That thing where your gate information changes but still doesn't have any actual information on a delay or a boarding time, but hopefully progress is being made?
At least I've beaten the login queue!
I made the mistake of updating my graphics drivers and now I'm back at the login queue for the next few hours 🥲
Early impressions from my very brief playtime: loading is fast and painless, performance is near-60 most of the time, and it looks every bit as good as the last game and more — but it feels so much more playable because all those pain points have gone away
'We built our infrastructure to scale beautifully to 200,000 users, but we got a lot more than that so the servers melted’
Maybe you shouldn't have launched on PC, Xbox, and *Gamepass* at the same time? 😅 That's a lot of users who could kick the tires for 'free’
Mission Failed Successfully?
…I think the servers still need a bit more work before I can play 😅
FS2024's new photo mode has me scratching my head. It has very basic options, but doesn't provide a ‘hide UI’ toggle for you to use your own screenshot program to save a capture. You have to capture it in-game instead.
Beyond that, nowhere in the game does it tell you where those captures go. There's a viewer to view them in-game, but no ‘show in Explorer' or ‘share’ options.
'All photographs are saved in: Local path’
Checked all the usual places and I have no idea where that's supposed to be
I had to use windirstat but I found the FS2024 screenshot path location.
Could you have guessed this one?
Fucking hell.
You can get a sense of Asobo's photogrammetry priorities
Disney World: 👎
Paris: 👍
The locations that sucked in FS2020 aren’t any better in this game
I found the location of my Spitfire image! Holy moly does FS2024 look better. I know the satellite imagery has been updated, but the difference is striking.
(I don't have access to the Spitfire in FS2024 yet, so I took the closest substitute)
What does it take to put these pixels on screen?
24GB RAM and 10GB VRAM, apparently, according to the Xbox overlay
The kraken lives!
<…hit a physics bug and was flung into orbit 😂>
At least it's pretty up here.
As janky as the procedurally-generated AI-voiced mission system is, there are moments as you're flying over the country you live in (assuming you picked it as your starter location) when the orchestral music kicks in and the visuals hit you hard and it's like… man my home is beautiful.
I'm starting to really like this career mode, as it gives a reason to come in and keep playing the game to progress rather than sightseeing and getting bored
Star Citizen eat your heart out, because bloody hell.
(Remember kids: this is what Google/Apple Maps will be like on your phone someday)
New mission type unlocked!
Alternatively: this is how we deal with problematic passengers
I can already tell I'm going to play an awful lot of this game; the drop in/drop out aspect of it, along with structured missions, means you know you can just boot it up and play for a 30-min session whenever you want.
If I was ever in the mood to play Flight Simulator 2020, I would launch the game, then have it spend 48 hours downloading a 200GB update, killing off my interest entirely.
With FS2024, I'm in the game world in just a couple mins from launching it, and I have a task ready to do
Nightly Flight Simulator photos ✈️
The career difficulty does ramp up dramatically, and I’m having to give myself a crash course in the G1000 just to work the autopilot and give myself some breathing room on longer flights. Useless hyper-specific domain expertise? Perhaps…
@jamesthomson @stroughtonsmith back when the HTC Vive was new, I ran Google Earth on it, zoomed all the way out until the globe was a large ball underneath my feet, then started zooming back in, in, in, and on and on until I was looking at the street of my childhood house.
Tech can be cool.
@stroughtonsmith plausible 😉
@stroughtonsmith Wow they really listened to everyone’s #1 wish
Haven’t felt exactly this since … Office 98 🤔🤗
@stroughtonsmith Wow 🤩
What do you (or can you possibly!) mean by *better* map/photogrammetry data?
It’s better than 2020 already, right? But you’re asking for “driving simulator” levels of zoom I think, and we get spoiled by what is available on Street View, Flyover and so on. (Google Earth? Not sure).
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