To actually start playing, you’ll head for the world map and choose where you want to start your flight. All of the planes are beautifully detailed inside and out and except for a few bugs, everything works as expected. I’ll spend some more time with those before the official launch. I mostly spent my time flying the small general aviation planes in the sim, but if you prefer a Boeing 747 or Airbus 320neo, you get that option, too, as well as some turboprops and business jets. Most take fewer than 10 minutes and you’ll get a bit of a de-brief after, but I’m not sure it’s enough to keep a novice from getting frustrated quickly (while more advanced players will just skip this section altogether anyway). That training section walks you through eight activities that will help you get the basics of flying a Cessna 152. Cities like Barcelona, Berlin, San Francisco, Seattle, New York and others that are rendered using Microsoft’s photogrammetry method look great - including and maybe especially at night. When the system works well, it’s absolutely amazing. There are taxiway lights in the middle of runways, giant hangars and crew buses at small private fields, cars randomly driving across airports, giant trees growing everywhere (while palms often look like giant sticks), bridges that are either under water or big blocks of black over a river - and there are a lot of sunken boats, too. Because Microsoft and Asobo Studios, which was responsible for the development of the simulator, are using Microsoft’s AI tech in Azure to automatically generate much of the scenery based on Microsoft’s Bing Maps data, you’ll find a lot of weirdness in the world. It’s officially still in beta, so there’s still time to fix at least some of the issues I list below. You can’t start it up and not fawn over the graphics.īut the new Flight Simulator is also still very much a work in progress, too, even just a few weeks before the scheduled launch date on August 18. Weather effects, day and night cycles, plane models - it all looks amazing. Without a doubt, it’s the most beautiful flight simulator yet, and it’ll make you want to fly low and slow over your favorite cities because - if you pick the right one - every street and house will be there in more detail than you’ve ever seen in a game. For the last two weeks, I’ve been flying around the world in a preview of Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator.
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