"They flew home." Absolutely no lie, I got a slight lump in my throat from that. What an excellent documentary that showcases not only the phenomenal technical achievement this simulator was to make but also a great testament to the power of technology to be powerful emotional and social tools.
It felt obvious that they would fly home. The first thing I would want is to see how the simulation represents something I'm intimately familiar with. I'm sure it's the same for a ton of simulated environments and open worlds, people want to see stuff they know. After you can start seeing the rest of the world.
@@TheGoncas2 during alpha testing we answered many surveys, and that was one of the questions. A lot of us thought there was no way they'd get our house, in our small towns or where ever. Man we were wrong.
@@TheGoncas2 My god are you that paranoid? No one sits around scanning the sim for where every nobody like you is flying to. Please go back to your room pull the shades lock the door and quake with fear of the digital privacy monster.🙄
"They flew Home" Of course they flew home. Damn good documentary. Its sad that this technical Achievement got overlooked last year. This deserve much more praise and love.
You are absolutely right. It got overlooked completely in my opinion. Once i decided not to waste my time playing cyberpunk 2077, i went to gaming sites to find good games released this year, and that's when i found MSFS and has been hooked since. I've been away from my family for 10 months now and decided to fly home.
It's quite an honor knowing I was one of the pilots mapping the aerial imagery for this simulator. Specifically, San Francisco (or the entire bay area actually), Medford, OR, Portland, OR, Dallas, TX :). All before I went and got a corporate pilot job lol
imagine telling someone 20 years ago this thing exists. yeah we simulated the entire world using satellite pictures, traffic maps, filled in the details with machine learning / AI and are able to stream it to your computer in real time. and it only costs as much as any other video game
@@Legion849 idk this seems like something that's gonna be remembered as a huge leap forward in technology and graphics, sorta like how we think about games like Doom or Half-Life now.
@@javierdominguez6007 Are YOU serious? Have you ever even actually played the game? It's one of the buggiest games I've ever played. Half the shit in the game is completely broken. Go look at the official forums, go look at the reddit threads. The game doesn't even have full multi-monitor support, which would be shameful for any flight sim released in 2020, but for some reason MSFS 2020 gets a pass?
The Microsoft dude sounded so genuine. Like he was really passionate about that project and wanted to share his passion and exitement rather than giving a pr speech. Such a fascinating game/sim.
This game is a master piece. It made me recall the first time I played flight simulator as a kid in 1995, at the time, I questioned my friends which were there with me if they would ever be able to make the entire world, realistically, for us to fly by. 26 years after, look, they did it. This is fricking awesome.
My first time was 1982. I bought it at Radio Shack for $50. Two "cities", Chicago and Champaign Illinois. I thought it was cool so never really paid much attention to scenery. Still don't so MSFS2020 didn't spend much time on my HD. Revolutionary program for sure ... just not my cup of tea.
I finally installed this game 2-weeks ago. No, they didn't recreate the world. I quickly learned that all the hype, as usual, was ineffable twaddle. It was reminiscent of when Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 came out, and the tag line was "warning, this is not a game". MSFS 2020 is a slight improvement over FS2004, but the vast majority of the graphics are the same, namely, "the world". Use the hype as a lesson in why you need to defend yourself against marketing.
@@onepalproductions It's stunning, I went from flying into Lukla underneath the shadow of Mount Everest, I was just flying around Burbank and compared it directly with Flight Simulator X. There's no comparison. It's ACTUALLY Los Angeles. They even have all the wind turbines out towards Palm Springs. It's a literal 1:1 mapping of the entire planet. And the old game is scaled all wrong, Alcatraz is too close to the Golden Gate bridge for example. You need to get back in your time machine and go to the future where you have holograms or stop taking drugs. Suffering from recency bias is what you are.
@@onepalproductions The entire world is there, in satellite images (may be no antartica). The fact is that I was able to find every place I looked for. It's basically google earth with planes.
First got Flight Sim in 87 when I was 8 years old. I ran it on my 286 in VGA with a sound blaster.. like a boss! My dad and I would play it together in a kind of a pilot and co-pilot sort of way. I still remember how he would always comment how he can't imagine it ever looking much better. I wish he was still here to see it now. Thx for the memories Flight Sim team.
When I flew over my home the first time I played, I looked outside and coincidentally a real plane was flying, that freaked me out for a second or two...
I’m 37 and can’t remember the last time I had that feeling of like being a child, excited you know? This gave that to me, so thank you. I grew up playing flight sim in the 90’s with my pop. Happy times
The video is already amazing. The ending segment.., "They flew home" is absolutely touching. An emotional and powerful ending to the video. Well done, MSFS team!
I'm 79 years old. I have had an Oculus Rift CV-1 since it's introduction. And I have flown MSFS is some form since 1998. I will have this as soon as it releases for VR and probably on a new high end PC of Gen 4 and Nvidia 3080. I currently do a lot of mock landings and take offs in Google Earth VR. I also have a very high speed Internet Service provider. My dad lived to be 98 so I'm hoping to have serious time left to enjoy this marvel.
@@ovwarrior Actually I own a Rift-S too. And I will probably buy a G2 as well once you can actually get them. I am also going to get a new Gen 4 PC with an RTX 3080 in it when VR releases on or about December 23rd. The 3080's are mostly sold out right now too. MS just announced it will support ALL major VR HMD's including Oculus at release on that date..
Me: "Oh a new Noclip documentary ! Nice. What's that, 'Flight Simulator' ? Cool, I won't end up crying this time, it's just planes !" Narrator: "It was not just planes." *30m later* Noclip: "They flew home." me: *sobbing hard* damn those planes are nice
I first used flight sim back in 1996 in middle school. We had a teacher that had a whole plywood cockpit with realistic controls. He sparked a life long love of aviation for myself as well as multiple classmates one of my childhood best friends I used to play with went on to fly for the air force. These “games” are a fantastic way to get kids interested in aviation.
I've only just found this video, an amazing production. I started using MSFS way back at the beginning and now, at nearly 70 years old, I fly MSFS2020 in VR. I learnt to fly and took my private pilot's licence 30 years ago because of my love for flight sim. Ill health stopped my real flying so the advent of MSFS2020 and VR was perfect. Did I fly home? Hell yeah :) Thank you to everyone involved.
