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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: skimmer on February 29, 2012, 07:21:22 pm
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A trial of Microsoft Flight can be dwnloaded and played from this web site. Its great for sounds and the Stearman. Some scenery is no better than FSX though. Best of all the game trial is on the big island of Ha.
http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/
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Nah...no thanks, no wonder they removed the word "simulator" it's 100% arcade.
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Nah...no thanks, no wonder they removed the word "simulator" it's 100% arcade.
Agreed!
I uninstalled it, after flying around for 10 minutes...
I think I got angry, that I couldn't fly around freely, but had to fly after some stupid balloons... And when I strayed to far of course, I got the message, that the "mission failed", and I HAD to restart... *sigh*
No thanks!
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Wow can't believev micrsoft flight what a crapp shoot lol ;D can anyone say we need a new flight simulator program lol :'(
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I uninstalled it, after flying around for 10 minutes...
Same here, and I was one of their beta testers. Couldn't get rid of it fast enough.
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Wow can't believev micrsoft flight what a crapp shoot lol ;D can anyone say we need a new flight simulator program lol :'(
agreed.... maybe XP10 or P3D, however P3D is FSX (Old Wine in New Bottles) :P
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I uninstalled it, after flying around for 10 minutes...
I think I got angry, that I couldn't fly around freely, but had to fly after some stupid balloons... And when I strayed to far of course, I got the message, that the "mission failed", and I HAD to restart... *sigh*
No thanks!
You can fly around freely, but not during the intro. It's called a 'mission' for a reason!
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You can fly around freely, but not during the intro. It's called a 'mission' for a reason!
Then there should be a way to skip that mission. We know what we're doing, we shouldn't have to prove it.
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You can fly around freely, but not during the intro. It's called a 'mission' for a reason!
Alright, alright... Sorry for that! I'm glad you're here to tell me these things... :P
Then there should be a way to skip that mission. We know what we're doing, we shouldn't have to prove it.
Exactly! I guess, I was a bit impatient... but I quite honest hate being told/forced to play a specific mission in that regard...
In general, I wasn't all-out impressed with 'Flight'... Hasn't got much to do with simulation, if you ask me... ;)
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I agree. In other words you cant access the Map and free fly until you have successfully completed the first mission?
That's the dummest thing Ive ever heard
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I tried Microsoft Flight, did'nt like it at all. :P I am sticking with FSX. :)
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Flight is not even in the same league as FSX In my opinion there is no comparison. And the graphics are not as good as FSX even without the excellent photoscenery of Megascenery.
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I've enjoyed MS Flight so far for what it is...a game. It's note every evening that I have the time to setup my yoke, rudder pedals and throttle quadrants. Then run through the METARs and TAFs. Then load multiple programs and spend 45 minutes on the ground getting ready for a 2 hour cruise and complex arrivals. MS Flight is a nice place to "fly" that I can actually use a mouse and just get and go. At it's current level, it is no way near a simulator and will not replaced FSX. With the amount of stuff missing like real time weather, ATC, navaids, etc., I doubt it ever will be simulator like FSX. Still, it can have it's place as long as you acknowledge what it is and accept it at that.
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No plans to download Flight for me either, unless the following somehow happen.
1. Able to add AI a/c
2. Able to download real world weather
3. Able to use PMDG or LDS a/c
4. Able to use FSDT or other 3rd party airports and/or scenery
5. Places to fly other than Hawaii or Alaska.
Basically, until Flight gets to the stage of what we have in FS9 or FSX, I am uninterested. I frankly dont even care to try it for free in its current stage.
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No plans to download Flight for me either, unless the following somehow happen.
1. Able to add AI a/c
2. Able to download real world weather
3. Able to use PMDG or LDS a/c
4. Able to use FSDT or other 3rd party airports and/or scenery
5. Places to fly other than Hawaii or Alaska.
Basically, until Flight gets to the stage of what we have in FS9 or FSX, I am uninterested. I frankly dont even care to try it for free in its current stage.
Agreed! Very well put IMO!
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+1 ;D
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I was stuck on the big island I free flight!
I chose Kona intl. and ended up in the ocean somewhere. I can't select Honolulu or anything before I do more missions.
And I disagree, the scenery looks ok, it's not astounding, although I do like the mesh, the autogen is not visible in the horizon, but rather in a close radius to the aircraft.
Handling was weird, settings to a minimum.
Looks like another ADHD friendly setup for a game.
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AFFUAL GAME :P
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Looks like another ADHD friendly setup for a game.
The only good thing is that if it lures more people into the hobby and those people in turn become more interested in simming, maybe at some point MS will make a version that is a whole world model or something more like an improved version of FSX. I kind of look at Flight like a teaser so get the younger and/or older people who never gave simming much of a though, a way to try it for free. Who knows, maybe it will work and us hardcore simmers will get something like what we had in previous FS versions down the line, or maybe not. Either way, if it pulls more people into the hobby it will probably be a good thing down the road.
Now if we could just get a sim that looks like Outerra, is able to be used with 3rd party complex a/c and scenery addons and offers good performance, then we may have something that will finally blows the lid off of FSX/FS9.