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Ryz said:
Yeah, reading it's a common problem at the moment. Although with more frequent blue screens of death and audio issues, don't think my PC is lasting the night without getting thrown out the window haha.
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I am in now. Took about 6 hours to download.

Doing the tutorial. The controls are very overwhelming to begin with.
 
Well, I'm glad I only wasted $1 and two days of download.
I'm not sure if its my old, barely minimum spec machine, or old unsuported joystick. I turned sensitivity to -97% and the slightest nudge for takeoff sends it vertical for hundred feed up, and equally vertical back down.
 
How annoying. Downloaded the initial game and Im thinking im sweet. Then boom. Suprise 99gb download of tiny files that take for ever to download. This cost me 1 dollar dammit.
 

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Off to a great start. Stuck on Melbourne airport tarmac because I don't know what I am doing. Stuck on full throttle withoutbeing able to disable the brakes then eventually did damage to my engine.

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Got up into the air somehow but don't know how to fly.

Slowly did circle stuck in this position until I hit the ground. So many controls to learn.

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Only thing stopping me is I think this will tank my 1060
 
Quivorir said:
Off to a great stuck. Stuck on Melbourne airport tarmac because I don't know what I am doing. Stuck on full throttle withoutbeing able to disable the brakes then eventually did damage to my engine.

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Total novice to flight sims paid $1 for gamepass $130 for flightstick ,started tutorial ,realised my mini keyboard is useless(buying better one tonight) ,so went the free flight mode and cooked the donk too😁
Liking the game for nostalgia's sakes as loading is like my c64
 
Sounds like MFS is this generations version of Crysis - a game so demanding that it will take technology years to catch up. Seems to be destroying some pretty good rigs.
 
I was having a nightmare trying to control even the most light aircraft with mouse and keyboard, but it became a lot more manageable once I plugged my ps4 controller in.

Don't really know what to make of it yet. It feels very buggy - but on the other hand, sometimes I don't know if it is a bug or I just don't know what I am doing.

Things like autopilot and the skip ahead option don't seem to work properly.
 
tombomb said:
I was having a nightmare trying to control even the most light aircraft with mouse and keyboard, but it became a lot more manageable once I plugged my ps4 controller in.

Don't really know what to make of it yet. It feels very buggy - but on the other hand, sometimes I don't know if it is a bug or I just don't know what I am doing.

Things like autopilot and the skip ahead option don't seem to work properly.
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Did you have to do anything to get the ps controller to work? I tried and it wouldn't do anything . Pc recognised it but did nothing in game. Plugged in the xbox controller and it worked without issue. 🤷‍♂️
 

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Pretty conflicted with this so far. Parts of it are awesome, parts are frustrating as hell.

Just did Canberra to Sydney, everything was great until it comes to landing.

I managed to somehow click the right button that got the air traffic control to give me a runway to land on, but there is no way, as far as I could tell, to know which runway is which.

Then no matter what I tried to do, the plane just refused to slow down. In the end, just ended up crashing by choice.
 
tombomb said:
Pretty conflicted with this so far. Parts of it are awesome, parts are frustrating as hell.

Just did Canberra to Sydney, everything was great until it comes to landing.

I managed to somehow click the right button that got the air traffic control to give me a runway to land on, but there is no way, as far as I could tell, to know which runway is which.

Then no matter what I tried to do, the plane just refused to slow down. In the end, just ended up crashing by choice.
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What sort of experience do you have with sims? Personally, I don't have a lot and would get lost approaching Sydney as well.

I expect you really need to have the ILS tuned for the runway, if in a a turboprop or larger aircraft anyway. In a single engine prop, your heading and the time from when you can see the airport should give enough time to head for the correct runway.

