Fly the Halo ship yourself: Free DLC for Flight Simulator
Created: 06/14/2022Updated: 06/14/2022 07:41
By: Marcus Efler
Drop off the Master Chief in the Alps: Microsoft is bringing the spectacular Pelican from Halo to Flight Simulator.
The number of exclusive titles for Xbox and PC is rather manageable.
But Microsoft keeps surprising them with crossover content from their game universes - so racers can blast through Forza Horizon 5 with the martial off-road buggy Warthog from Halo.
Now it's off into the third dimension: For its 40th birthday, Asobo is giving the popular Flight Simulator a spectacular, free add-on that Halo gamers should know only too well.
Fly Halo Ship Yourself: Welcome to Planet Earth
From now on they can control the equally legendary and fictional Dropship D77-TC Pelican themselves.
What has hardly been possible in the Halo games themselves is now possible with Flight Simulator 2020: Thanks to the new DLC, you can take a seat in the cockpit of the aircraft from a first-person perspective and then, as you are used to from the "Flusi", select any point of the flight Navigate to planets (or do so as a third person in exterior view with multiple paint jobs to choose from).
Trip to the Bavarian Alps: The Halo Pelican in Flight Simulator.
© Screenshot Marcus Efler
Hanover-Langenhagen instead of the halo ring
Hanover-Langenhagen instead of the halo ring: it is precisely the mixture of fiction and the amazing realism of the simulator that makes this crossover so appealing.
The cockpit is so well worn that it looks like it has thousands of flight hours on and over Reach, many of the buttons are actually operable, such as the all-important one for switching from VTOL to cruise mode, or activating the autopilot for a any flight route.
Halo Pelican on Xbox: Game meets Simulator
After the Darkstar stratospheric jet from the Top Gun DLC is based on real plans by Lockheed, the Halo Pelican is the first purely fictional aircraft on MS Flight Simulator.
However, the developers have given it extremely realistic flight characteristics and designed it as a combination of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter (which will soon also land on the simulator).
Depending on whether the living room pilot prefers to glide along in a relaxed manner or wants to train his skills in any weather, he can adjust the difficulty and AI support as he likes.
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With the Halo add-on, Flight Simulator for Xbox and PC moves a little further in the direction of the game, no question.
Of course, this does not harm its realism and claim as training software for real and virtual pilots at all.