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ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Description of the issue:
It’s great that we finally have seasons. HOWEVER, despite the good intention, the execution of the seaons is terrible. Everything I will decribe now excludes the trees. The trees look awesome in all seasons.
But unfortunatelly, the rest of the season system is broken and needs to be reworked / adjusted.
The main problem is: There seems to be a (what I now call) “season filter” above all aerial imagery / satellite imagery. Basically a filter that changes the colour and saturation of an area based on the season.
Good idea, but really unrealistic execution.
Most of the alps, vallies included, turn completelly brown from Nov. till May or so.
Far from anything remotely realistic. Because in reality, things might turn brown to some degree above 4500 ft or so… but in the valleys, things STAY green. At least in central Europe, for example.
But the sim basically turns whole countries into one big pile of brown pudding ^^
No green grass less anywhere. Nothing. It looks aweful and is extremely unrealistic. It makes MSFS2024 look way worse in these cases than MSFS2020.
Which is probably not the idea.
But there is also another issue with the “season filter” that does affect the world in a very negativ way, even in spring and summer: I call it the “milk filter”.
Lots of areas, in the mountains, but not only there, just get desaturated to a ridicoulus amount. Also: Not even remotely realistic.
It looks like somebody poured milk over vast large regions.
Textures get “washed out”, not in an unsharp way, but in a extremely desaturated milky greys/whitish surface.
Of course again, this is just silly looking and a huge downgrade from MSFS2020.
What’s the point of having seasons when they make things look so awful (besides the well done trees)?
This needs to be fixed. As fast as possible. It’s a dealbraker for many reagions of the world.
Some suggestions, at least for Switzerland / Austria and eastern Europe:
Areas above 5000 ft could slowly get more brown in late fall till spring… but below 5000 ft, things should more or less, at least to some degree, STAY GREEN. ALWAYS. (an less they are covered with snow of course).
At least 50% of all agriculture fields, etc. should stay green. There is also a lot of non acriculture fields with grass… they all should stay green below 5000 ft.
Rougly, of course.
Below are severl screenshots that illustrate these massive issues that make the sim just look unrealistic because of the “brown filter” and the “milk filter”:
Switzerland and Austria in November. Huge parts of the countries are just brown. Completelly.
This is utterly ridioucus. Things tend to go brown from 5000 ft till 7000 ft or so.
But not below. You can’t just turn whole countries brown Asobo! ^^
The result in these brown areas is something like this. Lake Zürich, close to Rapperswil. Everything brown in November. This does not reflect the real world in any shape or form. at least 50% of all the surfaces should still be green.
And also: This look milky/desaturated in an unrealistic way.
This shows the “milk filter”. From a certain hight (very low though), things get desaturated in a very poor way. This leads, even in summer, as this screenshot from the Mythen area in Switzerland close to Schwyz shows, to very washed out, desaturated fieds of grass, etc. Even the houses and rocks look desaturated. Totally silly. Looks bad even when the sim is set to July.
Things should then be very lush and saturated.
You can see the “milk filter” even here in the world map when zoomed in.
(time set to July).
“Brown filter” again. Vast areas of Switzerland and many other countries look like this in Nov. or February, even when at least 50% of it NEVER gets brown but stays green.
The world map shows well how this terrible implementation of seasons turn whole countries into one big brown puddle with not a single green leaf left. (except for the trees)
LONG STORY SHORT:
This needs to be adressed ASAP.
If you can, change the thresshold of the height when things start to turn brownish. Things below 5000 ft should NOT turn brown in these regions.
But also: Fix the milk filter! You can’t just desaturate grass fields by 80% and assume it looks realistic. My screenshots show well that it just looks terrible.
I see the good intention and the ideas. But the implementation needs to be fixed and improved to something realistic and believable.
Now it’s very, very far away from that.
Thanks a lot for adressing this soon!
ICAO, coordinates, or specific location:
Switzerland, Austria, most parts of eastern Europe, but also to some degree Canada, etc.
[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? YES
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? ALWAYS
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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- Start Sim
- Start Freeflight
- Set date to something like late November or February
- Look at Europe in the worldmap, compare it to my screenshots.
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[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? NO
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[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
RTX 3070ti
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