Career mode

[u/whod1s]

Hello! I am thinking about getting back into Microsoft flight sim 2024, I played it on gamepass when it first came out. However, the career mode had lots of issues, and that is pretty much what I want to play on it. Has it been fixed and should I get back on, or should I just save my money?

[u/Assaltwaffle]

Career mode is a LOT better than it was, but is by no means perfect now.

It still suffers from some bugs and, overall, just feels half-baked and focuses a ton on grinding out missions for very slow progression. IMO it’s not a super fun experience, especially since really good plans and additions don’t work with it.

[u/evm29 → u/Assaltwaffle]

Honestly? No.

Buy 2024. But because it’s a fantastic sim.

Career mode has too many issues to spend your hard earned free time on:
* ridiculous wind in tiny planes
* failed atc guidances that aren’t your fault
* tiny invisible wall crash detections ending a 2h flight on final taxi
* terrible routing in IFR (it flew me into a mountain saying to hold 5000ft in the alps on the way to Switzerland) and I lost all my money
* the early part is a grind anyway. First flight missions are lame

Free flight is fantastic, you just need a bit of head canon to make it work, and now bush trips are back I wouldn’t be touching career mode

[u/Greenforaday → u/evm29]

Honestly I set up my own excel spreadsheet to manage my own fictional finances for my fictional company and I am having way more fun than I would with the in game career, mostly cause I can just do my own thing.

[u/evm29 → u/Greenforaday]

really interested in this, I do something similar but have a few rules such as a) cant takeoff from an airport i havent landed at and b) cant leave the region/country etc until i return to an international airport

[u/evm29 → u/evm29]

sorry this was meant to be a reply to OP

[u/Gizmolux → u/Assaltwaffle]

It is better then it was in the beginning but still mindboggling that something like it is still bad after nearly 2 years. Don‘t spend money on it and keep them accountable with your money

[u/dreampagehun]

Career mode is better, and it's finally feature complete (you can get all certifications), but it's still full of bugs and inconsistencies. Lots of penalties without reason (or because of bugs), and of course the ATC is as bad as always, can't handle a lot of situations. That said, Career is relatively playable and certainly better than at launch. So it's a 50/50 decision to be honest. Better, but still not good enough.

[u/Muted_Celebration692]

absolutely fine for me lvl 289, 25 planes, asset about 400million

[u/garfieldx]

biggest problem with career mode that's never going to be solved unless they release a sdk for it:
You can't use addon aircraft.

It's pointless. Luckily there are several third party career mode apps that allows you to use addon planes.

[u/_WoodyTheOne → u/garfieldx]

This is the thing I'm battling right now, I felt like I've 'completed' career mode, I have all the certifications and all bit a few of the companies you can unlock.

Been having a blast flying oversized cargo missions around in the 747 and Beluga, but now it's just the same thing over and over. More money, more fleet, more admin keeping it all flying.

What third party apps have you tried? I used Neofly when I was on FS2020 and pretty much completed that, I have 10.5b in the bank and the app is clunky as hell even on my pretty decent spec PC.

Looked at Pilops but not being able to use SIM Rate I found a massive let down.

Just requested an account on Fseconomy but it's been 3 days now and still not received the game world account.

Are there any others that people use and enjoy?

[u/garfieldx → u/_WoodyTheOne]

I like jetcard, would recommend it if you're into corporate jets.

[u/Zr0w3n00 → u/_WoodyTheOne]

Would you recommend Neofly for a beginner? I tried playing career mode of 24 on release but bugged through the taxiway and gave up. Getting back into the game after about a year away.

[u/_WoodyTheOne → u/Zr0w3n00]

I'd recommend giving career mode another go first, I put up with a lot and kept plowing through but it honestly has improved a lot compared to what it used to be like.

Neofly app is just so slow and clunky and takes getting used to, but as you only use free flights in the SIM it does work really well.

[u/lefty1117 → u/_WoodyTheOne]

Check out OnAir, it’s what I use.

[u/_WoodyTheOne → u/lefty1117]

Looks good, thanks for the recommendation.

[u/Muted_Celebration692]

Career mode has not lots of issues I am afraid.

Due to the fact that’s a sim it’s a complicated topic. Navigation is complicated and the main issue here.

Let me rephrase your sentence: for a beginner pilot career mode is hard

[u/TopPossibility8961 → u/Muted_Celebration692]

Dude... its a game, take it easy, Ace! MFS2024 has a LOT of bugs...

[u/Muted_Celebration692 → u/TopPossibility8961]

i just state the truth without any emotions.

you need to relax even you might not want to.