XP12: the good, the bad, the ugly

[UKflyer 630]

XP12 lighting is off the scale 👍

Edited September 15, 2022 by UKflyer

[MrBitstFlyer 3,893]

Just now, UKflyer said:

Good/amazing! XP12 lighting 👍

Good grief that is beautiful and amazing!  Incredible to think they are working to improve the lighting and clouds!

[Noel 4,563]

On 9/14/2022 at 7:45 AM, UKflyer said:

XP12 with some orthos, quite happy with this combo 👍

Orthos really do matter 😉

[UKflyer 630]

11 minutes ago, Noel said:

Orthos really do matter 😉

ha can't fly this sim without them 😄

[Gary1124 181]

6 hours ago, Sethos said:

Still really enjoy the natural lighting. I even tried installing ReShade and I simply couldn't do anything that I genuinely felt improved the look. Well done LR. 

Dude. That is exactly how Pennsylvania looks from November to April. Realistic depending where you are.

[Gary1124 181]

6 hours ago, Sethos said:

Still really enjoy the natural lighting. I even tried installing ReShade and I simply couldn't do anything that I genuinely felt improved the look. Well done LR. 

Dude. That is exactly how Pennsylvania looks from November to April. Realistic depending where you are.

[Noel 4,563]

46 minutes ago, UKflyer said:

ha can't fly this sim without them 😄

I know I look at those non-forest weirdly spaced trees and it just brings back past memories of P3D and how fake they look.   If LR wants to get some ginormous bang for buck it would be in converting those into forested areas.  Maybe they are doing this if so it could help autogen immensely I feel.  I really like the lighting improvements and it is that type of collective "eye-candy" that catches new users bigtime, of course, this is what the other sim has done and is the reason for their rapid success.

[scotchegg 4,240]

5 hours ago, UKflyer said:

ha can't fly this sim without them 😄

Have LR said there will be new ground textures at some point in the XP12 run?

[MrBitstFlyer 3,893]

56 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

Have LR said there will be new ground textures at some point in the XP12 run?

They have announced they will be improving ground scenery.

[soaring_penguin 431]

If you have happen to have SFD Global from mrX , it works. I installed it, but not his Forests. This will give you regional houses, the south of France, the Provence for example, is nicely represented.

And I understood he is working on an update for XP12.

[Bjoern 1,158]

More things for the "good" list:

• The new soundscape. AI flybys, ground vehicles, birds, etc.If you can, load some AI aircraft and position the camera near a runway.
• The new ground services. Request services and watch the vehicles do their thing.

 

20 hours ago, turbomax said:

ouch, that must be tough.

I'm personally not missing FSX (anymore).

[UKflyer 630]

oh lord, orthos with X-world europe... i think i've gone to heaven!!! 😄 😍  so happy with this sim now

 

Edited September 16, 2022 by UKflyer

[jcomm 5,979]

I see.... Maybe I have to follow that track too one of these days... But Orthos take a word not allowed time to generate 😕

[HiFlyer 9,371]

Interesting.....

Seeing some of the more glowing posts here, I wondered what the XP12 sales numbers were looking like.

A quick trip to the Steam Community showed a pretty much dead subject, with only 5 reviews available. (of course, it is new)

Anybody in the know, able to see/tell if that's an outlier indication?

EDIT: Meanwhile, I did bump into a thread mentioning that a place called xplane.to apparently now exists: https://flightsim.to/choice

Edited September 16, 2022 by HiFlyer

[mSparks 2,092]

43 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

with only 5 reviews available!

for the last 5 years xp11 averaged 0.2 reviews an hour.

So 5 in an hour for an early access is somewhat above average, even if the long ugly rambling one was paid for by Microsoft.

It'll be six months at least before we start to get reliable steam data in for XP12.

LR is actually (finally) looking to hire some marketting peeps, might be of interest to the soon to be redundant trolls currently working for evil corp. - about the only "ugly" so far, everything else seems to be good, very good and absolutely breathtaking.