I would like to give this scenery more than two stars, however the current state of the addon is, in my opinion, unacceptable for the price.
Before I get into the issues, however, I'll start with the positives:
The scenery itself looks very nice. The textures aren't very high-resolution but they aren't necessarily poor, just could use some work. The terminal buildings I believe look better than the alternatives as they do feature a surprising amount of detail. I also do like the ground textures and I believe while they are somewhat low resolution, they look nicer than the other alternatives.
Other small things I like about this scenery include:
- The animated DLR (Docklands Light Railway) trains and the station, all fully modeled.
- The animated "wig-wag" Elevated Runway Guard Lights provide a very nice effect, especially at night (although they are very high intensity during the day time).
- The Jet Centre is modeled nicely with parallax interiors and some static aircraft (although - there is a TBM 930 present here - an aircraft which is not approved to land or take off at EGLC)
Unfortunately, the list of issues with this scenery is far too long to justify paying the full price. I purchased this scenery on sale as I didn't believe it looked worth the asking price of 17.99euro, and I'm glad I made this decision.
I will list the issues in a brief but detailed manner:
- The ground profiling on the taxiway dock edge near the runway 27 threshold is all over the place, and NEEDS to be improved. It appears to be sunken into the river, and has very large rifts and holes with floating fences.
- Some ground textures overlap each other and feature faint baked-in ground vehicles.
- There are random vehicle models littered across ACTIVE stands - this makes them near unusable, as they quite literally obstruct the stands.
- The default stand positioning (I.e. when you spawn in from the World Map) is entirely incorrect.
- No included GSX profile, with features of the scenery such as static vehicles in incorrect places making it very difficult to create one.
- Baked-in standing water textures on the corner of B intersection where it meets 09/27
- Wind sock in wrong place
- Terrain around edge of dock (on all edges which meet the River Thames) is full of rifts, holes, and it looks more like scrunched up origami than concrete. This is similar to the first point however less evident.
Generally, I think it's a massive shame that the scenery seems to have been abandoned. Updates to fix AT MINIMUM the terrain issues are NEEDED to make this scenery worthwhile. I am very disappointed with the apparent lack of updates.
For those considering purchasing, wait until a sale is on, or purchase an alternative option instead.
Saying it is MSFS 24 Compatible! Definitely isn't right now, its a complete laggy fps mess when you fly into it. This needs some re-work to be 24 compatible.