Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launched Tuesday on Home windows PC and Xbox Sequence X, nevertheless it hasn’t been a clean journey. Really, it’s been something however: Lengthy loading occasions and lacking content material have earned developer Asobo Video games’ newest launch an overwhelmingly destructive ranking on Steam. Some gamers are caught on loading screens for hours, in accordance with stories, and after they get in, sure planes are lacking. Microsoft and Asobo addressed the problematic launch in a weblog put up and a video message to gamers, saying its servers had been utterly overwhelmed by the quantity of gamers logging in without delay.
“We knew the thrill was excessive for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, however frankly, we utterly underestimated how excessive, and it actually has overwhelmed our infrastructure,” Microsoft Flight Simulator head Jorg Neumann stated in a video. Asobo CEO Sebastian Wloch added that the group examined its servers and simulated 200,000 individuals attempting to play, however the techniques had been nonetheless “utterly overwhelmed” on launch day. To mitigate the issues, Asobo has tried to restart its companies and throttle how many individuals can enter Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 at one time, solely to enhance the method briefly earlier than issues “collapsed once more.”
This all strains up with the issues persons are reporting in Steam evaluations: Lengthy loading screens, big queues, lacking fashions in each the character creator and elsewhere, crashes, and lacking textures. “I can solely marvel on the depth of the simulation, because it now looks like Boeing was truly concerned in constructing the servers,” one particular person quipped, referencing Boeing’s latest issues with its aircrafts.
Microsoft and Asobo are investigating the problems, which lengthen to lacking planes within the recreation, too. Wloch defined that if the crucial techniques are responding for some individuals, then among the “non-compulsory” ones will not be, like a number of planes. “That’s not regular, that’s as a result of server not responding and the cache being utterly overflowed,” he stated.
Right here’s the complete assertion from Microsoft’s web site:
We’ve got labored onerous with our companions, together with Asobo and others, to deliver you a tremendous sim expertise. The joy for the sim at this time has been overwhelming, however we encountered a problem with considered one of our companies dealing with the brand new techniques within the recreation like profession mode and varied missions. The server chargeable for dealing with knowledge requests received overloaded, inflicting delays and errors.
Consequently, gamers are experiencing lengthy loading occasions and lacking content material like plane. We’ve got solved the problems and at the moment are bringing gamers in at a gentle tempo. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and admire your endurance. We are going to maintain you up to date on our social channels, boards, and web site. Thanks very a lot for all of your suggestions and assist.
Microsoft and Asobo haven’t but supplied a timeline for the repair, however stated they’ll replace gamers on social media, its web site, and on boards.
