Call me an old timer but I’ve been using MSFS since Flight simulator 2, in the eighties. I remember buying “scenery disks” (floppy disks) and manually switching over those when approaching a new scenery region…. Back then, in my early teens, I could not possibly imagine that one day,MSFS would reach the level of what it is today. Cities were just coloured polygons and airports were just black runways.
This version of the simulator may be the most complex game if you can call it a game, that exists today. It replicates the world, the weather, the light, the physics, the aircraft and all those aircraft systems, computers, electrical, engines and much more. With humans still mostly doing this the “artisan” way, it is still normal that among the limitless numbers of functions/combinations that exist in this application, bugs still persist. It would also become even more complex and not commercially viable to test all, on all existing PC combinations possible (that’s why I’m on XBOX, I don’t miss the PC). And then factor in the thousands of add-ons…. It’s just never ending…
So to this day, the users are the true testers for the game and that’s still the only way to get this running, otherwise we would have waited years and the cost of the application would have been much, much higher than the cost of a nice dinner in a restaurant. I believe that AI will be able to do some of the testing in the future and will also be able to help avoid regression. Soon, the platform will become even better and next iterations will be outstanding.
I’ve been using MSFS with the new update for a few hours. It’s stable and smooth. Thinking that one can run this on a few hundred dollars console is incredible. In my opinion, I think that the simulator is now the best it’s ever been. I would like to congratulate the team for this achievement and I can’t wait to see what’s next. Thumbs up!
I have contacted JF and many others are having the same problem with the PA38. Also, the plane is normally streamed, I downloaded and tried to install it but it showed the download failed. Looking at the JF forums there was problems noted in SU4 beta but they were going to wait until the final update was published.
I am still not a fan of clearing my entire WASM folders to get the starting page to work. Asobo should automatically do this for future SUs. For now, me doing this manually after every update should suffice.
I really enjoyed the performance boost of SU4. No crashes during flights and I get a stable 80-85 fps on a mid-high PC build with FG turned on. Very appreciable indeed.
The graphics of certain locations and night time look absolutely incredible with SU4. Definitely a major feature I enjoy!
A bit disappointed on the state of certain aircraft. Asobo 737 Max 8 is improved to a ‘flyable‘ simulator but still need work. Here is my feedback on it on SU4 is in this page: Default 737 max issues - #14 by BattleAxeMaster . The A320neo have many FMC bugs that need to be fixed too. It was great on release but certainly regressed after SU3 and has not been fixed!
Overall, a very very good release and I will definitely enjoy my winter holidays with this release build of MSFS2024.
Not sure if its been mentioned but flying around the Caribbean , there are black lines still in a box/rectangular shape looking down at the sea from external and sometimes internal view even bleeding through the clouds.
Anyone else notice this in any other places in SU4
It exists in every ocean although the Caribbean is probably the worst for it and it has existed since the beginning with FS24. The issue is the way it stitches tiles together where any difference in height at the join is super-obvious. Pretty sure it’s on their list of things for SU5
Unfortunately for me it’s one big stuttre fest and unusable. Also wind vanes when, obviously, turned off (who was even thinking of this to be an asset to the game?!).
So uninstall now and when I feel like it to give it another try later.
Le jeux à un potentiel énorme mais malheureusement il y a énormément de bugs en mode carrière pour les hélicos.
H125 : Le son du démarrage n’est pas le bon. On entend pas la turbine et il met beaucoup trop de temps à démarrer.
H125 : Au démarrage de certaines missions, le couvercle du rotor est statique alors que les pales tournent.
H125 : Bruit de générateur lorsqu’on rentre dans l’hélico alors que tout est éteint.
H125 : Mission épandage, la com ne fonctionne pas avec mon joystick met fonctionne avec le bouton entrée. Ce n’est pas un problème de réglage de mon joystick puisqu’il fonctionne dans d’autres missions.
H125 : Manette des gaz (passage du mode flight au mode IDLE) ne peut pas être réglé sur mon joystick (PROFLIGHT TRAINER). Ce la fonction si je paramètre un bouton met pas avec ma manette pivotante.
H125 : Lorsque l’on coupe le moteur via (ENGSTART) il met énormément de temps à redescendre dans les tours.
