Microsoft Flight Sim players have the world at their fingertips; now they want a time machine, too (www.polygon.com)
from Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 06 Dec 2023 15:39
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maynarkh@feddit.nl on 06 Dec 2023 17:19 next collapse

TL;DR:

Microsoft/Asobo is responding to the community asking for historical weather conditions instead of only now-current ones, they say it’s very hard to impossible to do it due to a lack of data and existing data being hard to get into the game.

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca on 06 Dec 2023 22:02 collapse

“Lack of data” seems a very strange reason considering we have climate data going back over 100 years for most of the world and meteorological data going back at least a few decades.

falkerie71@sh.itjust.works on 08 Dec 2023 04:15 collapse

For a flying sim, you probably want “weather” data, not “climate” data. Like on this particular date, time, and location, data for the wind direction, rain, cloud formation, temperature, etc. That data would be humongous.

drkt@feddit.dk on 06 Dec 2023 19:56 next collapse

No we don’t This reads like an ad

obinice@lemmy.world on 08 Dec 2023 04:47 collapse

You know what would be amazing? If we had a time machine in flight sim thay let us fly over reasonably accurate recreations of towns and cities throughout history, imagine flying over flanders fields, or London in the 1700s!

(My keyboard autocorrected ‘flight sim’ to ‘douche son’ I don’t know why my god)