Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was released back in November 2024, but it wasn’t a smooth launch. Not only did cloud server issues raise frustrations across the player base, but there were numerous bugs and other technical problems that ruined the experience.
In our own test, we saw for ourselves that while Microsoft and Aerosoft had delivered a solid gaming experience, there were still some areas that needed improvements. Fortunately, the developers have been working on MSFS 2024 tirelessly in the months since.
Last week, Aerosoft released a huge patch called Sim Update 2, which fixes over 5,000 bugs. The corrections involves everything from general game features to graphical glitches to aircraft model enhancements to improved overall stability and performance. Patch 1.4.20.0 is the biggest update for MSFS 2024 to date, rectifying most of the worst issues and making the game more than playable again.
But will it be enough to convince players who turned their backs on the game to return? According to SteamDB, MSFS 2024 has been hitting a 30-day peak concurrent player count of about 4,000 players, which is a far cry down from the all-time peak of 24,000 concurrent players back in November. In addition, the Anniversary Edition of MSFS 2020 remains more popular among Steam users. And with the game’s availability on Game Pass, those numbers should be even higher than that.
It’s been about a week since the Sim Update 2 patch dropped, and so far it doesn’t seem to have moved the needle on player count very much, and that’s despite useful improvements like weather effects and a new career mode. But the developers are nevertheless working hard on further updates. According to the blog post, the next big patch is already in the works and can be tested by beta players.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
