Coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator is a new generation of 3 controllable boats and one of them being based on a totally real boat, with user-friendly controls, detailed interior, refined textures, water trails, night lights and custom sounds. They are: the luxury yacht Sea Ray L650 Fly, Gemini, an incredible catamaran and Razoo, a beautiful smallboat with improved average speed.
GENERAL UPDATE 2023 - 05 - 26 | v2.5
Updated 3D model of the Sea Ray L650 Fly boat
Added PBR texture mapping
Added a new multi-purpose tablet for controlling Tent, Couch Color, Mask Color, Lower Hull Color, and adding or removing Wine Bottles
Fixed electrical system
Fixed navigation physics
fixed navigation lights
RESOURCES:
Startup and shutdown procedure
Reverse engine at Sea Ray L650 Fly and Razoo
Improved navigation physics
Radar animations
Functional displays with GPS and navigation
Water balance
Detailed interior
Start anywhere in the world over water
Night lights
Water trails instantly when on the go
different paintings in the livery menu
Add or remove people via the payload menu
Sounds
Friendly fps
INSTALLATION SIZE:
Total boats extracted - 939 MB
HOW TO INSTALL:
Locate the Microsoft Flight Simulator installation folder
You need to find and open the folder called "Community"
Copy the three folders "Marine RM Sea Ray 650 Fly", "Marine RM Gemini" and "Marine RM Razoo" you just extracted into the Community folder.
Start the game and the Sea Ray 650 Fly, Gemini and Razoo boats will be in your hangar ready to sail!
HOW TO PLAY:
Start the game anywhere in the world on water or seaplane runway, put the engine on 100% and wait a few seconds for the boat to start moving. The water trails start with the slowest speed you are. Only the Razoo has a reverse engine for now as this is still on a test basis and will soon be improved and added to all boats. Click Ctrl + L to activate an overnight navigation beacon. Quickly activate and deactivate the landing gear to honk.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW:
The amount of water trails is limited by Asobo for now, when this limitation is removed from the SDK boats will have more sprays on the front and sides.
The speed of all boats is limited to less than 40kts for water stability reasons.
ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ
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Требования
Minimum system requirements for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
I recently purchased this addon, and I honestly would like to give it more stars (3.5 possibly 4). However, in my opinion they need improvements.
[Good]
- Beautiful inside and out
- Highly detailed model and textures
- Very good effects and animations
[Bad]
- Doesn't steer with the wheel, only the rudder pedals even though the wheel turning is animated
- No rudder authority until almost full speed, and sometimes it's difficult to make a right turn for some reason
- Interior sounds are too quiet, so you can't hear the ocean or waves very well.
- Some switches don't work, and the ones that do don't seem to do anything.
- Half of the right GPS screen is cut off
[My opinion on future improvements for the developer]
- Give more rudder authority at slower speed/throttle (25% at least) and either have the ship steer left and right with the wheel or have the wheel animation sync to the rudder.
- Animate the ignition key turning to start and other switches with some identification for what they do (lights, etc.)
- Improve the engine start sound and increase the interior ambient ocean sound
- Improve the navigation screens to be boat specific such as changing the airplane icon on the map to a boat or just an arrow. Fix the right navigation screen to not be cut off/solid black at the bottom.
- Add many more random things for the user to be able to interact with by highlighted click points or rotating the middle mouse button.
Overall I think these boats are really good and they're a lot of fun to mess around with. It allows you to have a bit of downtime between flights and gives you something to such as exploring a location you just arrived at. However, with a bit of polish these could be amazing addons for a niche market. I'll definitely be willing to give 5 stars when some improvements are made.