Honest Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Gameplay Review First Look

[@MrAdrianSW]

I dont think the majority of people really grasp How the game works, and thats been its initial downfall as far as people's Expectations. I was absolutely ready for the Client / Host issues to be a thing. I feel like MS and Asobo underestimated just How many people would be logging in on day 1. I think a lot of people forgot the Hellish releases of things like Cyberpunk, Batman Arkham Knight, and almost Every online game in the 201x's Once in, the game seems really solid. The texture and geometry streaming looks pretty solid too. Once the demand on the Server side drops to the expected 'regular' number of connections things will get Way better. The joys of a Live Online game..... As I said, I think they should have anticipated the Popularity and planned accordingly. Those 'long loading times' will go down as the "New Game" smell leaves the title. Whats really cool though, is that updates, maintenance and improvements are all going to be on the Server side, not the Client. So we dont have to deal with 50Gig patches. I can see that people with less than desirable internet speeds are going to experience some issues though. But.... Where do we go from here??. Can we expect Subscription plans for Advanced features (coming soon)?. I love what they are doing and where they are taking this. Im holding onto my grain of salt though... Personally I like to Benchmark by doing VFR over London. That usually gives me a good idea of what Im dealing with... ( keep in mind, I started with the SubLogic product all those years ago. ) Hey, I wonder what happens if you try VFR in a Jet doing Mk1. Can the Server stream the world to the client fast enough?

[@SimUKReviews]

So many great ideas and questions....excited to find out 🏁

[@OzzySafa]

@@MrAdrianSW I agree with you I were also prepared for it to be a messy launch however just having one alpha test to test these things was not enough. We should have had a closed beta and then open beta for them to get enough data. As it was delayed they should have expected a rush of people trying to install and play at once. I do believe they rushed it because of the name being 2024 they didn’t have much time to delay further. They should have came up with a different name and delayed it further and made sure all systems were able to support everyone coming in at once. I’m very well expecting many improvements in the future more optimisation better online services and new features overall. Where they got 2020 version to the state it’s in today they improved it vastly beyond my expectations. I’m sure we’ll get the sim we expected but we’ll just have to be patient at this point we are all just beta testers.

[@MagicAyrtonforever]

Which is worrying.. Because they don't seem to know who their target base is even! A lot of people (Including myself) have been refunded so that should alleviate some of the load at least!

[@deltaforce4477]

@@MagicAyrtonforever the developers are still responsible for addressing issues in the game if they want people to come back to it.

[@johnwicks4936]

If you look at SteamDB, you can see there are only about 1000 more players on 2024 then 2020. If all things are equal across the board the excuse of being overloaded is nonsense.

[@tyrealsan8234]

I was really hoping for a HUGE improvement to the flight models, the aircraft feel so light and twitchy compared to real planes, 2024 may be improved but it's still not there for me.

[@lukeorlando4814]

I’ve watched 17minutes of this video and it feels painfully identical to my experience. I tried for 4 hours yesterday before giving up. And I tried for about 2 hours today. I’ve yet to fly but I did get further today than yesterday despite having spent half the time on it

[@SimUKReviews]

We just have to wait, as frustrating as it is & it really is frustrating :-)

[@wolfecanada6726]

I sympathize, as I've not been able to join yet either.

[@jonridley]

As one of those with a slower internet connection I think I’m resigned to this not being playable …

[@SimUKReviews]

I hope you can use the offline mode to your advantage.

[@BBoaBrim]

What an awesome video. “You need to get some walls mate!” That made me laugh out loud. 😂

[@mattzun6779]

How can you underestimate the number of people who would be downloading the game when you have the preorder info? You can expect almost all of those people to play a lot on day 1 and there will be huge peaks in demand when the servers go live and when prime gaming time starts. Preventing a problem like this isn't hard If you are only ready for 200k on day one, limit the number of preorders to 200k Give the people who preordered a couple of days of early access to stagger downloads If you are really mercenary about it, give the folks buying the more expensive versions more days of early access. Problem solved.

[@SimUKReviews]

You're bang on! Sadly, having now played a bit .... seems we are in for a rocky, buggy ride. Might be ready 2025......sometime.

