One thing they could do in the current sim is improve the night lighting on the photogrammetry buildings in some way. They look dreadful currently. Many places you fly towards the center of a city at night and it's just a black abyss until you're practically on top of the geometry when some tiny little gridded light splotches appear.

An example of this is KMCF in Florida. The 3D approach lights do not line up with the photogrammetry on the ground they are just slightly to the right of the ground imagery so they are almost in the trees and the runway too, is slightly to the right and as are the taxi ways.

Great content mate

Very good update. Thanks for your hard work. Looking forward to many more updates.

I’d love for them to do more and better discovery flights. Some discoveries feel empty and don’t have a lot to them. They could also put places like Boston, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Cape Horn.

After four years I feel I'm still playing a beta game. There is something strange with FS2020... I have the same feel for 3rd party softwares. For example, PMDG couldn't deliver 777, 747...737 seems not totally finished.

Going to be interesting, what details Microsoft are holding back . Good on them for backwards compatibility, but am guessing theres gonna be reasons to get the new sim other than better data

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i like how detailed they're possibly trying to develop an ending, even doe Flight Simulator don't have those high-tech finales.

If backwards compatibility is going to be that smooth then it shouldn't take too long for them to release the new gameplay types as plugins for the old game. Like the racing and Dune stuff and whatnot. Even if it's just a challenge that would still be fun enough to entice a sale or two for the new game, right? :p

Is this Ísafjörður airport in Iceland at the beginning of the video? Nice!

Backwards compatibility is a big deal, good on them for that. I imagine it will put to bed a lot of the discontent about releasing a new version so soon.

Was that the Ingleby Incline you were following there on your b-roll footage? Looked a lot like it - and the Cleveland Way if I'm not mistaken.

Night lighting in default airports eh

I think the procedural generation for buildings could be improved, for both photogammetry buildings and default buildings. They're still not bad regardless. Vegetation could use more color variety. Performance and better physics will be welcome.

So their update is _"We gotta lotta new data coming but we wont say what"._ Sounds kinda like Q&A#1 way back in 2020 when they said _"We definitely wanna improve ATC but we wont say how"._ What we got was 'Goodbye' added to handoffs.

What's the airfield at the 1:40 mark? Gorgeous shot

A10 Thunderbird 😂 Thunderbolt dude ❤

Hahaha, the A-10 Thunderbird. Love it! Now I'm imagining it being flown by a marionette, waving its arms about wildly!

200Tb? Rookie numbers!

I was really hoping they'd implement some proc gen system for area that are never goong to get better arial data like, well the entire Southern Hemisphere basically. But it sounds like it's just going to be more of the same, European cities getting a few extra millimeters of indiscernable detail.

Sure you don't mean Petabytes, Terabytes is a lot but I am sure MS said 2 Petabytes which is a whole lot more....

4090 will be a good purchase for MSFS24

Add weapons and boom : Combat Flight Sim 2024 💰💰💰

I'd love to buy MSFS, but all the different editions and years are so confusing, I'm not sure what I'd be getting.

I'm disappointed there is no Bell 407 or TBM aircraft.

as someone who is as far away from the pulse as can be humanly possible; what is going to be the difference between MSFS 2020 and 2024? can anyone link me a change log or something?

I wonder if they want us to buy the "premium" edition again to access the same aircraft in both sims.

How has the flight model improved vs XPlane 12?

I hope that thanks to AI, it will be possible to make an open-world game on the digital twin of the planet.

Wow so the new terrain data will be shared with FS20 as well - now thats cool and it means that for some of us there wont be a tearing hurry to get the new one (unless we want missions). I'll wait for quite a while before jumping ship. Great video as always thank you!

Is there a release date yet?

Wonder if my 2gb vram will cope lol.

