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Looks really nice! I like the ice flows. Look under "Wall Photos"

It does look good. If they had taken the picture through the windscreen of a new plane, with a glimpse of the panel, I would be ecstatic.

If you could check this: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/375402-is-alaska-next/page__st__25

 

It has already been stated. No problem though as this is a formal update.-More people will see it and probably take a look at it.

I wonder if there will be a "Landing on an Iceberg" achievement.

We have both already commented in that thread, but thank you.

 

I wonder if there will be a "Landing on an Iceberg" achievement.

 

My very first thought on seeing that pic was "I wonder if I can land on one of those." :D

My very first thought on seeing that pic was "I wonder if I can land on one of those." :D

 

Landing the Icon, or hopefully a Beaver would a challenge there too!

We have both already commented in that thread, but thank you.

 

 

 

My very first thought on seeing that pic was "I wonder if I can land on one of those." :D

 

Thought the same here ;)

It does look good. If they had taken the picture through the windscreen of a new plane, with a glimpse of the panel, I would be ecstatic.

 

Yeah, I've got a feeling that after Alaska, if MS don't release a complete plane... there will be an exodus of folks still holding out hope that Flight will be a bit more than a beautiful aerial version of Pacman.

 

Here's hoping we see a nicely done Beaver or Twin Otter with skis!

I truly think that what they do with Alaska, will make or brake Flight. If they toss a bunch of cockpitless birds out at us, there WILL be a massive exodus. Even I wont be able to support it after that, and I worked on the game for a year of my life! I have every bit of faith that the Flight team WANTS to make a really good flight sim we can all enjoy. I just dont have any faith that Josh Howard and his "market research" agrees with us in what we want. Market research may tell him people will pay for cheep aircraft, but what it wont tell him is those people have a very short attention span and wont stick around for the long run without more then eye candy to enjoy for there hard earned money. I would be fine with the warbirds if they at least came with more skins and custom missions for each aircraft. Right now, they are nothing but noise makers for hunting aerocache. Yes, some people like that, but your really marketing to a narrow band of the customers, while chasing away the rest.

It is very apparant that those actually building Flight have produced exceptional work. Everything they gave been permitted to include is done well or extremely well.

 

Heck, just look at the recent thread covering what really needs to be fixed (not desired features, just defects to corrected). You can count them on your fingers. How many games in the last 20 years can you say that about?

 

Flight's worst enemy is it's management. It has simply been a choice to limit Flight to what is effectively a console game. Alaska is their one and only opportunity to change course while anyone still cares.

 

I didn`t expect more bugs, since Fight is just rewritten FSX(ESP) respectively FSXI(ESP2) code.

As far as i understand now the Flight team just used the already written FSXI code and made Flight out of it.

Well, there is clearly a little bit more going on than just recycled old code. And rewriting old code introduces almost as many opportunities for bugs as when it was created.

 

But I suspect that those able to factually answer your assertion are barred from doing so.

 

Just being critical a bit, those ice flows look awfully flat next to those high waves that flight likes to do. Either they should finally listen and flatten those waves a bit, or those flows need to be raised to add some depth.

 

Otherwise you get a very escher-like impossible 3D affect of high waves that could not possibly fit directly beneath the flat slabs that are supposedly floating on them.

 

Very inception-esque!