In a world first, exclusive to MSFS, Hadrian's Wall 180 allows you to travel back 2,000 years in history to experience one of the great building projects of the Roman Empire, as it originally appeared.
Drawing on expert advice, excavation reports, academic literature, physical and artistic reconstructions we have rebuilt the entire Wall system as it is believed to have looked at its peak in the year 180CE/AD.
The first release focuses on the military aspects of the wall, includin... In a world first, exclusive to MSFS, Hadrian's Wall 180 allows you to travel back 2,000 years in history to experience one of the great building projects of the Roman Empire, as it originally appeared.
Drawing on expert advice, excavation reports, academic literature, physical and artistic reconstructions we have rebuilt the entire Wall system as it is believed to have looked at its peak in the year 180CE/AD.
The first release focuses on the military aspects of the wall, including
- 73 miles of Roman Wall, accurately following the terrain of northern England
- 158 turrets
- 78 Milecastles
- 18 individually modelled legionary forts plus two Romano-British villages
- 4 Roman bridges with corrected river courses
- Over 140 unique building models
- Over 5,000 terrain modifications to clear the route of the wall, including opening up an eleven mile long "park" through the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- A User Guide that includes background about Hadrian's Wall and the HW180 design process
Hadrian's Wall is perhaps the best known monument to the Roman conquest of Britain. At eighty Roman miles long it cuts across northern Britain from the Solway Firth to the mouth of the River Tyne, an unmistakable expression of Roman Imperial ambition, might and logistical control. Whilst individual sites have been recreated digitally before, reconstructing the whole system and placing it in its wider landscape has not proved possible - until now.
Planned updates will add almost two hundred miles of earthworks, night lighting and the civilian infrastructure including the remaining villages, the Roman harbour at South Shields and the complete Roman town of Corbridge.
Hadrian's Wall 180 is a result of a unique partnership between Time Machine Designs and boomsatsuma Education which is designed to bring accurate reconstructions of the past to MSFS whilst also creating early career freelance opportunities for digital technology students and recent graduates.
Students and graduates from boomsatsuma have worked with Time Machine Designs to develop HW180 and resolve the many technical challenges presented by the project. The core team includes two recent graduates in the roles of Production and Technology Manager, two 3D modellers who graduated during the life of the project and four undergraduates.
Our shared objective is to bring many more historic sites to MSFS as they appeared in their heyday whilst giving the next generation of game artists, designers and producers the opportunity to build their skills and experience.
And using the "digital twin" technology that powers MSFS, we believe that Hadrian's Wall 180 represents the future of the past.