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Ah ok, I see. Maybe that makes it even harder to mobilise for fire-fighting duties 🙂

Haha yes I totally agree that it was sheer greed that drove this rushed release 🙂 my (limited) point is that Asobo do seem routinely to kinda shoot themselves in the foot with own goals, looking back at the various updates to v20 over the years, some of which (iirc) have been pretty half-baked and showing signs less of haste per se than of disorganisation.

Aren't they in France? French labour laws are generous and most workers are insistent on their rights: short working hours, long holiday, hard to fire, etc. I suspect this is one of the big cultural differences that helps explain why they - sometimes - can't seem to get their act together. If (it's a big if) they really have 800 people working on the sim, that might be the equivalent of c200 people in the States from a productivity point of view.

Fenix got their act together much faster than I had hoped so I jumped onto v24 sooner than planned, but after the scandal of the initial roll-out had subsided. I found the transition infuriating at first, mainly because of the confusing (to me) control UI. There are definitely still plenty of niggles (eg, on my pc, the "Live" weather setting doesn't stick from one session to the next, the AI traffic is all over the place at a busy airport with total chaos on runway choice etc, the fixation on "first person experiences" like walking around seems imbecilic to me especially as it cannot be turned off, etc etc). However, the overall experience is promising. - It is already materially better than v20 from the visual/ graphics point of view: check out London, for example. - Performance is comparable with v20, or even slightly better, despite all the extra bells and whistles like road traffic and spectacular shadows / lighting. - The streaming does sometimes produce more stutters than v20, but not ruinously imo. - The weather is better, especially cloud / haze. Cloud break-out can be astonishing! - The improved atmospheric model is not limited to better weather depiction. For example, under the right conditions at dawn/dusk/night, the glow from urban lighting now actually illuminates the sky: I nearly fell off my chair when I first saw it! - There is also an appreciable change in how the aeroplane "feels" both on the ground and airborne. I don't know if it's more or less authentic, but it "feels" more dynamic and responsive to external conditions, so I presume that it's an improvement in verisimilitude. So: for the way I use the sim, basically just procedurally in a big jet, there is no reason to go back to v20.

Curious to know what "killing" a 4090 looks like as compared with "using" it to its fullest potential? When I buy expensive kit for a PC I want to see it being slammed at 100% when under load. Otherwise it's just leaving performance on the table and I feel short-changed 🙂

Not sure anything is "necessary" in this sim 🙂 but decent pedals (TCR Pendular) have certainly improved my experience. I now use the twist on the joystick to control the nose wheel.

Looking good!

It's just an ego issue at this point sadly.

Hehe it was only an example ... but in fact you will need one or more specific profiles if you have 2 levers but like to mix it up between using 2-engine planes and 4-engine planes 😉

This article (link below) explains it pretty clearly. Honestly I wonder if some of these things are made more difficult because the devs are French and English is not their first language: sometimes the subtleties get lost in the language they choose for labels / instructions in the UI: https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/16459737949980-Controller-Settings-FAQ In theory at least, it looks sensible : 1. "General" settings to apply regardless of aircraft choice, subject to ... 2. "Aircraft" settings to apply depending on type of aircraft (aeroplane, helicopter, ballon etc), subject to ... 3. "Specific" settings to apply to the particular airframe you've chosen. For example: 1. Camera/ view settings? 2. Ailerons / elevators / rudders? 3. Throttles / lights / signs?

Does it / is it supposed to detect add-ons and disable anything incompatible automatically?

Don't tempt me 😉

Exactly. There is no possible way that MS can have thought that this version was ready for public release. Even a m o r o n in a hurry could have seen that. But they stuck to their arbitrary timetable anyway. Presumably they calculated that the fallout would be even worse if they postponed it. How could it have been worse? Because they had greedily opted to "pre-sell" - which turned the deadline from being something they could change based on product quality, into something that could not be moved. Any lawyer will recognise only too clearly the deep cynicism of this move. They opted to release a defective product because although this was a breach of (at least) the consumer laws, the breach involves an application of evaluative judgment / making an assessment / leaves room for creative argument. Whereas postponing the release would equally have been a breach of the consumer laws, but without any need to apply evaluative judgment etc: ie, an even clearer breach and a bigger legal risk. That, I am afraid, is probably the assessment that was made here.

Yes I get that point, ofc, it's only a game, stay proportionate, get a grip etc etc. I hope that one day, soon, it will work as promised. I'm a life-longer simmer so I definitely want it to succeed! But there is a bigger issue here. It's about how big corporations treat the "little people". I think it's profoundly unfair and wrong that MS should treat consumers with such disdain. Goodness knows how many $millions they have now lifted from the "little people" - in return for less than nothing. That sheer multitude of small disappointments, of hours spent waiting for the magic to happen, then finding that it will take an untold further amount of time to begin to work as advertised, is not a trivial thing when viewed as a totality and in the context of the vast sums taken by MS. The fact that it's too trivial to be taken seriously at the individual level, makes it worse and more cynical, not better.

Exactly. It's no answer to say "it will work eventually": you didn't pay for a promise of eventual performance in a timeframe of someone else's choosing (if ever): you paid for performance from the very start!