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PiLhEaD

PiLhEaD
askavir said:
Quite surprised my rig meets the recommended (not the ideal) specs without any upgrades. As for bandwith, I could have several people playing this game in my house at the same time. If there's anything good in Portugal is the internet, we have high speed fiber pretty much everywhere.
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You bloody show-off! :LOL:

Mengy said:
This is great, now I can finally plan my new PC build...
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In the light of everything I gave in about three weeks back and now have a water-cooled (yeah, even I shake my head at that) upper/mid range gaming PC from the excellently rated Novatech here in the UK. And joy of joys, it comfortably exceeds the 'ideal' specs.... can't wait for it to be released... and much like all games these days, I'm absolutely avoiding alpha/beta participation - I participated with Planet Coaster and have barely played it since release. Lesson fully learned!
 
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Mengy

Mengy
PiLhEaD said:
In the light of everything I gave in about three weeks back and now have a water-cooled (yeah, even I shake my head at that) upper/mid range gaming PC from the excellently rated Novatech here in the UK.
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I'm kind of waiting for the Nvidia 3000 series cards to come out later this year.
 

MYGUTFEELING

MYGUTFEELING
I think I meet recommended specs, and I get 80Mbps download speeds here - so I'm all good

Edit: Come to think of it, should I upgrade from Nvidia 980 Ti?
 

Viajero

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Viajero
MYGUTFEELING said:
I think I meet recommended specs, and I get 80Mbps download speeds here - so I'm all good

Edit: Come to think of it, should I upgrade from Nvidia 980 Ti?
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I would not recommend to take a decision about a purchase on PC hardware based on a game that has not even yet been released and subject to change including dates etc. No harm in waiting until the product is actually there. Just me tho.
 

Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99

Old Duck

Old Duck
Viajero said:
Bandwidth requirements I presume are for the full monty of real time local actual weather, actual aircraft and any and all terrain you have not pre-downloaded I presume (I may be wrong but I recall you could download areas?).
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And multiplayer. I suspect for smooth gameplay with dozens of planes in the air together (all sharing NPC data as well), good bandwidth is a requirement, especially if your are also downloading all that other stuff in your list.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Mengy said:
While the alpha is in real good shape there is still work to do. I'm betting it won't hit beta for a few months yet, and release sometime in December with a possible slip to 2021 if the pandemic impacts anything. Just being realistic.
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I mean, as an Alpha it is decent, but go a little off the beaten path and you'll see the game is just a hacked-together showpiece for now. I tried some bush flying and if you go away from the major hubs, You're going to see flat mountains, blue texture instead of rivers and lakes, tesselated spikes instead of trees, bushes on runways, taxiways and roads without collisions enabled that you fall through...
The Azure has A LOT to learn before she can make the Earth believable. :)
I still don't believe it's going to release this year and I think it shouldn't.
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
Speaking of alpha, supposedly some new invites will go out soon. You can update your DXDiag file on their site for a brief time.
 

PiLhEaD

PiLhEaD
Jenner said:
Ok, this has been in alpha for months now. RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
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Oh Jenner, please, this is only pre post pre ante nascent alpha beta spaghetti, and so completely immune from any form of critique or comment.

Silly Jenner. I can't imagine anything ever being done like this before, it is simply the best damn scenery simulator ever.
 

PiLhEaD

PiLhEaD
Microsoft Flight Simulator Closed Beta Slated for July 2020 - May 7th Update

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Microsoft Flight Simulator Closed Beta Slated for July 2020 - May 7th Update - Threshold

It's been another whirlwind week for the Microsoft Flight Simulator team at Asobo Studio, with a new update upon us with news on closed beta in a new development roadmap. - Threshold: Question the Answers.
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Nice to see this chugging along. I even have a new PC waiting for it.
 

Ronzer

Ronzer
They used to have mods for the older flight simulators, that would allow driving and boating. If they have that for this, could it be World Simulator 2020?
Is there any word on if you can hop out of one plane, walk over and get in another? ground legs.
 

[VR] optimal_909

[VR] optimal_909
Ronzer said:
They used to have mods for the older flight simulators, that would allow driving and boating. If they have that for this, could it be World Simulator 2020?
Is there any word on if you can hop out of one plane, walk over and get in another? ground legs.
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Despite fantastic LOD, this game is designed to hold up well looking from the sky. And why waste resources on 'legs' when there is so much to achieve in simulating flight?
Sure I wish there would be a world driving simulator, but I don't get why people want too much from a game...
 

Ronzer

Ronzer
optimal_909 said:
Despite fantastic LOD, this game is designed to hold up well looking from the sky. And why waste resources on 'legs' when there is so much to achieve in simulating flight?
Sure I wish there would be a world driving simulator, but I don't get why people want too much from a game...
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I'm not wishing for that, but I think some folks made some mods back in the day for FSX which I tried and they seemed ok. I wouldn't consider legs a waste, though. They're talking of flight hours, fuel systems, wear and tear, maintenance of the plane. What better way to do that than hop out of your plane, pop the hood, etc. I imagine it's not going to be an "I want to fly a Cessna today" thing, it's going to be more like "I want to fly my Cessna today, and fly my helipcopter later today" kinda thing.
 

Noddie

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This does look nice in the trailers. But, then again, so did "watchdogs".

That said. I have a fairly modest gaming PC and I do wonder if it will run this sim at all well. It might turn out that this level of visual fidelity can only be achieved with a PC costing as much as a small car... At which point people will be disappointed that their PC cannot do it and either claim it has rubbish performance (which would be true from their point-of-view) or claim it "looks like crud" because it doesn't live up to their expectations.
 
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