See my note on the 1.9.13.0 survey thread - I have no option to Create a Lobby.
So, with the 1.9.13.0 Build I’m seeing improvements in some areas, while still seeing issues in other areas, but having a great time with the races when they want to work properly!
Bi-Plane Class Observations:
Bi-Plane races are not tracking times for players, resulting in every event ending in mainly everyone getting a DNF after completing all laps. Sometimes the Host is the only player with a tracked time. (All other classes are properly tracking players times)
Bi-Plane events are not displaying player names even if the setting is turned on.
T-6 Texan sometimes spawns in with no audio:
STOL Race:
Not always happening, but randomly stops the race for landing too short, even if you’re not landing short. Which leads to a soft lock with no menu (pictured below looking at the tower and crowd) requiring the players to restart the entire sim.
Positive Notes!
So far, it looks like getting back into the lobby after a race concludes with the “Back to lobby” button doing what it’s supposed to do for both the host, and anyone joining the server. It no longer is having an endless load requiring a restart of the sim. Loaded in properly each time today!
The Lobby Refresh Menu is much nicer with some changes, seeing when the list was last refreshed, Duplicate Servers are no more which is great, before it made it difficult for others to know which server to join as it was showing 2 if the host left and created a new lobby, so great change there!
Overall having a blast with the mode, still some things to work on with what I talked about above. One last thing is some players are still seeing a random difficulty in joining a server. One time you can join a player, you leave that lobby to change something and the next attempt to join that player leads to an endless load. Regardless of server settings (US East, Western Euro) it seemingly has a random spin if it wants you in a lobby or not lol
I find it quite odd how each of us can have such a different experience regarding NCAR. I have never been able to fly one race. I even uninstalled and reinstalled MSFS 2024 the other day.
MS Store, mid-performance PC, 1 Gbps internet. Full specs in my profile.
There may be a bug with the time of day slider. This is the briefing screen for the biplane pylon race in v1.9.16.0 at various times. It appears the “time” sometime does not change.
Expected behavior: The light should changes as the sun moves across the sky during the day.
Actual behavior:
1:00 AM - race is in daylight:
2:00 AM - dark, as expected:
7:00 AM - should be seeing some dawn light by now:
10:00 AM - should be daylight:
1:00 PM - daylight (dawn?):
5:00 PM: brighter than at 1:00 PM:
9:00 PM: should be getting dark by now, if not night-time (month of the year is unknown):
11:00 PM: Should be night-time:
Can anyone else repro this?
I gave it a quick try once I finally got into the right place to test it!!
It appears to me also that the sunlight/darkness periods don’t reflect the TOD settings. I went through the whole day cycle and time and the appropriate light/dark cycles definitely weren’t matching the TOD.
Looks the same as your screenshots.
Sunrise came around 12PM (noon) and 1PM was glaring sunshine all of a sudden. At 11PM, it was still pretty light. Finally got dark again ~2AM.
Good catch!
Regards
Thanks for checking. When testing again in order to file a bug report, I could not repro. The only change on my PC since my original report has been an upgrade of the OS to Win 11 26 H2 (v26300.9457). Unless I can repro again - or a number of other folks can repro - I’ll hold off on filing a bug report for now.
I was on Win 11 26H2 when I tested, but I’ll check it a couple more times when I can and see if it’s still there. I’ll report back.
Thanks for the update
Regards