HummusLord

Indeed. jcomm's passion was pretty steady while Flight was still in development. Ever since Flight's shuttering though I feel like I'm on a roller coaster ride when reading his posts. I know I don't have to read them but the drama as he seems to personally struggle with finding a suitable replacement draws me in.

IMO the movie is horrendous. But most book based movies are, especially the ones that deal with such a detailed universe as Dune. It could be that my opinion is colored because I didn't watch it until I (and the movie) was older and after I read the books.

Oh yeah, forgot how bad mirages can get on Dune. Also, apparently the ornithopters have a cockpit similar to a cub...interesting... :Nerd:

But I see water, so clearly that isn't Arrakis. ^_^

Here's how it went down for me: Got home from work, promptly downloaded the cubby, fired it up in Flight for a test run, thought it was the bees knees. Had dreams of MS providing more content for said cubby, logged onto AVSIM to see what others were saying about it. Oh what's this, MS is shuttering Flight?....awesome....shoulda saved my $15 worth of MS points. Although I really like what they did with the VC cub and think it is a cool plane, it is still on a platform with no future. I just have a hard time enjoying Flight anymore with this constantly nagging at me. Despite its shortcomings I thought it really had potential given the proper focus and time.

If they do, let's hope it has a cockpit. :lol:

Agreed, but that didn't annoy me so much. However, the poster I was quoting made it sound like all the missions were unrealistic with an arcade feel. Makes me wonder how many he tried before making such a blanket statement. On another note, the landing challenges will be sorely missed too, I just had to get that arcade gold cup.

I didn't find the missions in Flight all that unrealistic or "arcady". Sure they weren't as sophisticated as some of the more advanced FSX missions but I could appreciate what they were trying to do with Flight and some of the missions were interesting and educational like the one where you took a photographer through Pearl Harbor, etc. I was really hoping they would continue in this vein with Alaska, etc. because I think missions can make a sim pretty interesting, but alas...

You might find what you're looking for under the 'weather engine' section of 'configuration manager'.

FSX is what initially got me interested in simming a few years ago but I finished all the missions and some lessons and got bored with it. I couldn't run it too well either, but it was playable. Flight piqued my interest again but I was growing tired of the slow release of their content and the poor communication from MS but I thought it had potential. A couple of weeks ago I decided to reinstall FSX because I have a much better computer and can finally run it pretty smooth but it does need some addons so it doesn't look so blah. REX, GEX, UTX and an ORBX or two go a long way to breathe life into FSX. Doing the missions again is a blast because I can handle simulated planes better and actually know what I'm doing...mostly. The helicopters in FSX are pretty fun, make sure to get Acceleration with the new chopper and missions, they're challenging and sometimes frustrating but pretty fun.

Ah man, I come from enjoying the VC cub to this news. Makes me kind of wish I wouldn't have bought it, but I wasn't going to use my MS points on anything else so oh well...RIP Flight. I guess recently buying addons for FSX that give it new life wasn't such a bad idea. No more $ for MS, win8 can kiss it.

I bought FSX ~3.5 years ago and only recently I decided to reinstall (thanks to Flight reawakening my inner flying sim) and give it another go because I finally have a decent enough computer that it could run it at an acceptable level even thought it still struggles at times and can be annoyingly stuttery. And this is software that came out what 5 or 6 years ago? On older hardware it was a struggle to find the sweetspot between an acceptable framerate and level of detail and still is to some extent with modern hardware. I loved the hell out of FSX when I first got it; the tutorials, lessons, and especially the missions but stock FSX looks pretty bland in comparison to Flight. Because FSX is so bland I have recently tried 3rd party enhancement software (REX, GEX, Accufeel) and think it actually looks quite good (esp. REX) but that's more $ than I've spent on Flight so far, and those are just enhancements but they did inject life back into FSX and I've forgotten the missions enough that doing them again is pretty fun. It is fun having many planes, places to fly, a long list of missions, real-world weather, decent map, etc, which I'm sure will come with Fight in due time (at least I hope so) because I think it has a lot of potential.

When it comes to Flight I don't think even god knows why. :lol:

Perhaps. I thought that too but in that one there are six tents and no fire. Looks like they took to the time to keep a couple of tents make them better looking and add a fire for some reason. Could be nothing, or maybe something like an easter egg. In the first part of that mission you fly into Kahiltna Base Camp on the Kahiltna glacier, it took me a while to find the same spot in Flight, no thanks to Flight's cartoon map, but I searched and couldn't find that grouping of tents which were quite a few. So, if the tents are merely a remnant of FSX then I would expect there to be those too, otherwise why get rid of some but keep others?

In the original thread I couldn't figure out how to attach images in reply. They are at ~14k ft. In the shot below I'm heading towards Denali at ~30 deg. The arrow is pointing to the approximate location of the tents. It is one of the basecamps used for those attempting to summit Denali. Compare it to the picture with the routes and labeled basecamps. This is an interesting tidbit from NOVA of the area - Fourteen Medical This camp, a small village of tents, will serve as our Advance Base Camp, set on a large plateau at just above 14,000 feet. All West Buttress expeditions use this camp for acclimatization and as a staging area for the upper mountain. The National Park Service has a large medical tent here for their rescue and medical operations.