Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Acceleration

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Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Acceleration

Post by Lawndart » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:52 pm

Due out soon! For the first time ever, an official expansion pack from Microsoft Flight Simulator adding miltary bird(s) and air racing.

http://www.microsoft.com/games/pc/fsxacceleration.aspx

http://www.fsinsider.com/product/featur ... ation.aspx

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/flightsi ... id=6178050
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Post by Burner » Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:12 pm

Yeah the game has a great F/A-18 pit:
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However no Holographic HUD as can be seen in these pics (note the level line in relation to the actual horizon), also note in the first pic that no HUD AoA indicator or water line is present even though the pilot has gear down on approach:
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Here's hoping they get the flight model right :roll:
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Post by Ells » Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:17 am

Looks very cool, I'll have to get that.

August 2008 according to Amazon.co.uk and £19.99 on pre-order.
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Post by Burner » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:59 am

Ells wrote:Looks very cool, I'll have to get that.

August 2008 according to Amazon.co.uk and £19.99 on pre-order.
No way it'll be that long- within the next few weeks is what I've heard. The game itself has already gone gold.
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Post by Ells » Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:33 am

Might be a while before we get it over here, us poor Brits always get the good stuff last lol
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Post by pbrad » Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:54 pm

The 18 looks pretty good. I'm impressed it looks as good. Usually the stock models don't look all that great. One thing that I noticed on the 18 though is that the exhaust nozzles (?) don't appear to be animated.
See links below.


http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/20 ... een013.jpg

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Post by Ells » Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:44 am

Out on the 2nd November 07, pre-ordered and ready to receive in the post lol
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Post by pbrad » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:21 pm

Picked it up today at wal-mart. Going to go test it right now.
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Post by Joker » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:53 pm

I'm definitely gonna get that!
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