Classic British Flight Sim

Maybe this time Dave you're Outerra luck

Well.. maybe not. I read the blurb again and it said nvidia drivers BEFORE 28558 and mine IS 28558 so.. I downloaded it and have spent an unhappy 40mins driving that lorry around I wanted to see the water for myself so set off for a river to get my tyres wet. If I said the river was dry, would you be surprised?? I don't think you get water unless you pay
Still.. it runs fine on my old dog though to be honest, it doesn't do anything. It's like being in Call of Duty (though not so good) with nobody else there

ATB
DaveB

So it didn't whet your appetite?

No water? Good grief! How about the oceans? Are they dry too?

Brian

This is coming thick and fast

No lakes or rivers yet which explains why nothing got wet! Looked on Google Earth for something near the coast (presuming they'd made the sea!) and chose what was Portland airbase. Noted the position off GE then went into Outerra and added it there. When the game loaded, it put me nicely 10k off the shore opposite Budleigh Salterton. The lorry drives underwater by the way. Checked the lat/long again and made some small adjustments. Reloaded and still out at sea Found somewhere further in land (north of Weymouth.. a roundabout) and loaded that location into the game. Opened map view and it had put me exactly in the middle of the roundabout Thing is, you can't see it because the world has no detail. Trees here and there, terrain definition and sea/sky. That's ya blink'in lot me-hearties

I'm good at generating error reports
ATB
DaveB

Oh.. in addition to the above, the water(sea) does look nice though.. and dare I say it.. completely the wrong colour for off the UK, especially the English Channel. Though the wave motion is good and the way it laps against the shore, there are no interactive effects.. that is, drive the lorry along the beach dipping the wheels into the sea and there's no wake effect. It's in it's infancy so perhaps this will come.

BTW.. whenever you select a location you've not been to before.. the program downloads the terrain and detail (cough) for that area. God.. has my 10gb BB had a pasting this afternoon

ATB
DaveB

Thanks for the info Dave. This sounds interesting.

Brian

FlyTexas wrote:This sounds interesting

It does? I'd better read it again!

Only kidding, Dave Respect for all the effort you've put in. I take it you're not a tennis fan, then?

Ian

You read me like a book mate

Re' Outerra..
It might come to something.. with a lot of effort.. but I don't know if it would ever challenge MSFS. Imagine FS9 or FSX (or even Flight but to a lesser degree) without any airports (I discount the 4 or 5 defaults) and that's what you get at this moment in time. If you pay.. you get the use of more tools (eg, you can build the UK road networks and airports yourself) and you get to use an Apache and a Cessna. It sounds bloody tempting doesn't it!


ATB
DaveB

it was referred to somewhere else as an alpha so quite early in development.

Problem always it, the little niceties are great but do you have resources to run much of it...like ES Guernsey for example.

I don't know where the future is, but more and more there are alternates to MS springing up and maybe one day we'll hit the jackpot.

In the meantime an open mind, as shown here and hopefully when Utopia does come along we won't miss it