2 minutes ago, Funky D said:

WSAD to move around, hold down the right mouse button to look around. You seem to need to click with with the left button once in order for it to let you select different parts of the aircraft. Be sure to remove chocks and covers. You click the door handle to enter the cockpit.

Thank you. I hope that can be made default. Scared to even ask.

I was sort of hoping FS2024 would be the prettiness of 2020 with the physics and attention to detail of X-Plane but so far it just feels like a slightly prettier (but with a much worse interface) MSFS 2020 that I can't even keep on my computer. And the airport lighting at night somehow got worse - FSX-style taxiways visible for miles, for instance:

We'll see. That "walkaround mode by default" needs to go immediately as well. Who signed that off?

4 hours ago, Ident said:

...For actual controllers, a lot. Think I have 27 usb devices hooked up to my tower.

 

I bow to your tech powers. I thought I was a player lol

6 hours ago, Ident said:

I used Ultra setting TAA and enabled DLSS. The world looks beautiful and the airport looked alive with lots of GA planes and ppl around. Ground friction felt realistic as no more turning on a dime. Flight went smooth. Got to traffic pattern alt and the world once again looked great as the plane was getting some nice realistic bounces from the air and thermals..no more rails feeling is what I thought. Got over the water, down to 100agl along the shore and the shoreline looked so much better.

I think I am really going to enjoy this new sim.

Great to hear!

I guess the all-knowing sages around here who kept (and still keep) telling us how the tech alpha will be soooo representative of the final release were... talking outta their respective rear ends then? Shocking!
 

Edited November 20, 20241 yr by lwt1971

basically, the amount of "jank" is kind of shocking. it really feels like it's been cobbled together by two dozen different developers, each tasked with something that is critical to the sim but then given about three days to make everything work together. it just needs a lot of a polish... like, a LOT.

edit: also the default (non-hand crafted) airports are terrible. Asobo should be embarrassed.

Edited November 20, 20241 yr by molleh

6 hours ago, Nuno Pinto said:

How do you leave the avatar mode (why do we even appear like this...) and enter the cockpit?

Shift+C, and it's so you can do external checklist

  

2 hours ago, FPVSteve said:

but with a much worse interface) MSFS 2020

I have to disagree, I love the new UI

Edited November 20, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

Well finally being able to get back into the sim and really see what its all about, overall I am ecstatic about the new platform. Keeping in consideration that this is day one of a new build and tweaks and updates will come...the shear visual representation of the world (ground textures, lighting, atmosphere) is a huge step forward. All of my flights have been silky smooth in ultra settings. The new UI is a bit of time investment but I am happy to see are far as I can tell, we havent lost anything when it comes to the list of assignments but the keystrokes for some stuff is different. I am finding it hard to find out how to invert an axis or button if needed. 

We did gain the ability it seems to properly configure our props to actually feather in the controller assignments. 

9 hours ago, FPVSteve said:

That "walkaround mode by default" needs to go immediately as well. Who signed that off?

If you were wanting to go do any real world flight, you do a walk around. I'm just glad we dont have to put on the covers before we can actually exit the game!

That said, there are two camps of flight sims are games or simulators and this one aspect certainly moves it away from a game. Especially if the planes are now going to wear and tear, a walk around will be important.

If you dont want to deal with the walk around just start on the runway. If you think thats unrealistic, then so is starting a flight without doing a walk around.

Edited November 20, 20241 yr by Ident

2 minutes ago, Ident said:

If you were wanting to go do any real world flight, you do a walk around. I'm just glad we dont have to put on the covers before we can actually exit the game!

That said, there are two camps of flight sims are games or simulators and this one aspect certainly moves it away from a game. Especially if the planes are now going to wear and tear, a walk around will be important.

If you dont want to deal with the walk around just start on the runway. If you think thats unrealistic, then so is starting a flight without doing a walk around.

Right....  I can guarantee you this is the first thing people skip after they've done it a couple of times. It's a gimmick. And if it wasn't a gimmick, you WOULD have to put them all back before exiting the game.

1 minute ago, FPVSteve said:

Right....  I can guarantee you this is the first thing people skip after they've done it a couple of times. It's a gimmick. And if it wasn't a gimmick, you WOULD have to put them all back before exiting the game.

Yeah...not really. I can walk away from any plane after I land and not secure it. Its not smart to do and I might return to a damaged plane or one that requires a much deeper inspection on the walk around prior to flight to make sure no damage was done.

I use the A2A plane and do a walk around prior to every flight but only bc they modeled the plane to show wear, tear of failure. PMDG probably isnt that way. Overall, if the platform (MSFS2024) is moving to offer true wear and tear then it wont be a gimmick. I know I jumped into a plane and took off and forgot to remove the pitot cover and I had no airspeed so its not a gimmick in the fact that if you dont do something like remove cowling covers or chocks that you can by pass it when you start the engine.

I feel you though. It is a big inconvenience if the user doesnt want to preform the walk around but yet start the flight cold and dark and I am sure that there will be a mass amount of users like that since of all the sims we have never had to do that. However, I'm in the camp that its a good thing when pulling the franchise closer to being built as a true simulator and away from the aspect of its a game thus I support Asobo in this design. 

20 minutes ago, Ident said:

Yeah...not really. I can walk away from any plane after I land and not secure it. Its not smart to do and I might return to a damaged plane or one that requires a much deeper inspection on the walk around prior to flight to make sure no damage was done.

I use the A2A plane and do a walk around prior to every flight but only bc they modeled the plane to show wear, tear of failure. PMDG probably isnt that way. Overall, if the platform (MSFS2024) is moving to offer true wear and tear then it wont be a gimmick. I know I jumped into a plane and took off and forgot to remove the pitot cover and I had no airspeed so its not a gimmick in the fact that if you dont do something like remove cowling covers or chocks that you can by pass it when you start the engine.

I feel you though. It is a big inconvenience if the user doesnt want to preform the walk around but yet start the flight cold and dark and I am sure that there will be a mass amount of users like that since of all the sims we have never had to do that. However, I'm in the camp that its a good thing when pulling the franchise closer to being built as a true simulator and away from the aspect of its a game thus I support Asobo in this design. 

That would be great if it had a purpose in the default sim, but there is no wear and tear simulated in free flight mode. So it's a novelty feature that will get old fast.

7 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

Shift+C, and it's so you can do external checklist

Thanks so much. One headache less.