I really liked MSFS 2020 and liked watching it evolve and now the infant MSFS 2024 has a few tricks that hooked me up to it quickly:

1) Performance - my 5900x / 3060ti are now perfectly matched for a great 60fps VSYNC experience.

2) Installation - requires at best 1/2 hour as opposed to 1 or more days to install all my airports.  Only the HJET for planes.

3) Landings - realistic and factoring in x-winds they can be exciting.  Note that the HJET does not use the new SDK handling features yet.

4) Menus - clean, elegant, efficient and versatile.  Controller setup rocks!

5) Ground Textures - In the NA the winter textures take on a sepia look due to moisture.  Sorry folks but that's what they really look like.  Besides that, they are the best I've seen in an MSFS sim.

6) Stability - 1 CTD in almost 100 flights.  I no longer even think of crashing.

7) Controllers are responsive and the 5 minute trackball sleeping is no longer an issue.

8 ) Walk-Around Mode - Seemingly trite but really adds to the realism IMO.

9) ATC - sore spot for some but now I get some statics and the same boring ATC dialog which I like.

10) Best for last is longevity - as an oldster I'm confident that this will be one of the last flight sim titles that I get to enjoy and I can be thankful for that.

dd

 

I like the flight planner.

I just flew through a cloud field at FL410 and was amazed.  Only using high Volumetric Clouds.

dd

Agreed. The more I fly it, the more I love it.

Agreed it is fantastic. 

It won't be long until one of the usual suspects starts the 'why I dislike 2024' thread. 

After the last update, the performance is satisfying enough. Agree with umber 1, 6, 8 10.

7 hours ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

 

1) Performance - my 5900x / 3060ti are now perfectly matched for a great 60fps VSYNC experience.

2) Installation - requires at best 1/2 hour as opposed to 1 or more days to install all my airports.  Only the HJET for planes.

4) Menus - clean, elegant, efficient and versatile.  Controller setup rocks!

6) Stability - 1 CTD in almost 100 flights.  I no longer even think of crashing.

8 ) Walk-Around Mode - Seemingly trite but really adds to the realism IMO.

 

 

Plus the free flight planner from Working Title, the improved weather engine/cloud depiction/general atmosphere. Etc.

To add to the OP’s great list, clouds, sky colours, lighting, FM, and, although it’s not a feature of 24 per se, DLSS4 super resolution brings everything together to boost immersion incredibly. Previously, I’d always been a bit jealous of the 4K simmers when I saw their videos on the nice big Bravia we have in the living room, but after the latest DLSS magic, it feels like I’ve got just about the same fidelity on my 3440x1440 Alienware panel.

All in all, 24 is already shaping up to be the best sinking experience of my life by some distance.

Hmm nobody flies on VATSIM here with MSFS24?

Not seeing other traffic around me when airborne. Or seeing when I only full zoom in on place where it should be.

But lightning in MSFS24 is spot on. Glad I do not need Rex atmos or editing exe file for better colours/lightning.

 

Agreed! Took me a while to commit but have been using ‘24 (with SU1 beta) for the last few weeks flying the Fenix.

Just missing the PMDGs but already it’s shaping up to be a great sim and worthy successor to ‘20! I hope that ini A350 is going to live up to the hype…

For me:

BETTER

Flight dynamics and aircraft performance

Lighting

Mesh accuracy and resolution

Installation

WORSE

Performance

ATC

AI Traffic (both aircraft and ships)

Stability

SAME

In most of the areas I fly, the scenery looks no better, though the mapping is more up to date in many places and ground textures are better in some places.

9 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

won't be long until one of the usual suspects starts the 'why I dislike 2024

I hope not there are enough of those already! 

World of difference between a title saying 'this sim is my favorite here's why' and 'this sim is the best, here's why'. 

With the first the negative people should really just stay away as it's an appreciation thread but in the second that's an open invitation to discussion. 

Well, I actually dislike FS 2024, just as @sloppysmusic preconized above... because :

I AM UNABLE TO UNINSTALL IT !!!

All of what the OP and others have pointed out, plus the fact that I really enjoy Career Mode and the Activities / Challenges.

It's probably the entry to their next simulator which could be called "World Simulator 2026", offering not only flight but also car and bike / motorbike / ... driving, trains, ships and with some bathymetry even submersibles, and... why not? Space Ships as well, and the chance to travel to the Moon, Mars... or "simply" do some Earth Orbit missions, a Space Station, shuttles, ... 

Just NOT WAR PULEEEEZE....

Edited February 23, 20251 yr by jcomm

The pieces and base foundation is there for MSFS 2024 to unanimously become the best civilian flight sim ever. It’s just that the release and the bugs  was a bit of a setback.

But the same could be said of MSFS 2020 when it was released. The pieces and base foundation was also there for MSFS 2020 when it was released, and within a few years of fixes and improvements, MSFS 2020 became the best civilian flight sim ever made.  I’m sure MSFS 2024 will follow the same path, and within 2 years, the overwhelmingly majority of flight simmers will be using MSFS 2024 as their primary choice for their civilian flight sim (ie. Navigraph, SteamDB, etc, will show the overwhelming majority of users on MSFS 2024 within 2 years).

Edited February 23, 20251 yr by abrams_tank

Uninstalled it some time ago, looking to give it a try again, can someone confirms that ALL default airliners works with the integrated EFB? This was a problem before, IIRC.