Microsoft Flight

[albx]

Originally Posted by louisv

With everything graphics on max it looks like good FSX payware,
but forget FM: the Stearman feels more sluggish but otherwise just like the Icon A5 ! So its seems the FM difference between different aircraft is: more or less sluggish. 100% Arcade.

I did not find anything for TrackIR...maybe there is but I deleted it now.

Tiny world, water looks more like colored saran wrap...same look generally, but ridiculous FM. Varying the throttle on the Stearman has very little effect...They say even the experienced sim pilot will like it, well that is an outright lie.

And sooo expensive add ons...the price of a full FSX for a few islands and a couple more planes ! (no cockpit for the Mustang)

I don't think this will fly because it is so very very tame...like looking at nice pictures...maybe for The Sims crowd ?

have you changed the options to realistic?

I got diarrhea every time I hear for MS flight sims....of any kind

[Duke88]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

I got diarrhea every time I hear for MS flight sims....of any kind

hahahahahah!! Have you tried with the yogurts?

[NLS61]

This product wil be for someone but not for me.
I've tried it for 15 min and feel dissapointed.
For sure there is no way to make a comparison between COD wich wasnt finnished when released and this product that does what was promised but can not stand in the shadow of the COD SIM even in its unfinished state.
Ive looked at the landscape of this MS product and there are square patches all around the trees are something out of a Geof Hammond sim from the nineties ( sorry Geof )
Its free to some extend basicly you get a demo version that you can expand on.
I will not do so, the flight model is verry simplyfied.
I've put it on max acros the bord but it doesnt impress me one bit.
Out of ten I would give it five because it ( seems ) to work as intended.
As the latest ofspring from the Ms flight sim family its a shame.
This product has reached its potential at launch, The Storm of war series is just beginning and has stil to reach its potential.
Al above my opinion Gents,
Those who are happy with it I'm glad you are.

[Krt_Bong]

Best description I heard for MS Flight "it's like FSX with a boob job and a frontal lobotomy" it's pretty but dumb.

[louisv]

Originally Posted by albx

have you changed the options to realistic?

No flight control assistance, there is no such thing as "realistic" mode, there is just flight control assistance:
increased stability
smooth braking
auto mixture
propeller effect (reduce)

Well I stand by my previous review. I tried the full no assistance and it feels as it would in an Arcade at the mall. Period.

PS: After binding all the keys and axes, the Stearman is a bit better, landing is a challenge, weather is excellent I must say. But FM ... 80% arcade.

[topgum]

Originally Posted by Ailantd

After 10 minutes trying the new released Microsoft Flight the only thing I could thought was to come here and say... THANK YOU devs, seriously... THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH !

I promise never again criticize your landscape, FM, shadows, lighting, colors, whatever... none at all! ( This is not true... but almost XD )

A corporation like Microsoft only released such a indescriptible thing that looks even more outdated than FS9. Horrible plastic sea, extremeley low resolution terrain textures, no smooth transitions between terrains, horrible cross trees from 10 years ago games, 3Dish colors and look in everything with no realistic lighting (not even good looking) at all. Even the clouds are badly ordered and you can see far clouds over closer ones... OMG! Planes and cockpits completely outdated when compared with COD ones and what a flight dinamics with zero sense of being flying. All that in a very small terrain with only 4 planes. And at least in my system, when maxed it provides less fps than CoD, wich is amazing.

So people... seriously... CoD devs, wich are a very smaller team than microsoft one with lot less budget, have achieved something far (very very far) superior product. So, even with the buggy and incomplete CoD, devs deserve our most sincere admiration.

Now... bring us the pach so we can fly it! XD

Thank you, Ailantd, for posting this
The Devs need maybee every encouragement and positive feedback they can get to go ahead
Thank you for remembering us to recognize a realy bad sim.
Anybody else some humblepie?

[Davy TASB]

Originally Posted by Ailantd

After 10 minutes trying the new released Microsoft Flight the only thing I could thought was to come here and say... THANK YOU devs, seriously... THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH !

I promise never again criticize your landscape, FM, shadows, lighting, colors, whatever... none at all! ( This is not true... but almost XD )

A corporation like Microsoft only released such a indescriptible thing that looks even more outdated than FS9. Horrible plastic sea, extremeley low resolution terrain textures, no smooth transitions between terrains, horrible cross trees from 10 years ago games, 3Dish colors and look in everything with no realistic lighting (not even good looking) at all. Even the clouds are badly ordered and you can see far clouds over closer ones... OMG! Planes and cockpits completely outdated when compared with COD ones and what a flight dinamics with zero sense of being flying. All that in a very small terrain with only 4 planes. And at least in my system, when maxed it provides less fps than CoD, wich is amazing.

So people... seriously... CoD devs, wich are a very smaller team than microsoft one with lot less budget, have achieved something far (very very far) superior product. So, even with the buggy and incomplete CoD, devs deserve our most sincere admiration.

Now... bring us the pach so we can fly it! XD

Originally Posted by TomVolume4

Really? It's that bad?

Download this, uninstalled after less than half an hour.
Methinks that will fail miserably as far as the PC flight sim community goes but will probably sell quite a few copies on the XBox if the DLC is sensibly priced.

Dumbed down doggy doo's of the highest order in my humble opinion.

[Chivas]

This is unfortunate, I was looking forward to just flying around, looking at the scenery of Hawaii. The posted scenery screenshots highlight the reason I absolutely hate 3d objects on satellite photo terrain. It doesn't get any uglier. I really though MS might raise the bar on the graphics, but its the same old crap.

[Davy TASB]

Originally Posted by Chivas

I really though MS might raise the bar on the graphics, but its the same old crap.

At least they dont pop up at you like the FSX graphics do.
Thats about the only thing going for it as far as I'm concerned.