Hi everyone,
I’m considering some world add ons for MSFS 2024 but only 2020 content is currently available in the marketplace. I did play 2020 on game pass and purchased a few planes but didn’t get any world content, so I have no way to judge how well 2020 add ons work in 2024. Does anyone have any experience with using 2020 add ons in 2024? Are the enhanced Photogrammetry and modelling pointless given the stock 2024 graphics? Or do the 2020 content still offer value?
I’m specifically looking at purchasing some of the following (so any thoughts on these specifically would be really helpful):
Zinertek - Enhanced Airport Graphics
Project Coastline - Enhanced Photogrammetry
Ironsim - England Historical Landmarks
Orbx - Great Britain North
Orbx - Great Britain Central
Orbx - Great Britain South
South Oak Co - Aurora Borealis: Northern Lights
South Oak Co - Traffic in Sight - British Isles
South Oak Co - Traffic in Sight - Europe West
South Oak Co - Traffic in Sight - Central USA
South Oak Co - Traffic in Sight - West USA
South Oak Co - Traffic in Sight - Northeast USA
South Oak Co - Traffic in Sight - Southeast USA
South Oak Co - FS Birds - British Isles
South Oak Co - FS Birds - Europe Central
South Oak Co - FS Birds - Europe West
South Oak Co - FS Birds - Europe North
South Oak Co - FS Birds - Northeast USA
South Oak Co - FS Birds - Central USA
South Oak Co - FS Birds - West USA
Sofly - Dinosaurs
Sofly - Animals
IndiaFoxTecho - USS America
So far I would consider the 2024 marketplace a work in progress. Some add ons do work, other have issues, sadly without a pattern. Safest way to know is to check with the developer, but several developers are explicitly delaying 2024 work given the state of the sim.
For example, the Maddog is in beta (quoted from the Maddog forums):
At this stage, we consider development and support for MSFS2024 to be experimental , due to the current state of the SDK and the simulator itself (which we still consider immature and containing bugs). For now, only the MD-82 variant is available .
Personally I understand developers. Troubleshooting an addon in a sim that has so many bugs should be a very difficult task.
There are a couple of threads in this forum that are tackling the Marketplace, like this one and 2020-2024 compatibility issues. I would suggest following the discussion there.
Best,
Seb
I have all the above in MS24 running.
Scott
Do they have any noticable effect? Is it worth buying these packages for 2024? Or do the improved default graphics of make these add ons pointless? Or even downgrade them? Also, if you have them all running…which would you say are the best? Any of them particularly worth getting or not getting?
Hi …(too long for me)
Everything from South Oak Co except Northern lights are “must haves” for me,
because I normally fly low and slow.And that is the main thing,nearly everything is only flying in low altitudes. Blimps,Balloons,Gliders,Paragliders etc.
The Orbx stuff, I have them installed, but not activated, also Zinertek Airport Gr.
I personally prefer REX Global Airport textures. The rest; Ironsim,SoFly and IndiaFoxTechno never reallly used them/saw them.
Project Coastline Enhanced Photogr. is very good.
Scott