Career Mode Feedback

[Luxiwow]

Currently Level 6. And I am already disappointed.
-NPC clip through the Plane and sit in the air
-NPC talk and their mouth don't move nor do they move at all, they don't seem to look out the window etc.
-Extremly AI voices
-ATC is talking over each other or cuts off completely
-"Pilot Performance" is really something, landed on an all grass air strip and got a penalty for "getting off the runway onto taxi" there was no tower nothing and no markings on the ground so how would I know?
-Missions just teleport your HQ, I picked the middle of nowhere for a reason but mission then send me to Italy and now there I am...
-Obviously very bad Character Creator

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Messaggio originale di Arran Chace:

* Some planes you get penalized for Extending Flap at to high speeds while on the ground parked getting into the Sim.. G36 Bonanza is one for example.
* At some more smaller airfields that are off grid in Europe, you get directed after landing to hold short behind you and contact ground there, if you even leave the landing strip to turn as you will as its too small to turn or not even visible due grass landing strip, you get penalized not obeying procedures.


I had all these problems and it makes me want to close the game every time so stupid as bugs

[purple_banana]

I had one yesterday that infuriated me;

After fighting for HOURS against a 70-80kt headwind in a C172 (wtf!?), I didn't trigger the waypoint at the start of the approach, just because the rounded corner in the G1000 meant I didn't get close enough, so when I eventually got it down on the runway - my groundspeed at touchdown was about 5kts by the way - the Mission was still waiting for me to fly to the waypoint. I taxied in and shutdown and - nothing - . It still said 'fly to XXXXX'.

Not wanting to lose the >100k payout, >500k XP and whatever Rep, I started back up and was going to fly to the waypoint and do the approach again. As I taxied out to the runway, the wind caught my wing and flipped me over. Crash. Reputation (and several hours) lost.

Annoyed, I picked another nearby mission flying in the opposite direction to see whether this 70kt headwind was a bug, random or persisted. This time as I spawned on the apron there was heavy rain which I was really pleased about, it looked great and I was looking forward to flying in it. But as soon as I started taxiing, I realised there was this ridiculous wind again and I didn't even make it to the runway before I'd been tossed over again. Another crash. I quit the game there and then and no doubt have a heavy reputation drop to look forward to next time I start up the Career mode.

I can get over career missions not taking place in the Multiplayer world - Imagine the scenes of twenty people all banner-towing over Miami beach, or the entire of Australia on fire while 35 people are all trying to scoop from the same lake - but why can't we have real or custom time & weather? If you fly into IMC without an instrument rating, or past sunset without a night rating, then get a penalty, but let us choose - that is the point here right?

[Luxiwow]

That is my thought exactly. Career Mode is such a failure. It's basically offline single player Activities/Challenges with cutscenes, AND you can only do it online LOL I was hoping for something like "GSX Pro" but obviously way better. Also the "progression" sucks. Imagine if we had actually stuff to do like:
#unlock clothing with CR
#you can only fly from your HQ but you can buy more HQ to place on the map(maybe every 10 level you get one)
#actually buy planes from the beginning on, not jump in and out of random planes
#pay CR for repairs, fuel or liveries
#actually freedom right away what jobs you want to do not have it forced on you to grind
#at least coop with friends
I've seen people say "let them cook" that just makes me laugh, it's really just 2020 and only the UI and some stuff is better other than that it's a downgrade in every aspect.

[Dz0ka]

Level 20 here and i must say the false fail performance aviators are a bit*h

[Luxiwow]

Landing smoothness above 50%
This needs to be fixed, I am level 50 with 60-ish hours and I only have 6 in total. Yes Yes Skill issue I get it. But I come in slow and touch down softly, don't get off the runway and no bounce and still get a 0% or maybe a 7% it's just a waste of time... trying to unlock other stuff and I can't. I did 5 first Flight Missions the other day just because they are the fastest to finish and everything was 100% but the landing. So I am softlocked and can't progress further. And there is no indication what you have to do or not do to get above 50%.

Same could be said for "Taxi speed violation" how would anyone know? Maybe add a little text (Max Taxi Speed 25) so people can know? I hate how the Game just assumes that you or any new player already knows what to do at any time.

[IDerpedYourMom]

Some major issues:

- Too many airports are gimped to risk using your own aircraft without checking first using the employee mode. Such as obstacles on taxi ways and starting location on a 45 degree slope so even with full power you still roll backwards and crash.

- some major airports have you taxi across one of the runways and you get dinged for entering the runway

- for the life of me I can't get helicopters to work. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Cannot even pass the tutorial missions.

- The text of the company is white on white. Also cannot even moderately paint your planes.

- Game uses AI voice but does not mention your company name

- Company names are too restricted despite being single player due to a lame filter that includes words which are not even swear words. If I want my sight seeing company to be called Voyeur Tours, I should be able to call it that. I have to get creative with company names..,

- ATC voices often do not even come across

- cities like Paris look like Dresden after the firebombing.

