This article is from WeChat official account:BB Ji (ID: bibiji300), author: monster circus, drawing from the title:” Microsoft flight Simulator 2020 “

“Murphy’s Law Magic Revision” said that as long as players are likely to do crazy things in the game, they will do crazy things, and the more free the game, the more crazy the players can be.

“Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020”(hereinafter referred to as “MFS 2020”) is the most watched recent masterpiece, it is not actually a A game in the strict sense. Think of it as a professional simulation software, it still has some shortcomings, but it is not interesting enough as a game. But it is still the most watched simulation game in history, because there is a very powerful gimmick: Microsoft restored a planet in it.

On the Internet continent, the stalk of “Earth Online” has been wandering like a ghost. In 2016, Coolpad Sky created a ridiculous marketing and announced a fake game called “Earth Online”, which made the majority of players immediately realize how far the real Earth OL is from us.

In addition to 3D rendering of 2D satellite maps, “MFS 2020” also has a very powerful technology, which is a real-time weather simulation provided by a company called Meteoblue. This company that makes a global weather forecast app allows “MFS 2020” to have not only weather types that are synchronized with reality, but also various atmospheric phenomena, such as typhoons and storms.

This feature gave players and game anchors a lot of fun, and they immediately caught sight of the super typhoon “Laura” that caused severe damage to the southern United States. A few hours before Laura’s landing, the anchor named TmarTn2 solemnly invited everyone to board his virtual plane and fly towards Hurricane Laura, which was in Louisiana at the time.

Hello, my name is Tomb Raider

The first half of the journey explains what is called “the tranquility before the storm”, the sky is as blue as washing, and the calm sea is like a deep sleep. The anchor did not waste this time, and dutifully popularized the audience with various knowledge about typhoons. Then slowly, some unknown giant ripples began to appear on the sea, dark clouds gradually covered the sky, and frost climbed onto the windshield of the plane.

Frost began to climb up the glass

Finally, he flew into the interior of the hurricane in the game, the plane began to turbulence, and the alarm was on the verge of losing control. Thick dark clouds occupy every corner of the field of vision, making it difficult to distinguish the upper and lower directions. It is like a pilot who is experiencing the “inverted flight illusion”, as long as he is slightly distracted, he will lose the horizon. Even if there are no special effects of Thunder masterpiece in “MFS 2020”, the scene is shocking enough.

Between hurricanes

He was not the only player who tried to catch Hurricane Laura at the time. Many people were doing the same thing at the time. When the residents of Louisiana were frightened and fleeing, the players of “MFS 2020” were trying to find the eye of “Laura” and fly to the top of “Laura”.

Hurricane “Laura” is ahead

Although the height of the hurricane 15,000 meters far exceeded the flying height of the plane, they temporarily gave up the idea of ​​overlooking the hurricane. But don’t worry, there are people behind to fly to Mars.

A few hours later, “Laura” landed in the United States, destroying tens of billions of dollars of property in a short period of time and killing 17 people. The first anchor we mentioned also donated all the proceeds from the video to the Red Cross.

The anchor’s behavior inspired the player community, and after that, the videos related to “MFS 2020” began to look strange. People began to challenge all kinds of extreme weather, from snowstorms that completely freeze the glass to hunting down tornadoes against real-time weather maps. Some people even thought of going through the forest fires that ravaged California in the game, but the real-time weather does not include real-time natural disasters.

Calm, just the thunderstorm before the crash

Soon, nature will no longer be able to fill the sinkholes of netizens’ imagination. First, the 51 area chrysanthemum, which has always been at the forefront of the Earth’s OL list, became tight, and realized that he was about to become a tourist attraction again.

Sure enough, a large number of players began to flood into Area 51. Thanks to the multiplayer mode of the game, everyone can see each other’s aircraft. If it weren’t for the high barriers to entry for this game, I’m afraid it would be a brilliant scene of pilots’ collective Naruto run.

Zone 51: sh*t, I knew they were coming again

Naturally, in this game without easter eggs, Area 51 is just a small, almost deserted airport, without any strange things (there are really aliens in the previous game Human). But this can’t stop the anchor Jacksepticeye from happily directing and acting in the game, fighting against the fantasy FBI agent, and being killed by military missiles. In contrast, the game is composed of soil slopes and bungalows in Area 51. Really frustrated.

Calm, just a missile that kills the mouth

Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that the famous anchor’s flight plan before going to Area 51 was to crash into his home in Ireland while laughing wildly in classical music. I don’t know if it was because of the apartment that obliterated his dream of exploring Area 51 when he was young.

The 51 area alone can’t satisfy the players’ desire to explore, so soon, everyone’s eyes bypassed the Nicaragua Falls and Honolulu, and cast their eyes to some strange places.

For example, Chernobyl:

Here is the explosive No. 4 reactor

Milne Diamond Mine:

And North Korea:

Pyongyang Grand Theater

Bermuda Triangle:

It is impossible to disappear

Wait, Bermuda? The eyes of this group of players lit up, and they suddenly realized a new world…

Nazca giant painting:

I was surprised, this thing can actually be found in the game

Stonehenge, this place deserves to be “the most boring attraction in Britain”:

Skinwalker Ranch(Skinwalker Ranch)’s crop circle:

This place is actually a flying plane

Of course, many of the so-called unsolved mysteries of the world are misleading marketing in those days, and neither Santa Claus nor Nibiru Stars exist. The current version of “MFS 2020” can’t clearly show those wonders, but it still can’t stop the passion of the players, because their passion has broken through the earth and went straight to outer space.

BGM: What Zarathustra said

But there is nothing new under the sun. As the saying goes, art comes from life. These crazy behaviors not only appear in games. After all, human hymns are hymns of courage. Sometimes, without looking at the evidence, you can’t even believe how loud your compatriots are when singing hymns.

The first is to fly into the eye of the typhoon. This kind of “feat” in Hollywood movies has actually been a pastime for a group of players. They call themselves “hurricane hunters”.

This is the moment when the plane flew into the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Irma

Can’t fly, it’s too difficult to catch a typhoon? It doesn’t matter, someone offered a compromise alternative: drive into a tornado. In this way, you can experience similar excitement.