Inside Microsoft Flight Simulator - Xbox Ports, Performance, PC Optimisations - The Asobo Breakdown!

One of the most demanding PC games ever hasn't just been ported to Xbox Series consoles - it's also received massive improvements and optimisation on PC too. In another DF Developer interview, Alex Battaglia talks to Flight Simulator's technical director, Lionel Fuentes from Asobo Studio to learn more.
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[@FortressArena]

"This is getting a bit technical." "Its ok, this is Digital Foundry."

[@SkeleCrafteronYT]

And that's why we love Digital Foundry, doesn't shy away from the real details.

[@ormancadam6453]

I dont totally understand it all. but I like what I hear.

[@nikhilpai9034]

The transparency and openness of the conversation is blowing my mind just as much as the experience of flying over my own house for the first time! Thanks, Asobo and DF!

[@salemsaleh9577]

I wish I could see my house but the game uses Bing Maps :(

[@GameChronicles]

My house isn’t even on Xbox but clear as day on PC. Unimpressed with console port.

[@RogueAgentX]

@@GameChronicles make sure the settings are correct. Bing maps and/or photogrammetry might not be on by default on Xbox.

[@nikhilpai9034]

I know many of us probably won't get to see our house but the fact that we can even try is still a pretty astonishing feat. Turning on Photogrammetry and streaming online data might help though!

[@kevinj4243]

Downgrades and false advertising are okay as long as you eventually tell us you did it! THANK YOU ASOBO TAKE MORE OF MY MONEY!

[@jfieqj]

Really love how candid Lionel is being here. Not often you hear a technical director speak openly about legacy baggage in a codebase. "The objective before optimizing was to make it work at all"... I feel that. The fact that the glass cockpits are web views is fascinating, but makes a ton of sense.

[@rickysargulesh1053]

I really appreciate his honesty here. That heightens my respect for Asobo even more. It's just a beautiful experience and it's nice to see that they still optimize it.

[@elche8461]

He was actually talking about consoles with that sentence and where did you hear they re still optimizing ut

[@SteelSkin667]

It is particularly refreshing compared to the id Software interviews where they were sometimes trying to avoid specifics, probably for that very reason.

[@maynardburger]

@@elche8461 MFS is a long term service title. Games-as-a-service long before it became the norm nowadays. It's in their best interest to keep improving it, and of course they've got a load of talented programmers sitting around, you kinda need to ensure they have work to do.

[@SmarterThanAll]

@@maynardburger "game" might be a little much it's a hardcore flight sim so the service model always made since

[@X_Leonhart]

Just played A Plague Tale Innocence, and now that I’m enjoying Flight Simulator I really think Asobo is one of the most amazing studios of this generation.

[@pixeljauntvr7774]

Yeah these guys a incredibly talented.

[@MG-fb2fr]

Agree!

[@CaramelisedNipples]

Plague tale was an amazing game. So well made and just the right length.

[@rinkumultani6515]

you playing on pc with vr? what gpu and vr headset you have`?

[@sergeleon1163]

I think it's a technical feat that they managed to combine the engine that they had with Bing, Azure and old Flightsim code this well. I think in the process they learned a great deal and we will see some of that come towards future titles of them starting with a Plague Tale Requiem

[@Ratt1eHead]

Here's what really blows me away. This is the same studio that created the excellent A Plague Tale!! Fantastic studio!

[@theoathman8188]

Not to take anything from the team, but he said they built upon the previous flight sim code base and the world map technology was provided by Microsoft.

[@-1nterruption-960]

If only Microsoft could acquire them

[@WayStedYou]

@@theoathman8188 almost as if they were porting the game

[@kiisseli1337]

Plague Tale was very average game

[@proxywolf2006]

@@kiisseli1337 ah, so what your telling me is....its a game, got it

[@leoz96]

Loving these developer interviews

[@PPN462]

This whole interview 😂 Alex: wow it is incredible, how did you optimize this? Lionel: I am just glad that it works at all

[@MrAlex0803]

Love the vid, this dev knows his shit, very very impressed. Not as usually when they send the marketing guys and they only answer with buzz phrases.

