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[KyoZz]

Flight Simulator "new generation" looks totally crazy in terms of technical performance. But even more, it's thanks to satellite imagery, which has allowed the total modeling of the Earth, literally, that the wildest numbers have come down to us. Hang your seatbelt!

-2 million cities (total Earth)
-40,000 airports
-1500 billion trees (total Earth)
-All the roads of the Earth
-All the mountains of the Earth

One of the challenges will obviously be to find your house in game, or places that you have visited, while you fly quietly in the sky.

 

[DForce]

Yeah, I'll probably find my house and crash into it.

 

[synchronicity]

I've been thinking about something related to this for a long time, but I wonder how long until someone makes an open world game simply titled "Earth" where a realistically detailed globe is your playground.

 

[DeepEnigma]

That’s pretty impressive, games have come a long way.
Definitely looking forward to this one.

 

[royox]

Why aren't they using this technology for open world games based on the real world? Sorry in tech specs I'm dumb as fuck.

 

[A.Romero]

I'm not really into simulators like this game but I'm feeling drawn to check it out myself.

 

[scalman]

It cant be all that 3d models too it must be some trickery going on there is it? You not gonna land in citys so they there just for show ... Or its some procedural + google maps new magic going on?

 

[Ban Puncher]

Excited for all the potential new Airforceproud95 ATC content.

 

[Smaller than Atom]

Never played flight sim as a competent adult. Fun? Interesting? CPU demanding?

 

[scalman]

they didint said anything about crashing or landing where you want so maybe thats not possible, just fly by near buildings , but not crashing in it .

i mean those details from video are mind blowing.. proceduraly generated small details like grass , water shaders , etc, off line mode

procedurally generated grass , water shaders

offline mode city detail

online mode city details

 

[Pagusas]

Never played flight sim as a competent adult. Fun? Interesting? CPU demanding?

All the above. It’ll be the most demanding game in existence.

 

[metareferential]

I'm so ready for this. Hopefully vr will make it in sooner rather than later. The great thing is you don't need high framerates to adequately enjoy it. 4k goodness here I come.

 

[scalman]

i think so too, i will just fly over the world doing nothing just cruising along and looking at those places .... just imagine that.
remember when we thought that large game world are when devs said : if yo usee that mountain you can go there ...
but with this game it will be : if you know adress , you can go there anywhere in the world ... how about that scale

 

[Ellis]

This incredibly impressive stuff.

Oceanic Flight 815 here I come!

 

[Paperboy]

This looks like it's going to be a better world explorer than Google Earth. We are really living in the future now. Incredible!

 

[scalman]

but what about giving all data all details where building are and how they look , how to fly to them , where yo ucan land ... what about giving all that to bad people hands .. ??? am i alone seeing what could go wrong here ? if you detail all citys with high detail in a game where you will flight planes over them ... so ... you know

 

[TacosNSalsa]

I can't wait to try this .

 

[Birdo]

Google maps lets you blur out your house for privacy reasons.

I wonder how that will be implemented in this.

 

[Hostile_18]

Why would offline city detail be less than online? Is the data not stored locally but streamed in?

 

[Gargus]

Excited for all the potential new Airforceproud95 ATC content.

That was funny despite me knowing nothing at all about aviation dialogue.

 

[scalman]

Why would offline city detail be less than online? Is the data not stored locally but streamed in?

Yes adaptive streaming, better bandwith better experience. Its not possible do that scale stuff in engine localy. Thats how we getting all earth in game.

 

[eot]

Looks fucking sick, and it's nice to see some "main stream" attention for flight sims again. Takes me back.

 

[Myths]

To the devs, they went in on this one

 

[Stuart360]

There are over 2 million cities in the world?, damn.

 

[Shangounchained]

Extremely impressive stuff clearly a next gen game but all that investment they literally created a virtual world, it'll be good for art but I'm not sure Microsoft will get even half their money back but then again it's what Microsoft do they just splash money.

 

[greyshark]

Why would offline city detail be less than online? Is the data not stored locally but streamed in?

It’s over 2 Petabytes of data - no chance of getting that locally.

This is unbelievably impressive - I almost can’t believe what they’ve accomplished is possible.

 

[PhilipDoesMatter]

But isn't Earth flat?

 

[Ban Puncher]

But isn't Earth flat?

 

[Come On Tars]

Just want to add to the pack saying I cannot freaking wait to see how much detail my hometown got (Lake Tahoe) If it looks as good as it seems in the screen shots, I wonder if you can land and walk around ground level.

 

[-Arcadia-]

but what about giving all data all details where building are and how they look , how to fly to them , where yo ucan land ... what about giving all that to bad people hands .. ??? am i alone seeing what could go wrong here ? if you detail all citys with high detail in a game where you will flight planes over them ... so ... you know

I understand your concerns, but I’m not sure airplanes can get much more locked down than they are right now, for better or worse. It’s nothing like it was before 2001.

 

[kraspkibble]

I've been thinking about something related to this for a long time, but I wonder how long until someone makes an open world game simply titled "Earth" where a realistically detailed globe is your playground.

catch up slowpoke. it's already been done.

we're living in a simulation duude

 

[Xenon]

 

[Inviusx]

To be honest this is more exciting to me than any other game coming out in the near future and I don't even own a PC.

This really is a first look at the future of virtual worlds.

 

[BusierDonkey]

I'm flying over my ex's house and dumping the toilets as I go over.

 

[Mistershine.]

I wonder if they'll have the tiny local airport near me that only has one destination.

Also, as microsoft studios share tech with each other, can someone please make sure that turn 10, playground games, and undead labs get to use this?

 

[Tesseract]

shit is gonna be awesome, day 1 baby

 

[Ban Puncher]

I'm flying over my ex's house and dumping the toilets as I go over.

 

[Ballthyrm]

Will you get fighter jets taking you down if you fly too close to restricted areas ?

 

[RPS37]

Yeah, I'll probably find my house and crash into it.

Worth the price of admission right there.

 

[Mattyp]

It cant be all that 3d models too it must be some trickery going on there is it? You not gonna land in citys so they there just for show ... Or its some procedural + google maps new magic going on?

You can land anywhere you want as long as you have enough room to put it down like all previous flight sims, it's all 3D models based of Bing maps and then ran through azures AI to get heights right along with depth generating trees for the entire globe etc. So while it's going to look absolutely amazing from above don't expect to pull up down a street in a small Cessna and have Forza graphics around you they can only work with the imagery they have which while covers the entire globe isn't quite down to the minute details yet. But just imagine as street view advances, satellite imaging advance, while AI advances there's no reason Azure couldn't be generating the entire world for Forza in the future and filling in the blanks in 20 years. This is the future we're looking at when you have advancements in AI.

Google maps lets you blur out your house for privacy reasons.

I wonder how that will be implemented in this.

It's Bing, I have no idea why someone would want to blur their rooftop for privacy, it's view-able for anyone that knows you and wants to.

 

[Handy Fake]

Can I bomb my sister's ex's house?

If so, sold.

 

[Kdad]

But isn't Earth flat?

Just like your computer monitor so what's the issue?

 

[Ribi]

I don't get it, bing maps is the biggest piece of shit on the web. How did it create this when it hasn't been updated in years.

 

[synchronicity]

catch up slowpoke. it's already been done.

we're living in a simulation duude

By I want my simulation WITHIN my simulation!!!

 

[stranno]

You must be kidding.

 

[scalman]

wonder whats story there with that green hoodie guy ?