Official Thread Microsoft Flight Simulator

[Kvally]

Microsoft Flight Simulator

From light planes to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the next generation of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Test your piloting skills against the challenges of night flying, real-time atmospheric simulation and live weather in a dynamic and living world.

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In before 93 is a flop.

 

[Kerosene31]

One of the most challenging approaches in real life or a sim. The hard part is you have to drop right after the hill, but as you do that and pull back, you pick up a ton of speed and can easily overshoot. Check youtube for St Barths approaches for some amazing real world footage.

It is cool that side slips work too.

 

[GordoSan]

Hope I can invert the controls????????????

No flying game should ever omit an inverted Y control scheme. In fact, it should be the default.

 

[Plainview]

No flying game should ever omit an inverted Y control scheme. In fact, it should be the default.

No, I always switch it to press up goes up. Press down go down. Hate standard flight controls.

 

[GordoSan]

No, I always switch it to press up goes up. Press down go down. Hate standard flight controls.

Whatever, weirdo! That's not how you fly a plane.

 

[Plainview]

Whatever, weirdo! That's not how you fly a plane.

 

[TeKPhaN]

Thought this is a PC game?

 

[The Living Tribunal]

Here we go gentlemen...

 

[TeKPhaN]

Here we go gentlemen...

Where is the controls?

 

[The Living Tribunal]

Where is the controls?

I've got a joystick sitting off to the side. The game is still installing.

 

[TeKPhaN]

Ok

 

[karmakid]

I've got a joystick sitting off to the side. The game is still installing.

Which variant did ya go with? I may wait for a sale on the pc version, but will get for Xbox though.....oh is it PlayAnywhere?

 

[The Living Tribunal]

Which variant did ya go with? I may wait for a sale on the pc version, but will get for Xbox though.....oh is it PlayAnywhere?

I bought the Premium Deluxe. I got it through Steam though because I'm not downloading it on the Microsoft store...
ITS.AMAZING.THOUGH.

 

[The Living Tribunal]

 

[The Living Tribunal]

Which variant did ya go with? I may wait for a sale on the pc version, but will get for Xbox though.....oh is it PlayAnywhere?

If you buy it through the Xbox Store on PC you get it on the Series X.

 

[karmakid]

I bought the Premium Deluxe. I got it through Steam though because I'm not downloading it on the Microsoft store...
ITS.AMAZING.THOUGH.

So pretty....love how on some planes at the edges of the windows you see the the image/world warp. Oh and the way the sun glimers of the body from certain angles

 

[karmakid]

Not gonna lie, but I may have watch an hours worth of a stream of this game, just today

 

[The Living Tribunal]

This is next gen guys! The sunsets....HOLY s***!!!!

 

[karmakid]

This is next gen guys! The sunsets....HOLY s***!!!!

can you land at Area 51?

 

[The Living Tribunal]

can you land at Area 51?

Haven't tried it yet...but the city I'm flying over is where I live....both live (3:49am) and tomorrow morning. This game is unbelievable...

 

[The Living Tribunal]

...the superlatives escape me..was flying to Kansas City...

 

[The Living Tribunal]

hit some clouds...

 

[The Living Tribunal]

..and my wings iced up...

 

[Spiritech]

Fly through the Bermuda triangle see if anything funny happens.

 

[The Living Tribunal]

.....this is SERIOUSLY the best looking game I've ever played. The pics don't do it justice. What they have achieved is mind-blowing...

 

[The Living Tribunal]

...btw. Landing is pretty tricky. The last time I played a flight sim I was in high school and well...my landings are still complete crap.

 

[Two Pennys Worth]

..and my wings iced up...

The game has looked stunning from all the screenshots prior to launch but for some reason I still didn’t quite believe it would look like this come launch. Would you say graphically it has lived up to your expectations? The screenshots you’ve posted look unbelievable.

 

[Two Pennys Worth]

.....this is SERIOUSLY the best looking game I've ever played. The pics don't do it justice. What they have achieved is mind-blowing...

It may have come a full generation after talking it up but it seems like the power of the cloud was the real deal after all.

 

[Spiritech]

It looks like the most relaxing game.

 

[The Living Tribunal]

The game has looked stunning from all the screenshots prior to launch but for some reason I still didn’t quite believe it would look like this come launch. Would you say graphically it has lived up to your expectations? The screenshots you’ve posted look unbelievable.

It has surpassed them. I was flying over my city and I could see dawn approaching over the horizon. I literally said...wow. Keep in mind this was REAL TIME. So the sim could see dawn approaching before I could.

I have real air traffic on as well. I've seen 2 or 3 planes far up in the sky, higher than I went which I'm guessing judging from the setting were actual live planes flying to wherever they were going.

Pics don't do it justice. It looks unbelievable. I've said wow almost a dozen times. Flying through the clouds is scary and thrilling. Scary because your wings ice up and you lose airspeed due to the extra weight and drag, and thrilling because it looks photo realistic.

This is a must play IMO. Even if you don't know a thing about flying. The flying tutorial will get you up to speed. I also plugged in my Xbox One controller just to see how it is mapped, and I must say that if you get it on the Series X you will be pleased with the controls.