[@johnwicks4936]

SteamDB shows their excuse is nonsense.

[@TheMicj38]

@@johnwicks4936 Why? Most people are using the Store

[@swavezmartin]

I love msfs 2020 im glad i decided to wait for this one the whole cloud based thing is terrible who thoght that was a good idea smh

[@MorrisseysMonkey]

Very bad idea mate.

[@swavezmartin]

@MorrisseysMonkey it's so disappointing

[@justme_7145]

I'm still trying to get past the mythical 97% on Xbox. Thanks for the brief view of the IoW though....that was a stroke of luck👍

[@SimUKReviews]

Just walk away and come back every few hours....Can't really suggest anything else?

[@justme_7145]

@@SimUKReviews It's finally installed (hurrah!) but when you select a departure point and click to fly it flat refuses to load anything....even with the live data switched off🫤

[@SimUKReviews]

YAY! Oh! Sorry to hear that, so frustrating. Not ready for release, I mean the game might be, but the network clearly isn't.

[@Jorendo]

O you managed to get in huh? For me I got past the initial loading the day after. I tried it on launch, got stuck at 5%, being a experienced MMORPG player I knew what time it was and decided not to waste my evening trying to get in and just shut it off. Tried again the next day between my shifts, was able to load in very quick...just to be stuck in the main menu. I can adjust my controls, I can do everything in the menu, but as soon as I want to fly, the game begins to lie about a low bandwidth even though I got high speed internet and then refuses to load me into the game, just seeing a internal loading in the lower right corner circle around while the screen is all messed up as it tried to merge from the airport select screen to the plane. I get it that launch problems can happen, but this is just sad that so many people still can't even fly. I'm glad I use the gamepass version, was gonna see how the game was first before buying as I'm curious about the career mode and if those missions are just a set amount of missions or if you can actually really own a private jet company or work as rescue helicopter pilot doing randomly generated rescue missions. Or fly for a airliner and earn money or something like the Air Haul addon you could buy for the other FS games. Guess I will be flying around in DCS till they figured out how to properly host the game, and even then i will still fly in DCS as it's a whole different type of flight sim so they can compliment each other, but I was hoping to at least have flown by now in FS.

[@SimUKReviews]

Took a while and as you can see, even getting in is no guarantee of a flight lol. Defo needs time, but I like what works!

[@joemanning90]

Fellow Islander here!

[@SimUKReviews]

Bonjour!

[@joemanning90]

@SimUKReviews hahaha

[@OzzySafa]

I saw the firefighting Lego aircraft yesterday in jfk duty free! I wanted it instantly because of the sim! Love how we can be big kids

[@SimUKReviews]

😆 I keep seeing things like that.

[@NipapornP]

At least at the end, the framerate was quite good. Can I find the specs of your rig somewhere? I'm about to build up a new PC until this year's end, so I'm interested in a system, which is capable of 25fps in FS/X-Plane. Just your CPU and graphic card would help me already to get in the right direction, thanks.

[@SimUKReviews]

Sure thing: RTX 4070 TI I5 13400K (cheapest decent gaming CPU, but easy to upgrade to any 12 - 14th Gen CPU). My main flying rig is i7 12400k RTX 4090. So when I upload more, you might want to compare the two?

[@NipapornP]

@@SimUKReviews Oh cool, thanks. My plan was an i7 14700F + RTX 4060 (because we aren't that rich here in Thailand), so it seems it would be roughly at the same performance level as your rig. Honestly, I don't really compare, because I need a FLIGHT-Sim(!), not a "Look around-Sim", which I can do much better in "Google Earth", and I guess, there it IS actually 100% accurate, or is the earth maybe flat??? haha But I don't need any cabin, livery, or 100% accuracy on the ground (except at the airports and visual anker points for VFR). What I call an FSim is an accurate flight model, good weather simulation and clever ATC, when flying with AI traffic. X-Plane fulfills that quite good, so I'm satisfied with it. What I really like in X-Plane are the fully customizable profiles for the controls, which allows the perfect "as real as it gets" -feeling, IMHO. ;) ...and it's available, whenever I want, loading within 1 minute, which can be even faster with less airplanes in the library.

