Concerning reviews: A question I know the answer to, do you?

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I was going to check out what STEAM users were saying about MSFS, and while I went to check I stumbled upon some amazing review stats for MSFS, pasted here:

MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR IS A MUST PLAY*:

• 10/10 IGN - “Microsoft Flight Simulator is legitimately incredible. It’s difficult to fully describe how amazing it feels to jump into a plane and have the freedom fly to and from literally any place in the entire world.”
• Essential EUROGAMER – “a once in-a-generation wow moment"
• 100/100 GAMING TREND
• 100/100 PLAYER 2
• 5/5 GUARDIAN – “This game captures the wonder of flight”
• 5/5 VG 24/7
• 10/10 PRESS-START
• 10/10 AUSGAMERS
• 5/5 VGC – "phenomenal looking, remarkably detailed simulator”
• 9/10 AREAJUGONES
• 9/10 PC INVASION
• 4.5/10 ATTACK OF THE FANBOY
• 9/10 GAMEBLOG
• 10/10 WCCFTECH – “a technical marvel that brings the whole world to life and the best example of cloud based gaming so far.”
• 18/20 JEUXACTU
• 9/10 EVEREYE
• 9.3/10 SPAZIOGAMES
• 4/5 DAILY STAR – “the definition of revolutionary”
• 4.5/5 TWINFINITE

Many if not all of these reviews were posted BEFORE release (August 17). On so many sites the MSFS review is totally buried among scores of other “10/10 instant” reviews. I guess looks ARE EVERYTHING. When checking (because I wondered) the ATTACK OF THE FANBOY review it is actually 4.5/5 NOT out of 10.

My question is, where are the FLIGHT SIMULATION news/blog (i.e. FS Elite, Avsim, ect.) site reviews?

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Not sure what the problem is.

Here’s Attack of The Fanboy review Microsoft Flight Simulator Review | Attack of the Fanboy

They loved it and gave it 4.5 out of 5. They don’t do 10. It’s just their way of rating stuff. GAME REVIEWS | Attack of the Fanboy

They are EVERYTHING. We humans are visual. Even a blind person has to visualize what they can’t see. The day you stop visualizing is the day you die.

Here’s FSElite review https://fselite.net/reviews/microsoft-flight-simulator-the-fselite-review/

They don’t do scores anymore, but loved the sim and said:

“For anyone in the community, the new Microsoft Flight Simulator doesn’t just represent a new simulator, it represents the dawn of a new and exciting era within the flight simulation space. Whether you think the simulator is ready for prime time or simply good enough to enjoy just a handful of flights, it’s indisputable that this is the most graphically, technologically and most accessible flight simulator ever made.”

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I’d give it 10 out of 10 just for the C152 and VFR flying alone. Anything else is a bonus in my view.

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I’d give it 10/10 for both default VFR and IFR capabilities.

All these below were simple test flights to test the IFR and overall automation capabilities of the base sim and default C172 G1000 in various ways. Entire route of the flights were done on autopilot. Did SID, STAR, Approach, ILS-assisted landing etc. Pretty much everything went perfect and didn’t encounter any issue that would cause me to award the sim anything less than 10 out of 10.

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Yes, these are basic default aircraft and we can’t be logically expecting study level simulation and accuracy out of them. The MSFS devs themselves said, both before and after the release, that they are not in the business to make study level aircraft for the base sim. Not that they can’t do it - they have very intimate partnership with Textron, Airbus and Boeing after all - but they said they won’t be competing with study level developers such as PMDG and FSLabs. There are several reasons as to why this is a good thing.

Yes there are issues, bugs etc, yes the more complex default aircraft such as the jets are extremely early access, but you can still perform a flight from A to B, albeit not as realistically as you would in PMDG or FSLabs aircraft, but you can still use them to do flights, which is exactly what I expected from the base, default sim, and it exceeded my expectations.

Not to mention that this is an ambitious ten year long project, which means there will be more content and bugs, which will require patches. On top of all these, several study level aircraft from the likes of PMDG, Milviz, Aerosoft, A2A are currently in development.

All I can say is: If some people don’t like any of these, they can always feel free to go back to the flight sims of the bygone, ancient and dark age (p3d, xp, fsx etc), enjoy their autoliners live on Twitch and entertain and twerk for their subscribers’ money. Nobody at Microsoft and Asobo is forcing anyone to buy and use MSFS only.

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same here… the scenery is amazing and I am sure it will only get better. I am working on an around the world tour with the Xcub and have had no problems VFR flying, a few ILS have been off if I am trying to land in clouds but not enough to get worked up about. The only thing I have run into post recent patch is the mixture is now screwy. The more I lean the higher the fuel flow gets, which is opposite of what it should be, but no biggie as I am doing mostly 1 to 1.5 flights and not stretching the plane to the limit. Sure the big jets might have a some bugs but I am focused on a plane that I might actually get to fly in real life as I am sure I could find a cub or Cessna pilot to get a ride along with, versus my odds of flying and landing a 747 are probably less than winning the power ball.

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Most flight sim blogs will steer away from posting a review, instead opting to only post news, patch releases, etc.

They do this as their business/blog is by definition a conflict of interest and also not to give opinions. It’s safer for them and it’s best all around for us to make our own minds about a sim.

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Unable to activate a later leg in the flightplan in the G1000, a barebones basic functionality of doing IFR. A true 10/10 experience… ?

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I am surprised you are still following this forum\ posting on these same type of conversation\ repeating, especially when you don’t own it\ don’t use it and have no interest. You will "fight and repeat " much more less using your current setup that works.

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The G1000 is missing a lot of stuff but not this. Use the MFD to create/edit the flight plan and activate whatever leg you want. Just did it midflight:

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No way! If this is true then epic.
It definitely does not work if you let msfs load the flight plan automatically - tried earlier today and editing the flight plan enroute created the whole user waypoint mess where it tries to fly backwards.

So this works but only if you load an empty flight and manually enter the plan?

Do loading approaches work this way too? Because if you load or change an approach enroute it also screws it up (when letting msfs load the plan into the fms )

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It works with a flight plan as well. This one was created in the World Map. Watch some G1000 instructional videos (real ones) there’s a lot to learn, even if the virtual one is lacking some functionality.

I’m praying for a new set of Garmin keybinds that we can assign to hardware, it’s so painful to use the knobs with a mouse.

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I fly it in xplane ,
I would usually select the leg, hit menu, and then activate.

Is this how it is working for you? When I tried this I couldn’t get it to work. If I edit the flight plan mid flight (deleting a leg) it absolutely screws up everything though. I have only started flights through the world map , allowing msfs to have the GPS prepared.

U figured out how to load different approaches? Once I receive my approach from pilot2atc , which may be different from the original plan, I load an approach in the g1000 (not activate) it completely fudges up the plan

I am loading simbrief plans into msfs if that is a potential problem… dunno

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I am struggling to see the relevance of this thread and tying it in to why these forums exist.

I am closing this thread for now and I would invite the OP to send a message to @moderators if there is a wish for the thread to be re-opened, together with clear reasons as to how and why it fits in with the purpose of these forums as advertised in the Forum Welcome post and the Code of Conduct.

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