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[Dr.Morris79]

I think that's an unavoidable problem with auto-gen scenery. It knows that there are buildings there and roughly what height they are, so it fills them in as best it can. I'm guessing there are no more giant canyons near Keynsham, like there were in the beta.

Unique buildings need to be added via photogrammetry or placed by hand, so they mustn't have got round to doing Bath yet. I've seen that in older flight sims, where you could buy third-party updates for England that added hand-modelled landmarks like the Royal Crescent but placed them in the middle of an auto-gen town that looks like Swindon.

It's not too bad, the basic road layout is spot on, taking the 150 mile journey down the M25/M4 in an A10 I have to do most days will never get boring, unlike driving it

I guess we're going to have to wait longer for the specific updates to towns. Every single airport I've bought prior is unavailable, hopefully they hurry them up a bit too.

Been damn fun so far though it has to be said. Not a fan of it being fully streamed and having a few drop out crashes but, I feel it can only get better. Been having more fun in this than Flight sim 20 so far.

 

[nemiroff]

Found the motivation to give it a try in VR. Did PPL and CPL for airplane and rotorcraft. ..suddenly about four-five hours had passed, lol..

What an astonishing experience... I already know this will eat up most of my spare gaming time when everything settles and clicks into place (in a patch or two, with marketplace and addons updates).

 

[ChoosableOne]

It feels like the first game drew more attention. No one talks about this one. What's the general opinion on this? Isn't it better than the first? According to steamcharts, the number of people playing the first game is currently higher. Both are hovering around 6,000 players.

 

[Calverz]

I started this yesterday after finishing Indy and pretty impressed. It seems to be a lot more polished than first game was at launch and has more “gamey” stuff to do this time round. Looks really good on my 4090.

 

[cormack12]

December 19th, 2024 Development Update - Microsoft Flight Simulator

This week’s Screenshot Challenge winner is Forum user HeKa48! If you’re interested in participating in our weekly Screenshot Challenges, check out the details in the Community section below!

www.flightsimulator.com

 

[nemiroff]

What's the general opinion on this? Isn't it better than the first?

They released it a bit too early, that's pretty much it. But with that said, there's no doubt in my mind it'll be amazing in most aspects as time progresses, including surpassing 2020 by a lot.

Been having an excellent time with it in the (albeit flawed) career mode in VR lately. I'm eager to see how it'll develop in a few months. It'll likely consume a great portion of my gaming hobby time in 2025.

 

[calistan]

It feels like the first game drew more attention. No one talks about this one. What's the general opinion on this? Isn't it better than the first? According to steamcharts, the number of people playing the first game is currently higher. Both are hovering around 6,000 players.

There's a lot to be said for maturity in a flight sim. Stability, bug fixes, etc. It's mainly the add-ons for me - I've got lots of them in 2020 and basically none in 2024.

Actually I haven't used 2024 since it crashed on me a couple of weeks ago at the end of a 2.5 hour flight in career mode.

 

[nemiroff]

Anyway, don't miss this flight planner from MS:

Flight Planner

planner.flightsimulator.com

 

[calistan]

Anyway, don't miss this flight planner from MS:

Flight Planner

planner.flightsimulator.com

That's pretty cool. I'll have to give it a go next time I fly in 2024.

My go-to planning / navigation utility is Little Navmap. Highly recommended if you want more detail, as it even shows the taxiways and parking spots at airports (no more wondering where the ground controller is telling you to park). Plus it works on all flight sims, so you can retain your logbook if you move to a new sim.

Alex Projects

Alex' flight simulator projects

albar965.github.io

 

[Utherellus]

Thought you guys would like to check it out.

I recreated shots from iconic movies in Microsoft Flight Sim 2024.

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[HeisenbergFX4]

Just started doing the activities in this, love doing the challenges though I am terrible at them

 

[nemiroff]

Just started doing the activities in this, love doing the challenges though I am terrible at them

Much fun to have there indeed.
Love the career mode too, but kinda holding off progressing until a proper AI voice pack pops up in the marketplace. The current synthesized voices are pure torture to my brain.

 

[LordOcidax]

Looks like the weekly ranked challenge system is broke. I was the 1 in my league and dropped from the platinum league to the gold league after all the hard work i made… What a bummer.

 

[KloetenQuetsche]

So... After a few weeks I turned on Flight Sim 2024. First message is that the last session was abortet and I have the ability to go further without third party content, whatever this means.

After quit the game and loading it up new, it was stuck at loading the vfs fuck off whatever.

I shut down the whole console and did a new start.
And there's again this message that the last session.... Bla!

I delete this piece of shit and reinstalled it again. The same message happened... The last session.... Bla.

Then finally, after long loading I get in the game. Free flight San Francisco
Start flight... I see pixelated clouds of the world map and this now since 10minutes.
The fucking loading circle in the bottom right corner makes me aggressive... Oh now ist ready to flight. But beside my plane nothing is loaded...

Error connection to live services... Hmmm


Microsoft! This piece of shit is such a crazy bad construction and a monument of incompetence!

I delete this waste of time forever off my console. You fucking lost me! Flight Sim is dead. This was your last chance I wasted so many time on this thing. NO MORE!

TOMORROW I PHONE YOUR FUCKING HOTLINE AND WANT MY MONEY BACK