I’ve found that to be the case as well. I’m curious about the sales of the larger items over the last few months with MSFS 2024 coming soon to a platform near you. I know that they’ve said that current 2020 mods should be compatible with 2024, and I don’t doubt that. My concern is that while they might be compatible they might not work very well, and I’m sure there are some developers out there who have moved on to other projects and won’t want to revise their code. So I’m gonna just hang in there for a few more months and use freeware until we see what 2024 brings us.
It’s perfectly fine as a fun freeware product, but releasing as a payware on a curated marketplace just takes away time and resources from all parties involved, in my opinion. I wish there was an open, freeware section on the marketplace where developers could upload whatever without the same testing and certification process. Things like this would fit there perfectly. This car flies by the way, judging by some videos I’ve seen.
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The thing is, with 2024 even though your add ons will transfer over, what will become obsolete? We’ve already seen shots of deformable balloons and dozens of animals, and ship traffic and some known payware aircraft going right into the next game. Other things like modeled fabric aircraft skins and weather and smoke effects… You’re talking an order of magnitude increase in power. I already have over 100 paid add-ons, I’m waiting it out. For all we know default aircraft may have flexible airframes, and one would imagine scenery has also been enhanced. You can’t buy a working fire fighting aircraft or a fire.
So freeware bush strips and flight model mods aplenty for now. Heck just this week I dusted off the DR400 with a new FM, tablet, and a new ASI in knots and it’s keeping me busy. And deejings RV 4 is one heck of a fun aircraft with no payware peer. And nearly a dozen new versions of the 172. And all you have to do is add another exe to addon linker. Some of the upcoming default aircraft may be more sophisticated than anything available now.
Topgun f18 and challenges I think i copy it to my community folder and drive as backup copy so i can put it back if needed, but not sure if this will work won’t hurt to try
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That’s inevitable, depending on what you bought. I don’t have an issue with it. When I switched from X-Plane to MSFS, did I lose anything? No, I still have my sim, and addons.
But some will still make the argument that they don’t want 2024 as they spent a lot of money on 2020. Fine, just don’t buy 2024.
They have already stated they will support both sims, but I’m not certain how long that would continue. At some point in the future they may decided it is not economical to support both sims, especially as 2024 develops.
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ah darn, had in my calendar the dev live stream was today. Just noted in the blog post that it was delayed to next week
I’m going to try this. I think I’ve found all the Maverick content is in folders under the Official content folder root (i.e. on steam “Microsoft Flight Simulator\Official\Steam”)
Basically, any folder under here with MRK in the name.
There are also a few other folders:
Any that start with (there are a few):
asobo-lowalt-
Finally you also want this folder that has the super sonic cross country mission in the Darkstar:
asobo-mission-dsr
I will install MSFS on my old PC in the next 2 weeks. At that point I’ll download only the Maverick content and see what changes on the PC keeping attention to the game’s steam workshop folders just in case. Otherwise I hope this is all of it.
AT that point we can back it up and see what happens if you just drop the files in place. I’m concerned there are other manifest files but the community folder autoscans so I hope the same is for the official folder.