Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | Asobo Studio |
| Publisher(s) | Xbox Game Studios |
| Series | Microsoft Flight Simulator |
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| Release | November 19, 2024 |
| Genre(s) | Amateur flight simulation |
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is an upcoming flight simulation video game developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios. A successor to Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), the game is scheduled for release on November 19, 2024, for Windows and the Xbox Series X/S.
Announced at the 2023 Xbox Games Showcase on June 11, 2023, it will include a career mode with missions such as agricultural flight, and firefighting. It will use Asobo's in-house engine.
Gameplay
[edit]New mission types include aerial firefighting, air search and rescue, helicopter cargo hook transport, air ambulance, cropdusting, mountain rescue, skydiving, commercial aviation, aerial crane construction, outsize cargo transport with the Airbus Beluga, arctic cargo transport with the Airbus A400M, VIP air charter and executive transport, air racing, weather reconnaissance, experimental aircraft testing, and nap-of-the-earth flight with the A-10 Warthog. New aircraft types include gliders, airships, and hot air balloons.[1] New environmental features include wildfires, snow, tornadoes, auroras, animal migration and herds, live marine and flight tracking, the four seasons, and better ground traffic reporting.[2][1]
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will be a standalone version, but Microsoft stated that "virtually all" addons purchased on Flight Simulator's online marketplace for the previous version will work with the new release.[3] Whether external third-party addons will work is unclear.[1] The company described the new missions and aircraft as part of aviation career modes. 2024 will have an electronic flight bag, improved physics engine with greater control for addons' flight dynamics, improved electrical, pneumatic, fuel, and hydraulic aircraft systems and avionics, and multithreading for better performance.[2]
Development
[edit]Asobo Studios serves as the game's lead developer. A team of more than 200 at Asobo mainly worked to update the game's client to accommodate for its new features, while Xbox partnered with more than 30 external partners to work on various aspects of the simulator.[4]
The game is currently scheduled for release on November 19, 2024 on Xbox Series X/S and Windows.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 - All the Details (YouTube). Squirrel. 2023-06-12.
- ^ a b Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 - NEW Features & System CONFIRMED (not well confirmed release date to late in 2024) (YouTube). Aus Flight Simmer. 2023-06-23.
- ^ "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 FAQ". Microsoft Flight Simulator. 2023-06-12. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
- ^ Tolbert, Samuel (September 19, 2024). ""I think you have to be honest and trusting. You need to not treat them as business entities, but as partners." Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 team talks collaboration, community, feedback, and building a bigger sim". Windows Central. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
- ^ "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Release Date Announcement".
Take to the Skies on November 19th with the All-New Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024! Windows PC, Xbox Series X|S, cloud, or play it day one with Xbox Game Pass.
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