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24 minutes ago, Gabe777 said:

Agreed.

There have been 100s of new flightsimming 'officianados' creating junk recently.

Never heard of ANY of them. And they all have a dozen ads in them.

One creator made an "Unboxing Video" of MSFS software and hardware.... It got 500, 000 views.

Guess what.... Yes, she was a very pretty girl. Yuk. Sad.

It all makes me feel nauseous to be honest. I'm staying away from YouTube for a few months until decent add-ons start getting decent reviews from our usual reviewers...... Q8, Aussie, Froggle etc etc.

Go away Pretenders .... leave us alone !

You sound so entitled it's untrue... so you've never heard of any of them? So what lol.. are we to look to you in terms of who we watch?!

MSFS2020 has sparked a lot of interest and people that have never flown before are starting to play and enjoy simming for the first time. You have a problem with that too? Quite unbelievable...

22 hours ago, Nedo68 said:

Because there's not much news here right now, something technical for you 😉

We know FS2020 uses 2PB Data for the whole earth,

but how many are 2PB? if you think thats alot, then check out Global Steam Traffic Map

Germany had 21,6PB downloads the last 7 days and the US had 75,6PB downloads in the last 7 days.

In 2018 Steam delivered 15 billion gigabytes of data, That's 15 Exabytes

Valve says its network capacity is also growing 50 percent year over year 😅

Some more Info, Steam deployed new SQL Servers now with 2.7 petabytes of FAST solid state storage.

 

 

now i think i can live with 2PB 😁

And still this thread exists?! .... #modsdoyourting

I see nothing going on that goes against any NDA tbh..

1 hour ago, tarere said:

Untrue ! All these points have been adressed clearly and loudly by Asobo.

First they confirmed positively that they had either upgraded or completly rewrited most of the old FS code but they did chose to keep the existing FSX NavData from 2006. And they said it won't be updatable, ever. Too difficult. So you'll have to deal with it.

Also they implemented live AI traffic with over 50,000 concurrent flight but they also chose to stay in 2006 so you will have outdated and non realistic AI traffic and old orbit airlines liveries, P3D with addon will be better in every aspects of Ai traffic.

You're also right about airports, they annouced 40,000, but 39,999 of those are confirmed international mega capital airport with at least three runways ; the only small airport included will be Courchevel, with no way to add small airports except by paying each via the ingame store. Price is rumored at 49$ yearly subscription for each small airport you would download.

All checked facts. A friend is currently playing the game in the alpha testing so he does actually confirm all of this. He positively says he will revert to FSX steam edition asap.

Hope you have all your answer, still might be a better idea to stick to P3D.

Post scriptum : oh, and about data usage, every 100nm of flight streaming a dolphin dies due to heat generated by Azure AI. Yes, I also have a friend who work at salvaging dolphins from excessive data transfer.

Nice thread.

Wow..... i mean... show the facts with links or tangible quotes or whatever, but this sounds laughable at best...

Your XP11 link doesn't work... what are we supposed to see?!

Yeah, very interested to see how some of these aiports look. To me it's a very important and immersive part of the sim and very enjoyable too, especially with ATC chatter and AI planes coming and going. Having a feeling of the world being alive is a very important aspect for me and i'm guessing one that, in the end, the 3rd party developers will have to polish in order for them to truly shine and have the detail we crave. But, we shall see...!

True that, but, you can also set the weather to whatever you wish, so... you can always override that and be happy.

I'm guessing they're very keen to see how a larger pool of users playing and actually streaming data over the internet works, assuming this is implemented in the this early Alpha build, will be quite key for them to monitor. As far as i'm aware, all builds that have been shown to press, streamers etc have been cached?

Anyways, as well as simply flying and keeping my eyes open for anything glaring, i'm looking forward to pushing certain scenarios to the extremes to see how things are being handled there.

1 hour ago, B777ER said:

People are seeing the scenery and not thinking of much else. 

