Fiiiine what do I know? 
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Noā¦you are right. I just looked at my X-Plane version and it covers just the airport and immediate areaā¦
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A slightly different take on the London pack. 
I only skimmed through that video. The only thing Iām wondering isā¦how many custom objects does the Orbx London add compared to what Asobo have hand tailored? Yes, the ones he compared are awfulā¦but if the goal is to fill out, in a fairly realistic way thousands hundreds (?) of London objects, then it wouldnāt quite be fair to compare a dozen higher quality ones to hundreds or thousands. Iām not saying that is what happenedā¦but Iām trying to figure out why someone would need the Orbx package at allā¦
āORBX is taking the ā ā ā ā ā Haha, Iād be mad also if I paid $12 to make my game look worse.
Looks like they rushed this one out the door a little too quick. I donāt understand why they donāt just remove the ones that are in by default, unless they are just placeholders so they can update them later. But that video made me lol.
I believe they added 400 objects or so.
I think it was about $8. Hopefully they will upgrade the texturing, but for the money Iām happy enough with it. I might get a bit more critical if they havenāt done something before helicopters are added to the sim though.
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Sound like they will do a high resolution free update, for those with the machines to run it.
Itās interesting how theyāve positioned to more āLandmark Packsā rather than big areas. Placed like Washington DC etc have been left pretty bare, so canāt help wondering how much this is MSFS making sure the Orbxās of this world can still thrive, albeit with a shift in what they do.
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Nice to see them trying to make it right. The airports they added look nice, but some of those london landmarks were straight out of 2003.
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Some freeware airfields from Drzewiecki Design linked from MSFS forums:
Looks like a cash grab. They probably updated some older assets and dropped them in MSFS2020 to be the first with something in the shop. They literally replaced default assets with worse looking assets. Thereās no excuse for that.
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So I see on the MSFS Discord there are some livery packs being released by the community. Iām a bit leery about installing stuff at this stage - it would be nice if we got some sort of livery manager or a standardized way of doing things. Iād rather not be unzipping and finding sub-directories at this point.
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Thanks. That answers a lot of questions about the tech behind the terrain and object modeling.
The Carenado C182 looks like quite the disappointing messā¦ Wish it would be interesting.
Iām guessing the thing was rushed out to be first, but the last few x-plane releases have been crap it seems. Wonder if that is going to be a problem that keeps happening for them nowā¦
Moscow Landmarks released on simmarket.com
and in future we will have this for MSFS20:
That will be a perfect aircraft for MSFS20, its slow and with some bush flights capacity and STOL. Iām strongly looking forward to this release! Sadly idk when but it looks in a close futureā¦
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Looks like ORBX (I know it should be all capsā¦but I like it that way!) has released Santa Barbara (KSBA) and Kos International (LGKO). Iāll probably pick up Santa Barbaraā¦I mean, I pretty much will buy everything from Alaska to California along the coast. It IS my version of buying shoes.
LGKO does look like a fun place from the visual aspect and shooting some old school approaches:
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So - it DOES appear that Slopey is working on Air Hauler for MSFS:
āIām working on a version of AH2 for FS2020 - but have nothing to announce at the moment as regards when it will be ready.ā
āItās likely to be another version, but I canāt confirm that yet.ā
āEither way, it will not be on Steam. Thatās guaranteed.ā
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