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Microsoft Flight Simulator Gets Impressive Video & Screenshots Showing Ultra-Detailed Airports & More

Today Asobo released a brand new video of its upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator on top of new screenshots from the current alpha test.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Today Asobo released a brand new video of its upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator on top of new screenshots from the current alpha test.

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The video included in an account-protected insider feature focuses on airports. The game includes every single airport on Earth, and 37,000 are manually edited by the development team. 

Among those, 80 airports received additional details, and a further selection received even more detail, reaching “a new level in flight simulation.”

That’s certainly a bold claim, considering that some third-party add-on airports in previous entries of the series were mindbogglingly detailed.

Perhaps even more satisfying is the simulation of ground traffic and airport life, with things like pushback trucks, baggage handlers, refueling, staircases, and even animated catering services.

You can check it out below.

A further development update included screenshots from alpha participants and an updated development roadmap. 

Below you can see screenshots by Lash123456, Bonham Five, redl0l, TangoAlpha3d, JonasAlexander2, and Acktunasrabi.

If you’d like to see more, you can enjoy the trailer released at X019, alongside a gallery of screenshots, a second batcha thirda video from a few weeks ago showing the work that has been done to reproduce the world in fine detail, one showcasing the advanced aerodynamics simulationanother about cockpitsone showing snow, and one featuring advanced audio.

You can also take a look at the original announcement from E3 2019.

Microsoft Flight Simulator is slated for a 2020 release for PC and Xbox One.

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Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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