Announced in June 2022 and planned for the second quarter of 2023, AirportSim proposes to make you live the life of the ground staff in charge of all the logistic operations around the aircraft. You will finally be able to know what happens when you entrust your luggage to the check-in counter since it is you who will load it into the holds of the plane. The title wants to be realistic in its approach with a faithful modeling of airports as well as planes thanks to numerous licenses (in particular Airbus). Good additional news, it will be playable in online or local co-op.
AirportSim starts where FlightSimulator stops
The developers of MS Games indicate that it will be a question of making you carry out the main operations on the ground around the planes. We are talking here about baggage handling, kerosene supply, securing around the aircraft on the tarmac, handling of gangways, connection to the electrical network and air conditioning, taxiing with the push truck. You will have at your disposal many equipment and vehicles to carry out your missions. The gameplay will therefore be 50% geared towards driving machinery and 50% towards the manual execution of operations. However, the game will not be a construction or management game.
4 Airports for the launch
- Vagar Airport
The only international airport in the Faroe Islands, an autonomous Danish territory located in the North Atlantic. The very short runway and the often difficult weather conditions make this airport inaccessible to many types of aircraft. Aircraft landing in Vágar are usually short takeoff and landing aircraft. -
Warsaw Chopin Airport
Main international airport of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, with an area of 2 834 hectares with four terminals.
- Keflavik Airport
Iceland's main airport with 10 million passengers each year. - Akey west airport
US international airport located in Monroe County, Florida, 3,2 miles east of Key West. Flights departing from the airport often have weight restrictions due to the runway being only 1 miles long m.
3 game modes
Le free mode will by definition be the sandbox where you can choose your weather conditions and have access to all the vehicles in the game. An ideal mode for training without the constraints of the challenge mode which will ask you to perform specific tasks in a specific time. The last mode will be structured around specific scenarios to judge the quality of your skills in specific areas of intervention.
Detailed management of weather conditions
To vary your playing conditions, you can vary the weather environment both on the amount of rain and snow or fog, even going as far as thunderstorms and storms. The developers promise a striking rendering. The impact that the weather will have on your ground operations has not yet been fully finalized at this stage, but we are already talking about having to, for example, de-ice the aircraft, clear snow from the parking lots and the aircraft, modify the securing of the personnel accordingly, shift the take-off times to have time to carry out additional operations.
Depending on the chosen game mode (free, challenge, scenario), you can choose the amount of clouds, the schedule, the intensity of the rain, the density of the snow, the density of the fog. In addition to having a visual and sound impact, you will also have to adapt your actions. We are talking here about switching on the heating, the windscreen wipers, adapting your driving on the track. You will be penalized if you ride elsewhere than in the authorized areas, for example. It will therefore be necessary to pay attention to the markings on the ground.
There will also be the possibility of synchronizing the weather with the real conditions in the airports modeled thanks to the METAR system (Meteorological Aerodrome Report) used in aviation to inform pilots about atmospheric conditions.
Synthetic
- Accurately reproduced airports: Warsaw, Vagar, Keflavik and Key West (additional airports to come as DLC)
- Licensed vehicle models, recreated based on manufacturer's documents and plans.
- The most popular aircraft types in the world, Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320 NEO.
- Various game modes: campaign, free play, co-op and visitor mode.
- Real-time weather, taken from active METAR data.
- Configurable weather conditions with the ability to modify specific properties.
- Realistic time simulation and position of the sun based on geographical position, date and time of the year.
- Precise in-game tasks developed around documented knowledge and interviews with ground handling crews from existing airports.
- Steam Workshop
- Create your own airline liveries and game scenarios.
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