r/flightsim • u/FrequentConnect2020 Its Airbus or Im taking the bus! │GA & Airliners │MSFS/XP • 1d ago

Flight Simulator 2020 Breaking bad in the maddog

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u/Littleferrhis2 1d ago

Just watch out for those kingairs.

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u/TransLadyFarazaneh I still use FSX 1d ago

I love McDonnell-Douglas airliners, my favourite is the MD-11 but the MD-80 is great too!

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u/FrequentConnect2020 Its Airbus or Im taking the bus! │GA & Airliners │MSFS/XP 1d ago

Yeah true

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u/WombleFlopper 23h ago

Is this worth the $75? I have yet to buy any PMDG stuff or anything else over $70 cause I just can't justify spending more on a single pixelated aircraft than an entire AAA game title.

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u/Mountain-Bag-6427 18h ago

In my opinion, it does not justify being the most expensive airplane for the entire sim (almost 90€ where I live). Systems-wise, it is on par with other study-level airliners for FS2020, but it looks decidedly worse, doesn't sound great, doesn't have great documentation, and the installation and configuration experience is just awful.

In general, I think picking up one study-level airliner and really digging into it is well worth it, and I have spent more time with the PMDG 737-800 or the Fenix A320 than with a lot of AAA games. But I wouldn't really recommend this one in particular unless you're really attached to the MD-80 family.

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u/argentmaelstrom 10h ago

Would you mind clarifying which elements of the documentation are lacking? I find the documentation to be pretty solid, if not fantastic. It is a little out of the way, though, which is a pain.

Certainly no contest regarding the sounds and textures. I hope you find it encouraging that the devs recently (earlier this month) said that: "In addition, I can now tell that we’ve been hard at work for several months to bring the Maddog up to 'FS2020 standards' in terms of 3D modeling, textures, and sounds."

(for context, that line was part of their announcement that they're updating compatibility for 2024, which is on the Fly the Maddog X forums).

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u/Mountain-Bag-6427 47m ago

Yeah, they're charging me again to bring their product to the standards of other, significantly cheaper products.

I'm not going to pay for that. I'm done with this dev.

My first big problem with the documentation is that I literally can't find it, because Leonardo couldn't be arsed to put it in the installer, or on the store front, or anywhere where it is easily accessible. It might be behind the mandatory signup for their forum, which I am not going to bother with just in case something good is behind there.

And I'm not going to give you further clarification because being downvoted for giving my opinion after someone expressly asking for opinions seriously pisses me off and disincentivizes me from further community participation.

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u/argentmaelstrom 41m ago

I get you. In case you end up being interested in the documentation, I don't believe it's on the forums. It's in the "lsh-maddogx-aircraft" folder in the community folder, "Resources" --> "EFB" --> "Docs"

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u/Mountain-Bag-6427 40m ago

Okay, seriously, what? Who publishes a manual as a series of PNGs in a location where nobody would ever try to look for it?

(For the record, I have literally read the actual FCOM of the actual MD-80.)

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u/argentmaelstrom 33m ago

Haha, I don't know. I think Just Flight have pdf documents in their instances in the community folder, and it looks like iFly does the same deal. I spose at least with pdfs you can at least search them, unlike with the pngs that LSH offers.