Karpaty Lviv Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Due out August 18th and it looks fucking amazing. Since lockdown, I’ve taken a keen interest in aviation and specifically, flying a passenger aircraft. I’ve never played a flight sim before as I’ve never had a PC good enough to run it, so the fact that this is coming out for Xbox is fantastic news. It will take 150gb of space though, but you’ll see why. I don’t know the first thing about flying a plane but according to the video below, you’ll be able to have all the pre flight settings already set up for you so you can just take off and land. It also has an in depth tutorial to get you started. Every single airport in the world is included and it will also have real time weather. The video below explains it a lot better. Absolutely cannot wait for this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 I used to work with a guy who was massively into flight sims. He had something like 6 or 7 monitors rigged up in front and either side, proper flight stick, the works. He used to do full flights, trans-atlantic and other long haul stuff. Real-time, no sims or auto-pilot! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 I had one of the older versions that allowed you to pilot a Concorde. Far too complicated for my pea brain. Spent most of my time on it trying to fly various planes underneath the Forth bridges. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Flight simulation has come a long way from this bad boy which used to keep me occupied. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 I used to love Microsoft Flight Simulator back in the old days, also had Combat Flight Simulator. This will probably be the closest I get to buying an XBox. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karpaty Lviv Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 34 minutes ago, David W said: I used to love Microsoft Flight Simulator back in the old days, also had Combat Flight Simulator. This will probably be the closest I get to buying an XBox. I don’t think it’ll be out for Xbox One sadly. It’s not in the store to pre order. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleMoo Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Apparently it comes with 10 (ten) discs! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 4 hours ago, Mr X said: I used to work with a guy who was massively into flight sims. He had something like 6 or 7 monitors rigged up in front and either side, proper flight stick, the works. He used to do full flights, trans-atlantic and other long haul stuff. Real-time, no sims or auto-pilot! Colin Hunt from Fast Show sketch comes to mind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 was thinking of getting it purely due to getting hooked on these recently: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 18 hours ago, cmontheloknow said: Colin Hunt from Fast Show sketch comes to mind. No, not really. He was one of the nicest guys Ive ever worked with. He was very intelligent and liked things to be done right, to the point where he'd often just do it himself. I heard he built his own drone. And I dont mean bought a kit drone and put it together, I mean bought all the individual components and designed and built it from scratch - including the gyroscope and software to manage it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Mr X said: No, not really. He was one of the nicest guys Ive ever worked with. He was very intelligent and liked things to be done right, to the point where he'd often just do it himself. I heard he built his own drone. And I dont mean bought a kit drone and put it together, I mean bought all the individual components and designed and built it from scratch - including the gyroscope and software to manage it! If you don't know the sketch I mean, he did a 'full flight' flight for his girlfriend. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 5 minutes ago, cmontheloknow said: If you don't know the sketch I mean, he did a 'full flight' flight for his girlfriend. Ah, no that didnt twig! I thought you just meant weird I can also confirm that there is no way his wife would have sat through a full flight with him! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 3 hours ago, Mr X said: Ah, no that didnt twig! I thought you just meant weird I can also confirm that there is no way his wife would have sat through a full flight with him! even Colin Hunt's girlfriend struggled I recall! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karpaty Lviv Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 There’s a few videos on YouTube floating around from the early release. The full game is out on Tuesday I believe. Here’s a little tour of the centre of Edinburgh. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 My computer appears to be melting just trying to download the 91.36gb install file. The shite background music on a loop isn't helping either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 On 19/07/2020 at 20:03, Melanius Mullarkey said: Flight simulation has come a long way from this bad boy which used to keep me occupied. This was my first flight sim.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replays Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I have a 250 gb SSD but am fully prepared to shift everything else off of it, in order to download this. Here’s hoping my PC (i5 6600k and 1070) doesn’t melt. Medium settings will do me fine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karpaty Lviv Posted August 20, 2020 Author Share Posted August 20, 2020 On 18/08/2020 at 22:26, Scott-Replay said: I have a 250 gb SSD but am fully prepared to shift everything else off of it, in order to download this. Here’s hoping my PC (i5 6600k and 1070) doesn’t melt. Medium settings will do me fine. What sort of computer would you need to run it (if buying)? I’ve no idea about PC’s and games. I bought my laptop that was apparently a “gaming laptop” and it can barely load up Football Manager on the lowest database. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 7 hours ago, Karpaty Lviv said: What sort of computer would you need to run it (if buying)? I’ve no idea about PC’s and games. I bought my laptop that was apparently a “gaming laptop” and it can barely load up Football Manager on the lowest database. Min specs are here https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/microsoft-flight-simulator/19451 That site is also really handy for checking your PC to see if it can run a particular game 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Mr X said: Min specs are here https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/microsoft-flight-simulator/19451 That site is also really handy for checking your PC to see if it can run a particular game Not for me then Edited August 20, 2020 by Miguel Sanchez 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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