ha! Oh mann, i'm on some sort of high right now from watching all these videos. When this comes out it's gonna be endless hours of fun

I thought I am too old to get overly excited about a video game. But here I am on board of the hype train, ready to sacrifice my firstborn to get into the alpha. U here me Microsoft? Firstborn, my eternal soul, what ever you want... 🙂

2 minutes ago, Jazznow said:

I thought I am too old to get overly excited about a video game.

You're never too old.  There are several of us in the 70 and older crowd.

I was beginning to lose enthusiasm with the trickle of information from Microsoft, but this his certainly gotten me back.  Lots of early questions answered as well.

Hook

After mostly lurking here for at least 20 years or so, I thought I'd share my thoughts from the preview event.

http://inspire.eaa.org/2019/09/30/an-inside-look-at-microsofts-newest-flight-simulator/

tl;dr - it's good. 

If the entire planet looks as good as the scenery in that preview video, then the regional/global addon scenery market is dead. In addition, airport developers will not have to worry about rendering vast areas around airports with custom autogen and 3D landmarks, because it will already be there!! That should speed up the delivery of new airport addon packages.

1 minute ago, Christopher Low said:

If the entire planet looks as good as the scenery in that preview video, then the regional/global addon scenery market is dead. In addition, airport developers will not have to worry about rendering vast areas around airports with custom autogen and 3D landmarks, because it will already be there!! That should speed up the delivery of new airport addon packages.

And with all the new graphics technology and physics, PBR, lighting, gradient runways, I cannot wait to fathom the newfound quality of addon airports. It will be unreal.. but real.

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by suncoastflyer

16 minutes ago, Jazznow said:

I thought I am too old to get overly excited about a video game. But here I am on board of the hype train, ready to sacrifice my firstborn to get into the alpha. U here me Microsoft? Firstborn, my eternal soul, what ever you want... 🙂

Oh yea?
First born you say?

Well..Mr White Walker would like a word with you

 

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by blueshark747

19 minutes ago, Hal Bryan said:

After mostly lurking here for at least 20 years or so, I thought I'd share my thoughts from the preview event.

http://inspire.eaa.org/2019/09/30/an-inside-look-at-microsofts-newest-flight-simulator/

tl;dr - it's good. 

Incredible article!  Thanks for posting and linking us to it.

Hook

18 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

If the entire planet looks as good as the scenery in that preview video, then the regional/global addon scenery market is dead. In addition, airport developers will not have to worry about rendering vast areas around airports with custom autogen and 3D landmarks, because it will already be there!! That should speed up the delivery of new airport addon packages.

Read (if not already done) th helisimmer review, he flew over Portugal  and has a couple of interesting remarks about it.

If you put aside the ludicrous selfies, the best review I've read so far, geneally speaking.

EDIT just read Hal Bryan excellent piece too

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by domkle

22 minutes ago, Hal Bryan said:

After mostly lurking here for at least 20 years or so, I thought I'd share my thoughts from the preview event.

http://inspire.eaa.org/2019/09/30/an-inside-look-at-microsofts-newest-flight-simulator/

tl;dr - it's good. 

Very good article. Thanks for providing a photo of the test setup as well.

"We spared no expense" - Microsoft and Asobo 2019

*Not an actual quote

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by suncoastflyer

28 minutes ago, Hal Bryan said:

After mostly lurking here for at least 20 years or so, I thought I'd share my thoughts from the preview event.

http://inspire.eaa.org/2019/09/30/an-inside-look-at-microsofts-newest-flight-simulator/

tl;dr - it's good. 

Brilliant article.  

20 minutes ago, blueshark747 said:

 

I don't think he's working for Microsoft 🙂

 

I watched the above video, is there anything that was mentioned/appeared in the OPs and didn't appear in the video above?

I just read Hal's piece, there's a 200 person team working on this!

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by ckyliu

44 minutes ago, Hal Bryan said:

After mostly lurking here for at least 20 years or so, I thought I'd share my thoughts from the preview event.

http://inspire.eaa.org/2019/09/30/an-inside-look-at-microsofts-newest-flight-simulator/

tl;dr - it's good. 

Superb write-up... thanks Hal!