Dammit Danny. I'm sitting here on Thanksgiving, the first one I've had to spend away from friends and family, and your closing sequence made me cry. Well done.
This is less of a video game and more of a computer engineering project. Phenomenal seems like underselling the look and feel of this "game". TY /noclip
This is less of a video game and more of a computer engineering project. Phenomenal seems like underselling the look and feel of this "game". TY /noclip
I hate that it gets labeled as a game. Then it means it comes with expectations to be 4k 120 fps capable ultra omega graphics or its shit. Nah - it’s a simulator. It’s a fantastic one. The leap from p3d/xplane to this is just astonishing.
@@Legion849 Because the only games playing at 4k 120 FPS are hall shooters and games like CS:Go... not games that you can see all the way out to the horizon while simulating 50 other AI aircraft, accurate weather and lighting, streaming in gigabytes of imagery and photogrammetry.
Even after nearly a year flying in this sim I am still in awe of how it has turned out and how it is being continuously developed. A big thank you to all involved :-)
My thanks for this documentary! Having never played a flight sim, I had a bit of Dunning-Kruger when it came to this game. I never thought it was trivial. I knew it must involve lots of data and data processing. But I would say I thought it was probably 10 times less technical than this video revealed it to be. In my mind they just took all the global imagery data, ran 'some' processing on it, hand detailed the major places, and then got some basic live weather data and ran 'some' processing on that to render the weather. I thought the hardest part was the data aggregation. I severely underestimated the complexity of processing they were doing. To use an analogy, I thought it was more like a commercial jetliner but it turned out to be a state of the art military fighter jet. And I now have a newfound appreciation for the technical achievement that is Microsoft Flight Simulator.
@@TheGoncas2 No, it's not made up, and no, it doesn't raise serious questions about the user's privacy. All they're doing is taking the player's IP address to get an approximated geolocation, which practically all sites on the internet collect in order to give the user a relevant and coherent experience based on where they live, among other useful applications. The player's real geolocation would then match with the same geolocation inside the game when the player is flying over there or close to it. I'm not 100% sure if they indeed did this, but i'm certain that would be one easy way to do it.
@@TheGoncas2 Cmon, this gives you issues with privacy? You're on youtube, using a device which constantly tracks you and everything you do, surrounded by other people's devices which also can track you, with no way of opting out. And you're complaining that this sim knows where you live?
@@eagleflies8681 Probably locating more accurately than through IP. Microsoft has access to accurate WiFi-positioning databases, etc. Also most devices, even PCs, can self-report their position nowadays, and Microsoft doesn't exactly have a great track record of not spying on people.
Read the comment thinking "really, people are tearing up over this...okay?" 30 minutes later: Lump in my throat, happy tear in my eye Realising the beauty of technology when we work together, trust people and look for the good
This really explains how they finally made the flight sim that I always dreamed of as a kid. I didn't understand at that young age that the technology wasn't there yet to make something this good.
This sim is jaw breaking and amazing. Traveling to certain locations where I left parts of my heart and memories definitely brought tears to my eyes. Some places I will never go back to, but visiting those locations gave me feelings only those places can.
I used to live in a tropical place with islands and beaches and cool little airports that you could go skydiving from. It's quite amazing to fly around it anytime I want. My brain totally buys that I was "there" again.
Fantastic doco. Jorg Neumann resume is incredibly lengthy & impressive, back from the Origin days! I've put in over 650 hours into FS2020 since launch and love it. The dedication the team at MS / Asobo has put in, as well as the engagement with the community is truly amazing. They've really managed to pull something incredible off here.
My father .. passed away recently at the age of 76...I was watching this documentary with tears hurting my eyes reminiscing about dad having found a mobile app for this flight simulator,,, he would fly in the out back.....he went to Easter Island... the pyramids...my heart filled with happiness remembering the joy on his face..#priceless. thank you for all you do .... From NEW ZEALAND 💕
This doc makes me wanna upgrade my PC, get a flight stick and experience the game on my own. Great job on the doc, Danny and Jeremy - and thank you for your work!
You don't even need it, a mouse and keyboard is flyable and gives you a sense of awe about the game just being able to fly above your local city from its local airport.
What an amazing job you did with this documentary, Noclip - thank you! And huge thanks to Asobo, Microsoft, the partners and all the third party developers for what you have collectively brought to us. I really have no idea how RUclips didn't recommend this to me until now. I've been obsessed with MSFS 2020 since its release (and obsessive in my hunt for a graphics card that will run it!) - ah well, I'm here now. My wife and I just sat here unable to tear ourselves away. This one is getting saved for later. Also, thanks MS and Finishing Move Inc for allowing your fantastic in-game music to be used. 32:00 Aw, Jorg - that made my eyes a little bleary. But yes, the timing turned out to be perfect.
An absolutely fabulous documentary. Thank you for that and it may have been technical but it was as engrossing as hell. I know for sure that if it had been me flying then I would have tried to go home. In fact if I eventually buy it then it will be the first thing I try to do even if the craziness has passed on by.
I remember that Crackdown 3 was supposed to demonstrate what the power of the cloud could do for gaming. That sadly flopped, but it looks like Flight Simulator is accomplishing that instead.
It didn't flop. Epic bought the underlying cloud technology that the entire Crackdown 3 concept was built on, so they had to rebuild the entire game without it (which is why one could easily argue that actual product we ended up with has no real hook, in story or gameplay).
Then I got a thrill from flying from Meig's field to Champaign using it's representation of VORs. The simple monochromatic "scenery" was really unimportant to me. The new scenery still manages to escape my attention (more into the aspect of flight the program is intended to simulate).
The amount of passion that went into creating this game is outstanding. I truely think this is a feat in video game design, it's revolutionary and perfectly resembles what true sim gaming should be and strive to be. I'm not a huge sim gamer, but for those who are this must be a dream come true.
