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Miqueo Snyder

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Aug 4, 2024, 3:38:49 PM8/4/24

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MultiplayerAccess is XBox Live Gold. This is what you need to play online with others.

Costs about 42 Euro a year.

You will need the XBox Live Gold for playing online (COD, Forza Horizon, MSFS etc.)

XBox Network (formerly XBox Live until March 21 and will be renamed with the next XBox update, Xbox Insider already see this name change) is the online access without the multiplayer, this comes -for free- with your xbox account and helps you download patches, make purchases online, store your game settings in the cloud and such.

Both services, xbox live gold and gamepass together (also includign EA play, which standalone costs 4,- a month) is called the Gamepass Ultimate (13,- Euro/month). If you cancel that, you need to buy XBox Live gold to continue playing online games.

Gamepass Ultimate also includes gamepass for PC (the standard gamepass differentiates between game liberary for PC and for XBox), meaning, you can play a game both on xbox and PC/cloud gaming.

You can cancel any subscription easily and they run out after the last period you paid for. You can buy ultimate now for a month and cancel it immediately, meaning, after one month of playing the subscription runs out.

Dunno if you are a collector or a simmer. You sure get quantity but not necessarily quality. On PC we can easily mod things but on xbox not so easily if at all. I guess in a few years from now and a couple more patches, all the planes that ship with the deluxe edition get updates to bring them closer to what some mods are already.

I'll add to this in case anybody has any issues with default scenery showing in the future with OMDB, KLAX, EDDS or any other addon that replaces a default airport.

I have the premium-deluxe edition from MS:

When testing the scenery, it was sometimes necessary to delete the default Asobo airport 2 times.

For whatever reason, after the first uninstall and game restart, there would still be 50-100mb worth of scenery that wasn't removed and the old airport was showing through. Remove it a second time and it'll be gone for good.

Deleting the airport manually also did not help as it would re-install automatically when loading the sim again. Maybe this is because it was purchased from MS and not Steam, I'm not really sure.

One last note: After performing a sim update, sometimes it will reinstall the default scenery as it did with me a few weeks ago. Just repeat the removal process.

Since I got all the other flight sims anyway I plan to buy the FS just to find out. Question is: Standard, Premium or Deluxe.

What is the difference: money. And 5 planes and 5 airports each. Thats it. So lets have a look.

I dont care about airports.

I dont care about jet airliners.

I dont care about ultralights.

I dont care about aerobatic.

So I strike them out to show my attitude (only in premium and deluxe).

The Premium Deluxe Edition includes everything from the Microsoft Flight Simulator Deluxe edition plus 5 additional highly accurate planes with unique flight models and 5 additional handcrafted international airports.

@GepardenK are you including the absolutely awesome airports available for free (or included in the Gateway) for XP? Don't bother to count them. No contest. All of this "apples and oranges" stuff is really getting old.

@GepardenK Not a knock on your post. Just an observation. XP is a mature offering with a huge community many of whom are expert at crafting scenery for this sim. There is so much out there that is absolutely knock out beautiful that comparing MSFS versions to what XP has to offer is just not fair (to MSFS).

One very interesting point that we will have to find out about is: how open will FS2020 be to developers? Here at XP I just have to ask about a utility or scenery and if not already somebody made it then a few days later someone will come up with it. Change the color of the sky or shape of the clouds - no problem. Freeware aircraft - there are really good ones. Add a display of fuel consumption - piece of cake. Paint the runways yellow - I just did because I can.

what's annoying though is how many GA baby planes are included in the sim and not many airliners nor any military. c'cmon guy, we don't need 15 different prop planes. I want a fighter jet, a 757 and erj.

Again it is interesting to see how different peoples preferences are. I wouldnt miss airliners at all and prefer different GA, others insist on great airports while I dont, and I absolutely couldt care less about jet fighters.

I went for the Basic version and will buy a GA aircraft if all the stock ones really suck.

