Thank you I’m glad it was helpful to you. Thank you for your info as well. Yes, hopefully our add-ons appear soon.
To switch between cockpit and external, I just press the little button to the left of the Xbox logo on the controller. I think it’s the button with the two boxes on it.
And as far as doing different cameras and accessing the drone, you click left stick RB. From there, you click the camera icon on the menu bar and then it will load up a pop-up for you to choose between views. The drone is under showcase.
There are a lot of improvements imo here. The ui is occasionally clunky (haven’t had issues with binding things but if people with fancier gear have issues, I trust them there) and the ATC completely breaks if you happen to pause after departure.
However, the loading is so much faster, the integrated EPFD means I’m actually trying to do routes properly, and the walk around is fun (although the touch points are a little hard to hit sometimes). Ground handling is great, and I actually like the new default controller bindings even if I don’t remember them yet. Sim looks solid too when it doesn’t have loading issues, and performance is pretty good (better than 2020 for me) with the exception of some super weird slowdowns that I suspect are related to loading other player aircraft
Common Feedback
I just thought with all the Updates, Improvements and additional Scenery MSFS2020 worked great. Also from what I understood there were limits regarding performance based on architecture and design of the code. The Xbox is capable of way more than we experienced in MS2020.
So I expected that they would keep what’s already great, improve the code to enfold the whole potential, improve graphics and features and transform the settings for the peripherals.
I think they went too far regarding online only. You should have at least basic features without connection.
They did not transform the settings, which took hours. (see below)
The graphics are not that great from what I saw, because there is only great if full bandwidth and performance is given and in each other case its worse.
If it runs, it’s stable and there are way less glitches in the graphics and performance, but way less quality in the graphics.
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Specific Feedback
Installation
Download very fast, Install very fast
Interface & User-friendly
Interface looks fresh and well thought
Very difficult and complex getting used to the new handling of the menus, settings, cockpits and in flight
Settings
No migration of the settings - this resulted in being mandatory to reconfigure all peripherals that I used in MSFS2020. Controller, Keyboard, Thrustmaster Hottas, Velocity One. This was a nightmare. First there are a lot of settings, so you need to find them and also figure if it’s the right one or created the desired effect. Also there are new ones that makes more sense for buttons you were using differently before. So if you change one thing like cursor mode, this destroys several other features. Also therefore this was only possible to find out in a flight. Flights would crash to the menu or even crash the sim. This resulted in the settings not be saved or whole profiles gone. So my process was everything from making photos from settings in MSFS2020, changing to MSFS2024, then checking them in a flight, while adding notes and then just leaving the flight and finally apply them trough the settings in the main menu, so they are saved.
Free Flight
Took forever to launch. Takes a lot of time and patience to get used to the new inputs for the menus and the usage of the controller.
The cursor mode should not be changed. It messes up other features. Also getting used to that combination Left Stick / RB takes time.
The ATC window cannot be scaled higher in size and won’t show all information. You have to permanently switch between cursor mode and back.
ATC is not that great
Scenary is not that great, if the external streaming and bandwidth performance is a just a little less than epic.
Tab Feature is amazing!
Landing Challenges
No details on how you did
No improvement in user experience and gamification
These are my bug reports
Settings
ATC Window
Landing Challenges
My wish for more gamification for landing challenges
I believe that there is an additional 500 MB of RAM that will be gained by further OS optimization. This was going to be done as Sim Update 16, but since it required assistance from the Xbox platform team and MSFS 2024 launch was approaching, they postponed this.
So I think Xbox users can expect an additional improvement (that should be applicable to both MSFS 2020 and 2024) in the coming months. The “Known Issues” post for 2024 hints there will be some improvements for Xbox.
Update: I was finally able to proceed into career mode further. The black screen finally loaded into the initial flight. Just took forever to do that compared to earlier. So I’ll try more tomorrow
Ok, so I’ve managed a few hours in the sim uninterrupted, here’s my observations, with a few of the bugs/issues/positives I’ve noticed purely from an Xbox point of view.
1… takes a while to get used to menu screen, setting up flights etc, working out what the controller keys are etc
2… Graphics do not appear to be hugely improved on 2020, only of what I have seen, photogrammetry not noticeably better.
3… Great to see different models/liveries in major airports but plenty of “double parked” planes ruin the moment.
4… Tree size still an issue, some taller than skyscrapers in Vancouver for example.
