It's great to see this great franchise come back from the dead. Will they have a 737 MAX simulator?
That would actually be an interesting addition.
Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage
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#32I 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.
They have not released the minimum specs but I doubt they are targeting people with 20xx RTX cards and an i9. Only the "1%" would be able to use it and they'd lose a ton of money.
Also keep in mind this is designed to run at 60 FPS at 4K on the XBox One X apparently, so you can check what the specs on that box are.
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#33I'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…
Aerodynamics episode from the preview discovery series:
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#34I'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/
Not this time around, they have an entire video on the aerodynamics work, it's beyond impressive and beyond X-Plane's "blade element theory".
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#36I'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.
They are working directly with the manufacturers on this simulator, and there is no way Boeing is going to allow "realistic crashes".
This is a flight simulator not a crash simulator.
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#37It's great to see this great franchise come back from the dead. Will they have a 737 MAX simulator?
Too soon, my friend
Maybe challenge scenarios could be included?
"Successfully take off in this helicopter in adverse weather/terrain conditions"
The "too soon" bit gets to me... maybe that's how some people cope.
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#38I've had a lot of fun playing the alpha so far, it runs really nicely on my computer (can't say exact specs but it surprised me how well it runs)
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#39It looks amazing of course but the ocean/lake water looked really off to me, like it was a static texture map and not dynamically moving with waves/currents. I would think it would be easy enough to simulate this in a low cost way with some demo-scene type display hacks so I'm surprised they don't do something like that.
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#40This is great stuff! I really hope Kids interested in airplanes are fascinated by this and get the same amount of joy I got when I played this through my high school years some 20 years ago. My adventures with Flight Sim ended with FS98 and now it seems the simulation has come a long, long way!