In an interview with pcgamer.com today, Asobo’s Jorge Neumann gave some extra detail of what to expect from Flight Simulator 2024, when it launches later this year.

Here’s a quick review of the key features that were discussed:

• Flight Sim 2024 “see[s] every tree on Earth” using an AI tool, and can guess the tree species.
• FS24 will use a “thin client architecture” with much more of the game offloaded to the cloud, reducing the game install size to around 50GB.
• They added “every oil rig” and “every lighthouse”. “It feels like whatever comes to your mind you can actually do now, if you embrace the cloud.”
• “Every ship on Earth” is represented in the game in real time via transponder tracking. You can “land on every ship”.
• “Hundreds” of new animals have been added to the game.
• “You can now exit the plane [and] walk around[…] You can literally walk your favorite mountain path to your favorite hut in the mountains. Sit on the lake. See the sunset. It is truly a digital twin you can absorb.”

Read the full interview at pcgamer.com.