Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 - Your House vs Your Expectations

It's fair to say that Flight Simulator 2020 contains the most accurate representation of the entire Earth every put in a simulator or indeed a video game. Naturally, this means that expectations are high - where will you visit next, and more to the point - will your house be in the sim? Let's talk about that...

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[morteparla]

It's a game about flying planes, that has copied and generated literally the entire planet. Even if there's inconsistencies, I am far beyond impressed!

[sen]

false title, you didnt show me my house

[kristofk]

i’m still very impressed with the ai generated cities

[stewiegriffin]

I wish they would do this with a car game, to explore the entire world, fully detailed

[gblawrence]

“yeah your house is nice, but is it in Microsoft flight simulator 2020?”

[mofomo]

Rockstar: “Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN”

[gozzythebat]

Expectation: It’s a game that teaches you how to fly a plane
Reality: “I’m gonna find my house and crash into it!”

[atnfn]

Wish they had some deal with google so they could use their 3d cities, several cities in Finland for example are 3d on google maps. Not a single one on bing maps. Kinda like the look of bing maps otherwise.

EDIT: The satellite maps haven't even been updated in Bing where I live in ages. They look like they are probably nearly 10 years old. Says 2020 in the bottom right corner but I can see on the maps that my parents were still working when the satellite images were taken (they used to be farmers, retired now). You can see round bales on the fields, there has been no round bales on our fields in I'd say at least 7-8 years or so.

[theun-knownmusician]

It’s still crazy that this simulator isn’t even finished yet. Microsoft, I’m proud 😂

[loffaxio]

Local News the day after I buy FS2020: A passenger, a Cessna and a random seaplane crashes on local mans lawn, witnesses say they have never seen a worse landing.

[mrpancake]

Imagine this technology in 10 years, and the possibilities for a GTA game.

[ChaosHamsterG]

When you say “this isn’t GTA” I was laughing so hard cause some people expect it to be

[Blairvoyach]

We own a farm, in FS2020 it has morphed into a housing estate :)

[Calcearius]

25 years ago the game looked like the in game aircraft computer at a lower res. Imagine how sims will look in another 20 years!

[worldaviationk]

Improving the car system would be good

[FreshTillDeath]

Honestly, I'm not even mad. I'm BEYOND impressed. I just bought my flight stick today and I cannot wait to get in on this

[nateweter]

I’m still blown away. Anyone who is trying to convince themselves this isn’t a quantum leap forward in flight sim tech is kidding themselves. Load up your PC with P3D, all the ORBX products, shaders, weather and traffic addons, and it still doesn’t look anywhere near this good with the exception of perhaps the very few square miles of very specialized products like the Airports of FSdreamteam. Oh yeah; the big kicker, load all that up and crank it and enjoy your 15-25FPS. That’s the kicker, this does all that, out of the box, in a package that you can actually call a flyable sim. I know people are thinking about what they’ve invested in their current sim, believe me, I have around $1, 500 USD in P3D, but this was always going to happen. There was always going to be a next installment or next gen, we just became so discouraged after Miscrosoft closed the previous studio, that we felt it may be decades away. I’m getting this day one.

For those that bring up study level and training level concerns; you’re missing the big picture potential here. I’m a RL pilot, that’s what I use sims for, training and procedure practice. This is the infrastructure of a brand new sim that can carry us for the next decade and give us all that, except this time, it’s starting point is light years ahead. Apart from “I can’t afford it, I can’t afford the pc upgrade” nearly every ‘concern’ I’ve seen about forgoing this in favor of previous titles, is dead in the water.

[The.Original.Hossman]

All I want is a walking/biking/driving sim added to this.
In 2030 we'll have it, along with a whole lot of Matrix. A scary world from 1984 coming to life, but a nostalgic one for me nonetheless.

[pelliqs]

this is like a meme
find your house in flight sim 2020

[mrcoffeeman]

I'm really excited to be doing some flights over counties that I've never been to before, maybe even flying over the ocean