H125 : Mission transport de fret ou certaines missions épandages, au début de mission, le plan de vol ne s’affiche pas sur la tablette. Du coup, la mission est infaisable.
H125 : Mission transport de frêt. Lorsque l’on passe le moment ou les membres de l’équipage embarque, au retour dans la cabine le moteur est complètement allumer sans action de notre part.
H125 : Mission transport de frêt. La mission nous oblige à d’abord décoller et monter assez haut avent de se présenter pour récupérer la marchandise. Ce n’est pas réaliste. De plus, a chaque fois, on doit récupérer la marchandise en plein milieu de la piste. Ce n’est pas réaliste. Dommage que le rétroviseur ne soit pas utilisable pour récupérer ou déposer le fret.
H125 : MISSION RECHERCHE ET SAUVETAGE. Dommage que l’on ne peut pas utiliser le treuil pour récupérer des personnes disparues en montagne. Dommage que l’on soit obligé de basculer en mode vue extérieur pour réaliser le treuillage. L’idéal serait d’être guidé par le mécanicien treuilliste comme dans la réalité ou au pire avoir un système sur la tablette de croix avec notre position à aligner au centre de centre croix.
Je tenais à dire que vous faite un super travail et que ca ne doit pas être évident de contenter tout le monde. J’ai acheter ce jeux essentiellement pour les hélicos. J’ai beaucoup d’attente sur les MAJ. Encore bravo à toute l’équipe. En espérant que vous prendrez en compte toutes mes remarques.
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Translated from fr by Microsoft
Hello
The game has a huge potential but unfortunately there are a lot of bugs in career mode for the helicopters.
H125: The startup sound is not the right one. You can’t hear the turbine and it takes way too long to start.
H125: At the start of some missions, the rotor cover is static while the blades rotate.
H125: Generator noise when entering the helicopter when everything is off.
H125: Spreading mission, the communication does not work with my joystick and works with the enter button. It’s not a problem with the adjustment of my joystick since it works in other missions.
H125: Throttle (switching from flight mode to IDLE mode) cannot be set on my joystick (PROFLIGHT TRAINER). This function if I set a button puts not with my swivel controller.
H125: When you turn off the engine via (ENGSTART) it takes a long time to go back down in revs.
H125: Cargo transport mission or certain spreading missions, at the beginning of the mission, the flight plan is not displayed on the tablet. As a result, the mission is unfeasible.
H125: Freight transport mission. When we pass the moment when the crew members board, on the return to the cabin the engine is completely ignited without any action on our part.
H125: Freight transport mission. The mission requires us to first take off and climb high enough before presenting ourselves to pick up the goods. This is not realistic. In addition, each time, the goods have to be picked up in the middle of the track. This is not realistic. It’s a shame that the rear-view mirror is not usable to collect or drop off freight.
H125: SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSION. It’s a pity that you can’t use the winch to recover people who have disappeared in the mountains. It’s a shame that you have to switch to exterior view mode to make the winching. The ideal would be to be guided by the winch-mechanic as in reality or at worst to have a system on the cross tablet with our position to be aligned in the center of the cross.
I wanted to say that you are doing a great job and that it must not be easy to please everyone. I bought this game mainly for helicopters. I have a lot of expectations on the updates. Congratulations again to the whole team. I hope that you will take into account all my remarks.
Since SU4 my problem for two days now; it doesn’t continue loading after 97%. I’ve spent hours trying almost every possible workaround: emptying the community folder, reinstalling, clearing all caches(incluced %localappdata%), deleting cloud storage, repairing the game or deleting data, enabling time sync in Windows, disabling background programs, and I couldn’t find the streamed package in the local state folder. None of these things help. Does anyone have any other ideas? It always ends with the “Loading unusually long” loop. I’m curious to see if there are any others currently experiencing this problem.
With SU3 I left the beta and yes I got the current release, but only after a 10GB reinstall and all my custom cameras going missing. I’m not taking any chances this time. So 1.6.31 it is until they upgrade me.
Not just Caribbean, I saw this around Greece too. It’s as bad as ever, those sea terrain black mesh ‘steps’. Really ugly, and as you say sometimes seen through the clouds too.
