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This Microsoft Flight Simulator driving mod looks just good enoughWhy fly when there’s a hatchback available?
Why fly when there’s a hatchback available?
Mod communities tend to follow predictable arcs, so it’s often possible to predict what work users will create long before it exists. For that reason I thought to myself today:Microsoft Flight Simulatorhas been out for a while, I wonder if anyone has made a mod that lets you drive a car around its world yet.
Car mod for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020Watch on YouTube
Car mod for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
As I say in the headline: it looks just good enough. Juuuuuuust. Flight Simulator’s recreation of planet earth is astonishing and gets better with each update, but it’s designed to be viewed from thousands of feet in the sky. Buildings and vistas still look pretty good from ground level, but you quickly spot the errors in its tree placements and the blurriness of its ground textures. There’s also only limited collision, meaning you’ll crash into buildings but can drive through cars and trees. Don’t expect Forza, is what I’m saying.
What I would really like, of course, is for Flight Simulator’s developers, Asobo, to do this themselves. They previously made Fuel, a late-00’s racing game which took place in a miniature, post-apocalyptic United States which was partly created from satellite data, and I am ready and waiting for a Fuel 2 which uses Flight Sim’s vastly improved aerial scans for something similar.
