Simulator 2024.
Scope creep: this time we’re sure it won’t be a disaster at all.
Really neat if they could pull it off and have it not ruin anything else in the game, though I think I’d want any social stuff to be optionally enabled rather than always on.
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And it will only take up one measly petabyte.
According to the article they’re expanding on their cloud-based streaming tech, aiming to reduce the local base install from >100 GB to ~50 GB.
So what’s actually downloaded is probably just the airplanes and a very low detail version of the planet, streaming data in over the internet as you fly (or now also walk I guess).
This means it requires constant internet connection for a single player game.
It’ll likely be like 2020, you can play offline but it’ll be a much less detailed version of the planet. They pretty much have to use streaming for the high-detail environments, as nobody would have the disk space for it otherwise.
Well I certainly have several hundred GB to spare for a game like this. Why don’t the common folk? You mean not everyone has more than 16tb total storage in their PC nowadays?? Why not??
Seriously though, all that space for activities, it’s liberating, yet somehow I still manage to fill it up quite fast
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For MSFS 2020 -
In 2020, the initial install is 130 GB. Then we have 17 world updates. If you calculate it up, we’re at 500 GB. And then there are 5,000 add ons that people have made, which I think are two terabytes. So if you really want to get all this stuff, it’s a pretty big install.
Wow I would have to dedicate almost half an entire 4tb drive to 2020… I’m still down for that but I’ll have to shift some stuff around heh…
For most games that’s a ridiculous requirement but it makes a lot of sense in this case.
wouldn’t those funds be better invested into developing a hard mode that makes you fly only boeing aircraft?
“This new mode lets you rescue stranded astronauts in space”
Sounds ambitious as fuck but it would be amazing if the pull if off and it’s fun to play.
Whatever. Fix VR.
I better be able to set the airplane in autopilot and then go out and watch an inflight movie. Unfortunately, walking around inside the plane doesn’t seem possible.
Then again, if I couldn’t walk around the plane while it’s flying upside down or while part of its hull has been ripped off the plane, I would be disappointed. Preferably with NPC coworkers and attendants screaming at you.
You can already walk around in the cabin in 2020 by translating the camera.
Oh, so it’s like Flight Gear several years ago. Well, keep working!
Oh I can’t wait for the YouTubers to play this with combat mods.
