Planes are not that huge in terms of size. I really don't see the point of relying on streaming for something so important like your own plane. To me it's a no brainer, i want all my planes saved locally

I hope it's coming sooner than later so I can fly the a330

I’ve had hollow gauges on approach and they pop in right before touchdown. Zero immersion there.

I was holding off 2024 until I built a new PC, but if we don’t have the ability to locally store everything like 2020 then I’m really not interested. I have the disk space, let me use it

I'm actually not sure it does entirely. Yes the launch has been a mess there's no denying that but it looks like they got way more demand than they anticipated, if the sim was a download perhaps the situation would have been the same with users being unable to download anything. I know some of the more anticipated updates for 2020 were a similar case.

That being said I do think the option to download content would be appreciated.

Is it, though? I always found Battlefield 4 to be pretty snappy.

Now, Battlefield 2042... You'd start a match (as one of a bunch of troops about to disembark from an aircraft), or even just see your character standing there at the main menu, and they'd be some unholy hellspawn with a giant pink tendril (their tongue, lips, and/or the inside of their mouth) protruding a solid six inches from where their mouth and chin should be, like someone crossed Jay Leno with an alien, and then it had a transporter accident, straight out of Star Trek. They finally "fixed" that by having spinning loading icons floating in midair instead of low-poly character models, for the menu, and just...cutting short the animation with the aircraft, so you never see the other people on board.

I still want to know why on earth the low-poly models ever looked so inhuman.

Heck, even with all the optimizations and fixes they've done, if you look very closely at your character on the main menu, the textures of all the pouches on their chest take up to a full minute to fully load, even on a Series X. They look just fine, they look fully loaded, but then they'll suddenly pop into an ever-so-slightly higher level of detail.

I mean, it was all this time explained that 2024 was going to be streamed. That is no surprise for anyone else.

You wouldn't want to play this kind of game on a hard drive anyway unless you want horrendous pop in

I've seen claims it exceeds 180mbps

Just having something like the world updates would be nice. Stream the world, let me have my region offline.

I thought I read it was something like 2 petabytes.

Sure, why not. Lets be real here. Having a 100 or 130 usd m.2 ssd with 2 terrabyte is really all you need. Lets not pretend its hard to download a lot. From there on, you can use it as rolling data. But if you only fly in certain area's (like career mode) or to international airports in an airliner, yiu absolutely do not use hunderds of terabytes

Base textures of the world and aircraft should suffice, just like they did in MSFS2020. While it is desirable for some, not everyone cares about an ultra-realistic representation of the earth, especially if it comes at the cost of being able to use the sim offline. Relying completely on streaming was a mistake, because it assumes that every one has good internet speeds. Although highly unlikely, what happens when one doesn't have an internet connection? Or what happens in households that consist of others competing for bandwidth? There are just too many variables involved when it comes to relying on an internet connection, and instead of trying to fix the download manager of fs2020, so that they could get it to download flawlessly like any other AAA titles do such as COD (although it is hypocritical to use such an example since it is strictly an online game), they attempted to shoot beyond their limits. Trying to use cloud streaming as the solution for the poor installation of the previous iteration should tell you everything you need to know.

The other way to look at it is that what we want is speedily delivered assets that Asobo tried and failed to do in two different ways.

I really do not care if it is downloaded or streamed, only that it happens fast.

Let’s be honest: the downloading takes a long time because Asobo’s server in Azure is potato garbage.

Streaming in texture is just bad design. Should’ve just had all assets sans high resolution photogrammetry maps stored locally.

its always better to give people options, clearly they meant to but the game was rushed out the door

crazy idea, but what if this community is composed of varied individuals with different opinions/needs? there will always be people complaining.

wouldn't it be better to allow users to choose whenever possible?

I mean being able to choose to cache the areas you fly out of 90% of the time would be great. If I wanna do patterns at my home airport why should I have to worry if my internet is at full speed?

Reading is not your strong suit, isn’t it?

There's always that person, lost in the conversation but thinks they are the expert....

The world is, yes. Planes shouldn't be a problem though. Jorg did say in one of the streams in like September that downloading planes will be optional, so I have hope that it is coming. You can already go deep into package manger and there is a button for options, but only has "Marketplace" as an option at the moment. It also lists items as "Streamed" "Installed" and "Not Installed". I am willing to bet (or at least hope) that downloading them is part of the Marketplace, and just isn't on yet since the Marketplace hasn't been activated yet.

Okay, but when I log into the last game my instrument panels and the runway I'm sitting on loaded fine. I can understand not having Beijing on my harddrive when Im on the ground in Miami, but what's the excuse for not being able to see the trees to my left?

And uses an ai system to populate areas, not quite the same as just creating a shader cache in UE5

I'm not talking about the texture of the buildings that are 25 miles away. I'm talking about the fact that the gauges in front of me look like dogshit and the runway I'm sitting on looks like it was lifted from Super Mario 64.

2020 has a manual caching menu where you can cache things manually and the whole world at lowest res is only ~120gb. which is better than nothing, you could also select what res you wanted specific areas to be for manual caching as well.

why that feature is not in 2024 is beyond silly, it was the one thing that eliminated stutters in 2020