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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate the Flight Model and Aircraft Systems?
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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate the Interior and Exterior Graphics?
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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate the Audio and Aircraft Sounds?
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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate your Overall Enjoyment of this aircraft?
This DC-3⌠has some things to be desired with the model.
It looks pretty good from far away and places you look at heaps such as the cockpit windows and cockpit interior, but up close, man is this thing a mess! None of the rivet textures form a straight line and are really janky, multiple areas are very low poly, such as the tail and especially the rudder, and a lot of the belly, and some parts are inaccurate such as the fairing shape where the wings attach to the fuselage.
Let me show you some of themâŚ
I left dc-3 (xbox 2024) full power with closed cowl flaps on the ground for long time, not a single problem. Nothing has been improved in this plane in terms of systems fidelity.
One way to check is to add a 2020 DC-3 livery to your 2024 system. If it works, then it hasnât been upgraded to 2024, and it will not have any 2024 features.
I would think, however, that whatever opening doors it had in 2020 should still work in 2024.
I donât have FS24 and at this rate Iâm seeing little reason to get it. The DC-3 is one of my favorite planes and if it didnât get the pre-flight/wear and tear features then I already can do everything in '2020.
This reminds me of Gran Turismo 5, where half the cars had interiors (i.e. full features), and the other half had a silhouette dashboard. MS/Asobo, how can you advertise features and then not have the features?
Ok, youâre confusing me. Nothing from 2024 is getting back ported to 2020 except for some aspects of scenery, so I donât understand your original question about confirming pre-flight and other features. The doors have always opened on the DC-3, and the plane is unchanged in 2020.
The LL and FF planes will be upgraded in 2024 in the future with more features, maybe. Being an AH plane, I doubt the DC-3 will get that stuff, but, thatâs an unfounded assumption.
From Day One, Jorg said the standard planes would have the 2024 features, and the LL and FF aircraft might be upgraded over time. Being 2020 planes, thereâs no guarantee they will be upgraded, and, personally, I think thatâs a reasonable business decision.
I do hate that Jorg suggested it would take developers 2 weeks of work to upgrade existing 2020 planes to 2024 status. That is completely false. The format of 2024 aircraft is pretty much completely different from 2020, and is still in development (2024 was released way too easy).
Iâm not sure whatâs so confusing. I never said anything about back porting or otherwise anything changing within '2020. I am asking about stated features in '24 because I donât yet have it, and so canât answer for myself.
I guess I forgot that statement about LL/FF planes âbeing upgraded post release only maybeâ - thatâs pretty weak. But, IIRC, the DC-3 is neither of those as it was added as part of the anniversary update, wasnât it? So I consider it a base-level plane. The more recent C-47 was released separately as a FF. This still smacks of Gran Turismo 5 and I find it simply unacceptable. I am very glad I did NOT buy FS24 at this point.
You are correct. It was added in the 40th and it is included in the Standard Edition of the sim.
I would have expected it to support the 2024 features. Iâve not, yet, bothered to check it out in 2024.
The thing is, systems fidelity (well, wear and tear) is a Career Mode thing and doesnât seem to exist outside of it. As I am observing, the DC-3 isnât available in Career Mode, so the point is moot, at this stage.
So, yeah. I just loaded 2024 and the DC-3 metal âclassicâ.
⢠Upon loading into the airport, my back is to the aircraft â classic 2020 aircraft compatibility issue
⢠No chocks, no protective covers
⢠One, yes one, interactive pre-flight object â the left aileron only
⢠I walked anti-clockwise 3/4 of the way around the aircraft and the sim crashed my video driver
Yeah, welcome to the 2024 experience. Itâs so much better than 2020.
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Thinking on this, what happened?
âHey, Aeroplane Heaven, weâre going to need you to update the DC-3 for 2024âs feature set.
âOkay.â
Months go by⌠release nears
âUh, I only got the left aileron working for pre-flight.â
âNo problem! We had so many pre-orders that we made our ROI objectives, so it doesnât even matter if it works or not, weâll just stick it in there.â