[@viktorianas]

We implemented this revolutionary technology based on years of research and development, user experience is our top priority and we took no shortcuts, nor compromises, our simulation is a cutting edge state of the art piece of software utilizing the sheer power of our proprietary in-house cloud based computation!

[@tranquilitybase8100]

"Yes... errr.... our game isn't really a game, it's an experience that happens in a metaverse and is supported by the blockchain." 2021 Marketing guy.

[@e2rqey]

Asobo studios level of openness, transparency and communication with their community should be what other developers aspire to do. Comparing Asobo studios to Frontier Development or Blizzard is like Night and Day.

[@mememachine5244]

Yeah, like them telling us how the sim was gonna be ruined to allow it to be ran on xboxs :D

[@AaronLaye]

DF absolutely killing it with the recent MSFS content - keep it coming!

[@ODIOPOWER]

DF absolutely killing it with the recent content - keep it coming! Here, i fixed it for you

[@Superdelphinus]

Yeah they were a bit slow understanding how revolutionary this game is at the beginning from a technical perspective, but they’re making up for it with bells on now.

[@SkeleCrafteronYT]

I love this guy's enthusiasm, such a great feeling

[@ChilesSupportTV]

I'm not a flight simmer but I've been having a blast on MSFS.

[@tinobrown1780]

The good thing is, you don’t have to be a flight sim enthusiast to enjoy watching the beautiful world recreated from a birds eye view.

[@kofodsen]

Then you are a flight simmer 💪

[@JJ-fk5ys]

Yes you are LoL

[@JJ-fk5ys]

If you're having a blast that means you like Sims LoL

[@leonfrancis3418]

Same. Some hiccups in the tutorial, but man. Nothing feels better than flying. I think I'm gonna look into learning it in real life.

[@mercuriete]

best video ever. I like more technical interviews like this in the future.

[@czbrat]

As a PC gamer, this is the reason why I'm thankful consoles exist.

[@VariantAEC]

No kidding. Even so they haven't done the user interface any justice unfortunately. Opting to click in the stick to bring up a cursor is kind of a problem. I can't remember off hand what I assigned to the right stick but my left stick controls the landing gear. I probably assigned resetting the camera to the right stick... Regardless you weren't previously able to control the UI using the controller alone it required the use of both the mouse and keyboard. The latest update I have played (I think update 6 Nordic World Update if this isn't the latest) did break a lot of keyboard and controller bindings. Reapplying them doesn't fix the issue even after restarting the game and dis/connecting any HID peripheral causes the game to soft lock as did changing the controller layout in some cases. This game is still a mess in the last update and again I'm not even sure was on the version they're discussing here when I played last. I guess I will be checking that out very soon.

[@mememachine5244]

What, so the sim can be ruined? It was miles better before su5.

[@Battleneter]

Well this is one of the few games I play where a controller makes sense over a KB and mouse, well better in combination with a KB. Its good to see this title on console, really feel console gaming needs to expand on the types of games available if they are to compete against PC long term.

[@harrybosch4595]

Did you view the same video as I did? Look at the segment that starts around 8:00. Do you really think that your PC benefits from using less then 6GB system RAM (usually 16 GB available) and also using less from the available Video Ram. They use more compression, cull more data and dropped some graphics card features (see segment about trees) to make it run better on console. The result is that a lot less of the extra available power of your PC is used, this is noticeable in the picture quality we now get. The only benefit is if you are the type of user that want to fly @ 60 fps or higher at the costs of reduced visuals.

[@mememachine5244]

@@harrybosch4595 Sims dead, theyve played their cards. Going back to xplane and p3d.

[@brewski535]

I've been really enjoying my time on XSX, Asobo have done an excellent job here! 👏

[@Thedohdoh]

Thanks for destroying the Pc version. Bad blurry ground quality, blurry and pixelated clouds and drawing distance turned to much down. Well done Asobo 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Beavernator]

It seems the Series S is making developers think outside the box on ways to optimize their coding, which in turn is creating MASSIVE gains for Series X and PC's... Same thing with Switch with some of its "Impossible Ports"... This is a good thing... For too long developers have to just been using brute force to push past sloppy coding... Glad that optimization is making a comeback...

