin » Mon Jun 10, 2019 2:46 pm

I'm already day one, but VR support on PC would make this essential I think.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Kezzer » Mon Jun 10, 2019 2:52 pm

oh man, the amount of money I spent on FSX :slol:

Might pick this up, if there was one thing about FSX was that it was incredibly pretty ( especially with scenery and weather addons)and this looks to be the same.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Preezy » Mon Jun 10, 2019 3:36 pm

Can you fly planes into buildings? Asking for a CIA asset gone rogue.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Xeno » Mon Jun 10, 2019 4:09 pm

I want to know which dev is making it because a lot of the devs for MS flight sim ended up going to Lockheed Martin.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Rightey » Mon Jun 10, 2019 5:23 pm

NickSCFC wrote:Remember having this on my old IBM Aptiva a decade ago...



A decade ago was 2009 friend.

:cry:

This looks really amazing, I wonder if they'll come out with a combat version as well.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by NickSCFC » Mon Jun 10, 2019 7:18 pm

Wonder if they'll rerelease this...

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, XBO) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI | coming 2020
by Venom » Mon Jun 10, 2019 8:19 pm

About two to three years ago I was looking to see if Microsoft had updated this - and now they have. My understanding was that this is a proper realistic sim where you have to learn to fly so I hope there will be a more accessible mode. All I want to do is have some great relaxing flights past real world locations, land a bit, fly up again and maybe crash into things if that is still allowed.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI - 2020
by Venom » Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:10 pm

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI - 2020
by Peter Crisp » Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:21 pm

This honestly could be a really great graphical showcase for next gen.
It could also be relaxing as strawberry float just flying about with a slow aircraft just doing sightseeing tours if done well.

The potential is pretty awesome and being on gamepass as a base game I can see them making strawberry floating loads of money in the same way the train simulators make loads from people wanting model railways on the computer. If they do this right they could even make paid DLC almost less strawberry floating outrageous but maybe I'm being overly optimistic here.

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI - 2020
by Kezzer » Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:32 pm

if it is anything like FSX then there will be a massive 3rd party mod community out there making aircraft. Both paid and free (supposing they have the tools...)

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PostRe: Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC) - Powered by satellite data and Azure AI - 2020
by Peter Crisp » Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:38 pm

Kezzer wrote:if it is anything like FSX then there will be a massive 3rd party mod community out there making aircraft. Both paid and free (supposing they have the tools...)


That would be pretty amazing as well.
As I said the potential is pretty amazing and flight sims aren't exactly a flooded genre and this isn't Ace Combat so there's space for both styles of game.

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