demagogue on 26/8/2020 at 08:03
Being a passenger/co-pilot in another person's plane as part of MSFS's multiplayer was definitely something I recall being mentioned. It was requested enough, and I imagine they already have much of the needed infrastructure already in place, that I think it's even likely to happen eventually, but I don't recall the details and can't find it just now.
Thirith on 26/8/2020 at 08:40
Now just imagine: sitting in a MSFS plane as a passenger, having a virtual laptop in front of you and doing a virtual LAN party. Or, more likely, playing multiplayer Who Wants to be a Millionaire on the virtual screen on the back of the seat in front of you. :joke:
(Come to think of it: I'd be fascinated by a Train Passenger Simulator of sorts that uses Google Earth data, so that the scenery right outside your window would be very lo-fi, the middle distance would be slightly weird and things that are farther away look almost photorealistic.)
PigLick on 26/8/2020 at 13:04
or having voice chat operating and singing obnoxious songs acapella to annoy the pilot :cheeky:
Thirith on 27/8/2020 at 06:19
My own personal advanced DLC for Flight Passenger Simulator would be a 10+ hour flight from Hong Kong to Auckland during which your partner/spouse develops an acute appendicitis. So much gameplay potential in that one.
Anyway, I'm hoping to dust off my beginner-level HOTAS that hasn't seen action since I stopped playing Elite and do some flying. Or, more likely, some setting up followed by ten minutes of flight. Though I think I'll only put in more serious time once it's VR-compatible.
Sulphur on 27/8/2020 at 07:17
Clearly that's just asking Asobo to do a crossover with the Surgeon Simulator guys. Fun for all the family!
demagogue on 27/8/2020 at 09:28
You know what that means.
[video=youtube;OFFYIECEPag]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFFYIECEPag[/video]
caffeinatedzombeh on 8/9/2020 at 22:07
Finally got around to playing with it with the controls set up well enough to be able to actually operate the thing, can't find a stick anywhere so used a ridiculously expensive force feedback yoke. Took the CT up around my local airfield for a bit then had a play with a Cessna somewhere a bit bigger.
In spite of some strange person having put a French instrument panel in the CTSL I managed to not do anything too stupid to it and it broadly feels like a CT, at airspeeds that are consistent with flying it's really rather realistic and the controls work about right, you can throw it around like the real thing and it's really rather good fun. It feels really weird changing the flap settings but I reckon the camera isn't set up to do what my head does, further fiddling required.
The whole physics of it behaves rather oddly at very low speeds on the ground. You can make it do really very strange stuff and apply forces that are pretty much impossible. I ought to have spent a bit of time doing stalls to see what it did in the air and may try that later.
I like that the heater works, but why can't I open the window? how the hell am I supposed to sit in that cockpit in the middle of summer with the windows shut? :( :(
I almost liked the 172, I reckon the simulated G1000 is actually easier to use than the real thing, far more forgiving and easier to take the time to work out whether it's the inner or outer knob that does what you want when it's not real and there's no imminent risk of death whilst you're trying to program a change to the flight plan and you realise nobody is looking where you're going.
If you ever find yourself needing to learn how to operate a G1000 equipped Cessna this is a very good (cheap and safe) way of doing it
demagogue on 25/9/2020 at 13:11
Well this didn't take too long. My city is going to finally start looking like it's supposed to. I was getting worried.
[video=youtube;Pue2-OS4Kl8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pue2-OS4Kl8[/video]
Edit: I'm realizing that a lot of places really need individualized treatment, but most of all places that don't have great satellite data ... it seems like most of Africa, vast chunks of Asia, a lot of South America, they're just great stretches of undifferentiated grass with a few blobs of grey and brown thrown in odd places. But every once and a while you see a place that looks really great, and it looks like because it got some individualized treatment. The best areas (in these kinds of regions) are places with mountains, forests, great lakes, and urban city-scapes, etc., because the algorithm can take over and make it look really good usually no matter what.
But it's nice to see them doing updates like this, with so much content so quickly. I mean I've been flying over Tokyo a lot over the last few weeks, so I could immediately see how much of it got updated in such a great way hardly over a month since release. And I trust, or hope anyway, that their algorithm will improve for some of those big stretches in Africa and Asia.