[@VariantAEC]

True of any console.

[@Nct104]

it’s going to be the case of balancing. Is the hardware and the platform at the middle point for the developer to optimise better for both.

[@LonghornsLegend]

And some people tried to make the argument the Series S was going to hold the generation back

[@VariantAEC]

@@LonghornsLegend Well I guess you forgot this is a last generation game that everyone already realized was very poorly optimized. After optimization it runs well on consoles but visually speaking *this game was never particularly taxing.*

[@FortressArena]

@@LonghornsLegend I think some people forget that the CPU in Series S is almost as fast as Series X, and a little faster then the one in PS5. In CPU terms its not holding anything back. Great work by Asobo.

[@callumdointhings5]

Bahaha this guy was great. Id imagine knowing that you're working for Microsoft might make this situation pretty stressful for him but he killed it. I cancelled GamePass but I think I'm gonna pick this up on Steam ❤

[@Haywood-Jablomie]

You can often buy GamePass 7 day keys for 75 cents and just stack a whole bunch of them

[@Scotland_Above]

I wish there was a 'Love' button to click on this video. Asobo have done an incredible job along with Microsoft to bring us experiences that most of us couldn't have dreamed of before. I trained with the RAF when I was younger. This let's me relive the past in an emotional way. This isn't just a 'game'.

[@Scotland_Above]

I just flew A successful complete circuit from Dundee (where I trained) in MSFS 2020. At least this time I didn't get intercepted by two F111s and escorted out of the Leuchars military airspace like I did in real life! 🤣

[@EverSnaxolotl]

Wait til you hear about the thumbs up

[@Harlec]

I understood like a quarter of what they are talking but I enjoyed it anyways.

[@SuperSublime9]

Same here lol

[@Skeames1214]

always the case with df for me lol. their analysis matches with what my untrained eye sees, i love the breakdowns.

[@andreajesuspirlo]

When it comes to mapping sizes Asobo studios are way ahead. 12 years back they also developed a beautiful and underappreciated post-apocalyptic racing game called fuel which at that time held the world record for having the largest playable map in a console game.

[@SamsonFRYT]

I’ve played FUEL a lot. I knew then that asobo were meant for great things.

[@simulacrae]

You do know that flight sims have had maps of the entire world for decades right?

[@karannsyt]

He has so much charisma and knowledge, as a computer science student, he is everything I ever want to be

[@karannsyt]

@you- tube the dev, but Alex is not too bad as well he's amazing too

[@rlfernandes9538]

I'll say it again: Digital Foundry is uniquely changing the way this industry works.

[@DudeMcDuderson]

Love vids like this. I hope we get more where a developer doesn't shy away from being technical. I know some of it isn't that accessible if people don't know about how software works, but to us software devs this stuff is super interesting! Keep it coming!

[@tinyentropy]

Thanks to those extremely talented devs for making this possible on the Xbox consoles!!!!

[@stealthninja4299]

My favourite next gen game so far. They've done an awesome job on console

[@alexg350]

High credit to this developer and rest of his team. I just think they pushed the break too much for PC. Our machines not need such a downgrade. I hope the next update give us back the absolute beauty we had, without popping. Anyway, they try their best, but please don't let computers be affected by the lower level that consoles have. 🤓

[@robertmcmahon4549]

Im sure they will fix this,they had a timescale to get the consoles ready

[@swavezmartin]

This game is so dope I am blown away I am loving this on the series x

[@Akashmash]

Thank you guys!

[@ErenTheWarcriminal]

You're welcome

[@雪鷹魚英語培訓的領航]

Digital Foundry. You guys are having a very positive impact on the consumer and developer communities. Love hearing the nitty gritty details. I can listen to John Carmack talk way out of my league but still follow along enough to learn something.

[@timsmith5980]

@Digital Foundry What is your take on the huge controversy going on in the Flightsim community regarding supposed downgrading of PC graphics, clouds, cockpit textures etc to unify code with Xbox release? Have you noticed this on your PCs?

