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Quick Look: Microsoft Flight Simulator

Drew Scanlon joins us to go over some of the wonder, beauty, and shenanigans to be had in Microsoft's return to flight sims.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Aug. 20 2020

Cast: Vinny, Alex, Drew

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Microsoft Flight Simulator

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This is the type of content I've been missing. And Drew! Drewwwwww!!!

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get yoked, vinny!

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Looks like the version with synced audio is up! Thanks @vinny

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don't try this at home, kids

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Drew Scanlon with the content I needed today!! Good to hear him back in the ol' saddle.

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forgot to mention the game is part of game pass @vinny

Did we? I thought we did mention it but maybe that was the previous recording.

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@jorbit: that should hopefully be fixed now.

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Its time to (finally) build a pc. Just wish I knew where to start. But I want to play this bad!!

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Clear skies and fun wheels everyone!

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Did you see that realistic stall Vinny got into at the beginning? He tried to pull up and do a 180 degree turn, then he lost too much speed, stalled, and dove into the water. Wow. What a physics system! The stall warning even sounded.

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Drew old buddy old pal

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Just... what a wonderful human.

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This was so cool, thank you!

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@vinny: you did way later on in the video put not when you were saying it in the beginning when talking about pricing

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Thanks Drew! This video is great. I also like this game a lot but I just bought it to fly around and see the world. Playing it with an x box controller and an arcade level of realism is also real fun. I will have to try out the challenges and serious flying some time too though.

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This was a pleasure. Thanks Vinny, Drew, and Alex!

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“A good pilot is always learning”

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@vinny: you did way later on in the video put not when you were saying it in the beginning when talking about pricing

He says it at 4:00; I have to assume you missed it because it couldn't have been much earlier.

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Someone needs to tell vinny there is a taxi overlay assistant he can turn on :)

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This was magic! Thanks @vinny and Drew! Good to see @vinny keeping his extreme QA mentality sharp as a tack. I had so much fun watching this.

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The weird approximation of cockpit views in games is so claustrophobic. It’s like if you were sitting in the pilot’s seat with blinders on.

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This was my favorite QL in a long time. The ending had me just howling.

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All-time great Quick Look imo. These men have such great chemistry

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This is a great QL, I'm glad to see Vinny so excited.

Hey @vinny if you want to check out 'career mode' add-ons, take a look at https://www.onair.company/ or https://www.fseconomy.net/

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Wow! This QL was brilliant and exceeding my sky high expectations going in. I was also in stitches at the end. Thanks for dropping in Drew!

I've been playing around with the game since launch and even learned a few new things from watching this. One feature worth mentioning is there is an assist setting for taxing that draws arrows on the ground telling you where to go. Saves you from having to study the airport maps if that isn't your thing. Loving this game so far!

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Best quick look in a while, what a perfect combination of people for this. I'd even love to see Vinny stream this regularly.

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That ending was something else. It made me smile from ear to ear. Thanks guys! Also, Drew!!!

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This is great. Hoping to see a Vinny series out of this.

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@mozzle said:

@xdeser2: Seeing how MFS gives you more content than what people have dropped thousands of dollars on for X-Plane 11 addons, I think it's very fairly priced.

Simulators are different than games when it comes to pricing and add-ons. It's typically a smaller player base, made up of diehard enthusiasts that are happy to pay for content that they think is worthwhile.

The fact that the base game comes with 20 aircrafts and 30 handcrafted airports along with the reaming 45,000 airports in this game is insane as is.

Very much this. I've spent over a thousand dollars on hardware and software for flight simulation to get my PPL. All of the stuff in this for 120 dollars is actually crazy cheap compared to the wild west of third party developers that gladly charge over a hundred dollars for a single simulated aircraft (PMDG). Also, if the price is off-putting, just get gamepass and play the base game for almost nothing.

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Flight Simulator with Drew, Vinny and Alex, unexpected and awesome!

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Great work, pilots. And passenger. Feel good quick look of the year.

After only dabbling in Il-2 and space sims this seems slightly daunting, but might get it once I've upgraded my SSD. Steam says 150gb of hard drive space required.

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This was so great! We miss you, Drew.

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FYI Vinny there is an option in the settings that turns on a visual breadcrumb trail to follow when taxing.

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Can someone please tell me how to make your friends names appear next to their aircraft? I've been playing this with other people and still haven't figured this out.

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D. Roo innit tah winnit!

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Seeing the cast I'm gonna savor the hell out of this.

Praying for some new feature around MFS 2020 and featuring certain people .... , don't wanna jinx anything.

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Thank you all for making this happen. Entertaining, informative and enthusiastic, checks every box.


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@gat1986 said:

Can someone please tell me how to make your friends names appear next to their aircraft? I've been playing this with other people and still haven't figured this out.

Settings > Traffic > Name tags

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The first rule of Flight Club? A good pilot is always learning!

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Drew! Miss you, hope youre doing well!

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So good to hear Drew again.

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Drew brought me here. The Flight game... all I know is that it gives Call Of Duty a run for its money on how big it is as a download.