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In Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, the sim is great — the game is not
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a competent, 8.5-out-of-10 facsimile of flight that extends player's experience to a game where the player set a course to pretty-looking places.
- However, some may find themselves either frustrated, confused, or bored as the game lacks a core progression that feels respectful of the player's time.
- Major cities and airports mostly rely on handcrafted renderings of famous buildings that look like polygon-for-polygon matches for their MSFS20 equivalents.
- At a high cruising altitude, or when taking off and landing at any of the game’s handcrafted airports, MSFS24 neatly glides past some of these complaints, but flying on more novice levels for the sheer thrill of realistic, beautiful scenery is harder when the game looks uneven.
- MSFS24’s new selection of activities might seem like the perfect way to guide players toward rendered corners of the planet and an ongoing sense of accomplishment. However, the activities are demanding as players try to score points by passing severe challenges.
- The game’s massive “career” mode asks players to progress from aspiring pilot to full-time businessperson by learning basic flying skills, unlocking certifications and getting into the economy of buying new aircraft to make serious cash. However, it fails to work or feels tragically soulless.
- Most of the game’s earliest missions ferry AI-brained passengers places to the next while reading a scripted AI-generated voice. Even when I successfully tuned their voices out, however, the missions often place takeoffs and landings in weird places, sometimes with trees, buildings, or other debris in the path of success.
- MSFS24’s scattershot tutorials, middling career progression, barriers to higher-level missions, visual letdowns, and various glitches added up to the opposite of a positive, newbie-friendly flight school experience.
- If you’re not already invested in the world of flying, don’t invest in MSFS24.
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