Still poor blending of terrain colour between PG and non PG areas. I was really hoping this was going to be something fixed with 2024, but seemingly not.
It’s a real immersion killer and only going to get worse with the increasing number of PG areas.
DEM is noticeably better, but Bing imagery looks worse in many areas. Needs color correction and better blending. For example, the area around Bern was beautiful (even with the tile popping) and now looks ugly. Same issue with recent UK update where nice green landscapes were replaced by sun baked images (not how UK looks majority of the year). Hoping this improves in 2024.
Agreed on DEM better and Bing imagery worse. Just took a look at the Rhone river valley in area of Sion Switzerland. The Rhone is not even water…just looks like a river of sand.
Yep and the sad thing is this WU was hyped so much because it’s using the bing imagery that will be used in MSFS24.
How about the dev team, instead of spending their time on more and more poi’s just fix the problems with poor LOD and the memory management system on Xbox series X. I’m gonna keep going on about it.
Well, if they continue to use such totally modified trailers not representing the final product without disclaimer, they will keep the hype up no matter how bad the ground imagery, colour differences, photogrammetry coloration etc. is. Hope no one is buying the sim due to this WU18 trailer, because it is false advertisment. End of the story.
Slightly off topic: Will we still be able to remove Asobo’s handcrafted airports and replace them with 3rd party products when more things (such as World updates) will be streamed with FS24. How can we remove & replace them, if they aren’t installed, at all!
are there different views?
the view I am used to has an icon on the left side followed by a description. on the right is the info of the current status and the size
Wich LOWS is best you think? The new one or the ORBX LOWS
Not sure there is one by ORBX, but my favourite is definitely the one by Digital Designs.
Software coders have nothing to do with creating POIs.
I’m sure but I’m fed up with how they prioritise.
I miss the good old days of WU6 when Bing used swiss federal maps.
Too bad they updated them with maps from another provider…
Downloading this WU now (minuus EDDM as I have payware already) and had some reasonable for me download speeds to begin with (18Mbits/sec) but now stuck on 8Mbit/sec and only 1/2 way there into a 10GB download. 
2 years ago all downlaods regardless of marketplace or sim update ran at my full bandwidth. I’m not impressed one bit with marketplace download speeds these days, they fluctuate badly and often end up even slower.
I’m so not looking forward to downloading FS2024.
Update went fine but new load time is a big issue after the update.
It took literally 5 min or longer to launch the sim. Yike!!!
On Xbox Series X, I’m getting terrible performance at the new EDDM airport with the iniBuilds A320neo. The framerate periodically collapses to like 5-10 fps for several seconds before rebounding to 30. I could barely leave the airport, it was such a jarring experience. Clearly not optimized with Xbox in mind. LODs are also abysmal in external view but that applies to every airport.
that mandatory and 25gb upgrade went so smooth this time i didnt have time to read the whole update brief.
What part of germany,austria or switserland is in the 2024 style? Love to have a crack on that to see how my system reacts to this.
I have removed both EDDM and LOWS because they payware options I already had have better performance and show AI traffic, while the new Gaya versions were totally empty.
One thing I noticed on a slow flight from Munich to Innsbruck, there a lot of brown areas e.g. on the edge of forests, probably caused by shadows in the aerial photos.
