If you think Stalker 2 is buggy, please take your seat in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

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Last week I wrote about a particular bug in Stalker 2 and how similar it was to a bug I encountered in Stalker: Call of Pripyat way back in 2010. I wasn't mad about it: it gave me a warm fuzzy «some things never change» feeling you might have for a quirky old car whose radio volume goes up when you turn on the headlights. Weird, but harmless.

In the same article I also wrote about how that harmless jank can easily give way to immensely frustrating jank, like another bug I encountered: An artifact I was on a mission to collect never materialized, eventually forcing me load a save from much earlier in the game, which cost me an hour of progress. Nothing warm and fuzzy about that.

I ran into a similar situation in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's career mode this weekend. Things were going fine at first, with just a few amusing hiccups—the AI voice of the instructor mispronouncing the word «fuselage,» for instance, or an NPC walking directly through the tail rotor of a helicopter: small stuff that I just smiled at.

But after getting certified to take jobs in a Cessna, I tried to do the same for the helicopter in career mode. That's when the wheels came off. Well, there aren't wheels on the helicopter. I guess the skids came off, then. While taking the license exam, I flew through the whole course and landed where indicated. The final step of the mission was checked off, my instructor robotically said I did a great job, and then… nothing happened. The mission didn't end. I took off and landed again, I tried different spots, but it never gave me credit for completing the exam. I eventually quit and tried again. I completed that exam two more times with the same result, which is to say, no result at all. Another hour wasted by a bug.

I'm not the only one finding bugs in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: the subreddit and Discord are full of them. The image at the top of this article is from Reddit user LordCrumpets, who says «Mr. Smith made sure to get his money's worth