37 minutes ago, usernamerequired said:

Wasn't 2024 supposed to be the sim of the future at release?

It has achieved that with the upgrades to many elements.  Early bugs do not negate that.

I have been back in 2020 basically 100%. I wanted to try the "premium" A300 today in 24 and the experience has been awful. The lighting is so bad on my oled monitor- all the clouds are blown to smithereens, and the cockpit extremely dark. The scenery and clouds haven't looked any better, and the FPS is worse than 2020. It got me in a very disappointed mood, enough to look up the current steam numbers and yep, more people are still on 2020. Only a couple people in my VA are currently flying on 24, while many are using 20. This situation just sucks. I want to be excited about the future but what we currently have just ain't it. There are fundamental design problems with the sim, not to speak of all the bugs and performance issues.

I was using 2020 last week to rehearse some routines for a RW sim ride, I needed the relative stability of the 2020 horizon 787 as the default MS24 787 has some very odd go around behaviour.

i was perfectly happy with 2020, however at the end of each days “work” session I’d allow myself 30 minutes of fun time flying something very low over the hills and through valleys in 2024.

I have to say 24 has captured the feeling of low level hooliganism in a way 20 just can’t compete with. I don’t know what they’ve done but the flight modelling at last feels like handling a real aircraft and I find it hard to go back to 2020. For airliners flown from the autopilot sure 2020 is as great as ever but once I’d felt the subtle nuances of flying a light aircraft low down in 24 then 2020 feels a bit lacklustre in comparison.

Anyway for now still running both

 

36 minutes ago, Dillon said:

You know you can start your own thread and poll...😶

I never quite understood why people complain about a poll, when it only takes a few minutes to start your own poll, if you want. 

2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

I never quite understood why people complain about a poll, when it only takes a few minutes to start your own poll, if you want. 

Let's start a poll about starting a poll.

Anyways I'm back in 2020 as Ini is going to release the A350 and there's some great scenery for China now. I just miss the awesome A330s in MSFS2024. I did buy the premium deluxe version of MSFS2024 which I don't really need but was to support the team.

Edited December 22, 20241 yr by MikeH99

47 minutes ago, MikeH99 said:

anyways I'm back in 2020 as Ini is going to release the A350

I am doing some heavy analysis on some of my usage -- I work as an analyst and this kind of pedantry is right in my wheelhouse.

Off the 3 planes I am most interested in early next year are the Fokker 70/100, the 757, and the a350. Pretty much in that order. Only the a350 will be in both sims.

Now, looking back on my Year 2024 fight logs, I've joked that if I just flew the Fenix I'd be golden in MSFS24 and well, I do pretty much just fly the Fenix. It beat the PMDG 73x family by 164/96. I could get away with waiting since the a306 was in 3rd place.

At the end of the day, we all just need to fly the sim that sparks the most joy for us and not care what others think of our choices.

I've been primarily a VR flyer and I'm just not enjoying the VR experience in 2024, so for VR, it's back to 2020. That said, there's a lot to like with 2024, so I think I'll optimize my settings in 2024 for 4K 2D flying with TIR.

I really want to go with 2024 but it's been nothing but CTDs for me at every stage of usage. If I actually manage to get past the loading screens without a CTD, I can almost be assured to have one at some point within the ensuing 10 minutes. Rarely do I actually get into an airplane and get some flight time before I'm thrust back to desktop. I haven't even begun to start building my community folder as I see no point if I can't get the thing to run out of the box. And honestly, so far I just haven't had the patience to really buckle down and troubleshoot what the problem(s) might be.

2020 runs like a charm so there's no way it's leaving my hard drive any time soon.

10 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

It has achieved that with the upgrades to many elements.  Early bugs do not negate that.

Imho it hasn’t achieved that yet by far.

These days it seems that software at release (in general ) is often not in the state how developers claimed it would be at release. 

MSFS 2024 is like an early acces flightsim and the developers are working their heads off to fix long lists with issues and unfinished features. Just look at all these topics at the official MSFS 2024 forums

Some people do not care and focus on the good while others look at the total functionality and are far from happy with its current state.

Myself I am sure it will work out at the end but it will take time ….

 

Edited December 22, 20241 yr by GSalden

Still using 2020. I bought and installed 2024, but haven't done a single flight in it due to control mapping issues..

i am using both:

VFR-Fun-Fligts with GA in FS2024
Justflight RJ PRO in 2024
Airliners PMDG737 series , Maddog in FS2020 (until they are ready in 2024)
Freeflight only, My ATC and AI-Trafic from FSTL and BATC (in both sims)

Edited December 22, 20241 yr by Alti

Used MSFS2024 to make sure my VA's ACARS was compatible with existing aircraft models then uninstalled it and waiting for better days. Terrible experience overall, lots LOTS to be done. Back to MSFS which is just perfect as is.

Got to do some proper A to B flights in 2024 over the last couple of days and I have to say it's growing on me, especially since the AutoFPS app (or is it the latest patch?) seems to have fixed performance. I took off from Aerosoft EDDF with gates full of FSLTL aircraft in horrendous weather pegged at a steady 60fps and no stutters. 

I can see myself gravitating to 2024 more and more. 

I found this and the comments section interesting:

Again I'm hoping the best for 2024 but Asobo needs to release community Beta's for us the play with and report back to turn this ship around.  I can't say this enough which is what we did with 2020.  Don’t do this, the complaints will get louder and louder.  It's not the time to put our heads in the sand with blind support when this could hurt the hobby if not course corrected.

Edited December 22, 20241 yr by Dillon

More clickbait videos. 

I've been using MSFS 2024 since day one.

Except for streaming issues on day one, almost everything has been smooth sailing since then. Yes, several default planes will require a few patches, but I've even managed a few successful flights in the Carenado PC-24.