FSX Release date...........

andy · Post by **andy** » 03 Jul 2006, 23:48

Come on CB. Fs2000 was absolute sh1te.
It has improved a little since then. not a lot, but a little.

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 03 Jul 2006, 23:52

Charlie Bravo · Post by **Charlie Bravo** » 04 Jul 2006, 00:03

andy · Post by **andy** » 04 Jul 2006, 00:09

I do think that the current system has evolved from CFS2, and not fs2000.
It was intended for a limited scenery area, (ie pacific region) and was therefore stretched beyond its intended capabilities. :think:

Charlie Bravo · Post by **Charlie Bravo** » 04 Jul 2006, 00:13

I'm actually quite content with my FS installation at present but only because I've spent a small fortune on payware to enhance the game.

d0mokun · Post by **d0mokun** » 04 Jul 2006, 01:03

The sim is indeed in Beta 1 form, iirc.

I think that there are some real graphical improvements, take the water for example.. and the traffic (such as cars, boats, herds, all of that stuff- it's all in the videos). Plus, the expansion into the higher-altitudes is pretty cool.

But then, to each his own! There will be no doubt that a lot of people will run both FS9 and FSX, but a time will come when everything will work just nicely- and the sim will only get upgraded in a few years again.

Dano

Vulcan_to_the_Sky! · Post by **Vulcan_to_the_Sky!** » 04 Jul 2006, 08:50

From the screenshots I've seen so far of the beta, FSX isn't looking too bad. What I would like to see in the next version is not so much better graphics, but an improved ATC, and, an AUTOPILOT THAT BLOODY WORKS!!!!

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 04 Jul 2006, 09:48

Ill probs buy it,bit I wont start using it over fs9 untill all of my add ons ect work in it

Charlie Bravo · Post by **Charlie Bravo** » 04 Jul 2006, 10:53

Vulcan_to_the_sky! wrote:From the screenshots I've seen so far of the beta, FSX isn't looking too bad. What I would like to see in the next version is not so much better graphics, but an improved ATC, and, an AUTOPILOT THAT BLOODY WORKS!!!!

If you want ATC, buy Radar Contact. MS will never have any real understanding of real world ATC no matter how much they try.

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 04 Jul 2006, 12:21

TobyVickers wrote:
andy wrote:I've got a glass of water here on my desk............... It's also got some distilled yellow liquid in it from Scotland.
Didnt know you worked in a medical lab, processing urine samples Steve. Oh you mean Whiskey... nice stuff that... but not in the height of the summer

Toby he said that nasty scottish stuff (whisky), not the more superior irish version.

Pedantic, me?

As for the FS X debate. Like a lot of people I stayed with FS2002 for quite a while, because the move over to FS9 would mean 'losing' stuff made in the earlier versions of FSDS (for example most of the Alphasim choppers). It was not until the point was reached where addons were really only being made for FS9 that I made the switch. Unless FS X has some radical differences I won't be in any hurry to make the switch; and I mean radical, not scenery tweaks.

AndyG