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[Grand Theft Scratchy]

Today, the world in Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting another major update, this time across the United States of America.

World Update II: This US update features an improved digital elevation model with resolution up to one meter, along with new aerial textures for significantly better appearance in several states across the country. Add to that, four new hand-crafted airports (Atlanta, Dallas/Fort Worth, Friday Harbor, and New York Stewart), visual and logical improvements to 48 more airports, plus 50 new high-fidelity POIs, and your state-side journey is sure to be stunning.

This update will be FREE to all Microsoft Flight Simulator players.

Beautiful trailer.

 

[Rick Monster]

Haven't played this yet. Is there a mod so I can fly around like an angel come down from heaven? Swoop through the air like a disembodied soul? Like God come down to visit the puny humans and to take in the breathtaking sights? Superman mod, basically.

 

[Stephen Curry]

USA USA USA

 

[RPS37]

How big is it though?

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

I think the game is 150 GB but you can fly through the entire world.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Impressive as hell.

 

[BusierDonkey]

Fantastic! Not that I can run this at the moment, but it's good to see the game is seeing constant improvements. Also nice to see the updates are free, considering how much money people are willing to dump into upgraded assets in simulators.

 

[Monkeygourmet]

So much detail if you do a fly by in some states you can see the vote counting fraud through the Windows of voting stations

 

[GaviotaGrande]

This game is simply an incredible achievement. I hope MS will release it on XBOX ASAP so more people can experience it.

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

This game is simply an incredible achievement. I hope MS will release it on XBOX ASAP so more people can experience it.

Perhaps next year along with Halo Infinite.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Haven't played this yet. Is there a mod so I can fly around like an angel come down from heaven? Swoop through the air like a disembodied soul? Like God come down to visit the puny humans and to take in the breathtaking sights? Superman mod, basically.

I would love a jetpack mod or something like that. Let me fly around the awesome world, but with the wingsuit/jet-pack combo from Just Cause 3. It's a stunning game, it really is a technical achievement, but I really just plain don't care about flying the planes that are in the game, or really, planes in general. But I would race through the Grand Canyon in a heartbeat if I had a jet-pack with proper/fun physics.

 

[Sealord of Braavos]

Getting this to run well on Series X would be a HUGE win for Xbox. Technically, I’m sure it’s no small feat to get it on consoles, and though I’m disappointed there hasn’t been much news of it’s Xbox appearance....I’m not all that surprised.

 

[SegaManAU]

When can we expect this on Series X?

 

[Tschumi]

It occurred to me yesterday when I saw this on steam: this game had the shortest hype window i can remember. i'm not trying to put it down or make u feels bad, vyse, i'm just commenting that when it came out it was a real talking point... but it only seemed to last a very short time.. funny how things like that go~ I'm happy for those who are deep into this sim at this point and will welcome these content updates.

 

[ManaByte]

Flew over Yosemite in the first release. This is a huge improvement.

 

[Sealord of Braavos]

It occurred to me yesterday when I saw this on steam: this game had the shortest hype window i can remember. i'm not trying to put it down or make u feels bad, vyse, i'm just commenting that when it came out it was a real talking point... but it only seemed to last a very short time.. funny how things like that go~ I'm happy for those who are deep into this sim at this point and will welcome these content updates.

I’d say judging the by the volume and consistency of the calls for this to come to the Series consoles that the hype is hardly spent for this title. And when the console announcement is made the hype that you say has evaporated will see quite the resurgence. Just saw you created a “dead hype” thread where you mentioned this title specifically. Curious.

 

[TVexperto]

It occurred to me yesterday when I saw this on steam: this game had the shortest hype window i can remember. i'm not trying to put it down or make u feels bad, vyse, i'm just commenting that when it came out it was a real talking point... but it only seemed to last a very short time.. funny how things like that go~ I'm happy for those who are deep into this sim at this point and will welcome these content updates.

because unfortunately each patch since launch broke the game even more.

asobo should have never used the flight simulator x code as the foundation for this game. they have no idea how to fix the broken flight model physics

 

[Tschumi]

I’d say judging the by the volume and consistency of the calls for this to come to the Series consoles that the hype is hardly spent for this title. And when the console announcement is made the hype that you say has evaporated will see quite the resurgence. Just saw you created a “dead hype” thread where you mentioned this title specifically. Curious.

I had a disclaimer in there that i just had that idea touched off by my appreciation of this game, i wasn't trying to say anything definitive.. as i mentioned.

 

[InDaGulag]

Best looking game hands down. If they get this running on the Xbox One, I'll be surprised.

 

[VFXVeteran]

Didn't we all agree on GAF that this was the first true next-gen game?? I want to believe we all have at least that much common sense.

 

[Max_Po]

When is this baby coming to Series X ? Muh booty is ready ...

Spoiler

for soreness

 

[wordslaughter]

I have no doubt they will get it up and running on the XSX. It is powerful enough, but I wonder what they will do about the RAM?

The RAM usage is fairly extreme. It will use 11ishGB VRAM - and as a side note before someone says "that's just allocated VRAM it's not really using that much" You can actually check with this game. There is a debug mode and you can see both allocated and dedicated VRAM... and they're close. Only about 400mb difference between them. If it's allocated 10.8GB VRAM then the dedicated VRAM will be about 10.4GB. 4K ultra settings obviously.

And the system RAM can be VERY high. I've seen it up around the 21-22GB range. Remember when 16GB seemed like a luxurious amount of RAM to have?

So there's going to have to be some lowering of the settings or other kinds of optimizations to get this running on a console.

Also this game NEEDS DX12 ASAP. The game is severely CPU bound using DX11.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

If I could take this game and combine it with Pilotwings it'd be perfect.

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

I'm still waiting on tht TLOU2 vs FS2020 comparison from our favorite warrior.

 

[Tesseract]

If I could take this game and combine it with Pilotwings it'd be perfect.