Ai traffic at any airport will show up at gates etc but the ones taxiing and flying will only land OR takeoff, not both. Often there will be the one runway occupying one runway and the others being completely empty, really kills emersion.
I dont so much care anymore about emulating real flights in real time but rather just seeing some kind of reliable AI traffic system, thats all I want.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
All the time now in SU4
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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Could you elaborate on this issue ?
Do you mean that you are seeing only traffic landing or taking off if you switch of airport ?
Could you provide airports where you are seeing this issue ? (one with just takeoff and one with just landing aircraft)
Any chance to post a video ?
What I mean by this is that I will only ever see the AI aircraft landing at the airport and none taking off. Then in a new session the AI aircraft will be only taking off from an airport and there be none landing.
With Heathrow airport each runway is assigned for takeoff or landing aircraft. As you can see in the attached image runway 27L was the only runway which had active traffic landing on it and taxiing to the gate. Runway 27R had no aircraft on it or holding or taxiing to.
In other airports with more than 2 runways, only one runway was in use for aircraft taking off and there were no landing aircraft. In another session they were only landing (on a different runway) and taking off but all other runways were disused unlike real life.
Very interesting, in that case I’m assuming then that this is an issue where the “live traffic” is not live at all and is purely just AI traffic, in that case it’s falsey advertised as yes, there are aircraft that show up on the EFB that are not on the ground
Just tried using AI traffic and can confirm that there is only static aircraft at the gate and no aircraft taxiing, taking off, landing or flying around.
Here my settings regarding aircraft traffic and parked aircraft
That leads me to believe that the AI traffic function is inoperable on Xbox and the Live traffic function just uses AI traffic for some reason. If this is the case then I’ll change the bug report to that/submit a new one
My theory is that the amount of live traffic displayed on Xbox is being throttled to maintain a certain level of performance. The EFB shows the live traffic currently available but I’ve rarely seen anywhere near that amount of live traffic actually displayed.
I fly helicopters around many large airports like KLAX, KDFW and EGLL as well as the NYC area. I do see a/c landing and taking off during the same session though.
Just tested at EHAM and can see traffic taking off & landing. I am under ms-store but not sure if the fact to be under Xbox could be the reason why you are seeing just landings or takeoffs and not both.
Title updated with “Live” instead of “AI” to reflect traffic type used in the reproduction steps.
Settings are treated entirely differently for Xbox, I’m assuming the new settings for AI aircraft, seen in the previous post, will effect how many aircraft are rendered and I’m assuming this just replaces live traffic with AI traffic. In which case I would replace the topic to be that live traffic has now been replaced by AI traffic on Xbox
Not sure about that. Some settings exist for PC but not for consoles that is a difference I am seeing but for the ones that are shared between platforms I don’t know how to determine if the impact of changing a setting would be different.
By “new settings for AI aircraft” are you referring to those 2 options ?:
Those settings are for Live and AI offline traffic.
If you select AI offline:
there is no traffic at all, seems to be an issue. A report exists but has been closed (AI OFFLINE traffic disabled, trafficAircraft.bgl is empty). So Live traffic cannot be replaced by an AI traffic and even if AI offline traffic was working I don’t think that if Live traffic is enabled there is a logic to replace some of the aircraft by AI traffic. If you can demonstrate it then yes it should be treated as a bug (IMO), separate from this report.
To go back on your original issue, it would be interesting to get some feedback from others Xbox (or PS5) users.
The difference between Xbox and PC is that the settings on Xbox are limited to just medium. From what Im seeing here on Xbox in SU4, the live traffic option produces AI traffic and the AI traffic option disables traffic entirely
