Xbox Game Pass

sniper_samurai

The seond monthly update is up now.

https://twitter.com/XboxGamePass/status/1846174679070863779

sniper_samurai

Additions and removals for the first half of November.

https://twitter.com/XboxWire/status/1853437292838527069?t=nquF6wuGb2EWHX9fwtgtJg&s=19

marcbrophy

The Spyro trilogy remastered was added there on Tuesday.

Doesn't have achievements for some reason!

Was going to try and get daily points rewards with it :D

I'm sure I'll play through them anyway!

sniper_samurai

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122838374#Comment_122838374

Achievements are a requirement on Xbox, guides are showing that this has 105 of them with 3000 gamer score.

marcbrophy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122838509#Comment_122838509

Oh really?

I was getting some network error message when I loaded the game.

Then in the achievements area, it said not applicable or something.

Guess it was just an error then, thanks for that :)

dulpit

Interesting. I was looking for an easy game to pick up to have daily achievements ticking over. I picked up Bluey but it's not a good game and doesn't have any of the delight of the tv show either.

Luna84

Spyro trilogy are great games and easy 3000 GS points. I played it years ago.

EoinMcLovin

Coming Soon

• Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Console) – December 4 - Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Standard, Game Pass Core

• Forza Motorsport (Xbox Series X|S) – December 4 - Game Pass Standard

• Hauntii (Console) – December 4 - Game Pass Standard

• Humanity (Console) – December 4 - Game Pass Standard

• EA Sports WRC (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) EA Play – December 5 - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

• Overthrown (Game Preview) (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – December 5 - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – December 9 - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

• Wildfrost (Cloud, Console, and PC) – December 10 - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

• Carrion (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 2- Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard

• Road 96 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 7 - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard

Game Pass Core members can look forward to three more games coming to the library on December 4! In addition to Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled, Game Pass Core members can also experience hardcore survival in DayZ or make your Goat simulating dreams come true in the original Goat Simulator.

Leaving December 15:

• Amnesia: The Bunker (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Forager (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Forza Horizon 4 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Rise of the Tomb Raider (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Tin Hearts (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• The Quarry (Cloud and Console)

Leaving December 31:

• BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Close to the Sun (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Humankind (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Lego 2K Drive (Cloud and Console)
• McPixel 3 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Party Animals (Cloud and Console)
• https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/12/03/xbox-game-pass-december-2024-wave-1/

Luna84

Carrion is actually good. It's a bit different but easy 1000 GS. I don't know how I got the game as I never bought it I thought it was with GamePass maybe I got it with GwG back in the day.

sniper_samurai

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122918029#Comment_122918029

It was previously on Game Pass when it was released.

marcbrophy

Yeah I got 1,000G with Carrion on gamepass before.

It's definitely worth a blast, to enjoy munching on a few humans :D

Any idea what kind of game Indiana Jones is? I'm assuming a Tomb Raider / Uncharted mix or so?

Not sure if I'll have any interest myself! Never even seen the movies!

DarkJager21

CTR and Indy are the big ones this month. Anyone else find it annoying how padded these announcements are now with games going to standard? It's great for them and all but kind of expect this to announce new games to the service.

sniper_samurai

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122919291#Comment_122919291

By the look of it the closest example wrt how it plays would probably be Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay which was made by Starbreeze, the previous studio of Machinegames founders.

Escape from Butcher Bay is probably the best part of that franchise.

The game is available on Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Unfortunately it isn't backwards compatible and no longer available for purchase on PC but as with most games it can be found without too much difficulty.

https://youtu.be/Z-xY67mG5dc

marcbrophy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122919407#Comment_122919407

Cool, I'll give Indy a blast anyway, should be good :)

irishgeo

Whats the best way to get to play Indy game without splashing 500 notes on a new graphics card or new xbox?

I have an xbox one and 3 month PC Game Pass? Can i play it with Xbox Live streaming.

sniper_samurai

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122940732#Comment_122940732

Cloud streaming works, but requires GPU.

The game runs really well on PC, as long as you have a card with hardware rtx you should be fine. Still needs some work on Steam Deck from what I've heard though.

