5 minutes ago, abennett said:

I have seen lots of footage and have to say the clouds still look, disappointingly, very much like MSFS 2020's clouds.

Can 2020 clouds do this?

Edited September 21, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

20 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Can 2020 clouds do this?

 

Can real clouds do this?

 

2 minutes ago, abennett said:

Can real clouds do this?

Depends on the weather

3 hours ago, lwt1971 said:

Per this recent interview by Abriael https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gBUEYK3qI , it's clear Asobo/MS have big plans for the digital twin earth beyond just flight simming, and they didn't want to disclose any details and were coy about the future plans, but will be exciting to see what comes in the coming years as updates to MSFS 2024 and then the next major release(s) for this simulation as well as other applications/sims using the same twin earth technology. MS surely has got to be thinking multiple big pictures currently.

Curious if they've mentioned any commercial applications, either there or elsewhere?

Can't imagine this isn't viable for a number of IRL uses and would be shocked if it weren't already happening...

@Abriael, too?

1 hour ago, Phantoms said:

Remember how Microsoft gave us all these amazing graphics before 2020 and then when it finally came out didn't match what they had shown off?

Um...no. In a word.

Never thought I would say this in 2024, but mfs2020 looks dated now.

8 hours ago, lwt1971 said:

Per this recent interview by Abriael https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gBUEYK3qI , it's clear Asobo/MS have big plans for the digital twin earth beyond just flight simming, and they didn't want to disclose any details and were coy about the future plans, but will be exciting to see what comes in the coming years as updates to MSFS 2024 and then the next major release(s) for this simulation as well as other applications/sims using the same twin earth technology. MS surely has got to be thinking multiple big pictures currently.
 

I would be careful in reading too much into that. 

David is the Chief Creative Officer, which means that his role is partly to dream up things. What he said likely shouldn't be taken as something already decided being teased, but more him mulling about what COULD be. 

If they had actual "Plans," he wouldn't have said a word 😄

5 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

Curious if they've mentioned any commercial applications, either there or elsewhere?

Can't imagine this isn't viable for a number of IRL uses and would be shocked if it weren't already happening...

@Abriael, too?

They haven't mentioned it, but digital twins are a concept that is very much en vogue in all sorts of businesses and non-gaming applications.

What I have seen so far has really impressed me.  Enough so that I pre-ordered it!

One thing that would increase my confidence in the product is instead of seeing staged pictures that look amazing I would like to see photos of random cities.  Not your popular and well done cities like Los Angeles and New York but random cities like say Reno Nevada or Albuquerque New Mexico.  Maybe somewhat under served European cities in past sims like say Bergen Norway.  

Perhaps at some point the NDA will be fully lifted and some surprise beta testers will be glad to share such photos of those areas or something like it.   

This brings to mind of all of the World Update previews for MSFS2020, compared to what we actually ended up getting. I'm not going to believe anything until I actually see it here on this PC. 

25 minutes ago, longhaul747 said:

Not your popular and well done cities like Los Angeles and New York but random cities like say Reno Nevada or Albuquerque New Mexico. 

Bingo. All we have seen so far is preselected by them. Totally legit, but in my case, I would really like to see if e.g. Switzerland is still a mess regarding aerials. Or any word on if and how they improved colour mismatching adjacent aerial tiles. To be honest, the details of the new sim look great and georgeous, but what is with the bigger picture? Things that annoy me most in MSFS2020 are not yet covered by any preview. So I still have my fears that they wont be improved...

1 minute ago, AnkH said:

Bingo. All we have seen so far is preselected by them. Totally legit, but in my case, I would really like to see if e.g. Switzerland is still a mess regarding aerials. Or any word on if and how they improved colour mismatching adjacent aerial tiles. To be honest, the details of the new sim look great and georgeous, but what is with the bigger picture? Things that annoy me most in MSFS2020 are not yet covered by any preview. So I still have my fears that they wont be improved...

90% of the time I prefer to fly tubeliner's so detail throughout the world is important to me.  The bling they have shown is cool but for the most part it means little to me.  I do occasionally fly GA including some bush flying and what they have shown is amazing but most of the time its airliner flying.  Usually fly something like the E175 to minor cities.  For the most part FS2020 is pretty satisfactory so its likely FS2024 will be even better but for people like me we have seen little that really amazes us!

I did hear at one point that FS2024 has a lot more detailed Bing maps and the engine for creating things has been far refined over FS2020 so in theory many places should be pretty solid but until we see it who knows? 

 

7 hours ago, Saffa_Jake812 said:

Never thought I would say this in 2024, but mfs2020 looks dated now.

I'm glad it does. Flight simmers got so used to 2006-style graphics (landclass and other plausible world textures) that we saw few visual improvements to our base sims for 14 years!

🤞 MSFS2028 (or whatever follows) has an even more realistic colour palette and texturing.

7 hours ago, Saffa_Jake812 said:

Never thought I would say this in 2024, but mfs2020 looks dated now.

OK....... this is the sort of nonsensical rubbish that will be spouted now for the next few months....

 

[img]https://i.imgur.com/NOKAt4b.jpg[/img]

 

Edited September 22, 20241 yr by flightyjoe