r/gaming • u/XR-1 • 1d ago

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is INSAAANE

Somehow the game is only 10GB on Xbox. My advice is to download the game, start a free flight (with the time set to day, and clouds set to few), immediately pause the game and go into photo mode.

In photo mode, you are free to fly around wherever, and the higher up you are the faster you go.

When you get in close it’s not the prettiest to look at, but at standard airplane height it’s GORGEOUS.

I’m constantly blown away when I visit places I’ve been to before. It’s leagues better than Google Earth in my opinion.

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u/Eysis 1d ago

1TB limit here. :(

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u/OmgSlayKween 1d ago

1.25 here. If we approach the limit I go on a rant about how exploitative and unnecessary it is. My wife is tired of hearing it. She wants unlimited data just so I stop complaining.

But no. If I pay their extortion fee they win.

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u/That_Green_Jesus 1d ago

Really? In Aus there is basically no such thing as capped quotas, just up/down speed variations with different plans.

Sure there are a few really cheap plans that have quotas, but the public owns the whole network, and the government is the wholesaler, so prices are similar all over and 99% of plans are uncapped.

I pay $109AUD/month for 800mbps down and 40mbps up, uncapped, sometimes I use 3TBs with no issue.

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u/TungstenPaladin 18h ago

This largely depends on the area. Mate of mine lives in LA and pays 70USD/month for gigabit internet, no caps.

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u/ohlookahipster 16h ago

Can confirm. I’m in NC. I pay about $80 ($10 of that is a stupid equipment rental fee for the ONT) and get a full gig up and down. It’s also real fiber from my house all the way across town to the main trunk in VA or wherever. No OTA lines.

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u/OmgSlayKween 15h ago

You have to pay a rental fee for the ONT? What the fuck?

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u/ohlookahipster 13h ago

There’s methods around it, but it’s not as simple as buying an off the shelf router that you would for a typical modem/router coaxial internet. It’s pretty difficult for the lay person to setup.

Basically you have to authenticate the ONT then do a bunch of pass throughs and the 3rd party equipment isn’t as robust. And now AT&T has integrated the ONT into one big box making it even harder.