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Thom12255 posted:New Zealand trick worked for ME. Whoa. Thanks for the heads up. That makes the rest of my day!
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tensai posted:Whoa. Thanks for the heads up. That makes the rest of my day! What's all this then?
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May 13, 2021 18:24
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Tsietisin posted:I thought this was a thing for everyone to take part. I've got it on mine. They usually are, but they updated the True Achievements article to mention that it seems like not everyone got this one. booooo
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May 13, 2021 18:25
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Beastie posted:What's all this then? Change your system country to NZ and it unlocks games early sometimes.
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May 13, 2021 18:37
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joylessdivision posted:Change your system country to NZ and it unlocks games early sometimes. Worked immediately. However, changing it back to the US relocks it. So just stick with NZ for the day or so.
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May 13, 2021 18:41
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Some dude on reddit posted:I’d like to praise EA a bit here for including a 2nd disc in the console versions for people without great online connections. That's really cool
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May 13, 2021 18:52
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I dunno if I can wait a year to play ME again. Does anyone know if it will work with xcloud?
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May 13, 2021 18:58
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MarcusSA posted:I dunno if I can wait a year to play ME again. 
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May 13, 2021 19:00
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MarcusSA posted:I dunno if I can wait a year to play ME again. The only games available for streaming are select games on Game Pass.
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May 13, 2021 19:02
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You know this is sort of petty but I wish Microsoft would do something to make the icons for their generic services and systems apps a little less... Fisher Price and nicer looking on a big 4k display. Used the rewards app today and that icon is real special.
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May 13, 2021 19:03
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I love me some ME. Might be my favorite game franchise (except the ending of 3) Zerot posted:The only games available for streaming are select games on Game Pass. Oh balls! Oh well. I was kinda wanting to get it and be able to play it on my pc too.
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May 13, 2021 19:35
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univbee posted:Oh, Mass Effect Legendary is technically flagged as a Series game due to the 120fps support (although there are 120fps games that aren't flagged this way) so you'll be required to install it internally. I'm running it right now off a USB drive, so it doesn't need to be on the Series X|S high-speed storage.
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May 13, 2021 20:53
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Zerot posted:I'm running it right now off a USB drive, so it doesn't need to be on the Series X|S high-speed storage. Oh good. Does it have that X|S logo on its dashboard icon?
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May 13, 2021 21:18
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Does that mean it can take advantage of faster loading speeds? All games should load faster by default given the speed of the NVMe Vs previous generation HDDs,, but to my knowledge no game currently uses the Velocity Architecture, which is the software special sauce that blows the horns off some hardware limitations Vs the PS5 NVMe.
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So is there a good explanation for what the "two arrows" icon that can show up on games means? It seems to only show on Series X|S enhanced games which are installed to a USB external. I thought that it meant that a game would be required to be copied to the internal to be playable, but this doesn't appear to be the case for all games where this arrow appears and is X|S enhanced, for example Rocket League shows this icon but still works from an external. Is it just a suggestion in that case? Is there some pronounced disadvantage to loading a game like this from the external, like it'll revert to the XB1 version, or can you just do this and be fine as long as the longer load times are fine with you? Is there some way to tell if a game will launch from an external or not short of trying to launch it? VV Thanks. What I'm talking about in this post is why I was confused by this. univbee fucked around with this message at 23:07 on May 13, 2021 |
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May 13, 2021 23:04
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univbee posted:Oh good. Does it have that X|S logo on its dashboard icon? It is listed as being Series X|S optimized in Games and Apps.
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May 13, 2021 23:05
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It means look both ways before crossing
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Playing Mass Effect now and goddamn I love the lack of region locking on the Series X and how easy it is to go back and forth.
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May 14, 2021 01:47
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I'm kind of apprehensive about Dark Alliance because the last time I got excited about a DnD video game was Dagerdale.
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univbee posted:So is there a good explanation for what the "two arrows" icon that can show up on games means? The X|S means the game is in some way optimised, the arrows are a warning that the game is currently installed on an external drive and needs not to be.
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Lammasu posted:I'm kind of apprehensive about Dark Alliance because the last time I got excited about a DnD video game was Dagerdale. The combat looked a little stiff to me in the last trailer. I read the first Drizzt book last year because I started playing DND in the forgotten realms setting and given the way his combat and magical abilities are described it's baffling no one's made a character action game in which Drizzt is just Dante with the serial numbers filed off.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:The X|S means the game is in some way optimised, the arrows are a warning that the game is currently installed on an external drive and needs not to be.
