FS2024: What Are The Best & Worst Features Of Flight Sim 2024? | Our Discord Member's Views

[@Jersey.Al101]

Favourite feature- being able to still use 2020!

[@Huddison]

😆

[@billB101]

I really like career mode but I agree, the bugs are awful. I mean, when you land after a 6 hour flight and no stop short box appears and the flight won't end. That is so _damn annoying._ Also, make sure when you look at the flight plan ( _before the flight_ ) that it doesn't just end at some random point before the final otherwise it usually means ( in my experience ) it's going to go pair shaped. Return to the main menu and try again. Oh and Happy Christmas.

[@ArcanePath360]

I had the "proceed to short" and I did. Then it prompted me to press a button to respond to ATC but no matter what I did, keyboard or gamepad, the button did nothing, so I had to skip. I love how buttons randomly stop working and sometimes the mouse won't look around with the right button. And custom cameras sometimes won't work either. The game just wants to annoy you. Controls should be the one thing that is stable in any game.

Thank you Huddison for all the videos and tutorials you publish. It has been a huge help for all users of Microsoft Flight simulator 2020 and 2024. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2025.

[@Huddison]

Much appreciated. A very Happy Christmas to you.

[@dougashdown2219]

Merry Christmas Huddison and a Happy 2025 with a fixed FS 2024

[@Huddison]

Happy Christmas Douglas 🎄

[@LeShark75]

All the best Huddison and chat. Hope everyone has a good one however you celebrate it. I'm really looking forward to installing all my content locally and having the option to alter the rudder sensitivity with the controller. I may just plug in a mouse and try using that to change the option.

[@Huddison]

Thanks my friend. All the very best and a very Happy Christmas to you 🎄

[@baardk2]

Great video. And a very happy Christmas to you 🙂What I dislike most is that the helicopters suddently "eject" up in the air when trying to hover over or landing on a target.

[@Huddison]

I've heard about that issue; another one that needs a patch apsp. Happy Christmas to you and yours 🎄

[@Elwaves2925]

Merry Flymas to you. Worst: Tail number doesn't stick, aircraft icons don't always show in menus, menus can be a bit choppy, photogrammetry can look terrible when close-ish. Best: Visuals, photography missions, loading times, more aircraft at default, generally smoother performance.

[@hammerpgh]

Another enjoyable video, watching it with a cuppa in bed before hitting the sack for the night (1am here in London). I've not tried career or world photographer mode yet as I'm having too much fun doing my own thing atm. But your quick show of the latter has reminded me that i do want to try that out. I'll get to career further down the line once we've had another update or two to iron out some of the bugs that I've read about. I agree with you that the controls interface should have been better implemented although I've kind of got used to it now. The synchronising things between aircraft is a must fix. It does make me wonder how these sort of things slip through.. the inverted axis was nuts to allow through for instance. I love the ease of setting fight plans up and having them transferred to the ATC and Avionics via the EFB. Not sure if that was available in 2020 as I didn't play that a great deal but i really find it great in 2024. Mouse look on Xbox should have been an early fix.. total nightmare and another thing that should not have been seen in the released sim. Totally love the sim though and am going to be spending endless hours on it over the coming years. Oh and I actuality enjoy the turbulence effects.. maybe i haven't seen it at its worst but what I have experienced has been really cool 👍

[@Huddison]

Fantastic input and feedback as always my friend.

[@wlflightlr]

Merry Christmas Huddison! Thanks for all of your videos in 2024, we will get MSFS2024 dialed in for 2025!!

[@Huddison]

Happy Christmas 🎄

[@AaronT-TX]

Merry Christmas Huddison, to you and yours.

[@Huddison]

Happy Christmas Aaron.

[@paulthurston2883]

For me it steered me back to DCS & X Plane. I really get turned off by the gamey, arcade feel. I like my sims gritty and honest. The opening scenes with that weirdo in the pink suit, 'inclusiveness' with the black, female captain, same sex passengers in mission mode etc really put me off. I don't appreciate woke, political, propaganda in my flight sims.

[@CanaryIrish]

Hudds .. Plenty of food for thought there. Divil you know and all that. Controls a concern as very happy with my current setup. Happy Christmas 🎄 🎉

[@CanaryIrish]

I believe 2020 will be supported until 2028. They should have sorted out 2024 by then hopefully.

[@UberGeek]

When I first read the title, it was Best and Worst "Failures" of flight sim 2024. It is more fitting from my experience.

[@JoeDFWAviation]

I hate that all the existing controls got changed. I’m excited to try out the new aircraft when fs2024 improves.

