Apologies if I missed this in the recent comms but when is FS24 patch #4 due?
Sadly, my experience is that with patch #3 while progress has been made there are also some annoying steps backwards which nudge me towards pressing pause.
A route map and cadence of patches needs to be communicated to help many early adopters hang in there. If it’s not before the holiday period then it may well be time to hang up the headset and wait until later in 2025?
Probably next year.
I believe that if there is a patch 4, it will be something small to fix some minor issues. Another significant update like patch 3 should be the scheduled Sim Update in Q1 2025.
There are some significant issues that need to be sorted before SU1.
I better light a candle and start with the litanies, we’re going to need them!
Maybe even place a Wicca circle under my oak tree, too…
They have broken the game for a bunch of people. We need a hotfix quick or rollback.
So since much of 24 is streamed, can’t they fix a lot of stuff behind the scenes? Meaning without announcing a patch or update as we think of it in 2020? A different sort of hot fix?
I would hope this will be the case.
Telling people to sit there and relaunch the game until it works is not a good solution.
Not that I was suggesting that is a good solution. Rather asking after the possibility that things might be fixed more or less on the fly, given that much of 24 is now streamed. Of course, this introduces the possibility that one pilot’s fix is another’s break. Have we been there before?
Ok, I see you were saying that it would be possible for them to do an update that we would not need to download outside of the game. We would still want the announcement though.
Nobody knows but I wouldn’t get my hopes up before 2025 (For something substantial) As much as bug ridden this game is the developers deserve some vacation, like everybody else…
True that, the year is nearly over. Thinking about the many bug reports and concerns I have seen go by, a lot of them are about aircraft models or career missions, some about scenery. And many have pointed out that some of the fixes are simple to make. Given that the teams are hundreds in number, my cup half full side suggests that some of that low hanging fruit might find a fix between now and some milestone update like those discussed for Jan/Feb or a SU1 for 24. Or maybe not so much, the cup half empty draining the life out of our holiday season, LOL!
If there are no further patches until SU1, then I think for many, that is the make or break update.
I predict another patch every two or so weeks or each month until the first SU. Then things will return to a more regular patching schedule like we saw in 2020.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up for a patch anytime soon. For Asobo in France there are about 7 working days left before christmas holidays.
Maybe something small next week? Likely the next patch comes mid January
All hope is lost that they’ll fix the disgraceful VR issues before Xmas, silence regarding patch 4 suggests will have to wait months for the first Sim Update, absolutely unforgivable.
Let’s hope that’s the case for some of the issues server side - surely that’s one of the benefits from this new streamed approach?
It would be great to get weekly communications from the team - if they want to rebuild confidence and carry many users with them then that’s a minimum I guess.
One wonders how much information is actually available to the community managers and volunteers here? Could be less than we would assume when it comes to potential server side fixes that can be made by programmers without being packaged in a patch or release? OTOH they probably get periodic updates, but communications may be incomplete or delayed to them?
With all due respect, you are right about the community manager. But MS has put the label on themselves they care and listen to the community.
This lack of comms does not support this.
And finally, they fail as a company and not as an individual community manager. It is not the fault of one person the whole company/branch has failed the community.