I think he means the walkaround - before hopping aboard
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Ah yes, that makes more sense. I have my Xbox controller plugged into my PC for this very thing. Works well.
Meh, VR is all I want to do 
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Pretty sure they do. I doubt Asobo wanted to release the sim in this state, this is a decision made higher up in the Microsoft management where the flightsim community doesnāt bother anyone except for their wallets. They pushed the sim out no matter what and straight out lied to media about its state ā the fly event in summer or fall or whenever it was. Now we have a sim that kind of works and can be used, although in a very limited way and with many of its advertised features being completely broken or not even available at all.
The āproblemā is that the developers who can actually DO something about it are based in France where the employees have very strict rights, no holiday can be cancelled after being granted just because the management made errors and the community is upset and the employees would just shrug their shoulders if they were asked to come to work except maybe for a massive extra payment. Neither Microsoft nor Asobo will be ruined due to this bad release, itās only a PR disaster in a relatively small game niche for MS, nothing too serious to bother about. They do know very well that once Asobo is back at work and the fixes and additions come out the mood will get better and people will be back to praise the sim.
It IS a good sim after all, the things that DO actually work are really great, Iāve been flying GA outside of the main server hours with FSEconomy and I havenāt had any issues that would have kept me from flying. Taildraggers around me park on their main wheels only, sailplanes are parked at allmost every international gate hovering 1m in the air etc but the sim itself, me flying my community folder airplanes, works absolutely fine and looks beautiful. The OVERALL sim is simply not ready for release and would probably have required another year of work. Let that year pass and the sim will work really well, Iām quite sure about that. From what I know MSFS2020 started the same except they were smarter with the release date in August.
A little off topic, but what really REALLY upsets and totally annoys me is that MS simply turned my 600ā¬ Reverb G2 into hot garbage. I had to reinstall my PC in summer as my mainboard broke and now Iām stuck with Win 11 24H2 that has no WMR support anymore, my VR headset simply doesnāt work anymore. THAT is a thing for which I would love to make MS managers personally accountable.. But I canāt do anything but buy a new one for a thousand + Euros. That sim will matureā¦ the hardware roundhouse kick really hurts though.
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Does Interaction work too ? Cause binding INTERACT on anything but the mouse, indlucing a game controller doesnt seem to do anything for me.
Random observation:
When you set up a flight in the 2024 world mape 8 out of 10 times the flight time and distance doesnt work, it only shows zeros.
But click on the cog wheel to access the settings menu and then immediately go back to the world map and the flight time and distance show up as they should.
Go figure.
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I can certainly look around with the mouse.
As for interaction with the controller; Iāve only ever used it for walking around the world. I can remove tags and open doors and check flap movement with my controller.
Are you on X Box or PC? The last time I checked, Freelook with mouse on X Box didnāt work (could not be used as it was too erratic)
On a different note: I tried setting up some of my own controls like moving about the cockpit but they flat out wouldnāt work and I wonder now if it may be that it was because there was a primary control already. Maybe secondary controls donāt work? (an untested hypothesis)
a random observation (as above - I like that): On the main menu on X Box with controller, mouse and keyboard; if you mouseover the settings icon, the mouse becomes unable to be used to select anything else on screen (like Free Flight) until you hit the āBā key on the controller. If you do anything else with the controller you have to press the right stick and then the mouse will work as it did before.
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That is so weirdā¦ I can not interact with any of the things in walkaround mode. Cant pull out flags, cant remove chokes or engine cover. Nothing. It only works on the mouseā¦
ā¦ unless INTERACT does not do that. What exactly is the keybinding you assigned to your controller to do these things ? Is it not INTERACT ?
MSFS 2024 is really starting to get infuriating! We all understand that most of the Asobo team is in France, and France has strict rules on vacations and whatnot. We all understand that it was the holidays, and the teams deserve time off, but the state of the sim is not okay. Many of us spent various amounts of money on MSFS 2024, and to be quite honest, it doesnāt come close to meeting expectations at all. We all expected more.
Career mode, which was a major selling point, is in terrible shape. Here are some examples:
ā¢ There are times when you canāt press enter/return to respond to ATC or announce anything. No matter how many times enter/return is pushed, there is NOTHING. Then we get penalized for not following rules.
ā¢ AI voices and dialogue are atrocious, you know?
ā¢ Random unexpected error that kicks us back to headquarters.
ā¢ Random floating planes on the tarmac.
ā¢ Random people walking aimlessly on the tarmac.
ā¢ hold short positions randomly move after landing causing a penalty for taxing without announcement.
ā¢ EFB not working with the instruments to plan out routes
ā¢ Cargo mission are constantly having us land at random small airports/airfields in the boonies. Rarely, if ever, do we get to go to actual airports.
ā¢ ATC as an entires system is terrible.
ā¢ Lights donāt work
ā¢ No night missions
ā¢ Various issues with the G1000
ā¢ Turbulence is still all out of wack.