Thank you for this insight into the development of MSFS. I took a nearly 15 year break between FSX and this new version, and the advance of technology is really breathtaking. But I am also amazed by the human side, that every simmer can experience when Jorg, Seb and Martial go live on Twitch and tell us about the newest developments in this awesome, continuing project ...
A couple of times through this video I looked away from the screen and when I looked back again I couldn't tell if I was looking at the game or real life footage. What a triumph of technology this turned out to be. And a triumph of a documentary, too, of course! I have even more respect for this product and the people behind it now.
“Going home!” The narration at the bench was filmed at my home town, San Leandro. Great place to watch incoming planes! The jets are landing at Oakland Airport, rwy 30.
Thank you! I was wondering and was pretty convinced it was Bay Area but hadn't found the spot - Mulford Point.. I can just see the bench he's sitting on on G Maps.. damn, this technology is the best gift a super-curious geo-nerd like me could ask for..
A learner pilot friend of mine came over to have a go on VR and he is now going to get a PC and headset just so he can practice. He "went" flying at his home airport in Waterloo, Canada and was blown away. He said it was SO immersive that he could spend hours in the sim to practice instrument flying, something that he would consider tedious on a flat screen. VR is ANOTHER level up!
Just the fact that i can play this game at all on my series x is amazing. It looks and runs fantastic, but more than that, its an amazing piece of tech. It blew my mind when gtaV came out with that “massive” open world map, and since 2013 we now have the literal entire world to fly around and explore. And it even runs on a console.
thanks for the video - i spend well over half of my time in the sim flying around my old home of central idaho, been away for 30 years and miss it, makes me feel like i am home for a few hours - l am very thankful to all who made this flight sim possible and given me so many hours of joy flying all over the world
Thanks! Amazing and heartful work. The ending was wholesome. Ukrainian stranded away from his family and dreaming to be able to fly back home. Maybe someday we will be able to make the whole Earth our shared home.
omg, this is such a well made documentary. As someone who makes and works on docs for a living - and who loves flight simulators as a hobby - I was set to be disappointed. Boy was I wrong. This is so well produced. It's detailed and fascinating. Thanks for answering nearly all my how-did-they-pull-off-making- MSFS2020 questions!
It's an incredible and foreign feeling to go from wireframe and simple polygons to this in one lifetime. I've started with MFS 4.0. I can't put into words how I feel. I am thankful that I've lived long enough to witness this technological marvel. I tear up just a little.
I’m so happy they made this game streamable to us Xbox One owners. It’s been so addictive. I live right next to Boeing field so of course I flew right into my house at first.
Oh wow. I installed this game and played it one time last year, and the only place I flew, was home, where my mother, father and sisters live. I moved 2,500km's away. I am part of that 70%. So much incredible work has gone into making this game possible. Thanks for this. What a great learning experience it was.
I'm so glad I found this channel. The work you used to do with Gamespot were some of if not the best gaming videos I've seen. When they stopped (was it called The Point?), I wondered for years where you went and my brother pointed this channel out to me and behold it was you. Keep up the great work, as you and your team are simply amazing.
Naw dude. When I was in highschool 15 years ago, I met this old vet who was like 60 or 70 at the time. Disabled and what not, all he did was play MFS and one day he heard about me being good with computers from one of his Tennant's who lived in his house. I was friends with this tennant and he just randomly gave my name to him and thats how I learned about Microsoft Flight Simulator. A new update came out requiring 256 MB of video RAM and his GFX card only had 128. I had an extra 1GB card at my house that I gave to him because 9 recently just upgraded from nvidia to ati and back then ati was wayyy sharper than nvidia so I was ok with 512 instead of 1gb and since I had him show me what exactly was lagging with the simulator (because maybe he just needed a bump in CPU or system RAM for some loading times), the entire game was lagging in windowed mode and at super low resolution like 600x400 so when I put that 1gb card in omg this game was literally top tier quality. I assumed it was like a $200 game or $1,000's because it was military since he was in. The military. I thought it was exclusive stuff hahahah but seriously, after seeing this game on windows xp I just knew it was a serious program. I might not like flying around the planet all that much but I know other humans might and this game is the best game of its type. No other game compares to it. And I haven't legitimately even seen any updates in 15 years. I wish I had a 1gb ati card to give him for even better sharpness back then. I still think about that to this day. I wonder what it looks like now.
Oh man, that was an amazing job, and "they Flew home" hit me at a personal level. Here I am sitting in quarantine in SoCal - alone for almost a year since I am teleworking.
Looking back as I played FS1.0 on my Tandy Color Computer II in 1984, I would never had guessed where Flight Simulator would be today. The scenery is awe inspiring, flight dynamics are amazing and game play/controls top notch. Beautiful video
As always, amazing documentary. Your channel is a blessing, your hard-work is not unnoticed and I can't understate the impact your work has. Please, keep doing these for as long as you can! Beautiful.
This is what happens when a gigantic company uses it's technology for something positive. Another great documentary and a very eye opening. I've been on the fence only because of other games coming out soon. But this has convinced me to jump in.
Played FS for nearly 20 years, Just Tried FS2020 in VR today, I had a rather powerful PC but it still struggles quite a bit, but it still bring tears to me eye when I sit in the cockpit of a 787 and soar into the clouds, it is so ahead of its time and the hardware got a lot to catch up. We don't just love FS for what it is, but for what it can be!!!. thank you so much guys!
Oh man, at 31:20 this is what I would have framed this whole documentary with - the incredible coincidence that when air travel globally was almost entirely shut down, FS2020 comes out with an unprecedented digital replica of the planet that allows us to fly to anywhere in stunning photo realism. For sure it's helped me to 'fly' on trips to see family destinations that I have been unable to do owing to the pandemic. It's been very cathartic for me during these crazy times.
Normally I’d never care for something like this, but you manage to make things so awe inspiring and just overall beautiful content (for lack of better words). You basically can breath life into subjects that are usually boring and I think we all appreciate that.
I have really been enjoying flying around the world in FS2020. Ive flown around the world in little 1 or 2 hour hops, always researching the locations im flying over. Its fascinating! I've learned a LOT of geography over the last few months.
