How Are You Getting On With Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024?

It works for me…kind of, I get the ‘melting’ buildings which lots of people say is an issue. The biggest problem for me is there are no sounds from the aircraft, no engine noise etc. it seems to be common according to Reddit, anyone experiencing the same found a fix?

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Sol76
1:19pm

If it works it is amazing but there is always something that is not working correctly. Absurd penalties in career , flightsystems not correctly working , a plane that starts smoking from the get go and has weird throttle values , CTD , pop in , objects or complete menu’s fail to load / stream , ATC stuck / does not register commands , flightplans differ with navigation and all the 1000-s of other problems I did not mention.
So yes , you can start a flight and maybe , just maybe you get lucky and have a smooth flight but most of the times there is at least 1 thing that does not work / load properly.
Oh … and did anybody tried to change the controls ? The person that worked on that should be penalized with very short arms and a lot of itches…

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GeeEssEff
1:30pm

I managed to get in and play yesterday and it’s a bit of a jank fest. I tried a free flight which worked fine but the textures were just ugly. I then tried the first mission in the campaign and the quality was all over the place. Regular stutters and frame rate drops and what the hell is going on with the dialogue? I understand this isn’t a story driven RPG so it’s very low priority but the NPC at the flight school sounds like he was both written and voiced by an AI. Quality wise 2024 feels like a downgrade to 2020 at the moment.

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Lrapsody
1:33pm

Textures not loading properly, so Paris streets looked like a nightmare 🤣

It worked fine for me the day I tried. I think that was Friday or Saturday. I’ve not been back to it since though. Like all Flight Sims for me, it’s fine, but a very, very casual game. Flight Sim ever being GotY sounds sort of strange to me, but I like it

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Bigmanfan
2:03pm

Yeah, I think I'm gonna wait to try it until they iron out the issues.

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StylesT
2:10pm

How can Xbox drop the ball so badly ..

How does this apparently have so many issues ..isn't it basically the same flight simulator that's already out just erm updated and stuff added

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antonioacm
2:20pm

I think this is the first experiment of game partially cloud and partially installed, not lucky experience for me, too long loadings, few crashes or start. When works i love it, but i prefered 400gb game with no crashes and fast loading than this.
Personal experience that might be totally different for other people

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Gabrielmpf
55m ago

I've been playing it a lot, but not without problems.
World Photography is awesome. Managed to photograph some animals in Africa and some landmarks in Asia. The photo goals are a nice motivation to keep coming back.

Career is what I always wanted in the 2020 version, with missions. The mission grades, however, seem like a hit or miss. Today, I had one of the smoothest landings in a mission, yet the game gave me a rating of 0% in landing smoothness. Maybe not 100%, but 0% would be if I had crashed it. They need to sort this out.

Nature detail seems much better than 2020, especially on the ground, but when you're flying in cities, the buildings still look like cardboard maquettes.

And where are the Bush Trips? I hope they add it in a future update.

@BearFut_1800 Re: melting buildings, I think we have to expect some of that. They have modelled the WHOLE world from satellite data and algorithms. You shouldn't get too close up as it ruins the illusion. That's not going to change.

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16BitHero
38m ago

It's an experimental technology, we're all essentially beta testers. I'm playing on Series X and a PC (5600X and 3070). It's a lot more stable than at launch but even with 700mbps I'm disappointed with the visuals. I'm going to test VR tonight. Navigating the menus and new bindings isn't at all intuitive but I guess they wanted to try and distinguish this version from 2020 somehow. I do feel like the new features could have been added to 2020 and they could have kept a large install for those without stable or fast bandwidth. I'm currently playing through Gamepass and would like to purchase eventually - I need a few more weeks of play testing!

The game itself is a technical showcase. I've taken a few test flights from locations on the map.

But I feel the onboarding is pretty bad. I booted up the World Photographer mode and went to Egypt where they put me in a helicopter but there was not tutorial, I didn't know how to do anything. How to make my chopper just hover? How to take a photo? How to do anything frankly.

Does the game have a guided tutorial system? Perhaps it's hidden in another area I haven't explored yet, like Career, but I feel they should point this out, or ask do you need a guide because the controls are not obvious even when you look in the menus!

@purexbox

Is the state of the release the reason why MS didn’t want you to do a review for release day?

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16BitHero
16m ago

@themightyant I did that Egypt shoot. I crashed upside down but was still able to exit the helicopter and complete the photography challenges - complete with a mini sand storm whipped up by my rotor blades.

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16BitHero
13m ago

@BearFut_1800 the Buildings/Cities will never look perfect as they're using Microsoft Bing maps and satellite data. It would look a lot better with Google data but I digress.

@16BitHero yeah, I do accept that - of course..I think it’s the sound issue that is bugging me more than anything tbh

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