Good morning everyone - hope you're all having a good weekend! Quick Corrections: -Thames is pronounced "tems" -Eiffel Tower is not being lit because of a copyright law (that's disappointing :/)
they use bing not google maps.... **facepalm** And only with aerial photography data will the ground a buildings be 100% accurate. Do your research :p Also you can interact with the water, if you turn off damage, or fly with a float plane....
@SynthIIll Gaming They're just not optimized for modern gpu/cpus. If you installed it on a computer using top of the line hardware from the actually time it would run fine.
The Eiffel Tower might not be lit up at night due to copyright concerns, if I recall correctly the lights are pretty recent and considered art, so they are covered under copyright law and depictions of them are illegal without permission.
This is true, and it’s possible the nature of Flight Simulator might make it a super touchy issue since it gives the opportunity for practically infinite new images of the tower without the appropriate legal rights.
I believe copyright or license is the reason some structures aren't in the game, so it certainly sounds believable. I don't know if it applies to this but I've seen people mention Sydney Harbour Bridge being affected by this. Although, I'd bet they could have faked the lighting setup for the Eiffel Tower? Done something that allowed it to be lit up but without copying the art. Surely lighting something can't be copyrighted, only that particular configuration of lights.
Copyrighted lights? That is very strange. Could just imagine this scenario - Police - "You're under arrest" - me "Why?" - "police "You're under arrest for using the same bulbs as the Eiffel tower, because the bulbs are copyrighted!" - Me "Da fuq?"
@@johnpen269 you can do short flights with people like the eaa. Or maybe if they signed up for flight instruction and decided it wasnt for them after the first flight
@@TM-so6nz is that wet rate? If so that's a decent deal if not... well let's just say I'm getting instruction in a 2020 c172 nx for 70 per hour wet soooo
@@lukeduff_3564 dude I just subscribed to it like 2 days ago and I'm playing the game right now. It's true, if you don't have 60$ like me then just get a game pass for 1$ first month and then 5$ per month. But I guess I will get rid of the game in a couple of months.
5:28 I think you may be mistaking a narrow FoV for things being more "condensed". FSX was still based on satellite data, but much more by hand, things were pretty decently in the right places.
I have to say, flight simulator X looks very good considering it's age. Has it always looked like this, or has it been improved over the years with updates?
Flying through a storm with a little Cessna in FS2020 was one of the scariest experiences I've ever had in a game. All I could see were clouds in every direction and it looked incredible.
Im a rl glider Student and I think thr Pipistrel feels most realistic at this time. The whole sim has some weird bugs in it but all together, its great!
I am a student on the DA40NG and it is pretty realistic. The engine model is not spot on and could use some improvement but the handling of the aircraft is about right. You pretty much get the right speeds with the according power settings from real life and the gliding/landing characteristics are pretty close too
I'm a student on a g1000 172 and while I havnt spent a lot of time I do notice there is still a lot missing in terms of features but it feels pretty nice to fly
Oh dear. The reason I stopped using FSX was because of the fidelity of the flight model, not the eye candy. I will wait for the next iteration of the sim and hope they address this, which should be a fundamental part of any flight simulator. In summery: slap Bing on top of FSX and you have a new flight simulator. No, just new eye candy, and only where it is not protected by copyright. Verdict: disappointed but not surprised.
J Y FS2020 has a new flight model though, you just have the option to keep the legacy flight model which was used in FSX - which is the reason the comment was made.
@@egert_linkmann Thank you for the explanation. I thought it strange that the flight model would not be improved. You have cheered me up no end, thanks for that :-)
8:15 Fun fact! The pattern of the lights illuminating the Eiffel Tower at night is copyrighted (it's not just plain white lighting, it's apparently some kind of "art" the same way a sculpture in a public place would be under their laws). It's obvious they hand-modeled it, so that's likely the reason they didn't implement the lighting. In almost every country but France there exists something called "freedom of panorama," i.e. if it's in public or can be seen from a public place you can share photographs or representations as an exception to copyright coverage. Don't like it? Help abolish the broken copyright system :)
Why abolish art? The copyright law isn't an issue. People think it's illegal to take an image for personal use but it's not. It only becomes a legality issue once the image is used commercially
@@Mr.Ramirez95 they have already made a driving sim on google maps but its long gone and you cant play it anymore but it used to be good. It was eaven in 3d but most stuff was flat except the big cities.
For the record, the objects in fsx are not condensed and are in fact to scale. The view on the left of the Golden Gate Bridge was far more zoomed in. The world in fsx and even fs2004 were geographically correct.
The clouds and the weather in general looks straight up like magic. Remember thinking that RDR2 had the best clouds in any game, this just shreds that game.
