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Started by Heimi77 , Jan 11 2012 09:26 AM

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#1 Heimi77

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 09:26 AM

From what I`ve seen on videos and pictures (official and leaked) I think Microsoft Flight will be not as bad as many people think.

Yes, the beta looks not complex but I think it`s just a basic software and all things we want to have will be added as DLC (free and/or pay).

-ATC I think there will be ATC, because you have radio you can dial in frequencies and on the map airports have frequencies.

-IFR Same as above, there are VOR, NDB and ILS stations shown with frequencies, and the Icon A5 looks like it has at least a moving map, maybe gps on board.

-Airliners Sooner or later, we have major airports and NAVaids,Waypoints... so why not?

-Helicopters On a loading screen there was something like "choose plane or helicopter"

-Graphics/Detail I Think it`s like the FSX with add-ons, not fully covered but on many places (poi) it looks very good and detailed

-Weather There are some nice looking clouds, in a video i saw also fog and rain.


Thats it for now, i`ll continue and have a closer look to all hints.
Maybe you have als some hints or facts? Feel free to add.

#2 MattGarner

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 11:27 AM

But we don't know anything about this:

- SDK
- Quality of planes and other addons
- SDK is probably needed for support with VATSIM + IVAO
- Prices for the other parts of the world, how will they sell them and how will they be split up + time release.

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 11:48 AM

View PostHeimi77, on Jan 11 2012, 10:26 AM, said:

From what I`ve seen on videos and pictures (official and leaked) I think Microsoft Flight will be not as bad as many people think.

Yes, the beta looks not complex but I think it`s just a basic software and all things we want to have will be added as DLC (free and/or pay).

-ATC I think there will be ATC, because you have radio you can dial in frequencies and on the map airports have frequencies.

-IFR Same as above, there are VOR, NDB and ILS stations shown with frequencies, and the Icon A5 looks like it has at least a moving map, maybe gps on board.

-Airliners Sooner or later, we have major airports and NAVaids,Waypoints... so why not?

-Helicopters On a loading screen there was something like "choose plane or helicopter"

-Graphics/Detail I Think it`s like the FSX with add-ons, not fully covered but on many places (poi) it looks very good and detailed

-Weather There are some nice looking clouds, in a video i saw also fog and rain.
Thats it for now, i`ll continue and have a closer look to all hints.
Maybe you have als some hints or facts? Feel free to add.

were are the facts?

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 12:11 PM

*where. sorry

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 03:27 PM

Mentioning something like helicopters as being a positive is almost clutching at straws imo. It's just something I would have expected to be in it anyway when it was first announced.

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 05:50 PM

Notice the XBOX icon in the upper right. Need I say more?  :hrmm:

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Edited by 162db, 11 January 2012 - 05:54 PM.

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 05:58 PM

View Post162db, on Jan 11 2012, 02:50 PM, said:

Notice the XBOX icon in the upper right. Need I say more?  :hrmm:

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And that means anything...how?

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 05:59 PM

View Post162db, on Jan 11 2012, 05:50 PM, said:

Notice the XBOX icon in the upper right. Need I say more?  :hrmm:

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XBOX might be in the top of this page dosen't mean it will be available on the console... M$ are all messed up in this multiplayer thing....

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 05:59 PM

View Postjcovelli, on Jan 11 2012, 08:48 AM, said:

were are the facts?

In the post.

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 06:31 PM

View PostSuperCar1000, on Jan 11 2012, 03:59 PM, said:

XBOX might be in the top of this page dosen't mean it will be available on the console... M$ are all messed up in this multiplayer thing....

True, but that was in an email from the XBOX team. I have yet to receive an email from them for anything that doesn't involve the XBOX, although this could be a first. But let's take an in depth look. It would not be very difficult to port this to XBOX 360 (if it isn't already ported). It's configured and programmed controls for the XBOX 360 controller, it's a closed file structure, it doesn't even use DX11, it's the same old engine from way back in FS98, it's not very demanding on hardware since there's very little to store in cache, no 3rd party support because no one is stupid enough to buy a license to distribute their own content, and the graphics settings only vary between low, med, or high for just about everything. Even Rob from PMDG has stated that Flight is not targeted towards hardcore simmers.   :hrmm:

Edited by 162db, 11 January 2012 - 06:38 PM.

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 10:30 PM

View PostBrandonF, on Jan 11 2012, 05:59 PM, said:

In the post.
Those weren't facts. Those were assumptions :hrmm:

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 10:33 PM

View Postbl00mfield, on Jan 11 2012, 07:30 PM, said:

Those weren't facts. Those were assumptions :hrmm:
Exactly. Though my exact words were "What's this guy smoking?".

Edited by SwitchFX, 11 January 2012 - 10:33 PM.

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Posted 11 January 2012 - 11:47 PM

Please do us all a favor and stop making these assumption "fact" threads.

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 09:37 AM

View Post162db, on Jan 11 2012, 07:31 PM, said:

It would not be very difficult to port this to XBOX 360 (if it isn't already ported). It's configured and programmed controls for the XBOX 360 controller, it's a closed file structure, it doesn't even use DX11...

FSX has supported the XBox360 controller from the day it was released, so that in and of itself "proves nothing."

Since Flight is using the same core platform as FSX, it can not be ported to X-BOX for plethora reasons, the least of which is the number of Win API's that the core platform relies on. Anyone who believes otherwise is quite obviously not familiar with Windows programming.  :hrmm:

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 12:09 PM

So Flight won't support DX11?

DX10 at least?

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 03:04 PM

View PostSwitchFX, on Jan 11 2012, 10:33 PM, said:

Exactly. Though my exact words were "What's this guy smoking?".
Hasheesh.

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 06:05 PM

View Postbl00mfield, on Jan 11 2012, 07:30 PM, said:

Those weren't facts. Those were assumptions :hrmm:

Hello....he included some facts, and some assumptions.

"you have radio you can dial in frequencies and on the map airports have frequencies." <Fact

"there are VOR, NDB and ILS stations shown with frequencies, and the Icon A5 looks like it has at least a moving map, maybe gps on board." <Fact

"we have major airports and NAVaids,Waypoints" <Fact

"On a loading screen there was something like "choose plane or helicopter" <Fact

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 07:55 PM

View PostBrandonF, on Jan 12 2012, 06:05 PM, said:

Hello....he included some facts, and some assumptions.

"you have radio you can dial in frequencies and on the map airports have frequencies." <Fact

"there are VOR, NDB and ILS stations shown with frequencies, and the Icon A5 looks like it has at least a moving map, maybe gps on board." <Fact

"we have major airports and NAVaids,Waypoints" <Fact

"On a loading screen there was something like "choose plane or helicopter" <Fact


"you have radio you can dial in frequencies and on the map airports have frequencies." <Fact - Vouched.

"there are VOR, NDB and ILS stations shown with frequencies, and the Icon A5 looks like it has at least a moving map, maybe gps on board." <Fact - Vouched, as for the VOR, NDB, and ILS stations I didn't see any in the beta.

"we have major airports and NAVaids,Waypoints" <Fact - Vouched, Major airports...obviously, didn't see any navaids or waypoints though in the beta.

"On a loading screen there was something like "choose plane or helicopter" <Fact

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 09:58 AM

Found leaked images and zoomed/cutted the details.

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waypoints, vor, ndb, ils

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I found another hint. In another forum someone wrote about awards you can get ingame.
There are awards for flying 50.000ft and mach 3.
I doubt it will be without jets or ifr aircrafts...

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 10:29 AM

^ :hrmm: Maybe you can upgrade your Icon A5 for that award.
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