[@tronicmuse]

The plan is to eventually enable pcs to have quality setting sliders that go beyond the Xbox versions. But it has to WORK first. Like Lionel said many times. Then they can iterate and fine tune it further.

[@akashgeorge2688]

asobo downgraded the graphics on PC...............thats how its optimised

[@FranklinLive]

I spent loads setting up a sim rig just for this game and even got my PC guy to track down a 3090... now I can go play it on my xbox and it looks just the same lol. The PC version is literally a console version now. Just unreal the downgrade this game took for the PC boys. There is no "PC optimization", It's a PC downgrade. The game used to look Amazing on PC.

[@briengakaplan-b1550]

Unbelievable game. Can't even call it a game it's really an experience. I'm seriously considering getting my pilots license because of this game.

[@RayOid]

If any studio Microsoft needs to aquire, that is Asobo Studios. Noone should come first.

[@stubbietubbie]

Two nerds nerding out. Love it.

[@simulacrae]

Of course not a word on how broken the sim is on PC. Pop in is insane, the clouds look worse. Some Xbox features were even turned on on the PC version like that crappy switch selection stuff. At the same time you can't fly airliners because the live weather is bugged. Several devs have pulled projects.

[@ganntradingsystemstimecycl2783]

Yeah it full of shit interview. This clearly states to me Asobo along Microsoft only care about Xbox..

[@DSS553]

Not to mention that it crashes to desktop constantly for many players. Even after the hotfix, which didn't fix anything.

[@Gamerzguy2468]

Game got downgraded.

[@KatalistProductionsKozzySasha]

Amazing job Asobo! Played it since day 1 on PC and been playing it this week on Series X, I am blown away. Amazing the Series S runs it so well to. Such a fun relaxing game

[@D3ATH-W15H]

On PC new update as downgraded visuals at high altitude to low resolution textures & pop in at distance from cities like new york.

[@ur_round_next1216]

Why do us PC simmers have to have a downgrade for console players ITS A JOKE

[@romanbellic810]

TLDR: It's all thanks to Blast Processing technology.

[@nonyabusiness6084]

I'm a "boomer" so I get this joke. lol

[@Remix916]

SEEEGGGGGAAAAA!!!!

[@BzaafiedTheFerocious]

I eagerly await the Tails Tornado 2 DLC.

[@sivadepilif]

Excellent tutorial of how to downgrade a game.

[@humvee3d]

Asobo, you have done incredible work. Thank You! With love from Siberia 0/

[@bomalpatriote5536]

🇫🇷 ASOBO 🇫🇷 Devs did a fantastic job!!!

[@AceCmbatguy25]

De ouf les boss vraiment

[@bomalpatriote5536]

@@AceCmbatguy25 et aussi le studio Français de Montpellier qui va sortir le jeu STRAY en exclu sur PC, PS5 & PS4 🇫🇷 Les Développeurs Français sont au top 👍

[@grooners5333]

I'm sorry but the PC version is a disappointment - its still impossible to get 4K/60 Ultra with a top Ampere GPU. At sensible resolutions the game is GPU limited so these CPU optimsations wont help framerate. Reducing RAM reqts when we have 32GB is also not helping - I can see close in buildings changing randomly when I play and even in the videos - whether its texture or lighting I dont know but its very distracting.

[@雪鷹魚英語培訓的領航]

6:21 "Caches are a bit of the secret formula to avoid re-doing things."

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

Lol this is so true. Several times, I've just calculated things once and dumped them into the memory so that I could save frame time by not redoing those things again. If you are not bottlenecked by system memory, this is a great option. But I would not use this approach in embedded systems where system memory is precious.

[@halofreak1990]

@@PurushNahiMahaPurush if you can deal with latency, a disk-based cache is also an option. It's how a lot of OG Xbox games worked

[@kovalveli]

Still can't get my hand on Xbox series X 🤣

[@1970cgb]

Pity they messed up the PC version with latest update and then with the hot fix that was supposed to rectify update 5 issues .Also confirmed by their community manager .

