Microsoft and Asobo Studio have detailed some thrilling modifications coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator over the course of 2022 in a development update and attending Q&A on YouTube.
Maybe most notable was their additional elaboration on plans to formally deliver helicopters to the sport by the tip of the 12 months. Modders have implemented helicopters previously, however Microsoft Flight Simulator’s spectacular copy of the physics behind manned flight truly makes it troublesome to get helicopters working within the recreation. The simulation was developed with planes in thoughts, and the modders of the Hype Efficiency Group’s helicopter pack used a brute-force method within the present framework. For his or her official implementation, Asobo might be first testing a extra granular air simulation on some upcoming planes, earlier than placing out their officially-sanctioned helicopters.
A lot of the physique of the Q&A was dedicated to Microsoft Flight Simulator’s upcoming world updates 7 and eight for Australia and the Iberian Peninsula respectively. The sport’s world updates are bespoke touch-ups of areas on Microsoft Flight Simulator’s map, whose base kind is generated from Bing maps information. We had been previously quite impressed when the UK and Eire acquired this remedy final 12 months.
The video additionally outlined plans for extra historic planes coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator, such because the Southern Cross, the primary aircraft to ever efficiently make a transpacific flight.
Asobo has offered a detailed roadmap for the primary quarter of 2021, in addition to a extra nebulous define for all the 12 months within the Q&A video. Microsoft Flight Simulator stays a formidable feat of simulation and graphical constancy, and it is thrilling to see its continued help.
