I lay down the best simulation with its curve and line. Safe flights for all. Simulation games - I don't even call it a game - are not something that appeals to everyone or that everyone would like to play. However, some simulations try to reach everyone they can reach by expanding their target audience. Microsoft Flight Simulator is such a simulation, but it has not overcome some problems. I should also mention that it is much more difficult than other simulations because it is a simulation of a sector such as aviation, which consists of very detailed and interlocking systems. But let me add that if you have really interest and enough patience, it gives you back a few times what you gave. If you open the settings in this long learning process, it helps you at every step.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios, was the most spectacular simulation of the year. Both its eye-catching graphics, new systems and the download size kept the game on the agenda. It really seems that he will talk about himself more as the guide of the new generation simulation games. I went in and out of the game, and I will try to convey everything I have seen, good and bad. Come on, sir.
Pros
+ Real world simulation is great
+ Visual quality and views are exquisite
+ Aircraft variety and 37,000 airports satisfactory
+ Live weather and air traffic is something else!
Cons
- Performance is not stable, it may drop in places
- Errors can occur during download
Platforms
PC, XBox One
Microsoft Flight Simulator review
Producer - Publisher
Asobo Studio - Microsoft Game Studios
Multiplayer: Yes
Game Type: Simulation
Simulation takes advantage of technology in real terms with its many points. It includes new artificial intelligence and improved versions of old systems. I can say that it will leave a mark on you, either positively or negatively, for the air travel you will make for the rest of your life. But before doing this, compare the minimum system requirements and your own system very carefully. Revolutionary new technologies have been used in this new simulation, we cannot say that it works very well, but even using them really gives us an idea of the direction in which games and simulations have evolved in the next generation.
Microsoft Flight Simulator only downloads its own client file when downloaded via Steam and Microsoft Store clients. The approximate size of this is around 900MB. After downloading this file, you need to open it and make a 95GB download for the highest version of the game. In the first days, while making these downloads, players whose game duration exceeded 2 hours had trouble with their returns. Valve stopped counting the download time as your game time for the Steam version, thus preventing the loss of the game return due to download time. Note that Microsoft is not interested in returning the product if it was not purchased directly from the Microsoft Store. Your only addressee for returning via Steam is Steam.
If we got rid of all these roughness and technical glitches in the first place, now we can come to the real issue. First of all, Microsoft Flight Simulator is in collaboration with Blackshark.ai. Blackshark.ai reads satellite images from Bing maps and transmits buildings, forests, roads, seas and almost all land to the virtual world. This allows you to fly over your own city, neighborhood and even your home while flying in Microsoft Flight Simulator. In addition, many natural beauties and symbolic architectural works have been modeled and added in detail, though not completely. Players can mark these beauties for anyone online. This allows an indication that it is there when passing over a natural wonder marked by a player. In this way, while you are flying, you can feel how beautiful we live on a planet. Of course, there are still some mistakes, there may be pilots making warning announcements saying "There is a flying building close to you, go carefully". Still, using such a system provides a unique experience for players.
Microsoft Flight Simulator also has more than 37,000 airports and 20-30 aircraft depending on your version of the game. If you have the standard version of the game, you can fly with 20 different types of aircraft. These numbers increase to 25 for the Deluxe Edition and 30 for the Premium Deluxe Edition. Among the planes that come with the standard version is the huge cargo plane Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental. If you are confident, it definitely offers an amazing experience. Even when falling. I personally had this experience and it was really excited. This must be the most fun and beautiful part of simulations. I don't remember that I put in such an effort to get things together in normal games. Also, of the 37,000 airports I mentioned, 40 of the most famous are detailed locations hand-modeled by 3D designers. It is really worth to go and see. All airports are controlled by a system called VATSIM. Like Blackshark.ai, VATSIM is a system that works really well. Artificial intelligence that controls air traffic and guides real players. You can direct other planes with you via ATC, and you can follow them as well.
