Is a highly detailled China planned? Was there an announcement?

Now you got me thinking about how much China has changed between each release of MSFS. I expect I'd put the dev budget into stable 'classics' too. Especially all these that are so popular with Chinese tourists.... wait. Southhampton?

they advertised whole Earth size of 2PB

previous releases had no buildings in china apart from the airport ones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft ... ideo_game)
"It will feature over two million cities and towns"
All the biger ones i guess, China has a few big ones 😉

Some youtube movie also mentioned that number IIRC

Oh holy cow. That's most awesome. TY. And boy is that ever going to drive some Youtube traffic. Should be fair to say we can expect some China in that. With configurable weather & time I'm looking forward to the slice-of-life machinima.

airports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjxqFFFgcY8&f … ature=emb_title
still not showing china though mentioning asia 😀

Microsoft Flight Simulator to the Soviet Past 😉

No longer waiting for China 😉

https://www.flightsimulator.com/february-27th … lopment-update/

pewpewpew wrote on 2019-11-16, 18:30:

Is a highly detailled China planned? Was there an announcement?

Now you got me thinking about how much China has changed between each release of MSFS. I expect I'd put the dev budget into stable 'classics' too. Especially all these that are so popular with Chinese tourists.... wait. Southhampton?

You may laugh at Southampton, which is one of many characterless British cities, but I have now literally seen my house (and office) in Flight Simulator and now I am not sure where humanity has to go as a species!

and to think I thought this was exciting in 1983

Human imagination has the best graphics.

Can't wait for the macOS version. I remember playing FS98 (and later FS2000) in Windows (98? 2000? sXitPerience?)

I used to be in a brazilian little group of enthusiasts of FS to play together and do some commercial routes for fun (obviously with accelerated time...)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/microsoft-f … vot:overviewtab

robertmo wrote on 2020-07-13, 19:21:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/microsoft-f … vot:overviewtab

I received an email about the game and when I saw the requirements, I immediately gave up on this game. Like I did with racing games, I will not bother to buy a new machine just to run a game... unless Microsoft makes a version to run on ARM Macs, then I will buy it. But for any current intel computer (be it a PC or a Mac) I will not buy.

Another thing I don't like are the maps on the cloud, so you need a good internet connection to play and see every detail in 4k. And even if I get to download them to play offline, I wouldn't want to sacrifice SSD storage for them.

I guess that I will still be playing FS98 for the years to come....

Well, simulations are among the most demanding applications.
That new flight simulatior is perhaps more faithful than what ongoing pilots use in their simulator's cabin.
Minus the controls, of course. Professional training simulators must be connected to the cabin's instruments and switches, of course. 😉

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Bruninho wrote on 2020-07-13, 21:39:

But for any current intel computer (be it a PC or a Mac) I will not buy.

sounds like you need an AMD system in your life :p

@flight simulator, I'll be interested when there is an offline version.

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe it also can be played offline.
With much less detailed maps..

robertmo wrote on 2020-07-14, 09:22:

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Your device must meet all minimum requirements to open this product
OS Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher
Architecture x64
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Processor Intel i5-4460 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Graphics NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570

Graphics is definitely the only requirement I do not meet, and I’ll never do because of: a) I prefer laptops, I don’t have a desktop since 2017 and I don’t want to; b) price, my wallet can’t afford it; c) I believe it is bad programming when a game demands too high specs to be playable.

I had thought about doing an eGPU, but it isn’t cheap either. Its half the price of a new desktop computer here. The enclosure alone is 60% of the cost.

imi wrote on 2020-07-14, 09:57:

Bruninho wrote on 2020-07-13, 21:39:

But for any current intel computer (be it a PC or a Mac) I will not buy.

sounds like you need an AMD system in your life :p

@flight simulator, I'll be interested when there is an offline version.

Actually I have nothing against AMD, but never owned one and I probably never will, considering I am in the Apple ecosystem 😜

Jo22 wrote on 2020-07-14, 13:22:

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe it also can be played offline.
With much less detailed maps..

Yup. And probably the detail level will not be that good to be worth the price of the game to play offline. And these maps will be huge, storage is not cheap these days either. GTA V for example is roughly a 80GB download, that reason alone was enough for me to give up on that game.

Jo22 wrote on 2020-07-14, 13:22:

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe it also can be played offline.
With much less detailed maps..

Yup. And probably the detail level will not be that good to be worth the price of the game to play offline. And these maps will be huge, storage is not cheap these days either. GTA V for example is roughly a 80GB download, that reason alone was enough for me to give up on that game.

I see, makes sense to me. Maybe a RAID-0 setup made out of cheap/used HDDs can help creating a cheap storage disk.
In German, there's a Gamer's word for a slow extra HDD with large capacity. It's "Datengrab" (data grave).. 🙂

Jo22 wrote on 2020-07-14, 15:37:

I see, makes sense to me. Maybe a RAID-0 setup made out of cheap/used HDDs can help creating a cheap storage disk.
In German, there's a Gamer's word for a slow extra HDD with large capacity. It's "Datengrab" (data grave).. 🙂

My father has a similar setup for our home cinema and surveillance cameras. 4 HDDs of 2Tb each, in a total of 8Tb combined.

The problem with that setup is that from time to time something tends to fail and we have to replace the HDD. It happens more frequently than I’d like to say.