EoinMcLovin

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/01/21/xbox-game-pass-january-2025-wave-2/

Available Today

Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

Coming Soon

Flock (Console) – January 22
Now with Game Pass Standard

Gigantic: Rampage Edition (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 22

Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (Console) – January 22
Now with Game Pass Standard

Magical Delicacy (Console) – January 22
Now with Game Pass Standard

Tchia (Xbox Series X|S) – January 22
Now with Game Pass Standard

The Case of the Golden Idol (Console) – January 22
Now with Game Pass Standard

Starbound (Cloud and Console) – January 22
Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Standard

Eternal Strands (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 28
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass Available on day one! 

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – January 28
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass Available on day one! 

Shady Part of Me (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 29
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard

Sniper Elite: Resistance (Cloud, Console, and PC) – January 30
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass Available on day one! 

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – January 31
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass Available on day one! 

Far Cry New Dawn (Cloud, Console, and PC) – February 4
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard

Leaving January 31

The following games are leaving the Game Pass library soon, but there’s still time to jump back in to wrap up where you left off or even jump in fresh. You can also use your membership discount to save up to 20% to keep them in your library.

• Anuchard (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Broforce Forever (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Darkest Dungeon (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Death’s Door (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Maquette (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem (Cloud, Console, and PC)

Nyum Nyum

Looking forward to Sniper Elite: Resistance 😊

Royale with Cheese

Been playing lonely mountains snow riders, it's like a new skifree 😃

Not far into it but absolutely loved the first one.

marcbrophy

Starbound looks like fun, downloading it now!

The cover art gives me FTL vibes, now I'm all intrigued :)

Jordan 199

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123082053#Comment_123082053

Installing on my console now. I am looking forward to shooting my enemies in the balls.

Treppen

Im a fan of multiplayer and survival mode the odd time I play. It's a blatant rehash of SE5... But free on gamepass so how bad.

Potential-Monke

My sub is due to expire the end of the month, and it's set to renew automatically on monthly payments. It's saying it's going to renew at €12.99/month but I have GPU, which should be €17.99/month according to their own page… nothing to indicate it will renew as standard, but the pricing is off…

Am I getting some kind of deal here? Obviously not as good as 3 years of Ultimate for ~€160, but it's like it's going to renew Ultimate at Standard rate? I'm in 2 minds, I sold the X so really only need PC Gamepass if I was to keep it, and that's only €6.99/month, but I could be tempted to get the X again if they start making decent games, as my GPU is just about good enough to run Indiana Jones on min specs and GPU prices are still stupid expensive, the recommend GPU (3080ti) is over €1k. So a X that can run stable 60fps without messing about would be a better purchase right now/in the future.

Guess I'll let it renew once and see. I'd much prefer to pay for a year, but MS want it monthly so they can change upwards and have immediate income whenever they want.

sniper_samurai

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123148388#Comment_123148388

You don't need that card for Indy, if you don't go hard on the RT a 4060 is fine as long as you aren't running 4K. My 4070 runs it in 4K over 60fps without dlss as long as I keep the RT low. The 5070 is out next month for about €650 and will blow a 3080ti away. Plus it looks like the Radeon 9070 XT will be a similar price and appears to only be outperformed by the 40 and 50 series 80 and 90 cards.

Though the big loss without Ultimate would be cloud gaming if your pc can't handle something natively.

Luna84

Damn I must have forgot to turn off recurring billing as I was just charged the full amount for a month of GamePass Ultimate. I had completely forgotten the subscription was running out. I know the console tells you but I must have blanked it out completely.

Luna84

Regarding my post above this. Is it too late to add two 12 months core? I mean do you have to add the two 12 months core and then add the month of Ultimate. I have it the other way paid for the month of Ultimate and then add two 12 months of core.

sniper_samurai

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123172727#Comment_123172727

Yes, you need to subscribe to Core first, the conversion rate is much less favourable if you have an active Ultimate sub, around 3:1 iirc.

Potential-Monke

Ok, so it seems I'm renewing GPU monthly at €12.99. Auto-paid the other day, set to renew again in a month at €12.99, but I still have Ultimate. Hmmm…

dulpit

Lovely stuff.

https://twitter.com/XboxGamePass/status/1896985421726593507?t=_7Vegh2TEZbah3FkZrShVA&s=19

sniper_samurai

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123257471#Comment_123257471

Yeah, Kinguin are as scummy as G2A.