VATSIM is a kind of artificial intelligence air traffic control system used by Microsoft Flight Simulator. It controls the flights, airport traffic and take-off-landing processes by artificial intelligence. You can communicate with ATC and make your flight step by step. Of course, if you have turned on flight assistance and you want the game to do all this for you, it happens automatically. Otherwise, you can communicate with ATC through an interface while taking a taxi, landing at the airport, leaving the airspace and for many operations. VATSIM also informs you about real-time flights. When starting a flight, you can choose the airports from which you will take off and land yourself, or you can make one of the flights belonging to certain airports in real time. When you choose one of the available flights, you fly with the actual time of that flight. It prepares and gives you your route, average travel time and flight plan in accordance with the reality.
You can customize the weather conditions yourself, as well as capture live weather information from the servers wherever you are in the world. I tried this with a friend who lives in Istanbul personally. On a flight from Yalova to Istanbul, I asked if the weather was cloudy, I found out and went and confirmed it. It is really enjoyable and makes you forget that you are taking a digital flight. It is also possible to encounter all the players flying online at that moment. You can talk to people flying on the same line as you. Since everyone prefers to fly in their own country, Turkey's airspace is not that busy. However, I still encountered many people flying there.
Flying a plane is not easy, not at all. If you haven't spent much time with simulations before, Microsoft Flight Simulator may seem impossible at first. Fortunately for this, there is a tutorial section that basically explains how flights work. Here, it tells you how to control the plane step by step, take-offs and landings, and the event called traffic pattern. In addition, when you turn on flight aids, you are guided by artificial intelligence throughout the flight. I used them because I was not experienced in flight simulations and did not know much about aviation. Even if you don't really know anything, after a few flights the basic logic starts to settle. You will realize that by gradually reducing the flight aids, you are starting to really learn about aviation. When I count myself starting from scratch, I really owe the first few hours and the information I have now to this system.
Although it is wrong to describe simulations as games, I can say that players can easily "play" Microsoft Flight Simulator. It does not have fun mechanics like any adventure game, but there are some challenges. For example, as of now - I don't know if it might change later- there is a "challenge" mode in my system regarding landing. It is a mode where you try to land the plane in the airports that are more difficult than others in terms of landing in difficult conditions. There are also achievements you can get by completing them. Definitely consider playing the game with controllers instead of keyboards, if you have Joysticks will really take your gaming experience to the next level.
Their basic system was like this, but another feature that makes Microsoft Flight Simulator stand out is its visual quality. Our planet offers a truly amazing experience flying over Earth. Thanks to Blackshark.ai, the images will bring a great sense of pleasure when you fly in real cities of the real world if you have a good system. With my top-of-the-line computer, which I thought was outdated, I played with a performance like 30FPS after pulling the quality to medium settings and making minor adjustments. Although performance is never among our priorities in simulations, I can say that 30FPS was enough for me. I do not think it will be a problem for you if you have used a combine harvester at 15FPS, driving a truck at 35FPS and roamed in traffic with your vehicle at 40FPS. Even though the performance drops a little more when you go above the clouds, you have a truly exquisite experience.
The image I got at medium settings on my system was not disappointing at all. For this reason alone, Microsoft Flight Simulator can be an example software for next-generation simulations and games. The fact that it brings our planet to the game with its new artificial intelligence and creates wonders with VATSIM, which directs you and artificial intelligence, definitely makes this simulation stand out among the others.
Long story short
Microsoft Flight Simulator is not a game that you can use warplanes. It contains more than everything a simulation should contain. Although the variety of aircraft is in place for now, I am sure that in the future, more passenger and cargo planes will be needed. In the "Marketplace" section, players can sell their own content. In addition, Asobo will bring paid content here in the future. While I say the price is fair for the standard version of the game, I can't say the same for the Deluxe and Premium Deluxe versions. It is also a game that needs attention to the system requirements.
Please pay close attention to a Microsoft Flight Simulator experience that you don't want to end up in frustration. Make sure your version of Windows is 2004. It's the name 2004, not the year of the release, it's very important here. Also install the latest video card drivers. Simulation requires a powerful system and when you do all this, you will be able to experience it in a healthy way.
That's all I have to say about the game, I will probably learn to use the Airbus A320 by June next year. Hoping to see you again in another review. Stay with love, safe flights.
