Updated to latest beta , joined flight with other friend who were also on the latest release , myself and 1 other on pc and 1 on Xbox.
the issue i was having is that i couldn’t see any other person in sim on 2024 while the other 2 people in the same session could see each other and also see me.
i could only see them once they got out of there aircraft , but once back in i couldn’t see them or there aircraft.
before this update to beta i could see everyone else on the beta.
Yeah, this issue has been plaguing people since around the release of MSFS2024. It doesn’t seem to be a wide-spread thing, however, when it does happen to you it certainly is not fun. Especially if you’re someone who often wants to fly along with others.
I made a post on a separate bug report thread outlining steps my friend and I have tried to do to fix this issue. He, like you, has the same issue. We’ve chalked it up to being an issue on MS/Asobo’s end with only them being able to fix this.
Hope this resolves for you and the rest of the folks soon. Feel free to comment on the linked thread as well. The more people shining light on this issue the better.
yeah i had same issue on none beta version for months.
then on the last hotfix it fixed multiplayer for me and now i can see everyone. but like you tried everything
these are the things they had me doing to try to solve issue originally
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none worked for me , but if you havent tried any of these it might be worth it.
Ugh, frustrating, isn’t it?! I’m part of a small group that was eager to move our little group flights from 2020 to 2024. However, after one or two 2024 flights this issue pops up. We had to ditch 2024 and go back to 2020 just so we can include everyone in our group and not leave people out!
Yeah, we also tried those network troubleshooting steps to no avail.
Yeah we fly regularly as a group of between 3 and upto 8 players on a good day , and with all the issues 2024 has we’ve not been able to get a full group flight together.
Most nights 3 of us fly and usually it’s ok.
When I had issues of not seeing other people in multiplayer on pc at least I was lucky enough to have Xbox series x to use and on that I could see everyone online and fly fine.
The game has it’s faults big time but overall I can’t complain , it looks fantastic on my midrange gaming laptop and plays fine.
And usually once we’re all in flight in SIM we don’t usually have any major problems , might have a few bits of odd behaviour but nothing major.
From my own point of view it should have been a paid beta release this game rather than a supposedly finished product , but it is what it is and MsFs 2020 took a while to be playable properly.
Hopefully once SU1 is sorted out and released we can all fly without too many more issues.
So something may have happened recently, because now my friend is able to see everyone. Not to project any false hope or anything, but maybe something changed on the backend.
I think I’ve hardly ever seen any MP aircraft since playing MSFS '24, and this goes for both the public and beta build. My NAT is Open and I’m packing 200+ Mbps on average, fiber.
In MSFS '20, however, they are all around me, and often at times, we’d just do formation flying and stunts too for no apparent reason at all! Most fun I’ve had in any MP game to date.
have to tried with doing pre-set on flight conditions ?
ie
set time a few min before live
turn AI traffic off
and set final to see all players
then do your weather in there too.
all of you in the group will have to have the same settings for this to work.
also there is a 5 NM range on seeing other aircraft in sim atm.
we found by doing this procedure once the main issue had been fixed somehow we could then see each other in multiplayer.
hope this helps if you haven’t tried this . if you have then its a waiting game again and hopefully SU1 will sort SOME of these issues out.
(but then prob bring more lol)