Microsoft Flight Simulator - Post launch impressions

Runs pretty good for me and looks stunning!

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Interesting story on how MSFS 2020 came to be:

https://www.protocol.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020

Is differential thrust modeled in the sim?

Yes. But
at least in my pre-release build, Vmca rolloff was not modeled very well. I have not gotten a look at the final build.

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You should have gotten the time share in Kiribati when you had the chance. Nevermind the rising ocean levels.

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The Icon A5 for the win!

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I love the reddit Kiribati memes,trolling.

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Do you think they will look back at that and say - “that one on the left is when the Humans had to do all the coding work” :smile:

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Nice! That bodes well for my system, based on your specs.

What resolution were you playing at? I see the vid is 1080, but wasn’t sure if it was downscaled for recording.

I had to check it out for myself

YT video encoding trashes the quality a bit, but damn


I’m speechless


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Wanted to buy and start downloading it before going to bed (business trip early tomorrow, grrrr) but Steam is
 down for me.
Maybe FS2020 related since it was working an hour ago. That probably means that the sim is making serious money right now.

FTFY :slight_smile:

@damson Did Stuttgart make it into the release version? EDDS

Does the game pass thingie work with the Steam version? I thought it was only if you got it directly from MS.

I used my xbox game pass on the windows app. I had to change the windows region, but its installing now. You’ll have about 90gb’s to download after you fire it up, even if you pre-install.

I don’t know if there is any lasting consequence for this, but it takes like 5 secs to set the region somewhere in the Pacific and the game will let you play it.

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It is mandatory that you practice the Haka while you download.
Or just set it to germany and go get a nice beer :wink:

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You guys can’t wait 6 hours until it releases normally in US time? lol