[@Bigchief73]

The best features are the visuals, the startup/load time, career mode, and photo mode. The worst features are over exaggerated turbulence, career mode plagued with violation bugs and un flyable missions, the AI traffic with floating aircraft and ground personnel walking though planes, and just the mismatched voices to the sex of the copilot. I say these are the worst features because it ruins the immersion very quickly. I’m still not sure why they just didn’t build the digital world , career mode, and flight physics and bring over the good things in FS2020. I just wish they would have test it more and took their time putting this out and thought things a little more thoroughly like making helicopter licenses totally separate from fixed wing. Unfortunately to open up your own passenger company you must do the helicopter transport which requires 3 helicopters licenses.

[@pinkfloyd7572]

Enjoying all your videos. Thank you.

[@Huddison]

Thank you too.

[@ArcanePath360]

Merry Christmas: Worst thing: The world map doesn't show what country you are in or help you with entering airports or coordinates in World photographer mode. (This is aside from the broken controls of course) Best thing: All the little details I keep discovering such as being able to open a helicopter door while flying and lean out, close the door and the movement won't let you back in, lol

[@johnhammond6423]

A very happy FS2020 pilot here with no reason to spoil my flying enjoyment by getting FS2024 any time soon.

[@MANC4VE]

I flew a 4 hour mission that took me over the Pyrenees with cross winds of 67kt and gust up to 77kt and wind shear with drops of 2000ft + I had to fly manually as the auto pilot kept stalling the plane. A hair-raising horror fight that ended up in catastrophe when I was hit with another bout of shear on landing, slaming the plane onto the tarmac and failing the mission. All of that on a 1 star mission with a bloody Cesna 172!

[@Huddison]

I've been there; highly frustrating. Thanks for sharing though - great read.

[@hobiegal]

I took a chopper into Africa and spotted a herd of water buffalo. They were spooked by the chopper so I landed and walked over near them. They weren’t spooked and I was able to get quite close for a photo. I’m not a photographer so it wasn’t great but the experience was one I’ll repeat for sure.

[@Huddison]

Fantastic story; thanks for sharing!

[@garintaylor2097]

One of the things I’ve hated is the ground support stuff, graphically the redraw distance makes the vehicles and people looks horrible and usually partially rendered unless you move super close, the ground staff don’t seem to have a purpose apart from looking ugly, what happened to the aircraft marshall’s? I’m of the opinion if they don’t improve the immersion (or in fact detract from it) get rid of it or at least give us the option to reduce or remove them (what happened to the options to reduce the sim objects in 2020) oh and btw this is on Xbox series X. Thanks for the channel.

[@Huddison]

Thanks for sharing.

[@CanaryIrish]

Hudds ... Agree with you regarding the necessity of having a mouse. This one I bought to replace wired one.

[@Huddison]

Yes, there's no reason not to use one really.

[@Cracker9876]

I know what I dislike in some users of FS2024. They lack patience and sense of realism.

[@ToBCreations]

Agreed

[@simmybear31]

If your new car came with 2 missing wheels and an open ended promise to 'put it right' I'm sure you'd be so calm and understanding 😂

[@peterprow6093]

Lots of people have had a terrible experience with the software, they have every right to be cross. The expectation is that it WORKS and fir many, it doesnt

[@Cracker9876]

@@simmybear31You just underlined my statement concerning realism. Next: compare the sim to your house. Your life. Your wife. Whatever.

[@Cracker9876]

@@peterprow6093It is a very complex piece of software. No sim of this proportions has ever been faultless out of the box. Most complainers are just plain dumb, refusing to reinstall, not knowing how to set up their controls. Demanding this, demanding that. Shouting in anger and ignorance. Dumb people have rights, true. But I have the right to disagree and expose them.

[@Hedgehobbit]

For me the worst feature has been how complicated the graphical settings are. I'm having horrible pop-in problems but no matter which of the graphic options I change, it doesn't seem to get better or worse. It isn't an issue with data streaming as I can make the planes pop in and out just by moving he camera. The draw distance, especially for other aircraft, is ludicrously low. Even 50 ft away, NPC planes are low-poly models without even landing gear on them. Same with cars, people and trees.

[@Mikinct]

What? The people & trees don't have landing gear? That's just crazy

[@AlanTheBest97]

Ive refunded it because the performance is just disrespectfull. I lost 25-30% performance when compared to 2020 in my 3060Ti and i5 11400K and get worse visuals at times. Pathetic.

[@KermyFrog]

If Jorge was a football manager he'd be booted out the door after 2024 performance

[@ToBCreations]

Fortunately that's not the case. Jorg and the team have been transparent all the way. Seeing the horrible launch I agree that they should have been way more prepared, and even postponed the launch. But 💩 happens, and I choose to see the bigger picture and what they aim to do. It will get better.

