frankla

I am so relieved that the runway textures (over all textures too) are not as bad as they were in webisode 2. Also, I noticed they still have the birds, just hope they use them more often than just in the missions.

The colors and lighting are much more noticeable in their official site version.

Smokey Haze at around 32 seconds is awesome.

Don't you think you are making a fool of yourself by arguing with, Phil Taylor an Intel Software engineer, ex development lead of FSX and a top notch industry graphics engineer? Stop.

You and Alain seem to be so invested in repeating your confidence that Flight is just an enhanced FSX to the point of arguing with the head developer of FSX. Phil (the person you are arguing with above) was hired to lead the ACES team to extract as much performance out of FSX by creating SP1 the SP2. If MS now comes with a FSX enhancement to speed up FS flight to run on ordinary computers as they claim, then you are arguing that Phill and entire ACES could not do what the new team is doing now. I don't think so. To run on the run of the mill systems, Flight needs to be truly multithreaded. (We all know clock speeds have not gone up). To create a multithreaded Flight, the engine needs to be redone. So please stop this unsolicitated opinion that you two repeat over and over again in so many threads . Lets just agree to disagree.

+1 :(

But question will be if it will be available in October or November of that year.

Go to bed young man. :( But seriously I agree!

I have followed FS development very closely since 2003. I have just about read every article written in forums and blogs. This is the first time I am reading that there was a 3rd patch planned for FSX. Phil Taylor made it very clear that there was not going to be another patch.

Chock should be more hospitable and let you have the bed.

You took my thoughts. I agree. This title was started at least 2.5 years ago when the listings for job openings for a flying game appeared in MS's web sites. Every year in production costs huge sums of money. I couldn't imagine this title releasing in Fall of 2012 which would have put it close to 4 year development. Flight Sim revenue while always healthy, has not been large enough to justify 4 years of development. If I were in the management I would not accept such long and costly development.While I agree that the date is not set in stone, I do believe that the indications of dates on the gaming sites show that it is not going to be a 2012 holiday release.

Hey I love the missions. We are kind of dumb. So? Can you tell us how third party will give us solid overcasts or real cloud shadows?

Its a feature you can turn on and off. :) But seriously I would love to have the atmosphere and ground get really dark when cloudy. Its still sunny textures under the clouds.

Wow..why would they use Jumbos to fly 80 miles?

Can anyone describe the screen shots in the article?

Then please address your problem with him rather than start name calling.

Sorry for rude behavior of other people here.

LOL at "wheels on ground..." "looking like a fool with your wheels on the ground"

How dare we express our dislike of blurry textures. (GULP) I shall not make aware of my dislike, so thy might not have to correct anything. And now I am trembling for my punishment despite the fact that this was my first criticism of Flight. PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR I HAVE SINNED. :( :( :(

Don't take him seriously. He just has jumps on anyone who dares to criticize Flight. He must be the lead developer for Flight.

Sir, I don't appreciate you telling me to take my comment elsewhere. While I agree with a lot of what you post, I don't appreciate that you reflexively jump on any one who criticizes MS within few minutes of their postings. Why can't you allow others to express themselves freely without you getting so worked up? To me, most of your postings on this forum are so defensive of MS that you come out as if you were being personally attacked. Why is that?Now as about your reply to my post; did you read the title of my posting? I asked if it is just me or that other people feel the same way. Doesn't that imply that I am inviting people on the forum to share their opinion? How would I do that if I instead emailed MS?

JimIt would be more polite to address me directly rather than trying to make a example of me to others. I am sorry if I offended you or MS. I will gladly apologize if you show me how I was offensive by expressing my feelings of boredom with my perception of viewing the same scenery area over and over again. ThanksFrank

Within couple of months of closing ACES, MS rehired many ACES programmers back to work under MGS. Exactly at the same time they had job openings posted on their web site for programmers to work on a "flying game". That was 2 1/2 years ago. Also please note that it has been already 8 months since they showed us Flight. So what makes you think they started just a year ago? There is no way this is in early development. I don't care what MS claims, but they would not have shown us their work if they were just starting on it. Once a developer starts leaking pictures and videos, most of what they are showing you is what they are confident will stay in the final product. (Don't bring up the magic screen of FSX with god rays, that was not an in game shot and was supposed to be an artist's rendition of what DX10 might look like. They are much closer to beta than you think.

MS has been giving us scenery shots and movies about Flight for almost 8 months and they all have been shots of a very small area of Hawaii! Its like watching re-runs of an opening episode repeatedly. To me this is bad marketing. Come on Microsoft, It has been 8 months and you keep showing us the same thing over and over. Please move on and show us something different for heaven's sake. If you don't have any other area types developed, perhaps you were not ready to announce Flight in August.