Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 vs X Plane 12 Weather Comparison 

But then again, msfs ends up lacking greatly in the variety of clouds and in the accuracy of the clouds to real life.

wrong mate

To each his own. I don’t see why both can’t coexist. There are things about MSFS that I think are better than X Plane 12 and vice versa. I fly and enjoy both. For me X Plane 12 performs more like the real 172 that I fly.

Bullcrap

Again, I think MSFS does things better than X Plane 12 and vice versa. Many other factors need to be considered such as the rig you’re running the sim on. I get excellent performance on my Mac as I had it specifically built to handle X Plane optimally. My PC that runs MSFS is extremely capable as well. I’m making a comparison to flying a Cessna 172 in real life. To me X Plane 12 seems to simulate actual flight better than MSFS. I’m not sure if anyone here flies in real life, but 1 and 2 word comments are just knee jerk reactions to me. At least explain why one sim works better for you than the other, then we can have a serious conversation. My other issue with MSFS is the fact that it runs under Windows 10 / 11 whatever you have. I spent 3 weeks getting peripherals like joysticks, rudder pedals & throttle controls to work with MSFS. Their method of binding external equipment is abysmal. I was able to fly X Plane in less than 10 minutes after installing it. Sorry to say guys but, I’d have to say that I fly X Plane 12 and I CONFIGURE MSFS.

@@michaelcolletti790 you are right. Unfortunately the MSFS-community is full of insecure gamers that have never flown in real and have no clue about aerodynamics. They absolutely hate when another sim does things better than the one game giving them the security they are lacking in real life so badly. And they completely fail at arguing and can then only troll. Sad but true.

X plane doesnt use or have access to anywhere near the technology that multi billion dollar microsoft does, plus microsoft is in partnership with hundreds of other developers to bring MSFS to life. X plane on the other hand is a small stand alone company.

Honestly, it feels like this should have been xp11.

@@BrickUnit I've watched interviews whereby Austin showed no interest in partnering up with companies to achieve this. Believe me if they wanted to they could have convinced google to do this. Austin said up close like 3 feet in front the buildings the textures are distorted as if anyone is flying a plane 3 feet among buildings he actually has no interest in this technology. So it's by choice. It is what it is I guess but no way I'm paying another 60 bucks for an X-Plane 11 update. Btw I have both X-Plane 11 and msfs 2020. I enjoyed xplane and love the shared cockpit payware addon. The experience was really smooth with my cousin.

@@denziiey he said it was also because of other reasons not just him not wanting to partner up.

@@Greasytrap4 I'm currently learning programming and one day I will definitely make my contribution to the flightsim community and I might just involved with this project cause if X-Plane had the visual fidelity of real world 1:1 scale photogrammetry it would be a force to recon with. I need more time at least another 2 years.

Ortho + X-World and X-Plane wins big time as it's a real simulator.

its ok to be in denial

We are talking abt terrain comparison here 😅

@@fracl9369 Then remove all the buildings and lets take a look at both sets of terrain tiles.

@@mrboss20ten You can be whatever you like my friend.

@@dawnrommel7548 xplane still using generic texture.. while msfs using photogrametry

But look at how X Plane still depicts the coastline?? There's zero details, MSFS has lots of little curves, the coastline seems "dented" so to speak as in real life. X Plane still looks like the coastline has been cut out with a ruler and a pair of scissors! It really looks like a flight sim from 10 years ago. It's appalling and you can"t correct this as easily as an oversaturation on which you can always easily apply a saturation tone down via anything like ReShade and voila. The landscape level of detail and geometry is nothing but a farce in 2022... This thing is still XP 11 through and through, they had since 2016 to work on that!

@@alanlej You are talking about landscape and coastline and the video was about the weather.

If you look airport in winter XP12 is too bright end it looks like it is raining sleet. It looks like there is different weather between sims. Both have own pros and cons and both need work about winter. What I have been flying both MSFS weather look much more better but it is because XP12 VR is still wip. IMO lightning looks better in MSFS, XP12 have right shape but effect is pale.

Welcome to 2022, how them sales numbers looking?

@@fsx-legend4602 About 100k copies sold already in Early Access status. Which means that this even not a release yet. You guys who loves "cool graphics" don't understand that the simulation always about realism. Realism != graphics. MSFS2020 after two years being released still didn't fix glitches with which it was released. Their so-called "unique" super modern CFD physics blah-blah still doesn't work properly. Flaps not working as they should. Ground physics awful. Graphics look good only at very high altitude. Close to ground like after thermo-nuclear war, etc. MSFS just a another game, XP12 is a simulator.

you can tell the fanboys. lol its ok to have your very wrong opinion

@@gaenthusiast9427 This is because people are buying XP12 directly on the original website. I did purchase it directly. I was one of the first who acquired and my deal ID was close to 30k already which means that they sold for about one week 30k licenses. This is because X-plane customers are not gamers. We don't use Steam. Same with DCS.

@@makskk6spm275 Both of them are games lol...MSFS is just the more beautiful one. The basic physics consider so much more factors in MSFS. Wind, lift, drag is calculated on every squareinch of the plane and wings. Its just up to the developers with their add ons to get the best out of it. Of course the default models arent this accurate. But you need way less money to get a more accurate flightmodel than in XP12. Btw I was a XP11 simmer and put thousands of dollars in this game for totally overpriced add ons. I wont buy XP12, they lost me since MSFS but I really cant understand those selfnamed "veterans" who will always say "XP better" without even trying some realistic add ons for MSFS. The advantage to MSFS was the default failure mode or the shared cockpit. But most of those features are already implemented in the MSFS itself or add ons. Again: Both are games! Its funny thoght that you call out MSFS the game and XP the simulator despite the fact that MSFS has the more realistic physic engine. It only has the worse default flight models