[@GuillinCorp]

The performance gains are sick, had no idea they updated it like that

[@JerryFlowersIII]

PS5 doesn't have Mesh shaders or VRS? Those both seem really big to me. Once those catch on I think Xbox will have a clear performance advantage, that plus the extra GPU power. If PS5 has something that would tip the scale in there favor I'd love to hear about it. They've got better data streaming and tempest but Xboxs hardware has things like that too.

[@Ryan-yi5ro]

They have lawsuits over the garbage controllers and.....guess that's it. 🤦

[@drivetounderstand8579]

Lionel, if you’ve been at Asobo long enough to have worked on Fuel, thank you very much. To this day I don’t believe there’s a more engaging sandbox for physics and geography. The campaign was very rewarding but I’ve probably spent five times as much time just playing around in that world you created. Many thanks.

[@ICEMANZIDANE]

LoL... You should know that there is no wind simulation (in a flight sim😅) in this game. You are assuming stuff which are not in the game. Quality review i have to say

[@symol30872]

MSFS is a technical marvel. >2500 hours now with this since it launched and have learned a great deal about flying all sorts of plans including real life procedures and flying with online ATC. Asobo are wizards. Love seeing these technical dev interviews that the DF team does, keep them coming 😊

[@emissary23]

And another game or should it this case I write simulator was ruined to be able to run on patato consoles...

[@thegoodsherman]

I think the Game has looked better before the Update on my High end pc on Ultra.. downgrade for the consoles 🤔

[@mememachine5244]

Yup, all these console idiots licking Asobos boots is too much. The sim was ruined soi their bad hardware can run it.

[@StarrkTheWolf]

@@mememachine5244 the current gen machines are amazing for consoles, they are in no means bad. If you compare to 30 series card they certainly are behind but those cards cost more individually than a whole console at normal price. My series x is replacing my current pc for now for single player games.

[@mememachine5244]

@@StarrkTheWolf Tahts great and all, but the xbox series x isnt strong enough to run MSFS at good settings (hence the massive downgrade)

[@StarrkTheWolf]

@@mememachine5244 a lot of pc’s aren’t, my ryzen 7 2700 and 2060 super struggles on higher settings. The fact that it’s running on consoles is impressive even with some downgrades. A lot of people without pc’s can get to experience it even if it is not the best way to play and that’s always a positive in my books.

[@mememachine5244]

@@StarrkTheWolf Okay, thats fine. Downgrade for consoles sure, but DONT downgrade ultra for PCs...

[@paksitgyud9162]

ASOBO just murdered SONY studious!!!! Another David vs Goliath story..

[@-1nterruption-960]

Most demanding game so far this gen

[@IamMarkSmith]

This interview was like a good game of chess between two strangers. My favorite point wa what Lionel was like “man you guys did your analysis.” 😂 that speaks volumes for what you all do @DigitalFoundry. Thank you for this.

[@TheFirstRealChewy]

I wonder what other improvements they will make. I wonder how it would turn out if they were to build the next version from the ground up. I guess we'll find out in 2030 perhaps.

[@WbosonLP]

Those are exactly the 2 big questions not asked and would like to know also.

[@robertmcmahon4549]

Maybe they dont need to make another one,just keep improving this one

[@Beaut_Beau]

This was really fascinating, and Lionel from Asobo was a great and generous guest sharing all that information!

[@Mr0nice0guy]

I love coffee

[@TheClumsyGeekGaming]

Huge congratulations to Asobo for this incredible accomplishment of releasing on the Xbox. I barely understood the technical discussions but I got an understanding of how complex it all is. This update comes at a huge price for high-end PC users, unfortunately, but I'm confident now that Xbox version is out, Asobo will turn back its focus into bringing back the image fidelity it lost in the form of additional graphics options for PC users.

[@mickos_]

I love this channel. Excellent video. Flight simulator on the series x is simply beautiful. I can’t stop playing it.

[@SteelSkin667]

As someone who genuinely thinks that web technology is the superior solution for creating UIs, I really like their approach, but it definitely comes with some big challenges when it comes to performance. Javascript is basically single-threaded, memory leaks are really easy to create, and garbage collection does use a lot of resources. What's worse is that typically games consoles typically disallow JIT compilation for games due to security concerns. The CPU time used to update and render those glass cockpits must be insane.

