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[SAS~Storebror]

The secret about the next Microsoft Flight Simulator has been revealed.
Community feedback is "mixed" to put it lightly, but that's not because MSFS 2024 is crap, it's rather because Microsoft stated that MSFS 2020 would become an ever growing, further developing product.
But that was 2020.
In 2020 we also thought that there would be no Windows 11.
Microsoft just changed their mind, which is valid as it's their product.
Vote with your bucket, but don't make up your mind too early.
Look, wait, read and make an educated decision next year - that'd be my hint.



Meanwhile, the next update for MSFS 2020 is due 19 June, bringing "City Update 2: France" together with "Local Legend IX", the Latécoère 631, see below:












Mike

[BlackAce7727]

Microsoft really sapping the money out of this series... I mean surely by 2020 that'd have been the last one? There's competition now like X-Plane and DCS World, as well as communities like ours that keep expanding and improving simulators like IL-2... 

Microsoft Flight Simulator I've never liked personally, as it's too... sensible? Yes you can mod it and add planes.. well you could in FSX a decade ago but most of the mods were crap anyway and you could make military mods work with weapons but it was glitchy as f*** and making it work was another story with a big headache involved as well as colourful metaphors... 

[SAS~Storebror]

Concerning the military addons, this is still a very sensitive topic between Microsoft, Asobo, and the Community.
In MSFS 2020 you can't get any 3rd party content added to the official store if it even just visually resembles weapons (even if they have no functional implementation whatsoever), which resulted in several mods being distributed in different versions on different channels, e.g. you can get the F-14 and F-15 from the MS Store (with no weapons at all) or from the developer's homepage (with weapons, but without and functional implementation).
This has been considered a big handicap for the MSFS series, mostly because otherwise it could - theoretically - become a DCS competitor one day if only this limitation wouldn't exist.
If you take a close look at the official trailer, you will notice that Microsoft themselves now feature military aircraft in MSFS 2024, including that short "low-level training" scene depicting the A-10.
It could (nothing more, nothing less) be a hint that Microsoft is about to change its mind and at least enable MSFS 2024 to be the next MS CFS.


Mike

[Frankiek]

the graphic quality and details are impressive last time that I used MFS was more than 20 years ago but I  can see that the essence is similar just the pleasure of flying and the bird view eye of the landscape.   

[Froge]

MSFS 2024 may have good graphics, but they don't have as much planes as Il-2 1946, or realistic damage models like Battle Of Stalingrad.
With our precious modding website, you could get one of these for free.

But in the MSFS marketplace, one of these would be €60 + €15 for extra liveries.

[SAS~Storebror]

MSFS 2024 (...) they don't have (...) realistic damage models

That's not true simply because no details about game engine have been disclosed yet.
What you're talking about is MSFS 2020, not MSFS 2024.


Mike

[Froge]

That's not true simply because no details about game engine have been disclosed yet.
What you're talking about is MSFS 2020, not MSFS 2024.


Mike

My bad, but point being MSFS 2020 is only good for graphics, Il-2 still wins in terms of damage models & free mods.

[Frankiek]

Sure and that's why I didn't bother to follow the evolution of MSFS and CFS in the last years. However I have to admit that it has his strongpoints. Unfortunately moneywise it seems that the direction of software  houses development is in ripping of the consumer as much as possible. Not only games like BOS but also look the annual cost of 3dmax or PS.   

[Dimlee]

Latécoère 631...
The days when the whales could fly...

[UberDemon]

Concerning the military addons, this is still a very sensitive topic between Microsoft, Asobo, and the Community.

I get it.  It is just puzzling that Microsoft itself has so many war and war-like titles, just looking at X-Box series for example.  Of course, relationships with other developers play into this, but it is not like there was no CFS before...

Puzzling to me anyway.

[Dimlee]

As for me, I'd welcome a "non-military" flight sim of the size and complexity of MSFS. The current open world of MSFS 2020 is a kind of Utopia for me where I'd like to spend more than an occasional hour per month...when I have time available. And I want "my Utopia" to be peaceful 100%. But it's just us, who can literally walk to the frontline today. 20 years ago I enjoyed endless hours of flying and shooting in Il2. Suum cuique...

[SAS~Storebror]

A few more details on MSFS 2024, to be found in the keynote Microsoft Flight Simulator Presentation at FlightSimExpo 2023:



Don't like videos, prefer to read? Here you go: https://flyawaysimulation.com/news/4969/


Mike