First look at the new Europey in Update 6

With World Update 6, developer Asobo is devoting itself to the Europe-speaking area of ​​Europe.

In a developer video, Asobo and Microsoft discussed the new content of World Update 6 for the Flight Simulator in detail for the first time. It becomes homely, because the patch focuses on Europey, Austria and Switzerland. Many cities, sights and airports are to be revised.

The update is for one Release am 26. August 2021

terminated. Then the improvements should find their way into the Flight Simulator. These include the Allianz Arena in Munich, the Deutsche Eck in Koblenz and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. In Austria and Switzerland, for example, large historic buildings and airports will then be completely renovated.

Here are a few screenshots from the developer video:

Microsoft Flight Simulator – View pictures from World Update 6

New plane

The improvements to the game world of Flight Simulator are not the only new thing in World Update 6. The patch also includes a new aircraft, the Junkers Ju-52, nicknamed “Aunt Ju”. The transport aircraft from the Dessau manufacturer Junkers was produced from 1932 to 1952 and a variant was also used as a bomber during the Second World War.

The model of the Junkers Ju-52 in the Microsoft Flight Simulator still needs some work, but already shows the typical shape.

We offer you only a part of the pictures shown here. You can watch the complete video with the developers here:

Link to YouTube content

Why now?

To generate the world, the Flight Simulator relies on satellite data from Bing Maps, which are displayed three-dimensionally in the game with the help of AI technology. However, this also leads to errors, for example huge obelisks appeared in the landscape in the past. There are also many inaccurately translated buildings to be found at the moment.

Therefore, the developers are gradually adding manual improvements to important sights and airports in the major world updates. In the last world update 5 for the flight simulator, everything revolved around the Scandinavian region.