I remember watching the journey of Microsoft Flight Simulators a few years back. When they finally transitioned to FSX, I remember thinking how modern and realistic it looked as compared to the previous titles
FS2040: Each and every cloud has a perfect shape, size, and location. Every car on every street right now has been perfectly rendered, along with every pedestrian. Every single building in the entire world exists with details going to the microscopic level. Every plane ever created can be flown. You can jump out of the plane and skydive.
It's not really that hard to do - visit your local airfield and inquire about doing a private flight lesson. They let you fly around for like.. an hour or so. Couple hundred bucks for a really cool experience
Explorer flights are only $75 where I live. Tried it and loved it. You go up for an hour. With my flight sim experience my trainer let me taxi, take off, and do 3 touch and goes. It was an amazing experience. Check your local airports for any flight schools and they’ll give you a price. I got hooked. Now I’m 15 hours into my private pilots license.
Very nice review! I've been using flight simulators as long as I can remember, and now as a real world pilot I look forward to trying the new MSFS2020 in a couple of days.
Just something to add: it does use satellite images, from Bing Maps, it serves as input for the Blackshark AI to recreate the 3D environment , which handles most of the games scenarios. Also there are the handcrafted 3D assets for more famous places.
The light on the Eiffel Tower counts as a separate work of art and you therefore need permission to display it. Maybe because it's dark. For the tower itself, you can, for example, photograph and sell, but not illuminated
With 20/20 hindsight, I'm VERY glad that the prognosis for masses of addons taking some time has proved a tad pessimistic. Modellers have hit the ground running, and together with Asobo's major and regular updates, MSFS 2020 is much better today than it was when it was first released. They certainly learnt about frequent upgrades/updates during the interregnum, that's for sure.
So if Flight Sim is using a round earth, and it looks identical to the real earth, why is there still a flat earth debate? Surely all you need to do, is flatten the map in Flight Sim and show how ridiculous the horizons look.
I don't think that would really make that much of a difference to be honest. Most mods have textures at higher resolutions than the stock textures. In the end the mods are largely still limited to the game engine, which doesn't change much or is very clunky.
@@martijn9568 I used a weather mod in fsx, think it was active sky, don't know about textures but the shape of the clouds, the types etc. were more realistic than fs2020
So quick story on my experience with this game so far... one of my friends has it and a few days ago he landed a plane in our schools parking lot then took a picture of him sitting in the cockpit of a passenger airplane in my school parking lot and pretty much everyone who hadn’t heard of this game freaked out and thought he actually landed a plane at out school.... so ya this game is pretty realistic i’d say
1. How did he take a photo of *himself* in the simulator? 2. The buildings and terrain look good at a distance, but nobody with eyesight would be fooled into thinking a screenshot *from ground level* is real life...
ThatCabbage it was a close up pic of him in first person, he wasn’t actually in the cockpit. and he was far enough away from the building that it looked real. also in the pic in was nighttime so that also helped sell it
Hey, quickly googled why the lights are no on the Eiffel Tower and here the answer I got. It turns out the tower's nighttime light show was added in 1985 and is therefore still protected under France's copyright law as an artistic work. Thus, it's illegal to share, sell, or publish photos and videos of the night-lit Eiffel Tower without prior permission from the Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel.13 Oct 2017.
I think the reason the Eiffel Tower isn't lit up is because technically the lights fall under copyright because they were installed less then 100 years ago
70 years to be exact. Copyright law protect the ip for 70 years after it first published or after the owner of the ip passed away, one of the two, I don’t remember correctly
Eiffel tower being dark might be related to the fact that it's lighting is copyrighted, and can't be reproduced for commercial gain without a property release..
That doesn't mean they couldn't light it differently. Most people wouldn't notice if the lighting isn't 100% the same, but having some kind of lighting is better than completely dark.
This simulator is amazing. I love making videos of game comparisons to reality. Sometimes you can really get confused where the game is and where the real world is.
7:50 After playing FS2020 for the first time and coming across this myself while flying thousands of feet over Paris, France at night, I was taken aback. I could not believe my eyes. The game looked so real and the night sky was just incredible. I literally paused the game, rolled back in my chair and took a deep breath after finally realizing how far technology had come. Seeing the lights brighten the sky and watching as the clouds revealed a vast beautiful lit up landscape was absolutely breathtaking. This sim is as spectacular as people say it is.
My PS3/PC Thrustmaster HOTAS was instantly recognized with with well placed buttons. It's great to see the dev taking time to add support to even older HOTAS setups.
@Doctor Whos Apparently, the lights are considered art, so fall under copyright that comes with that, as Fred says. Why they couldn't have 'faked' the lighting setup is another thing.
The first flight sim I ever played was Flight Simulator 98... and I played the subsequent ones after that, 2004, FSX, etc. So this new version is a really a completely new experience to fly in compared to those.
