Reviews (by Adebowale)

Definitely like the idea of boats in MSFS to appreciate the beauty of scenery close up. I applaud the devs for taking this on as it is more natural than let's say a car in MSFS which would be difficult to use. Other positives are that the boats are easy to use, speed up, slow down, move left, move right. However, I do wish that moving left and right were a bit easier as the rudder system can be a bit frustrating. The lack of being able to reverse makes you have to restart if you ever get stuck, especially frustrating when bumping into invisible barriers for example, under bridges. The design of the boats are probably the best feature, they look great and even have night lighting. Using the boats in VR is also just as fun and immersive as flying with the exception of lack of steering support. I love the product however, there are some issues that I hope get fixed, here are some below: -First, I bought 3 boats but the motorboat seems to be invisible. Downloaded it three times, 2nd time I was able to see it and use it but the third time, after the update, it was invisible again. It does show up in the menu but not in the profile hanger or in game, bummer because that probably would be my favorite one. -The 3D modeled captain can be immersion breaking as I can't find a way to remove him having to set my view in front of him, not terrible but inconvenient. -I love that they added monitor and map functionality however, once you pick something on the monitor, you can't seem to go back to the main menu again forcing you to have to restart or just deal with it. -As I mentioned, there's no reverse so getting stuck really sucks. -Last issue is not really the fault of the devs but MSFS seems to have some invisible barriers in the water, I've only seen them under bridges like Brooklyn Bridge. The boat gets stuck and can't move forward. Strangely, planes can fly underneath them and the drone camera works underneath them as well. I see that the dev has plans to continue working on this so hopefully these few minor issues gets resolved in future updates.

I absolutely love that Samscene did NYC, I've been waiting the whole year for this! I bought their HK addon and it's one of my favorites if not my favorite. The buildings are remarkably designed and bring life to what was there before. NYC was pretty good by default but at times looked pretty drab and like has been said about photogrammetry it can look almost apocalyptic. With Samscene, it comes to life with more buildings and buildings like The Chrysler Building, One Trade Center and a bunch others you can see them literally shine so much that they reflect images like the water. Flying around NYC never felt so real. Times Square is amazingly done, the selfish me wished that the entire NYC was done with the street level details of Times Square. Night lights were a breath of fresh air, MSFS night lights leave a lot to desire and wonder why they chose to make the default city lights so cartoonish, but with Samscene the night lights are as vibrant as we see in any addon like Dubai, HK, London etc. Add this scenery to All 29 New York Bridges and this is a complete Manhattan scenery pack! By the way, All 29 New York Bridges also has amazing detail and lighting. Overall, great scenery pack with amazing additions for one of, if not, the greatest cities in the world! I would support other great American cities if done by Samscene! Great job Samscene!

I absolutely love that Samscene did NYC, I've been waiting the whole year for this! I bought their HK addon and it's one of my favorites if not my favorite. The buildings are remarkably designed and bring life to what was there before. NYC was pretty good by default but at times looked pretty drab and like has been said about photogrammetry it can look almost apocalyptic. But with Samscene, it comes to life with more buildings and buildings like Chrysler Building, One Trade Center and a bunch others you can see them literally shine so much that they reflect images like the water. Flying around NYC never felt so real. Times Square is amazingly done, the selfish me wished that the entire NYC was done with the street level details of Times Square. Night lights were a breath of fresh air, MSFS night lights leave a lot to desire and wonder why they chose to make the default city lights so cartoonish, but with Samscene the night lights are as vibrant as we see in any addon like Dubai, HK, London etc. I gave this a 4 mostly because as a person who has lived in NYC for nearly 40 years, I can notice big missing features like the fact that NYC is made up of 5 boroughs not just Manhattan. Knowing that it would be crazy to do all 5, I would have appreciated either Manhattan and bigger scenery in the other boroughs, example Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, Barclay Center in Brooklyn and CitiField in Queens. Or at least complete the major borough to borough bridges, George Washington, Whitestone, RFK, Verrazano etc. The reason that this unfortunately stands out is because the did the bridges in Manhattan which look fantastic but conflict with any NYC bridge addon, so your choices are therefore limited to all NYC bridges with no NYC addon, NYC addon with only 3 or 4 NYC bridges or NYC addon with all bridges and 3 of them overlapped and doubled up (those who have put two scenery packs on top of each other would understand) btw, I chose option 3 but wished I didn't have to. Overall, great scenery pack with amazing additions for one of, if not, the greatest cities in the world! Here's to my wishing and dreaming that they update this with some of the remaining bridges! Great job Samscene!