Xbox Launch Week

Oh no… the xbox people have arrived may god have mercy on our souls ROFL!!!
Welcome to the fray kids.

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Sounds awesome. Hope you’ll share more as you go… :grinning:

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Download (Pre-Load) is rolling…97 GB already downloading on my Xbox…

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Cheers for the heads up

I’m thinking about getting a keyboard and mouse for the Xbox. Anyone got any good suggestions? I’ve purchased a thrustmaster hotas 1 already. Is a mouse and keyboard a must for this game or would I get by with the controller and flight stick ?

It’s a great question. I’m going to see exactly how the HOTAS works at launch. I wasn’t expecting to need a keyboard - and I only have so many hands. I’ll only do it if needed and I’d be disappointed if it’s needed.

I know what you mean, I wouldn’t have a desk or anything so a keyboard would be awkward.

Good luck, my Xbox brethren! Honor and Strength! :mechanical_arm: :laughing:

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We do not know yet if it is a must for this game on Xbox.

I use either a Keyboard plus wireless trackball or if on the couch a little wireless mini keyboard with touchpad in the size of an Xbox controller.

I would guess they change the controls an UI a little and you don’t necessarily need mouse/keyboard. You could just wait and see.

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Lets hope that this part of the MSFS forum becomes used and informed by and dedicated to the Xbox users, as so much of what is written here is from PC users and of their experiences of using the sim, especially when it comes to modding the sim.

It’s fair enough of course that the huge bulk of threads are currently PC-centric. Though I can see the Xbox launch attracting many many other people. So long as we give new Xbox threads an Xbox ‘tag’, then all should be well. :grinning:

If you can play just with an Xbox controller, it puzzles me how that would reconcile. :thinking: We may have to wait until Tuesday to see…

All can be done through the xb controller,I’ve also seen a pc player on how to set it up with just controller to show xbox players who don’t have anything else.

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I hope it goes well too. It’s always a treat when companies rush development to meet marketing-imposed release dates and end up embarrassed and with angry customers. They have the target platform monoculture and all our testing working in their favor. The Xbox Series X hardware is pretty impressive too with more horsepower than a lot of PCs running it. With no VR, I bet it will look great. Just hard to get Xbox Series X boxes right now. Like everything else.

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I have converted my old racing seat setup to accommodate the honeycomb flight controls and a keyboard and mouse setup for navigating around some of the functions in the cockpit, from what I can understand its going to be an exact copy of the pc version and the pc players I guess use a mixture of flight controls and a keyboard and mouse

Yes, I have a feeling things are going to get pretty lively around here. Should be interesting for sure.

Some of them though may actually go on to be RL pilots whilst a lot of us here will remain simmers :slightly_smiling_face:

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The only reason Im not a ‘real’ pilot is because of a debilitating case of vertigo. I can fly as a passenger with out trouble, but sitting in the cockpit and have the vertigo kick in might cause some problems for my passengers and crew…

I think that’s wise – get a keyboard for sure. I can’t imagine flying the airliners without one… best of luck Xbox’ers!! It’s a good sim – and it’ll keep getting better and less buggy as time goes by.

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Well, yes, I can see that would be a bit of a problem.

Probably best then maybe to stick with simming just in case you qualify as a pilot and I end up on one of your flights :slightly_smiling_face::slightly_smiling_face:

So much is coming down to what the game is actually going to be like next week.

Flying from my ‘sofa’, I simply can’t imagine having to use a keyboard, that’s just not what consoles do (or should need to do). With a HOTAS on my knees, I’m not even sure where I would put a keyboard?

I presume movement around the controls will be via D-Pad or Hat-switch on a HOTAS?

We’ll see soon enough I guess…

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Would’ve been nice to have some kind of gameplay video from the xbox with the new ui to see how it’ll works

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