[STEAM] Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with a “full digital twin” of Earth

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Flight Simulator 2024 is out today (

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,

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), and it packs in a whole lot of simulation. It's hard to imagine topping

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, which contained the entire world, at scale, 3D modeled and able to be flown over. It had real-time weather and rather detailed physics. You could theoretically fly a helicopter back to your high school football field and land on it, like 15-year reunion royalty. What could come next?

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Announcement trailer for

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Flight Simulator 2024 A lot, including a world simulation that

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repeatedly describes as Earth's "

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." There are few, if any, real "reviews" up yet, given the size of the game and seemingly late access for reviewers. As such, I offer up all the notable things packed into this latest release so that those with flight sticks, patience, and a ******* to get way up yonder can decide whether to take off.

It's a whole lot smaller, at least on first install. The 2020 version would take about 130GB on first grab (or 90GB if you

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), but 2024 is "around 30" gigabytes, according to Asobo CEO Sebastian Wloch,

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. This should also be a major boon to those playing on Xbox, where space is more constrained.

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