Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’s troubles in some areas have been largely resolved but in other areas things are still coming together. Career mode has been one of the sim’s most hotly anticipated features and, unfortunately, one of its most broken ones as well.
Maintenance now complete
Through the day today, Microsoft and Asobo have been working to resolve some key issues with Career mode. The system is struggling to perform with multiple bugs, some of them that cause critical issues with objectives not being accomplished, funds being drained from virtual aviation companies created in the mode and some particularly hilarious ones where the aircraft drops from the sky when you try and spawn into it.
Today they announced and then shut down career mode for a while. Some folks were mid play through when the shut down happened and the career experience was temporarily locked. This posted on the r/MicrosoftFlightSim group shows one such example.
The system was down for about 20-minutes and has since been restored. Here are the fixes implemented:
- Fixed a crash that could occur when accessing the career if certain conditions were met.
- Fixed passive income generating negative amounts when a passive aircraft is out of order (will take effect starting from midnight GMT, this fix is not retroactive)
The maintenance and change log was announced here on the MSFS forums.
The upside of the mostly in the cloud experience is that there was no need to download a patch and everything was worked on remotely.
This is by no means the end of the fixes for the sim and there’s a long list of bugs and issues that will need to be tackled. At the same time, these help address a couple of critical items that hopefully won’t come back to bother us again.
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