It is now 2022 of June 20th as I write this. While the game is continuously updated, I certainly hope that they will archive snapshots in of different points in time that players can choose to return to. This is especially important for Ukrainians who now face decades of rebuilding in what is still an on-going war. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 may be the closest thing they have to revisiting Kherson and Mariupol when those cities were still bright and beautiful before the time of the Russian invasion where they are now largely rubble filled graveyards.
I've been a user of MSFS since 1997 and no other sim/game has more hours on record. But this version... This is really something else. It feels different, more dynamic. The way I was able to trace my regular 3 hour driving route ONLY by visual reference down to the individual building. I knew exactly where I was every single moment. And those visuals... the lighting. They way being at high altitude looks EXACTLY like real videos. If there's a way of being in love with a piece of software then this is it. Also really appreciate the video. Great work as always.
OMG... been "playing" this sim since its inception in 1982 and the current version for the last 3 months. Watched literally hours and hours of videos about it... And this is one of the, if not THE, most interesting ones... thanks!
Love it, thank you for making this and sharing our story!
You did an amazing job! Congratulations! A true and revolutionary achievement
@Emiliya Kazantseva dude it's only 3 months since the initial launch, give it some time...
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Yeah why should games be bug free on release(!)
@@colin-campbell I mean Xplane 11 still have bugs and CTD after years so it's normal. Give it 6 months atleast
Well and thank you guys and partners of MSFS for making a historic Flight SImulator!
"They flew home." Absolutely no lie, I got a slight lump in my throat from that. What an excellent documentary that showcases not only the phenomenal technical achievement this simulator was to make but also a great testament to the power of technology to be powerful emotional and social tools.
These documentaries are too well made. I actually teared up when I haven't shown emotion in the past years in any movie. Absolutely superb work.
Yeah, that definitely hit me.
It felt obvious that they would fly home. The first thing I would want is to see how the simulation represents something I'm intimately familiar with. I'm sure it's the same for a ton of simulated environments and open worlds, people want to see stuff they know. After you can start seeing the rest of the world.
Came here to say the same thing. Danny's delivery on that line was perfect, and the sentiment is so real.
I had a feeling it was coming, but it still hit me pretty hard.
"70% of players flew to the same place; they flew home"
This line made my eyes water a bit.
Did not expect that.
should have been common sense.
same here, its the first thing i did lol i've always wanted to see my house in a video game and now i have
That fact is either totally made up or it raises some serious questions about the user's privacy.
@@TheGoncas2 during alpha testing we answered many surveys, and that was one of the questions. A lot of us thought there was no way they'd get our house, in our small towns or where ever. Man we were wrong.
@@TheGoncas2 My god are you that paranoid? No one sits around scanning the sim for where every nobody like you is flying to. Please go back to your room pull the shades lock the door and quake with fear of the digital privacy monster.🙄
"They flew Home"
Of course they flew home. Damn good documentary. Its sad that this technical Achievement got overlooked last year. This deserve much more praise and love.
You are absolutely right. It got overlooked completely in my opinion. Once i decided not to waste my time playing cyberpunk 2077, i went to gaming sites to find good games released this year, and that's when i found MSFS and has been hooked since.
I've been away from my family for 10 months now and decided to fly home.
I followed the roads to my parents actual house. Like, "my god, they did it, it's all here"
Me too
I love seeing what my home region looks like from the air!
As did I.
It's quite an honor knowing I was one of the pilots mapping the aerial imagery for this simulator. Specifically, San Francisco (or the entire bay area actually), Medford, OR, Portland, OR, Dallas, TX :). All before I went and got a corporate pilot job lol
Google maps looks much better and is completely free.
@@jimj2683 yes its free, but this looks far better than Google earth or maps
imagine telling someone 20 years ago this thing exists. yeah we simulated the entire world using satellite pictures, traffic maps, filled in the details with machine learning / AI and are able to stream it to your computer in real time. and it only costs as much as any other video game
I felt a shiver of awe run down my spine reading that.
Imagine being 20 years from now and it has become commonplace... I wonder what future games will be like
@@asmoth360 minecraft with good graphics, the dream.
In 20 years from now people will say it looks bad or outdated . Minecraft already has shaders that look real enough to go in the uncanny Valley.
@@Legion849 idk this seems like something that's gonna be remembered as a huge leap forward in technology and graphics, sorta like how we think about games like Doom or Half-Life now.
To anyone reading this from Microsoft or Asobo, a huge thank you! MSFS has been one of the FEW good things that happened in 2020.
Thank you so much
@@AsoboStudio the engine you made is phenomenol 🤩
@@dstutz are you serious? HahahahahahHHHHHHHHHhhaahaha
@@dstutz well make your own not the place to complain have issues help track the bugs and make the game better!
@@javierdominguez6007 Are YOU serious? Have you ever even actually played the game? It's one of the buggiest games I've ever played. Half the shit in the game is completely broken. Go look at the official forums, go look at the reddit threads. The game doesn't even have full multi-monitor support, which would be shameful for any flight sim released in 2020, but for some reason MSFS 2020 gets a pass?
The Microsoft dude sounded so genuine. Like he was really passionate about that project and wanted to share his passion and exitement rather than giving a pr speech. Such a fascinating game/sim.
This game is a master piece. It made me recall the first time I played flight simulator as a kid in 1995, at the time, I questioned my friends which were there with me if they would ever be able to make the entire world, realistically, for us to fly by. 26 years after, look, they did it. This is fricking awesome.
My first time was 1982. I bought it at Radio Shack for $50. Two "cities", Chicago and Champaign Illinois. I thought it was cool so never really paid much attention to scenery. Still don't so MSFS2020 didn't spend much time on my HD. Revolutionary program for sure ... just not my cup of tea.
Same here.
I finally installed this game 2-weeks ago. No, they didn't recreate the world. I quickly learned that all the hype, as usual, was ineffable twaddle. It was reminiscent of when Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 came out, and the tag line was "warning, this is not a game".
MSFS 2020 is a slight improvement over FS2004, but the vast majority of the graphics are the same, namely, "the world". Use the hype as a lesson in why you need to defend yourself against marketing.
