• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Maybe it's time to consider X-Plane?

Actually, to me anyway, it looks like BoB is going to be the sim engine to beat, once it's finally released. The fact that it will have open architecture, in a similar fashion that FS has now, and you can make gauges, flight models, aircraft, and add scenery, etc, it looks like it will be amazing. Especially after seeing the video of the beach along the ocean Oleg previewed with the waves crashing against the shore and seeing the the dpeth of the water along the coastline.

Of course, alot could change between now and it's release, but I think it's the one to watch. Especially since Aces Studio closed up shop. I think Oleg is seeing that as opening he can't afford not to take advantage of while the opportunity exists.

Upon further reading, it looks like the map making may be limited. I haven't been able to track down the latest interview, where I thought he claimed we would be able to, so take what I wrote with a grain of salt until I find it.

Here's some pics, until then. pics link
 
Rise of Flight definitely looks promising, although single-era or limited sims have the advantage of not having to reproduce the dizzying variety of locales, situations, or physics that a full-scale sim like FS does. Still, I'm really anxious to see how it works when it's released.

Is anyone else curious what would happen if Oleg and company took on the challenge of a full-fledged, modern civilian simulator? I mean, you know, other than the fact that the first version would debut in 2020? ;)
 
As each month goes by and with no prospect of a MS successor to FSX, and there being no others in the field apart from X-Plane, it is inevitable that X will take over.
Sure looks lonely though with no AI to speak of.
 
Prowler1111 said:
Not to start a fruitless debate BUT:
Not everything that shines is gold..that T-6 looks great, but no working gauges...i´m sorry for what i´m about to say, but these videos, while impressive each on their own way, reminds me of an used car sales man....so to speak...
Anyone got the right for his/her own choices..for some is eye candy, for some is realism, for most is the exact match of both....i´ve fiddle with X-plane 9 long enough (and also developed for the FS series long enough) to know that it´s not even close to FS8..and in some cases..not even close to the Strike Fighter series of combat sims, regarding virtual cockpits.Just my opinion.

Best regards
Prowler
Click to expand...

Those gauges clearly are working in that video.

As far as Xplane, I have both XP9 and FSX installed and split my time between both.
 
Naismith said:
As each month goes by and with no prospect of a MS successor to FSX, and there being no others in the field apart from X-Plane, it is inevitable that X will take over.
Sure looks lonely though with no AI to speak of.
Click to expand...

That is hardly inevitable... :kilroy:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top