I look forward to VR Flight simulator or MFS on PS5. I wish Grand Theft Auto would combine with the concept of Microsoft Flight Simulator, how cool if you can walk up to your real life home with real time weather with a story mode.
One problem with the comparison, the default zoom in fsx is set for 4x3 monitors, to fix that you can go into the settings and turn on widescreen. Also hit - a few times and zoom all the way out in cockpit view and it'll look a lot more natural in fsx.
Me in 2012: **has laptop that can barely run FSX** Me in 2017: **builds Radeon RX480-based PC to outperform Xbox One X** Me in 2020: **has PC that can barely run FS2020**
Nope. I have a laptop which runs P3D in medium settings in 30 fps. It runs MSFS2020 at the medium too, also in 30 fps. Guess what - MFSF looks much better than P3D.
@@TurboPikachu It is 64-bit 'refurbished' version of FSX developed and sold by Lockheed Martin. Actually main competitor of X-plane until last month ;)
This game is a masterpiece. I am so happy to be able to say that i'm finally proud of a remake of a game / that they genuinely improved a game and not deleted some features / tried making it more "hip" etc. I hate that i see it happen to more and more games..
I used to play Flight Simulator X with my dad all the time, we are big fans of Flight Simulators, but almost 10 years later i finally got a incredible pc, just bought a profissional joystick and a RTX 2060 Plus, then i'll get Flight Simulator 2020 and play with him all day.
Space_Gamer91 i have both fsx with las vegas and california high res textures and pmdg and i bought flight simulator 2020 deluxe premium. And i can tell you i have put all my fsx installations , planes and textures in the trash. I can run fs2020 4k ultra settings with the exact same machine (except 32GB instead of 16GB that i upgraded specifically for FS). The difference is monstrous. It is not comparable. The details in ultra settings 4k are astounding. It handles also my professional yoke and pedal and head tracking system as good as in fsx. But you cannot compare the quality. There is 14 years difference between this two simulations. I can’t wait now to have Dodosim afapting their bell 206, and pmdg adapting their 737ngx. But the plane in standard are really very good. I have the carenado c340ii in fsx which was high res and high quality simulation, but the standard single and bi engine plane in fs2020 are very high quality especially the cessna 172 , 152, and baron g58. I haven’t yet tried the others.
@@CC-gt3ro Of course FS2020 is better than any FS before, yet FSX had the ability to look a lot better (especially with addons). Nonetheless FS2020 will probably be the future and it really is a gorgeous looking Sim
I have to say, both games impress me. For mid 2000's this was already a great accomplishment and the new version blows my mind. lets see what they come up with in 10 years from now!
VariantAEC I don’t see you flying commercial airliners in ace combat. Even if there is a game somewhere where you can, the realism of this game is unparalleled. And I believe they consciously said nope. MS has enough money to do whatever they want with this game. My RUclips opinion!
Remember that this game is new and all the old flight Sims have needed 1-3 years to get good so expect that with this one too, also in September a big world update will come out and stuff like helicopters are already announced + the game has a free SDK so everyone can mod it.
People in 2006: imagine what graphics and Microsoft flight simulator is gonna be like in 2020! Flight simulator X is amazing! People in 2020: oh god yes! Flight simulator X was amazing at its time! Now the new Microsoft flight simulator is almost 100%!
![Evolution of Microsoft Flight Simulator (NEW) [1982-2023]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/G1LT4Zlz0Mk/mqdefault.jpg)
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Good morning everyone - hope you're all having a good weekend!
Quick Corrections:
-Thames is pronounced "tems"
-Eiffel Tower is not being lit because of a copyright law (that's disappointing :/)
Good morning Nick, it's night here 😀
@@sl_50 the lights on it are copyrighted the tower itself isn't
@@bernadelfin2878 Thats... stupid.
they use bing not google maps.... **facepalm**
And only with aerial photography data will the ground a buildings be 100% accurate. Do your research :p
Also you can interact with the water, if you turn off damage, or fly with a float plane....
‘Attitude indicator’? 3:07
15 years ago : Weak pc i could barely run.
Now : I can finally run sim X
My pc runs fs2020 at 60 FPS perfectly yet I only get 3 on fsx 🤣
@SynthIIll Gaming i can run fs 2020 at 10 fps but fsx at 120
@@frostyvr9805 thats the 32 bit / 64 bit issue :( .after 600 hours i transitioned to the Prepar3d
@SynthIIll Gaming They're just not optimized for modern gpu/cpus. If you installed it on a computer using top of the line hardware from the actually time it would run fine.
@@frostyvr9805 lol 60fps in a major city in the hand crafted airports with full ai? what res and system specs?
Nick930: "Generating a world using what appears to be satellite images like Google maps".
Bing:**Punching the air**
They actually announced that they would team up with the Bing Maps team
@@EivindFlores that was the joke :)
@@jaifernandes That one flew right over me. [pun intended]
@@EivindFlores They are already using Bing Maps data for cities where they have detailed 3D view.
