my last 2024 screenshots for now, to show some liveries that worked, more or less..
Screenshot (3870) by
JanKees Blom, on Flickr
Screenshot (3877) by
JanKees Blom, on Flickr
Screenshot (3882) by
JanKees Blom, on Flickr
Screenshot (3883) by
JanKees Blom, on Flickr
but to be honest, my experiences so far with 2024 have been a nightmare. Basically, almost nothing works. It takes almost as long as 2020 to start (one can make coffee in the mean time).
If I start a flight on the ground, almost always I end up in the dark, with clear skies, no matter what I select beforehand. I change weather and time, and then the aircraft won't move, often not even the aircraft that came with the sim. I release the brakes and nothing....they just stay there. sometimes changing viewpoints (cockpit/external) a few times helps, and suddenly we're moving, but most cases, nothing. So I slew into the sky, and then I can fly.
Most aircraft seem super sensitive to any input, the Electra just made me seasick. Even the A400 was all over the place, so I'm not convinced by the flight models.
Some of the aircraft that come with the sim, like the P-51, are just terrible, with the malfunctioning flaps and ailerons.
The ground textures often are blurry, and in most cases not an improvement over 2020. We were promised backwards compatibility, but that almost completely absent. Lots of pilots are missing on imported aircraft, or the sounds, or they just don't show at all.
And can somebody please explain to me what the advantage is to stream everything over having it on your own harddisk? I get stutters, messages that my bandwith is too low, really bad ground and aircraft textures on occasion, and it is not much faster than 2020. When loading a flight, I can easily take a leak, fill a glass of wine and drink most of it. It is as if every single time, I have to download all of the ground textures, the weather ànd the aircraft..... oh wait, I do.
I paid about 80 (!) euros for this junk (luckily I bought the cheapest version), and I feel like a beta tester, so endresult: I am not happy, and just uninstalled 2024. I may try again at a later date, but for now, I'm gone back to 2020