Thanks for the summary jelknab. We might see more coverage from other sites too, so keep an eye on more news posts like that.

The visuals are just incredible. I could barely tell Microsoft Flight Simulator from a real-life video in many of these shots.

EDIT: Just checked, there's already plenty actually.

https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/30/20885197/microsoft-flight-simulator-bing-maps-hands-on-demo

https://theaircurrent.com/technology/exploring-the-big-sky-microsoft-is-creating-for-flight-simulator-2020/

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-flight-simulator-cloud/

https://theaircurrent.com/technology/exploring-the-big-sky-microsoft-is-creating-for-flight-simulator-2020/

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-next-generation

https://www.pcgamer.com/au/fly-anywhere-in-the-world-in-the-impossibly-massive-microsoft-flight-simulator/

https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/30/flight-simulator-2020-hands-on-pre-alpha/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmdyLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAK5MIK0RDTw4Bv1mA7662Mo2OOaSTYx1Sv6fn91L6uGqEZD_MraVvTb2lEKAaGTphmzYXZjdXI9Hhu-zE3Cyy2VZbWAWVPzuTKiwRUXvjl9tHq3gly61kaXc6TDsXecA3v0JalV8B8p3-b4I1fxE0o4s0_Bvf1bSZJpp6xxOlk1M

And even more probably. Tons of material to keep us busy for several weeks...

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by ChaoticBeauty

1 minute ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

The visuals are just incredible. I could barely tell Microsoft Flight Simulator from a real-life video in many of these shots.

My thoughts exactly.  Visually stunning.  Flight dynamics model looks way better, but Im sure it will be alot more refined based on feedback input. 

Watching the frooglesim video now, it's very informative. As it turns out, it is indeed Asobo Studio working on the game with Microsoft (there's another team in there too), and the simulator has been in development for 5 years now. Around the time Dovetail took over and released Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition. Interesting...

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by ChaoticBeauty

16 minutes ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

Watching the frooglesim video now, it's very informative. As it turns out, it is indeed Asobo Studio working on the game with Microsoft (there's another team in there too), and the simulator has been in development for 5 years now. Around the time Dovetail took over and released Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition. Interesting...

The Aerodymanics video is live today on FSElite @ 1600z 

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by ErichB

Well this will be my sim for the future at lot of speculation put to bed with he video. 

"They need to scrap the FSX engine" .. "we need a brand new engine"... "it's a 30 year old code base"...
Finally confirmation that they used the FSX engine, and surprise... code can be re-written, improved and even removed! 🙂

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by NZ255

I'm pretty sure I've seen Belgoede in that vid😂

13 minutes ago, NZ255 said:

"They need to scrap the FSX engine" .. "we need a brand new engine"... "it's a 30 year old code base"...
Finally confirmation that they used the FSX engine, and surprise... code can be re-written, improved and even removed! 🙂

I don't get why people are so insistent on totally replacing the engine. I don't know much about the earlier simulators in the series, but I think that at least from Flight Simulator 2000 and onwards it's been the same engine but with improvements and additions with each instalment. You can overhaul parts of an engine without removing some core aspects (that can be improved on as well).

3 minutes ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

I don't get why people are so insistent on totally replacing the engine. I don't know much about the earlier simulators in the series, but I think that at least from Flight Simulator 2000 and onwards it's been the same engine but with improvements and additions with each instalment. You can overhaul parts of an engine without removing some core aspects (that can be improved on as well).

 

Well after a decade and a half of dealing with the FSX engine and its limitations.. what user wouldn't be flustered enough to want a whole new engine?

After doing CFG tweaking in our sleep and watching simple bitmap jagged moving ai road traffic processes below bring our CPUs to a crawl😂

8 minutes ago, blueshark747 said:

watching simple bitmap jagged moving ai road traffic processes below bring our CPUs to a crawl😂

You ever get close to that road traffic?  It is surprisingly detailed and you even get proper lighting and reflections.  I don't find road traffic affects frame rate at all.

Hook

3 minutes ago, LHookins said:

You ever get close to that road traffic?  It is surprisingly detailed and you even get proper lighting and reflections.  I don't find road traffic affects frame rate at all.

Hook

I'm talking 2006 here....big difference in hardware since then and before Steam Edition

Full traffic sliders or shot even half traffic sliders were not an option back then on any hardware

Edited September 30, 20196 yr by blueshark747

3 hours ago, NZ255 said:

"They need to scrap the FSX engine" .. "we need a brand new engine"... "it's a 30 year old code base"...
Finally confirmation that they used the FSX engine, and surprise... code can be re-written, improved and even removed! 🙂

It´s not FSX engine, in one of the articles its said the engine they are using was developed by Asobo, an engine capable to render the whole world in detail.

Which they used from FSX were some of the modules of the engine that were still good enought.