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I've just picked up back onto Phoenix for the first time in about 2 months after connecting my PC to my TV for a big screen.
It's dawned on me in the past few days however, why I stopped using it. Initially, and in the company of a few other sims I was relatively impressed by it.
However, there's a few things that are starting to irk me slightly by now. We must be on about our 50th update (which to think we're getting them for free is great) yet the same issues crop up.
The online sessions are little more than a joke by now, each update promising more accessible, stable connections yet - no joy, even after setting up god knows how many ports on a router it either won't connect at all or after working for a few minutes, crashes the program. I mean, hundreds of thousands of people play on xbox live 24/7 with virtually no problem, so why the great difficulty to get maybe 50 / 60 computers maximum, to talk to one another (in fairness, they only need exchange position data as everything else is done by your own PC). The sound samples seem to have actually gotten worse since the very beginning, the new F16 sounds like it's a moped on the rev-limiter as the sample loops over and over, could we not perhaps 'borrow' a sample of a turbine from MSFS to at least give a consistent sound?
If I'm being brutally honest, I'm more inclined just now to flog the sim and replace it with an Mcx or Walkera jobbie for my bad weather fix, I just find my patience waning slightly at the minute.
Thoughts anyone? Oh, yeah; Merry Christmas everyone!
It's dawned on me in the past few days however, why I stopped using it. Initially, and in the company of a few other sims I was relatively impressed by it.
However, there's a few things that are starting to irk me slightly by now. We must be on about our 50th update (which to think we're getting them for free is great) yet the same issues crop up.
The online sessions are little more than a joke by now, each update promising more accessible, stable connections yet - no joy, even after setting up god knows how many ports on a router it either won't connect at all or after working for a few minutes, crashes the program. I mean, hundreds of thousands of people play on xbox live 24/7 with virtually no problem, so why the great difficulty to get maybe 50 / 60 computers maximum, to talk to one another (in fairness, they only need exchange position data as everything else is done by your own PC). The sound samples seem to have actually gotten worse since the very beginning, the new F16 sounds like it's a moped on the rev-limiter as the sample loops over and over, could we not perhaps 'borrow' a sample of a turbine from MSFS to at least give a consistent sound?
If I'm being brutally honest, I'm more inclined just now to flog the sim and replace it with an Mcx or Walkera jobbie for my bad weather fix, I just find my patience waning slightly at the minute.
Thoughts anyone? Oh, yeah; Merry Christmas everyone!