Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Is Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (November 19)

I’m pleased the download size is a lot smaller this time round despite me having a 1TB SeaGate SSD card with my Series X. Although I do expect it to increase with free world updates like we saw in MFS 2020 which almost doubled in download size if all the updates were downloaded.

It’s going to be interesting to see how the game is graphically when out exploring on the ground, surely not every location on Earth will have the same detail? I’m expecting certain landmarks to be very detailed but else where to be very flat and bland.

I'm more interested in the gameplay additions that they have been showing than in the file size.

Looking forward to it. Just hope I don't have the same issues i had with 2020 version that caused my series x to overheat and switch itself off. I am surprised tho that a full pre install hasn't been realeased yet.

This will be my first time jumping into the cockpit of an MS Flight Simulator, so to speak 😁 and quite looking forward to it from what I've seen in the trailer.

Looking forward to trying this out. The smaller size is welcome as my Series X is almost full to bursting. Though I just deleted Black Ops 6 which was 120gb just for the campaign!

The online only bit is a hard pass for me. I hope the enthusiasts enjoy it tho. Looks fun with all the activities.

I dabbled a bit in MSFS2022 but I'm not an enthusiast. I'll definitely be playing this one today especially with the career sim stuff. Maybe this one will keep me hooked for longer.

@Xbox_Dashboard if the game wasn't online only, it would be an absolute behemoth of an install.

@ParsnipHero same here. I dabbled, but after the novelty of flying from (I think it was) Heathrow to my house in Cardiff I lost interest in it pretty quickly.

@Markatron84 MFS 2020 clocked in at 285g for offline mode. But the current streaming data requirements for 2024 are kicking at an obscene level near 200mbps. It's pick your poison with that.

@Xbox_Dashboard yeah. It's a good job they're not bringing one of these out every year, or MSFS fans with bandwidth caps would be sh*t out of luck 🤣

Stuck on a loading getting the loading unusually long message.. the global simi launch was not a smart move. The servers are overloaded.

11gb download is good, but it's taking an awfully long time to load. Hopefully this is just for the first time somehow, because waiting 10-15mins to load is not good, especially if I only have half an hour or so to play.

So far I have tried to fly several planes but so far no luck. Infinite loading… looking top down at some pretty but very boring clouds for the past 15 minutes. After that the game is frozen so needs a new start up.
It all feels very fragile , menu’s don’t load properly , pointers are missing in menu’s , navigation is shaky , the planes in these menu’s look like I’m playing a need for speed version of flightsim. This is all a part of getting used to but the first impression makes me want to start up the old one that at least works and feels more solid because everything loads from the ssd instead of streaming from the internet.
Next week we don’t want anything else but this first hour is a real bummer. Hopefully when I can finally get a flight started it all feels less like an internet game.
In the meantime I tried again but I give up .. I will try again tonight because now it is not even working at all. No possibility to start a flight because of infinite loading and freezing. And yes , I have very fast internet so that is not a problem.

@LaurenceJ1987 Sounds like a lot of users are having trouble with loading times etc. Hopefully this is just teething problems at launch.

@RetroMan71 After about 20 minutes and it seemingly stuck on 97% I quit the game in case rebooting it helped. It did not. 😬

Yeah, hopefully this is fixed soon. It's not a great launch for a game reliant on the cloud, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt if it's quickly fixed.

Be great if the game could be played. Stuck. On 97% for over an hour.

@miller77 Yeah, that's where I am. I'm just going to give up for now. I really wanted to try this on day 1, but I guess I'll wait until it actually works.

Worked fine for me, but looks way worse then 2020 on Series X, worst are the jaggies. I hate jaggies.... And the environments are a far cry from all the fancy screens and videos you seen from a high end PC.

Oh God I'm on the series X as well. Mario kart will relieve the frustration.

The launch has been a mess, I cannot load into anything.

Very excited to try all the new features and modes, especially in VR. Anyone know what the point of a 300mb pre download is though?!

@Markatron84 I'm sure Flight Sim may not be for you anyway but Heathrow to Cardiff is about as boring as a flight can be on planet earth 😂

Sheesh this sounds like another botched launch and for a relatively niche game too. Sounds like they are better off putting some of the new features in the 2020 version for anyone who doesn't want to be reliant on this faulty cloud tech. The Series X 2020 version looked crisp and stunning albeit with the higher install size in addition to decent bandwidth.

Not loading anything at all now. Stuck on 0%."Pathetic.

@16BitHero I just wanted to get to my house in the game 🤣 Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I was flying east because the coast was on my right when I was flying, so it must've been from Cardiff Airport (surely the most stupidly named airport ever, as it's not even in or that close to Cardiff)

Finally been able to start the game, after trying at various points throughout the day. I'm on the character creator. It seems I'll have to be a south American looking guy on this game, as there are absolutely no Caucasian options. Why not just include every option so people can make whatever character represents them? It's so bizarre.

@LaurenceJ1987 I couldn't get on at all last night. I didn't even get past 0% loading... 😒

@RetroMan71 I've just tried again. There was a 500Mb update and now I've got in. It still took a few minutes to load, but worked. I've just done a few tutorial lessons. There's lots of loading and images loading in details slowly, but it's a big improvement over a few days ago.

@LaurenceJ1987 Hi yeah I managed to get on over the weekend after that update too. It was a bit choppy and slow loading, but I started my career finally and had quite a good time with the tutorials.