Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2023
Microsoft have just released their second trailer for MSFS 2024. At the end, it states the new sim will be released later this year, on November 19th.
Official Trailer #2 (And Release Date)
- Thread starter Bomber_12th
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After seeing the mud on the wheels. I'm in
I'm cautiously optimistic, it looks gorgeous, the balloon soft-body looks interesting, and they claim to have improved the flight model and systems modelling capability. If it's current MSFS plus those things it's a sure buy for me - just hope the third party addons can come across smoothly or with minimal compatibility work from the providers
heywooood
Mayor Emeritus of Taco City
well...isn't SHE pretty
looks like 2020 was just a stepping stone about halfway in between FSX and 2024...
That weather, improved clouds and lightning and lighting, active mud? the Skycrane! and all of the new soft body effects - so much more.
I wonder how much of this will be fed back into 2020 as improvements and updates when they're going to be trying hard to sell it as the next generation. I guess we'll see
looks like 2020 was just a stepping stone about halfway in between FSX and 2024...
That weather, improved clouds and lightning and lighting, active mud? the Skycrane! and all of the new soft body effects - so much more.
I wonder how much of this will be fed back into 2020 as improvements and updates when they're going to be trying hard to sell it as the next generation. I guess we'll see
The former Albuquerquean in me got excited for balloons! Imagine if they had the balloon fiesta.
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2023
These are the known facts about MSFS 2024, as Microsoft has posted online and/or stated in interviews over the past year:
"MSFS 2024 is considered the biggest flight sim ever made, with over 500 people working on it. MSFS 2020 reached the limit technology wise, hence the new edition."
The three focus areas of MSFS 2024 are:
Focus 1: Aviation Activity System
Focus 2: Core Sim & Technology
Focus 3: Digital Twin
3rd Party Developer Partners have just begun to be publicly announced over the past month, with these stated thus-far:
For those who haven't seen it, this is the first trailer for MSFS 2024 that was released about a year ago:
"MSFS 2024 is considered the biggest flight sim ever made, with over 500 people working on it. MSFS 2020 reached the limit technology wise, hence the new edition."
The three focus areas of MSFS 2024 are:
Focus 1: Aviation Activity System
- Accurate aviation career representation via missions and activities, working with organizations/experts in these areas to ensure accuracy (including firefighting, search and rescue and coast guard organizations)
Focus 2: Core Sim & Technology
- Thin client, less to download, faster loading times, helps keep minimum specs low
- New physics and aerodynamics engine
- Massive performance improvements, multi-threaded
- More control for aircraft creators
- Backwards-compatible (community folder still there)
- Updated systems (electrical, pneumatic, fuel and hydraulic)
- Failure, wear and tear system
- Payload and passenger system overhaul
- Deeper and wider avionics packages
Focus 3: Digital Twin
- 15 cm terrain photogrammetry (like Grand Canyon as seen in MSFS 2024 Trailer #1), and 50 cm “2D to 3D” where there is no photogrammetry, using sat data (like Kilimanjaro as seen in MSFS 2024 Trailer #1)
- Enhanced tree diversity
- Improved cliffs
- 3D tessellated ground materials
- Improved ground details
- Full seasons
- Aurora Borealis/Aurora Australis, tornadoes, improved storms
- Animal herds and migration
- World live ship traffic
- Accurate live traffic (models and liveries)
- Improved vehicle traffic
3rd Party Developer Partners have just begun to be publicly announced over the past month, with these stated thus-far:
- FlightFX - Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2 and Jetson ONE
- iniBuilds - Airbus A400M and Airbus BelugaXL
- Carenado - Cessna A188 AGtruck
- Blackbird - Erickson S-64 Skycrane
- DC Designs - A-10 Thunderbolt II
For those who haven't seen it, this is the first trailer for MSFS 2024 that was released about a year ago:
MS/Asobo stated early on that "virtually" all addons would migrate with no issue.
That's a pretty impressive list of features. I'm still using FSX: Steam Edition and considering going to a 64-bit version of P3D, so color me "interested".
I should also add I currently have FS9, FSX and MSFS 2020 installed on the same PC. I have no plans on removing any of them.
If I can ever find my tin can again, I'm thinking about putting FS9 back on just to be able to fly the heavy stuff again without having to spend a half-hour on mandatory startup procedures. I know the stock FS9 747 was dumbed way down, but it was still fun to slog it around the checkerboard approach at Kai Tak!
