New air racing expansion coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator in November

Throughout Gamescom 2021, Asobo dropped the announcement of the primary large growth that’s coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator: Reno Air Race Championship.

This new growth will add quite a lot of high-powered plane to the sim, together with official content material in partnership with the Nationwide Championship Air Races. Because the title suggests, this growth will enable simmers to compete towards each other in air races.

Raceway within the skies

Whereas Asobo was variety sufficient to drop a teaser trailer for the brand new Reno Air Race growth, the studio didn’t present a selected launch window. It merely said that it could launch by the Fall. Now, we’ve a a lot clearer concept of when the brand new growth will take to the skies. As confirmed within the latest Development Roadmap from September 9, the brand new Reno Air Race content material is ready to drop into Microsoft Flight Simulator by mid-November. Whereas a selected date nonetheless hasn’t been set, a minimum of we all know that a couple of weeks from now the digital skies above Reno shall be stuffed with speedsters.

There’s nonetheless so much to find out about this growth between now and its launch. For starters, the record of latest plane has but to be revealed. Moreover, particulars are scarce as to precisely how the brand new content material will perform. Probably the most that’s at the moment recognized is that it’ll be a brand new recreation mode. All of this may actually be revealed within the weeks main as much as the launch of the growth.

Even earlier than the digital Reno Air Races get underway in Microsoft Flight Simulator, simmers get to sit up for Sim Replace VI, set to launch someday in late October. This replace will carry a slew of enhancements and additions to the core mechanics of the sim. The latest World Replace VI did make some enhancements, but it surely largely centered on upgrading the surroundings of Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. Asobo can even launch the Junkers JU-52 historic airplane by the tip of the month, set to return out on September 28.