I'm talking in general. The MS Gamespass PC store is woeful. It makes me want to just play my Steam stuff.

Yeah it wasn't downloading for me unless I was actually in game, it wasn't downloading in the background at all.

My favourite thing to do in this game though, now that I've found out how to switch the engine off on most planes, is just turn everything off and try and glide to safety, the engine, the battery and alternator, everything. It's good fun.

I just flew over Pyongyang then attempted to land at a North Korean military airport, so I guess that's me put on a list.

For a challenge try flying through the grand canyon skimming the river, with weather on storm!

I used streaming mode but have downloaded the UK pack. However I've not really done any flying over main parts of the uk to judge how it looks

Terrain quality often varies greatly from area to area, depends on how good the aerial coverage and resolution is.

Done the New York discovery flight yesterday and the streets seem to have been overtaken by trees. Was like an aerial view post apocalypse.

EvilRedEye wrote:

Eric wrote:

Ah, I didnt know you could do both.

Dantes picture of Old Trafford clearly highlighted that I'm doing something wrong.

Old Trafford is in the UK World Update pack - sounds like you need to download that. If you go on the Marketplace in the main menu you can find it in both Free and World Update. I think most people have found they need to leave the Xbox running on the download screen to get it to download without interruption.

Wonderful, thanks ERE much appreciated!

You immediately turn into a weather balloon.

Anyone flown the Bermuda Triangle yet?

Another hotfix has been released. Seems mostly important for PC folks.

Did you install the UK world update from the in game marketplace? Even with those there will always be areas of lower detail, it's only really major cities that have the proper photogrammetry at this point. They will gradually improve coverage and the quality of autogen stuff at least, it's a very scalable design.

Map the whole planet accurately, pls devs. Most of us are playing this for free, we expect better.

GurtTractor wrote:

Did you install the UK world update from the in game marketplace? Even with those there will always be areas of lower detail, it's only really major cities that have the proper photogrammetry at this point. They will gradually improve coverage and the quality of autogen stuff at least, it's a very scalable design.

Escape lives in the arse end of nowhere, so barring a dramatic breakthrough in the technology, or Bill Gates going insane and spending all his money on photogrammetry for this his area will likely remain looking shit.

They use AI to look at the 2D image data and combine it with known data about buildings and the area to auto generate 3D models that are a best guess of what should really be there -



FWIW you can submit a request for something to be looked at or improved, and/or start a thread on the forums about it. They have previously said that they are looking for people to help out with making the world look as accurate as possible, and have said how they changed things like trees around some airports based on real photos that people have sent in. So if something looks totally whack you could take some good real/sim comparison pics and they'll probably use that to help improve the autogeneration in the future, or they can go in and manually tweak some things.

I'd say that right now though they are probably very busy with more basic issues and major additions to work on the small stuff, but eventually they might get around to it.