Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

honestly just stick to x-plane 12. msfs2024 is way too much work. i didnt drop a good 100aud on flying, instead i dropped it on a grand tour of the settings page. I spent a good while just trying to set up the controls and fix the settings. tried dlss and instead of getting frame generation the peformance decided to go backwards??. although the graphics and scenery looks nice but controlling the plane is a sh!t show even the keybinding took a good chunk of my life away and the absolute worst part is the camera system moving your joystick hat switch literally throws you across the cockpit for no reason. x-plane's camera is so much easier doesnt take a newborn to click on a single button to move across unlike msfs. I only bought this to fly around and possibly doing actual flights and I can't even do that without struggling so supposedly msfs needs a massive rework. not worth the headache

As a simulation of flight, it's decent enough and mostly similar to MSFS 2020. Minor differences in handling, at least with the default aircraft. A bit better feeling on the ground. The main problem is that literally everything else surrounding the actual simulation is utterly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ broken. The UI and UX in particular is atrocious. It's stuttery, takes forever to transition between menus, sometimes menu functions and buttons just don't work or do something entirely different from what you were expecting. There are multiple dead ends in menu navigation where the game offers the ability to open a certain screen only to tell you that you actually can't access this from here and you have to go back to the main menu or something to open it. There are certain functions that you would expect to be standard that just aren't there, like for instance cancelling a download in progress. Bit of a problem when this vibe-coded pile of garbage started a 350+ GB download when you were just trying to download a single aircraft. Certain settings just refused to save no matter what I tried, requiring me to set them again every time I started the game. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong. That's fine, I'd be okay with that. If that is the case, ANY amount of feedback should be the bare minimum to let me know why my settings aren't saving, why my inputs are doing absolutely nothing or entirely the wrong thing. MSFS 2020 was already an absolute mess with this, I don't know how they could possibly have made it even worse. I only covered my frustrations with the UX but that's only the tip of the iceberg with how busted this thing is. Unless you're REALLY invested in walking around outside your aircraft or doing the career mode activities, you'd be better off with 2020.

Online only is a huge setback, almost a complete dealbreaker. Menu system really is a giant drawback, anyone wanting to use this for instrument practise will find themselves having to find a workaround to setup flights and conduct approaches. If these guys didnt have the PMDG aircraft , this would be a cool game to waste a few hours on and then move on, Theyve really turned thier back on real world pilots and flight sim enthusiasts.

so many issues with either the planes or login in to Xbox. If i had the chance i would take my money back.

it just crashes too much man

Horrible game. difficult to figure out key bindings / convoluted aircraft configuration. Missing Liveries in Standard Versions - unable to add aircrafts or liveries even for $$. MS Flight simulator used to be great. For MS, It's all about $$ today. I am not spending $129.99 in addition to spent already $69.99.

Way too many glitches that have been around for years at this point but the devs refuse to fix, even with there being a million DLCs. This game only survives because there are no other worthwhile flight simulators.

While this is a technically impressive piece of software, it is unusably buggy still - two years in. Unbelievable performance unpredictability coupled with a still-unusable career mode and a world map that kind of just... disappears... make this a waste of money. Stick with 2020.