Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

I have 32gb and I didn’t get picked either.

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I have 32gb as well.

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truth

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I’d like to put these rumors to ease, once and for all.
No, Microsoft did not use @Discobot for their Alpha participation selections.

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2nd Tech Alpha Recruiting starts at the end of November. TA2 timeline update at the start of December. Currenlty no word on when actually it will roll out.

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Yeah, but that’s just the development roadmap. No-one uses them. :slight_smile:

On the homepage they put this new info, but you’re right it will probably be the end of November, as no Tech Alpha 1 plan survives contact with the enemy. All they would do on the 31st is talk about tech alpha 2 rather than do it.

https://www.flightsimulator.com/

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No mail for me neither…:neutral_face:

Quite dissapointed. I have made mods, I have a quite powerful PC, 32gb ram, 1080ti, 6700k 4,5ghz, hotas setup, lots of hours in pretty much every single flight sim out there and a 600mbps symetric internet connection…wtf MS? :frowning_face:

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how1

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Ok man, but don’t take it so personally…

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Really??? Do they reallly expect us to believe that they all run around wearing MS Flight Simulator polo shirts all the time? :roll_eyes: :grin:

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I forget - do we have to re-register for alpha 2, or do they pick from the original pool?

Please note that if you have signed up for the Tech Alpha and do not receive an acceptance notification, you will be automatically added into the pool of potential candidates for our next build.
https://www.flightsimulator.com/flighting-signup/

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They have been doing this for years, and it made recruitment to the new team really easy as they just picked people already wearing the shirts. I’m not sure I’m buying the phony accent though, but there’s potential for a great drinking game around the pronunciation of the word ‘engine’ each time. Pink Pather excellence right there.

Going in…

https://imgur.com/xkI9ZLW

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Neil…we’ve been down-graded!!

Funny bit…but NSFW because of language…

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Are they going to make you fly through hoops first? Because you know I love that!

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Apparently there is no TrackIR support? I guess it would be so obvious to have it implemented noone asked them if it actually is. I have faith in all the First Alpha Testers (FATs) to point that out to them, so when they finally grant me access It will be working in sim :wink:

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Sometimes I wonder how important VR and even track IR is to the large commercial airliner crowd. Seems like whenever I’m watching a Twitch stream of folks playing XP11 for example they are just using the KB for snap views.

Aru you trying to rationalize the absence of TIR support in a FLIGHT SIM?

Even Microsof Flight had it (albeit added with a liitle delay).

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I don’t see the absence of TIR ending well. It’s really not rocket science.

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No not at all. I think it would be a huge loss if both that and VR were never implemented in the title. I’m just saying that I think there is a large user base out there who doesn’t use either.

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