Abriael

It'll get old soon. 😂

Same here, I'll install and play comfortably tonight after I'm done working and had a nap 😂

or maybe people should just have an ounce of patience. Don't you people have work? 😂

Who? 😂

who? 😂 Maybe you should enjoy your new L, together with "gamermuscles" 😂😂😂😂

I'm not even going to try to install until I'm done with work 😂

Same happened with 2020. I wasn't amazed by the quality of their stuff tho. Not gonna be amazed this time either, but hey, visibility for the hobby is good.

Always glad to be of service 🫡

Nah, most awards actually don't work like that. This doesn't. I don't specifically care about the awards themselves, but this is an event with many million viewers. Cheesy and irritating spectacle aside, MSFS 2024 winning an award would have been great visibility for the hobby (and I do care about that) and it's a pity that it was snubbed.

Today they announced the nominees of The Game Awards, and I noticed that MSFS 2024 was not in there. Initially, I wasn't surprised. Obviously, it's out too late to be considered, right? Nope. Wrong. Apparently, games are eligible as long as they are released before November 22. MSFS 2024 was eligible this year and will not be eligible next year (because next year, it'll be games from November 23 onward). MSFS is a big AAA game, and it's really weird that it has been left out, albeit I know all too well why. First of all, award shows and most outlets weirdly bunch together simulation games and strategy games in the same award. The result is that this year, the "best simulation/strategy game" award category doesn't have a single simulator nominated. They're all strategy games. Funnily, one simulator has been nominated... F1 24... and it's in the sports/racing games category because according to some weirdos, racing simulators are not simulators, but more akin to sports games. Ultimately, the obvious elephant in the room is that the jury is made entirely of generalist gaming journalists and influencers, and they don't really play simulators as much as other genres. They don't generate as much of that controversy that they make their money on. At least not the kind of controversy that generates traffic. Mind you, the strategy category doesn't fare that much better. They slapped into it Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess which got an 80 on Metacritic (not bad, but not exceptional), which tells me they were scratching the bottom of the barrel, despite the fact that there were plenty of great strategy games this year that they simply did not know of, so they weren't considered. Of course, simulators should have their own category, but I suppose they're too busy announcing three redundant awards for esports and one for "best influencer" to spare some time for our genre. 🤔

no pants.

That's not really what I am looking for. I want the traffic to follow what happens in the real, not to have to generate events manually. That's what real-time dynamic traffic is. 99% is a massive overestimation unless you're telling me that 99% of flights depart perfectly on time, aren't canceled, etcetera, which certainly isn't the case. The whole world isn't Japan. 😂 If a fixed schedule is good for you, great. BATC is a great product for those who are ok with that. It simply breaks the deal for me. I've been doing schedules since FS 2004 (or maybe even 2002? can't remember when I started using Project AI). I'm not going back.

"Live AI planes seems to be a mess in MSFS 2024 !?" Yes. They did.

I don't understand your change. AIG, like BATC uses schedules. It doesn't include any delays or changes that can happen in the real world. The only difference is that someone at AIG compiles the schedules manually (as far as I know), while BATC automatically generates them from a 7-day slice at a certain point in time. Both solutions are fixed but implemented in different ways. But we're going far off topic, so I'll leave it here. I love BATC's implementation of traffic injection and handling (and the fact that it's fully independent allows it to work seamlessly in MSFS2024), but their data source simply doesn't fit my preference. Sad panda.