As a old school simmer who remembers being excited to receive DVD’s in the mail from JustFlight with photoreal ground textures for England in FS2004 (funnily enough, still available online for less than £1!), I am completely blow away with London after the UK world update 3. The leaps forward in technology since the FS2004 days are amazing, and I’m astounded at how flawlessly the data of the 3D photogrammetry streams to my home PC on the other side of the globe.
Screenshots don’t do it justice, but I couldn’t help but hit the capture button a few times as I followed the Thames from EGLC to EGWU.
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (4GB), 32GB DDR4 RAM, Samsung 970 EVO 500GB SSD. Running everything on Ultra at 1080p on a 32” screen.
Not been down south yet but the highlands and islands looking awesome so far.
Going to run down the coastline over the weekend and checkout the capitol.
And now, three and a half years later, here’s a comparison with London in World Update 17. Certainly the Docklands skyscrapers look a lot better, and the higher res of the TIN appears far crisper on screen overall.
It’s a shame MS didn’t apply water masks to the bridges along the Thames and throw a battleship on HMS Belfast though! Thought that would have been an easy to achieve and wouldn’t have slipped past quality control.