Come on 5090 and the 9800X3D as that much power is going to be needed for this sim also.

dammit the one jet i wanted to fly, the DarkStar, is coming off the store. so my question now is, if I buy this version of MSFS, will I still need to buy MSFS 2024? the answer will determine whether I buy now or when 2024 comes out

Interesting. More than anything I really hope to see the the atmosphere of airports and aviation improved upon and made more realistic. What do I mean by that? Well, for anyone who’s a pilot, enthusiast, industry worker etc; You could tell the Asobo devs didn’t have a lot of experience and time amongst the industry and culture by how MSFS began. A lot of the aircraft they chose to include were very exotic and hardly ever seen in real world aviation circles. The paint schemes (liveries) they chose and the even the generic ai aircraft they made to populate the spaces were atrocious. It seemed to lack passion in those areas because any aviation enthusiast would tell you that whatever is more life-like and accurate IS what’s cool. It matters to the buffer and distinction between “flying game” and “flight simulator”. I really hope to see things like taxiways, ramps, thresholds, FBO’s, terminals and gateways, airport perimeter fencing and their transitions into photogrammetry and especially ground and air traffic greatly improved upon. Speaking just for myself, I think the greatest thing about being a pilot and flying is being able to observe our world from above. It’s truly euphoric. That absolutely can be translated into the sim, but these details have to be convincing. Cars, highways, road signs and how they differ between countries and regions, power lines, trees, etc. These things can really bring the world to life if done right. The job of high fidelity aircraft and scenery has largely had to have been fixed and submitted by 3rd party devs in payware addons. That’s great, but I hope Asobo really pour energy into the framework so these developers can better improve the world. I’d love to see photogrammetry reworked with more coverage and the transitional areas between auto/photo improved so the difference isn’t as jarring. I’d love to se the framework for flight models fixed so that helicopters can really be developed. The current offerings/models are quite poor when compared to their real life counterparts. What I mean is, they don’t feel and fly at all the way helicopters do IRL where as fixed wing addons like the A2A commanche, Cessna 414AW, Maddog, Fenix A320, and the new B60 Duke feel absolutely fantastic and very realistic in their behavior. It’s exciting and I am very much rooting for them, I just hope they lean towards realism/simulation and modifiable framework and less towards tropey-game elements.

5:50 Nice. France. 🤣

What is the airport that you are flying out of in the first couple of minutes?

I have owned every version of MSFS since the first release (FS1) and currently have FS-X. I also have the first version of X-Plane, which I've never played because my PC was too slow. I still have several versions of MSFS including the original packaging. Now I have a fast PC, I loaded X-Plane, but the setup - controls etc. seems way too burdensome and maybe FS 2024 is a better option! My Question: I don't know anything about 'Steam' and "Game Pass' etc., but want to buy a really good, realistic flight sim with good graphics as a stand-alone Sim (Not online). Twice I have almost purchased the 2020 Premium Deluxe ($120) but stop when I know I have to spend hours downloading it and am not sure if I'm wasting my time. Should I just sit with FS-X and wait for the 2024 version, or would the offer of 2020 40th Aniv. be worthwhile?

Flying around the actual globe is cools an all, but when are going to get to drive the globe? Where's the game where I can take control of an overland vehicle and drive real exotic mountain trails?

This sim is just all about visuals, visuals, visuals and visuals again! A sim should be more than that please (physics, flight and ground models, precipitations and their impact on runways, windshield, etc). Asobo is worth more than that.

200 tb? Not gb?

Sounds great except they don't name the regions...What is lacking in the current sim is Far East data - As i live in NZ, I fly mostly in my home territory then Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Korea, Japan , Thailand and China and of course North America - apart from Japan and North America , NZ and Australia, i find the rest of the scenery severely lacking in realistic landscapes

I just hope they improve aircraft physics and make aircraft behave like real aircraft.

My house and highschool are at the correct locations but they look weird and unrecognizable! I guess that's because, *sadly, they are not important monuments!* 😔😣☹️

Putting some of the launch aircraft in Corenado's hands basically tells me they still don't care about simulation depth :(

Msfs 2024 When?

All I want is the native ability to switch avionics. Seems like a basic sim feature that should already be supported.

The point is when will it release..... These are speculations at best till we actually get our hands on it .....i hope it doesn't become msfs2025...

By DC Designs...*sigh* That means that A-10 is going to be utter crap and the H-125 I hope they fix the tail rotor animation before release as in the trailer it rotates backwards.

