I suppose id forego VR if i could build a cockpit or half a cockpit with screens that are 180 degree spread to give a realistic out of window view. Add to that some improved flightsim graphic engines and regular scenery/navaid updates to keep in line with real world changes and whhhohhooooo. Happy old man.
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E3 2018... No Simulators in sight...
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Do you remember when Bill Lyons did his own version (in FS2004) of a vintage world of FS? I think it was called Golden Wings. You copied your installation of FS2004 to a clone and renamed it, and he had a kit you downloaded and installed and all the airports were transformed (in major locations) to old world times. I had been talking with him about doing Mars and also a futuristic version, (FS2020 back then) and was picking his mind on that. He sent me some land tiles
of desert in a certain location which he had redone in red, and it was fantastic. I had a bit of Mars on my sim, lolol...
Would be nice to do that. Make a version of Mars or Titan or some fictional world... like what might be in the Vega system, etc.
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...which I simply fail to understand, especially when a low-resource company like LR tries to switch their rendering API to Vulcan at the same time and still gets daily complaints about a barely working ATC and lack of seasonal variety.
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They have been fiddling with the ATC forever and ever. Perhaps they've reached the limits of their capability there, at least for now, and have switched to other high value features where they can progress? (just a theory)
Even programmers can be lured by the smell of the new and exciting.
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Could become a current-gen remake of Flight Unlimited.
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Brilliant!
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We have P3D who are rejuvinating their platform constantly, month to month, with a team of excellent people working hard at pushing the envelope on that platform. They just introduced PBR technology to the materials, they just went 64bit, they have amazing shading in the cabins now. Their management of memory in sophisticated scenery (ORBX) is amazing. So thats one good platform. AND.... Their pro version has rockets. Its a war simulator for fighter pilots to hone their skills on.
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Isn't really that easy. Dovetail Games tried and failed, mostly because of greed.
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I think we're in a flight sim Renaissance right now. I haven't seen this much mainstream hype for flight simulation since FS2004 came out. There was nothing quite as game-changing as FS2004, and I think that FSX being such a disappointment early on was what brought a sort of dark-age on the Flight Sim Genre. IIRC, it wasn't really until the PMDG 737NGX came out that people warmed up to FSX (nothing even close to the detail of the NGX had ever been released; I remember how mind-blown everyone was when they started seeing the first preview videos of it). But FSX was still a broken, outdated program held together by community-made bugfixes and addons. Now we have P3d and XP11, both of which are showing to be huge hits. Aerofly is slowly getting there too, DCS World is bigger than ever, and there's also that really promising bush-plane simulator coming out soon. I think it's a good time to be a flight simmer.
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FS2002 was the game changer, FS2004 a mere refinement. And I strongly disagree with the second part. X-Plane, FlightGear and a few military sims didn't stop being developed because FSX bummed everybody out.
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I certainly don't think FSX was a disappointment. Still being sold. Tens of thousands of users, thousands of addons, and sprouted a huge supply of 3rd party developers.
P3D and XPlane should be such a disappointment!
P3D and XPlane should be such a disappointment!