Hello, I love to fly the India Fox Echo F35 around Edwards AFB in MSFS2020 and plan to get 2024 for Christmas. I am just curious to know from anyone else who likes to fly in this area if you think the scenery has improved a lot. I mostly fly higher up but will occasionally go low. From what I understand some areas look better and some worse due to bugs.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
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As someone who spends significant time in the Mojave desert, both in real life and in the sim, I think it looks freaking amazing.
The usual caveats need to apply, things like solar farms are flat map textures, so they look less realistic at lower sight seeing altitudes, there are the occasional 2024 scenery streaming issues where the rendering of textures aren’t quite right, and lastly, I’m not sure the shrubbery/tree heights are quite right (too tall, but this is a sim-wide thing), but overall it looks really, really good.
The ground texture with the rocks adds so much depth to the expansiveness of this great CA desert that I know and love so much. It has so much more of a real feeling about it.
One big thing I’ve noted, that is a major change, is the wind turbines are not just a big mess all over Tehachapi down into the Mojave basin. They seem to have proper placement and look so much more believable, as a result.
Here I’m at 4500’ in the Beaver flying SE towards the border of Edwards AFB:
Here’s an other shot looking toward Edwards (I wonder if I can spot the ruins of Pancho Barnes’ Happy Bottom Riding Club…):
Thank you. I live in LA and have been to Edwards and Mojave a few times in my life, but since I don’t drive, I don’t get out there very much. I know ground textures are improved in the new sim, including things like the number of trees and rocks and other stuff, but in a lot of the videos I have seen, it looked like a lot of textures were blurry off in the distance. The same could be said about the current sim though. Hopefully we will get another addon like We Love VFR which make the solar panels nad such 3D.
What I noted a blurry were mostly the hills/mountains textures. I don’t know what the deal is, but it looks like they have been stretched “thin” over the 3D object and then look semi-blurred.
I am able to run TLOD 400, so my distances look good.
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