@@onepalproductions It's stunning, I went from flying into Lukla underneath the shadow of Mount Everest, I was just flying around Burbank and compared it directly with Flight Simulator X. There's no comparison. It's ACTUALLY Los Angeles. They even have all the wind turbines out towards Palm Springs. It's a literal 1:1 mapping of the entire planet. And the old game is scaled all wrong, Alcatraz is too close to the Golden Gate bridge for example. You need to get back in your time machine and go to the future where you have holograms or stop taking drugs. Suffering from recency bias is what you are.
@@onepalproductions The entire world is there, in satellite images (may be no antartica). The fact is that I was able to find every place I looked for. It's basically google earth with planes.
First got Flight Sim in 87 when I was 8 years old. I ran it on my 286 in VGA with a sound blaster.. like a boss! My dad and I would play it together in a kind of a pilot and co-pilot sort of way. I still remember how he would always comment how he can't imagine it ever looking much better. I wish he was still here to see it now. Thx for the memories Flight Sim team.
A great documentary on a great sim and an awesome team! :)
Documentary? Marketing.
Loved your coverage of the development process and looked forward to seeing videos from you about this game.
Should of known this would catch your interest obsidian
@@nodakamakadon oh STOPPIT lol
Big fan of your channel! Thanks so much for watching!
they really have done a fantastic job. I took the crazy technological feats for granted just a little bit, but not now after watching this video.
Funny seeing you here.
Pretty amazing how they've recreated the entire earth.
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When I flew over my home the first time I played, I looked outside and coincidentally a real plane was flying, that freaked me out for a second or two...
Wow..
Outsourced piloting :)
Haha, I'm gonna crash the plane on my house, it will be fun!
*Sees a plane outside through the window*
¡¡ABORT!! ¡¡ABORT!!
That's called 2nd person lol
im buying vr headset just for this game
I’m 37 and can’t remember the last time I had that feeling of like being a child, excited you know? This gave that to me, so thank you. I grew up playing flight sim in the 90’s with my pop. Happy times
I'm 40 this year and I'm right there with you.
36 here and sharing the same emotions
"They flew home"... Man i started crying... It hit me so hard this one. Great documentary on a brilliant game.
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Me too
Why did you start crying? so dumb lmao
Why did you start crying? Are you 5 year old?
@@arsenymun2028 I am 4. So watch out when you talk with minors.
"the cloud is so important"
Yes the clouds look amazing.
Oh THE CLOUD.
If Nadella hears that, he'll want you to pay for the clouds.
I personally would’ve liked to know how they did cloud modeling more specifically, since it’s so magical.
I still thought he was talking about the clouds until I saw this comment
Lmao I had the same thought
The video is already amazing. The ending segment.., "They flew home" is absolutely touching. An emotional and powerful ending to the video. Well done, MSFS team!
Well I certainly didn't expect to cry from a Microsoft Flight Simulator documentary!
It was so touching when he paused after saying "70% of the players flew back home"
Me too!!!!
Felt forced and cheesy af. Don't know what y'all are talking about. Guess some people are just suckers for that cheeseball crap.
This is one of my favorite documentaries so far, you can seriously tell the entire Flight Sim team had so much heart and passion put into this
My 81 year old grandpa used to fly.
I can’t wait to get Flight Simulator, so I can let him do it again.
What a wonderful thing to do. It will mean so much to him.
I'm 79 years old. I have had an Oculus Rift CV-1 since it's introduction. And I have flown MSFS is some form since 1998. I will have this as soon as it releases for VR and probably on a new high end PC of Gen 4 and Nvidia 3080. I currently do a lot of mock landings and take offs in Google Earth VR. I also have a very high speed Internet Service provider. My dad lived to be 98 so I'm hoping to have serious time left to enjoy this marvel.
@@mesillahills thats awesome man! Hope you get many years to experience this awesome sim
@@mesillahills Why don’t you invest in a new headset? They’ve come so far.
@@ovwarrior Actually I own a Rift-S too. And I will probably buy a G2 as well once you can actually get them. I am also going to get a new Gen 4 PC with an RTX 3080 in it when VR releases on or about December 23rd. The 3080's are mostly sold out right now too. MS just announced it will support ALL major VR HMD's including Oculus at release on that date..
Danny as soon as you said "70% of players....went home" i geniunely just had a few tears stream down my face. Brilliant documentary
Me: "Oh a new Noclip documentary ! Nice. What's that, 'Flight Simulator' ? Cool, I won't end up crying this time, it's just planes !"
Narrator: "It was not just planes."
*30m later*
Noclip: "They flew home."
me: *sobbing hard* damn those planes are nice
Photogrammetry give such a deep emotion as well
Yea, I can't believe I got a lump in my throat over that
I had the same exact reaction ^^ You wouldn’t believe a plane sim game would be so emotional 🥰
Me to. Weird ✈️✈️
I first used flight sim back in 1996 in middle school. We had a teacher that had a whole plywood cockpit with realistic controls. He sparked a life long love of aviation for myself as well as multiple classmates one of my childhood best friends I used to play with went on to fly for the air force. These “games” are a fantastic way to
get kids interested in aviation.
I've only just found this video, an amazing production.
I started using MSFS way back at the beginning and now, at nearly 70 years old, I fly MSFS2020 in VR. I learnt to fly and took my private pilot's licence 30 years ago because of my love for flight sim. Ill health stopped my real flying so the advent of MSFS2020 and VR was perfect.
Did I fly home? Hell yeah :) Thank you to everyone involved.
Dammit Danny. I'm sitting here on Thanksgiving, the first one I've had to spend away from friends and family, and your closing sequence made me cry. Well done.
Be well mate, Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for watching and for keeping your family safe!
This is less of a video game and more of a computer engineering project. Phenomenal seems like underselling the look and feel of this "game". TY /noclip
This took an unbelievable amount of mind effort. I've never seen a game like this before. A "Game". It's hard to call it a game. It's a masterpiece.
This is less of a video game and more of a computer engineering project. Phenomenal seems like underselling the look and feel of this "game". TY /noclip
I hate that it gets labeled as a game. Then it means it comes with expectations to be 4k 120 fps capable ultra omega graphics or its shit.