ā¢ Photogrammetry is really bad in many locations. I fly in Los Angeles and there are tons of locations that look terrible. At 3,000 MSL, the city shouldnāt look like it got nuked.
ā¢ Outdated Bing data. (Iām sorry by its B.S. that we have such outdated data in a 2024 piece of software).
ā¢ passenger walking of sitting outside plane.
This is barely scratching the surface, and all I could think of while drinking my morning coffee. But hey, we get 4 free planes as an apology! We need this sim to get patched ASAP. There is no excuse for the state of the sim, especially career mode, which was the flagship mode that was advertised! Asobo NEEDS to communicate with us all this week. Holidays are over; they need to get to work and patch this slop of a sim. Communication NEEDS to improve with a proper roadmap so that us unpaid alpha/beta testers can have something to look forward to.
People saying itāll get better, Iām sure it will; however, we shouldāve never been put in this situation. Minor bugs, sure, but what we have now is an unfinished product that we paid to beta test. This is not okay. We need more than 4 free planes. How about credits and XP for all the times many of us crashed into invisible walls when taxing or getting penalized for not announcing our taxing because the return key is unresponsive or hitting a freakin tree in the middle of a paved taxiway! Asobo, do better!
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As per my reply below to mbraortns, I use a mixture of mouse, yoke and controller to play the game.
When I plugged my controller in after installing FS24 I did not need to assign any functions to it, I kept whatever the default was. As mentioned I only use the controller to walk around the aircraft, remove the tags etc and to explore the world on foot.
According to my settings under controller INTERACT is bound to the A key on the controller.
I am on PC (Steam). I use a Logitech yoke and throttle quadrant to fly the aircraft, the mouse to operate the switches etc, and the Xbox controller to move around outside (FS24) and to fly the drone (FS20 - no longer installed)
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Why? As reward for delivering a broken product to their employer who in turn sold us a broken product?
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Because theyāre human beings that work and have lives outside of work. Iām not happy with the state of the sim, clearly, but at the end of thev day, they have families and need to refresh. Hopefully, this time off allows them to realign their focus so that the broken sim can be fixed.
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yes people deserve time off. For god sake this is a simulation / game, not a crew responsible for peopleās life. And even during covid, doctors and nurses had to take time off, there are humans after all.
Stopping now as this is getting off topic, but please people get off your virtual plane and come back to earth
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Iām not even remotely interested in more planes. MSFS 2024 already shipped with far too many half baked creations. I would expect at the very least the same experience as its predecessor, instead it is hard to believe FS2024 is even based on FS2020. And who designed the UI? Itās horrible.
Gave the career mode a try, the promise from one of the designers that everything you want to have unlocked can be unlocked in a weekend is bogus. It quickly becomes repetitive and a drag to collect points for the next certification and itās not realistic at all. Last flight I did I couldnāt set parking brake after an hour long mission, because, well, the R66 doesnāt have one 
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Itās not a good use of anyones time. I regularly hover the mouse over FS2024 and then think, why? And do something else instead. Some weeks ago I did open FS2024, while in the main menu thought, what am I actually doing here? Then closed. That was 2 weeks ago, I donāt have the motivation to be a beta tester AGAIN.
Would be interesting to see the FS2020 versus FS2024 statistics now, I bet a lot of people went back to FS2020. But lessons learned this time, no more pre-orders. MSobo is not getting my money. Iāll get FS2028 by the time FS2032 is around the corner.
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So it IS the INTRACT keybind then. Huh.
Thank you.
I guess this chart speaks for itself:
1 month:
From release up to now:
Where FS2020 (blue) and 2024 (green) users (on Steam) were mostly equal in beginning of December, it starts to split further and further. Doesnāt look goodā¦
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I am absolutely frustrated with the MS/ Asobo team who cant get their ā ā ā ā straight. I really feel the last update to FS2020 [ in the last half of 2024], and the same coding in FS 2024, has introduced a memory leak .
It is unplayable for me and many other simmers because of random CTDās , For me its a CTD at every single load-in.
I feel this CTD started with the last upate in FS2020. I have played it for 4 yrs and never had as many random CTDās as i did with FS2020 in the last few months on the year. To the point that FS2020 was un playable , and i was looking forward to the ā Betterā sim, FS2024.
Well, same horrible coding issue seems to have happened with FS2024 and 100% worse now, CTD;s every time, completely random, and inevitably its the 0xc00005 [ out of memory] code in event viewer.
I cannot explain enough my frustration/ anger and bitter disappointment at Asobo. All they want to do is make amazing videos [like they did for 2024] / Over promise and under -deliver.
The only thing that works well in FS2024 is the opening video; thats it. after that, its a ā ā ā ā show. random CTD;s, within seconds of hitting FLY NOW. some just in the menu.
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Why Tuesday ? Monday, it will be Monday.
Tuesday, indeed, if we take into account coffee, emails and colleagues 
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What frustrates me the most is that the default atc in 24 is still poor, the model matching is still poor, the pop in is poor and so on. Things we thought would be much improved in 24 just are not.
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