I'm not usually into this type of review, but this bloke is spot on....and a little hilarious at the same time.

I thought all you "haters" went back to MSFS 2020?

I guess you guys must not be doing much flying, since you have all this time to scour the internet for clickbait videos. 😄

I rest my case.

Click, click , click I'm so upset 2024 isn't working or me. OMG it's the end of the world.

1 hour ago, St Mawgan said:

Yaaaay, another thread for the haters to pile on to over Christmas 😁

And it's always the exact same people instigating it and circlejerking in the thread. 

One server hick-up away from flying over a landscape that looks like it is drawn in Microsoft paint 

Haha indeed....

100% cloud gaming means you never know if today is the day you can use MSFS2024 to its's full protentional or ......But IF it works....

Edited December 23, 20241 yr by altenae

29 minutes ago, altenae said:

100% cloud gaming means you never know if today is the day you can use MSFS2024 to its's full protentional or ......But IF it works....

Yea, but it only cost me 150€ so who cares really....

Edited December 23, 20241 yr by Ixoye

1 hour ago, GSalden said:

MSFS 2024 is like a new car : the engine sometimes stutters, the infotainment does not work, the lights go on and of. The driver seat will not stay in your position.

On AVCarring white knights would be like:

• The engine will be fixed eventually, drive and enjoy your old car in the meantime. Oh, you sold it already? Bad mistake!
• Why are you using your car infotainment system? Are you dumb? Everybody knows that it doesn't work and probably never will. Use your mobile to navigate and buy a BT speaker for music
• The seat is OK, your legs are just not long enough. Buy extender addons for your shoes if you're uncomfortable, it could take months to fix the electric seat mechanism

This is what is actually being replied to people complaining about FS2024 shortcomings and bugs.

For those who can't stand being warned their magic beans were overpriced and under deliver start watching at 1min in and HARD quit watching BEFORE 7:30.

Thats a good 6 and a half mins of fan service for you 😁

2 hours ago, St Mawgan said:

What I kind of hate is people scouring the internet for videos and 'facts' which fit their narrative and then starting yet another thread because they feel they haven't been heard yet. For god's sake people, get over it.

Maybe you should get over it.

I didn't know Ricky Gervais was a flight simmer....😆

This review was a riot, and not wrong. My word I love the English.

I used to review for PC Gamer back when it was a print rag (so,yeah, 20 years ago... ooff) and this game is the one game that makes me glad I am out of that review game. Especially for print which has a long lead time to go to press. The odds of stuff I'd complain about being fixed before the review hit the newstands is pretty good.

I am very bullish on the future of 2024, but his score was bang on. My review score would be a 5/10 in its current state.

I'll take one positive thing from this video and remind myself each time I encounter a bug: "when it works, oh my days... it looks absolutely glorious... stop and stare jaw on the floor kind of glorious..." - because that is the fact.

If Career works, it's beautifully made, actually. I am not looking at doing a real-world flight type of thing when doing Career, honestly. I like those boxes. I use engine auto-start. I like it set up mostly. I like that I can speed up the time in cruise. Even default ATC is okay-ish. I like it that it's leading me to some regions that I would never see otherwise.

BUT, when I fire up the custom flight with Fenix, just yesterday flown from EHAM to LPMA both with sceneries, at sunset, with BATC... that was hand down "stop and stare jaw on the floor" experience. The atmospherics, the lighting, the clouds, I can't emphasize enough - stop and stare. I had an issue with GSX, but these bugs aren't contributed to the MSFS2024, at least not directly. Everything that sim delivered was smooth experience, full airports, performance was 40fps or higher at any moment in time, even at EHAM filled with aircraft. I have *NEVER* seen something like this, not in MSFS2020, not in FS9 or FSX, not in P3D.

No tweaking required really, just some small things. I set graphics settings to what some page recommended, after visually comparing each feature, which was really useful, and spent days setting up my controllers... but hey... now, it's like heaven to me. MSFS2024 was THE reason why I came back to flight simming after couple of years of break.

Edited December 23, 20241 yr by Simon_C

Nothing has really changed.  All iterations of Flight Simulator have always had, and will always have shortcomings due to Microsoft's development culture.  There is always mega-hype surrounding new version releases, along with inevitable blatant programming errors that are a result of rushed efforts to meet release deadlines.  It's all about making as much money as possible rather than trying to please the relatively small group of 'hardcore' simmers that experience the most frustration. 

Obviously, with MSFS2024, Microsoft aimed solidly at the casual gamer market which Redmond is now convinced is the core profit sector of their customer demographic. 

The graphic engine of FS2024 with enhanced multi-threading support and the new ground texture capability are both impressive and a leap forward, but just don't expect Microsoft to ever release a platform that doesn't regularly alienate 3rd party developers and the customers thereof.  There's no such thing as loyalty in this regard, nor will there ever be. 

It is what it is, like it or leave it. 

 

I do understand that it must be an almost religious experience when a flight in MSFS 2024 works perfectly. I really do. However, it is also possible for flights in MSFS 2020 to be like this. Maybe not quite as good, but still absolutely amazing. I have said this many times before, but I will say it again. I am always astonished by the performance of MSFS 2020 on my 2015 specification PC at high detail levels (including TLOD and OLOD @ 250/200 respectively). It means that I can enjoy flying my PMDG 737-600 (with its amazing systems depth and beautiful VC graphics) over very detailed terrain and scenery, with shadows of every single object in view, water reflections, good looking clouds (at ULTRA), and super detailed payware airports (yes, many of which have lots of internal modelling). I can honestly say that it looks breathtaking at times.....and all of this at playable framerates.

"Jaw dropping" quality is not limited to MSFS 2024.

Oh, and this is without any kind of frame generation or lossless scaling in sight.

Edited December 23, 20241 yr by Christopher Low