Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

2024 video game

Windows
Xbox Series X/S

Release2024Genre(s)Amateur flight simulation

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is an upcoming flight simulation video game developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios. A successor to Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), the game is planned to be released in 2024 on Windows and the Xbox Series X/S.^[1] Announced at the 2023 Xbox Games Showcase on June 11, 2023, it will include a career mode-style missions system. It is being run using Asobo's in-house engine.

Gameplay

New mission types include aerial firefighting, air search and rescue, helicopter cargo hook transport, air ambulance, cropdusting, mountain rescue, skydiving, aerial crane construction, outsize cargo transport with the Airbus Beluga, arctic cargo transport with the Airbus A400M, VIP air charter and executive transport, air racing, weather reconnaissance, experimental aircraft testing, and nap-of-the-earth flight with the A-10 Warthog. New aircraft types include gliders, airships, and hot air balloons.^[2] New environmental features include snow, tornadoes, auroras, animal migration and herds, live marine and flight tracking, the four seasons, and better ground traffic reporting.^[3]^[2]

Flight Simulator 2024 will be a standalone version, but Microsoft stated that "virtually all" addons purchased on Flight Simulator's online marketplace will work with 2024.^[4] Whether external third-party addons will work is unclear.^[2] The company described the new missions and aircraft as part of aviation career modes. 2024 will have an electronic flight bag; improved physics engine with greater control for addons' flight dynamics; improved electrical, pneumatic, fuel, and hydraulic aircraft systems and avionics; and multithreading for better performance.^[3]

References

^ Warren, Tom (June 11, 2023). "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has hot air balloons, skydive aviation, and much more". The Verge. Archived from the original on 11 June 2023. Retrieved June 11, 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 - All the Details (YouTube). Squirrel. 2023-06-12.
^ ^a ^b Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 - NEW Features & System CONFIRMED (not well comfirmed release date to late in 2024) (YouTube). Aus Flight Simmer. 2023-06-23.
^ "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 FAQ". Microsoft Flight Simulator. 2023-06-12. Retrieved 2023-07-07.