Nah - it’s a simulator. It’s a fantastic one. The leap from p3d/xplane to this is just astonishing.
@@final3119 It has ultra graphics settings so what's the problem . Microsoft advertises it as a game.
@@Legion849 Because the only games playing at 4k 120 FPS are hall shooters and games like CS:Go... not games that you can see all the way out to the horizon while simulating 50 other AI aircraft, accurate weather and lighting, streaming in gigabytes of imagery and photogrammetry.
@@final3119 It's literally labeled as a flight simulator.
@@OneWheelMan people label and call it a game
Even after nearly a year flying in this sim I am still in awe of how it has turned out and how it is being continuously developed. A big thank you to all involved :-)
My thanks for this documentary!
Having never played a flight sim, I had a bit of Dunning-Kruger when it came to this game. I never thought it was trivial. I knew it must involve lots of data and data processing. But I would say I thought it was probably 10 times less technical than this video revealed it to be. In my mind they just took all the global imagery data, ran 'some' processing on it, hand detailed the major places, and then got some basic live weather data and ran 'some' processing on that to render the weather. I thought the hardest part was the data aggregation. I severely underestimated the complexity of processing they were doing.
To use an analogy, I thought it was more like a commercial jetliner but it turned out to be a state of the art military fighter jet. And I now have a newfound appreciation for the technical achievement that is Microsoft Flight Simulator.
"taking data and ran 'some' processing..." well, technically it is just that but the amount of 'some' is just a bit bigger and more complex ;)
That "They fly home" part hit harder then a 20ton semi truck
“They flew home.” Not a dry eye in the house
That fact is either totally made up or it raises some serious questions about the user's privacy.
@@TheGoncas2 No, it's not made up, and no, it doesn't raise serious questions about the user's privacy. All they're doing is taking the player's IP address to get an approximated geolocation, which practically all sites on the internet collect in order to give the user a relevant and coherent experience based on where they live, among other useful applications. The player's real geolocation would then match with the same geolocation inside the game when the player is flying over there or close to it. I'm not 100% sure if they indeed did this, but i'm certain that would be one easy way to do it.
@@TheGoncas2 Cmon, this gives you issues with privacy? You're on youtube, using a device which constantly tracks you and everything you do, surrounded by other people's devices which also can track you, with no way of opting out. And you're complaining that this sim knows where you live?
@@eagleflies8681 Probably locating more accurately than through IP. Microsoft has access to accurate WiFi-positioning databases, etc. Also most devices, even PCs, can self-report their position nowadays, and Microsoft doesn't exactly have a great track record of not spying on people.
What the documentary didn’t explain is that they garnered this data from a survey of a representative sample of players.
Yes, the first time I started up MSFS I did indeed fly home. I teared up when Danny said that. 😢
The delivery of that "They flew home" made me tear up. Amazing documentary as always, you guys.
Holy crap.I've been waiting for a game like this for years.... Next we need street racing games where we can race on any street in the world
That will probably be another 20 years
Absolutely phenomenal! I teared up in the end. One of your best, Noclip! Well done :)
Read the comment thinking "really, people are tearing up over this...okay?"
30 minutes later: Lump in my throat, happy tear in my eye
Realising the beauty of technology when we work together, trust people and look for the good
I live for these docs! I don't even have to play (or know) the subjects, the presentation of noclip makes me fall in love with them
Come Play With Us, You won't regret it!
This really explains how they finally made the flight sim that I always dreamed of as a kid. I didn't understand at that young age that the technology wasn't there yet to make something this good.
This sim is jaw breaking and amazing. Traveling to certain locations where I left parts of my heart and memories definitely brought tears to my eyes. Some places I will never go back to, but visiting those locations gave me feelings only those places can.
I used to live in a tropical place with islands and beaches and cool little airports that you could go skydiving from. It's quite amazing to fly around it anytime I want. My brain totally buys that I was "there" again.
"Hey, I'm as close to you as I can get."
Me: *UGLY CRYING*
Yeah
Ever heard about a "phone call"?
@@NipapornP How about a Phone call while flying!!!!
@@SgtRum That's just as well! ;)
Cringe
32:45 Thank you 'a potato'
🙏 🥔
I definitely searched for this exact comment
Fantastic doco. Jorg Neumann resume is incredibly lengthy & impressive, back from the Origin days! I've put in over 650 hours into FS2020 since launch and love it. The dedication the team at MS / Asobo has put in, as well as the engagement with the community is truly amazing. They've really managed to pull something incredible off here.
My father .. passed away recently at the age of 76...I was watching this documentary with tears hurting my eyes reminiscing about dad having found a mobile app for this flight simulator,,, he would fly in the out back.....he went to Easter Island... the pyramids...my heart filled with happiness remembering the joy on his face..#priceless. thank you for all you do .... From NEW ZEALAND 💕
aww Man bless you, Sorry to hear that.
30:50 I'm crying now thanks, what a great story
This doc makes me wanna upgrade my PC, get a flight stick and experience the game on my own. Great job on the doc, Danny and Jeremy - and thank you for your work!
Do it !
Good luck getting a HOTAS or even a simple USB flight stick right now. The ones actually in stock are being scalped at insane prices.
@@XinKotetsu Yep, my local MicroCenter's HOTAS stock is non-existent.
You don't even need it, a mouse and keyboard is flyable and gives you a sense of awe about the game just being able to fly above your local city from its local airport.
@@scottmcqueen3964 Is a gamepad good too?
How did you know my Uncle had a bungalow in Kansas?
Because of the POWER OF CLOUD COMPUTING
They are always watching
same lol
AI
@Jonny B Please join! You will be saved!
THIS deserves GAME OF THE YEAR. It wasn't even nominated for fucks sake.
We need a new category; The Best Engineered Game
It isnt a game, its a sim, but I get where youre coming from.
@@zat5176 there's a category called simulation aka its a game
@@zat5176 I don't think It's realistic enough to be considered as a simulator, xp11 is better
wtf how come??
It's so far advanced above anything ever made basically??
