Microsoft Flight Simulator: Game of the Year Edition is arriving on November 18th with DirectX 12 help. The free replace will embody 5 new plane, eight new airports, and new discovery flights and tutorials. The large addition might be DirectX 12 help for PC gamers.

Asobo, the builders of Microsoft Flight Simulator, already shipped an replace earlier this 12 months that included enormous PC efficiency enhancements. This new DirectX 12 replace ought to enhance issues even additional for sure PCs, as DirectX 12 contains higher CPU utilization.

The transfer to DirectX 12 will even open the door to ray tracing in Microsoft Flight Simulator sooner or later. Effects ought to embody higher water, improved shadows, and the standard reflections we anticipate to see in ray-traced video games. Asobo can also be introducing an up to date climate system and a dev mode replay system on this upcoming replace.

Microsoft Flight Simulator: Game of the Year Edition additionally contains entry to a separate Reno Air Races mode that lets gamers race towards their associates and different on-line pilots in a aggressive multiplayer mode. The Reno Air Races enlargement pack is the primary main enlargement for Microsoft Flight Simulator and is modeled on the well-known STIHL National Championship Air Races.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator: Game of the Year Edition will launch on November 18th, simply after Forza Horizon 5’s debut on November ninth and forward of the Halo: Infinite launch on December eighth. It’s a part of a sequence of Xbox Game Studios launches this fall, together with Age of Empires IV on October twenty eighth and Minecraft becoming a member of Xbox Game Pass for PC on November 2nd.

Microsoft can also be holding a particular broadcast on November fifteenth to have a good time 20 years of Xbox. “While we won’t announce any new games, this anniversary broadcast will be a special look back at 20 years of Xbox,” says Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios. “We’ll share more details soon, so stay tuned.”