FS 2024 Feature Wish List?

[Joelle]

As title suggests, what would you hope is included in the new version? A few below from my point of view...

Better ATC:
-Different voices on com frequencies with different controller voices at each destination
-Less of the button push for words to be stated and perhaps some level of verbal ai speech to text of your own voice to communicate all typical needs.

Enhanced Map layers in world:
-Some of this already coming
-Further improved regions to be updated with semi-recent data (not still using solely 2020 or map data prior).

Private Pilot Mock Flight Training...
-Great that they do the base MSFS training in the C150/172. Would love to see this expanded to a semi-structured course similar to actual PPL material (ignoring ground school portion to a certain degree).

Walking around Plane:
-This already is coming, but I am hoping they expand the checklists to include checks on the plane external too and not solely the ability to walk outside the plane.

Engage Airport Lights when in outside Tower Operation Control:
-Unsure if this is possible today or not. Typically it would be clicking the mic on a given ctaf frequency when the airports transitions from class D to class E airpspace as the tower is inop in the time range. If this exists, I'd love to know how to do it today in the sim.

Additional Equipment Failures:
-Other electrical failures to warrant popped circuit breakers and research/investigation to figure out the cause.

[Twelvefield]

ATC won't get any love, unfortunately.

Today's sim can't turn the runway lights on and off, but it has been talked about a lot. It would be great to have that control in the new sim!

https://youtu.be/g_rWja1Xiu8?si=1PZzIypNvBHC_eyl

I also doubt that MS24 will get more flight training, but you never know. All of that depends on the Mission structure. In FSX, the SDK had a robust system for creating Missions, but it was difficult to program so you never saw all that many user-created Missions. The Mission system in MSFS is just a house of cards barely holding together at all. MS24 promises a wide range of Missions, so maybe Asobo has figured out an easier way to generate them. If MS24 doesn't have an easy app for user-created Missions, it will come soon enough. When it does, then you will see study-level instruction but probably from 3PDs rather than from Microsoft.

[★Macman★]

I want: -

• VR TO FULLY WORK not have no EXTERNAL ZOOM and shake us around when we LOGOFF.
  This will not happen but is mentioned as are lots of things they ignore fixing.
  
  
• LIVE WEATHER to actually be real and include CIRRUS CLOUDS.
  This will not happen but is mentioned as are lots of things they ignore fixing.
  
  
• ATC with REAL WORLD ACCENTS & AI SPEECH RECOGNITION which has existed for a decade and they just want to farm this out as if it has to be... IT DOES NOT CLEARLY. We already have this plus we only want a few voices for each Country.
  This will not happen but is mentioned as are lots of things they ignore fixing.
  
  
• PILOT CAREER + FAVOURITE ROUTES which they ignore changing the daft long list in the World Map and there has been no effort to hint the CAREER will be ready.
  This will not happen but is mentioned as are lots of things they ignore fixing.
  
  
• Make this daft Version 2024 a FREE UPGRADE else they need their heads looking at.
  This will not happen but is mentioned as are lots of things they ignore fixing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnW5lkk8SOQ

[Joelle]

Regarding the free upgrade thought, I get where you are coming. For me personally, I want this sim to continue to be around 10+ years from now and still going strong. For that reason I'd rather pay for a newer version. At present it isn't really clear all that 2024 will include, but am still very excited about. Also working on my private pilot's license at a similar time so it is absolutely fantastic to have a space to test things learned through the completion of ground school.

[shadowgravy]

I'd like for passengers and co-pilots to be customizable from a menu; or at least easily changed at mission setup or during a scenario.

[Simracer]

I want a flight that will load. This sim has the most unstable launcher I have ever encountered.

[Joelle]

Originally posted by Simracer:

I want a flight that will load. This sim has the most unstable launcher I have ever encountered.

What do you mean? Loading times are like 15 seconds. Don't think I've ever had a crash in normal play or VR for that matter with godlike settings on.

[Destroy]

Full and proper reload resuming from any flight.
Purpose and meaning for walking around the plane.
Some aircraft maintenance and upkeep to manage.

[ZombieHunter]

Save / load a flight. Please. Why we need a new version for this to work is beyond me.

