5 hours ago, ca_metal said:

That's impressive. I'm used to games looking reallistic, but that one is awesome in so many ways.

That is true, impressive also because they obviously did not manage to solve the issue with reflections on the boarder of the display 😉 

Poor old X Plane. And now they are going against 95 aircraft, jaw dropping scenery, full career mode, route planning and charts and ray traced cockpits.

MSFS2024 has everything except BET Blade Elements Theory.

1 hour ago, turbomax said:

MSFS2024 has everything except BET Blade Elements Theory (sic).

with over 30.000 page views in just 2 weeks imagine what happens after next week's live Q&A stream.

Imagine no hell below us, above us only sky.

 

Edited September 19, 20241 yr by turbomax

43 minutes ago, Greazer said:

Poor old X Plane. And now they are going against 95 aircraft, jaw dropping scenery, full career mode, route planning and charts and ray traced cockpits.

Why are you starting MSFS vs X-Plane war?

I'm no X-Plane guy, but can't understand that my toy is better then yours.
Beside this, we have enough examples that this will escalate in a short time.

40 minutes ago, turbomax said:

MSFS2024 has everything except BET Blade Elements Theory.

You're correct. It has Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) which is a different way of calculating aerodynamics. Some say it's a better one but I am no expert in the matter so I can't say if it is or it isn't. It's irrelevant, really if the results are good enough.

Edited September 19, 20241 yr by SergioCosta

I understand and think it's a good thing that Asobo/Microsoft want to attract a new audience, but I hope that for a "veteran" flight simulator user like me there's no need to go through all those “career mode” menus and I can go straight to my usual flight from A to B without any "complications".

I bet it has BET à lá  Française, something like "la Bête".....   😜

MFS works for me as a simmer pretty much like WarThunder does regarding combat flight simulation... it has such great playability and features and functionality that I have to close my eyes to it's limitations, and we don't even know if 2024 will not get better fdm-wise...

Just as I became almost addict playing WT, who knows the same will not happen with MSFS 2024?

At least the previews look astounding!

Edited September 19, 20241 yr by jcomm

6 minutes ago, Juliett Alfa Romeo said:

I understand and think it's a good thing that Asobo/Microsoft want to attract a new audience, but I hope that for a "veteran" flight simulator user like me there's no need to go through all those “career mode” menus and I can go straight to my usual flight from A to B without any "complications".

I can't imagine why Microsoft would remove a way of using the sim and replace it with another way instead of just building on top of what they currently have. It wouldn't make any sense.

Edited September 19, 20241 yr by SergioCosta

11 minutes ago, SergioCosta said:

Some say it's a better one but I am no expert in the matter

Matt Nishan/Working Title is an expert. he doesn't say it is better. I tend to believe unbiased experts who don't need to defend their own creations.

10 minutes ago, Juliett Alfa Romeo said:

...and I can go straight to my usual flight from A to B without any "complications"

Of course you can! Why would you think this wouldn't be possible anymore?

6 minutes ago, SergioCosta said:

It wouldn't make any sense.

that's why Joerg is in charge, not some avsim reader. He has shown time and again that he knows his customers expectations.

2 minutes ago, turbomax said:

Matt Nishan/Working Title is an expert. he doesn't say it is better. I tend to believe unbiased experts who don't need to defend their own creations.

It depends on who you ask. I've seen good arguments defending both approaches on several resources around the web, from folks that work with aerodynamics for aeronautical companies, etc.

26 minutes ago, guenseli said:

can't understand that my toy is better then yours.

I can. 😄