demagogue on 18/11/2024 at 16:10
I'm a little miffed that MS didn't keep its promise to maintain MSFS 2020 for a decade like they originally promised, but evidently MSFS 2024 has a completely new engine that couldn't be modded in the previous game, and it admittedly looks great. If I get it, I'll probably start with the same test I took with the last game, which is to fly in some out-of-the way country like rural Uganda or Laos, since those are the places that were not developed at all in the last game and left as generic low poly landscapes without details.
I hope Stalker 2 is great. It's got big shoes to fill.
Renault on 18/11/2024 at 21:33
I'm looking forward to all three, but Stalker 2 has got to be the main one. Such a long time coming, with so many detours and interruptions. Call of Pripyat was one of the last (if not the last) PC games I bought on physical media, so that tells you how long this has been in the works. I hope for both the devs and players sake, the game is amazing. I just upgraded my GPU, and although it wasn't strictly for Stalker 2, I definitely had it in mind when I did it.
PigLick on 19/11/2024 at 02:48
caveat - I actually hope it's great too.
henke on 19/11/2024 at 08:21
Quote Posted by demagogue
but evidently MSFS 2024 has a completely new engine that couldn't be modded in the previous game, and it admittedly looks great.
The technical improvement I'm most impressed by is that it's apparently just a 30GB install, as opposed to the 200GB monstrosity of its predecessor.
Renault on 19/11/2024 at 19:20
Not quite on the level of Stalker/Indy Jones/MSFS 2024, but I saw Nine Sols is coming to Gamepass next week. Glad I ran across that, I was about to buy it outright.
Renault on 19/11/2024 at 20:28
Quote Posted by henke
The technical improvement I'm most impressed by is that it's apparently just a 30GB install, as opposed to the 200GB monstrosity of its predecessor.
Why is that, exactly though? I was reading some comments on the Steam page today about the game loading assets from the cloud each time the game was fired up, resulting in extremely long loading times. That's worse I think. I'd rather download it just once to my HD and be done with it. GBs are cheap these days.
Sulphur on 20/11/2024 at 04:21
Didn't FS 2020 have similar issues? The Steam package was just the base files, and when you booted up the game, it had to download huge wads of data from its own launcher, and the combined demand of everyone trying to get in meant people spent hours in the launcher/on loading screens, taking them past the 2 hour refund window? How comforting to know that you can get the same nostalgic experience four years later.
henke on 20/11/2024 at 08:17
Yeah it didn't work for me either when I tried it last night. Managed to get into the main menu, but when I'd try to start a flight it just got stuck loading. Couldn't even start the training mode!
This morning it worked fine tho. The game started up about as fast as MSFS2020. (which isn't fast) Flew over my hometown. The game looks good, but buildings and ground details are just as guessworky as in the previous game.
Quote Posted by Renault
Why is that, exactly though? I was reading some comments on the Steam page today about the game loading assets from the cloud each time the game was fired up, resulting in extremely long loading times. That's worse I think. I'd rather download it just once to my HD and be done with it. GBs are cheap these days.
A flight sim occupies the same spot in my gaming schedule as American Truck Simulator or Elite Dangerous, it's a thing I dip into from time to time, so I usually keep these installed. A 100GB+ game tho? I'm not keeping that installed unless I'm actively playing it. Including the whole world in the base game was kinda crazy since the average player will explore, what, 1% of the world in their time with the game?* Launch-issues aside, I do think it's a much better solution to just download map data as the user needs it. I hope the downloaded map data is kept on the system tho, since a player is likely to revisit their favourite spots.
*this made me go google how many % of the world's surface countries occupy and (
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-by-share-of-earths-surface/) it was surprising. Russia takes up 3.35% of the earth's surface. Australia just 1.5%! So, uh... maybe the average player sees more like 0.1% of the map data in the game.
EvaUnit02 on 20/11/2024 at 15:32
Sounds like Flight Simulator 24 is more of a 9/11 simulator, ATM.
Putting aside that this will likely require upscaling tech to run properly, hopefully it's good.
[video=youtube;PKO4PL8Xzik]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKO4PL8Xzik[/video]
