I find it rather upsetting that the next “world update” will be centered on the United States, when this country is already BY FAR the best treated in the game. California and Florida alone have many more photogrametric towns than the whole of Europe, and entire continents of the globe like Asia/Pacific (except Japan), Africa, South and central America are entirely forgotten or in relatively low resolution.
The Himalaya is not even close to look real, nor are the Alps, the Andes or many other chains of mountains.
So do Microsoft/Asobo think the world is the United States ?
Maybe because it’s their largest market, one of the largest and most diverse flying areas, and has the best available data?
We’d all like to see the whole world with all the same level of detail; it will take time to find all the different data sources to get there and to put them together. Have a little patience. The constant whining about things on this forum is getting pretty old.
Just as a supposition, but I would expect that they are choosing locations based on several factors, including:
Where do they have pre-existing good satellite and DEMs
What schedule can they expect to receive future satellite imagery and DEMs
Where are the majority of people flying at
I would note that while there are a lot of really good existing areas in the US, there are several areas that the existing models do need to be tuned up from the 50-foot perspective as opposed to the 15,000-foot perspective (E.G.: New York & Manhattan Island). This may also have something to do with the FPS drop that users experience in those areas.
Just as a supposition, but I would expect that they are choosing locations based on several factors, including:
Where do they have pre-existing good satellite and DEMs
What schedule can they expect to receive future satellite imagery and DEMs
Where are the majority of people flying at
While I understand the two first points, I would like to be certain that they already did their best to get the best data. I’m not so sure about it.
And for the 3rd point, people prefer to fly where the resolution is already the best, so this doesn’t really hold.
there are several areas that the existing models do need to be tuned up from the 50-foot perspective as opposed to the 15,000-foot perspective (E.G.: New York & Manhattan Island)
NYC is already a thousand times better treated than Paris or London, for example, let alone hundreds of other cities that are larger than most small US towns that are in photogrammetry.
So the first world update was Japan, one of the most neglected countries in the history of flight simulators, and you’re somehow complaining about “the world being limited to the United States?”
I expect at least as many sales of consoles in Europe as in the US.
But the game has been pretty americano centric so far: only non accented characters are accepted, the voices are all US english and the ATC crashed when other languages were used. Basically the game seems to be never tested in other languages, including french, which is remarkable given it’s developed in France.
