First World Update - Japan - Coming 09.29.2020

[sidfadc 1,344]

So 2 patches a world update and patch number 3 around the corner in less than 2 months.....yet the naysayers keep banging that drum!  Rome wasn’t built in a day people!

[Colonel X 1,430]

The fact they're  pushing out this kind of massive yet free expansion, so close after launch, says a lot about Asobo and their dedication. They really wanna knock it out of the park, and I love it.

[RobJC 2,069]

1 minute ago, sidfadc said:

So 2 patches a world update and patch number 3 around the corner in less than 2 months.....yet the naysayers keep banging that drum!  Rome wasn’t built in a day people!

Such an exciting time to be a flight simmer. The amount of content and add-ons that are coming our way is literally going to be insane. Love that it will be on xbox too! More casual gamers to fund our crazy hobby! Brilliant strategy. I just need one decent flyable GA to tied me over. Well, and a new GPU and CPU! 😅  

This is a good time people. This is NOT a bad time. This is the golden era for our hobby. Embrace this sim and quit fighting it! 

 

[sidfadc 1,344]

Just now, RobJC said:

Such an exciting time to be a flight simmer. The amount of content and add-ons that are coming our way is literally going to be insane. Love that it will be on xbox too! More casual gamers to fund our crazy hobby! Brilliant strategy. I just need one decent flyable GA to tied me over. Well, and a new GPU and CPU! 😅  

This is a good time people. This is NOT a bad time. This is the golden era for our hobby. Embrace this sim and quit fighting it! 

 

I took the plunge and bought the carenado Mooney, it’s no A2A Comanche but it’s defo a step up from the default GA.  I thought the pricing was spot on as well, worth a punt.

[marsman2020 1,310]

1 hour 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. 

Don't give them any ideas.

I'd rather see a trailer for "how we are going to fix the G1000" than more world updates at this point.

[RobJC 2,069]

1 minute ago, sidfadc said:

I took the plunge and bought the carenado Mooney, it’s no A2A Comanche but it’s defo a step up from the default GA.  I thought the pricing was spot on as well, worth a punt.

I bought it. Will spend more time in it. 

[marsman2020 1,310]

3 minutes ago, Colonel X said:

The fact they're  pushing out this kind of massive yet free expansion, so close after launch, says a lot about Asobo and their dedication. They really wanna knock it out of the park, and I love it.

If only they had the same attitude about the actually flight simulation part of the game and not just the Bing tech demo part.

[roi1862 602]

Tokyo in 3D photogrammetry 😱

This city is few times bigger and denser then New York. Cant wait for the angry performance posts 🙂

 

[styckx 1,871]

As an American I happy to see this. Usually simulators focus on UK and US scenery so I'm very excited to see and fly a part of the world I'm not very familiar with

Edited September 24, 2020 by styckx
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[Bert Pieke 7,585]

1 hour ago, ShawnG said:

so, nothing then.

 

Well, nothing... I do have a shelf full of MS Flightsimulator Addon Scenery from years ago that I paid for, and I no longer believe in Santa Claus.. does that count?  😉

[devgrp 1,233]

1 hour ago, marsman2020 said:

If only they had the same attitude about the actually flight simulation part of the game and not just the Bing tech demo part.

What exactly is missing from the flight simulation part of the game? 

[767lover 285]

What an amazing update!! And this gets buried in all the other topics??

[tweekz 2,165]

7 hours ago, ca_metal said:

World Update I: The Japan world update features an upgraded digital elevation map across the entire country, high-resolution 3D photogrammetry for six prominent Japanese cities:

 

Six handcrafted local airports :

Not bad. They really deliver some solid content!

Now it just needs to be somewhere I am flying to more frequently. 😄

Edited September 24, 2020 by tweekz

[dtrjones 356]

7 hours ago, carlito777 said:

Thanks for the heads-up. Looks very promising. Great times ahead if Asobo will enhance the entire world bit by bit. And that should also keep up the interest in the sim as new stuff will be released on a constant basis.

Yeah well you could also, dare I say it... get you wallet out 😂😂😂

[dtrjones 356]

2 hours ago, Colonel X said:

The fact they're  pushing out this kind of massive yet free expansion, so close after launch, says a lot about Asobo and their dedication. They really wanna knock it out of the park, and I love it.

The fact that there is a major Tokyo Game Show was just shear coincidence I guess 🙂 to be far they've been knocking out the park ever since the first trailer was released. Going back to the previous sims makes that aboundantly clear, the physics and system modelling coming up short is trivial compared to what they achieved but of course it's what many judge the sim by, but like the rest of the sim it will get better too.