What an amazing job you did with this documentary, Noclip - thank you! And huge thanks to Asobo, Microsoft, the partners and all the third party developers for what you have collectively brought to us. I really have no idea how RUclips didn't recommend this to me until now. I've been obsessed with MSFS 2020 since its release (and obsessive in my hunt for a graphics card that will run it!) - ah well, I'm here now. My wife and I just sat here unable to tear ourselves away. This one is getting saved for later.
Also, thanks MS and Finishing Move Inc for allowing your fantastic in-game music to be used.
32:00 Aw, Jorg - that made my eyes a little bleary. But yes, the timing turned out to be perfect.
I feel happy to live in a world where incredible minds like these exist.
An absolutely fabulous documentary. Thank you for that and it may have been technical but it was as engrossing as hell. I know for sure that if it had been me flying then I would have tried to go home. In fact if I eventually buy it then it will be the first thing I try to do even if the craziness has passed on by.
“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” - G.M.
I remember that Crackdown 3 was supposed to demonstrate what the power of the cloud could do for gaming. That sadly flopped, but it looks like Flight Simulator is accomplishing that instead.
It didn't flop. Epic bought the underlying cloud technology that the entire Crackdown 3 concept was built on, so they had to rebuild the entire game without it (which is why one could easily argue that actual product we ended up with has no real hook, in story or gameplay).
@@julianreed7 That explains a lot
I remember the excitement I had in the 80's when Flight Sim came out. This new version gives me the same goosebumpy thrill, I feel like a kid again!
Same here 🤩🤩🤩
It’s the ONLY reason I want to update my ageing computer.
Then I got a thrill from flying from Meig's field to Champaign using it's representation of VORs. The simple monochromatic "scenery" was really unimportant to me. The new scenery still manages to escape my attention (more into the aspect of flight the program is intended to simulate).
@@josephj6521 BINGO ... you have touched upon the number one reason Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) was created.
@@Deploracle I miss Meig's field and Gates Learjet^^
The amount of passion that went into creating this game is outstanding. I truely think this is a feat in video game design, it's revolutionary and perfectly resembles what true sim gaming should be and strive to be. I'm not a huge sim gamer, but for those who are this must be a dream come true.
Thank you for this insight into the development of MSFS. I took a nearly 15 year break between FSX and this new version, and the advance of technology is really breathtaking. But I am also amazed by the human side, that every simmer can experience when Jorg, Seb and Martial go live on Twitch and tell us about the newest developments in this awesome, continuing project ...
A couple of times through this video I looked away from the screen and when I looked back again I couldn't tell if I was looking at the game or real life footage. What a triumph of technology this turned out to be. And a triumph of a documentary, too, of course! I have even more respect for this product and the people behind it now.
At this point, I didn't even realize what I'm looking at either
“Going home!” The narration at the bench was filmed at my home town, San Leandro. Great place to watch incoming planes! The jets are landing at Oakland Airport, rwy 30.
Thank you! I was wondering and was pretty convinced it was Bay Area but hadn't found the spot - Mulford Point.. I can just see the bench he's sitting on on G Maps.. damn, this technology is the best gift a super-curious geo-nerd like me could ask for..
A learner pilot friend of mine came over to have a go on VR and he is now going to get a PC and headset just so he can practice. He "went" flying at his home airport in Waterloo, Canada and was blown away. He said it was SO immersive that he could spend hours in the sim to practice instrument flying, something that he would consider tedious on a flat screen.
VR is ANOTHER level up!
Just the fact that i can play this game at all on my series x is amazing. It looks and runs fantastic, but more than that, its an amazing piece of tech. It blew my mind when gtaV came out with that “massive” open world map, and since 2013 we now have the literal entire world to fly around and explore. And it even runs on a console.
Ever hit the "Y" button in an attempt to parachute out of the plane? Lol
Even though I already heard a lot of this, still watched it all the way through. Thank you noclip, really fascinating!
Please don't stop making these documentaries. I love them too much.
What an absolute pleasure it was watching this. The part about "where people fly" really got me.
thanks for the video - i spend well over half of my time in the sim flying around my old home of central idaho, been away for 30 years and miss it, makes me feel like i am home for a few hours - l am very thankful to all who made this flight sim possible and given me so many hours of joy flying all over the world
Thanks! Amazing and heartful work. The ending was wholesome. Ukrainian stranded away from his family and dreaming to be able to fly back home. Maybe someday we will be able to make the whole Earth our shared home.
omg, this is such a well made documentary. As someone who makes and works on docs for a living - and who loves flight simulators as a hobby - I was set to be disappointed. Boy was I wrong. This is so well produced. It's detailed and fascinating. Thanks for answering nearly all my how-did-they-pull-off-making- MSFS2020 questions!
It always amazes me how far we have come since space invaders and pong.
You chose perfect music for this. Damn good.
@ Patrick Pachal - I second that 👍
Fun fact: much of the music that plays is actually from the game itself!
@@RaviVemula2 Omg really? Thank you for this information. A must have for me then just like No Man's Sky 👍
@@Yurei83 The only music in the game are in the menus though, there's no in-game music
@@Yurei83 no problem! You can find most of the songs used in the game and trailers on SoundCloud by the artist Finishing Move!
This is so amazing. Anyone know the legality of using the super realistic looking in-game aerial footage as stock footage say in a music video?
I think you can, as gameplay footage can be monetizable on RUclips
Pretty sure you aren't stealing Intellectual Property of a big map of the world. But, courts are corrupt, so it would be a crapshoot...
check the game's EULA, it is probably covered there.
Just claim the footage is from a personally developed project that is ironically similar to Flight Simulator 2020 or claim it is real life.
@@journeytree Lies like that won't go over well in court. Your lawyer will advise against that strategy.
This simulator is so real that in some scenes, I couldn't even tell if it was real or not.
Great work; one of this channel's best, imo.
yess ive been waiting for this one
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Didn't think the flight sim vid was gonna be the one to make me cry. 10/10
my favourite game ever, worth every penny I spent. They put crazy hard work into this beautiful game.
This sim really is a technological marvel. Great documentary !!
Always was from the beginning in the 80's.
