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[amigastar]

Outstanding. Here at the back of my house is a field where I walk my dogs - photo taken last year. A random bit of ground in some unknown part of Scotland.

And beside it is a picture taken in FS2024 this morning when in free look mode as I flew over my house.

I can’t fail but to be impressed!

Dammit, that looks really nice. Considering it got the whole world in it.

 

[BigLee74]

Dammit, that looks really nice. Considering it got the whole world in it.

Yeah, it goes over the top with the trees, but the contours of the land are (I guess as you’d expect) pretty top notch. That wee hill at the bottom to the left is as knackering to look at as it is to climb

 

[pudel]

This has really surprised me with how good the career is. I've almost finished the IFR training and it's like going through aircraft university. I've learned so much and this is a brilliant way to get people interested in aviation and potentially wanting to be a real pilot. They've said this was their intention and they really have done a great job at all it.

Yeah, its brilliant. I wish there would be even more tutorials, for example handling of the autopilots which I find pretty important and dont understood why they never make tutorials for it. If someone is looking for autopilot tutorials (and other more indepth stuff), check out good old squirrel on youtube:

Its for 2020, but the autopilot systems are the same in 2024.

Also little tip: in the settings you can map two buttons 1. increase sim rate 2. decrease sim rate. Map them and use them on longer flights (if you like). They are usually not recommened because they can cause physic bugs resulting in crashing your plane. But usually one or max two notches up should be fine.

I did my commercial and heli license...and founded my first company (just missing my first own plane yet). Curious now how this company thing will work.

 

[nemiroff]

Went back in after launch day and things seem generally fine now.

However, marketplace is not up, so neither are my pile of 2020 add-ons (some work, but have issues, so add-on devs needs time to update).

So it may take a while for things to settle and click into place in that respect - Which is fair and expected.

 

[nemiroff]

I wasn't expecting to be able to do this (actually walking around in VR in a scenery with highly detailed ground levels like this) in a flight sim for years in the future. It's pretty cool we're already there.

 

[tronied]

I've played this thing for 16 hours so far which I'm sure pales in comparison to some peoples tally.

This is easily my GOTY which might sound a bit crazy. It's rare though for me where I get to play a game and actually feel like I'm learning something and really enjoying it at the same time.

I just want to plough through all my certifications, but money is the limiting factor. I did think having to do the grind with endless sightseeing missions would be a downer, but every time I go to do a mission there is something unique to do like skydiving, deliveries or medical. It keeps things fun and entertaining.

So far they've really outdone themselves. It's just a shame that so many were maybe left with a negative impression given the first couple of days.

 

[LordBritish]

Pretty insane what this game does..

 

[pudel]

I just want to plough through all my certifications, but money is the limiting factor. I did think having to do the grind with endless sightseeing missions would be a downer, but every time I go to do a mission there is something unique to do like skydiving, deliveries or medical. It keeps things fun and entertaining.

When you get your first company...the payouts are way better and certification costs becomes your smallest problem. Somehow the map shows still the measle employment payouts (needs to be fixed)....but for a simple 30min sightseeing tour you get than 25-30k. This sounds alot from what you get early on, but when you see what new/used airplanes cost (upto 99mil for an airliner or 250k just for a used Cessna 172) than this is pretty much necessary, if you dont want to make it too grindy. Also your own planes needs maintenance here and there, which isnt cheap as well (so careful flying has its meaning..which is nice).

I am very happy till now with the career mode. Its not yet on the level of the Neofly addon for 2020...but maybe we can get there over time.

 

[TVexperto]

I just loaded into the same cities in MFS2020 and MFS 2024 ... why does MFS 2024 look worse? Less draw distance as well, lower textures??

 

[violence]

I just loaded into the same cities in MFS2020 and MFS 2024 ... why does MFS 2024 look worse? Less draw distance as well, lower textures??

Turning off my VPN made the streaming faster. I may reinstall the game and choose “install the entire thing” option as an experiment. The game is mostly fine, but it seems more stuttery than the 2020 version. Possibly due to the streaming.

 

[pudel]

I just loaded into the same cities in MFS2020 and MFS 2024 ... why does MFS 2024 look worse? Less draw distance as well, lower textures??

You can set the draw distance in the settings. Standard is 200 and goes upto 400 (but be aware...this costs performance...a lot). Lower textures just mean wait for the game to load all the shit in. If you flying long enough in an area you should have all the textures at some point.

 

[calistan]

I'm not all that convinced by career mode so far. Early days, but all I've had so far is sightseeing missions, which are deadly boring - follow the blue markers, even when they tell you to hold short halfway along the runway.

Also it keeps giving me weird penalties, e.g. for not using my landing lights during a night take-off/landing, except I haven't got night certification yet, it's daylight. In the last one I kept racking up airspeed penalties, but it never explained why.

Think I might throw in a barrel roll on the next flight, see how the robo-passenger like that.