What are you even saying lol?! You're miles off... we're wanting and hoping for all the boxes to be ticked and MS seem to be listening. And yet all the while we get these, quite frankly, ridiculously speculative and cynical posts.

Those approaches in Southampton and Zurich looked sublime and full of depth and atmosphere... c'mon c'mon.... release that Tech 1 build.....

oh gawd........

oops, yep... my bad... this is the original stall vid... hmmf....! soz...

This i believe is indeed a new vid...

TBH, where's the mods?! ...

Wew... still waiting for this build... i'm kinda thinking that they have a few more goodies they'd like to bake into this next build before testing and are as such holding back a little until they can get that compiled and ready for us..

I'm really hoping that there are some properly working options for frame limiting in-game in order to up the visuals to the absolute max whilst keeping a smooth and achievable 30fps if wanted. No affinity masks or messing around. Simply a way of balancing, especially for lesser powered rigs.

11 minutes ago, FlyerNYC said:

Many game devs are that way. It's just that some publishers are garbage. We are lucky that Microsoft has become consumer friendly in the past years.

I think that Microsoft and indeed Asobo have looked and truly realised that even though the sim market may be more niche than say, Fortnite, its still very relevant. Simulating something such as a 737 in as realistic environment as possible is kinda cool and absolutely challenging. These flying machines are still engineering milestones for mankind, it's why we're such a focused and enthusiastic bunch eh? What they're doing here for us will no doubt filter 'up' into simulators for real pilots and beyond.. their transparency so far though is pretty commendable, smart and very much appreciated..

52 minutes ago, Paraffin said:

It replaces mouse look, and can have added functionality like Z-axis (translation) so you don't just move your head in yaw, pitch, and roll axes, but you can also lean forward or back, for a closer view of cockpit instruments. So in addition to adding immersion, it means you no longer need to fuss with hat switches or mouse to look around the cockpit, and can use those controls for other things.

Cool, sounds good. So, i woulda thought in that case then TrackIR would at least have 'look' around capabilities assuming they have a free flowing look system bound to the mouse or whatever. And then i'm betting adding a z-axis for TrackIR would only be a matter of time, certainly going on how MS/Asobo are dealing with things so far.. i.e listening to us...

So, does TrackIR not allow you to bind to 'look' such as mouse look, and then simply take that over and allow you to look around? This is pretty much how EdTracker works?

If i'm allowed to test, i'll be checking out how my edTracker works in the tech alpha, if at all, but i'd assume i can bind as usual to free moving look controls and away we go..

And they changed their video format and now went with Youtube? Listening to our every whim it seems... props to the Devs!

"From the start, we have all assumed that 4k was the only way to go for FS20.."

Have we all assumed this, at all?! ... generalised assumptions tbh OP.. I'm sure they are pushing hard for good frames at 4K seeing as this is pretty much becoming a standard in gaming, simming, whatever. But i certainly never assumed anything, and tbh assuming gets you into trouble by my experience...

Let the alpha roll out and we can see what's what, but i'm pretty sure it'll look great on a 4K monitor as well as looking good on a 1080p monitor.

Yeah, not expecting a full experience by any means, but, def expecting some of what was experienced in the reveal (which was insane) and some of what those that got to try said was pretty much 'mindblowing' compared to what has gone before it..!

I'm personally proper excited to hopefully get my hands on the early build and experience some of what's been seen in the videos first hand. This is cutting edge tech and paving the way for a new era of flight sim and i def want to be a part of it and help the devs in any way i can.

6 hours ago, raspian300 said:

Have anyone noticed the AI aircrafts in KSFO photo? They had the same livery and i guess that was some imaginary airline like Pacific and Orbit in previous versions. It seems that we still need some 3rd party to work on real AI traffic.

Phew.... for a tech alpha, Microsoft must be thinking 'wow' to some of these comments... #toughcrowd