Coming Soon: Microsoft Flight Simulator Game of the Year Edition

Microsoft Flight Simulator: Match of the Calendar year Edition Coming November 18!

It has been an incredible journey because we launched Microsoft Flight Simulator on Computer. The main flight simmer viewers embraced the new working experience straight away and with Xbox Game Move for Pc, a new viewers of Pc players was attracted who experienced beforehand hardly ever played a flight simulator in advance of.

In July 2024, we introduced Microsoft Flight Simulator on Xbox Collection X|S and welcomed tens of millions of console gamers to the flight simulation experience. We released new attributes this sort of as Discovery Flights, expanded tutorials, Flight Assistant, Map Labels, and Land Wherever, that are aimed to assist newcomers to correctly enter the globe of Microsoft Flight Simulator. This launch introduced various improvements to the sim such as important performance gains that benefitted the Computer system audience as properly.

And the start was just the beginning. Through the previous 14 months, we delivered major regular monthly updates: 6 World Updates and six Sim Updates that regularly improve the encounter. And currently, we are happy to announce the Microsoft Flight Simulator Game of the 12 months (GOTY) Edition. This new version celebrates all the constructive responses, opinions and awards garnered, but it is also a “Thank You” to our lovers – new and outdated – that have manufactured Microsoft Flight Simulator this sort of a phenomenon.

Below is what is involved in the GOTY Edition:

New Plane

We are incorporating 5 model new plane to Microsoft Flight Simulator:

• Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet: Our 1st military jet and a remarkably asked for aspect from the neighborhood. The Top rated Gun: Maverick expansion will release with the movie up coming Spring, but we needed simmers to have the opportunity to examination their require for pace this getaway.
• VoloCity: We partnered with very well-regarded German business Volocopter, which is doing the job on an eVTOL called “VoloCity”, a vision for an city air taxi. We worked closely with the Volocopter engineering staff to acquire an reliable model of the prototype aircraft for the simulator. This is our initially plane that can carry out pinpoint landings and is a teaser of what you can seem ahead to in 2024 when we intend to start helicopters in the sim.
• Pilatus Computer-6 Porter: This legendary brief takeoff and landing (STOL) utility aircraft is a highly flexible plane from Switzerland and arrives with various cockpits, cabins, and landing gear variations. It is the final result of our shut collaboration with the producer and the progress attempts by famed developers Hans Hartmann and Alexander Metzger resulted in a wonderful and entertaining new plane with exception capabilities in the simulator.
• CubCrafters NX Cub: Yakima-dependent CubCrafters recently launched a nosewheel choice for their flagship CC-19 XCub Aircraft, commonly referred to as the NX Cub, which we are happy to introduce to the flight sim viewers to additional enrich our bush flying and off airport selections.
• Aviat Pitts Particular S1S: One particular of our most popular planes gets a solitary-seat choice with the launch of this plane.

New Airports

We are introducing 8 handcrafted airports in Central Europe and the United States:

• Germany
  • Leipzig/Halle Airport (EDDP)
  • Allgäu Airport Memmingen (EDJA)
• Switzerland
  • Luzern-Beromunster Airport (LSZO)
• United States
  • Patrick Area Drive Foundation (KCOF)
  • Maritime Corps Air Station Miramar (KNKX)

The Sport of the 12 months release is including info about 545 earlier lacking airports in the United States.

New Missions

Dependent on the reputation of the not too long ago released Discovery Flights, we are incorporating an further 6 spots (Helsinki, Freiburg im Breisgau, Mecca, Monument Valley, Singapore, and Mount Cook dinner) to this preferred series.

New Tutorials

To more develop the onboarding knowledge, we are incorporating 14 new tutorials, introducing simmers to Bush traveling (in an Icon A5) and IFR (in a Cessna 172).

New Functions

We are also happy to introduce several really requested functions by the community: an updated temperature technique, early access to DX12, and a dev mode replay method.

New Photogrammetry Towns

As aspect of our ongoing collaboration with Bing Maps, we are delighted to insert a selection of new photogrammetry towns: Helsinki (Finland), Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), Brighton, Derby, Eastbourne, Newcastle, and Nottingham (United kingdom) and Utrecht (Netherlands).

Windows 11 Collaboration

To celebrate the launch of Windows 11, from October 19^th to November 18^th, we have picked 11 landmarks across the globe that will be lit up in Windows blue inside Microsoft Flight Simulator. In addition, we are releasing a distinctive Windows 11 themed livery for the Added 330LT for simmers to increase to their assortment.

And, ideal of all, the Microsoft Flight Simulator Video game of the Calendar year Version will be offered as a no cost update for existing players on Personal computer and Xbox Sequence X|S. For new consumers, the GOTY Edition is the ideal entry stage to flight simming as it gives an even richer experience, and it will be the product they purchase as we are retiring the primary.

We just can’t hold out for you to experience this expanded edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator on November 18. We encourage you to invite your close friends to working experience the miracles of flight. The sky is contacting!

Microsoft Flight Simulator is now available on Xbox Collection X|S with Xbox Recreation Go, Home windows 10/11 with Xbox Video game Pass for Computer, and Steam.

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