Well you’re missing out on a lot of things then, X-Plane 11 can look pretty amazing when you start tweaking it and adding stuff on to it.
But as stated by Aviattor6639 it is more like a construction kit once you venture into that area, though for some people that might be part of the charm. I know I liked it for quite a while, but eventually I became tired of all the tweaking. But I can’t deny that I would have loved an ini file to tweak the night lighting in MSFS like you can do in X-Plane 11.
So would I and the ability to use plugins. The ground traffic plugin that XP has for example is very useful. I can control moving vehicles and make them follow a course I want them too. This makes a huge difference in and around airports. Flexibility is a good thing in a sim.
Yes plugins would be very welcome, though I expect you can create them using the SDK. When the mainstream developers get their hands on that we can probably expect a lot more flexibility.
I agree. They basically released google earth with airplanes. The planes don’t seem real. The weather appears to have zero effect on aircraft handling and stability.
The lighting is 10 times better in Xplane.
This appears to be a novelty product.
The garbage lighting really tells the story. After 30 years of making sims MSFT still has floating light balls on the ground instead of light poles. The taxiway lights are not dynamic. Like WTF?
You must mean night lighting is better in XP, daylight is definitely not better in XP, its better in FS.
Yea night lighting
Posts like these are mere attention-seeking than anything. You’re free to use whatever sim you prefer. We don’t hate XPlane, we’re not diehard MSFS fans either.
Ya I’m attention seeking by posting that a next gen sim has night lighting from 20 years ago.
Keep pretending this game is something it isn’t.
This is a prime example of one of the common syndromes we see a lot. By that I mean human syndrome.
The lighting in Msfs is incredible.
Even though the streetlights don’t have poles attached… yet… The light they cast is done dynamically and like the rest of the lighting engine is light years ahead of XPlane.
You shouldn’t project issues into huge exaggerations. Bad customer. Bad.
Your post makes no sense. Nothing about the night lighting in ms2020 is dynamic. They don’t even simulate high speed taxiway lighting or the alternate yellow flashing lights that precede every major runway in the world.
You and I both know it’s not about that. So cut the hostility.
Obviously you’re entitled to your opinion, just as much as everyone is. OP is free to post his displeasure with MSFS. That’s not being attention seeking, that’s voicing your opinion.
But if you’re gonna post with the clear intention of inciting unproductive and hateful debate in the guise of ‘my opinion’, then obviously we’re gonna call you out for attention seeking.
It’s not dead until MFS2020 achieve the same level of physics and systems simulation. And even when it happens, many people will kepp using both.
Regarding the OP, if he got refunded why to leave the wall text here? He doesn’t care about scenery but complains about his colour house… Anyway, confused statement.
Have you seen the thread on the lighting at altitude where objects that should not be lit are and objects that should be are not? The lighting looks ok from low altitudes but is peculiar at high attitudes in FS.
Remember to purchase the latest releases of XPlane paid mods you were using, because some of them make you pay for each new version.
But wait! You wanted more than 20fps? Well you can try Vulkan… but that’s still not compatible with mods 1,2,3 and 5…and you’re favorite dlc aircraft.
So choose frames, or the game looking still way outdated but at least bearable.
And it’s still miles behind Msfs, and performs far worse on the same system.
Yeah… night lighting… sooo much worse eh?
Yes, it looks nice low down, climb to 8000 feet or above and see what it looks like!
Thanks for informing us and have a nice time in X-Plane.
Me that have flown simulators and real aircraft since the 80:ies would not even dream of going back to X-plane or P3D. This is the new generation of flight simming that we never thought would happen. Flying over my small hometown in Sweden it looks like I am actually there (having hundreds of hours in the air over that town), in X-plane it looks like I am not even in Sweden…
Bye bye, don’t forget to write
The good news is one patch update and all of that can be up and running again.
I don’t need to spend $500 and buy 13 addons just to get those sims looking like MSFS default.
I bet considerable amount of “I am leaving MSFS for Xplane” guys are, “I uninstalled Xplane, and burned the installation disks” guys of the last few months.
There’s definitely some truth to this. Up high, things are not so rosy.
In XPlane at night, 20,000ft I could literally pick out the cute little emergency lights of police cruisers driving around.
Up high in My copy of Msfs at least on My system, far too often I just get a flat, blurred Bing photo representation, and everything in the distance such as lights is Blurry instead of sharp just small like you’d normally expect.
