Fanboys Ruin Things: X-Plane 11 vs. X-Plane 12

everybody it's a Christopher Dixon farm and today I'm going to be talking about X-Plane 11 and explain 12 but before you turn off I'm actually talking about Fanboys and toxic exuberance I guess is the best way to put it right so explain 12 came out and the negativity about the release of X-Plane 12 has been tremendous and not just by people who uh use Microsoft flight simulator 2020 and we're going to try out X-Plane 12. but X-Plane users themselves just out of the gate hate on the simulator the simulator costs sixty dollars by the way not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things people say oh it's a lot of money it's 60 bucks in uh other Hobbies 60 bucks would get you a nut and a washer you know one golf ball that has special properties exaggeration of course but I think you get what I'm saying not a lot of money so the people that play flight simulators are different than the people who fly flight simulators it's not a game for some and it is a game for some these are two different camps of people with two different goals and they are not wrong in enjoying the simulator the way they do I fill in the camp of people who fly a flight simulator there is no goal uh I don't like to go and try to land on a bridge I don't like to try to dive bomb and then recover the last minute I don't like to go and try to visit my house or you know land on a street these are things I don't do it is totally fine that you do and so explain 11 explain 12. explain 11 great simulator different than flight simulator 2020. X-Plane 11 with a lot of tweaks can look fantastic X-Plane 12 out of the box looks as good as X-Plane 11. so the people who did all the tweaks with X-Plane 11 now have nothing good to say but I'll explain 12 they say all this time what did what did I wait for I've got all this and explain 11 and you do but you spent countless hours tweaking buying products here take a look this is X-Plane 11. the clouds are using a program called enhanced skyscapes that I'm using turn off the sky turn off the clouds and we can see the clouds are just kind of they're okay outside you can hear the atmosphere that's actually a tweak to make that happen so we go up into the sky and these clouds are actually not even stock clouds these clouds are something called Cloud art but they are two-dimensional panels if you try to fly through them they're just going to move past you opposed to enhanced disguise the game clouds which are 3D clouds these actually have mass and uh when you try to go around them or when you go through them you're actually going through them you can go around them in and out they're not just 2D things this is a tweak to add more uh Vehicles out there so the trains are their stock but I've actually got different Vehicles out here all of these houses are using a tweet called Sim Heaven X America and I'm using a special script to make the line of distance change that way you can see Chicago here in the distance all nice and pretty so we've got the sound that's a tweak the Runway is an actual art tweak that I'm using the ground textures so we are not using something called ortho Sim scenery which is basically satellite scenery on the ground these are ground textures well these ground textures are from a product called sft Global that I paid for if we go back to the airplane where it's dead quiet these buildings are another product called uh AEP that I've purchased and put in here to make the buildings look better so I've also got a whole bunch of other little tweaks running so I've got uh weather running this is a weather injector that makes the weather a little more realistic and when weather would be updated it would kind of be harsh opposed to X-Plane 12. so here we are in X-Plane 12 you can hear that we've already got noise going on we step outside it knows distance so now the noise has changed opposed to the little script I had before you can see we've got a lot more trains going now I'm still using X America here so this is for X-Plane 12 and if we look in Chicago here the line of distance is a little different but the runways this is stock this is not a special product the airport buildings are using that AEP only because I paid for it but that's also been upgraded if I use the stock version the stock houses has been upgraded but not here in X America the ground textures are so good to me that um it's hard to tell satellite sometimes from I mean this is just built in I mean that almost looks like a real picture of what's going on fantastic the uh clouds let's go ahead and make it a little cloudier the lighting is just amazing right the clouds are built in not a special product and also there's consequences for flying in clouds uh the air gets bumpier it knows where you are the clouds will change over time if I uh fast forward over time the clouds will slowly get they'll move so here you can see that lighting is just gorgeous the night lighting gorgeous uh all that stuff had to be kind of tweaked in the older version of X-Plane there is just physics differences uh and some of them need to be tweaked they're not uh as uh realistic as I would like but we're getting there certainly and uh there's wind affecting trees you can see like the the trees move ever so slightly and if it was windy those things the branches would move quite a bit and it also knows that we're in summer here so the trees have lost their uh their leaves if we uh change it again so you can see here we've got leaves on the trees now and with the wind blowing ever so gently if it was fall those leaves would be changing color and it would also depend where you are in in the world when it would actually drop the leaves so really just a neat little thing you see there's a little more grass now it's a little Greener and there's other things that are just in the world different water moves and if you were on the seaplane that water would make a difference it would bounce you up and down and there were just so many little physics changes so the lighting is actually based on the real world how light scatters on objects and time of day and all of that is actually figured out in real life this is not oh this would look pretty they actually figured it out so it can resemble real life and people will discount that big major changes it'll only get better over time and even the Fanboys are attacking X-Plane 12 because of X-Plane 11 and what they've done but explain 11 still won't equal X-Plane 12. and you had to spend so much more time and money to get it to equal what's explaining 12 out of the box and this is the point I'm getting to that people are so ready to knock something that they make it unenjoyable Disney community there's a ride that just closed and the people came out of the woodwork complaining about the ride closing they'll also same people complain that not enough changes are happening in the park it's the same park that it's been for the last 20 years also not true but you can't please people right you change something people are angry um you don't change something people get angry and the change you make people will get angry um they basically bullied this night firework show at Epcot people just constantly complained about it it was let open like less than a year and and boom closed already and they're gonna replace it with something else nothing wrong with the show just bullied by Fanboys really I mean these are the people that complain not the guests that showed up they had no problem with this stuff at all but the clamor online was so great they ended up just scrapping it and matter of fact they're bringing back a show because of the same thing I'm actually one of those people that are happy about that because that show was better so I'm part of the problem so I don't know where I'm getting at with this other than uh the thing that ruins a fan Community are the fans and their viciousness at uh attacking people with a different opinion or defending their opinion I get this all the time also on the flight simulator community I use X-Plane I use X-Plane for a number of reasons and I I can give you the reasons why I think X-Plane is a superior product over Microsoft flight simulator 2020 but people will instantly knock me for my choice and when I start pointing out uh issues I have with their simulator they feel like they're being attacked but they had no problem attacking me and it was partially because of the them trying to justify why they use the simulator they do that is also part of Fanboy Community is you are trying to defend defend your choices by attacking others and you shouldn't do that and I I can fall into the Trap too I do my best to give an opinion but like I don't want to attack you because you've got a different opinion so I don't I I've got no way to solve the world here but I am pointing this out that some of the worst people that take the fun out of any hobby are the people who are actively involved and enjoy the hobby so you've got to be careful of that also and don't let the that suck out the fun you gotta besides ignore those people you gotta just get rid of those people I've had to block people uh because of that as they come at you for your opinion you weren't attacking them but by you giving your opinion which is contrary to them they felt attacked rambled long enough everybody thank you so much for uh watching and and listening about this two prong thing uh while I showed some of the differences between X-Plane 11 and X-Plane 12. also uh the spoiler alert is I've got to use X-Plane 11 for quite a bit longer a lot of the planes that I use will only fly in X-Plane 11. they have not been updated to explain 12. they made enough changes in X-Plane 12 that some of the planes simply will not fly and we'll crash the simulator and also X-Plane 11 looks pretty damn good as you saw I mean it's it's pretty close uh there are a lot more benefits than X-Plane 12. I would be I would much prefer to be flying X-Plane 12 exclusively but that will not be the case for a long time and there's no problem running both of them at the same time I can get into a flight with one plane in the next Point 11. move on to X-Plane 12. and enjoy it as well so all right take care everybody bye

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Length: 12min 42sec (762 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 14 2023