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[BrandonF]

-Dexter, on Jan 6 2012, 01:46 PM, said:

Sorry to say, it's pretty arcadey. The screen is bordered with overlays including a colorful throttle meter.

Ever try disabling the whole HUD display thingy? Free flight works just the same as before, I'm sure. But, just speculating here.  

Edited by BrandonF, 07 January 2012 - 01:33 AM.

[ChaoticBeauty]

BrandonF, on Jan 7 2012, 08:33 AM, said:

Ever try disabling the whole HUD display thingy? Free flight works just the same as before, I'm sure. But, just speculating here.  

You can disable it in the options. See here:

Except for that, how much arcade exists in Free Flight?

[Jonay]

Kaotika, on Jan 7 2012, 09:38 AM, said:

You can disable it in the options. See here:

Except for that, how much arcade exists in Free Flight?

None at all. But it's dead - no ATC or AI. so I'm told  

[ChaoticBeauty]

Jonay, on Jan 7 2012, 01:24 PM, said:

None at all. But it's dead - no ATC or AI. so I'm told  

The fact Free Flight is identical to FSX is good.

The fact there will be no ATC or AI is pure horror.  

[n4gix]

Paramedic, on Jan 5 2012, 04:51 AM, said:

I'm pretty thrilled for you, but I think you should abide by the rules and not discuss it...

I don't how or where that so-called "fact" got started, but...

...having very carefully reviewed the actual text of the NDA, as well as the email acknowledgement from MS Flight, there is absolutely nothing that prohibits one from stating that they are a beta tester or have the beta installed.

In fact, the officially recommended response to any questions is "...but I can't tell you anything about it."

However, to be perfectly frank, they may as well simply made this a completely open public beta.

For FS9 and FSX beta testing, we had to actually sign a printed agreement and snail-mail it to MS before being accepted into the program. IOW, those betas were much more seriously run, and far more tightly monitored and controlled.

[ChaoticBeauty]

n4gix, on Jan 7 2012, 06:56 PM, said:

I don't how or where that so-called "fact" got started, but...

...having very carefully reviewed the actual text of the NDA, as well as the email acknowledgement from MS Flight, there is absolutely nothing that prohibits one from stating that they are a beta tester or have the beta installed.

In fact, the officially recommended response to any questions is "...but I can't tell you anything about it."

However, to be perfectly frank, they may as well simply made this a completely open public beta.

For FS9 and FSX beta testing, we had to actually sign a printed agreement and snail-mail it to MS before being accepted into the program. IOW, those betas were much more seriously run, and far more tightly monitored and controlled.

There's already a handful of beta testers leaking the beta on YouTube.  

Edited by Kaotika, 07 January 2012 - 12:10 PM.

[jcovelli]

closed beta is pointless if its gonna be free anyway. they probably just didn't want ppl to say what a useless piece of s--- it is... too late

[Brandon-M]

Kaotika, on Jan 7 2012, 04:44 AM, said:

The fact Free Flight is identical to FSX is good.

The fact there will be no ATC or AI is pure horror.  

don't jump to conclusions.











You saw nothing  

Edited by Brandon_, 07 January 2012 - 12:56 PM.

[ChaoticBeauty]

Why didn't they make it an open beta? They would get a lot more bug reports.

I doubt they would fix bugs anyway.

Brandon_, on Jan 7 2012, 07:55 PM, said:

don't jump to conclusions.

You saw nothing  

Except for the HUD, I think it's identical. If my memory serves me right, someone said that.

Edited by Kaotika, 07 January 2012 - 01:02 PM.

[-Dexter]

Disabled the HUB as suggested and it's made it a bit better.

On the upside, it performs 50x better than FSX ever did.

http://i.imgur.com/QS9FS.jpg

^ I tried to get very dense clouds, lots of shadows going, find an area with wide view distance and lots of autogen, all settings on high, and I'm getting ~60FPS. Not too shabby.

Edited by -Dexter, 07 January 2012 - 03:41 PM.

[ChaoticBeauty]

-Dexter, on Jan 7 2012, 10:40 PM, said:

Disabled the HUB as suggested and it's made it a bit better.

On the upside, it performs 50x better than FSX ever did.

http://i.imgur.com/QS9FS.jpg

^ I tried to get very dense clouds, lots of shadows going, find an area with wide view distance and lots of autogen, all settings on high, and I'm getting ~60FPS. Not too shabby.

...

Settings on high and such a blurry ground texture?!

[-Dexter]

Kaotika, on Jan 7 2012, 03:46 PM, said:

...

Settings on high and such a blurry ground texture?!

Yep.

[ChaoticBeauty]

-Dexter, on Jan 7 2012, 11:26 PM, said:

Yep.

That's why you're getting 60 FPS.

[-Dexter]

Kaotika, on Jan 7 2012, 04:38 PM, said:

That's why you're getting 60 FPS.

If the settings went any higher, I would have set them higher.

I am getting a strong impression that Flight is being developed for consoles first, PCs later.

[Buziel-411_RED]

-Dexter, on Jan 7 2012, 03:26 PM, said:

Yep.

Does it tell you what resolution the ground textures are?

[Romario_]

-Dexter, on Jan 7 2012, 01:45 PM, said:

If the settings went any higher, I would have set them higher.

I am getting a strong impression that Flight is being developed for consoles first, PCs later.

That makes no sense. Everything is developed on PC then dumbed down for consoles.

[ChaoticBeauty]

Rudolph-411, on Jan 7 2012, 11:48 PM, said:

Does it tell you what resolution the ground textures are?

I have seen a leaked video which shows the options. There are only 6 options and they only have 3 levels: low, medium and high.

Yes. Those are the only options in Flight.

Santa_Claus, on Jan 7 2012, 11:56 PM, said:

That makes no sense. Everything is developed on PC then dumbed down for consoles.

I know it makes no sense, but actually, the majority of games today is console ports.

Edited by Kaotika, 07 January 2012 - 05:04 PM.

[Romario_]

You just said what I said. It's developed on a PC then ported to a console.

[ChaoticBeauty]

Santa_Claus, on Jan 8 2012, 01:31 AM, said:

You just said what I said. It's developed on a PC then ported to a console.

No, console port means the opposite.

A game is developed on PC for consoles, then the console version gets ported on PC. It's cheaper and faster.

[-Dexter]

Rudolph-411, on Jan 7 2012, 04:48 PM, said:

Does it tell you what resolution the ground textures are?

The settings menu in its entirety.