I should point out that insurance covered 0% even though I have the highest tier. So it just straight up doesn’t work which should shock no one. This is honestly more hardcore than dark souls.
So the game bugged out during a skip and crashed my plane, which isn’t my fault, then bugged out and insurance didn’t work, also not my fault, but decided to dish out all of the brutal punishments. They made sure those work, yup. The punishments work, they QAed those. Unreal.
I did try ending task on the game before clicking ok on the you crashed screen, it does not save you. To be clear, I just hit alt + n to skip to take-off and went straight to a you crashed screen. Do not pass go, go straight to jail.
Why do none of the tutorials tach proper stall recovery? Most crashes are cause by flying too slow on approach and then stalling, and entering an unrecoverable spin into the ground…. This would greatly help casual and other simmers with keeping thier precious purchased aircraft flyable.
I was taxiing to parking just then and boom. “you crashed your aircraft”, no the ■■■■ I did not??? It literally just died right there while I was taxiing after landing. Nothing about this is ‘realism’
For some reason my plane is still there. Not sure why, even when I had the lowest insurance. The bug must have bugged itself . Still no understanding as to why I crashed originally though.
It doesn’t destroy your entire plane, I think the issue with skipping and loading is a gamedev issue. I’ve done a lot of game dev. Sometime when you pop in a physics item, you put it slightly above the terrain physics mesh so it’ll drop ever so slightly.
I suspect the drop is too high sometimes and counts as a crash when you skip or load in. It then breaks your landing gear and you have to repair it. I think the salvage part of insurance is for when it’s unrecoverable, so unless you need to salvage it should always just be repairing what broke in the crash.
However, that still doesn’t change the fact that
It wasn’t your fault.
Insurance doesn’t cover anything even with the highest tier.
I for one am going to enjoy when casual players encounter these issues. It’s going to be fun to watch. For now I’m going to not skip when on the ground.
Personally I haven’t had issues with skipping on the ground (yet) athough the list of bug avoidance measures that need to be taken per flight is stacking up quickly.
Eg. My list so far is:
Dont skip on ground.
Go around the runway when the game tells you to taxi across it.
Use pushback to be able to Uturn on a narrow runway after landing to stop ‘leaving the runway’ deductions.
Dont use the Beech G36 or Robin D400 because they give deductions for using flaps.
If doing skydiving missions, skip the climb, and once the jumpers are out, immediately dive back to the airport or you will get 0%.
Cancel IFR clearances in career mode because the atc vectors are broken and they won’t let you land.
Those are just the ones ive encountered off the top of my head in the 4 days of playing this game. I am level 48 in career mode.
Heads up, employees can crash planes. Just had mine seemingly crash on his first flight even though it’s supposed to be passive income. Everything was fine, set plane to employee on, log off for a bit, come back and boom, broken landing gear.
GG game. Can’t wait for my pilot to get grounded and be literally unable to play to make it super real! So immersive!!!
I honestly cannot wait for casuals to catch up.
EDIT: And now the game crashed my plane standing still on the runway. Amazing. Just sitting there doing nothing and bam, the you crashed screen comes up.
I got the discount helicopter and sold it before I could do any freelance missions since none were showing up, among other mission visibility issues. “Hey, why not sell this, get the money, and apply it to a plane” I thought. If only I realized selling it doesn’t give you even close to it’s value. I’ve been on an upward climb of grinding the past 3 days. At the point I don’t even want to play career mode anymore.
Finally made it to 153,000 credits as of this post. Any tips of fast credits would be nice, haha. Either play an hour for $2,000 credits with glitches and dings against me for not landing on the runway when it’s all solid dirt and no visible runway. Or turning me to short stop off the runway to then change to another short stop location, telling me I never called for taxi when I then start to move. Or flaps extended while going to fast as I’m taxiing at turtle speeds. Plane autopilot has a mind of its own, changes course out of nowhere, CDI purple nav path doesn’t match the tablet nav path and end up with conflicting routes. Get a tanking pilot rating to only make money slower. Or… speed run it, “alt n” everything and only get $160 for 10 minutes of my time.
I’ve fallen and this slope back up is ridiculous. I’ve sunk too much time to call quits and spent all my time initially, and stupidly, grinding missions for credits to obtain certifications instead of freelancing. I’m level 51 and have at least a few weeks to go before I can get the cheapest used plane and do my first freelance mission. Too far in it now to do a restart. Fun stuff lol.
I’m really sorry. I think this is the gameplay you get when you put engineers in charge of design. It really reminds me of 90s game design with it’s brutal punishments.
I hope it gets better for you. I just did the tornado filming mission and got an S rank on it and lost 2 reputation bars. Why these punishments are in the game to begin with is mind boggling, but then you add the bugs and it’s just rage inducing.
Agree completely. I love a challenge, but when the qualifications seem to be a moving target with no explanation, it gets frustrating. I play with all assists off and wish there were better rewards for doing such. I enjoy this game greatly and runs a lot better than 2020 did. Just feels like there are some holes to be patched. In time…
Edit: Thinking about it more. Career mode would have been better off with a loan system to bridge the gaps. Have a failure, sure we’ll give you money for a new plane but you have to pay it back as an added hourly expense along with the insurance.
Even with premium insurance, crashing is incredibly penalizing. I just crashed on landing. The tech happily reported that he’d repaired my plane for $8k and the insurance had paid out $6.4k. But there’s another $87k worth of damage to the plane that just… isn’t covered by insurance, I guess?
. Still no understanding as to why I crashed originally though.
