Microsoft temporarily blocked Career mode, has now issued a fix

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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.

did…they just lock Career?
byu/FalconX88 inMicrosoftFlightSim

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.

12 responses to “Microsoft temporarily blocked Career mode, has now issued a fix”

  1. PaperPilot Avatar
    PaperPilot

    I think they need to make an offline mode. Whether or not it is possible I don’t know.

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      With so much coming in externally, that seems almost impossible with 2024. 2020 had a fallback mode but here it seems unlikely.

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      1. PaperPilot Avatar
        PaperPilot

        I see. I can understand the reasoning behind MSFS 2024 needing internet to run because of the ridiculous amount of detail in the virtual world, but I do think that the game should be able to operate without the internet for the price of it even if it is at the price of scaling detail back a bit. But I guess this is MSFS 2020’s edge over MSFS 2024 and therefore MSFS 2020 will still be able to sell reasonably well up to 2028 when they will stop developing it. Hopefully if there is an MSFS 2028 or MSFS 2030 they will be able to have the option to be able to operate independently of the internet

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      2. Dimitri Avatar
        Dimitri

        I don’t have a problem with streaming SOME of the content, per se. But I have a big issue with the bandwidth they require.

        Most people around the world don’t have those kind of internet speeds and there is absolutely no point in playing 24 on low or medium settings… you can play 2020.

        My performance on a 100mb (on a good day) connection is pretty subpar.

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    2. Jer Stryker Avatar
      Jer Stryker

      This is still my biggest concern with the sim. 90% of the time I play using a gaming laptop using hotel internet. Connection speeds generally range from 1Mbps-30Mbps, though some hotels exceed 100Mbps.

      I don’t really want to have to pay for a 5G hotspot (which all have meager data caps) just to also be able to play MSFS.

      That being said, I’m a pretty edge case. Though there are plenty out there with mediocre or worse internet. Also, I really haven’t had too many issues with photogrammetry streaming on 2020, except on the slowest of connections, and that’s still probably the most bandwidth-hungry part of the sim.

      Wouldn’t it be cool if you could somehow pre-cache everything based on your flight plan?

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      1. Dimitri Avatar
        Dimitri

        Same, most of my “game time” falls on evenings when I’m travelling for work, lol.

        I cannot rely on great internet yo play a game.

        also, lots of people around the world don’t have fiber-like internet speeds. I’ve been to Australia, South Africa, South America, even many parts of Europe – the internet sucks.

        why is MSFS alienating themselves from a global fanbase, beats me.

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  2. Reinhard Eichler Avatar
    Reinhard Eichler

    Flying VR the graphical quality is not at max per definition, so that’s not a huge problem. What sells 24 for me is in fact the difference in requiering ~60gig on hdd space, compared to >150 gig. The networktechnology might not really be there yet to really run things smoothly in high fidelity, but what they do now is building the groundwork for things to come. I am corious where it will lead us to in the future.

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  3. dryheat94 Avatar
    dryheat94

    Interesting to read others comments regarding the always streaming concept. I’d uninstalled MSFS 2020 when the last 250 GB DCS update needed the space. I figured I’d wait it out on MSFS 2024 to learn more about it and watch how the rollout went. In the meantime I installed another 2 GB drive and today I reinstalled MSFS 2020.

    Maybe MS execs think everyone has unlimited bandwidth, but I have a bandwidth limit and stream all my media content, so I don’t have a lot of bandwidth to play with by the end of the month.

    I’m happy with MSFS 2020. It’s quite stable and I have no plans of moving to MSFS 2024 or any sim/game that requires me to stream content. It’s one thing to require an Internet connection to connect to a server for stats or whatever, but to stream large amounts of content does not work for me at all. Good to see I’m not the only one who feels that way.

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    1. dryheat94 Avatar
      dryheat94

      Correction, new 2 TB, not 2 GB drive. Don’t think a 2 GB would have gotten me far.

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      1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
        ShamrockOneFive

        I figured! 2 GB is most of a MSFS airliner these days 😉

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  4. billferns74 Avatar
    billferns74

    I tried the career mode again this evening. All of the five missions I flew were unplayable. On one, the DHC-3 ran out of fuel, as did the Robin I was delivering. The G36 used on a VIP trip could not make it to 17000 feet resulting in a stall. To top it all off, I was unable to

    complete a cargo mission because despite repeatedly pressing enter, I could not announce my taxi to the runway. I don’t think I’ll be playing this for a good few weeks until Asobo sort out this absolute car crash of a game.

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      Yeah your issues with career mode seem to mirror many others. There’s some great concepts here but it’s obviously not ready yet.

      Hopefully it gets sorted out. I think it will too and career could be very fun as a mode but these issues do need to be taken care of.

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