FlightSimExpo is underway in Houston, Texas, and yesterday Microsoft and Asobo delivered a variety of new element concerning the not too long ago introduced Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, its new aviation actions, and adjustments to its physics simulation and efficiency.
Microsoft Flight Simulator head Jorg Neumann known as the announcement trailer proven throughout the Xbox Video games Showcase earlier this month “paper skinny”, and famous that there have been a variety of comprehensible questions on whether or not MSFS2024 was merely an enlargement. Removed from it, Neumann stated, calling MSFS2024 “greatest endeavor ever in flight simulation.”
“We polled a bunch of issues, and the one factor from all [different kinds of player] was that folks needed extra stuff to do. We stated, ‘okay, cool, truthful sufficient, let’s go make issues like that.’ However we’re not a recreation,” stated Neumann. “So we’re not making game-y kind missions in any respect. What we’re doing is correct aviation actions. We’re working with a number of organisations throughout the planet that do this stuff. That do firefighting, that do search and rescue.”
Sebastian Wloch then spoke about how, to assist future content material updates and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, the sport will “solely obtain what is required” so as so that you can play. A thinner consumer will scale back set up measurement, loading occasions, and assist maintain the minimal system necessities low, Wloch stated.
MSFS2024 can even have a brand new physics and aerodynamics engine to assist the brand new actions, together with tissue, rope and different comfortable physique physics. Wloch confirmed a neat prototype of a sizzling air balloon being inflated. A few of these adjustments are additionally designed to offer extra management to neighborhood creators who produce plane to promote throughout the Flight Simulator ecosystem.
All of those adjustments are backwards suitable, too, that means beforehand created neighborhood content material ought to proceed to work as earlier than, whether or not the creator upgrades it to the brand new system or not.
Lastly, for these gamers – like me, most likely – who stay dedicated to aerial tourism round Flight Sim’s recreation of Earth, there will probably be a extra dynamic world to discover. That features the Aurora Borealis, extra animal herds, worldwide stay ship visitors, and “improved” automobile visitors.
You possibly can watch Neumann and Wloch’s full presentation archived on Twitch.