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Hi all! You’ll notice in the Native 2024 addon table a new column labeled Career. A check in this column indicates that the addon is, at least in some part, compatible with Career Mode.
Per a convo here, I’ve marked the following addons compatible:
Please note that I am confirming these in SU2. Beta users may see less (or more) compatiblity listed. Notably, the Hiller and Yak-18T are not appearing as compatible to at least one user on the SU3 beta. Hopefully this will be ironed out, but I will use the live build of the sim as the basis for this new column for now.
EDIT: A note about career mode compatibility: 2 of the addons are compatible with Ferry Flight, but I have never seen a single mission generated for one of them (the Shark 600) so be advised there might be an issue. I do see other Ferry Flight offerings, but the Shark 600 is not even on the filter list. Not sure about the S.205 because I don’t own it.
For those of you who haven’t heard from the livestream, SU2 came with new documentation and tooling to help developers make their addons compatible (yay!) but they have to be Marketplace addons to work (boo!) so we should hopefully start to see more career mode compatibility emerge in the coming months for MP addons.
<rant>Jorg et al, if you’re reading this (he’s totally not, but I may ask about this in the next livestream), it’d be cool if I could pay a fee to “port” my license to the Marketplace. Essentially validate my original purchase somehow and fork over a few bucks to MS to unlock the Marketplace version. Without this, only the original dev and store made money on the purchase, and I can’t use it in Career mode if it’s made compatible. With this, Microsoft also gets a kickback! The alternative of hoping people fully re-buy addons in the Marketplace is probably fairly unlikely</rant>
I can confirm that the Yak-18T already worked for ferry missions pre- and on-SU2.
The Hiller is now “working” in career, according to this bug report: No Missions for MSFS2024 Nemeth Designs Hiller UH-12B - #5 by RoughLandings
As for your request for marketplace addons, it would be probably easier to take an approach similar to other stores like Steam or GoG, where the developer can generate a key that you can activate inside the store.
I really, really doubt that they’ll take this, or any, approach. The marketplace doesn’t use “real” money on purchases and doesn’t even report the product you’ve bought (on the receipt), probably for “legal” reasons related to gaming monetization, ownership, taxes and other legislation, in several countries.
These days, according to corporations, you don’t own anything 
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FYI, the Spartan 7W now supports career mode (ferry flight).
I’ve been very busy with work lately, but here are some updates from the past week!
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Was there an update I’m not aware of? I tried the Complete Package New (the overhaul from a while back) from Orbx Central on the weekend and it had the same result as before: the CPU cooling went into leaf blower mode as soon as I selected the Kitfox and it would never finish loading the model or flight.
I’m not sure when they were originally stated to be compatible, but added them based on their recent Marketplace inclusion. I’m also not sure if they’ve been updated between those two events, unfortunately.
At least in SU3 beta, it’s not listed as compatible with Career mode. This might be a Beta issue though, hopefully it’ll return to being compatible.
For the FreedomFox/Fox2, what’s written in the //42 site is :“2024 COMPATIBLE version will be made available”…
I had CTD with the one bought on Orbx and it has not received any update since then.
I’ve disabled it and wait for the Patriot.
Ah ok, this happened in the SU2 beta with a few aircraft as well, hopefully they’ll fix it before SU3 release.
For ease of management, I have updated the original post to have a single table, sorted by developer as before but with Native addons first. I’ve also rearranged the columns a bit and added a blurb explaining the purpose of the columns.
Also:
Actually I’d consider the JF Tomahawk as 2024 native now, because they’ve added the 2024 LOD’s to improve performance (and two discrete references to the 2024 SDK in the release notes), and have separate 2020 and 2024 downloads now.
Additionally as I look at the release notes for the JF Tommy it does say “upgraded to a MSFS 2024 native package”.
Thank you! I will update it to Native and will look to see if the same is true for their Arrows/Warrior.
| Action | Addon | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Addition | LVFR Airbus A340-300 | Native. Career compatible: Heavy Airliner Rating + Passenger Transport - Airline + 130,000,000 Cr. |
| Addition | Captain Sim Boeing 777-200ER GE | Native. |
| Addition | MScenery KC-135 Stratotanker, BK 117, X-47B, F-22 Raptor, JF-17 Thunder, FC-31, Mi-24, MiG-35, MiG-29SMT, RC-135 | Native. |
Added the iFly 737 MAX8 to Compatible - note that they call their FS2024 support “experimental” so be sure to read the product page to understand what that means.
