Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launched Tuesday on Home windows PC and Xbox Sequence X, but it surely hasn’t been a clean trip. Truly, it’s been something however: Lengthy loading occasions and lacking content material have earned developer Asobo Video games’ newest launch an overwhelmingly unfavourable ranking on Steam. Some gamers are caught on loading screens for hours, in response to reviews, and once 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 directly.
“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 folks making an attempt to play, however the methods 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 traces up with the issues individuals are reporting in Steam opinions: Lengthy loading screens, large 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 appears like Boeing was truly concerned in constructing the servers,” one individual quipped, referencing Boeing’s latest issues with its aircrafts.
Microsoft and Asobo are investigating the problems, which prolong to lacking planes within the sport, too. Wloch defined that if the important methods are responding for some folks, then a number of the “optionally available” ones aren’t, 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 labored laborious with our companions, together with Asobo and others, to carry you a tremendous sim expertise. The joy for the sim as we speak has been overwhelming, however we encountered a problem with considered one of our companies dealing with the brand new methods within the sport like profession mode and varied missions. The server liable for dealing with knowledge requests obtained overloaded, inflicting delays and errors.
In consequence, gamers are experiencing lengthy loading occasions and lacking content material like plane. We’ve solved the problems and are actually bringing gamers in at a gentle tempo. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and admire your persistence. We’ll maintain you up to date on our social channels, boards, and web site. Thanks very a lot for all of your suggestions and help.
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.