John Heaton Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 Grabbed it straight away 2 hours ago - 3 days earlier than expected and have just completed my first flight over the GC I hope that my friends here - on this part of the forum - will excuse me if they are waiting for a souped up review of this latest Orbx addon by me - because I cannot give it. As a well known resident of this part of the World and my views about MS and Bing using a 11 year old satellite view of Australia - and my disappointments with The Gold Coast aspect of it - are well versed - and I really thought that at last - my wishes would be answered in this "NEW" Orbx offering of my hometown. No such thing - --all that is changed - inside of the Bing usage - is the "Glitter Strip' section of some of the Coast's high rise The strip is well done - but nothing else is changed - sorry Orbx - very disappointing I won't say any more - I don't want to get thrown off here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wain71 Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 Interesting John, it's obviously I feel more kind of easy to have a high expectation when it's something so close to your neck of the woods because you see more of the details that someone like me would not notice.... I feel it's good though that you can put this out there and we can collate it with other reviews / opinions across the web... Looking forward to some posts showing some pictures of this add-on... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 2 hours ago, John Heaton said: Grabbed it straight away 2 hours ago - 3 days earlier than expected and have just completed my first flight over the GC I hope that my friends here - on this part of the forum - will excuse me if they are waiting for a souped up review of this latest Orbx addon by me - because I cannot give it. As a well known resident of this part of the World and my views about MS and Bing using a 11 year old satellite view of Australia - and my disappointments with The Gold Coast aspect of it - are well versed - and I really thought that at last - my wishes would be answered in this "NEW" Orbx offering of my hometown. No such thing - --all that is changed - inside of the Bing usage - is the "Glitter Strip' section of some of the Coast's high rise The strip is well done - but nothing else is changed - sorry Orbx - very disappointing I won't say any more - I don't want to get thrown off here With many areas of the world, including some just up the road from me, showing areas of default generic textures where clouds obscured the available Bing imagery, you should be thankful for what you get, 11 years old that it may be. To have the entire world available to fly over with recognisable features that are down to bike path detail, in every country, millions of sq km of amazing VFR details, is possibly the greatest advance in the sim franchise since its beginnings. City Landmarks packages are self-explanatory in their titles, there has never been any suggestion that Orbx would be developing anything other than landmarks, which in the case of the Gold Coast, is understandably restricted to the glitter strip and a few landmarks elsewhere. I've seen how much work the developers put into this package and IMHO I think it represents amazing reality and value, even for residents of the area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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