General opinions and strange difference to content creator preview betas.

[Bluu]

So yes I have done only one 2 and a half hour flight in the A350 so far and explored a bunch on the ground but immediately from that I could tell this is extremely strange and completely unacceptable for nearly 100€

First I will point out that this is a 1.0 release. Not a beta or anything but a full release and yet it feels like it should be a early access beta version.

Let's start with the sounds. Where are they? Every sound in the plane is barely audible outside from some very random sounds sometimes that are extremely loud. In all the preview streams and content creator videos the plane sounds superb with everything sounding like I would expect a plane to sound like. Not the case for the release version we regular players got apparently.

Secondly the systems. Navigraph charts not working, Simbrief barely functions and 70% of the time I just can't use it for loading the plane. GSX might as well not be integrated with how poor it is from not all passengers boarding to the plane not even recognizing that the payload has been changed. The only thing I have gotten to work properly is pushback and deboarding and unloading and that is only by using the GSX menu itself and not the OIS integration.
I also had a problem a couple times in my flight where I was just normally cruising with everything in managed mode when I notice that the plane is not following the flight plan route anymore even though it is on NAV mode. Happened once in cruise and once before a turn in for the final.

Third is the performance. iniBuilds were constantly saying in their streams, promotional material and store page saying how everything is optimized for performance only for me to load the plane up and have the worst FPS out of all the quite frame rate heavy aircraft I fly. (Fenix airbus, PMDG 737s and 777 and even the iniBuilds A300 runs better)

Why come the content creators "preview beta" build seems to work flawlessly with every single aspect of the plane including Navigraph, Simbrief and GSX? WHy is the "1.0" build so broken and near unusable sometimes? At this point why not just give us this preview beta so we can enjoy the plane with it's full functionality?

These are just some of the issues I've encountered but I have seen many other people on these forums in both FS2020 and 2024 struggling with many more issues.

Now I'm not saying it's all bad. It looks fantastic and when (or if) the sounds are the right volume it sounds amazing too but that is just not enough at this point to continue flying it until some updates get done.

 

[Seth2413]

I think they put all their efforts into the shiny new version for FS2024 and the content creators with their free versions get the best of it and us poor punters just get the crap release version.  Very disappointed.  paid $120 AUD for this only to have so many issues.  Not sure what beta testers do anymore.