I never thought I’d see the day, but vFlyteAir, one of my favorite devs from “across the pond” in X-Plane has made their way over to MSFS. I’m curious to see how this Twinkie stacks up against the Shrike Simulations version, and how it looks and performs for an MSFS debut.
I likely won’t pick this up for a while as I’m saving up for FS2024, but if anyone else buys it, please report in with your thoughts!
Personal thoughts from the listing: I may be looking back at them with rose-colored glasses, because the modeling and texture work both look a bit questionable in the screenshots. Lots of sharp angles such as on the engine nacelles, the exterior textures don’t appear to be PBR, and some of the interior textures such as the yokes appear stretched and otherwise just very “flat” feeling. Still curious how she flies and sounds!
I’ve not heard of this developer before, but I have to say if they have these other great subjects, why oh why did they choose to bring yet another Piper PA, and the same as one that is already available?! It is pretty expensive too! And yeah some of that modelling looks a bit low indeed. Hmmm.
I would need to see some videos of this, the images I’ve seen so far are quite small and I can’t really figure out the quality of the plane.
A strange way of entering the waters in the MSFS world by vFlyteAir with a GA plane that is already available at a high price and with 2024 just around the corner bringing about a zillion new GA planes.
Oh it’s rough. I don’t have it but watched someone flying it and it needs help in so many areas. The textures are questionable and the sounds are terrible. The flight model needs help here and there. The engines don’t behave like they should. I won’t be getting it. To be clear, the video above says it’s a “new devoloper” over and over but they’re not. They’ve been around forever in xplane and are only new to MSFS.
Yeah this looks and sounds like a $9.99 addon at best. It doesn’t appear to meaningfully compete with the Shrike version which isn’t even meant to be high fidelity. I hope they are able to improve it, but it’s not a promising start.
That is a not so great simulation of a TwinCo and frankly an unbearable failure of a review.
Write a script, think about what points you want to bring across and do a dry run in before wasting everyone’s time with a ton of stuttering about.
Though I’m never sure what exactly that means. From the description this appears to be the 2020 version recompiled with the 2024 SDK. There appears to be no little-to-no 2024-specific functionality, but I don’t own it so may be wrong.
I thought the soundset was one of the best aspects of this. Done by SimAcoustics, using recordings from a PA-30 as I understand it. Can’t please everyone! The original version did have very bad sounds, so unless something went terribly wrong and the updated sound pack didn’t make it onto the Marketplace, they should be pretty good. The sound pack was the primary part of the major update it received a while back, so I doubt they’ll be asking SimAcoustics to re-engineer it unless specifics can be pointed out.
The flight model and some of the visuals need the most love.
From what I’ve seen with other products, if the smaller product card in the Marketplace says MSFS2024 on it (as this one does), it’s Native. If it just mentions that it’s compatible in the detailed page, it’s likely not Native. No idea if the walkaround and other features are fully functional like you said, though.
Well, I’ll try to disable, then reenable, in case the sounds did not download as expected. I just know that when I heard the engines, they did not sound right.
