Places to avoid in MS2020

Paris, France. Among other things, Notre-Dame looks completely burned down. Should I say it doesn’t even exist?

Las Vegas at night. The place looks like it’s having a power outage and running on generators. Nothing like the real thing.

All areas close to the polar caps. It looks like MSFS team completely forgot about polar aviation.

Under any bridge. You’ve been warned!

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Stay away from NZSP.

Shetland has superb ground, it’s the hills where it went wrong. The faroes are all hopeless.

Someone said bing maps skimped on data above the 60th parallel and that line runs through Shetland just where it starts to go haywire.

I’m interested to see if they do anything about the far north. My suspicion is it’s too fundamental to address. Big shame because the Arctic was one of the big attractions for me.

Svalbard.

I dont even think the GPS works up there.

I have to plug superspud on flightsim.to, he has done simple but necessary work on just about every far out place that is missing from the base game map that occured to me. Fixed Shetlands, added St. Helena, RAF Ascension Island, channel islands, Svalbard and Kai-tak. He must be reading my mind.

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Basically all of Israel so far, which is all autogenerated and looks absolutely nothing like the real thing, as Bing has almost nothing except low res photos. XPlane had a terrific free community generated scenery package for that country.

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Mauritius and Reunion.

Shame, especially Reunion is beautiful.

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Hey this is a bit similar to my issue:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/blurry-texture-just-under-the-plane/301690

Everything north of 60th parallel has a really bad mesh.

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But there is a difference between barren and missing textures. Fly east from the capital and you’ll see what I mean

Hi, I also train between FIMP and FMEE.
Agree that things could be improved.

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Iceland coast shows up tabletop lakes, essentially lakes sitting on top a random, steep block of something.

That’s the high detail area coverage you see. Except Bing doesn’t have any high detail there and the low res sat map gets replaced with generic fuzzy aerial images. Very noticeable in Siberia as well, and over the arctic. However at Svalbard it doesn’t do that and you just see the low res sat imagery

The game does recognize the airstrip, there it replaces the low res sat image (with air strip) into generic grass tiles in a big rectangle

You can turn Bing data off to stick with the low res sat images

Dry Tortugas, looks like a sandbar and Fort Jefferson is not present. the water here is some of the most amazing on the planet but sadly not in the Sim.

Polar regions are a complete mess. I hope there is an world update or something that will make them look normal at least and not some creepy imaginary landscape composed of pure Lovecraftian horror.

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The Reason for this was a law that forbid US Companies to publish high res images from Israel. The law is gone since august but Bing needs time to get better images.

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Asobo is currently updating scenery on an area-by-area basis. They have (supposedly) completed Japan, with the USA next on the list (which would presumably include Alaska).

What would be interesting is whether Japan has any missing areas, or if there were missing areas before the update which are now OK.

If they have made Japan “perfect”, then there is hope - in that case, we should firstly get all the USA problems on their list to help them with their update now. Other areas could then be addressed as they are announced by Asobo.

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No fence but this website looks like one big bulls##t

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Yes would be good to know if Japan has any low res patches.

Better:

That’s what this thread should really be titled. World Updates that have already been updated and any flaws in that “hand” update mapping. :slight_smile: