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Just as it seams light the world of Flight Simming was on its last breaths, Dovetail Games(DTG) has purchased the rights to distribute Microsofts Flight Simulator X as well as tweak it to perform better on todays hardware. Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition can be found on Steam for $25, or $8 during the major Steam sales. Some of your favorite FSX addons should still work in FSXSE.
Dovetail Games is a gaming company based in the United Kingdom, If you have heard of Train Simulator 2016, they are behind that. They are currently releasing Dovetail Games Flight School which can be found on Steam at $15 USD.
DTG FS includes the entire FSX globe but only offers 3 aircraft to date, Piper Cherokee, Super Cub, and DA-42. There is speculation that they will be releasing at a later time larger aircraft which should not cost extra to the player which may include airliner content, Flight School is made for new players to the genre to ease their way into flight simming but at the same time not overload them with features they are not ready for.
There is a massive stigma relating to how DTG does paid addons/DLC where many people think they need to buy $1000's worth of addons to have the best experience since they have seen how Train Simulator 2016 has to offer, They are appalled that they think they have to spend over $5000 USD to think they will have a complete game, This is not true, DTG knows that not everyone will buy every single piece of DLC as almost everyone has their different tastes in what they want to do in Train Sim. The reason I am mentioning this is that this will most likely happen to DTG's fully featured flight sim slated to release later this year or early next year, but they will also still allow the tradition of allowing third party developers to create and sell their addons.
DTG is also working on the next generation Flight Simulator based off of FSX but will be more optimized with new features as well as running on current hardware including 64bit OS's.
Laminar Reasearch is another big player in the flight sim world with their X-Plane 10, This can be found on Steam for its usual $60, or you can wait for one of Steams regular big sales and grab it for $30
Laminar Research is now working on X-Plane 11 which will include easier to use GUI and hardware setup options.
Lockheed Martin has also secure the rights to FSX with intentions to build on it and optimize it, their product is called Prepar3d(P3D), This product is made to suit professional pilots and student pilots but should you buy a copy(ranges from $60 to $2300) They do not pry into your background even though they have the capabilities to since they are a major government contractor, Many famous Youtube flight simmers are said to be using the $60 Academic version but with a minor tweak to disable the academic license watermark. Several FSX addons do work with P3D and many major developers also produce versions of addons catered to P3D.
P3D includes different aircraft from original FSX, Some of these aircraft being developed by quality payware devs.
Lockheed Martin - Prepar3D
A sim out there that caters to Combat simmers, DCS: World which is a free game but also had paid modules(P-51 Mustang, A-10, F-16, Huey) Also can be found on Steam
I hope that this topic has been informative to those veterans and those new to Flight Simming, Thanks for reading!
Dovetail Games is a gaming company based in the United Kingdom, If you have heard of Train Simulator 2016, they are behind that. They are currently releasing Dovetail Games Flight School which can be found on Steam at $15 USD.
DTG FS includes the entire FSX globe but only offers 3 aircraft to date, Piper Cherokee, Super Cub, and DA-42. There is speculation that they will be releasing at a later time larger aircraft which should not cost extra to the player which may include airliner content, Flight School is made for new players to the genre to ease their way into flight simming but at the same time not overload them with features they are not ready for.
There is a massive stigma relating to how DTG does paid addons/DLC where many people think they need to buy $1000's worth of addons to have the best experience since they have seen how Train Simulator 2016 has to offer, They are appalled that they think they have to spend over $5000 USD to think they will have a complete game, This is not true, DTG knows that not everyone will buy every single piece of DLC as almost everyone has their different tastes in what they want to do in Train Sim. The reason I am mentioning this is that this will most likely happen to DTG's fully featured flight sim slated to release later this year or early next year, but they will also still allow the tradition of allowing third party developers to create and sell their addons.
DTG is also working on the next generation Flight Simulator based off of FSX but will be more optimized with new features as well as running on current hardware including 64bit OS's.
Laminar Reasearch is another big player in the flight sim world with their X-Plane 10, This can be found on Steam for its usual $60, or you can wait for one of Steams regular big sales and grab it for $30
Laminar Research is now working on X-Plane 11 which will include easier to use GUI and hardware setup options.
Lockheed Martin has also secure the rights to FSX with intentions to build on it and optimize it, their product is called Prepar3d(P3D), This product is made to suit professional pilots and student pilots but should you buy a copy(ranges from $60 to $2300) They do not pry into your background even though they have the capabilities to since they are a major government contractor, Many famous Youtube flight simmers are said to be using the $60 Academic version but with a minor tweak to disable the academic license watermark. Several FSX addons do work with P3D and many major developers also produce versions of addons catered to P3D.
P3D includes different aircraft from original FSX, Some of these aircraft being developed by quality payware devs.
Lockheed Martin - Prepar3D
A sim out there that caters to Combat simmers, DCS: World which is a free game but also had paid modules(P-51 Mustang, A-10, F-16, Huey) Also can be found on Steam
I hope that this topic has been informative to those veterans and those new to Flight Simming, Thanks for reading!
