Hi, anyone who has this on xbox, is it any good these days, is it stable? I saw it on sale and was thinking about getting it, I read this airport was quite problematic in the past and I was wondering how does it perform currently . Thx
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There is that existing review in case you are interested but it is for the PC version:
Hey mate, I have it and am on Xbox x and have found that it gives me problems at times, specifically black screens on the Daher 930, probably others but I haven’t got the PMDG 737 and don’t fly heavies enough anymore to give feedback on those. Also got my first ever CTD using the drone to look around after first purchasing this add on.
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When I was on Xbox (SU14), it was problematic for an airport of its size. Great scenery but would black-screen pretty quickly with only moderate use of exterior views or the drone.
It’s probably worth it on sale, as long as you’re prepared to mostly confine yourself to the flightdeck. It goes nicely with Orbx’s (cheap) Adelaide city pack and the surrounding default PG scenery is lovely.
If SU15 on the 'Box is all its cracked up to be, things may well have changed since my experiences with it.
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Is the Adelaide city pack available for Xbox?
I thought it was but checked and it isn’t. Should be soon.
Finally bought it but one thing I find quite annoying is that the airport itself seems to replace (destroy) part of the adjacent photogrammetry . I can’t believe this has not been patched since this came out… the PG is indeed lovely but it looks weird to see it replaced by default AI buildings ! I can’t recommend this scenery for this reason.
PS- I guess the bar was too high having just purchased NZA’s Tauranga as well which has such an amazing integration with the existing PG!!!
I went to have a look at YPAD and the buildings surrounding the airport are indeed default autogen. However I’m not sure how Impulse would actually do this — I may uninstall YPAD later to see if it makes any difference. Either way, I never noticed before and I’ve flown in and out of there loads.
Right, I did that , uninstalled the airport and checked again… the PG is there up to the airport perimeter - no trace of autogen on the approach to rwy 23 for instance… somehow they replaced many parts around the airport with those default houses and buildings … imho this should be patched to allow the whole PG to show up intact. I dont know if this airport was released prior to this area of PG being available?
Before purchasing the airport I had been checking the whole area and found it quite nice so I thought an add on airport would look really nice there…but I was not expecting to see them replacing PG sections with autogen!
YPAD was released mid-July 2021, so i’s an old one (must have been pretty state-of-the-art three years ago!). The Oz WU was released at the end of January 2022, so I guess Impulse had to fix YPAD to get it to fit with the PG. What we see is obviously the result.
Now that I am thinking, I believe something like that was done as well on flighbeam’s NZWN , at some point there was some conflict with the PG and they had to leave an area adjacent to the airport with autogen. In that case its not that noticeable because those different houses are not directly on the approach but rather on the side. I wish there was a way for the developers to fix the issue and restore the original PG around YPAD.
New update just gone live. Been submitted to Marketplace so shouldn’t be too long.
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Great they fixed the photogrammetry issue around the airport 
…unfortunately graphics are pretty ugly on xbox these days- some of the ground textures really look like fs98 lately - its hard to know whether its the airport or msfs downgrading the quality of everything… lots of things popping up , terrible lod issues.
On the back of SU15, you’re right — it’s hard to know. I’m on PC and have seen a general decrease in LOD post-SU15, but I think YPAD has probably been dumbed down a bit on both platforms, to accommodate Xbox. The landside paved courtyard area now looks far lower res than it was previously.
YPAD was problematic on Xbox so I think the reductions are likely a reasonable trade-off for console simmers.
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