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Re: Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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Post by mrguyorama »

0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #22
zippergz wrote: post #16

I'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.

Very VERY few people buy a Flight Simulator to crash into something. However, failures, like an engine flaming out or gear not extending are perfectly simulateable even in current gen simulators

Re: Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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Post by geocrasher »

I have been a casual flight sim player for a long time, starting in the late 80's with a 286 and Flight Simulator 4. cd c:\fs4, then fs4. In my memory forever.

Back on Prodigy, then AOL, some of us kids partook in what became the first Virtual Airline. I had a knack for coming up with custom planes that flew what we thought the real thing would fly like, and we had a lot of fun. Today the VA hobby is still going, much to my own surprise.

I still fire up FSX with my HOTAS and have fun. I fear my meager GT740 will not run FS 2020, but I guess I'll have to bite the bullet on that. I have to have it. 14 year old geocrasher demands it!

Re: Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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Post by silicon_wally »

duncancarroll wrote: post #63
ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're in luck -- that exists today!!!! With the combination of a professional P3D license, weather add-ons, and quality add-on aircraft from companies like PMDG, you really can recreate a lot of those scenarios with exceptional detail. Throw in a high-end VR headset and you can really feel like you are there! Here's an example of me playing around at home ignoring a windshear alert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0…

Wow, that's pretty cool. Does P3D have native support for VR or are you hacking it in somehow?

it looks like it's not natively supported in P3D, but possible with the additional FlyInside [1] software

[1] https://flyinside-fsx.com

Re: Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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Post by ChicagoBoy11 »

duncancarroll wrote: post #63
ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're in luck -- that exists today!!!! With the combination of a professional P3D license, weather add-ons, and quality add-on aircraft from companies like PMDG, you really can recreate a lot of those scenarios with exceptional detail. Throw in a high-end VR headset and you can really feel like you are there! Here's an example of me playing around at home ignoring a windshear alert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0…

Wow, that's pretty cool. Does P3D have native support for VR or are you hacking it in somehow?

Yes, it does in version 4.5, and it is really good.

Re: Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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Post by ChicagoBoy11 »

silicon_wally wrote: post #73
duncancarroll wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that's pretty cool. Does P3D have native support for VR or are you hacking it in somehow?

it looks like it's not natively supported in P3D, but possible with the additional FlyInside [1] software [1] https://flyinside-fsx.com

that is incorrect; it has native VR support in the current version.

Re: Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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Post by dariusj18 »

Aardwolf wrote: post #61
bennettfeely wrote: post #46

So it's looking like the 2020s are the decade that video game graphics become indistinguishable from real life video.

It's amazingly photo-realistic, but my eye can notice uncanny things. In this case, I notice a grid-like regularity in all the water-wave patterns seen throughout the video. But, still amazing :D Example: https://youtu.be/Wu4CySB2E6s?t=165 Same water when zoomed out: https://youtu.be/Wu4CySB2E6s?t=183

That's pretty realistic IMO. I was up in a float plane in Alaska and remarked at how fake reality looked.

Re: Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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Post by gamedna »

sixothree wrote: post #23

I 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 pare…

I was introduced to MS Flight Simulator at the same time as my first "PC", the IBM PC jr. Your description of "nothingness" hits home quite well.

Take off was scheduled from boston each night after dinner. Before bed, level off and head towards LAX. Wake up in the morning to find nothing, and nowhere. Rushing home from school to frantically try various radio frequencies until I could find the location on the included maps. This went on for months, because most days the computer would be shut off by my parents before leaving for school.

It would happen that there was one magical day when the plane touched down at LAX, taxied off the runway, and the bliss of pure silence was gifted when the engines were cut off.

Such is an amazing thing.

Re: Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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Post by dwild »

mech1234 wrote: post #7

I 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.

You should check out Geforce Now then! I have been playing on there for more than a year and it's just amazing being able to play on a GPU that powerful. They just released today and it's only 5$ per month.

Re: Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

Tepix wrote: post #54
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest, I would pay good money for a simulator that could have scenarios for common Air Disaster episodes.

That's in rather poor taste unless you want to use it to learn how to prevent such catastrophes. You wouldn't need to completely replicate a real scenario for that.

Yeah, I bet you if this was available, we could learn more from past accidents.

Re: Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage

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Post by perl4ever »

mrguyorama wrote: post #71
0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Very VERY few people buy a Flight Simulator to crash into something. However, failures, like an engine flaming out or gear not extending are perfectly simulateable even in current gen simulators

Well, back in the day, when Flight Simulator was mainly Meigs field and a few other locations, crashing into things, particularly the Sears Tower, was one of the more interesting things to do with it. That and flying under the Golden Gate Bridge. But a crash would just draw a zig-zag line across the windshield to indicate broken glass.
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