Only thing I hate about MSFS - After a long and awesome flight on landing approach or even taxi you get a software bug and it ruins it all.

XBOX - GENERAL

So this has happened to me several times. Granted I'm on Xbox so that has something to do with it. But some of the bugs and game crashes were just crushing. Skip to the end for the question of this post unless you like to read.. got an little long-winded.. my apologies

First time taking out my new Concorde from Heathrow to JFK. Decide to check out this hotrods "autoland" button. On a turn or two away from straight final the plane decides to give up, noses up, stalls and turns. Falls slowly as I try everything to salvage but just don't have the altitude. Fell slowly into 3 large apartment buildings. Zero credit for an hours long flight and the crash wasnt fun. Won't be using autoland again.

Several times after landing there's simply too much action at the airport I landed at. Game starts to stutter as I can tell it's choking on all the aircraft. Black screen and then main intro screen.

Had a few planes on final as I flared or made adjustments.. small ones.. just completely go nuts. Plane goes total nose up and keels over engine screaming at 100% with zero input from me. Never ends well.

This last one just now which caused me to post and just compare notes to see if anyone else gets oddball stuff - flew from Seattle to Las Vegas and it's nighttime.. hoping to see Vegas from the sky all lit up. Looks great as does the Seattle night time improvement visual pack I bought (man those nighttime visual improvement packs are just WOW. Looks great) Anyways after getting bracketed and starting my approach, everything goes fine until the aircraft just doesn't want to slow down. About 250kts and won't go slower so full flaps and full spoilers and I still come in super hot. Landed after a bounce but got down and reverse thrust. Made it, but it was ugly. Weird throttle issue.. no auto throttle no auto pilot no inputs except stick as throttle just wouldn't slow down. So odd.

But the oddest thing was this. Taxiing to my gate, gate 50 on the backside, as I see the blue square showing where to pull in I get close and l of a sudden my plane like sinks and pops up and gets stuck. The maps of this airport make it so this particular gate has like sinkholes and hills in front of it. After maxing thrust to try and.get the plane unstuck it finally does after 5 mins of slowly inching forwards.. and then I see another huge anomaly in the tarmac another huge crazy like depression. So I but full reverse and backup and figure I'll just gate at any empty gate kill it and get the log hours. After backing up and turning a bit I see a row of gates so Ihead for them but in the darkness my lights only show so much. All of a sudden again! My plane hits like hills in the tarmac near the gates. My plane is stuck halfway into the pavement and half out. Can only see half of the plane. What in the heck?

So, yeah.. watch out at the bigger airport(Mc something) near Vegas especially gates on the backside near gate 50. Might be D50. Or just 50.

Wish there was some sort of.crssh detection built in and bug reporting button since the game is so huge, there's gonna be issues.

Sorry for the long post but anyone else get off the wall bugs specifically on Xbox that just have no reason or are unexplainable? 85-90% of the time, maybe more game is completely playable. That last 5-10% tho woooo boy, some ugly nasty bugs that will absolutely kill an entire flight and dump hours of time into the trash.

Posted Jan 22, 2023, 9:33 AM UTC

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