I NEVER imagined Friday Harbor like this!

[TheFlightSimGuy 514]

A while ago I heard that ORBX was going to be making some 90 day exclusive DLC for FSX Steam, I havent seen a release date, but looks like some previews of it are out. Looks stunning!

 

Source:

http://www.airdailyx.net/orbx-friday-harbour/

 

 

 

[barrel_owl 304]

I had read about this development on fsxinsider too.

However, there is a very nice freeware product by George Keogh available in the AVSIM library.

Here are some pictures and some information:

http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/60676-friday-harbour-as-it-should-be-kfhr/

[Boeing or not going 578]

Looks nice! 90 day exclusive means the rest of us without Steam can purchase it after 90 days?

[W2DR 1,859]

Yes.

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

Don't you just hate the gratuitous branding? See the plaque with Dovetail on it? You know you're using FSX:SE, you don't need to be reminded of it.  It's the same with Orbx. I KNOW I'm using Orbx I don't need it in my face!

 

Apart from that it looks terrific! I'll ###### that up when it's available to FSX.

 

Hahaha! AVSIM thinks that to grab something in a sweeping motion i.e. sn4tch is rude?

[BeechPapa 32]

Don't you just hate the gratuitous branding? See the plaque with Dovetail on it? You know you're using FSX:SE, you don't need to be reminded of it.  It's the same with Orbx. I KNOW I'm using Orbx I don't need it in my face!

I hate that too. Aggressive in-game branding ruins the immersion for me. I go from being in my own aviation fantasy world to one concocted, commercialized, and sold by x company. Brings a phoniness to everything.

[Donald Traill 8]

Ron, it gets worse... you can't even call a fuel coock by its proper name on Avsim...

 

Donald

[spesimen 135]

Don't you just hate the gratuitous branding? See the plaque with Dovetail on it? You know you're using FSX:SE, you don't need to be reminded of it.  It's the same with Orbx. I KNOW I'm using Orbx I don't need it in my face!

 

doesn't bother me at all, in fact i would not have even noticed it unless you had pointed it out. i don't think a single texture on a satellite dish (in the place of where they would normally have a logo such as direcTv) in the midst of a few hundred square kilometers of scenery counts as "in my face" it seems more like a small inside joke if anything. to each their own i suppose.

 

cheers

-andy crosby

[TheFlightSimGuy 514]

doesn't bother me at all, in fact i would not have even noticed it unless you had pointed it out. i don't think a single texture on a satellite dish (in the place of where they would normally have a logo such as direcTv) in the midst of a few hundred square kilometers of scenery counts as "in my face" it seems more like a small inside joke if anything. to each their own i suppose.

 

cheers

-andy crosby

 

I agree, I consider it an "Easter Egg" more than a slap in the face and 1 little satellite dish is hardly "gratuitous". Nice to see the developers got to have at least a little fun with it. Not like people are walking around the airport with DTG shirts on or something. 

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

 

 

Not like people are walking around the airport with DTG shirts on or something.

Yet.

[Capt Speirs 52]

Ron, it gets worse... you can't even call a fuel coock by its proper name on Avsim...

 

Donald

Maybe we can get an adult only section of the forum. 

[HiFlyer 9,343]

Released, and 15% off

 

It will be interesting to see an orbx product really auto-install through Steam. start of a new era?

[barrel_owl 304]

£21.24 (or USD 29.74 or € 29.74)  with 15% off?

This is same price as KSFO HD!

 

Sorry, there is a very nice freeware KFHR in the library and it blends acceptably good with Orbx PNW. And, to be honest, I am not particularly impressed by the shots. 

Overpriced.

[TurboKen 221]

I don't think a few subtle FTX logos here and there are too bad to deal with, One of my scenery's has a hot air balloon with the FTX logo on it, a little suprised I havent seen an airplane flying around with a logo yet. But I think we can all agree we just dont want the scenery to be plastered with it.