I think all the screenshots look a whole lot better. A massive improvement by Microsoft; it would just be nice to see other countries, not just Hawaii.

I think all the screenshots look a whole lot better. A massive improvement by Microsoft; it would just be nice to see other countries, not just Hawaii.

^ Yeah that. Plus I'm curious as to what light source is shining on the Maule in the second picture. EDIT: Regarding screenshot 3 (not shown here), I like the effect of city lights shining up on the Maule. Looks like the lighting engine has seen improvements.Which IMO was necessary anyways to stay up with X-Plane.

Nice shots!Somehow I find the lighting in FSX more realistic than Flight in some shots. In Flight the contrast is a bit high in my opinion. But maybe it will be something you can tweak in the game.

Looks like reflections in the water are out. Also i like the textures/landclass in the FSX version of piccie 7 better. Besides that, Flight looks pretty good :)

Wow! Really looking nice! Hope MS can pull this off for us hardcore fans....

Have you note that, until now, there is no clouds reflexion on water, and no buildings or ground reflexion. Those things exists on Fsx. Is it mean that the engine visual system is not complete ?

Have you note that, until now, there is no clouds reflexion on water, and no buildings or ground reflexion. Those things exists on Fsx. Is it mean that the engine visual system is not complete ?

Or they removed them since it looked completely unrealistic anyway but I agree the visual system is obviously not yet complete.

I hope the water relfection stays a display option like it is already in FSX.Most likely it's simply turned off.

Somebody please tell MatthewS that the autogen distortions look to be not so bad in many of these photos. That is: the scale of the trees, as compared to the buildings in the Waikiki shots, is pretty correct. I realize that the buildings are all likely custom one-off objects, but I don't think those trees are.

Somebody please tell MatthewS that the autogen distortions look to be not so bad in many of these photos. That is: the scale of the trees, as compared to the buildings in the Waikiki shots, is pretty correct. I realize that the buildings are all likely custom one-off objects, but I don't think those trees are.

Yes... the tree's look better, those close up buildings (eg shot #7) look like custom objects so you would think the scale is correct. The autogen buildings in the distance in shot #1 seem better, not as many pitched roofs on warehouse sized buildings, but its hard to tell for sure... the lighting looks better, that might also help.

But when you look at what XP10 is going to have, there's no comparison.

But when you look at what XP10 is going to have, there's no comparison.

What is this pic taken from???

X-Plane 10.

But when you look at what XP10 is going to have, there's no comparison.

LOL and people think that this game will run nicely on an average PC... LOL

What plane are you going to fly 10 feet off the street? Oh, a chopper right?! How does all this look at 35K?