Endlich Fly!II - meine Meinung

[Simeon S]

Ich mußte heute den Packetdienst verfolgen, da er gerade ein paar Minuten vor mir da war. Aber ein paar Straßen weiter, konnte ich dann endlich die begehrte Schachtel mit Fly!II gegen den orangen Packetzettel in Empfang nehmen und mußte nicht erst bis morgen um 11 warten.

Der Text ist auf Englisch, weil ich ihn auch im AVSIM Forum geschrieben habe:

I know you guys from TRI put a lot of effort in the sequel and this is obvius in Fly!II. Surprisingly I got Fly!II in a very beautiful game box and not in a DVD-case as the most of you wrote.

I especially love the Bell 407 helicopter which has IMHO a very pleasent
flight behavior.

I like as well the new sky coloring effects. I also enjoy the more detailed
aircraft exterior although this isn't soooo important to me.

And the ground textures look amazing - provided that you are able to use the
high detail textures.

The easy to use editor is great and something a flightsim essentially needs.
Thanks for the many models.

But on the other hand - I hate to mention it - there are several
disappointing things. I can second that what others said before: I'm not
sure whether Fly!II is a real step of improvement. I know there are a lot of
things changed, but others got lost or look so incomplete and unripe that
they aren't really pleasing.

The first and most important thing is that I lost performance. Also after a
day of reading the forums and trying to tweak Fly!II I get only 10-12 fps in
the C172 cockpit(with two rows of gauges visible) at FSO with 20 NM low and
10 NM medium view distance. That's why all the A/C aren't really flyable
from the cockpit with my system (Athlon 700, TNT2 Pro 32 MB, 256 MB RAM).
Form outside they fly very well, but unfortunately I'm not the typical sim
A/C spotter. This is especially disappointing, because you guys of TRI said
that the performance has improved by the changes in the scenery engine. Now
the engine is "improved" the fps worse and nearly all the previous add-ons
aren't compatible. I'm sorry but this makes absolutely now sense to me.

Lot's of hours have been spent in making the water reflecting and bringing
birds in the air, but you missed to create roads and rivers. Without these
landmarks VFR flying is impossible. The coastlines may look better in some
parts of the world, but here in Germany it's still a angular coast which
looks not like a coast.

The buildings of the detailed areas in the USA look good and are placed right, but here in Europe it's horrible. I "teleported" to London - I found Heathrow with some but careless made buildings. And there were no taxiways. In contrast in Gatwick were taxiways, but no buildings. Downtown I also couldnt find something like the Westeminster a.s.o. or I missed it, because I had no river Themes to inform.

Now I went to Paris. Charles de Gaule seems to be made with real effort, but the downtown area is so bad investigated. For creating my sceneries I also had sometimes a look into FS2000 sceneries, which does not mean that I adopted them. This would have been a helped for you, too. For comparision I scanned an image.





There could be more mentioned, but I also know the story and the constraints behind it. However there might be maybe some decisions determined in another way. Sometimes I wish I could load the helicopter into Fly!1.


Take care

Simeon

http://fly.simeon-schuerer.de
Bonn/Germany