Career mode in VR on PS5: no hints, no option to skip steps, almost impossible to remove items when inspecting the aircraft

Bug Reporting Hub Virtual Reality (VR)
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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

Career mode in VR on PS5. I already stranded at the first test.
In VR, I get no options to skip steps. I also see no hints or am informed what steps I passed or not. Very different then when not in VR mode.
In non-VR mode I can only use the Dual-Sence controller to interact with the pop-up messages.
I am a good flyer but had to redo the test several times just because the interface does not want to cooperate. This is ridiculous.
No idea what exactly has to be done to satisfy ‘the system’ in achieving goals. I fly my pattern, land by the book, no issues. Should I use comms? No idea. The examinator remains silent after we started. Should I taxi? To where? No feedback whatsoever on what the sim expects me to do, it just remains silent, waiting for something unknown.
Should I pause the game and switch to non-VR mode every time, just to see what my progress is and what goals need to be achieved? This game is not PS5 VR ready. We miss so many features and options. I think the VR option was released to early.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

Every time I play a career mode test/exam in VR

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

Just execute a career mode test/certification on PS5 in VR mode.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using:

PS5, PSVR & VR controllers, Hotas controller, Dual Sence controller, Mouse

Neither of these tools will allow me to remove any objects from the airplane, only after $#$# tries does something happen, no idea for what reason it suddenly works.

MEDIA

*Please add a screenshot or video of the issue occurring.

Nothing occurs, that is the problem. The screen remains empty, no pop-up boxes like in flat mode*

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Same for some kind of missions. Search and rescue are fine doing a cold start and doing everything manually. Different story with passengers flights with the helicopter. If you do cold starts, there won’t be a mission step to board the passengers. Not even if you turn off vr mode and try to open the mission steps manually.

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and in new 1.7.34 beta there is no red circle in EFB on Search and Rescue missions.

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In the regular game there is a red area marking but if moves in flight direction when you fly in the area

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had this too, but now weirdly even on live version 1.7.27 I dont get the red circle anymore…

Chewwy94 6

Hi folks,

Are those of you who first reported this still experiencing this issue?

Thanks
The MSFS Team

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No change at all.
Removing parking parts remains almost impossible in VR and there is no guidance whatsoever, other then the inital screen with requirements.
Career mode exams is no fun this way > Career mode is no fun.

I don’t think this issue got any attention from the Dev team

This are the first exam screens when in front of the aircraft:

  1. with VR set, but in flat mode. Note the options screen.

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  1. in complete VR mode. No options screen.

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I have not managed to create a screenshot from the impossibility to remove any preflight items, it won’t register. I know there are workarounds, shortcuts etc. but this difference in options is unfair IMHO.

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No doubt related to this issue that was reported and bug logged during the original SU5 beta and not dealt with, it really is painful bug reporting on this software when we continuously get ignored

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/unable-to-click-some-items-with-the-mouse-in-vr/

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I think clicking items in PS5 VR is difficult to program in general, just looking at other games. In Aces of Thunder interacting with the cockpit and the menus is also not ideal. IMHO the Sony PSVR controllers are not very good at this. I would suggest using the mouse interaction, like we do in the cockpit. That works rather good.
I see it as work in progress, first fix the major issues, like being able to just play the game without it crashing all the time. It seems we got there now.
Next, get the details working …

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I did some flight lessons in career mode, using VR. Here I did see a pop-up screen with progress etc, just as expected. This works fine.

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This is very much still an issue. I had no idea how to load passengers for a sightseeing flight. I ended up starting in 2-D mode and then going into VR, but then I failed a bunch of stuff because I couldn’t radio.