@@theduden it's only bing map at all
The Eiffel Tower might not be lit up at night due to copyright concerns, if I recall correctly the lights are pretty recent and considered art, so they are covered under copyright law and depictions of them are illegal without permission.
Hans Stammler if this is true, it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.
This is true, and it’s possible the nature of Flight Simulator might make it a super touchy issue since it gives the opportunity for practically infinite new images of the tower without the appropriate legal rights.
This is what I came here to say. I'd bet my house that that's the reason.
I believe copyright or license is the reason some structures aren't in the game, so it certainly sounds believable. I don't know if it applies to this but I've seen people mention Sydney Harbour Bridge being affected by this.
Although, I'd bet they could have faked the lighting setup for the Eiffel Tower? Done something that allowed it to be lit up but without copying the art. Surely lighting something can't be copyrighted, only that particular configuration of lights.
You also can't take photos of the Eiffel Tower at night due to this... I didn't know it at the time so i have some "illegal" photos on the phone 😂
The Eiffel Tower being dark isn’t a bug. The lights are subject to copyright. The structure isn’t but the lights are. It’s weird.
Copyrighted lights? That is very strange. Could just imagine this scenario - Police - "You're under arrest" - me "Why?" - "police "You're under arrest for using the same bulbs as the Eiffel tower, because the bulbs are copyrighted!" - Me "Da fuq?"
@@drummonkeystuffuk1875 That's lot how laws and police works kid
@@vesperin5172 that's a joke old man
@@fakuri913 no
@@drummonkeystuffuk1875 the bulbs themselfs are not copyrighted
"I've only flown a real plane once..." as if that's less than usual xD
lmao also how does one fly a plane only once
@@johnpen269 a discovery flight, I've flown with an instructor before for about 1.5 hr really fun experience u should look into it :)
@@natephillips6890 This
@@johnpen269 you can do short flights with people like the eaa. Or maybe if they signed up for flight instruction and decided it wasnt for them after the first flight
@@TM-so6nz is that wet rate? If so that's a decent deal if not... well let's just say I'm getting instruction in a 2020 c172 nx for 70 per hour wet soooo
Fsx honestly is still such an amazing game. Even with some texture and global upgrades it still looks pretty good
👍
90s: We will be able to virtually travel anywhere
Now: Yes
It only took three decades to fulfill that promise
@503 Workshop actually you can get it for 1$ for the first month. Use Microsoft Game pass.
I like how everyone just forgets fsx had an entire planet too lol
@@yashjh8082 no its not
@@lukeduff_3564 dude I just subscribed to it like 2 days ago and I'm playing the game right now.
It's true, if you don't have 60$ like me then just get a game pass for 1$ first month and then 5$ per month.
But I guess I will get rid of the game in a couple of months.
I showed Flight Sim 2020 to my 75 yr old grandpa and he was absolutely blown away I thought he was gonna cry.
Imagine showing this to someone in the 90s
"where's the world trade center?"
imagine showing this to someone in the 90's, or in the 2000's
Levi Bazen OMG 🤣🤣
@@levibazen608 lol
@@levibazen608 Oh god lol
5:28 I think you may be mistaking a narrow FoV for things being more "condensed".
FSX was still based on satellite data, but much more by hand, things were pretty decently in the right places.
I have to say, flight simulator X looks very good considering it's age. Has it always looked like this, or has it been improved over the years with updates?
There were some updates, but it was definitely good for its time and a big upgrade over its predecessors.
Imagine in 2040.
Even all the leaves are rendered.
Austin Spedicy It can happen
@@TheChaosGamerWither715 Yup
Every blade of grass.
@@toy4tao 666999 GB
@@diddlysheep6690 well Microsoft flight simulator 2020 uses about 2000000 GB so i would say 60× that.
5:42 - Is it just me or the Statue of Liberty on the right looks like she's holding her breath?
Yess
true :v
Lmao
"that's got to be the best *pilot* I've ever seen"
*So it would seem"
12:40
this comment is 👌
Golden comment 😂
Well.. I can't disagree he made a Boeing go into a flat spin
*[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]*
Flying through a storm with a little Cessna in FS2020 was one of the scariest experiences I've ever had in a game. All I could see were clouds in every direction and it looked incredible.
"I've only flown a real plane once"
Most people have never flown a plane, so if anything you're the expert
Im a rl glider Student and I think thr Pipistrel feels most realistic at this time. The whole sim has some weird bugs in it but all together, its great!
I am a student on the DA40NG and it is pretty realistic. The engine model is not spot on and could use some improvement but the handling of the aircraft is about right. You pretty much get the right speeds with the according power settings from real life and the gliding/landing characteristics are pretty close too
I'm a student on a g1000 172 and while I havnt spent a lot of time I do notice there is still a lot missing in terms of features but it feels pretty nice to fly
I own a Cessna Skycatcher and am pretty impressed with the sim. But then I’m a MSFS fanboy.
