With the arrival of FS24, we have lost the ability to generically “Quick Reload” via the developer’s menu. In FS20, this was located under Tools > Behaviors/Behaviour Debug
FS2020:
FS2024:
This is a key feature that allows a quick reload of all current assets such that things like mods or other aircraft changes can quickly be assessed. As it sits, with every mod I do in FS20, I probably use Quick Reload 20-30 times or more.
Without this button in FS2024, testing each change would require a complete sim restart, making the entire process much, much slower to the point of questioning how viable it is at all.
I know there are ways to resync aka “reload from files” from within the simobject editor while a project is open but as these sort of changes don’t use projects, this doesn’t apply nor work outside of a project. I have searched through the dev menu extensively and tried various other options to see if I could force a generic aircraft resync/reload and have had no luck. I could have missed something and I really hope that’s the case.
If you have enjoyed basically any modded aircraft in flightsim in the past (ie things like my mods, Duckworks, the 307 mod, G36 enhancement, and hundreds of other mods over the vast history of flightsim), this should be of major concern and we need this function back. Without it, I worry modders would be chased away from modding entirely. I worry that that is the point.
edit: on top of this, a few years ago we lost the ability to resync liveries making life far more difficult for livery-makers. It was stated that this feature wasn’t “popular” and was quietly erased, never to return. Much like Reload has quietly disappeared.
