Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is already one of the biggest hits of the year, offering a whole world for its pilots to explore in a year when travel is otherwise limited. With such an enormous world to build, MFS2020 relies on algorithms to generate most of it, which has resulted in some interesting new landmarks.
In one case, the simulator downgraded the Queen’s house, and transformed Buckingham Palace in London into a fairly desolate block of flats. While The Shard and the O2 Arena in London were modeled and added manually, it seems that Buckingham Palace did not receive the same treatment.
Likewise, while Sydney Harbor sports a loving recreation of the Opera House, the iconic Harbor Bridge has been replaced by a much more generic highway bridge.
Players on Reddit have collected a number of similar landmarks, such as the ancient Roman Arenes de Nîmes, which also has a few terrace buildings in its center for good measure.
The longest statue on the planet, the 182m Statue of Unity in India, has also been replaced by … well, not really much.
The golden Shwedagon pagoda in Myanmar is barely recognizable in play, and even more strangely, some of the green-covered pagodas that surround it have been transformed into enormous apartment blocks.
While it may be understandable that MSF’s world building technology was a bit confused by some of the more uniquely designed monuments in the world, it also seems to have a tendency to place buildings where they do not belong, such as in a football stadium, or even an airship.
And then there’s … what it is I’m.
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