FS2024, are you at all bracing for disappointed?

[Cognita]

Day One purchase for me, and even if it was $150 or $200 it would still be a day one purchase. Do I think it will be a revolutionary step forward, absolutely not. It will have many of the same limitations and difficulties as 2020, it will likely take months for all the aircraft to be brought forward, but it will be a step forward and it paves the say for further developments over the coming two, three, four years; and I am excited to continue on the journey. I am actually looking forward to starting over, so to speak.  And I have already begun researching to buy a new rig; 2020 will stay on this one while the new one gets 2024.

[01pewterz28]

w/in the 1st week

[DavidP]

I'm joining the Day 1 queue.

[BaronKen]

All in from the gitgo, but might have to wait a few days because of a planned trip. (Might be a good thing because of the rush!! 😉)

[Greazer]

I am Super Pumped for FS2024. After 40 years never had a super optimized flight sim and with extreme level of scenery as well. Also pumped for the new flight planner, new flight model/physics changes etc. Plus, there is a lot more to learn in the next few months regarding what is coming.

[Sticky]

I think you all are missing the point. He's not asking if you're going to buy it. He's asking if you're expecting to be disappointed. I will of course buy it on day one, but I'm fully prepared to be disappointed in the lack of things I'm hoping to see. Pebbles, rivers and walking around is great and everything but I'm hoping for control tower closings, pilot control lighting, and storms that can actually hurt the airplane. You know stuff that's actually what it's like to be a pilot...

Edited August 24, 2024 by Sticky

[kerosene31]

I'm waiting until I hear that some of the complex add-ons really work as intended before buying.  Don't get me wrong, I'll get 2024 some time after launch, but day 1?  Frankly I'm a little shocked so many are jumping in.  I have Game Pass and it is basically free for me to download and try, but I'll let others do the testing.  (Don't have hard drive space for both).  Once I know things like the A2A Comanche come over 100%, I'll be in.

Now, if there's people testing all this stuff before launch and they are allowed to talk in detail about things?  Maybe I'll jump in, but even then, I'll wait a couple of days.  I know we got a lot of info before 2020 launched.  

Plus, the game launches on a Tuesday.  No way I get any real time to fly until that weekend anyway.  The following week is US Thanksgiving.  If everything looks good by then, that's a great time for me.  

There's usually a long thread for updates to 2020, so I can't wait to see this one.  If people want to jump in day 1, great, but I think you should understand what you're jumping into.  Even if add-ons do work 100%, will there be server issues?  We've seen server issues with just updates to 2020.  

 

[Fielder]

In another recent thread here, Jorg was saying in the video that there will be a late beta, near the initial release Nov 19.  But I suppose the beta testers won't be allowed to post (If I remember correctly, they had to keep silent for the initial release of 2020).

[737_800]

13 hours ago, Bartul said:

Day one. Basic version. Never missed those few planes and airports.

Me neither, the handcrafted airports were pretty poor. I do hope MSFS 2024 will have better level of detail on the airports, but I suspect that since the handcrafted airports in the WU's became much better. Nonetheless, I will buy the deluxe version just to support the hobby since I want them to keep going and innovating. Still, I hope I will get more value this time out of the deluxe version.

I am suspecting that we'll see beside the GAYA EDDM, also LEBL and other airports that have been shown on their website for a long time to be under developement. I could imagen that they will update LOWI also to a better level, since GAYA has annouced a new version long time ago, without any update or the like - but this is only theory, a wish.

[JetClipperJR]

I will wait six months/a year... minimum.

[Roy Warren]

I've bought every Microsoft flight simulator since the beginning.  This will be no different.  Day One for me.

Roy

[ndoug]

I will not be an early adopter, I will wait to see if it will also deliver ground traffic moving or parked in allocated runways and taxi ways. This is a must have feature for me.  😉

[jcomm]

I like MSFS 2020 for pretty much all of what it is, less a very important, at least for me, aspect - flight and overall physics modelling.

Flight dynamics in MSFS 2020 leave a lot to be desired to me, and I keep using the sim mostly because of the  superb functionality, scenery, for having some great addons like the Fenix and the FBW 320, and somehow the PMDG 737 and 777 too, but each flight in MSFS requires that I close my eyes to what would make me shelve a --> FLIGHT <-- simulator after just a few sessions with it - poor flight dynamics.

So, my biggest expectation regarding 2024 are the flight dynamics, ground physics and overall physics modelling, as well as a more coherent weather model when it comes to specific weather for soaring, icing and stormy conditions and there impact on aircraft, etc... As far as I can tell from the relatively restrict images of 2024, it looks trully astounding scenery and purpose wise.

I have long dreamed of having built in SAR missions, fire fighting, agricultural ops and so on, all of which I've seen in the brief sequences of action widely available. In this aspect MSFS 2024 will easily conquer me, but the FLIGHT DYNAMICS .... 

Sometimes I have hopes that the fact Petrovich was hired and I believe still makes part of the ASOBO development team, means we can expect to finally have a decent flight dynamics model in MSFS 2024... Let's hope for the best... Fingers crossed...

Edited August 24, 2024 by jcomm

[eslader]

The only reason it won't be day-one for me is that I'll be out of the country when it drops. As soon as I get back, however...

 

 

[Paladin2005]

Day one, full program.