MS Flight is now available on STEAM ... for free

[addman]

The biggest problem for MS Flight I think is that they don't really know which group to target. Yes, it is accessible and easy to get into which is great for newcomers to the genre but it sorely lacks depth and fidelity in the areas needed to maintain interest. So who will fly this game -except for Troll2k-?

I have to say it's nice to see some new additions to the genre, they are always welcome and the added people that get interested in these types of games might even trickle down to games like CloD and RoF and God knows these games needs all the support they can get.

[nearmiss]

MSFT keeps changing their way of doing things, instead of fixing the problems with what they have already released. They are doomed to mediocrity as they persist in this fashion.

[mxmadman]

All I needed to hear was no track ir support to know that free was overpriced for this. Especially when free to play games are always the most expensive if you actually want the amount of content that is standard in the industry.

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by mxmadman

All I needed to hear was no track ir support to know that free was overpriced for this. Especially when free to play games are always the most expensive if you actually want the amount of content that is standard in the industry.

they want you to buy some called konnect? thats why they wont provide support for track ir

[d.burnette]

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

they want you to buy some called konnect? thats why they wont provide support for track ir

Actually while no official date has been announced, they are working in implementing Track IR in a future update.

[simast]

What's really horrible about this sim is their DLC policy. They have just released a new A6M2 Zero plane as DLC without a cockpit. A Japanese Zero plane in Hawaii/Pearl Harbor environment. Their marketing team is nuts.

[Chivas]

If the new IL-2 series gets sorted, and the SDK is released, this could be an opportunity to draw the FSX crowd of modders and thus flyers into the IL-2 series. This was part of Olegs original plan, but unfortunately they are still trying to get the new IL-2 game engine working.

I can see IL-2 servers in the future with just civilian aircraft flying over detailed terrain, especially when they can enable DX11. I would have downloaded MS Flight, just to fly around Hawaii, but I didn't find the MS Flight terrain believable enough. I was expecting more since MS Flight had dumbed down everything else they would have developed spectacular terrain, but it didn't happen. That said it could be improved in the future.

[Wolf_Rider]

Originally Posted by simast

What's really horrible about this sim is their DLC policy. They have just released a new A6M2 Zero plane as DLC without a cockpit. A Japanese Zero plane in Hawaii/Pearl Harbor environment. Their marketing team is nuts.

you pay for the cockpit later

Then come the working gauges animations

[Buzpilot]

Originally Posted by d.burnette

Actually while no official date has been announced, they are working in implementing Track IR in a future update.

I'll hold back on any purchase until it's working, but I'm impressed how Stearman handles without any auto-controls , engine controls too.
Like a leaf in the wind, very light airplane.

[Vittuuntunut]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

MSFT keeps changing their way of doing things, instead of fixing the problems with what they have already released. They are doomed to mediocrity as they persist in this fashion.

How sad would it be should the CloD dev.team behave the same way...