On 8/28/2024 at 10:04 PM, Krakin said:

Oh come now. I could call your video gibberish since I'm not the one at the controls. What if you messed with the cfg file! 😱.

Ok let's get serious, here. I am just asking for your opinion on what you saw. We can even assume it was faked. Does what was shown behave in a convincing way to you?

Which cfg file? Everyone can do the same as me and check himself.

And now serious - a counter question 😉: how do you like the photo below? I made it myself and I'm quite proud that it turned out so well (I will tell you afterwards, why I asked).

Edited August 30, 20241 yr by flying_carpet

4 hours ago, flying_carpet said:

Which cfg file? Everyone can do the same as me and check himself.

And now serious - a counter question 😉: how do you like the photo below? I made it myself and I'm quite proud that it turned out so well (I will tell you afterwards, why I asked).

The photo looks nice.

Sure am late to this. First moment 2024 drops 2020 is gone. Hopefully won't have to CC hex out the word not allowed scenery kinks in a low poly tube liner environment.

Edited August 31, 20241 yr by 40track

15 hours ago, Krakin said:

The photo looks nice.

See? I've tricked you 😉. Namely:
I've never been to the USA (at least not to the places and times when such supercells occur) and even if I had ... I didn't necessarily made the image with a camera, but could also have produced it with AI - which is the case.
What does that tell us? 😉

On 8/28/2024 at 2:58 PM, Krakin said:

What do you think of the two tech demos Asobo has shown of balloon physics in 2024?

On 8/28/2024 at 10:04 PM, Krakin said:

Ok let's get serious, here. I am just asking for your opinion on what you saw. We can even assume it was faked. Does what was shown behave in a convincing way to you?

In other words, without having been on site at the time of creation or without knowing the boundary conditions or examining it yourself, it can be ‘anything or nothing’.

But before "certain people"^TM 😉 start to suspect that my MSFS videos might be manipulated:

1. It takes a lot more effort to manipulate videos than images. And I have neither the time nor the passion to do that. In addition to it ...
2. I didn't even have to manipulate the videos at all, anyone who wants to can recreate the situations themselves for confirmation

2 hours ago, flying_carpet said:

See? I've tricked you 😉. Namely:
I've never been to the USA (at least not to the places and times when such supercells occur) and even if I had ... I didn't necessarily made the image with a camera, but could also have produced it with AI - which is the case.
What does that tell us? 😉

In other words, without having been on site at the time of creation or without knowing the boundary conditions or examining it yourself, it can be ‘anything or nothing’.

But before "certain people"^TM 😉 start to suspect that my MSFS videos might be manipulated:

1. It takes a lot more effort to manipulate videos than images. And I have neither the time nor the passion to do that. In addition to it ...
2. I didn't even have to manipulate the videos at all, anyone who wants to can recreate the situations themselves for confirmation

Some said MSFS 2020 would be a total failure too... By this time ASOBO, according to their predictions, would have turned into ash and the tittle abandoned by MS, no more updates made available and so on and so forth... 

Truth is that to this date MSFS 2020, even with MSFS 2024 at the door, is continuing to get updates and support, finding content probably brought from the 2024 development being fed into it, like some of the recent scenery updates, and being the most feature full / functionality rich / fast growing platform...

As far as flight simulation goes @flying_carpet, it's always going to be like a metaphor of flight and flying. It's like picking Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" and replacing the pipe with a nice flight simulation scene, with or without AI helping and "une pipe" by "an avion", "un cockpit", ....

What I see in the preview images from MSFS2024 are bits of my long time simmer dreams becoming "real", such as SAR, agricultural missions, banner towing, more glider flying details, ballooning, ... WOW! Heck! Those guys at MS / ASOBO really try their best to capture years of simmers wishes and dreams and pour them into what MSFS 2020 is already, and I am pretty much sure 2024 will even more be.

And this is from me. Mind you're reading this as produced directly from the imbricate "uninstaller's mind", no AI interfering here, AFAIK... and as you may well know, I am probably the most critic simmer when it comes to flight simulators, specially because I strangely place my expectations 90% on their flight dynamics and weather modelling accuracy, the rest being a mix of all stuff that also can make a flight simulator look gorgeous, just as MSFS 2020 is and MSFS 2024 will, for sure, even more be.

BTW, there's AI in here : Firefighting in the Swiss Alps | HPG H145 | Microsoft Flight Simulator | World Update 18 (youtube.com) in the way MS / ASOBO depict scenery, and it is as "real" as it can get in any flight simulator I have used so far, and it's not even 2024 yet! It's WU18, one of those which, according to some, would never be....

Edited August 31, 20241 yr by jcomm

I am pretty much abandoning MSFS2020 when 2024 comes out. This is regardless of any aircraft incompatibilities at the time - most of my "important" fleet has redundancies with XP12. I trust that 2024 will be VERY impressive, even moreso than 2020. I got great mileage out of 2020 - about 30 hours short of 2000 flying hours in it. 

4 hours ago, flying_carpet said:

See? I've tricked you 😉. Namely:
I've never been to the USA (at least not to the places and times when such supercells occur) and even if I had ... I didn't necessarily made the image with a camera, but could also have produced it with AI - which is the case.
What does that tell us? 😉

In other words, without having been on site at the time of creation or without knowing the boundary conditions or examining it yourself, it can be ‘anything or nothing’.

But before "certain people"^TM 😉 start to suspect that my MSFS videos might be manipulated:

1. It takes a lot more effort to manipulate videos than images. And I have neither the time nor the passion to do that. In addition to it ...
2. I didn't even have to manipulate the videos at all, anyone who wants to can recreate the situations themselves for confirmation

I really appreciate you wasting my time. I had my hopes up that you would be able to provide some useful commentary based on your stated credentials, but alas, that wasn't to be. 

I have some doubts, but this is what I'm really hoping comes true with ALL planes. So annoying in such a long term game that saving was such an after thought in FS2020.

• FS2024: Introduces a more robust save game system that allows players to save and resume flights at more specific points, such as mid-flight or during complex procedures. This provides greater flexibility for managing and continuing flights.

1 hour ago, VeryBumpy said:

• FS2024: Introduces a more robust save game system that allows players to save and resume flights at more specific points, such as mid-flight or during complex procedures. This provides greater flexibility for managing and continuing flights.

Terrible idea.

1 hour ago, VeryBumpy said:

FS2024: Introduces a more robust save game system that allows players to save and resume flights at more specific points, such as mid-flight or during complex procedures. This provides greater flexibility for managing and continuing flights.

Great idea

(in the interests of balance)

1 hour ago, Greazer said:

Terrible idea.

What part of this is "terrible?"

4 hours ago, Krakin said:

I really appreciate you wasting my time. I had my hopes up that you would be able to provide some useful commentary based on your stated credentials, but alas, that wasn't to be. 

You have way too much patience mate.😂

1 hour ago, Greazer said:

Terrible idea

And why?

5 hours ago, Krakin said:

I really appreciate you wasting my time. I had my hopes up that you would be able to provide some useful commentary based on your stated credentials, but alas, that wasn't to be. 

I lost brain cells reading his “got ya!!11!!11” moment. 

2 hours ago, Greazer said:

Terrible idea.

Actually I think this will happen. Jörg talked about skipping some of the flight phases if you wish to. He even gave an example of flying to Antarctica on a mission and skipping some phases to take less time and make it possible for people with less time available to use the simulator.

Also, if they want some kind of persistent world (wear and tear), the engine needs to be able to save states.

54 minutes ago, ca_metal said:

I lost brain cells reading his “got ya!!11!!11” moment. 

🤣