Gaming Flight Sim World is now live on Steam Early Access.

[Notebook]

http://www.pcgamer.com/flight-sim-world-is-now-live-on-steam-early-access/

Is this the Microsoft product they sold on a few years ago?

N.

 

[Fabri91]

It's built on the ESP codebase (the simulator platform on which FSX and Prepar3d are based), but apparently with significant changes.

What you might be referring to is FSX:Steam Edition which was essentially FSX with the Acceleration pack recompiled and slightly modified in order to be sold on Steam, again by Dovetail Sims.

 

[Notebook]

Thanks Fabr91, I seem to remember Microsoft had a "simplified" flight-sim that they sort of lost interest in?

Or is it just old age, and its all in my mind...

 

[indy91]

Thanks Fabr91, I seem to remember Microsoft had a "simplified" flight-sim that they sort of lost interest in?

Or is it just old age, and its all in my mind...

That would be Microsoft Flight.

 

[Notebook]

That's the one, thanks for that indy91.

N.

 

[Hielor]

Meh--early reviews aren't exactly glowing, and without native VR support I'm not interested.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

Meh--early reviews aren't exactly glowing, and without native VR support I'm not interested.

Sounds like par for the course for DTG.

 

[SolarLiner]

Hesitating on checking it out right now. The several videos I've seen depict a worthy successor of FSX, in that it just shows too much of FSX in it. The handling of the planes feel a tad too linear and easy, the graphics makes you nostalgic of the FS2004/FSX era, and some parts of the engine are barely changed.

That being said, it is a worthy successor in that it leverages the good parts of FSX while (at least promising for some parts) changing the bad. The interface looks sleek, the graphics updated (PBR shaders and cockpit shadows makes for a much better immersion - ORBX made scenery pops out like you would expect and the rain on the windshield is top notch), and the plane designs are that of paid addons on FSX, with fully working cockpits entirely 3D modeled down to the details.
There is not a lot of choice and 3rd party support is not yet on, but it is a first EA release and 3rd party is planned.

I don't know if the price is going to increase throughout the early access campaign, but at $25 now I'd say it's something to consider.

 

[Notebook]

I thought the Railroad thing they had done was quite good?

N.

 

[SolarLiner]

So I finally gave in and bought it. 15 Gb download for a 30 Gb install. Probably won't look into it until Monday or Tuesday. Will report back with screenshots (and maybe videos) and my personal feelings, as a long FSX user, hopping to back and forth to FlightGear and XPlane's demo that I tried not so long ago.

 

[fred18]

can we say that this is the new fsx?

 

[Zatnikitelman]

I thought the Railroad thing they had done was quite good?

N.

It's got shiny graphics, but that's about it. There were numerous problems with the simulator going back half a dozen versions that still aren't fixed in the newest one (called Train Sim World).

 

[Hielor]

can we say that this is the new fsx?

Do you mean "the new fsx" as in "the latest direct descendent of the fsx codebase"? If so, yes, that's what this is.

If you instead mean "the new fsx" as "the flight sim that will sit at the top of the market for the next ten years", probably not...

 

[fred18]

Do you mean "the new fsx" as in "the latest direct descendent of the fsx codebase"? If so, yes, that's what this is.

If you instead mean "the new fsx" as "the flight sim that will sit at the top of the market for the next ten years", probably not...

I was basically meaning both of them, as the second to be the direct consequence of the first. Sorry to hear that its not like that