5… Sunken boats still an issue in Marina’s.
6… Live weather keeps turning off and every flight seems to start in preset mode.
7… Setting up ifr flights in free flight seems quite fiddly
8… Vehicle traffic on roads seems busier but still acts very strange!
9… Night lighting does seem better.
10…In flight controls take some getting used to, I’m sure you are able to change them but I’ve not had chance yet.
Purely my own point of view but if you are only a casual simmer who just likes short flights and cruising around cities then I wouldn’t bother switching just yet as the difference will be negligible. I still have 2020 installed and will use that for the time being.
Great potential in this sim and I look forward to the issues being ironed out sooner rather than later.
Happy flying all!
Having managed to get into a free flight, does anyone know how to open the in game menu? Everything is a little fish-eyed, on MS2020 you pushed down on the left stick to bring up the menu, doesn’t seem to do anything here?
I find impossibile flying airliners because the sim freezes in a blink of an eye and sometimes it’s also impossible flying a GA plane.
I’ll wait some weeks, I go back to 2020.
I am so glad I didn’t pre order this incarnation of my loved Flight Simulator. I made a decision early on to run the sim via Game Pass to see if all the hype was true. I am so glad now I made this decision. You need a masters degree to understand the controller config, the visuals on XBX are back to MSFS X standard. Downloading your flight can take ages and on some occasions doesn’t download at all. Fired up FS2024 this morning planned my route loaded up the fuel and passengers kicked the tyres and when the flight downloaded EGCC (Manchester International) was just a green field, no buildings, no taxi ways, no runways. No detail what so ever. I have now made the decision to return to FS2020 until I read that the situation within Xbox has improved drastically. What is all the smoke/condensation coming out of the engines on airliners all about? It looks like a cold day in London with condensation coming out of tailpipes. No good having all the eye candy they went on about pre release if it doesn’t load. Trying to fly in 2024 in the UK after 5pm is nearly impossible. I’m presuming there’s not enough bandwidth for the number of flyers, as people with VPN have reported using different areas of the world results in quicker/better downloads. Sorry Microsoft/Asobo this sim was not ready for release well at least not on Xbox. But I suppose you were desperate to catch the Christmas market.
This is a major problem in UK after 5pm GMT. Microsoft have seriously underestimated the bandwidth requirements. Which in my opinion is unforgivable. They had the data and knew exactly how many pre release orders they had sold.
They didn’t know the number of GamePass users who would try running the sim.
I was very frustrated on Tuesday, but after getting my V1F mostly configured and taking a couple of quick flights yesterday afternoon, I’m generally pleased with MSFS 2024.
When I played earlier it was the shimmering on objects like trees and buildings that was really distracting, then there was the pop in and blurriness on some things, but the shimmering was the most off putting for me, it looked horrible, hopefully as the servers improve these issues will be gone.
I’m finding that the trees are really tanking my frame rate. Tried some bush flying somewhere remote, as soon as you start getting nearer to the ground the FPS drops and all control starts to get laggy.
Just had a flight where the whole ground textures were a blurry mess, yet all the trees were full in full detail and high quality textures. Where as a bush right next the tree looked like something from minecraft.
There doesn’t seem to be any LOD adjustments made to the trees during low level flying/landing
Msfs 2024 looks shockingly bad on XSX. The internal resolution seems to be sub 720p. Aliasing is the worst I have seen this generation. Strong shimmering artifacts everywhere. Bad frame rate. Graphics are downgraded compared to MSFS 2020. What a disaster!
2024 is definitely way worse than 2020 on series X. I compared the two in the same location and on the same plane, and the ground textures, like grass, are much worse in 2024 than in 2020. This is hilarious because the walk around feature is one of the main highlights of 2024, yet the detail and textures are at PS2 level. There’s a lot of aliasing and shimmering, even on the plane (2020 doesn’t have this issue at all). Then we have all the server and loading issues all over the place. This is an Alpha version, maybe even pre-alpha.
I will post some screenshots later
Please do and I encourage You to post it in a separate topic. We need to shine light on this disaster. New Sim looking much worse than MSFS 2020. How is that even possible…
Again they had the data how many people are subscribed to Game Pass so that’s really not an excuse. They will have data for numbers of Game Pass subscribers who regularly used 2020 so the could have made an assumed calculation
, was literally scratching my head looking at all the controller inputs totally puzzled .