[@logicalfundy]

Honestly I think a vector graphics library would've been a better fit. If interactivity is really needed, maybe combine it with a high performance scripting language like LUA. A full web stack is pretty heavy weight. There's really no going back on a released game, though. At least they split it off into its own thread now, which should make it a bit less consequential to the overall framerate.

[@countduckula6549]

i have a qestion how did they mess up the weather again

[@jimechols4347]

Yes... flight simulators and driving games are great test beds for new GPU and CPU designs since it will reveal weaknesses in the architecture and help engineers design better products.

[@Harrysound]

I bought a series s on Tuesday for this despite never owning two consoles at one time in my 40 year life and having a PS5, because those guys made it happen and made it happen in a way that is simply ,technically stunning. 120hz mode is INCREDIBLE. I want it on every game

[@JaimeIsJaime]

really wish microsoft had put 16GB instead of 10 on the series S. It would have been a game changer for developers

[@elm4nsuri]

Lionel sounds like such a cool dude! wishing him gd luck on all his future projects.

[@benjaminh1034]

While I’m impressed by the improvements, it’s pretty obvious that the pc version was downgraded in order to achieve graphical parity with Xbox.

[@stephkera9976]

"im proud that we made it work" he says while the PC community suffers from CTDs and freezes. See official forums. Majority is not happy with SU5. It's an obvious graphical downgrade besides "optimization" and they shrinked that beautiful game into the console and overwhelmed PC users with console-like interface interaction. This is going in the wrong direction.

[@mechkg]

-- What are you particularly proud of having achieved in this update? -- I am particularly proud of the fact that it works! Brilliant xD

[@chrismyco7950]

is it optimization if all you do is downgrade the graphics. it reminds of what happened when they optimized Crysis by tuning down the graphics.

[@-aexc-]

the only thing xbox is missing imo, is a gyro in the controller for better aiming and a proper offline way to set up the console

[@METALFACEDOOMXXXX]

And playstation 5 is missing quick resume smart delivery games for the holidays! List goes on. Nobody cares about that gimmicky bullshit in the dull sense 5

[@pixeljauntvr7774]

@@METALFACEDOOMXXXX Funny how Xbox fan girls are trying to flip the script on "no games" after having no first party titles for the first 9 months of the Series X launch. You got one now and you suddenly think you're king of the hill 😂😂😂😂

[@METALFACEDOOMXXXX]

@@pixeljauntvr7774 but it's true playstation 5 has no games we eating good over here and going to eating better this holiday! But hey you have stray cats to look forward to in 2022 if it even comes out lmfaoo

[@-aexc-]

@@METALFACEDOOMXXXX I don't care about the other gimmicks in the ds5, gyro is not a gimmick and is genuinely super helpful for camera controls. After moving to PC for a bit it's the only way I can use a controller when I need to control the camera

[@METALFACEDOOMXXXX]

@@-aexc- And do you even own a nextgen console?😆

[@jasonpattison1955]

Thank you both for such an incredible interview 💕. It's so invigorating and refreshing to see a developer to be honest and open and so very proud of their work. I'm going to buy the game even though it on XBox game pass.

[@britfrog]

the guys at asobo have allowed themselves to dumb down the sim to work in xbox which has destroyed the sim for pc users

[@ganntradingsystemstimecycl2783]

Your the only comment speaks truth clearly all other comments xbox users.. This guy is full of shit. The guy asking questions licking his arse. SU5 been a joke all issues pc users having. Not to mention poor blurry LOD high altitude..

[@lewkbrett]

Such an amazing interview. I wish more developers would do technical interviews like this.

[@AceCmbatguy25]

Flight Simulator and A Plague Tale are both incredible gems 💙

[@danielpena-un8vl]

one question for leonel would be... why do you guys keep fucking up the PC version?

[@namakudamono]

Fascination interview! Many thanks, Alex - keep up the great work!

