Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 announced.

[Mr_Sukebe]

and with the amount of hype and pre-orders, hardly as though they didn't have any data to use in forecasting expected demand. Just embarrassing.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Kind of shocked to get to a screen with a queue. Poor form in this day and age and from MS.

 

[mk17]

This was posted a couple of hours ago, not a great start, at least we don't drink and fly

 

[danlightbulb]

How is it in Vr?

 

[roddypoddy]

I'm going to give it a go at the weekend, hopefully a lot of issues will be sorted by then, touch wood.

 

[peahead]

No luck here either, ah well maybe tomorrow.

 

[sgavan]

Still issues this morning and an update from the Asobo\MS team.

 

[Trifid]

Yeah, gave it another go, stuck at the customizing identity for half an hour. Restarted and couldn't get past the loading screen. I'll probably next try tomorrow, but at least it is good to see there is demand for high quality flight simulators.

 

[Grim5]

this game is such a mess

I can get in, and get stuck on loading screen

Then after 5 attempts got passed loading but when I try to do any flight it gets stuck on loading again

 

[imtoooldforthis]

Reading some posts on Reddit it’s wild how many people thought this was going to be some kind of graphical revolution only to realise it basically looks the same as 2020 only with improved lighting and slightly improved ground objects/textures in specific areas.

 

[chrismscotland]

Managed to get in this morning but like others stuck on Customising Identity; not a good start

 

[speeduk]

I still have no idea why people pre order these days. Almost every top game has had issues or been absolute tripe. I wont even touch stalker 2 because of the state of gaming.

 

[sgavan]

I imagine a lot of issues may be due to this being on gamepass as well, lots probably want to try it but may not stick with it due to it not being their thing, and soon level out. My game pass expires this month and suspect this to be a long term game for me, plus a nice MS reward voucher meant it was half price But yeah I checked the game awards and realised how little interest I had in most new games this year and this was different.

 

[BUDFORCE]

and with the amount of hype and pre-orders, hardly as though they didn't have any data to use in forecasting expected demand. Just embarrassing.

Yup it's hard to sympathise.

Screams of maximising profits by renting a game boy to host the servers.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Still issues this morning and an update from the Asobo\MS team.

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[darkgen]

After watching that. The mitigation sounds more like
"Too many poeple! We expected an average ~200k connections, so we throttled down connections to that figure and er good luck!"

I did not hear the word add, expand, increase or cloud regionalise these databases to mitigate the connectivity issue anywhere in that call.

 

[Charlie Bravo]

I tried again this morning and got in no problem.
It did however take three attempts to load once I'd selected the aircraft and departure field in the Free Flight section.

I'd got the graphics settings set to high with my 5800X and 3060ti running at 4k (yep, I know!) but it seemed fairly smooth.
Regardless the sim crashed to desktop shortly before landing en route from North Weald to Cambridge.

 

[Slam62]

Got in but flight stuck on loading

 

[xaldub]

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Poor form, I'm sure there would have been thousands of messages wishing them well

 

[BUDFORCE]

I did not hear the word add, expand, increase or cloud regionalise these databases to mitigate the connectivity issue anywhere in that call.

Yup if anything I think that made me feel worse about the situation.