[@SimUKReviews]

Sounds like an ideal rig. Def. Recommend spending on the CPU more than the GPU (GPU easy to swap out etc..) BUT just do some research on your 14th Gen Intel CPU...Some reports of overheating, not sure if they have fixed it yet or not :-)

[@NipapornP]

@@SimUKReviews Thanks for the hint, I'll use an AIO water cooling system, because the power usage of these processors is ridiculously insane!

[@NipapornP]

It's the new "blue screen" made by Microsoft! Now in full color, much longer, and you have to pay for it as well. Within that time I flew over 10.000 km around in X-Plane... just saying. ;)

[@SimUKReviews]

Hahahaha Tusche!

[@fcf8269]

I don't want to defend MS for sure; but I doubt they expected such number of concurrent connections. That is both a good and a bad thing to be honest

[@SimUKReviews]

I think they failed to test properly, nothing more. Tight deadlines before Xmas no doubt forced the early release.

[@fcf8269]

@@SimUKReviews That could be possible, but there is also a limitation on what you can test via network and VMs though... They opened up the game to everyone the same day, and the thing just blew up in their face. I think more than in the testing area, the error here is in the release planning and how it was handled IMO

[@GIjoelly]

Please stop using the start up loading screen. Everyone is sick of it. I mean really sick of it. Almost brainwashed of broken expectations 😂

[@ld6433]

I was thinking this also 😂😂😂

[@demonicsquid7217]

Who, SUK or MS?

[@KerboOnYT]

Wow

[@SimUKReviews]

Sorry, it gets worse. Managed to fly last night.....throttle animation works, throttle doesn't. Seemed like a rocky road ahead.

[@westyk52sparky]

i give this game -100%. i cant even play.

[@MorrisseysMonkey]

I'll stick with 2020 till this mess is fixed.

[@Nigelk388]

Msfs 2020 works great 24 is broken trash 🗑️

[@westyk52sparky]

eat your heart out cyberpunk 2077. lucky it was not on ps5. microsoft game taken off psn store. lol

[@AssociateBob]

My God, what a steaming pile of crap and you thought FS25 was bad at launch compared to this FS25 game of the year 😂 defiantly avoiding this car crash of game

[@SimUKReviews]

TBH I expected it to be bad (maybe not this bad). Just glad I didn't pay extra for the limited edition version now, instead waiting on gamepass till it is fixed.

[@AssociateBob]

@@SimUKReviews can I just say thank you for not editing a lot of that stuff out like most KZbinrs will, it's nice to see a raw honest review.

[@SimUKReviews]

Thank you. I was concerned it would be too empty, but at the same time wanted everyone to know what to expect.

[@elixier33]

You're going on about arrogance but you haven't done your own research and if you did do your own research, you would know that a Sobo did test the server is with over 250 000 people in one session . They didn't expect quite so many people to buy it and join at the same time and that's fair enough, it doesn't make it right but at the end of the day this is a massive game with gigabits from gigabits upon terror bits of information having to be streamed every second. So I'm not being funny, but what was it that you were expecting?? It's an extremely difficult, feed to put off and given a couple of hours, this game will just be fine when all the hype dies down and there aren't like 10 million people trying to log in at the same time this is going to be okay. I wish people would do research before coming out with such Rush.. At the end of the day, we're gonna come out with crap, like this, then maybe you should go and do a better job. Really infuriates me when i see channels like this people just come out with random stuff without even doing the faintest bit of fact checking .. You call yourself an I.T professional? 😮

[@SimUKReviews]

😆 🤣 Correcting you would be a waste of my time.....But watch again, you missed something in translation. 🤣

[@johnwicks4936]

Look at the SteamDB numbers. They are almost the same between the 2 versions. Their excuse is nonsense!

[@demonicsquid7217]

You sound like an astroturfing bot that didn't finish the grammar training cycle.

[@demonicsquid7217]

By the time the game actually loads we will all be dead in a nuclear fireball anyway...