MICROSOFT’S new flight simulator has received rave reviews since its release last week.
The ultra-realistic game has been praised for its stunning graphics and life-like scenery.
Scots, however, have had a bone or two to pick with Microsoft.
Unfortunately, a couple of the nation’s landmarks have been subject to somewhat unflattering renovations.
The Wallace Monument in Stirling, for instance, has been replaced by a standard block of flats – not quite the tribute the freedom fighter would have hoped for.
It was flagged up by Reddit user DanielOfGreen, who commented: “Flight sim places 3d models on satellite maps to form the game world and this block of flats is made to represent the Wallace monument.”
But that’s not all the simulator has got wrong in Scotland.
The world-renowned Edinburgh Castle has also been given a makeover, replaced by some not so picturesque flats.
Laura Holliday posted this image on Twitter.
edinburgh castle has also been butchered pic.twitter.com/RLqKI2HiwN
— laura holliday (@laurahday) August 19, 2020
Not everyone was disappointed, however. “A public housing policy win imo,” Danny Page commented.
It’s not just Scotland that’s had its landmarks altered.
In Australia, the Sydney Harbor Bridge was replaced by a less grandiose motorway crossing.
Everything seems to be in order here.✅ pic.twitter.com/3m2GguxU8j
— Edmond Tran (@EdmondTran) August 18, 2020
Microsoft overcompensated in Melbourne by inventing a completely new landmark.
In Microsoft Flight Simulator a bizarrely eldritch, impossibly narrow skyscraper pierces the skies of Melbourne's North like a suburban Australian version of Half-Life 2's Citadel, and I am -all for it- pic.twitter.com/6AH4xgIAWg
— Alexander Muscat (@alexandermuscat) August 19, 2020
The errors are a result of the AI system used to generate most of the game’s world simulation.
And any Scots crying conspiracy can rest assured that our southern neighbours were not spared from the glitches.
Apparently, the new Microsoft flight sim has used AI to map the entire world. But it's not done it all that great, and turned Buckingham Palace into a generic 90s office block. https://t.co/hgJnGmauPI pic.twitter.com/KybFG7XOf9
— Oli Mould (@olimould) August 18, 2020
Developer Asobo Studio has said it is working on free updates and improvements to iron out any faults, so enjoy the new-look landmarks while you can...
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