MSFS, MFS, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Release Date: August 18, 2020
A realistic civil aircraft simulator. Microsoft Flight Simulator faithfully recreates a rich set of licensed machines and an area of the entire globe, using satellite data, artificial intelligence processing power and the Azure data cloud.
Microsoft Flight Simulator is a new version of the legendary series of civil flight simulators. The project is the responsibility of the French team Asobo Studio, which in 2019 released the award-winning adventure gane A Plague Tale: Innocence.
The game is the first full-scale version of the cycle since the Microsoft Flight Simulator X released in 2006. Unlike the simplified Microsoft Flight, we get a powerful simulator that covers the whole Earth and offers as many as thirty-seven thousand airports. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 in its basic version allows you to take control of 20 aircraft. The player could use mainly general aviation units like Cessna 172, aerobatic planes and huge passenger machines like Boeing 747.
The authors put emphasis on realism. Compared to FSX, improvements have been made not only to the simulation of individual systems and aircraft flight models, but also to the variability of air masses near mountains or tall buildings. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 also introduces such an important novelty as the realistic longitudinal slope of the runways and the various surface types.
The game offers special tutorials leading step-by-step through the take-off procedures of individual aircraft and subsequent flight stages. The degree of realism can be adapted to the user experience. At the lower difficulty level settings, the aircraft can be fully controlled from the external view, with all key flight parameters - these are displayed in the corners of the screen through a simplified interface.
The simulator has also been enriched with multilayer, volumetric clouds, and weather data is downloaded regularly from the network.
The game has an impressive graphic design. The machines have been recreated to the smallest detail and the locations are dripping with details thanks to the use of photogrammetry and satellite images taken for the Bing Maps service. Such solutions have their limitations, which is usually affected by the detail of the map, which is why some of the known airports and objects were modelled by hand. To generate the scenery, the creators of Microsoft Flight Simulator were also assisted by artificial intelligence developed by Blackshark.ai, ensuring that the area is recognized and filled with default objects such as trees and buildings. Huge amounts of data are downloaded on an ongoing basis from the virtual cloud of Azure.
The game offers support for many controllers: from mouse and keyboard, through gamepad, to joysticks and HOTAS sets.
Platforms:
PC Windows August 18, 2020
Xbox One cancelled
Xbox Series X/S July 27, 2021
Developer: Asobo Studio / Asobo Studio (XONE)
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios / Microsoft Studios
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System Requirements for Microsoft Flight Simulator Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3.1 GHz, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 770 / Radeon RX 570 or better, 150 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit.
Recommended System Requirements:
Intel Core i5-8400 2.8 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5 GHz, 16 GB RAM, graphic card 4 GB GeForce GTX 970 / Radeon RX 590 or better, 150 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit.
Ultra System Requirements:
Intel Core i7-9800X 3.8 GHz / AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 2700X 3.7 GHz, 32 GB RAM, graphic card 8 GB GeForce RTX 2080 / Radeon VII or better, 150 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit.
Xbox Series X/S
Supports:
XSX: 30 fps @ 4K / XSS: 30 fps @ 1080p
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Review – The Biggest Sandbox Ever
The whole planet, one mouse click away, at your own home. The world's greatest metropolises in a next-generation setting, completely realistic and scailed. Flight Simulator 2020 is a prelude to the next generation of games.
Game is Recomended by 100% of Critics. There are 138 Critic Reviews.
TheSixthAxis: 9 / 10 by Dominic Leighton
Microsoft Flight Simulator on Xbox Series X|S is a remarkable achievement, and one which brings the flight simulator experience into your living room with emphatic effect. There's no sense that this is a cut-back console port, but one that widens the genre's influence into places it's never conquered before.
TheGamer: 4 / 5 by Dave Aubrey
Microsoft Flight Simulator deserves to be played - but it shouldn't be considered essential. It's a unique experience, one that won't capture everyone in the same way, but you really do owe it to yourself to find your house, your partner's, your parent's, your favourite holiday destination, and just fly over. The world looks very different from thousands of feet in the air, and for now, Microsoft Flight Simulator is the only way I can get that irresistible point of view.
PC Gamer: 89 / 100 by Phil Iwaniuk
An incredible exploration portal with even greater potential once its tech issues have been addressed.
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