Jonah Wilhelm true, the G1000 in msfs is very very basic. IFR flying is not really realistically possible yet
"The Cessna"
Me, a Cessna 152 pilot: "There's more than just the 172 :("
I love the 152
Lol The 152. Gross.
Zach Waddell ok lowlife
Zach Waddell no
When I was younger, I used to be a super big 172 fanboy, but now I love the 152, especially the older ones.
Imagine playing this in VR
rumors says that vr experiment will be released to flight simulator 2020 this year. It would look AMAZING
VR support is confirmed
AFlakeOfDandruff ! He did not
Imagine imagining imagery
To add to the VR support, this fall it will be first available for the HP Reverb G2, then other headsets later.
“Let’s compare the flight models”
*uses legacy flight model*
Im surprised more people havent ranted about that
Oh dear. The reason I stopped using FSX was because of the fidelity of the flight model, not the eye candy. I will wait for the next iteration of the sim and hope they address this, which should be a fundamental part of any flight simulator. In summery: slap Bing on top of FSX and you have a new flight simulator. No, just new eye candy, and only where it is not protected by copyright. Verdict: disappointed but not surprised.
J Y FS2020 has a new flight model though, you just have the option to keep the legacy flight model which was used in FSX - which is the reason the comment was made.
@@egert_linkmann Thank you for the explanation. I thought it strange that the flight model would not be improved. You have cheered me up no end, thanks for that :-)
@@jy1794and the flight model is also continuously being updated.
8:15 Fun fact! The pattern of the lights illuminating the Eiffel Tower at night is copyrighted (it's not just plain white lighting, it's apparently some kind of "art" the same way a sculpture in a public place would be under their laws). It's obvious they hand-modeled it, so that's likely the reason they didn't implement the lighting. In almost every country but France there exists something called "freedom of panorama," i.e. if it's in public or can be seen from a public place you can share photographs or representations as an exception to copyright coverage. Don't like it? Help abolish the broken copyright system :)
Why abolish art? The copyright law isn't an issue. People think it's illegal to take an image for personal use but it's not. It only becomes a legality issue once the image is used commercially
This makes me cry, the fact on how much we've improved over the years, I'm so glad im here to see it
We might be living in a simulation. We went from pixely games to games that look better than real life
@@mr.forrux9745 one is from hardware form 15 years ago
.@@LuemD
Imagine this tech being used to make a driving simulator.
That needs to happen.
I mean Google already has street view so I guess they could 🤔
Only implement roads with street view.
@J J that game is pretty trash. You get fined for rash driving and also for crashing into pedestrians and properties
@@Mr.Ramirez95 they have already made a driving sim on google maps but its long gone and you cant play it anymore but it used to be good. It was eaven in 3d but most stuff was flat except the big cities.
it would not work out at all when u go to the ground it does not look that good
14:22 I think you just took off with the parking brake still on, unless the 747 has become the slowest vehicle on the planet.
LoL, my thoughts exactley
He also took off before the v1 callout lmao
I think its wind going right against the aircraft. Idk just what i think it might be
...
Lol he absolutely took of with the park brake on 🤣
For the record, the objects in fsx are not condensed and are in fact to scale. The view on the left of the Golden Gate Bridge was far more zoomed in. The world in fsx and even fs2004 were geographically correct.
Thank you, there’s a few other mistakes in this video too. I wonder why people just decide to make these videos to propagate false information...
@@breeknow Cus they don't know any better. It's not necessarily deliberate.
I noted the same point just now. Glad I wasn't the only one to make the point about field of view.
@@blitzwing1 Still....
Stumbled across this channel by accident and I must say I appreciate the work you do!
The lighting for the Eiffel Tower’s lighting design rights have probably not been purchased by Microsoft.
Yes, I agree!
yup copyright issues ftw. Copyright policy in France is very different than in the US.
I think it is virtual image so no problem
Just have some giant RUclipsr next to the tower at night giving a criticism of the lighting and now it's fair use for being a transformative work.
It lights up now. It was just a bug
The clouds and the weather in general looks straight up like magic. Remember thinking that RDR2 had the best clouds in any game, this just shreds that game.
I remember watching the journey of Microsoft Flight Simulators a few years back. When they finally transitioned to FSX, I remember thinking how modern and realistic it looked as compared to the previous titles
That’s exactly how it will be with FS2024
the only time i've ever wanted to play a game where you take control of a plane
Flight Simulator is probably the most detailed game i've ever seen in my life. The Microsoft team did a fantastic job!
Asobo developed it.
@@Torturephile Stole it right out of my mouth haha.