Taxi ribbon that doesn't stop working after one flight.

Pop up IFR that is more reliable. 50% of the time it does not work.

More reliable AP. I can't count how many times FS 2020 AP has tried to kill me.

Better performance on final approach and landing. The most important phase of flight and FS 2020 decides to crap the bed.

Better ground handling overall. Recent changes were nice, but move this to all aircraft.

Less weather-vaning into the wind on the ground (also due to poor friction / stiction modelling).

Make Restart flight work. It almost always fails to re-init avionics and aircraft state.

A world map that remembers the last airport you were AT, not landed AT. Currently if you select an airport and go there but don't land, the next time it won't show that airport in recents. Starting at an airport should put it in the list, but it does not.

Better trim. I don't know what they did in SU5 but they messed up trim horribly. It sucks beyond measure now. Not even close to how real aircraft trim responds.

Better turbulence model. The current one sucks. It acts like the plane has no inertia.

Better control feel. Again the planes are too twitchy and act as if they have zero inertia.

[★Macman★]

Good points by everyone here. I feel we have all been testers to make that the GAMEPLAY.
It really shows this Version is not COMPLETE and under DEVELOPED. It is shocking that this is the DESIGN MODEL to go on as they began and they will again make the exact same mistakes but with more GRAPHICS. We ultimately are only being forced to keep up with the tech to buy new GPU & CPU. Amazing sabotage.

* One good point coming is we should not require even the FREE SIMBRIEF to simply get all the Planes & Runways & World Map to SYNC ,rather than the very weird method it is here with NAV DATA:
GAME 1 MONTH OUT-DATED
FREE SIMBRIEF 1 YEAR OUT-DATED
NAVIGRAPH SUBS UP TO DATE BUT NOT WITH THE WORLD MAP SO ATC DOES NOT FOLLOW IT

[Luxiwow]

-real integrated Multiplayer so people can fly the same plane together.
-optimize the game for the average joe and not someone with a NASA budget for a Computer.

[Kidnoff]

I don't understand Fs 2024. I don't see the game on steam. It's just a big update of Fs 2020? or a new game? Because Fs 2020 is now in sales, but I don't gonna buy it if a new one is coming...

[CdnRod]

I would like to see the views that were available in FSX. I believe there will be some but I don't know which ones. I liked the fly-by view, the tower view (cool to see your plane at 30000 ft flying over an airport from the perspective of a controller). I especially liked the ability to choose any plane in flight (or on the ground too I think) and to immediately switch to an external view of it and follow it, watch it land or take off etc.

I also hope that the drone camera will have easy intuitive controls, I find the current ones to be dreadful.

[Joelle]

Originally posted by Kidnoff:

I don't understand Fs 2024. I don't see the game on steam. It's just a big update of Fs 2020? or a new game? Because Fs 2020 is now in sales, but I don't gonna buy it if a new one is coming...

Early in June the FAQs page here at the link below noted it was going to launch on steam too. I no longer see that there today. It may not be coming to steam (as they do take a significant volume of the profits).

https://www.flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-faq/

[Kidnoff]

Originally posted by Joelle:

Originally posted by Kidnoff:

I don't understand Fs 2024. I don't see the game on steam. It's just a big update of Fs 2020? or a new game? Because Fs 2020 is now in sales, but I don't gonna buy it if a new one is coming...

Early in June the FAQs page here at the link below noted it was going to launch on steam too. I no longer see that there today. It may not be coming to steam (as they do take a significant volume of the profits).

https://www.flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-faq/

Oh thank you. by reading that, it looks like a new standalone game. I was thinking about buying Fs2020 with the 40% sales, but I gonna wait the new one ;P

[Joelle]

Originally posted by Kidnoff:

Originally posted by Joelle:

Early in June the FAQs page here at the link below noted it was going to launch on steam too. I no longer see that there today. It may not be coming to steam (as they do take a significant volume of the profits).

https://www.flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-faq/

Oh thank you. by reading that, it looks like a new standalone game. I was thinking about buying Fs2020 with the 40% sales, but I gonna wait the new one ;P

Also, they recently had an expo in grand canyon for lots of influencers on the game to play it. Plenty of vids on youtube right now highlighting lots of new features.