MSFS 2020 still has many bugs, which is no news. Many are historical, several have been voted on by simmers to be fixed, and some have entered the official ranking with the hope that they will be solved someday.
I’ve used MSFS 2024 for a couple of hours and found that some of these bugs don’t exist in the new sim (there are others, though). I’m not sure if this gives me hope or means they’ve abandoned debugging MSFS 2020. Mainly because MSFS 2020 is a good product and I feel that, in some very indirect and remote way, I helped improve it.
Beyond this ranking, there are some historical bugs that bother me a lot, for example:
Semi-transparent clouds using real weather, almost every time
AI traffic getting lost, failing to brake on curves, losing direction, taking off from anywhere on the runway
Erratic ATC, with options to continue talking disappearing, along with instructions and counter-instructions within seconds
Drone camera spinning to the left uncontrollably
Invisible aircraft traffic, where only the lights are visible
Lack of cloud shadows on water
Distant air traffic lights that, when zoomed in, produce the opposite effect, appearing smaller
Do you 2020 simmers have particular bugs you like to be fixed? Or you prefer to just jump to 2024 sometime?
I would love for FS2020’s bugs to be fixed, but I gather Asobo and MS have shifted focus to FS2024. Despite their claims of supporting FS2020 until 2030 as promised, I have a feeling this won’t come to fruition.
Being that FS2024 has such a large number of bugs that require 50,000 beta testers just to find all of them, then even if Asobo did want to fix FS2020’s bugs they wouldn’t have the capacity to.
I hope I’m wrong in thinking FS2020 will almost certainly stay in it’s current state, but I am happy with that for two reasons:
The existing bugs you mention are not game-breaking, and there are excellent addons out there that reduce or eliminate most of them, and
When Asobo updates anything, hundreds of inevitable bugs worm their way in, and they’re not always found/fixed. I am happy with FS2020’s current state and would be quite upset if Asobo would try to fix 1 bug and add 10 more, and then do it again. Let them do that with FS2024.
As far as the future of FS, time will tell. Will it be FS2024 after several updates, or will it be a new title, which MS will claim to be “the next next future of MSFS, sporting only 40,000 bugs and a new mode where you can talk to the hippos in Africa! Alpha testing will be available in October, for a steal of a price: just $299.99!” I don’t worry about these questions, I only wish to enjoy FS right now. What will be later, will be later.
Piston engine modeling… particularly fuel-flow as a direct indication of power.. makes for bizarre leaning for altitude, and renders precise fuel planning moot..
Maybe this is not really accurate but in the Steamcharts survey of players, MSFS2020, has double number of users than MSFS2024, at this is consistent in the last months.
I have upgraded my PC for 2024, bugs apart I´m happy but not everybody can buy a PC that can manage 2024 properly.
Pure conjecture on my part, but it’s my guess that with 2024/SU2, more “converts” moved back to 2024. That will most likely continue with their next release, because with every ‘Wow this is a lot better now’ post you see, a few more people will move over to 2024 due to FOMO. MSAsobo knows this, and as a result, they’re no doubt putting more emphasis on getting 2024 up to speed until that inevitable day when only the purists will remain on 2020. That day isn’t today of course, but it’s coming.
And becuse of that, it’s my guess that we’ll see a few more changes to 2020, but nothing on a larger scale.
Ah, the ever famous FOMO. Sometimes I wonder if this alone accounts for people buying the latest iPhone-GPU/CPU/Program even though their old ones work perfectly. I couldn’t think of any other reasons…
I am more than happy on my a) iPhone 13, b) RTX3060/Ryzen 7 5700G, and c) FS2020, as each do what I need them to do without any weird new features I can’t quite wrap my head around
In the list of about 100 bugs that were closed as “won’t fix,” some of them required changing 1 or 2 lines in a text file, and they chose to close the bug instead. I don’t know how hard this bug would be to fix, given that I don’t know what’s wrong, but it’s possible it’s an easy fix and they still don’t want to do it.