@@Torturephile Doesn't MS like, own Asobo or something?
@@sethadkins546, no. Several of their games are published by different companies.
@@Torturephile oh
possibility that we all might look back and say “remember when we thought FS2020 was great.. now we have FS2040”
Yeah and it'll run off a device smaller than a smart phone
FS2040: Each and every cloud has a perfect shape, size, and location. Every car on every street right now has been perfectly rendered, along with every pedestrian. Every single building in the entire world exists with details going to the microscopic level. Every plane ever created can be flown. You can jump out of the plane and skydive.
Sad but this cant be true, the humanity is going to hell.
Playing this game in VR would be breath-taking.
Coming at the end of the year according to the roadmap.
you're breathtaking
More like pc-melting
ay bro watch yo jet, WATCH YO JET
Play Google Earth VR... then imagine you're in a plane... then cry until VR support comes to MSFS
Alternate title: man breaks laws of physics and runs flight simulator 2020 at 4K
I'm pretty sure the Eiffel tower is copyrighted when it's fully lit that's why they didn't show it with any lights
They maybe could get away with spoofing it, if they won't cough up the money to have it.
Well just use different lights than the real tower
The title music from FSX was so fantastic and the missions have been so cool!
"I've only flown a real plane once"
*weird flex but okay*
not everything is a flex
It's not really that hard to do - visit your local airfield and inquire about doing a private flight lesson. They let you fly around for like.. an hour or so. Couple hundred bucks for a really cool experience
@@Nick930 you have a local airfield , the nearest airport for me is a state run nearly 200 kms away
@Doctor Whos Not if its lessons and youre being trained by a professional trainer with a license.
Explorer flights are only $75 where I live. Tried it and loved it. You go up for an hour. With my flight sim experience my trainer let me taxi, take off, and do 3 touch and goes. It was an amazing experience. Check your local airports for any flight schools and they’ll give you a price. I got hooked. Now I’m 15 hours into my private pilots license.
Very nice review! I've been using flight simulators as long as I can remember, and now as a real world pilot I look forward to trying the new MSFS2020 in a couple of days.
Graphics look damn good for 2006
This is probably the most heavy thing from 2006....
Wow, I played 2004 a lot!, I remember it being so realistic!
Just something to add: it does use satellite images, from Bing Maps, it serves as input for the Blackshark AI to recreate the 3D environment , which handles most of the games scenarios. Also there are the handcrafted 3D assets for more famous places.
Except the Washington Monument + White House apparently... check those out - they look terrible lol
@@Nick930 yeah, that's true, I guess not everything got the proper attention lmao. Also the Stonehenge is non existent.
Pearl harbour memorial site...
The best comparison video i found so far. Thanks for sharing this !
The light on the Eiffel Tower counts as a separate work of art and you therefore need permission to display it. Maybe because it's dark. For the tower itself, you can, for example, photograph and sell, but not illuminated
With 20/20 hindsight, I'm VERY glad that the prognosis for masses of addons taking some time has proved a tad pessimistic. Modellers have hit the ground running, and together with Asobo's major and regular updates, MSFS 2020 is much better today than it was when it was first released. They certainly learnt about frequent upgrades/updates during the interregnum, that's for sure.
I like flight sim x because my pc can actually run it.
So if Flight Sim is using a round earth, and it looks identical to the real earth, why is there still a flat earth debate?
Surely all you need to do, is flatten the map in Flight Sim and show how ridiculous the horizons look.
They would say "MICROSOFT IS PART OF THE CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!!"
omg Nick930 hand reveal less than 1 minute in!? :o
Still appreciated in January 2023. Cheers from a Newbie in Outback country Western Australia
When I was a kid playing FSX I thought the graphics were photorealistic lol
Here is 2022 I can tell ya VR in MSFS is breathtaking, you have to see it to believe it, that said developing airports isn't a joyful ride so far!
I wish someone would do a comparison with a modded version of FSX
I don't think that would really make that much of a difference to be honest. Most mods have textures at higher resolutions than the stock textures.
In the end the mods are largely still limited to the game engine, which doesn't change much or is very clunky.
@@martijn9568 I used a weather mod in fsx, think it was active sky, don't know about textures but the shape of the clouds, the types etc. were more realistic than fs2020
sometimes when i watch a msfs 2020 video i cant tell if it real life or a simulator
So quick story on my experience with this game so far... one of my friends has it and a few days ago he landed a plane in our schools parking lot then took a picture of him sitting in the cockpit of a passenger airplane in my school parking lot and pretty much everyone who hadn’t heard of this game freaked out and thought he actually landed a plane at out school.... so ya this game is pretty realistic i’d say
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@@Khan--nr4lw no what?