[@OFFICIALARTMUSIC]

Absolutely crazy combining of web dev and game dev. This type of stuff is really exciting to learn about, especially if you have any interest in programming

[@rodrigopinchiari4027]

Digital Foundry bringing us another GREAT technical review as always. Asobo, THANK YOU!!!

[@robertdunlop5247]

I've gone bald over the years and last year did I fully accept it but I am glad that I did. Shave that heed mate.

[@montygill2835]

Nice 👍

[@PP-rl5sn]

Toooo much of things popping up since latest update, they need to fix this

[@whothou9154]

LMAO the dev was hilarious 🤣 So many skeletons in the closet when developing games.. Dude made his voice real low and averted his eyes everytime he didn't really want to talk about a particular thing 😆

[@subjectivereviews]

True I saw guy is hiding some💩

[@lyingpancake95]

I read that title as Ms. Flight Simulator.

[@davidvultaggio7209]

I would be really interested to hear from the dev about the roaring reports since U5 about the "optimization" on PC that turned out to be a massive downgrade of the graphics. Even on ULTRA setting. Which Lionel here at few moment refer too (aka texture downgrade, LODS downgrade etc ... )

[@fcukugimmeausername]

At this point, I think we can award Xbox as winner of the first year of the 9th Generation.

[@selnor1983]

Playground Games and Asobo Studios are in a class of their own in terms or presentation and visuals at the moment. Both studios have smashed it out of the park and showed the rest of the industry what Next gen visuals are. Amazing work Asobo. Amazing work.

the Asobo Studio people are so humble and talented, I wish them the best :)

[@Silveraga]

More technical interview hell yeah

[@angelopanzera3946]

This was great to watch! I love how open Lionel was with his responses, really speaks volumes about the studio to let the technical director who knows his shit to do this interview rather than some marketing idiot.... By the way you don't need to be self conscious about getting too technical, we love it! Even if most of the people watching may not fully understand it's just inspiring to see someone so passionate about thier craft sharing thier methodology and opinions! And as always DF you're nailing it with the content 🙌

[@xKyleNxCoD]

I think this game (or sim) is the most technically impressive thing to have come out in the gaming (or sim) scene.

[@mbsfaridi]

Really enjoyed this video. Lionel was hilarious and explained things well, also the Turok guy bits was a nice addition.

[@j3gm0194]

SU5 does not help at all when you pop out G1000 as a professional user. The FPS drop is severe making the sim unflyable. This is a terrible issue and is totally contradicting Working Titles efforts. It is so sad having to find out after every update that X-Plane and P3D are still the only flyable simulators for serious simmers

[@bs_blackscout]

Amazing interview! I love when devs go into detail without being afraid of being too technical. Understanding how things work is crucial.

[@D..S..]

The new update looks TERRIBLE. The game looked phenomenal on my PC before but now there are major problems: everything has this horrible pixelated look that completely ruins the experience, and terrain textures look like PS2 textures sometimes, especially the higher you fly. The anti-aliasing is also noticably worse with horrible flickering. LOD pop-in is so distracting, constantly. This used to be one of my favorite games of all time and this update completely ruined it. They straight up lied about improved performance not affecting the visuals. This sucks :(

[@kahnsealable]

Please stop lying.

[@D..S..]

@@kahnsealable I'm not lying at all what the fuck. Just look at the game before and after update 5. There is a HUGE, negative difference in visual quality. The weird pixelation issue is absolutely unacceptable. The game looks NOTHING like it did before with settings maxed out. Why don't you actually play the game and look at how shitty the world looks?

[@mr.blonde7812]

@@D..S.. I'm on it as we speak, it looks like it always has at ultra settings.

[@D..S..]

@@mr.blonde7812 I wish I could figure out what's up with my game then. I'm playing on the same 4K TV, with *higher* settings at 4K, and the game looks so bad compared to a week ago.

[@mr.blonde7812]

@@D..S.. give me a specific area to check where you noticed it the most.

[@2drealms196]

Asbestos Breakdown?!?!?

[@carlomorischi3435]

When is DX12 coming to PC? I'm waiting for it before buying it. I have a 2600X with RTX 3080 so for me it's fundamental