After 2 days and 50Gb of updates I finally got to try out the new update. It certainly loads the flights faster but it’s clearly been done at the expense of the scenery and models. My home airport is Edinburgh in Scotland and my friend just got the game for Xbox. We took off and flew towards the city and I actually wondered where the city had gone. Where before it was completely 3D with auto-generated buildings and Edinburgh castle modeled in the centre, it’s now a Bing map crudely pasted on a mesh with the castle floating 40 feet above the hill. What have they done! Destroying the graphics quality to make it run on what is essentially a £400 PC when we’ve been running it happily on our more expensive kit for a year now. It’s big selling point was how amazing it looked, and now it looks like Simcopter 2000. I am gutted.
