![]() I previewed Microsoft Flight Simulator at XO19, saying, “I came away from Flight Simulator very impressed. ![]() Latency should also be smoothed out, so other players won’t be juddering about like a plane that’s not sure if it’s got wings. A higher specced machine will render them further out, but regardless of the machine, it will know that there are planes out there. A lower specced PC or original Xbox One might show fewer planes or only show them when they get closer to you. However, there’s also a limit to what your system will actually show you. This should keep the skies relatively manageable, both in terms of bandwidth and the number of planes your game is showing. While there can be tens of thousands of real planes in the sky at any time – I mean, not so much right now, but maybe again later this year – and potentially hundreds of thousands of players all at once, the server will intelligently optimise and only send you the data for real planes within 200km of you and the 50 closest game player planes within 200km. The game will automatically connect you to the closest server, but you can choose a specific server if you’ve got friends in another region you want to group up with. The technology backing all of this is built on server clusters dotted around the world. Only those who join the group will be able to see each other. This is for those who just want to fly without meaningful rules.Ĭatering to those who really just want to mess around, you can create your own shard in Groups, where you gather people together and pick world settings for you to share with others. Here you have the ability to mess around with the weather and time of day, choose to see real time traffic or not, and so on. This forces you to fly with real time weather, so it’s exactly the conditions of the real world, and with the option to enable real time traffic.Īnother mode is All Players. ![]() You can filter to Live Players only, which is designed for those who take their sims seriously, respecting the rules of the sky on a single online shard. You do have some control over your experience though.
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