Microsoft Flight Simulator aggiunge un sacco di città europee, permettendoti di prendere Zagabria e provare L'Aia

Microsoft Flight Simulator aggiunge un sacco di città europee, permettendoti di prendere Zagabria e provare L'Aia

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Amo come Microsoft Flight Simulator esiste adesso sullo sfondo, come il rombo lontano di una traiettoria aerea. Non solo è giusto bello to have a shiny, new version of one of the gaming OGs there to pick up and play at any time, every now and then it drops an absolutely gorgeous new trailer showing off some wild technical wizardry or hyper-detailed new cityscape. That’s exactly what’s happened now, with Flight Sim’s latest update inviting you to pay a flying visit to an eclectic collection of European cities.

Titled ‘City Update V: European Cities I’ (6-3 on aggregate), the new update introduces five new urban centres to the game. These are the Dutch city of The Hague, Belgium’s Brussels, Croatia’s Zagreb, Spain’s Cádiz, and Košice in Slovakia.

To be clear, all of these cities were technically in Flight Simulator anyway, thanks to its remarkable 1.1 recreation of the entire globe. But the vanilla version’s mixture of satellite data and proc-gen algorithms only gave the rough shape of individual cities, with a lot of weird anomalies appearing if you looked too close.

The cities Microsoft has been drip-feeding through these updates, by comparison, are much more geographically accurate, designed jointly by Microsoft, Bing Maps, and Vexcel, a specialist aerial imaging company. As the announcement on Microsoft Flight Sim’s pagina web states, “Each was produced in the highest visual fidelity using the latest geographic information and TIN (triangulated irregular network) surface modelling.”

As the title implies, this isn’t the first batch of cities to get a photogrammetric makeover. The first City Update focalizzata sulle città tedesche, aggiornando i centri urbani come Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Bonn e Colonia. Altri aggiornamenti della città hanno rivisto le aree metropolitane Francia, Texase, ehm, Europa occidentale, il che rende la convenzione di denominazione per l'ultimo aggiornamento piuttosto confusa. 

Alongside cities, Microsoft has also added a ton of new planes to Flight Sim, including Andy’s favourite plane the Dornier do x, and the world’s largest plane, the An-225 “Mriya”, which was destroyed during Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine last year. A new Flight Simulator il gioco arriverà l'anno prossimo. Intitolato Flight Simulator 2024, aggiunge un'ampia gamma di lavori specifici all'esperienza, come il soccorso in montagna e il pilotaggio acrobatico.

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