I’ve not had time to examine the entire sim in all parts of the world, but I will say the delivered vs the advertised expectation is not nearly what was promised. It appears they are taking a page from the X plane textbook to never have a complete sim but constantly up grade it , which has its’s merits, but the releasing of this in such a poor initial state wreaks of a money cash related program, not sim performance. After so much alpha and Beta testing I expected more. I noticed to my surprise that large parts of the world have generic scenery not unlike FSX or X plane, and Stuttgart airport, for example, is completely purposely obliterated with generic scenery and autogen around it. Not what was expected, perhaps I’m missing something. It is a good concept, and I trust it will eventually get up to speed, but I am glad I only purchased the basic edition for now. that’s only the scenery, there are many other bugs and shortcomings as well. I hate to use terms like bait and switch, but it does come to mind. That said it’s worth the price for the basic edition in my view, but no more just to add a few planes and airports.
I think you didn’t read up on what they were doing then.
They generated an entire world, and populated it with autogen scenery based on Blackshark AI’s AI. 36k airports available on launch.
If you were expecting 36k handcrafted airports, then you clearly should change your expectations. They delivered exactly what they promised.
for FSX or Xplane you would have to download terabytes of ortho and custom sceneries for an effect that is still worse than what we’ve got right now.
You took what I said and either mis understood or chose to ignore my point. I didn’t say or expect what you suggested, but when I say meager autogen I don’t mean the typical high quality you do see in much of the world, ( and it is very good where it exists) but generic scenery with roads as wide as runways and truly generic scenery textures as in native X plane or FSX only worse. Maybe you only fly in the eye candy rich areas. I do expect some kind of airport in the case of a major place like Stuttgart, there was nothing… I have created large areas of orthoXP in x plane and I have to say the scenery is better, minus the autogen buildings in selected premium areas of MSFS, but much of the world is just lego block structures worse than X plane. I’m not an X plane fanboy, it has it’s disadvantages as well, but for all the glorious hype, I think what we got is much less than promised. coupled with the level of under development in flight modeling, ATC, and navigation, it was a premature launch. I appreciate the fact that FSX, and X plane have and or were, much more mature sims after years of third party development. Lets hope this sim goes forward to becoming equally mature, not just another X box game. I’ve developed scenery, including many airports for FSX and in X-plane, as well as aircraft in X plane, I’m not in experienced or mis-informed, just mislead.
I agree with your disappointment with the scenery. In some places it’s superb but in most of the places I fly it’s not even close to realistic with wrong buildings, poor roads and train tracks looking like roads of blobs of green mush. I’ve been flying X-plane and FS half the time and it’s often hard to tell the difference at altitude and at airports between the two, (unless it’s a detailed airport in FS or X-Plane). I’m not trying to bash FS just agree that I expected way more perfection in the scenery. Whatever Blackshark is doing it’s not working in my neighborhood and many places I fly with melted lumps for houses and buildings.
I keep thinking I have the settings wrong but not sure how to improve the rendering accuracy.
Fly out of KORD to Chicago. Maybe better texture files are needed for a building
yes this area exists (when there are clouds or non existing bing images) but most of the world looks like promised. Can you name me a location where you have this problems?
I have not kept a log of all the instances but much of rural Germany in spots from Stuttgart East around Swabish Hall. Karsrule perhaps. also many other blank spots. Bing maps do exist, because I have created these areas in X Plane with Ortho 4XP using Bing maps as a source. So that is not a valid excuse.
i found a lot of missing Highres Arials for example here 49.55765390830967 8.98646688992244 and surroundings.
The same at Swabish Hall (look at bing maps for it)
So that’s the reason you only have the generatet textures there.
Not quite. According to LittleNavmap there are around 37K airports.
