There are literally hundreds of examples of YouTube videos and streams recorded up to and including today that show ATC working fine.
It is by far the norm that ATC works as intended. There are a few outliers where it doesn’t work for a short period, usually due to server issues. I’ve never heard of ATC voices not working for months or years at a time.
If that is indeed, what’s happening to you, then I would completely delete and reinstall your game as you have a massive problem somewhere.
Edit: one other thing, I thought of is that since ATC is heavily dependent on the cloud and network connections, try installing MSFS on a laptop and using it at a different location. Or on a different network.
If it’s a network problem I don’t think reinstalling would work. But since you mentioned it I guess it may help to provide this information:
I am using the South-East Asia server, and flying between Taiwan and Japan. it is possible that this is either limited to that server, or that part of the in-game world.
I think I’ll first observe a few more days and see if this persists, and then maybe actually try different server/region.
Server-based stuff are indeed a bit sketchy recently, for example, last night I observed a square area around me with few clouds, surrounded by much more cloudy squares, and that square seems to follow me instead of following pre-definied in-game weather squares. I also observed more missing traffic and even some traffic showing up/disappearing in VFR map.
The thing about bugs is sometimes one user experiences a bug and another user doesn’t.
If you DO NOT EXPERIENCE a bug, it is worth noting in threads Ike these but it does not mean everyone else who IS EXPERIENCING the bug is pretending.
I too have had the repeating ATC in a few fights in recent days, and it was annoying enough to end a couple flights.
Now, good for you. You haven’t (yet) experienced this issue. But there is no reason to try and convince others who have experienced this issue that it isn’t happening. I assure you, when it happens, it is unmistakable.
In Packages/Official/…/fs-base are all the language packs that the sim uses. I usually edit the en-US.locPak to tweak the way ATC speaks. This gets overwritten every time there is an update but I don’t make very big changes so it’s easy to do.
You may want to try to delete the language pack that you use. Then from either the Microsoft Store or Steam you can validate local files and have the sim redownload the language pack. Maybe yours is corrupt.
examples
1atc stuck saying same thing over and over
2hear first two words of atc then silence
3atc action / select option disappear
4hear your response but not atc
I just had this happening on other transmissions too, in a session that also includes normally completed exchanges.
At this point I’m gonna guess this is some kind of server/connection issue, because I also noticed:
greatly reduced AI traffic on my VFR map
some AI traffic flashes on and off on VFR map.
Perhaps the subject aircraft was blinking in and out of existance, thereby causing ATC to repeat previous transmission.
There definitely was some kind of changes to AI traffic, as I now no longer get stupid AIs circling around final approach. Perhaps they now remove bugged/too far from you traffic, thus causing some traffic to blink in/out of existence.
Go into options:assistance options: user experience and turn atc voices back on. This irritated me to have to redo all of my options after this update. Hope this helps someone.
Xbox Series X build 1.29.28.0. Sim Update 11 40th anniversary. Cannot hear the ATC nor copilot answering to them voices. And i have the ATC voices and options already turned on via Options Assistance Experience User
Same issue here. I cannot hear atc at all in any of the planes I’ve been using. Also cannot request ifr clearance as the option no longer appears. I’ve had this issue a few times but as states by another user, it’s usually occasionally for an hour or so, now atc just straight up doesn’t work on any plane or airport
This has been a sporadic on and off issue since November of last year and came in with SU6. A forum search will reveal a lot of threads about this issue. Seems like it may have gotten worse now with this release. I personally suspect it’s a server issue.
