Dovetail Games finally announced their flight simulation title: Flight Sim World. And it’s coming sooner than we might be expecting!

Although it’s not expected to bring any helicopters at launch — DTG’s working on all the base stuff for now –, DTG’s new title was just announced and we should expect to be able to put our hands on it this month!

Here’s the full press-release:

SECURING THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT SIMULATION
Flight Sim World: Bringing the Skies to Life!

Chatham, Kent – 3rd May 2017 Dovetail Games, the multi award-winning simulation developer and publisher today announced that its much anticipated flight simulator, Flight Sim World™, will be released into Steam’s Early Access program in the coming weeks.

Based on benchmark flight simulation technology, Flight Sim World will provide players with an unprecedented level of realism and detail. Its officially licensed GA aircraft will be the most authentic and detailed in-sim representations on the market, faithfully replicating their real world counterparts, with every gauge and switch fully operational.

Not only do these aircraft look like the real thing, but they also interact with the environment in an accurate way. A combination of atmospheric effects and advanced behind-the-scenes mechanics, result in a remarkably unique home simulation experience. Watch the raindrops race across your windscreen in stormy weather, while the physics engine challenges you with true-to-life aircraft behavior, including edge-of-envelope spins and stalls.

Whether you want to plan a peaceful flight somewhere sunny or test your skills with tricky situations fraught with bad weather and engine failures, the comprehensive Flight Planner gives you full control over weather, location and time of day, also allowing you to add random events that will make your time in the air even more challenging. For those who want to focus more on content creation, also included with Flight Sim World is the Pro Mission Editor, which is a professional tool which allows players to create more complex missions.

“The time has come for a new flight simulator which really focuses on the physical quality of the aircraft and a flight model which brings them to life”, said Executive Producer Stephen Hood. “After doing some intensive work on the game engine – such as providing a much-needed 64 bit element – we now have a flight simulation platform which will allow us and our partners to focus on creating new and exciting ways for simmers to benefit from these advances. New features and expansions to Flight Sim World will be rolled out as part of the Early Access program and beyond, reinforcing our absolute commitment to the hobby.

In addition to providing core updates and expansions, Flight Sim World will build on Dovetail Games’ extensive partnership publishing program, allowing high quality add-on developers and publishers to make available excellent additional content such as aircraft, airports, missions, and scenery.

“We have already built relationships with some of the best and brightest flight simulation developers in the industry”, added Simon Sauntson, Head of Third Party at Dovetail Games. “Flight Sim World will expand on those partnerships as we continue to secure premium content for our players. In addition to growing existing partnerships, we are reaching out to the wider development community to foster new relationships and bring top quality content to FSW”

Available May 2017 on Steam Early Access

Flight Sim World est une plateforme de simulation de vol développée par Dovetail Games. Basé sur la technologie de référence, FSW comprend l'espace aérien mondial ainsi que plusieurs appareils à une et à deux hélices pour bien démarrer dans le jeu.

Les appareils de Flight Sim World ont été conçus en utilisant les dernières technologies de modélisation et de rendu qui les font paraître incroyablement réalistes et détaillés. Toutes les commandes et les indicateurs dans les cockpits sont interactifs, tandis qu'une sélection d'animations rendent cette expérience aussi proche de la réalité que possible.

Les principaux appareils ne sont pas seulement splendides, ils réagissent également avec l'environnement de manière réaliste. Une combinaison d'effets atmosphériques et de mécaniques avancés rendent cette expérience de vol unique.

Si créer du contenu est votre passion, nous avons inclus le Pro Mission Editor, qui est un outil complet qui vous permet de concevoir vos propres missions.

Modes de jeu :

Vol libre : Partez à la découverte du monde avec le mode Vol libre !

Multijoueur (alpha) : Volez avec vos amis sur Steam ! Veuillez noter que le mode Multijoueur est encore en phase alpha, vous pourrez donc rencontrer certains bugs.

Leçons et missions : Apprenez les bases avec nos leçons LAPL et PPL, venez ensuite tester vos compétences dans une série de missions.

Inclus dans le jeu :

Intégration de la technologie Accu-Feel™
Une flotte d'appareils détaillés d'aviation générale
Un organisateur de vol simple à utiliser
Une modélisation de vol réaliste
Des textures Orbx FTX Global intégrées
Des leçons et des missions pour tester vos compétences
Un profil de pilote pour comptabiliser vos heures de vol
Le Pro Mission Editor

Sure thing. The aircraft are finished (the core aircraft, not the AI aircraft). Multiplayer functionality is not final, nor is the weather system in game. We are also going to expand on our flight planner as well as Steam workshop functionality for the Pro Mission Editor and the flight planner.

Yes, this is based on updated FSX code and covers the entire planet.

[pour le flou des textures et autres LODs]Scenery performance and optimization is on our laundry list

Flight Sim World is not designed to be backwards compatible with FSX add-ons. All part of moving forwards, I'm afraid!
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In order for us to progress the technology further and push the engine to its limits, compatibility can't be maintained. This also speaks to optimizing the sim to take better advantage of modern PCs
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In order to market as an official FSW add-on, you will be able to sell your add-ons on your own store as long as it is made available on the Dovetail channels as well.

Dovetail Games just announced that the current users of their first steps into flight simulation will be entitled to a copy of Flight Sim World.
 
The announcement was made on their Facebook page and it’s great new for all that supported DTG on their first release.
 
This move will boost the user base right from the start and, hopefully, Dovetail Games will be able to start gathering feedback from users very early.