Microsoft Flight - Page 3

Oberon · 07-27-12, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Many developers for the first time ever have started to create content for X-Plane, btw. After these many years and many versions, it now seems to experience the real liftoff.

Good, and if the developers of X-plane have the sense that they surely have for not going down the MS route, then they will encourage these developers who now that Flight has officially gone down the drain and taken the likelihood of MS doing a decent successor to FSX within the next five to ten years with it, will be looking to take the next generation with X-plane.

Herr-Berbunch · 07-27-12, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Good, and if the developers of SHO have the sense that they surely have for not going down the MS route. . .

I hope I'm wrong.

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Here is the Nordsee. Here is U-25 or U-26. Want a bit more, you can buy a IIA/B/C/D. If you don't want to buy them, complete all our acheivements (sink 1 squillion tons of merchant shipping, and 1 million tons of BB, shoot down 500 aircraft (with no flak guns!) and they'll be yours.

In a couple of months we'll release, for you - at a cost, the Eastern Atlantik.

Then we'll sell you the VII range of boots.

Then, by then, maybe we'll have got the Eastern Seaboard of the US modelled. And the Type IX boots.

Oberon · 07-27-12, 08:25 AM

Honestly, and dragging this off-topic slightly, I expect SHO to go down the route that Star Trek Online has done. You start with a Type II, the whole map is open to you, but some areas are safer than others. You probably start in the Nordsee, where if you run into a ship/warship it will be capable of being defeated by a Type II, but if you take your Type II to, say, the Western Approaches then you run the risk of running into something a bit more deadly, a Black Swan perhaps, or aircraft which a Type VII might be able to take on just fine but a Type II can't.
In terms of advancing the years, perhaps they will do it in a three RL month per game year, or something like that, scaling it so as more people level up then more advanced U-boat variations are released, or more technological toys are released to upgrade your boats with (Snorkel, sonar, torpedoes, etc).

Paying for stuff might get you there quicker and avoid the grinding, and you might be able to get some unique boats with extra tips (perhaps a special 'Kretschmer' boat or 'U-96' boat) but it will still be accessible to those who don't pay.

Kptlt. Neuerburg · 07-27-12, 10:56 AM

I honestly think that Microsoft wasted their time making MS Flight. Honestly they should of spent all that time and effort revamping FSX but thats probably not going to happen

. Heck Microsoft still has CFS 3 which is still at least in my opinion one of the best combat flight sims out there, if they just updated the graphics to modern standards and didn't change anything else it would be better and more realistic the IL-2 right now but again its probably not going to happen.
Why do gaming companies go and stop working on a great game to go and make a new game that is sub-standard to what the customers would expect?

GSpector · 07-27-12, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg

I honestly think that Microsoft wasted their time making MS Flight. Honestly they should of spent all that time and effort revamping FSX but thats probably not going to happen

. Heck Microsoft still has CFS 3 which is still at least in my opinion one of the best combat flight sims out there, if they just updated the graphics to modern standards and didn't change anything else it would be better and more realistic the IL-2 right now but again its probably not going to happen.
Why do gaming companies go and stop working on a great game to go and make a new game that is sub-standard to what the customers would expect?

I would still like to see someone do the same thing to B-17: The Mighty Eighth.

Kptlt. Neuerburg · 07-27-12, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by GSpector

I would still like to see someone do the same thing to B-17: The Mighty Eighth.

That would be epic.

CCIP · 07-27-12, 08:22 PM

I am very, very much in agreement with both of you. Though to be honest, I've been waiting for A2A simulations to do something with it, seeing as they've owned rights to it for a few years now (and released their fantastic Accusim B-17s in the meantime)... so I'm keeping some hope that they get around to it.

GSpector · 07-28-12, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by CCIP

I am very, very much in agreement with both of you. Though to be honest, I've been waiting for A2A simulations to do something with it, seeing as they've owned rights to it for a few years now (and released their fantastic Accusim B-17s in the meantime)... so I'm keeping some hope that they get around to it.

This is new news to me. I'll have to check it out. Maybe if a few posted the suggstion on their site, they might get to it a bit sooner than later if they know there's an interest.

Update:
A suggested, I just left my suggestion. I hope to hear back from them.

If interested, here is the link to contact them:
http://www.a2asimulations.com/store/...age=contact_us

07-27-12, 10:56 AM	#34
Kptlt. Neuerburg Admiral Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 2,246 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	I honestly think that Microsoft wasted their time making MS Flight. Honestly they should of spent all that time and effort revamping FSX but thats probably not going to happen. Heck Microsoft still has CFS 3 which is still at least in my opinion one of the best combat flight sims out there, if they just updated the graphics to modern standards and didn't change anything else it would be better and more realistic the IL-2 right now but again its probably not going to happen. Why do gaming companies go and stop working on a great game to go and make a new game that is sub-standard to what the customers would expect? __________________ "When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat." - George Carlin

07-27-12, 08:22 PM	#37
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I am very, very much in agreement with both of you. Though to be honest, I've been waiting for A2A simulations to do something with it, seeing as they've owned rights to it for a few years now (and released their fantastic Accusim B-17s in the meantime)... so I'm keeping some hope that they get around to it. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

07-27-12, 08:25 AM	#33
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Honestly, and dragging this off-topic slightly, I expect SHO to go down the route that Star Trek Online has done. You start with a Type II, the whole map is open to you, but some areas are safer than others. You probably start in the Nordsee, where if you run into a ship/warship it will be capable of being defeated by a Type II, but if you take your Type II to, say, the Western Approaches then you run the risk of running into something a bit more deadly, a Black Swan perhaps, or aircraft which a Type VII might be able to take on just fine but a Type II can't. In terms of advancing the years, perhaps they will do it in a three RL month per game year, or something like that, scaling it so as more people level up then more advanced U-boat variations are released, or more technological toys are released to upgrade your boats with (Snorkel, sonar, torpedoes, etc). Paying for stuff might get you there quicker and avoid the grinding, and you might be able to get some unique boats with extra tips (perhaps a special 'Kretschmer' boat or 'U-96' boat) but it will still be accessible to those who don't pay.