Air particles! They're simulating air particles, for God's sake!Īnd bullets. A typical sample: We're taking into account the way the Earth's atmosphere behaves and the number of air panicles per square inch at different altitudes. Listening to Pinero talk about the various damage models and flight dynamics contained in the game is enough to make a layman's head spin and a physics professor's skin-flute become sexually swollen. The TheoryĪccuracy has always been the key to Microsoft's flight sims, and MCFS is no different. I think that's where the experience of having built flight models for 16 years is going to be an incredible advantage. But there's also a strong market for people who want to have the closest experience of being a WWII combat pilot. Some people will just want to get the joystick and basically aim around and shoot at whatever. I think there's a market for everything, says Pinero.

Most people are just surprised that it took them this long, and that they waited until the market was packed with like-minded titles.

MCFS is the answer to the question that everyone's been asking for 16 years: Where are the guns? No one can sit behind a civilian flight sim for the first time without instantly doing the Cguns'joke, and it seemed inevitable that Microsoft would eventually give in to the pressure. We knew about one or two of them, but not about the other seven or eight. Aren't they just a little bit anxious that their super-realistic World War II, flight sim may get lost in the crowd? Jose Pinero, product manager for Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, is aware of it though: It's like the year of the World War II air combat game. Just when Microsoft finally get round to ' putting guns into their best-selling flight simulator, it seems as though the whole world and their grandmas are developing a similar game.

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