The Complete Failure of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

I'm DONE with #MSFS2024 it's a complete failure.

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[Multifidi]

I'd rather download 500 gb onto the hard drive than rely on the "cloud".

[AKATenn]

never pre-order, never buy day 1, always let someone else do that, and learn from them, we need to stop incentivizing big massive corporations to give us slop. if they stop thinking they can get money first, then make the game after, they'll start making the game first.

as it is now, they get the money, then take their sweet assed time maybe, if they feel like it, finish making the game.

[abbisim]

am gonna stick with MSFS 2020 for now.

[TheSixthSLoT]

The problem with these publishers releasing these games earlier than when they're actually ready is that the word of mouth about how broken they are spreads fast on the internet. They want to get the sales early and fix things later, but once the tea gets cold, no one cares anymore, especially in the games industry, where there's something new to look at around every corner. No man's Sky, Fall Out 76 and Sea of Thieves are all great games today, but their player numbers reflect that of something niche due to having poor launches. If publishers want players to stay, they have to come out of the gate swinging, and then retain those numbers with content support down the line, but if they're gonna come out cold, people will leave, and once people leave, they usually never come back.

[dougashdown]

I will stick with msfs 2020. The problem I believe is that, unlike 2020, most of 2024 is streamed from the cloud including the aircraft. Until there is an option for a download like 2020 these problems will continue.

[ActionHeinz]

My two cents on the topic:
I played MSFS24 for about 20 hours, over 95% in free flight. I just touched the career mode briefly with the first introduction flight. But this worked without any issues. Only the AI voice is terrible, but since I'm not interested in career mode, I really don't care.
The issues I had, like most of us, were connection issues. And I was rather surprised MS messed this up so badly. But, again, nothing too terrible since it worked the next day mostly as it should. Compared with the MSFS20 launch this is so much better! I wonder if everybody already forgot how broken the game was. It took ages to load if at all, a boatload of airplanes had only three working switches, Autopliots did not track or, even worse, crashed the plane directly into the ground when activated, game freezes and crashes, all steering configurations were gone from one day to another and so on...
On the other hand MSFS24 is way more stable and feature rich. The addition of EFB is a blessing for beginners. Yes, fiddling with is fun, but quite hard to get into. For me, programming Garmin/MCDU by hand is one key element of a flight. Having every information (METAR/Runways/ILS frequencies, etc.) directly build into the game makes programming way easier. And big big plus, you can export your route from the on board navigation system into the EFB. Due to different chart versions it was often a guessing game to find a route that can be programmed in LittleNavMap/Simbrief AND your navigation system exactly the same.
All in all I must say I am very happy with MSFS 2024. Yes, it is not perfect (and most likely will never be as MSFS2020 never was) but for how I play it's a win. There are a few things I noticed like a glitching auto throttle in the Pilatus PC-12 and still the most annoying thing, even with raytracing on the cockpit lighting is crap. Turning on the overhead lights, even just a bit, should make enough light to see the overhead panel... but you are still looking into a black void. It seems all controll configurations from MSFS2024 are imported but not entirley. Only half of the buttons on my two TM.16000 work as in 2020. And it's a shame your achievements/ flight hours from 2020 are not counting for 2024...

[stevens]

Microsoft is just saving money. They want you to do the user testing for them and then they will fix the bugs as you report it.

[martinmcc.]

After the 'let down' of MSFS2020, I decided I would not invest time or money into the 2024 iteration for at least one year. It took a year for MSFS2020 to NOT lock up while flying. None of the issues surprise me at all...

[Pondimus_Maximus]

With all the helicopters featured in the trailers, I was hopeful that Asobo had improved the rotorcraft flight model. Nope. They didn't even touch it. There is no ground effect, no weathervaning in forward flight, and the torque pedals behave as an on/off switch. Clearly, no one at Asobo has ever held a cyclic, and they certainly never asked any helicopter pilots for feedback. A huge swing and miss, that once again, third party devs will have to cobble together their own hacked up flight model to paper over Asobo's lack of caring.

[ligmasack]

Why is anyone surprised at the Pooched "Launch" that was just a repeat of FS2020; and why does everyone ignore the fact that FS2020 was supposed to have the "Career Mode" that they are hyping for FS2024?

[i.r.wayright]

I will be 77 in two months. Will I be burning in Hell before the flight sim dumpster fire goes out? I took two flights on the second day and the first one in the NX Cub went okay. But the next one was in a Bell 407 helicopter and after flying for 10 minutes or so it became uncontrollable and crashed. At three days after launch I got in the flying lawn chair/drone thing and down low there were trees growing out of the roadway. That's not "photogrammetry" that's photo travesty. I wish Asobo would make another video and let us know IF they can fix it and if so, WHEN. What irritates e most was the control programming set up. I have a bunch of videos on that subject stored for future reference but I wish they would have some official guidance on that, accessible in the sim, instead of letting us figure it out for ourselves. I still haven't attempted to fully set up my controls in FS2020. At least you can apply settings to individual planes in 2024. One more point, the pre-launch get together of flight simmers in LAs Vegas led us to believe everything was figured out and would work well on launch day. WTF happened between then and now?

[themerote]

I had less problems with 2024, 2020 took me a week to get it to start and performance in VR was a joke until now.

[stomptheelites]

Career Mode is Terrible. I'm getting all the same glitches too. This really was confusing and frustrating. and expensive.

[Wildmanj]

Aside from the opening few days of glitches and an expected set of bugs to work out over time, 2024 is absolutely amazing.

[FloatingFatMan]

Agreed 100%! Before you uninstall though, try a hot air balloon (regular), start the burners, then switch camera to external a couple of times (might only need once!), I laughed so hard I damn near cried as a sheet of flame was suddenly bursting out form the bottom of the basket, engulfing my pilot in flames... An apt metaphor I felt! :p

[brexpatfarang]

I have discovered there is NO Azure data centre in South East Asia - Just 1 Azure availabilty zone in Singapore - so for me launch time is 30+ minutes. When I get in many aircraft missing including the C172 which is pretty critical for gameplay. Graphics look like I'm flying around a Minecraft city - and that is with 350Mbs upload and download - Microsoft should have provided the Azure map as well as stating a minimum download speed

[pinkostv]

I had the same problem, overflying airports and the ATC froze and they send you to ridiculous air strips.let’s hope they fix it since they got our money.the walking is ok if your not in a melted city.

[DIGITALSANDBOX]

The low flight challenges in the f18 will keep me busy for months.

[sopcannon]

I downloaded it as soon as it got released on pc gamepass, I flew a plane once in 48 hours and stopped trying since.

[michaelsuede]

It's a beta product. Ridiculous they call this a full release.