Career Mode still a buggy nearly unusable mess almost 1 year later

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: A significant portion of the Career Mode missions I do have mission breaking bugs that cause drastically lower missions scores due to the bug, not player error or can lead to out right failure and it seems to have something to do with how mission prompts spawn in during a mission in the incorrect location or just do not trigger at all when reached. Here are just a few I’ve run into in the last couple of days over about a dozen VIP, Light Cargo and Ferry missions:

Arrive at way point to turn toward the airport and mission does not trigger prompt to radio for landing authorization which makes it impossible to land without taking a massive reputation hit.

Taxi and Hold way point is placed where you will receive a negative score when trying to navigate there.

Parking stand is placed where you will get a negative score for going there.

Flight route with way point indicators is mapped through restricted airspace causing a negative mission score and reputation hit.

Plane spawns in, in a way that will cause a collision and fail the mission and will continue doing that even after mission restart, mission must be aborted.

I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting about right now, but these bugs make playing in Career Mode frustrating at best and sometimes near impossible!

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you? This issues come up intermittently about once every 3 missions or so but sometimes can occur in a series e of 2 or 3 missions in a row.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

  1. Selected Career Mode and then Missions

  2. Navigated the globe to Europe since the issues occur most often there.

  3. Filter missions for Ferry, VIP and Light Cargo since that is what I like to fly right now

  4. Select mission and start mission hoping that I won’t run into one of these bugs 45 mins to 2 hours later, making that mission I spent so much time on null and void.

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:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12? DX12

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX 4080 Super

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? 7800X3D, 64 GBs Ram, 2TB NVMe SSD (that game is installed on)

MEDIA

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See the Career mode threads - they are full of these bug statements - still waiting for fixes but were living in hope!

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I am stuck in Career Mode because around 50% of my current missions force me to fly the Viking Air DHC-2 and the Patey Aviation Draco. Both aircraft suffer from game-breaking bugs and engine failures that make it absolutely impossible to complete any mission with them.

Even if these aircraft are made by third-party developers, Asobo and Microsoft are responsible for the Career Mode experience. It is unfair to gatekeep player progression behind broken content.

Please, either swap these aircraft for working default ones in the career pool, or remove them entirely from mandatory missions until they are 100% fixed.

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Where in the world are you flying?
Which mode are you flying - employee?
Can you post some pictures of your licences, specialisations and areas of the world map you have opened up.

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First of all, perhaps I was too drastic in asking to “completely remove these aircraft from mandatory missions until they are 100% fixed”. It would probably be more appropriate to request “reduce their appearance frequency”, maybe some pilots might have successfully completed missions with them.
As shown in “Captura1”, I take the simulator quite seriously; I have cleared almost all my previous training sessions with an “A” grade. However, right now I am completely stuck on:

  • Instrument Rating: 4. VOR Basic
  • Commercial Pilot License - Rotorcraft: 5. Cyclic

I have repeated these training flights dozens of times without success, never managing to score above a “C”.
I am not sure how much of this is due to my own lack of skill or the limited precision of my hardware, the Thrustmaster T.Flight Hotas One.

I have tried many missions, mostly in Employee mode. I also created two companies (one in the US and one in Europe) and bought a Cessna 172 Skyhawk for each. However, due to my own failed attempts, a few months ago I decided to go back to being an employee to practice more before continuing with Freelance missions.
I was also a bit disappointed to find out that you have to create a company and buy an aircraft for each specific mission type.

My level of expertise can be resumed this way:
Despite having played for almost two years, spending 1 to 3 hours a day, 4 or 5 days a week, I still rely on the blue frames assistance. I still struggle to maintain straight and level flight, and my landing scores usually range between 60% and 80%. Occasionally I score above 90%, but other times I crash, especially on short or poorly marked runways.
Nevertheless, I try to overcome my shortcomings with patience and perseverance. In “Captura2” and “Captura3”, I am sharing the areas I have managed to explore so far.

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Hi,
You are certainly persevering - brillliant. :clap:

For your VOR’s - watch this youtube video - hope it helps. The Instrument licence is certainly a path to better aircraft.

Have you learned how to use an AP yet which will help you to maintain straight and level flight?

Next, we none of us are expert at landing 100% of the time. It seems you are trying to be a perfectionist which is hard when there are different weather conditions, runways and other variables. Learn to relax and never mind the A score and just enjoy the flying. Look on youtube for a copy of this exam, watch it so you know what it is about and take it, you certainly have tons of flight time and should manage it no problem.

3rd, If you can fly and crack the Draco, you are a brilliant pilot! :wink: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: That’s one tough lady to crack!

I am not sure which company you bought but I recommend a Cargo company, not a flightseeing company to start with. The 172 does quite well in this area where the landscape is a bit boring but you will learn the basics much more safely as this is a lower stress area than the EU.

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Next, in Employee mode you should be coming across other aircraft not just those 2 you mention.
These are the missions I can find in the EU

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Use the filter to include the aircraft you want to fly. If you scroll in closer you get more missions.

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Hope this helps.
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Thank you! Tomorrow I will read carefully your post and watch the video you mention. Now in Spain is 22 o’clock and I’m going to rest.

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Just an FYI, I got tired of all of the bugs in MSFS 2024 so I went back to MSFS 2020 and haven’t felt the need to go back… Disappointing since I think there was a lot of promise with the new game modes in MSFS 2024, but that’s where I would also encounter the most buggy game play, hopefully things have gotten better since then…

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I made my first attempts with MSFS back in 2000, but only now, since I am retired, do I have the necessary time to dedicate to this hobby.

Yes, I was also tempted to do the same thing as you at the beginning. But when I returned with this hobby, back in September '24, the launch of MSFS 2024 was just around the corner, so instead of buying the MSFS2020, I used Game Pass.

When MSFS2024 came out, I bought it and canceled Game Pass. It is not a good deal to pay €11 a month if, like me, you only play MSFS. I have faith in the people at Asobo. Since I used to be a programmer, I can imagine the challenge they are facing. I hope that little by little it will work better and better.

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The maps I have included are just to show the explored areas; they do not show all the missions. To show them all, I would have to zoom in, and I would need several screenshots for each area.

Yes, I have learned how to use (more or less) the G1000 and the G3000. But only HDG, VS, and ALT. It works fine for accumulating flight hours. I didn’t want to overcomplicate things with the Flight Director. And I don’t know if the G3000 includes additional capabilities.

You say I am a perfectionist; maybe, but the people in the YouTube videos really seem to master straight and level flight effortlessly. Sure, they have probably been doing it for many years and have the best peripherals, but I just think it shouldn’t be that difficult; and I would bet that flying a Cessna 172 in real life is easier.

The Draco, once you manage to take off without crashing and adjust the propeller, is not difficult to fly.

The two companies I have created are for Light Cargo missions.

I am going to study the video you suggest, although I think I more or less understand the VOR theory. In this training, keeping both a constant altitude and heading takes a monumental effort. When the former doesn’t get out of control, the latter does.

Another thing I still have left to do is decrease the joystick sensitivity, which is currently at maximum (by turning a knob on its base, without touching the settings inside MSFS2024), but first, I want to feel it and master it as it is to make sure I notice the difference when I change it.

I am also thinking about buying a Turtle Beach VelocityOne Flightdeck.