OMG! I just saw this at the E3 press conference. I am so stoked! MSFS was always my goto simulator and I'm so happy they are bringing it back. As long as they stay away from nickle and dimeing us to death I think it will beat any competition. 

2 minutes ago, kdfw__ said:

 

LOOOOL.  "DirectX 10 Artist's Concept Image."  😂🤣

I hope this is what it seems to be.  I have complained and moaned like a little brat about how FSX lighting always looked cartooney.  When the Tom Clancy games were bringing out that real sunshine look where it hits objects and bleaches it out, FSX always looked just too colorful.

I just want something that is ready to go out of the box if you will. A simulator that does not need 100 add-ons to make it look spectacular. It should already come with updated AI traffic from around the world, it should already come with major and regional airports modeled correctly, it should already come with detailed aircraft that will be made in the same fashion as some of our favorite 3rd party aircraft. That is where every simulator has fallen short of thus far. Maybe just MAYBE this will be the beginning of the end of all of that. I dream of a day where ORBX shuts its doors. I know it sound cruel but think about it. We as a community have been neglected for a really long time and we’ve been forced to believe that we need these add-ons to have an enjoyable experience. And third party devs have been laughing all the way to the bank. And what have we gotten? Really nowhere. My P3D has probably close to $1000 in add-ons just to make it look just as good as someone that spent just $100 for XP11. And I’m tired of that. I want to see Microsoft take a jab at these third party wallet suckers and make all of them close their doors and just have their inside devs deliver us quality material. And with this new sim, we could start seeing that very soon. 

This is  c r a z y !

We need more info, like if this is a global coverage simulator like the previous versions from Microsoft. 

Besides, is it possible that a PC in 2019 can run this graphics settings in good fps? We really need more information..

Hmm, one thing that could *seriously* ruin this as an up-and-coming platform is how they distribute it. They are offering it under their Game Pass, which means it'll be on their Windows Store -- But will it be exclusive to the store like many of their other games, or shift to Steam like they've been talking about? Games distributed through the Windows Store are under lock and key, seriously encrypted and it'll be difficult to mess around with its files. Then everything has to be purely through an SDK, if they're even gonna be offering one of those.

If and thats a big if they allow 3rd party addons like orbx or pmdg then RIP p3d.

but i keep My excitment low for now and the trailer is definetly not ingame but 100% cgi 

I've not been this excited in a while. You can see so many details that tells you this no arcade flight sim.

1 minute ago, DaWu said:

Not ingame but 100% cgi 

It's definitely in-engine much of it, with a few CGI sequences sprinkled in.

5 minutes ago, kdfw__ said:

 

"Artist Concept Image"

I'm more worried about the simulator having all the same features as fsx and not being like Flight. 

3 minutes ago, Sethos1988 said:

Hmm, one thing that could *seriously* ruin this as an up-and-coming platform is how they distribute it. They are offering it under their Game Pass, which means it'll be on their Windows Store -- But will it be exclusive to the store like many of their other games, or shift to Steam like they've been talking about? Games distributed through the Windows Store are under lock and key, seriously encrypted and it'll be difficult to mess around with its files. Then everything has to be purely through an SDK, if they're even gonna be offering one of those.

Sethos1988

Good point.

Bob

2 minutes ago, DaWu said:

If and thats a big if they allow 3rd party addons like orbx or pmdg then RIP p3d.

but i keep My excitment low for now and the trailer is definetly not ingame but 100% cgi 

Looking at the video's the like's of ORBX won't be needed, maybe even the like's of PMDG will be history.

 

Hi, been a while since i posted on here.  I've known about this for 2-3 years now and saw early prototype versions, but nothing recent.  As far as I know they have the code and content from FSX and Flight, but my guess is they aren't using the majority of the code, but maybe some of the content?  The satellite imagery was being used not just for imagery but also 3d geometry (like Virtual Earth\Google Earth).  At least from a scenery content standpoint I'm guessing it is going to be a much different beast than FSX and other existing sims.  It is nice to see how it is looking now.  I'm guessing this is a big part of the reason Dove Tail abandoned it's plans.

Edited June 9, 20196 yr by stonelance

You can appreciate their logic - sell off the obsolete software and invest in new. Since it appears to be cloud based we can look forward to complaining about bandwidth rather than CPU speed! LM will have their military market, so won't care - we were just an experiment......

Edited June 9, 20196 yr by Gabshall
typo correction

Website is up, although not much content yet: https://fsi.microsoftstudios.com/

And you can sign up for an insider program: https://fsi.microsoftstudios.com/insider-program-faq/

BTW; MS twitter mentioned PC only, dont think this is coming for the console