[@pm110978]

Happy Holidays 🎄

[@jaredtandle2596]

Everytime I do a 2 hour+ mission in the skyhawk, my engine dies out. If I land, I fail the mission. If i skip, i dont get shit. Any tips for restarting my engine mid air? I basically limit myself to shorter missions.

[@Huddison]

Me too.

[@monkeyboy9896]

The one feature that I was really hoping for, but of course it didn't come. was just a simple ability to play co-op co-pilot with a friend. It's absolutely unbelievable that it's not available 😮

[@obloj]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[@Huddison]

Happy Christmas 🎄

[@adiedri38]

Merry Christmas to you all

[@Huddison]

Happy Christmas 🎄

[@captainmegaxenon2042]

VR is blurry, and laggy when looking to the sides on low altitude (just as it was at the start of msfs 2020) The avro rj does not align gps. When starting vr when already in the avro rj cockpit the sim hangs and get ctd after a while. Shimmering on edges in vr. Control settings does seem to not always being remembered or saved. Mouse lags at times or need to activate the vr controller to get the mouse pointer back. Seems like it is working fine on 2d. But in vr there are so many problems and bugs that i just have given up on the new sim and use the msfs2020 while waiting for 2024 to get better. 2024 looks really nice and has some nice features and the scenery looks better of course, but for now the 2020 with its already good scenery and flight model and also stable it will be the better option still for a while.

[@JoeDFWAviation]

My fs2024 experience is off to a rocky start. Low FPS, broken camera controls….. (runaway controls)

[@Huddison]

Thanks for sharing Joe.

[@hobiegal]

The H125 trim was added in the last update.

[@Rip1Outdoors]

Merry Christmas sir

[@Huddison]

Happy Christmas back at you 🎄

[@frankw204]

Still waiting for improvements based on Xbox series X and mediocre Internet. Thanks "Hudds".

[@Rip1Outdoors]

Flew lower loon creek. The graphics are jaw dropping! That’s what I love the most. Having atc tell me to ascend to 3000 ft while I am landing is what I don’t like. Some of the missions require you to take the vision jet off in a farm field 😢

[@Huddison]

Yes, the missions will often end up leading you into questionable configurations.

[@Elwaves2925]

Which Loon Creek? According to Google, there's several and I'd be curious to fly over it myself.

[@Rip1Outdoors]

@ c53 fly to 09id fly down in the valley

[@Elwaves2925]

@@Rip1Outdoors Thank you kindly.

[@Rip1Outdoors]

@ I used the nx cub

[@martinpatterson9015]

Found a Fix for the poor Graphics in Cites Turn off Photogrammetry it improves massively on Xbox

[@Elwaves2925]

That is a way around it but I wouldn't class it as a fix. A fix would be having it work properly when it was turned on.

[@martinpatterson9015]

​@@Elwaves2925True

[@glennkendall8621]

Just to add to what you and others have said, a 'dislike' for me is that the 'free flight' is less appealing than 2020 (e.g. fewer POIs, no marketplace add-ons yet). A 'like' for me is the huge improvement in scenery and cockpit rendering (avionics fixed, seasonality and night flying, roadways, etc.) Based on mostly GA flying on Xbox S. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas, and Happy Flying!

[@Huddison]

Thanks for your input; the warmest Christmas greetings back to you.

[@gregmiller7584]

Please help me out. Cockpit views are the issue. Default is “shift 1,2, etc.”, yet it does QUICK VIEW, not a static view.

[@richavery66]

Overall, I really like MSFS 2024. Setting it to Ultra graphics, and using FG in the settings and the AutoFPS app, I can get over 100 FPS (not that it's needed!) with a TLOD over 300 and an OLOD over 250 - and I don't have an RTX 4090! (The fact I fly VFR in relatively simple aircraft to replicate my real-world flying probably helps...) A lot of the new aircraft in the standard version are great; I'm particularly enjoying flying the Joby S4 - it's a very versatile aircraft which is interesting and easy to fly in all phases of flight. The thing I dislike most about the sim, however, is the fact that it won't allow me to run my RAM at its advertised speed. My system was built and set up for me, and was configured to have the RAM running at 5200 MHz. For a couple of weeks, the sim kept crashing within a few minutes of takeoff no matter how 'dumbed down' I made the settings. Research on the internet revealed that MSFS 2024 doesn't like anything overclocked and sees RAM running at its fastest speed as being overclocked. I had to go into the BIOS and turn off the XMP in order to get the SIM consistently stable. I now have it running well and am enjoying it but wish Microsoft and Asobo would let us run it on our systems with the RAM operating at the maximum speed the manufacturers deem safe. Not everyone would know about BIOS settings, let alone how to access and change them, and none of us should have to run our systems sub-optimally.