Langley airport in BC, Canada currently has a new tower, south, as well as the old non existing tower, north side. If you have the alpha hub, can you delete the north tower pkease❤😅😅

So why do we need the 2024 version?

Wow, if they are removing the Top Gun DLC that probably means the Ornithopter will probably be removed as well at some point. I haven't had the opportunity to purchase MSFS but was hoping to eventually, but knowing the F-14 won't last I will be avoiding it and sticking to DCS.

If 2024 brings a meaningful improvement in frame rates (hey, stop laughing!) and improvements in the realism of aircraft handling and atmospheric elements I’ll be happy to buy an updated version. Better terrain and scenery is always nice, but personally I don’t care about the more game-y aspects they’re adding but I’d bet a lot of people will have a lot of fun!

Praying for a PS5 release

what's the airport at 1:45?

after they finally fixed the Decathlon achievement (or at least provided a way of completing it) I'm now on MSFS hiatus until 2024 comes out. I'm getting a bit worried however that that will be this year. We are 6 months into the year and updates on MSFS have been very scarce to say the least. I expected some more flashy updates akin to the announcement trailer to build some hype but so far it's been quiet. I don't expect them to just release it with a month's notice without having run a proper PR campaign leading up to it. Going by that I think that realistically the earliest would be an October/November release for the Christmas season ... at which point, why not call it MSFS 2025. Well, it will get released at some point ... until then there is still Vermintide 2 and Farming Simulator 22 😂

Can't they just remove the name Maverick out of the DLC, and sell it. I wouldn't be buying a pilot. I be buying the craft and missions.

FS2024 sounds like it could be a DLC coming with a big game update instead of a new full priced game.

All I want is for them to fix the giant trees. It's killed it for me since day 1.

Will FS 2024 be a Beta like FS 2020? I paid $130 for a Beta back in August 2020. Yes FS 2020 has become pretty darn good since. I will wait a year or so before I purchase FS 2024.

I don’t think people understand that this is an entirely new engine. It is not an update to 2020

They need to update the default maps

Sound is poor and a fair bit of stutter on this vid Ant.

better be FS2025 if it to be released like last quarter of 2024

It will be a new version every 4 years or so, not fully backwards compatible with just cosmetic upgrades, just to keep the cash flow going... Once they reach the plateau in sales will start marketing and convincing the community to buy a new version... like now with FS 2024...

Xbox is holding sim back. The proof of this is SU15. They had great improvements and then they had to go back due to incompatibility with Xbox. And this is the major issue with msfs2024

We will see the new FS2024 session for a DLC on 11/19/24

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Lot of studdering throughout your video?

Allowing simmers to update the map with world hub, kind of sounds like when the uk councils made bin men soft and got us to separate rubbish so that the government can then sell and make money of the work that you have done even though you paid your taxes to cover such tasks. Other than that i am so excited for this title!

I hope they add a freaking damage model!!! Idk how to explain it but the fact it doesn’t really have a real damage model completely ruins this sim for me. It’s the only reason why I choose xplane12 over this. I know they can do it, war thunder and DCS damage models are both decent examples

I don’t really understand why there’s a whole new “versioned” game, if you will, quite honestly. Why wouldn’t this just be an update to the existing? Or maybe a paid DLC rather as not to short the developers for their hard work.

Hate to be negative, but it’s almost hard for me to get excited about 2024 when the xbox version of 2020 has continually got worse over time and not better. God some days I wish I could blow $2000 on a PC for MSFS.

Does anyone think that MSFS was originally a PC simulator slowly adapted to run on a console. But from all I’ve seen and read FS 2024 looks to be a console GAME first and foremost that will also be available for the PC.

It looks 7 out of 10

Why would anyone want this instead of a good VR experience?

Why are they still using Bing Data instead of Google maps !!! The quality is better and the photos are more recent.

What they are calling FS2024 should be a patch for FS2020, after all it was Asobo's lack of common sense and foresight to keep it running on one processor in this day and age of multi processor PCs. Sort of what we used to call ...................................... lame.

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