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May 14, 2021 06:30
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I’m sure I’m just missing it but is there a way to mute the audio going to my surround sound when headphones are plugged into the controller? The ps5 does it automatically which is nice.
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May 14, 2021 08:25
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MarcusSA posted:I’m sure I’m just missing it but is there a way to mute the audio going to my surround sound when headphones are plugged into the controller? The ps5 does it automatically which is nice. You can go into settings ---> HDMI audio ---> set to 'off' while using headphones unless you're using optical in tyool 2021 for some reason. I'd been doing that when using my Xbox wireless headphones recently but honestly it's a lot easier to just hit the mute button on the sound bar remote, and I imagine you might have a similar experience with your system depending on your audio setup.
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May 14, 2021 08:44
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Looks like they just added a tribute to the OG Xbox dashboard backdrop as a profile theme and dynamic backdrop, too. https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1392240418016878592
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May 14, 2021 09:27
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Yeah I've been using that OG theme for the last week. Wish it changed the layout or text to that 2001 fat minamlist style
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May 14, 2021 10:03
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American McGay posted:Yeah, I'm assuming that if a game still loads off USB with this icon then it's falling back to the One version and you're not seeing any of the Series enhancements. If that were the case it would apply to all Smart Delivery games.
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May 14, 2021 12:58
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In my experience, when the arrows appear in the corner of the icon it means it is a native Series X|S game in cold storage on the external hard drive. I haven't seen an instance where it would let me play it from there. Some games are flagged as being optimized for Series X|S but can be played from external hard drives. I think this is because developers flag the game as being optimized but whether it's a native Series X|S game is based on SDK or compiling or something something.
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It's if the game requires the fast storage. That's it.
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Laserface posted:It's if the game requires the fast storage. That's it. Some games with this icon launch without fast storage, though.
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univbee posted:Some games with this icon launch without fast storage, though. What games has this happened for you? I'll test it on my end. Make sure that you don't have two copies of the game installed in two different storage devices.
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So it seems like the icon did eventually go away, I think it required a launch from external. But it was showing for me on Rocket League and Star Wars Squadrons, for example. I did find an elaborate way to check, though. If you go into a game's file info and get the mess of data, on the 4th line near the beginning it says "Gen:" and if what follows is "Durango" it's technically an XB1 game that'll run off an external even if it says X|S on the game's icon. If it says "Scarlett" then it has to be on the internal to work. Note that there are a bunch of games that have X|S benefits but don't have the X|S logo on them, like Cyberpunk and Cyber Shadow, as well as all the framerate-boosted games. loving hell, what a confusing mess.
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univbee posted:loving hell, what a confusing mess. Better than the PS4/PS5 stuff tbh
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https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/1393181830149558276?s=20 Only a few games are supported at this time, though. I wonder how much support this feature will get.
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May 14, 2021 18:46
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So how is the new ME release?
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Zerot posted:https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/1393181830149558276?s=20 This is only for compatible tvs right? I don't really know anything about Atmos vision.
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MarcusSA posted:So how is the new ME release? I've gotten as far as recruiting Liara, and I've run into two bugs now. At one point on Therum the Mako's wheels got stuck in the ground, and when I got out to try and fix it, my character was stuck facing in one direction. I could swing the camera around but Shep kept staring forward, and left stick movement was all relative to that. I couldn't save since there were still a few geth armatures out in the distance, so I had to reload and lose a few minutes. The second bug happened again inside the mine, although a save and reload was able to fix it
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How is Resident Evil Village and RE7? I'm really interested in Village because it looks fun from the video reviews I've seen and has really strong Bloodborne vibes from the aesthetic which is appealing, it seems as if someone really expanded on the Cainhurst area and made it first person. Since there's a bundle of that with RE7 (and all the DLC) I was thinking about grabbing that but feel iffy about RE7 since I've heard so many conflicting things. On one hand unkillable enemies doesn't seem so bad since Alien Isolation owns and it seems like a more varied version of that with a True Detective S1 aesthetic? Maybe mixed with Devil's Rejects? Also, am I right in thinking buying Village gets me the Series version as well? So whenever I can finally buy a Series X the game will update to the newest gen version?
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404notfound posted:I've gotten as far as recruiting Liara, and I've run into two bugs now. At one point on Therum the Mako's wheels got stuck in the ground, and when I got out to try and fix it, my character was stuck facing in one direction. I could swing the camera around but Shep kept staring forward, and left stick movement was all relative to that. I couldn't save since there were still a few geth armatures out in the distance, so I had to reload and lose a few minutes. So what you are saying is it’s a pretty authentic ME experience? I’m probably just gonna hold off anyway and decide between the PC and Xbox versions.
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