- The voice scripting is atrocious which on top of the awful AI voice, makes it a horrible experience.

- Need to be able to disable the 30 second pre flight dialogue. I don't need to hear for the 50th time about how the cargo can handle turbulence etc.

- simmer down the turbulence

- GPS should show ground speed, should not be limited to nothing below 30 knots considering you get taxi speed penalties below that amount

- stop having buses and other vehicles stop in front of you on taxi ways

[GamerX129]

AI is a joke for Career mode and Ferry planes around. Do everything I can get the most money out of the flight. I follow everything and the dang AI comes along at the end of the flight and asks 'What happened and Look at this plane?" Like I didn't respect the plane? How could I get a perfect score on landing on a runway that isn't even marked and people have to guess where it is, on both take off and landing? Seems like they need to redesign how to show people where to go on to be on the runway or some lines for landing and taking off at the least.

[Luxiwow]

-Skip flight to landing only to get spawned right into a mountain and crash
-Controls often reset on their own (throttle for example)
-Career Mode passive income is bugged
-blue pathway (in the air) often don't match flight plan
-changing the landing approach manually with the tablet often results in a penalty for not landing on the runway
-Rep system bugged and will jump from C to A and then back to C and so on

# Also I think you should not get penalized for the same thing more than once, for example taxi speed should be a one time penalty and not x4 or flaps overspeed etc.

[duestere Legende]

got 0% by skydive mission for "time"

wanna kidding me? i fly near perfect.. hold the speed, 0 wind degree.. 10k altitude constancely, 85% landing.. .. and get so even B close to c? god thats so stuipid.. 1h for less then half xp

when there was something wrong.. where is the fking info setting? NOTHINGS

[vfirestormv]

I unlocked Charter Service - Private and I have most of the East coast USA opened up and still no charter jobs.

[vfirestormv]

Messaggio originale di vfirestormv:

I unlocked Charter Service - Private and I have most of the East coast USA opened up and still no charter jobs.

Nevermind, I'm a moron. I didn't realize the VIP is the charter service.

[Seixas]

do yourself a favor and dont play career mode for at least 6 months, too much bs right now, its like a college grad student homework glued to a cloud infrastructure. ive made the mistake to insist and circunvent the issues the max i could and got lvl 200 but too many issues appears with airliners and companies in general, loading problems at the reward screen loading trashing a 6hrs flight is really something else

[AGENTMOO]

I'm late to this thread but 99% of those are bugs except the headquarters thing and the character generator.
You don't actually have a HQ.
I don't care about how my character looks. I rarely see them and there is no multiplayer.

Actual 'career mode' feedback:

-Grind is too much
-an option to un-sell/buyback your first plane
-actually have an HQ
-allow upgrades along the way to a different or bigger HQ with more hangers ect.
-an option to hire a copilot to handle the radios
-better mission availability depending on your pilots training choices
-multiplayer
-painting your planes (not just repaint the same color )
-smaller penalty for skipping parts of the flight
-more weather options
-I'm sure there is more but I'm not being paid for this lol

(I haven't done the repainting yet, but I was told by a friend that is just repaints it the same color)

[Luxiwow]

Career Mode is still busted...Also the grind is just too much.
Doing a Cargo Light Mission I get 110k but because the game is so messed up even the softest landing will still duck up the landing gear so after every Mission I have to repair it for 20k so the payout is more like 90k after a 45min-1hour Mission (while using the sim speed to 5x) so if I wanted to upgrade to a bigger plane and do Cargo Medium with my own Company. I need at least 4M to buy a Caravan. So I need to do 44 Cargo Light Missions to then move onto bigger things.

That's just insane.

I just want to fly Big Passanger Airliner with my own Company oh wait I can't because getting A grade with Passanger is another grind.

#PC-24 is still bugged and half the switches or lever don't move or have no animation.

[jenniferwaykewl]

The turbulence bug really blows. even after the newest patch. in Pennsylvania I am routinely battling turbulence that will almost knock a cessna out of the sky. I am a pilot in real life. I fly over Pa all the time. I can assure you this level of turbulence is unrealistic. then if you take missions from grass run ways half the time it spawns trees in parking so you cant taxi out with out hitting one or if it is not in parking it is in the middle of the runway. that happened the other day... because I am a super ace pilot I was able to forward slip the plane and land on HALF the runway I needed but lost reputation cause the passenger got a lil scared..... also I need a much more detailed briefing of each mission. as a real world pilot we want everything as predicable and uneventful as possible. loading in and realizing I have to do a max performance take off to clear a mountain because I can\t look at air port charts and the game wants me to take off and immediately clear a mountain that I really can't imagine the real world departure would call for.