ATC is fine for noobs like me, even though it has shall we say "glitches", but nothing like reality.


update: I found out what I did wrong with my mappings for roll and pitch. I think I need to knock sensitivity down on pitch again, and find a way of making the trim wheel a bit less over the top. At least on the C152, the only thing I've done a couple of full flights in (as opposed to just testing one thing here and there). My barely-meets-minimum-spec isn't smooth on the lowest settings even with small aircraft in remote areas. But it is mostly without major stutter, just (I'm guessing don't have it monitored, low frame rates.) The minimum specs may also explain why some controls seem very touchy still, not that the C152 has that many controls.
An airliner at a major city or on approach to a major airport might be unflyable. I have to test a take-off at Heathrow or something to see how bad it is.
 
Howard Littlejohn said:
What sort of experience do you have with sims? Personally, I don't have a lot and would get lost approaching Sydney as well.

I expect you really need to have the ILS tuned for the runway, if in a a turboprop or larger aircraft anyway. In a single engine prop, your heading and the time from when you can see the airport should give enough time to head for the correct runway.

ATC is fine for noobs like me, even though it has shall we say "glitches", but nothing like reality.


update: I found out what I did wrong with my mappings for roll and pitch. I think I need to knock sensitivity down on pitch again, and find a way of making the trim wheel a bit less over the top. At least on the C152, the only thing I've done a couple of full flights in (as opposed to just testing one thing here and there). My barely-meets-minimum-spec isn't smooth on the lowest settings even with small aircraft in remote areas. But it is mostly without major stutter, just (I'm guessing don't have it monitored, low frame rates.) The minimum specs may also explain why some controls seem very touchy still, not that the C152 has that many controls.
An airliner at a major city or on approach to a major airport might be unflyable. I have to test a take-off at Heathrow or something to see how bad it is.
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I was flying an airbus 320. The controls are so confusing. I was using a ps4 controller, where circle seems to reduce the throttle. At least it seemed to when I was taking off and cruising.

But then when it came to landing, nothing I did or pressed would make it slow down.

Some of the commands just don't respond as well. Like landing gear, I have to press it (G) 3 times to get it to respond.

Again, I have no clue whether it is a bug or I just have no idea what I am doing.
 

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tombomb said:
I was flying an airbus 320. The controls are so confusing. I was using a ps4 controller, where circle seems to reduce the throttle. At least it seemed to when I was taking off and cruising.

But then when it came to landing, nothing I did or pressed would make it slow down.

Some of the commands just don't respond as well. Like landing gear, I have to press it (G) 3 times to get it to respond.

Again, I have no clue whether it is a bug or I just have no idea what I am doing.
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OK. I would have expected that the way to decrease throtlle would not change. So, unless you had the auto-pilot/flight director set to an airspeed that seems a bug. As does the landing gear.
Hand-flying an airliner is tough, even the pros don't do it unless the auto-pilot is faulty.

I'm going to assume you have little experience and start with very basic questions.

Are you sure the throttle didn't reduce? As you were on descent, the throttle reduction may have been more than compensated for by the fact that descending picks up speed - you are no longer fighting gravity, even on zero throttle speed may increase for a while (you'll fall out of the sky, but fall out of the sky very fast).
A320 probably has speed brakes that can be deployed to bleed off speed in the air to start the descent, or whatever they are used for. I'm not sure, I'm inexperienced myself.

Its probably not optimised for a PS4 controller, so there may well be issues on default settings. It was built with X-Box in mind, but preumably not PS4 controllers. Throttle control by button press would not make for easy flying even in simple aircraft.

edit: More tutorials, for each aircraft or at least significantly different aircraft types, and for each GPS and auto-pilot system, would be handy. Not everyone wants to start in a single prop.
 
Throttle control problems on take off and landing.



Around 20 minute mark and again on landing.
 
Coming to xbox games pass on series x in U.S Summer 2021. Article I read doesn't mention the series s at all.

Edit: this mentions the series s.


Aaaaand that doesn't work. Ah well I tried. 🤷‍♂️

 
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Thought it was out today (on Xbox) and planned on spending the last day of lockdown playing it. Doesn't come out til 27th US time meaning 1am launch tomorrow morning for us :(
 

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