I couldn’t agree more. I’ll probably just use 2024 for soaring and helicopter flying, and do every serious flying in 2020.
Everything else is so horribly done in 2024 compared to 2020. Menu is a mess, they took out UI Map Navigation for that clunky EFB mess; menus are slow and buggy; I’ve tried 3 default planes while I was waiting for the P28A to come, and all of these planes have clear bugs and lack of features that I’ve no idea how they launched them half-baked like this - the Cap-4 radio 2 doesn’t work; the Beaver illumination knobs and the CDI needle for VOR navigation don’t work.
Traffic is always randomly spawning and despawning, many times parked aircraft are just floating over the paking spots. ATC is pitiful (they managed to make it even worse than 2020).
It still makes no sense to me why they decided to develop a new software out of the blue with 2020 required some essential work - and now they clearly show this next software was far from ready to be launched. We need some real competition soon!
Somehow they make this sim worse everyday. For the last week it takes longer everyday to boot up. Today it took almost 15 min before enough data was downloaded to even start the engine. 10 min into the flight it does the CTD. Great job guys.
That’s interesting. I’ve never had that, even with masses of stuff in my Communtiy folder. At most it is a couple of minutes from clicking go to being at the main menu. I’ve enabled the fast launch option in Steam to circumvent the first couple of videos.
I tried yesterday using the inbuilt material.libs scanner in add-ons linker to root out any conflicts there and after finding a few my game now boots even faster, probably 90 seconds with hundreds of GB’s in community folder add-ons.
It seems that the changeover to ‘24 has meant starting from scratch in many areas. Even simple things like rain drops on the windscreen no longer work.
What can you say or write about it now?
I hope they get it right as quickly as possible and in 4 years a changeover won’t be necessary again with the same devastating effect.
I’m not sure about raindrops specifically, but while doing something in 2024, I noticed that certain bug fixes that I could pin to very early releases in MSFS 2020 hadn’t been applied.
To me, that suggests the possibility that the developers forked off the code from MSFS 2024 from 2020 very early on, possibly only a few months after 2020 released. If that’s true, once it was two separate codebases, they would have needed to maintain bug fixes in both sims. It’s possible that rain drops never made it.
(That being said, my understanding is that there is a new material in the SDK in 2024 that you need to use to be able to wipe raindrops away, and maybe that didn’t get applied to a lot of the aircraft.)
What I miss the most in MSFS2024 that is in 2020 is AI pilot.
I am not a real pilot and my sim talent is at best average so when I am flying somewhere and want to see how to land it is so easy in 2020 - just hit flight assistant and ai pilot. I watch the gauges etc to learn proper altitudes and air speed on the approach and final.
Unfortunately 2024 does not seem to have the same feature.
What I will say is that thinking back to the first 3 years of 2020 of just a few struggles, then about one solid year of excellence, going to 2024 essentially shuns the long road of perpetual beta and you just jump RIGHT back into it again. I’m resigned to enjoy the ride where 2020 is. They’re just too close together, in reality they could of just bumped the whole thing to 2026. You get 5+ years out of a PC rig with zero worries and just flying with 2020. Why bother. Heck I was squirrelbrained and pre-ordered PD without a thought, until I thought about it.
Heck the average FS enthusiast sees something in 2020 they want changed, knows right where the add-on is, breaks in and tweaks a setting and voila. Or a week later someone figures out how to do it with freeware. Feel like it’s a bit of a badge to have 2020 now and be such a master of it. Was on flightsim.to last night for the first time in a while and just dumped in a ton of textures, small add ons, some new cockpits, etc. Spend more time shopping for them than putting them in there. I can’t get rudimentary control settings to stick in 2024, like a darn custom default view is a massive chore to get sorted.