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watch out for the large trees !! if the other trees in this screenshot are standard-ish size- how big are the others ??!:)

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Why are all the trees in neat rows? :(

Unless thats some kinda plantation? I hope the whole islands vegetation isnt this way?? If it is it will really kill the immersion. Hope its a little more wild in other areas!
 
Buckster said:
:) cheers - surprised it made it through the Beta tbh - it was pretty obvious
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Here is a post from the beta forums about the bugs.

The NDA ended 10 mins ago so I can now post this.

This was posted 20 days ago.

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We’ve reviewed over a thousand bugs and as of noon today, we’ve fixed 759 bugs. You can check out some of the improvements we’ve made at the bottom of this post. If a bug that was filed hasn’t been fixed in this initial release, it has been reviewed and will be considered for a future update.

Updates & Improvements for the release version of Flight:

Gameplay

Improvements to collision geometry
Fixes for graphics issues on some hardware which causes runways to move around
Bug fixes in various missions and challenges
Corrections to Aerocache display times
Joystick controls for Prop Pitch and Mixture
Achievements enabled
Fixes for issues with persistence of joystick mappings for gameplay controls
Scenery & Graphics

General scenery bug fixes and improvements
Airport improvements
Improvements to terrain loading during gameplay
New water shader
Improved water reflection effects on max settings
Updates to cloud textures
Enhanced light maps for roads, aerial and 3d objects
Fixes for terrain and VC randomly showing up as black for a few frames
Improvements to fading effect when exiting a cloud
Improvements to normal maps
Maps

M key now toggles back and forth between map and free flight
Aircraft

Flight model tuning
Visual tweaks and bug fixes for aircraft
New liveries
Tweaks to P-51 chase camera distance
Improvements to P-51 audio
Multiplayer improvements to other aircraft animations and positions
Free aircraft previews
Fixes for issues with manual engine restarts
Stability/Performance

Fixes for several crashes
Improved loading time
Fixes for alt-tab issues
Improved startup and shutdown time
Fixes for crashes in the joystick handling mode
Fixed a problem where the game won’t run if you have an old unsupported video card as well as a newer supported video card
Fixes for some hangs during weather loading
Other

UI fixes
Localization fixes
Improved wind speed interpolation between wind layers
Fixes for pilot profile stat tracking
Audio tuning
Changes to top down camera to limit range
Corrections to VOR and ILS frequency displays on map
Removed dependency on UIAutomationCore.dll to reduce conflict with people who have modified it for FSX
 
Heres some boring no sound videos I made of the beta no planes!
Both can be viewed in 1080HD

Both water & clouds have been updated now in the release.


I see that in the release the buildings now have more detail.


The randon pixals are thanks to youtube.
 
garsands said:
If you mean the tall cook pines being in rows they are used as windbrakes on hawaii in real life so planted in neat rows.
On the big island there are lots of tree plantations.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1515500
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Cool, thats interesting thanks :) I actually meant the other trees, the round dumpy looking ones! The pines look cool, I didnt know they liked that kind of tropical weather lol.
 
^ Actually simming has done a world of good for my geography. So it aint all bad stayin up flyin about!

In another month we will all know the big island inside out :p
 
garsands said:
That will be Cook pines can reach heights of 200 feet.

If you land & press C then E you can get out of any plane & go walk about.
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re Cook Pines - ok yes they look like that after a google search - so ta :)

MS Flight overall though - this evening anyway - is not doing it for me currently - I went in with an open mind as well. I will retry tomorrow night but currently not liking it :(
 
oh god I uninstalled the game as soon as I was forced to play through the first two tutorial missions and did my first free flight. This game reeks of consolitise and is obviously built for 10 year olds with 30 minute max attention spans. Now where did I put my FSX discs at....
 
I think you are being a bit harsh. I have just had a play and it is fun.

There is no way it will replace my copies of FS2004 or FSX, but it is fun.
 
Tepic said:
I think you are being a bit harsh. I have just had a play and it is fun.

There is no way it will replace my copies of FS2004 or FSX, but it is fun.
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Am I? This is pretty much the same thing as like if Gran Turismo 5 for PlayStation 3 in which you have love and adored since the very first release on PlayStation 1 (buying every single installment, spending hundreds/thousands of hours getting all the gold trophies, buying all the cars, etc.) suddenly turned into some type of ridge-racer or need for speed game that was “free to play” with 2 cars included, one track, and $20 DLC’s for another track and $15 per car. Now all you can do is play the vastly outdated Gran Turismo 4 in PlayStation 2 just so you can play a “real” type of simulation game.
 
Tepic said:
I think you are being a bit harsh. I have just had a play and it is fun.

There is no way it will replace my copies of FS2004 or FSX, but it is fun.
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So what game is it closest to? Pilotwings 64? I'm just trying to think whether its worth a download...
 
Nice attempt of justifying those rows of trees, but even the clouds are in rows - there are only a couple of islands and they cant even mix up the autogen a bit?!
 
robmol said:
Nice attempt of justifying those rows of trees, but even the clouds are in rows - there are only a couple of islands and they cant even mix up the autogen a bit?!
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No justifying those rows of trees ;)

I will post you a screen shot of the over head view showing you the mixed autogen & the plantations.

The screen shot that Borsch posted of the clouds is taken with the video settings set to low.
At high setting they are not in as neat rows & there are more then just the one layer of clouds.

But all could find this out all by yourself.

Borsch the AVSIM forum has now reopened its flight forum now, if you wanted to talk about flight there are more people 265 Viewing right now & 48 in the FSX part.

But they now have a zero trolling T/C there now.
 
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