Microsoft Flight Simulator

[Turnstyled 485]

I'm REALLY excited for Microsoft Flight Simulator. All my life, I've been into aviation and I hope to one day obtain a private pilot's certificate. They're doing so many things right. The game is being developed by Asobo Studio in Bordeaux. At the moment, it's the only other game I'm into other than New Cities, Cities: Skylines, and SimCity 4.

All my life, fiction has frightened me, so the only games that don't frighten me are ones that "mimic reality." For a game to just "mesh with me," it also takes an active community continuously developing new content for the game. Microsoft Flight Simulator will be sure to have that.

In the latest Feature Discovery Series video update, one of the employees of Asobo Studio had talked about how 37,000 airports were manually edited for use in the game and that 80 of the most played and busiest airports were given more attention and what they deemed to be the most iconic airports were given even more special treatment when it came to detail.

The next Feature Discovery Series will be released next week. It'll be about Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). As opposed to Visual Flight Rules (VFR) where pilots fly based on their visual surroundings, when pilots fly IFR, they fly based on their instruments. Above the clouds, pilots must fly IFR.

No, I'm not in the alpha, but those in the alpha have been saying good things on Reddit and they've been saying them as vaguely as possible. There's an NDA associated with applying for alpha testing.

[pclark06 11,771]

Is anyone else playing this? It's absolute box office. It's giving me lots of layout ideas for my city building stuff.

[Turnstyled 485]

While I was very excited for this, I'm going to keep it to city builders. It CAN be played with a controller, but to truly "get into" flight sims is something else. I'd rather become a real pilot.

[kSlank 146]

Oh, this is about the new one