I guess this should go under ‘grumpy tales’, or at least the first part of my pondering. You see, here I am PAYING for some add-on scenery for once, just because I wanted to support some of my friends, and then I can’t download the thing because the publisher (or his dedicated retailer in this case) forgot to stress-test the download solution. And if you hype a product to the extent they have AND know each copy is a hefty 4,5 Gb (!) large AND you know the number of people that pre-paid……. you COULD have known to properly test it OR to NOT promise a priority download. Tsk tsk tsk. 

Anyway, I’ll shut up. My friends Holger and Bill are involved and the product itself is really good. We knew of course that ever since Holger designed Misty Fjords there would be companies to follow and eventually catch up. And obviously with the same designer involved, that wasn’t too hard in the end.

The good news is that now we low-and-slow flyers (especially) can navigate the Pacific Northwest coast over a much more realistic landscape than what MS presented us with. Just as with Tongass Fjords we now have all the roads and rivers, all the coast lines and lakes detailed as they are in real life.
And Orbx also enhances the textures in many ways, including seasonal changes as well.

We’ll be working on getting Emma Field nicely fitting into it, and we’re also working on a special version of Vancouver Plus to fit the new Orbx surroundings. And hopefully Holger now finally has more time to work on our new Misty Fjords X too.

I can only recommend it…… available at Orbx’ site here.