@@eelmin3776 I assume he is pointing out that this is obviously a fake story
1. How did he take a photo of *himself* in the simulator?
2. The buildings and terrain look good at a distance, but nobody with eyesight would be fooled into thinking a screenshot *from ground level* is real life...
ThatCabbage it was a close up pic of him in first person, he wasn’t actually in the cockpit. and he was far enough away from the building that it looked real. also in the pic in was nighttime so that also helped sell it
Hey, quickly googled why the lights are no on the Eiffel Tower and here the answer I got.
It turns out the tower's nighttime light show was added in 1985 and is therefore still protected under France's copyright law as an artistic work. Thus, it's illegal to share, sell, or publish photos and videos of the night-lit Eiffel Tower without prior permission from the Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel.13 Oct 2017.
I think the reason the Eiffel Tower isn't lit up is because technically the lights fall under copyright because they were installed less then 100 years ago
I was thinking about that too
70 years to be exact. Copyright law protect the ip for 70 years after it first published or after the owner of the ip passed away, one of the two, I don’t remember correctly
Thanh Phong Dang I thought it was 75 years after the creator passed away. I could be wrong though
Than or then?
I almost thought this was a direct comparison from the game to real life! 😂 this game looks incredible
Can i just say how good flight sim x is for being a game from 2006
One of the things that makes FS2020 really exciting, is that this is just the beginning. There'll likely be big improvements made over time.
Fun fact: all aircraft interiors weren't modeled, they where 3d scanned
3d scanned mesh arent optimized for pc applications. Most likely they were used as guides.
1:25 the engines look different because the 747 in FSX is a 747-400, while the 747 in MSFS is a 747-8i
Eiffel tower being dark might be related to the fact that it's lighting is copyrighted, and can't be reproduced for commercial gain without a property release..
That doesn't mean they couldn't light it differently. Most people wouldn't notice if the lighting isn't 100% the same, but having some kind of lighting is better than completely dark.
Fact: Showing Eiffel Tower photography at the evening for commercial purposes is not permitted, That’s why you can’t see it at 8:05
Yea you're right
Maybe there was a simulated terrorist attack that day
I heard about that! Crazy!
That's a fucking myth and it's annoying people keep bringing it up
"like google maps"
crying bing team noises
This simulator is amazing. I love making videos of game comparisons to reality. Sometimes you can really get confused where the game is and where the real world is.
7:50 After playing FS2020 for the first time and coming across this myself while flying thousands of feet over Paris, France at night, I was taken aback. I could not believe my eyes. The game looked so real and the night sky was just incredible. I literally paused the game, rolled back in my chair and took a deep breath after finally realizing how far technology had come. Seeing the lights brighten the sky and watching as the clouds revealed a vast beautiful lit up landscape was absolutely breathtaking. This sim is as spectacular as people say it is.
My PS3/PC Thrustmaster HOTAS was instantly recognized with with well placed buttons. It's great to see the dev taking time to add support to even older HOTAS setups.
8:10 . It's actually illegal to take photos of Eiffel Tower at Night
It's illegal to redistribute those photos*
They can't arrest you for taking a picture lol
@Doctor Whos They are copyrighted.
@Doctor Whos Apparently, the lights are considered art, so fall under copyright that comes with that, as Fred says. Why they couldn't have 'faked' the lighting setup is another thing.
@Doctor Whos The Eiffel Tower itself was copyright protected until 1993.
What's copyrighted? Lighting up the tower? The placement of the lights? The way the tower twinkles before the big lights turn on?
The first flight sim I ever played was Flight Simulator 98... and I played the subsequent ones after that, 2004, FSX, etc. So this new version is a really a completely new experience to fly in compared to those.
2:46 turbines on a Baron 58?
Honestly proud of how far we've come... 10 years from today, photo-realism to a level we can no longer differentiate real-life from game.
The Eiffel Tower has copyright illuminated at night
(It's a fact, not kidding)
I look forward to VR Flight simulator or MFS on PS5. I wish Grand Theft Auto would combine with the concept of Microsoft Flight Simulator, how cool if you can walk up to your real life home with real time weather with a story mode.
The best thing about the 2020 version is that it makes my pc sound like a real plane! W-wait, it's burning... oh shi-
4:02 Holy sh*t that tree
14:18 can't tell if that's the jet, or my PC getting ready to launch into orbit.
One problem with the comparison, the default zoom in fsx is set for 4x3 monitors, to fix that you can go into the settings and turn on widescreen. Also hit - a few times and zoom all the way out in cockpit view and it'll look a lot more natural in fsx.
4:23 the game actually uses bing maps.
He said like google maps
I said it used satellite data LIKE google maps - because people are more familiar with that. I did not say it uses google though
@@Nick930 I see, thanks for clarifying.