It's an incredible and foreign feeling to go from wireframe and simple polygons to this in one lifetime. I've started with MFS 4.0. I can't put into words how I feel. I am thankful that I've lived long enough to witness this technological marvel. I tear up just a little.
This documentary made me feel emotional...
I can’t wait to play it.
I had the 95 one. "It's so real!" LOL. Thought it was the coolest thing. This new one is amazing.
I’m so happy they made this game streamable to us Xbox One owners. It’s been so addictive. I live right next to Boeing field so of course I flew right into my house at first.
Oh wow. I installed this game and played it one time last year, and the only place I flew, was home, where my mother, father and sisters live. I moved 2,500km's away. I am part of that 70%. So much incredible work has gone into making this game possible. Thanks for this. What a great learning experience it was.
I'm so glad I found this channel. The work you used to do with Gamespot were some of if not the best gaming videos I've seen. When they stopped (was it called The Point?), I wondered for years where you went and my brother pointed this channel out to me and behold it was you. Keep up the great work, as you and your team are simply amazing.
& then some person comes along & says "oh it's just flying planes round google earth..."
But it is.
It's not really a game.
Bing finally has an use.
@@yeetleslaw8529 Actually players found a way to import Google Earth data into MSFS.....
Naw dude. When I was in highschool 15 years ago, I met this old vet who was like 60 or 70 at the time. Disabled and what not, all he did was play MFS and one day he heard about me being good with computers from one of his Tennant's who lived in his house. I was friends with this tennant and he just randomly gave my name to him and thats how I learned about Microsoft Flight Simulator. A new update came out requiring 256 MB of video RAM and his GFX card only had 128. I had an extra 1GB card at my house that I gave to him because 9 recently just upgraded from nvidia to ati and back then ati was wayyy sharper than nvidia so I was ok with 512 instead of 1gb and since I had him show me what exactly was lagging with the simulator (because maybe he just needed a bump in CPU or system RAM for some loading times), the entire game was lagging in windowed mode and at super low resolution like 600x400 so when I put that 1gb card in omg this game was literally top tier quality. I assumed it was like a $200 game or $1,000's because it was military since he was in. The military. I thought it was exclusive stuff hahahah but seriously, after seeing this game on windows xp I just knew it was a serious program. I might not like flying around the planet all that much but I know other humans might and this game is the best game of its type. No other game compares to it. And I haven't legitimately even seen any updates in 15 years. I wish I had a 1gb ati card to give him for even better sharpness back then. I still think about that to this day. I wonder what it looks like now.
@@ebridgewater There is a challenge and a goal, it's a game.
When he said 70% of people flew home I teared up
time?
copied comment?
Oh man, that was an amazing job, and "they Flew home" hit me at a personal level. Here I am sitting in quarantine in SoCal - alone for almost a year since I am teleworking.
Looking back as I played FS1.0 on my Tandy Color Computer II in 1984, I would never had guessed where Flight Simulator would be today. The scenery is awe inspiring, flight dynamics are amazing and game play/controls top notch. Beautiful video
Does the gyroscope fall back as you fly over the curve of the earth.??
As always, amazing documentary. Your channel is a blessing, your hard-work is not unnoticed and I can't understate the impact your work has. Please, keep doing these for as long as you can!
Beautiful.
literally my dream came true with this. thank you microsoft, and thanks to everyone involved in creating this masterpiece. i am so thankful.
This is what happens when a gigantic company uses it's technology for something positive. Another great documentary and a very eye opening. I've been on the fence only because of other games coming out soon. But this has convinced me to jump in.
I'm fairly sure we all flew home for the very simple reason that we've been waiting our whole lives for this to be possible in a videogame.
Played FS for nearly 20 years, Just Tried FS2020 in VR today, I had a rather powerful PC but it still struggles quite a bit, but it still bring tears to me eye when I sit in the cockpit of a 787 and soar into the clouds, it is so ahead of its time and the hardware got a lot to catch up. We don't just love FS for what it is, but for what it can be!!!. thank you so much guys!
Oh man, at 31:20 this is what I would have framed this whole documentary with - the incredible coincidence that when air travel globally was almost entirely shut down, FS2020 comes out with an unprecedented digital replica of the planet that allows us to fly to anywhere in stunning photo realism. For sure it's helped me to 'fly' on trips to see family destinations that I have been unable to do owing to the pandemic. It's been very cathartic for me during these crazy times.
That was a really good documentary, just makes you wonder yet feel calm.
A true masterpiece..What a time to be alive being a 80’s gamer 🤩🤩
The best documentary I have seen in a while. Simmed so much on Flight Sim X. Cant wait to get this one.
Normally I’d never care for something like this, but you manage to make things so awe inspiring and just overall beautiful content (for lack of better words). You basically can breath life into subjects that are usually boring and I think we all appreciate that.
I have really been enjoying flying around the world in FS2020.
Ive flown around the world in little 1 or 2 hour hops, always researching the locations im flying over. Its fascinating!
I've learned a LOT of geography over the last few months.
It is now 2022 of June 20th as I write this. While the game is continuously updated, I certainly hope that they will archive snapshots in of different points in time that players can choose to return to. This is especially important for Ukrainians who now face decades of rebuilding in what is still an on-going war. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 may be the closest thing they have to revisiting Kherson and Mariupol when those cities were still bright and beautiful before the time of the Russian invasion where they are now largely rubble filled graveyards.
Wonderfully said. Same for goes for Gaza.
@@k.r.99Gaza probably looks no different as Mudhuts become mud once flattened.
I am 35. My dad is 65.
All 3 of us love flight.
1 @ 65 will experience it again.
:)
I've been a user of MSFS since 1997 and no other sim/game has more hours on record. But this version... This is really something else. It feels different, more dynamic. The way I was able to trace my regular 3 hour driving route ONLY by visual reference down to the individual building. I knew exactly where I was every single moment. And those visuals... the lighting. They way being at high altitude looks EXACTLY like real videos. If there's a way of being in love with a piece of software then this is it. Also really appreciate the video. Great work as always.
OMG... been "playing" this sim since its inception in 1982 and the current version for the last 3 months. Watched literally hours and hours of videos about it...
And this is one of the, if not THE, most interesting ones... thanks!