What do you think top five downsides are in MSFS2020?

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What do you think top five downsides are in MSFS2020 ?

mine are ( i don’t know how to stop my post from getting hidden by the ‘community’ )

  • A320/B747/B787 VFR map CTD
  • AutoPilot / AI Control simply doesn’t work
  • No seasonal textures
  • Water textures downgraded in clear skies (ie wind less than 10knots)
  • Cloud textures not as crispy

Despite all the bugs and hassle and downgrades, I still think it’s the best simulator ever !

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  • Optimization
  • CTD
  • CTD
  • SDK
  • SDK

If all these were fixed the community could sort out this disaster.

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Those are your top 5??? ROFL Then you must be pretty happy overall so far. Mine are:

  1. Melting apocalyptic photogrammetry when more than a couple of nautical miles away
  2. Embarrassing, phone-quality ground texture resolution when flying higher than 5000ft
  3. No study level jets (yet)
  4. Main thread performance bottleneck
  5. Related to 1 & 2 - limitation of the scenery LOD to 200 (without hacking the config file)
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In no particular order, flying mainly C172/G1000, here are the reasons that dampen my enthusiasm for spending time in this sim:

• Missing towers and other VFR landmarks
• Poor photogrammetry
• Terrain anomalies
• Incomplete/broken G1000
• Long load time
• Autopilot trim runaway
• Lightning in fair weather
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1: People looking for reasons to see the worst in MSFS.
2-5: see above…

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  1. People who clog the forums with more threads about the same topic over and over adding absolutely nothing new instead of discussing in the many existing threads.
  2. People who clog the forums with more threads about the same topic over and over adding absolutely nothing new instead of discussing in the many existing threads.
  3. People who clog the forums with more threads about the same topic over and over adding absolutely nothing new instead of discussing in the many existing threads.
  4. People who clog the forums with more threads about the same topic over and over adding absolutely nothing new instead of discussing in the many existing threads.
  5. People who clog the forums with more threads about the same topic over and over adding absolutely nothing new instead of discussing in the many existing threads.
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(1) Grossly incomplete manual – actually, none at all!
(2) No way to edit flight plan without contortions
Need more hours to identify more, which I’m sure will become evident with time.

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1 poor Navdata
2 poor Airliner implementation
3 unrealistic behaviour of almost all aircraft
4 real weather bugs
5 atc bugs

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  1. VFR map activation often results in app crash
  2. Dark & Cold start cannot be completed sometimes as some buttons do not work. Restart necessary
  3. A320 Auto pilot veers off course for unknown reason
  4. Losing EICAS in A320 after an hour or so
  5. Auto pilot in many planes is not reliable
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take for a sec that this is one of those ‘existing’ threads, if you don’t like it, please step aside.

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  1. console/Vr graphics downgrading after Japan patch
  2. console/Vr graphics downgrading after Japan patch
  3. console/Vr graphics downgrading after Japan patch
  4. console/Vr graphics downgrading after Japan patch
  5. console/Vr graphics downgrading after Japan patch

by ‘honest’ and ‘open’ developers

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  • other pilots not behaving
  • other pilots complaining too much
  • atc mistakes
  • ai mistakes
  • no wobble head figure on my dashboard (ELITE DANGEROUS HAD IT!!!)
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I think of the current status of MSFS 2020 in a different way.

The way I understand it:

  1. MSFS default aircraft are not study level, third party payware quality. And that’s a good thing. You don’t wanna kill the third party developers. it will be a huge mistake cause then PMDG, A2A, fslabs and the likes will abandon you instead of joining you.

  2. Right now in MSFS, some features are fully finished, some features are missing, some are half-finished and then there are some bugs.

That’s all in a nutshell. Depending on who you ask, the simulator is either fully finished, or half-finished, feature-wise.

It’s also been released in an early access form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_access, like how the developers themselves said. (“we are in for a long journey”, “this sim will remain in continuous development for the next ten years” etc). For comparison, GTA 5 single player for example was released in a fully finished state and it didn’t require ten years of development and support post-release. ARK: Survival Evolved was released in early access in 2015 and was considered to be fully finished in 2017. Both projects are successful.

If you’re not willing to wait, participate and support this long early access development process, you should find for yourself another sim or app that you think is finished and enjoy it.

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Absolutely agree please reference the wishlist topic or the catagorized bug report they have so carefully put together

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AI that doesnt have the same bugs as FS, FSX and Pxd V12345 :slight_smile:
“can you two decide where you’re going im trying to get to my gate”
“he won’t let me past”
“I got here first”
“I’m bigger than you”
“ATC (A big boy) told me to come along here first”
AI take 6 hours to exit the active and 5 hours to line up
All in time of course
etc

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I fly mainly Alaska in MSFS always have from the beginning. I would like to see 1 Helicopters, 2 more airports available like FSX has for Alaska. 3 Software to add or build small airports up with scenery to bring them to life. 4 A software program or add-on to have Bush Pilots missions. 5 lastly Shipping Piers and vessels coming and going from busy seaports and marinas. Just my 2 cents

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  1. All the bugs introduced from the last patch.
  2. All the bugs introduced from the patch prior.
  3. All the bugs that were present in the original release which have probably largely been forgotten due to points 1&2.
  4. Completed aircraft and avionics
  5. Performance optimisations/multi monitor support.
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  1. CTDs
  2. Weather/Seasons
  3. ATC
  4. Accurate taxiway designations
  5. Autopilot issues
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Without that what are we simulating?

I could forgive everything else if the King Air was fully functional and there were 3 airports…Like the original FS. But we are at the new beginning.