Guess I got out-clarified
@@Nick930 You could just say that in the video then? Bing maps - similar to Google maps
Great video, and exactly the kind of comparison I was searching for😀👍🏻
Me in 2012: **has laptop that can barely run FSX**
Me in 2017: **builds Radeon RX480-based PC to outperform Xbox One X**
Me in 2020: **has PC that can barely run FS2020**
Nope. I have a laptop which runs P3D in medium settings in 30 fps. It runs MSFS2020 at the medium too, also in 30 fps. Guess what - MFSF looks much better than P3D.
sholayo what is P3D
@@TurboPikachu It is 64-bit 'refurbished' version of FSX developed and sold by Lockheed Martin. Actually main competitor of X-plane until last month ;)
This game is a masterpiece. I am so happy to be able to say that i'm finally proud of a remake of a game / that they genuinely improved a game and not deleted some features / tried making it more "hip" etc. I hate that i see it happen to more and more games..
Flight simulator x: mobile game
Flight simulator 2020: supercomputer game
I used to play Flight Simulator X with my dad all the time, we are big fans of Flight Simulators, but almost 10 years later i finally got a incredible pc, just bought a profissional joystick and a RTX 2060 Plus, then i'll get Flight Simulator 2020 and play with him all day.
Looks like: Flight Simulator X vs Real life. Don't even know how would i react, if i've seen this decade ago...
13:06. Omg, I've been hearing that since Dec 2006. Can't wait for 2022
Cries in intel® HD Graphics and 2gb Ram
Laughs in i7 rtx 2060
I fell u tho i just got it
With a ram upgrade you should be able to run fsx I get 40fps on Intel iris 6100 with my i3 5157u.
@@Wambowayne With addons?
Farewell FSX ... It was a pleasure, most of the time.
I know he put his FS2020 on the highest settings, but FSX looks a lot lower in quality in this video than it does when I play it. (Highest settings)
Space_Gamer91 i have both fsx with las vegas and california high res textures and pmdg and i bought flight simulator 2020 deluxe premium. And i can tell you i have put all my fsx installations , planes and textures in the trash. I can run fs2020 4k ultra settings with the exact same machine (except 32GB instead of 16GB that i upgraded specifically for FS). The difference is monstrous. It is not comparable. The details in ultra settings 4k are astounding. It handles also my professional yoke and pedal and head tracking system as good as in fsx. But you cannot compare the quality. There is 14 years difference between this two simulations. I can’t wait now to have Dodosim afapting their bell 206, and pmdg adapting their 737ngx. But the plane in standard are really very good. I have the carenado c340ii in fsx which was high res and high quality simulation, but the standard single and bi engine plane in fs2020 are very high quality especially the cessna 172 , 152, and baron g58. I haven’t yet tried the others.
@@CC-gt3ro Of course FS2020 is better than any FS before, yet FSX had the ability to look a lot better (especially with addons). Nonetheless FS2020 will probably be the future and it really is a gorgeous looking Sim
This brings the same feeling as exploring Google earth for the first time.
Msfs x has better sounds than msfs 20200 (MY OPINION) BTW FUN FACT:MSFS X HAS BETTER PHYSICS THAN MSFS 2020
I have to say, both games impress me. For mid 2000's this was already a great accomplishment and the new version blows my mind. lets see what they come up with in 10 years from now!
9:32 prolly cut due to sensibilities. To stop 9/11 style reenactment uploads.
9/11 happened in 2001, FSX was released in 06
Mackinley Saunders attitudes haven’t changed since 06.
VariantAEC I don’t see you flying commercial airliners in ace combat. Even if there is a game somewhere where you can, the realism of this game is unparalleled. And I believe they consciously said nope. MS has enough money to do whatever they want with this game. My RUclips opinion!
Eiffel Tower lights are copyrighted.
Google that :-)
i would kill for a Nick guided tour of all the world's landmarks with his voice as narration...
Since we are talking about simulation games.
*What about Euro truck simulator 1 vs 2*
Remember that this game is new and all the old flight Sims have needed 1-3 years to get good so expect that with this one too, also in September a big world update will come out and stuff like helicopters are already announced + the game has a free SDK so everyone can mod it.
I use Plan-G app to set up realistic flight plans especially IFR. Wonder if that will work with FS2020?
The reason why the Eiffel Tower have no light it due to a copyright issue, It isn't a bug I wish I was joking.
This game will be truly beautiful. If i can get my hands on it, hopefully i can get some fabulous photos. Can't wait!
People in 2006: imagine what graphics and Microsoft flight simulator is gonna be like in 2020! Flight simulator X is amazing!
People in 2020: oh god yes! Flight simulator X was amazing at its time! Now the new Microsoft flight simulator is almost 100%!
I remember seeing FSX graphics and they looked amazing to me. Now it looks like a video game in the 90s
13:16 i can't tell the difference between the plane engine or my pc trying to not blowing up
just subbed, was waiting for this comparison