Xbox Series S/X: Thread 04

[Brad]

Played Resi 8 with as much ray tracing as it has and Metro Exodus fully ray traced.

I wouldn't have known if I hadn't turned the settings on myself.

[Neon Ignition]

I still want dirt etc effects more than an unrealistic super shiny reflection magnet in racers. So much attention to detail to achieve a look that doesn't look real in the end.

[Cassius_Smoke]

The Xbox controllers are becoming hard to get hold of. Seems its still the controller of choice for PC players.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-has-confirmed-a-shortage-of-xbox-controllers/

[nonny]

https://www.eurogamer.net/mouse-and-keyboard-support-coming-to-xbox-cloud-gaming-1

Mouse / Keyboard support coming to Xbox cloud. Makes me wonder whether they'll bring games like Age of Empires to console via this method (though admittedly the current setup is xcloud uses Series X blades)...

They've also improved cloud latency recently...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/22/23178179/xbox-cloud-gaming-keyboard-and-mouse-support-latency-improvements

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/bioroid-boogaloo

343 is eyeballing adding microtransactions to Halo: Master Chief Collection

[nonny]

https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/bioroid-boogaloo
343 is eyeballing adding microtransactions to Halo: Master Chief Collection

That is a terrible decision... if anything they should just leave it alone and stop updating it.

[Cassius_Smoke]

https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/bioroid-boogaloo
343 is eyeballing adding microtransactions to Halo: Master Chief Collection

It's got the largest player base of any Halo game... Including the new one they made.
Theyll be doing this to rince more cash and make it so unattractive that players move to Infinite so investers are happy.

[Neon Ignition]

Yep, it immediately feels like a move to milk MCC's players to compensate for not making as much as they thought they would from Infinite. In short - everyone loses

[fishbowlhead]

It's got the largest player base of any Halo game... Including the new one they made.
Theyll be doing this to rince more cash and make it so unattractive that players move to Infinite so investers are happy.

Maybe they should stop giving gamepass ultimate away for next to nothing, then they wouldn’t have to ruin mcc with micro transactions.

[nonny]

Yep, it immediately feels like a move to milk MCC's players to compensate for not making as much as they thought they would from Infinite. In short - everyone loses

The issue I have with it is the MCC was a paid title, at least before it became a mainstay of game pass.

Infinite was built specifically to be a F2P multiplayer title.

[Neon Ignition]

Big issues with Rewards programme today. Managed to salvage by day streak but the 50pt achievement isn't registering and most searches aren't either. Around 170pts lost if it doesn't pick up and if it continues into next week it'll but various weekly's at risk

[teddymeow]

I had a delay in the 50pts achievement registering the other evening but everything else has been fine

[wheelaa]

Ha! I was going to moan about this a few days ago. Just a time wasted irk. A few missing points here and there means jack.

Yeah, it's been rubbish for me for a few weeks now.

Daily sets I often have to click several times for them to register. Today's 'Assisi' took about 10 clicks. Ass not Assisi.

I don't think I have ever only needed to complete 30 PC searches for the daily 90. Recently though I can go 50-60 or more until it registers 30.

50 for an achievement each day often won't register immediately, so I check (or forget to check) a few hours later.

Edit - taken me well over 200 Bing searches to get 30 to register today. Maybe I should stop searching for 'a' 'aa' 'aaa' etc.

[charlesr]

They are on to you

[Ouenben]

Searches for me have been slow but eventually counting. The achievement 50 points took a few hours but worked yesterday haven't tried today's yet. The issues only been for 2 days though it was all working fine before that.