I will post a more detailed version of this at some point, but for now all I can say is:
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The sheer number of bugs and glitches this sim has is almost too many to know where to start reporting. I feel like I couldnāt keep up with reporting the glitches because new ones come up faster than I can type a report up for the last one.
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The user interface in fs2020 was bad, but fs2024ās user interface/gui is just on another level of awkward, slow, clunky, janky, inefficient, outdated, sloppy, and really really glitchy, I mean the sliders on half the settings donāt even work properly, the numbers glitch out when you move it, and if you move it to the far right side, it ignores it and goes back to where it was before. Every time I bloody open the camera settings in flight, it AUTOMATICALLY puts me in cockpit for no reason, even if I was in drone or external view. If Iām in home cockpit mode, unlikely in fs2020, I canāt switch views, EXCEPT if I open the camera settings manually and click the external view box. I canāt press the camera switch view button to get back to the cockpit view. Scroll bar often decides to stop working too in most menus.
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Iāve never seen such an improvement in graphics and appearance in gaming thatās at the same time failed so miserably to do itself justice. It nearly couldnāt be possible to have done such a poor job at utilizing the improved graphical features/resolution/detail.
The clouds donāt even look that much better, the lighting is a bit better, but itās not night and day difference at all, the clouds still look like puffy pixelated blobby cotton wool and thereās still loads of film grain stuff going on thatās super obvious.
Trees, while theyāre good resolution, they are very repetitive, and inaccurate, and unlike fs2020 where there were far too many tall trees in areas where it was inappropriate, now there are FAR too many medium sized round trees, and far too few tall thin or triangular conifer-type trees. Trees also have some strange colours that donāt fit in very well in many places. Also tree placement is very hit and miss, Iāve found several dozen forests already with virtually no trees covering them, or just a few shrubs instead. Trees are also too straight, and way too many trees are the same size and height and thickness, there needs to be more variation. Seasons are also very weird, like they donāt evolve like seasons really do in real life, they suddenly change, they change at the wrong times of the year, and then in winter, thereās like some areas that donāt seem to lose leaves at all, even though theyāre not evergreen trees. It would be good to see treeās leaning over, or fallen over, or branches on the floor, and just varied tree sizes and thickness to create realistic look. Also a major flaw in the treeās Iāve noticed is because of the lack of branches on the bottom 1-4meters of the trees, and the invariability of this across all trees, you can see through miles of forest when youāre at eye height, it looks stupid and weird and really unnatural to see such a straight line of light under a dense forest. There are also far too many trees in cities and streets.
Cars look like absolute ā ā ā ā , and behave even more erratically than in fs2020, stacking inside each other, crashing into each other at, EVERY, EVERY SINGLE intersection and roundabout, not just some odd mistakes. The headlights glitch at night with square boxes showing around the edge of the lit area in front of them, and the street lamps flicker randomly like some storm hit a power station or something! Lots of cars also appear to be frozen randomly which is odd. Cars are often going up and down cul-de-sacs at 50mph going endlessly back and forth sometimes in an area 5 meters long, its just ridiculous.
Buildings, especially photogrammetry, OH MY GOODNESS, I thought fs2020 photogrammetry up close looked a bit dark and weird, but in fs2024, whole buildings have been turned into cliffs and massive 100meter tall and wide rocks. And in some places Iāve noticed weirdly, photogrammetry has been removed for just one block, and replaced with an autogen building that looks 10x worse than the photogrammetry.
Autogen is still just absolutely stupid looking, and I;'ve found some weird stuff in 2024 I never found in 2020. Like houses with absolutely ginormous roofs for no reason, tons of houses without doors, houses inside other houses, back to front houses, schools that are assumed to be shopping malls!!! like wtf! Shops that have 2meters of nothing at the first bit, the windows and doors are like 2m above the groundā¦ weird looking churches that donāt seem to look like even a generic church would look, whole cities where not a single two story buildingcan be found, but in real life that city has virtually no 1 story housesā¦ how could it be soo inaccurate?
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Audio/sound design/spatial sound design - Fs2020 was ā ā ā ā in this regards, doppler effect was rubbish, reverb or spatial simulation was rubbish sounding and transitions were horribly abrupt and weird and obvious (from close sounds, to far sounds), planes were FAR too quiet, or FAR too loud, and there was a horrible distorted super low rumble almost all the time. FS2024 isnāt much better, except the rumble seems to have reduced. In the case of some planes, thereās virtually no volume at all, the planes only make a tiny empty boring whizzing sound when they go close to you. Thereās no obvious doppler effect except that when a plane passes by, it goes down in pitch, and itās really quite boring and low effort IMO.
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Accuracy/quality of the default aircraft seems very inconsistent. A400M from my experience so far is not very powerful or maneuverable compared to real life. For some reason the 737 is very weird on the stick, it moves very abruptly with TINY TINY TINY movements, and then weakly with further movements.
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Performance, Im using a 3070 and I canāt see much difference from using the frame generation, and even if I do, the game still stutters so who cares if I get extra frames? Stuttering is more annoying than low smooth frame rate.
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Crashing - A Lot of crashes.
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Online functionality/Streaming - Multiplayer is basically a toss of a coin, whether it works or not, or shows players or not. Also AI traffic too, and realtime traffic, in fact Iāve barely seen a single plane from the traffic. Player labels donāt seem to show. Sometimes because of the streaming, my aircraft will judder and move suddenly around in location, which is very annoying obviously.
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Loading times are like 5minutes for me every time. Thatās longer than fs2020.
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Drone camera is as broken as it was in fs2020.
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Replay mode is so bad and low resolution and shoddy it may as well not work at all.
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Freelook, as it was in fs2020, is still really janky and weird to use, you canāt move small increments, you canāt move linearly, it seems to want to slow you down in certain areas and speed you up in others, its really weird, I donāt get why it cant just be like Minecraft or something, where you just move the mouse, and the view position changes, and thatās it.
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Slew mode doesnāt work. When you place the aircraft on a taxiway or runway, it just flies off at 400mph when you get out of slew modeā¦ In 90% of cases, so when you try it 10 times, eventually it worksā¦ And slew mode is just really weird to use anyway, and it always was. SOOO hard to control the rotate slew for example, it just rotates like 40 degrees with one slight tap on the keyboard.
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Some planes have taken to sliding off the runway sideways when I slow down after landing, without even windā¦ Just slide sideways? What? And similarly, when taking off, some planes have just decided to turn all the way left or right for no reason, and in such a way that even if I was banking full left the whole time, would be impossible.
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Aerodynamic physics fo paragliding is absolutely crazy, I donāt even know what else to say, it just makes no sense.
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For some reason the A400M (at least, I havenāt tried all planes yet) engineās cant be controlled by keyboard in the same accuracy as other planes, each time you press throttle up, or kinda jumps like 15% and it takes ages to respond.
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Some of the default cockpit views for factory aircraft are set off center, so clearly someone didnāt take the time to get that right, which is just ā¦ disappointing and shows a lack of effort or attention to detail, like many of the other points do as well.
I could go on for a while but I donāt want to get into full detail as I donāt have time anyway.
Unfinished, rushed, lazy, awkward, lacking attention to detail, clumsy, sloppy, unpredictable, unstable and unreliable are just a few words that donāt come close to being able to capture the experience of this āāsimulatorāā.
