First World Update - Japan - Coming 09.29.2020

[Tuskin38 6,528]

Guess I'll delay my planned trip around Japan until the 29th.

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

3 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

Darn. Lucky for Japanese simmers. I just want to fast forward time by 5 years so we have world updates for every major city and region in the world 🙂

Get your credit card ready..

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

38 minutes ago, FlyIce said:

What a fantastic update! If MS/Asobo keeps updating the world like this we're in heaven. It may sounds silly but this almost makes me want to pay a subscription to MSFS just to make sure things will keep going like this. 

Your wish will come true 🙂

[Tuskin38 6,528]

5 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Get your credit card ready..

It's free.

[Amon1973 1,421]

4 hours ago, tonywob said:

Beautiful..... I've never flown much in Japan before, but I'm sure this is about to change

Very true, infact I'm about to have my first flight in a sim around Japan just to compare between now and the upcoming world update.

[GCBraun 2,392]

Very nice and timely to my world tour. Currently on Alaska and once I'll start flying south, I will definetly spend a while exploring Japan!

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

2 hours ago, omarsmak30 said:

Wow is very amazing and I like this way that Microsoft/Asobo is doing, focus on regions that didn't have much focus previously and give simmers new places to explore! I bet next world update will focus on either Africa or Central Asia or South East Asia. Bright future ahead! 😄  

That's true. They said they would be focusing on some less popular regions to draw more attention to them.

53 minutes ago, FlyIce said:

What a fantastic update! If MS/Asobo keeps updating the world like this we're in heaven. It may sounds silly but this almost makes me want to pay a subscription to MSFS just to make sure things will keep going like this. 

There will be paid DLC packs too, I believe helicopters will be part of those. But scenery upgrades are looking to be free for all, though I wouldn't be surprised if they made more hand-made airports for the Deluxe and Premium Deluxe versions.

[ShawnG 1,823]

18 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Get your credit card ready..

they have said the world updates will be free.  if you have other information to the contrary, lets have it.

[HighBypass 2,339]

No doubt Gojira will be scheduled to appear near Tokyo now that an appropriate scenery update is on the way. I wonder if we will see any Gundams also??  One is nearing completion in Yokohama.. 

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/01/a47699a7efd4-full-size-moving-gundam-robot-to-loom-over-yokohama-from-october.html

[desbean 357]

I wasn't expecting a world update anything like this for quite awhile, very good news for the future. And the patch, although breaking a lot of things for me, did bump up my performance.

Edited September 24, 2020 by desbean

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

8 minutes ago, ShawnG said:

they have said the world updates will be free.  if you have other information to the contrary, lets have it.

Lets talk again in 2021 🙂

[RobJC 2,069]

I can't wait to explore Japan. I was last there in 1985. 

[ShawnG 1,823]

6 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Lets talk again in 2021 🙂

so, nothing then.

 

[Colonel X 1,430]

Photogrammetry Tokyo... exciting!

[DylanM 1,069]

3 hours ago, CJ1045 said:

This update is awesome and shows the direction that MSFS 2020 is going. Very pleased to see it is a very different direction to that of the legacy sims. It is a new world and Asobo are doing their very best to show it off. Perhaps helped by the global spread of Microsofts development studios. No wonder the price of the third party airports has dropped for MSFS versus the legacy sims. They will need to be quick selling before Microsoft release their own versions.

CJ

I've actually been trying out the "suggested" departure airports in the sim - in all honesty, I may never have tried those areas but am glad i did. The world really is an amazing place to explore, especially when it's crafted in this next-gen level of detail.