[@Huddison]

What fantastic feedback & input - thanks Rich.

[@peterprow6093]

Im not going to list the worst... theres plenty. However, I love the scenery and clouds. Sensational. Try the alps or african plains. And the paraglider was a really unexpected surprise. I only tried it because nothing else worked, but its brilliant. Try turning off the engines and gliding above a large town or city, youll hear police cars, trucks reversing, very imersive!

[@Huddison]

Wonderful; thanks for sharing.

[@CanaryIrish]

Hudds ... Still trying to get to grips with all your excellent guides on controllers and joysticks. One device that's very unstable in the new sim is the mouse. Using it in the cockpit it seems to move all over the place erratically. Some videos seem to suggest this. Any experience yourself ?

[@Huddison]

Is that on Xbox? We are all awaiting a fix from the Asobo Masters for that one.

[@CanaryIrish]

@Huddison Yes Hudds ... XBox X. Also, it seems like I used to be closer to cockpit instruments on Hotas on FS2020

[@itsPlanesUSA]

This man sounds exactly like Ringo Starr! That’s awesome Eeehhhyyoooo Bongo!

[@saleasylum]

The worst feature is it makes me want to give up on flight sim and sell all my gear. Too much BS for a hobby.

[@adenfirdaus6137]

I hate some features such as no more ai auto pilot tools, the gps tablet is too big, those helicopters still hard to fly and to land. I'm not real pilot, I play the game just for fun and I don't realy like those boring civil career missions, unless there are war missions.

[@Cracker9876]

You can resize the tablet. Small, medium and large.

[@Enduroger]

Mouse sensitivity issue? Is that an series X only thing. Haven't noticed that on my series s.

[@Huddison]

You're able to look around your cockpit using the mouse, without it freaking out?

[@Enduroger]

@@Huddison It's not great but not any worse than in 2020 or other games.

[@MrLongy1970]

I can not seem to get any aircraft to follow gps waypoints on a flightplan when in auto pilot and in nav mode. In fs 2020 i could do successfully do fly by wire flights with airbus with ils landing. Does it not work in fs2024 or am i doing something wrong?

[@Huddison]

I'm able to follow GPS routes with no problems - jump on to our Discord (linked in the description) and we can further help you.

[@JoeyBlazey83]

Only thing better in 24 is the graphics blow 20 out of the way but 24 is a mess it's getting better now but still a long road before it's at the level of 20 overall I think mid 25 before that to take place

[@patfisher22]

I had errors installing 2024 and got a refund. Loving 2020 after being away from my gaming rig for a couple of months. More tweaks makes it great. Nvidia shaders, Nvidia control panel settings, AutoFPS...Better scenery would be nice, but I see its not that much greater considering all the bugs. Also, walk around feels apocalyptic with no people or much going on. Will pick up 2024 in a year or two. I'll take a functional device/person/software over a pretty one with lots of flaws.

[@russellharris5072]

The graphics (at the expense of other essential features)are very good.Other than that,there is so much wrong with it that it really is a case (in English law) of "goods not of merchantable quality." So I am boycotting it until they at least fix the Tobii headtracker....................................................

[@acratone8300]

...the one down vote was probably someone who wanted to dilly dally...

[@Huddison]

Very likely.

[@andy70d35]

Merry Christmas, Huddison and family. I hate career mode, it is a total joke. FS Academy is far better if you want to learn about flying aircraft. There are others like the air turbulence is total joke, far too powerful. And the stupid walk around every flight can't wait till we can turn that off permanently, I fly SOP in airliners, very rarely use GA aircraft.

[@CanaryIrish]

Logitech M185 on Amazon for a tenner

[@andresvalencia-motorsportn7324]

To me one of the things i dislike is the users on discords that spit out that the game is not broken like they are completely delusional. If its not broken then why cant most xbox users fly long routes on big airliners without the sim running out of memory and then crashing or blackscreening lol? Delusional people

[@AlanTheBest97]

Performance is horrible. I get 1/2 of the fps in my 3060Ti compared to 2020 and get worse graphics.

[@Utubeiscommietrash]

There's nothing to like about a virtually unplayable game except the fanboys trying to defend it.

[@Huddison]

Sue me

[@robh7671]

Is the AI co-pilot in 2024???? like it was in 2020.

[@Huddison]

In what way Rob?

[@robh7671]

@@Huddison AI co-pilot in 2020 took over flying the plan and deal with ATC, But one said they took this out for 2024 I was just asking.

[@mikecoffee100]

There are Best Features ?? lol messin yah eventually fingers crossed it will be better .

[@Huddison]

It's bound to Mike.

[@gs2162]

Worst. Not worse