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"We're touching upon something that goes far beyond the product.Today third-party developers have released more new screenshots of upcoming aircraft and scenery add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator. "We have had so many messages (from fans) everywhere, of all ages, even in the aviation world where many people wanted to help us," he said. The French company is well aware of the turbulence ahead if its efforts fail to meet approval with the worldwide community of armchair aviators.įlight Simulator is a "monument in the history of video games", co-founder David Dedeine said. "When there are such high expectations, you can't disappoint. A successful launch will offer a springboard towards "bigger games, budgets and teams", he said. Microsoft doesn't have room for error," games expert Laurent Michaud said. "Flight Simulator is a title that's been played by tens of millions of gamers, there is a community which has been waiting for several years. The anticipation would have been great among gamers at any time, but all the more so now at a time of coronavirus lockdowns that have grounded entire airlines. The realism is heightened by real-time weather data derived from Microsoft's Bing servers, which will give virtual pilots the actual conditions in their area of flight, rather than generic clouds.
Software advances since 2006, and the onset of artificial intelligence, have given the game designers the ability to map out the world with startling clarity, from the azure seas of the Caribbean to the graceful peak of Mount Kilimanjaro.
The 2020 version gives them control of everything from a Pitts Special S2S biplane to an Airbus A320 Neo or widebody Boeing Dreamliner, and the option to fly from an array of airports around the world past detailed cityscapes and cloud formations.įor the first time, thanks to Microsoft's globe-spanning technology, the planet has been reproduced in enough detail to allow visual flight rules from the cockpit - where collision is avoided through the pilot's vision and actions - rather than by following tracked-out routes.
Read also: Release of next Halo video game pushed back to 2021 Microsoft's game has indeed offered generations of pilots, as well as enthusiastic amateurs, the opportunity to train on a fleet of aircraft. The difference between 18 years ago and now "is like learning to fly on a small plane and at the end being the pilot of an Airbus", Bossard said. An important milestone was the release in May 2019 of "A Plague Game: Innocence", which won multiple industry awards and resonates in a world beset by a virulent disease.
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