1 hour ago, Rogen said:

It will be interesting to hear what LM have to say.

I don't recall them saying anything interesting at the last expo. They're pretty much just as tight-lipped there as they are everywhere else. 

9 minutes ago, Chapstick said:

I don't recall them saying anything interesting at the last expo. They're pretty much just as tight-lipped there as they are everywhere else. 

Maybe this time they'll be a little more open given they really do need to woo the hobbists because hobbist 3rd party purchases encourage devs to create content for P3D, which inturn means a greater pool of devs available to build for their platform be that for hobbist, commercial or military.

Cheers

 

Expo isn't just for hobbiests though remember that. There are other firms that are more commercial based that will be there too.

My concern with LM attending the expo is how the anti-P3D crowd is going to react. Hope I'm all wrong. 

Anti-P3D ??
I don't think there are any antis to anything.
Everyone is free to choose the sim that suits them, right ?

4 hours ago, David Vega said:

My concern with LM attending the expo is how the anti-P3D crowd is going to react. Hope I'm all wrong. 

Unless they have something ground breaking, what would be the point in attending? 

12 minutes ago, Doug47 said:

Unless they have something ground breaking, what would be the point in attending? 

Yeah I'm inclined to agree. What are they going to achieve by attending unless they have announced (or attend to announce) something new? Would be a waste of their time to turn up to spruik P3D Version 5.3 that's been around since December 2021.....

On 4/1/2023 at 9:59 AM, blaunarwal said:

In twenty years we will probably enjoy flying like in the past and not like it will actually be in 2043,

Whatever future brings us, it will most probably not be perfect.

 

In 20 years, my flying will (hopefully) be with Angel wings. Then there should be no need to worry about scenery or airports. Not sure if clouds have beacons, though.

The biggest disappointment for me in P3D is how, in the 5 versions we've had so far, LM never went ahead in adding some actual military features/functionalities.

Yes, I know they did the weapons stuff for their ultra expensive version, but to me that nothing more than an elaborated TacPack.

My wish was to see P3D evolve as a real successor to Falcon4, with a real multiplayer support, a real war electronic environment, a real dynamic campain (would be hard to make it as good as Falcon4 but something like the EF2000 one would have been a good start), and a real support for aircraft carrier ops and refuel ops. Instead, we just received a fancy re-branded FSX-Acceleration with nothing more excepted the avatar mode (which was great, by the way).

I know LM focuses on training so a dynamic campaign is not something they would ever implement, of course. But things like better carrier ops or aerial refuelling ? Why didn't they ever implement something like that in the base sim ?

 

2 hours ago, IanHarrison said:

Not sure if clouds have beacons, though

Beacons and strobes!

 

5 hours ago, Doug47 said:

Unless they have something ground breaking, what would be the point in attending? 

Agree with this. Why put time and money into attending an event where the competition is going to have a large presence, unless there's something genuinely worthy of demonstrating it in-person?

5 hours ago, F737MAX said:

Agree with this. Why put time and money into attending an event where the competition is going to have a large presence, unless there's something genuinely worthy of demonstrating it in-person?

I agree as well. But isn't that exactly what they did  at the last flightsim convention they attended before the world shutdown?  If I recall correctly, anytime someone asked a question about P3D the answer was "we can not elaborate" or "we can not go into any details".

LM was at the 2021 Expo. They didn’t say anything of consequence. 

6 hours ago, Daube said:

The biggest disappointment for me in P3D is how, in the 5 versions we've had so far, LM never went ahead in adding some actual military features/functionalities.

Yes, I know they did the weapons stuff for their ultra expensive version, but to me that nothing more than an elaborated TacPack.

My wish was to see P3D evolve as a real successor to Falcon4, with a real multiplayer support, a real war electronic environment, a real dynamic campain (would be hard to make it as good as Falcon4 but something like the EF2000 one would have been a good start), and a real support for aircraft carrier ops and refuel ops. Instead, we just received a fancy re-branded FSX-Acceleration with nothing more excepted the avatar mode (which was great, by the way).

I know LM focuses on training so a dynamic campaign is not something they would ever implement, of course. But things like better carrier ops or aerial refuelling ? Why didn't they ever implement something like that in the base sim ?

 

You can always dream 😀

There's a lot of other things about P3Dv5 that disappoint me having gone from FSX straight to P3Dv5, I notice things like in the default GPS I still can't enter a flight plan on the flight plan page of the default Garmin, It's exactly the same as the FSX version and the flight planning tool is still really clunky and pain to use.  You think those would be basic features fixed or updated for a "modern" simulator.  I do really like using P3Dv5 but it still feels dated in some aspects.

20 minutes ago, Kalnon said:

There's a lot of other things about P3Dv5 that disappoint me having gone from FSX straight to P3Dv5,

So…

• DX9 to DX12
• 32-bit to 64-bit
• the whole world’s coastlines and ground textures improved out of all proportion 
• road traffic fixed.
• Atmospherics hugely improved
• Assigning core functions to specific processors on your CPU resulting in far better performance

didn’t impress you? 😳

Impressed me.🤓