Microsoft Flight Simulator Announced 2019

Soooo.... Did I get this right? The largest flightsim expo is currently being held in Orlando and Microsoft goes to the E3 to announce a new flight simulator?
 
Vitus said:
Soooo.... Did I get this right? The largest flightsim expo is currently being held in Orlando and Microsoft goes to the E3 to announce a new flight simulator?
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A flight simulator expo is going to have a few thousand attendees at best, and almost zero coverage from bigger gaming oriented websites. A presentation at E3 gets an audience of millions online, and a ton of coverage from big gamine sites, so this exposes it to a much larger potential audience than a flight sim expo.
 
ummm... that shot of the tubeliner landing. Are we really going to have "on the fly" control over focal length and depth of field? Seriously? And in some of the shots, those clouds don't look 3D, more like a spherical photo projection...interesting:engel016:
 
I'm imagining we're seeing some preproduction shots. I'm happy. Backwards compatibility would be nice, but I won't be upset if it's not there.

Good to have more competition for X-Plane. Maybe it'll force him to get ground and water handling worked out. Like others, after the MS Flight debacle, I'll hold my thoughts on FS19, but it looks good, psyched about the possibilities.
 
This is amazing, and unexpected to say the least. As I just posted on another forum, I can't see myself installing yet another flight simulator (I currently have 11), BUT I will at least check this out. It looks too good to not at least have a first hand look.
 
Sundog said:
I'm shocked at the amount of immersion and systems modeling in this video.

https://youtu.be/McAkluYax7c
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Thats Flightbeam KDEN with the pmdg 777 and GSX, i can replicate that same video for you

This will happen over the upcoming months people will be posting fake videos for the new plaftorm just like people have done for the past 14yrs since fsx was released like fs2009, fs2015 etc etc
 
count me among the flabbergasted...
what the hell just happened? Is this a real MS Flight Sim promo?
am I glad I resisted buying into Xplane or P3D...?
We've seen MS promotional vids before and been underwhelmed...and lets not forget how LONG it took for the hardware to get close to handling FSX - will this new venture be a repeat of all that?

On the other hand - what a fantastic render, from the lighting to the weather, to the terrain and scenery. If it has AI traffic, ATC, and any kind of 'living world' feel to it it 'should' be amazing.

I registered for the insider program - just to keep tabs on it

Thank you Ted for posting this video here. What a surprise!
 
000rick000 said:
That shot is great. If you look closely I'm the video you'll see the heat blur from the exhaust.
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I’m seeing a lot of heat blur on the flightsim sites, t took ages just to load this thread! A huge mug of coffee and a monster bucket of popcorn is in order, methinks...
 
heywooood said:
count me among the flabbergasted...
what the hell just happened? Is this a real MS Flight Sim promo?
am I glad I resisted buying into Xplane or P3D...?
We've seen MS promotional vids before and been underwhelmed...and lets not forget how LONG it took for the hardware to get close to handling FSX - will this new venture be a repeat of all that?

On the other hand - what a fantastic render, from the lighting to the weather, to the terrain and scenery. If it has AI traffic, ATC, and any kind of 'living world' feel to it it 'should' be amazing.

I registered for the insider program - just to keep tabs on it

Thank you Ted for posting this video here. What a surprise!
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No modern games makes use of modern technology. Build for future hardware died years ago.
 
DennyA said:
Note that it's not called Flight Simulator 2019, just Flight Simulator.
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Like it's a new start, a whole new world.
Back-compatible or not this is just great!
Terrific news.
That's where most of us will be heading, I guess.
Fingers crossed though, you never know.
 
000rick000 said:
To the SOH Admin. Let's join the replies in this thread to the one started my TuFun, as his title reflects the sim only and it's now known it's not an XBOX exclusive. Thanks!
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Yes, now You can play in FSX or P3D with XBox controller too ;).

NEW FSX incoming!!! This is BIG WOW and surprice from E3 2019!

FSX and P3Dv4 or 5 ... bye bye ; )))) ?!





2020 will be year of simmers ; D!

Trailer:

 
azflyboy said:
A flight simulator expo is going to have a few thousand attendees at best, and almost zero coverage from bigger gaming oriented websites. A presentation at E3 gets an audience of millions online, and a ton of coverage from big gamine sites, so this exposes it to a much larger potential audience than a flight sim expo.
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That's true! Although let me point out that what happens at the expo has reach beyond the people that attend.

I still conceive this to be a bit of a slap in the face of the FS community. They could've sent one dude over to Florida to talk about it with the hardcore fans of the genre, instead they sidestepped the whole community to go to the gamers. That's fine, I understand the motive - however it also makes me suspicious that they don't really care for the bunch of us. I just see the parallels with Flight. :very_drunk:

On the other hand - new, posh, polished platform means opening flightsim to a new generation of users, which is in all of our best interests. So from that: good on you Microsoft!
 
Very impressive promo - initial target is quite unashamedly gamers and as a license on an X-Box system. 2020 is given as the release date and as far as the various blurbs go at the moment will be for XBox and PC (Windows 10). If the scenery and sky simulation is consistently as good as the few selected shots show, all over the world then it will be a winner with gamers no doubt. For simmers will come the perennial issues, can I add in my addons? especially aircraft and those out of the way scenery places Microsoft always forgets, will weather be real time? And can I use the flat screen as does XBox with the PC or not?

My gut feeling is yes and yes but knowing MS they will want to control the whole process and go the licenses and control the vendors for bits a routes which is not that desirable at all and if I remember correctly a certain now defunct owner of the last FSX sim program tried to do and failed. The whole new PC architecture and focus on game or visual performance and associated hardware is the most interesting aspect.

Under the hood it will be my guess familiar architecture for aircraft etc but the 64 million dollar question will be - Can you get at it? OR can developers get a bite without handing over a percentage to MS to do so?

Wait and see, certainly would not be launching into P3D or XPlane just yet.
 
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