Microsoft Flight Simulator will probably be a bigger thing than you think

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The upcoming flight simulation develops to the perhaps the biggest jump of all time in the simulation genre.

If you think of big upcoming games for 2020, think of the winning opportunities The last one of us Part 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Halo Infinite and the like - and you would not be wrong because these studios work for outstanding experiences. However, if you play these games next year, a huge game of Microsoft will show you in planetary size. Yes, Microsoft Flight Simulator is in front of the door and it will be out of the perhaps the biggest jump of all time in the simulation genre, with the goal of providing the player's more or less complete presentation of the entire planet on an explorable card. If you scratch yourself on the head and ask yourself how this is possible at this point at all from afar, you are not alone. But Microsoft and his almost limitless accumulation of resources are absolutely suitable for that, not as the crew has done by reducing America only to its most famous landscapes. 1 duplicate of our planet, except for the centimeter exactly.

Some may have held the ten-year interruption of Microsoft in the simulation community for a permanent farewell, and it seemed like that for a while, but in the last E3 was the announcement of this massive revolutionary event among the many new announcements from Microsoft companies in the form of a Software. However, Microsoft will not do this alone in the company. Asobo Studio, the developer behind it The crew 2 massive landscapes and the excellent _A epidemic history: Innocence, will help to fit the experience, and it will not be the first time you join the studio. Apart from the previously mentioned games, Asobo worked with Microsoft on a handful of Kinect and Hololens titles, so that the synergy between the two should form an excellent team. Given the abundance of skills and resources that are behind it, this may be the greatest game of the year for several important reasons, if not the entire next generation.

Most important is the philosophy behind his development. Microsoft has grown significantly in the last ten years, not only in terms of size but also in terms of scope and range. Microsoft has significantly expanded its portfolio with the amount of new industries in which it has expanded. One of the most relevant for this discussion is Bing. For everyone ever sought something, Bing is probably considered a pretty clear and distant second place to Google, at least in terms of the user base. Nevertheless, Bing has been collecting for years in all silent digital pile of mapping information. Similar to Google. As such, Bing has accumulated well over 2 petabytes on global map data. How some may already know, petabyte are the next frequently used data counting countercrement via terabyte and the exabyte, a dataset, which we hopefully do not have to speak in any connection.

With this amazing amount of geographic and topographic data that Microsoft is available on Bing, you are planning to use Asobo to use the Formulation of the Flight Simulator 2020. Singing all together will certainly be a Hercules task, but to know that the data for these texture maps already exist in a different form under the Microsoft roof, a game in planetary size will suddenly appear in the area of ​​possibilities. But it works even further than just knowing how certain land masses look like and where waters are located. All of these data also include average weather patterns, building sites and traffic data. All this could, if it is properly used, easily lead to an experience that is unfathomable than the sum of these parts.

Access to all these weather data can lead to a very detailed and extremely accurate weather system that affects the wind and, as you are in the air, can influence your experience. You could also associate these events with Microsoft's real-time information. So if it really rains somewhere in Scotland and they happen to fly there in the game, they have to worry about it. All of these data stored in the Microsoft online cloud are also helpful as they will be available to the game servers and thus players with a reasonable internet connection. This was demonstrated as a concept last year on the E3, but is probably already feasible in the current form.

A massive problem that seems to be drawn is the obvious lack of space on modern consoles. We can barely get RED Dead Redemption 2 To fit our hard drives today, as in the world we should fit into the world? The quick answer is that you do not have to. Since all these data are already online and be constantly updated and distributed via Microsoft, you should just leave it. According to the information currently available, the majority of the game, ie the resources present in the game of map data and the extensive algorithms that fill the gaps fill the game engine, to make the data in combination with some skilled locally stored data the real time World to a tremendous experience, while the size of the footprint remains on its hard drive at a reasonable level. In addition, the game will determine based on your internet speed, how many details in the world can display it at a certain point in time, whereby inconsistent download speeds around the world are theoretically far less a problem, which is in and pretty revolutionary itself. But You do not stop there. Microsoft also works on an offline version that should match the player standards with a reasonable level of detail and accuracy.

While the world of simulator certainly seems to be revolutionary, the game mechanics itself seems to get the same attention. Different winds that come together to create turbulence for your plane, a new level of depth with friction and aerodynamics as well as the variety of aircraft are important gameplay factors. This is an area that we still have much to learn about. Microsoft has kept a large part of this information near the vest, but with precise physics, noise and visual elements that accompany all different aircraft models, as well as information about how all these things change depending on the conditions they go to a specific one Time Flying Currently, it is clear that Microsoft and Asobo think it's just as serious to properly make flying as the virtual world.

Microsoft Flight Simulator It certainly looks like an interesting experiment, both for flight simulation video games, as well as if everything runs according to plan, as a new scale for what we can achieve if we see that all our progress with the stream Combined, global map data, real-time weather measuring technologies and advanced flight simulation mechanisms. Microsoft seems to have security about all ingredients that you need to get something very special. Even if flight simulations are not for you, if you are interested in digital entertainment, there are some things that you deserve attention more than the development of this project.

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