It's great to see this great franchise come back from the dead. Will they have a 737 MAX simulator?
Too soon, my friend
Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage
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#22I've been into various flight simulators since I was a kid. This looks super cool, but I have always been disappointed by how much more effort it seems like goes into pretty graphics than realistic flying (including detailed and realistic aircraft controls). I would prefer rudimentary graphics with extremely accurate flying and controls than the other way around, but I guess I'm alone in that because they always get…
Crashing could be more realistic too. I get the feeling no one else feels this way or no one else should feel this way. They could at least play sad music and give me a lecture a la Police Quest after each crash.
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#23I was a child on a Commodore 64 with Flight Simulator. Before school one morning I took off from Chicago, leveled off, and pointed my cesna towards my city - New Orleans. When I got home, to my surprise, it was some 50 - 100 miles away. I took it in for a landing and... nothing. Nothing happens. Still, that was the best nothingness and I remember it to this day.
Looking forward to this version.
Addendum: When my parents took me to purchase my first pc - an ITT XTRA, I got to choose one piece of software to take home with it. Of course it was MS Flight Simulator.
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#24I tried DCS World last week and gave up after 30 minutes, crashing and accidentally ejecting from the planes. Will I make it more than an hour with this new game?
It depends what you want to do. FS2020 is not going to likely have any kind of combat in it.
I fly both FS2020 alpha and DCS World fairly regularly, obviously the former a lot more in the past little bit. If you'd like help with anything DCS world I'd be more than happy to help out.
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#25It's great to see this great franchise come back from the dead. Will they have a 737 MAX simulator?
Out of stock, unfortunately
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#26I've been into various flight simulators since I was a kid. This looks super cool, but I have always been disappointed by how much more effort it seems like goes into pretty graphics than realistic flying (including detailed and realistic aircraft controls). I would prefer rudimentary graphics with extremely accurate flying and controls than the other way around, but I guess I'm alone in that because they always get…
Maybe have a look at X-plane, or even flightgear. MS flight simulator has always been more on the arcade side of the flight simulation.
https://www.x-plane.com/desktop/how-x-plane-works/ https://www.flightgear.org/about/features/
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#27I've been into various flight simulators since I was a kid. This looks super cool, but I have always been disappointed by how much more effort it seems like goes into pretty graphics than realistic flying (including detailed and realistic aircraft controls). I would prefer rudimentary graphics with extremely accurate flying and controls than the other way around, but I guess I'm alone in that because they always get…
So, X-Plane 11 is pretty detailed for some of its default aircraft (such as the included cessna), including details like fuel mixtures and exhaust gas temperature to consider.
For either prepar3d or X-Plane, you can get addons from third parties with much more detailed planes. Most of them are similarly priced to the simulators themselves (with some, particular the Flight Factor ones for XP11 and PMDG for P3D, being more so), but there are a couple of good pieces of freeware like the Zibo 737 for X-Plane and some decent budget plane addons like the Aerosoft A318/A319/A320/A321 for p3d.
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#28I checked the minimum required specs advertised for FS2020 and it made me sad. I have a pretty decent used dell M6800 workstation at home (gen 4 i7, K3100M graphics, 32GB RAM) and I don't know if I'll be able to run it.
This is a game where streaming makes a lot of sense. Necessary specs are very high, storage requirement also for tiles, and latency to the ms isn't a huge concern.
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#29I've been into various flight simulators since I was a kid. This looks super cool, but I have always been disappointed by how much more effort it seems like goes into pretty graphics than realistic flying (including detailed and realistic aircraft controls). I would prefer rudimentary graphics with extremely accurate flying and controls than the other way around, but I guess I'm alone in that because they always get…
Crashing could be more realistic too. I get the feeling no one else feels this way or no one else should feel this way. They could at least play sad music and give me a lecture a la Police Quest after each crash.
I think part of it is an idea you should be flying "properly" and not making crashes exciting, and part of it may be the same problem licensed racing games have where the licensors don't want their vehicles portrayed as beat up ever.
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#30It's great to see this great franchise come back from the dead. Will they have a 737 MAX simulator?
It's the Boss Level.