The screenshot I took in 2016 by chance while browsing through my old photos While browsing through my old photos, I luckily came across screenshots I took in 2016. I noticed that the ocean texture was spectacular and the lights on the wings have reflection on the runway.
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Why does everything look better in 2016? lol.
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Reminder that these visuals came at the cost of being locked to tiny regions and only certain preset times of day.
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The only thing that looks better is water textures…
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And nav/beacon lights reflecting on the ground.
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The fact that the A320 family cabin isn’t updated except for the live cockpit screens later is crazy, the ceo variants should be updated too, this picture shows exactly why.
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They also got wingflex.
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Is it possible that the A320neo model could be used to rework the ceo? Surely it wouldn’t make sense to start a completely new 3D model for just the engines and winglets? I am aware that there are other differences but they are all relatively minor.
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I really miss it 
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Ok I need to say, this era was OG
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It really doesn’t. It looks really fake but visually appealing like movies and video games. I think it’s something that the video game world has conditioned us to see. It’s okay for COD or Valorant or Minecraft or any of those other games to be visually vibrant, but it’s incredibly unrealistic for a simulator. The sim currently looks way more realistic than in 2016.
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The lighting in the flight deck was much stronger
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Other than that cockpit shot, I honestly think pre-global IF actually looked kind of dull and sad. A bit like daytime during the early days of the 26.1 Beta.
(I still kinda miss the “global” daytime. It was a bit oversaturated, but I still think it was better than what we ended up getting in 26.1 and the following versions.)
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Map is more like a desert today, in 2016 it was all like europe 
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My last normal year of my life 2016. 
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Yeah,the A320 now is a cockpit with poor airframes
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I honestly think we should reintroduce ocean textures.
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Im pretty there must be some type limitation. Although it would be awesome to see again.
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Facts! Those water textures back in the day were amazing!
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Right now the latest response from Cameron was that they aren’t impossible to add, but that the devs have a whole lineup of other things that take priority.
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