If I want to fly a tubeliner, I will use X-Plane as I have the FF A320 and the ToLiss A319.

There's no point flying at over 300 knots when the scenery is only coming it at 10megabits/sec.

40mbit+ was listed as the ideal. One way to look at it might be that if you are doing 300kts, you are likely over 10,000ft, so maybe you could simply lower the quality as you won't notice it as much as someone flying much lower. Or aren't observing that kind of thing, and scaring the passengers. ?

There's no point in doing that. I have another tool for flying tubeliners with a couple of decent payware aircraft, it's called X-Plane. MFS will be fine for flying GA below 3,000ft AGL and it looks to be quite easy to set up multiplayer. The way I see it is that we now have at least two sims to use for flying and it's a matter of selecting the best one for the experience we want. I also like flying helicopters, but I suck big time at flying them.

Just to add, I have ortho scenery for all the areas that I currently fly over using X-Plane, so I don't need to drop the quality of the scenery, as it's not being streamed. MSF will be mostly used for parts of the world where I don't have ortho, and when I want to use multiplayer. I currently have about eight terabytes of ortho for X-Plane.

I'll be getting the sim in about a year or two (current ancient PC wont run it) and will be getting the Deluxe one with all those extra planes. I was gonna get the boxed DVD set which looks sweet but then (fortunately) came across a thread on Aerosoft where they said that DVD1 had to be in the drive to play. That ruined it for me and now I've decided to go with Steam.

Since I got all the other flight sims anyway I plan to buy the FS just to find out. Question is: Standard, Premium or Deluxe.

What is the difference: money. And 5 planes and 5 airports each. Thats it. So lets have a look.

I dont care about airports.

I dont care about jet airliners.

I dont care about ultralights.

I dont care about aerobatic.

So I strike them out to show my attitude (only in premium and deluxe).

Well you might not like them, but other people actually do... each simulator is a preference to each user, what you don't care about maybe important to other pilots, for the record it is airliners and airports to recreate real world services, obviously not your type of breakfast cereal, so I don't actually care about your preferences either and not a good lead on the discussion were as what users actually want out of a simulator.

I will most likely go for the basic version. However one thing I didnt find out yet is if it will be possible to "upgrade" to premium or premium deluxe later on, or even better buy aircrafts individually as (microtransactions) since I am only interested in very few ones such as the 787 and sr22. It would be a shame if people who get the basic version never have the chance to get these planes because they are exclusive to a more expensive Version and they bought the wrong one in the first place. Hopefully there will be at least the possibility to upgrade later on.

Below you can discover which airports have been given the Flight Simulator handcrafted treatment and, once you've taken a look, we have a list of all the currently available planes you can use to visit them.

There's over 37,000 airports for you to visit in Flight Simulator, 40 of these airports, referred to as hand-crafted airports, have been carefully recreated by the developers to look as realistic as possible.

The exact number of hand-crafted airports you can visit depends on which edition of Flight Simulator you buy, but, with the standard edition, you are guaranteed 30 hand-crafted airports. This number increased to 35 with the deluxe edition and 40 with the premium.

For those investigating their Flight Simulator options, we have a planes list and airport list for each launch edition, a list of Flight Simulator Achievements.Then, when you start playing, we have explainers on weather and liveries, multiplayer, using autopilot and sim rate, and how to use the game's equivalent of photo mode with Active Pause.

The premium edition of Flight Simulator offers you an additional five hand-crafted airports, alongside the airports from both the standard and deluxe edition, bringing the total number of airports you can visit to 40.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X (abbreviated as FSX) is a 2006 flight simulation video game originally developed by Aces Game Studio and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and the tenth installment of the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, which was first released in 1982. It is built on an upgraded graphics rendering engine, showcasing DirectX 10 features in Windows Vista and was marketed by Microsoft as the most important technological milestone in the series at the time. FSX is the first version in the series to be released on DVD media.