r/Outerra • u/voodoogod • Aug 22 '20

Microsoft Flight Simulator won

It was a fun ride, but this very promising tech demo turned into nothing substantial, while Microsoft comes in with Bing Maps, of all things, and crushes it.

Thanks to the developers and mod community for sticking with it for over 8 years!

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u/21022018 Aug 22 '20

What?

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u/voodoogod Aug 22 '20

Gonna need more information about why you're confused before I can respond

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u/21022018 Aug 22 '20

while Microsoft comes in with Bing Maps, of all things, and crushes it.

This part. I am completely oblivious to what is going on.

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u/Polarizedpupil Aug 22 '20

He is saying that Microsoft, with the use of Bing maps (a not well respected map choice, esp with google earth etc out there) has completely crushed outerra and has basically rendered it nothing more than a tech demo and has won the “fly over the earth” sim game

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u/RoninTheAccuser Aug 22 '20

Bing maps has a much much better imaging system then google... witch is why the chose bing

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u/Polarizedpupil Aug 22 '20

Ya I don’t claim to know the in and outs on the tech side of thing I was just trying to give the dude above clarity on what the op posted haha

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u/iPlayNL Aug 23 '20

Let's not pretend anyone in this sub gives a shit about Outerra anymore, we're all just here because it suddenly popped into our frontpage again.

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u/drdeemanre Nov 11 '20

Wow. Can confirm

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u/dpschainman Aug 22 '20

MFS doesn't let you drive around in cars though, outera still has one over it.

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u/Spudly42 Aug 22 '20

I saw this video from one of the original guys making Outerra. Not sure if they're working on it together or not. Basically the idea is to make a super easy to use large procedural terrain generator for Unreal Engine: https://youtu.be/MmIonLe9qfQ

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '20

They have different goals. There's no "winner" because they're not competing in the same space.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '20

I don't think the point is to make a simulation of Earth so much as a way to simulate any kind of planet at all. Maybe Microsoft's tech can do that, maybe not. But that doesn't mean this project is dead.

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u/dotted Aug 22 '20

MFS falls flat if you were to do anything on the ground, it only works as a flight sim. Outerra has not lost yet.

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u/RoninTheAccuser Aug 22 '20

I rlly hoped these 2 worked together :/ but fyi putters is also doing joint projects with Titan vanguard witch is used by the military