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Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’d be kind of amazing if GTA 6 was using this kind of tech to create its open world environment when it releases. Sadly though, I expect it will need to have a free to play mode with micro transactions to support the ongoing investment into keeping the infrastructure up for delivering the open world imaging.
Considering GTA V has made literally billions of dollars I doubt they'll need any free to play mode.
“Making lots of money” does not seem to suppress companies from trying to make more money. See, Apple and App Store.
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#23I think this is a quite impressive piece of tech, especially the AI generated landscape, flora and fauna.
Of course there is always a gap to 100% accuracy, this is the case with every AI model I know, no matter what domain. I wonder how they measure accuracy here?
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#24Can I ask a different question, putting the scenery apart, is it a decent flight sim?
It’s probably the best flight sim to date. I see huge potential for addons to leverage the map data. Perhaps an arcade mode to make it more accessible to casual gamers.
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#25Can I ask a different question, putting the scenery apart, is it a decent flight sim?
Apparently yes. I watched a few pilots on YouTube that were beta testing and praising the way different planes behave as highly realistic.
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#26The cities they picked to hand model are bizarre as hell. Major ones like London and Paris are missing but completely unknown ones are in.
London and Paris have fairly uninteresting airspaces from an aviation standpoint. Flat, not many airports. If sightseeing is your thing, there are better ways. I wonder if it’s based on usage from previous versions of Flight Simulator.
I'd say the approaches into Heathrow (as least on westerlies) are pretty iconic, being that they tend to turn final over central London.
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#27With some hilarious results: https://i.imgur.com/hpNfPtZ.jpg Notice the little porches added by the AI. It's actually impressive how good the 3D models turned out.
What is the explanation of what happened there?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering GTA V has made literally billions of dollars I doubt they'll need any free to play mode.
“Making lots of money” does not seem to suppress companies from trying to make more money. See, Apple and App Store.
I think their point was that GTA 5 was not free-to-play and still made billions. It could be sold at full price up until 6 releases and then 6 could be sold at full price for years and people will still be interested.
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#29I don't have Flight Simulator, but someone on Facebook posted a screenshot of a friend's house in a suburban area in Florida, and I duplicated the image in Google Earth. It's just one data point, but here's what I noticed.
- The water looks better in Flight Simulator. A large pond has ripples and reflections in Flight Simulator but it's just flat in Google Earth.
- Trees and houses look better in Google Earth. Flight Simulator put trees in the middle of a house and in the middle of a street, and they seem a bit more crumply.
- Neither one gets palm trees right. On a major road with palm trees next to it, Flight Simulator turned them into green stalagmites and Google Earth didn't model them at all, leaving them as flat shadows on the ground.
It seems like if you like good-looking water or clouds (which Google Earth barely has) then Flight Simulator would be better, and obviously clouds are important for flight simulation. But if you just want to see the sights, Google Earth is pretty good and Flight Simulator isn't necessarily going to model things better.
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#30Before anyone gets excited and goes to buy the game outright: First: Please consider trying out the game via the Xbox Game Pass for PC program instead. $5/month, $1 for the first month instead of buying it outright. Do remember to cancel. Thank me later. Second: The whole download/install experience is a trip. You need to download about ~90 GB of data (no problem!). However, the downloader is abysmal. It's not optimi…
Second this, visually its impressive, but on the rest of the simulator it feels weird, specially the control sensitivity. I haven't done a full comparison yet because the plane I could compare more directly would involve stock vs payware, which is not really fair. I do think that they can improve it with time but definitively feels rushed.
Flight sim noob, but that Cessna Citation CJ4 model behaves very oddly. It has this very weird pumping up/down behavior. The 747 model behaves a lot better.
This is not a tolerable release. My gut feeling is that Microsoft needs to get this french studio (Asobo) to spend at least 50% more time on making this work. I don't think they will.