World Update 4: France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg

EHRD, yesssss. My home airport!

I wonder what resolution the PG data will be for Paris and Amsterdam. Will it be as high detail as London or more optimized like NY and Tokyo. I also wonder how far the PG area will go. Iā€™ve lived in Buitenveldert for 10 years, on the border with Amsterdam and Amstelveen and worked in Hoofddorp and in the center of Amsterdam. I used to cycle around Schiphol airport in summer to get to work. I hope to recognize a lot more than when I visited Amsterdam with auto-gen mess. It would be nice if itā€™s detailed enough to see all house and tour boats on the canals.

I think Asobo and MS learned their lesson with the London Photogrammetry. I doubt they will release sub-optimized photogrammetry again. In the Q&A session they mentioned the have a maximum poly count (or at least, a maximum for a certain area) now (which is going to be used to optimize London in the future). I think theyā€™ll apply this to any new additions to make sure they perform well.

Most likely the former. They mentioned today that London was a big issue and will have to be reoptimized and improved.

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Haha. Yep. ā€œthe colour sequence is wrongā€¦ literally UNFLYABLEā€

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Nah, the whole reason for them to be so insistent is only because they want the money associated with itā€¦ Pay 'em and theyā€™re happy as pigs inā€¦ well,ā€¦ you knowā€¦

Iā€™m in two minds about that. I rather enjoyed exploring London in such high detail, albeit at 40 knots max movement speed. Optimization usually means throw a ton of stuff away. Just wondering whether Atlas will be visible

Probably not, not all that recognizable on Google, deformed ball on a stick haha.

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Guess weā€™ll need a couple more generations of hardware before we can get stuff like that accurately represented in the sim.

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Hope Notre Dame de Paris will be there

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Or hot air balloons :smile: Go slow and the sim will keep up. Go fast and the city turns into a post apocalyptic wasteland. What it needs is better resource and lod management so it doesnā€™t fall behind leaving everything look like a melted mess.

Iā€™m all for hot air balloons IF and only if they donā€™t have active controls, and can only float with the wind.

Mach 2 hot air balloons though? please not.

Hot air balloonsā€¦ exactly ! Forget planes , can we just get sight seeing locations and an Avatar person with binoculars to JUST look around because if we are flying in a Cessna or a Boeing , the photogrammetry looks like post apocalyptic World War Z ! Performance is terrible and the photogrammetry looks like itā€™s all melted and blobs of deformed objects . Iā€™m gonna go on Amazon now and purchase a new Mobo Z490, 10900k Cpu , RTX3090, 64Gb Ram, Odyssey G9 49ā€ monitor , 3 Samsung M.3 drives each @ 3TB and upgrade my internet speed from 500mb to 2Gb ā€¦basically Drop about $7000 and comeback to MSFS 2020 and I will still see World War Z and melted globs !

Itā€™s there in the ORBX Paris landmarks pack for $11

So it turns out they will actually make a complete make over from Rotterdam, including Erasmus bridge

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No only the airport and, what I did see one POI being the Erasmus bridge. No complete overhaul unfortunately. Maybe some more POIs I hope

Sorry I meant Rotterdam airport indeedā€¦

The airport choice is excellentā€¦ PG cities as expected. Iā€™m sure, however, they will be limited to downtown areas as with Tokyo (WU I) and London (WU III) photogrammetry.

World Update France & Benelux Teaser Trailer

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Hopefully they will add EHEH in as a nice surprise as well.

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Many dutch airports are missing, like Terlet, Twente and military ones like de kooy. Iam not expecting these to be high detailed ones, but a uasable runway would be nice. I guess its up to the developers like ORBX etc to work out these airports in more detail. Since there is a large sim community in the Netherlands who gathers once a year in lelystad airport, it would be really nice to have that one as well with all the old birds and Schiphol building in detail.
once again, altough MSFS is a project in progress, its really nice to be a part of the development of this sim and every update or weekly adds feel like christmas. In this time of instand gratification its nice to look forward every week. The bugs that come along with it, I take for granted altough I can imagine it is sometimes a pain in the ā€¦ for the hardcore super serious simmers.
Anyway thanks again for all the things that have been created and will come in the (nearby) future!

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