Xbox General discussion **No Order Chat Here**

He plays a lot of different kinds of games. Rainbow six siege, persona 5, overwatch, those free to play mmo, rocket league, terraria, Witcher 3, rdr, etc. Watchdogs, Cupheads, that one with the laser spiders! (Pokémon and Zelda botw, triangle strategy on Switch). Never really seen him play CoD.

If it's a good game regardless of genre I think he'd give it a go. I did sort of float the idea of the series S, but I think he wants to save up for the X, my budget doesn't stretch to it unfortunately, and having a couple of things to unwrap would be nice anyway, as well as a few Bob toward the X.

A new controller?

How is the "normal" XBox user supposed to know a game has FPS boost to 60 FPS ???

And the option is hidden away in a dumb non obvious place.

When the XBox launces the game, and it supports FPS boost, it should give the user the option of setting it then.

I bet there are a ton of people running games in 30 FPS on Series consoles when they could be running 60 or even 120 FPS.

Yeah, it's excellent on XBox if you know about it !

I'm playing Farcry 5 on GamePass and the difference is night and day between 60 and 30 FPS. But I had to Google if it was supported and also had to Google to remind myself how to turn it on. Not sure if it's me or the TV or the Xbox or the specific game , but I can't play 30 FPS without feeling sick.

Yes. Goto the manage game option. There is a tick box. You have to tick it or your games are like 2014. Google it.

Farcry 5 is lovely at 60 FPS especially the vehicles.

But I just don't like first person shooters. They are all Doom to me. And the Xbox library is full of them.

Might get back to Farcry 5 though, it's certainly way more interesting than Halo Zzz.

Also you get auto HDR support on some of these titles.

But you'll need the TV / monitor for it.

Couldnt agree with this post more.

Picked up the Series S for €229 at Smyths during the Black Friday sale. I was happy to game with lower performance as I mostly will use GPU. But couldnt help myself and got MW2 only to find it needs 130GB (of available 364GB). I briefly considered getting the segate 1TB expansion card on sale for £189 (€219) off Amazon. Total system cost would have been €448.

Luckily hadnt opened the Series S and took it back to exchange for a Series X on sale at €480. So for additional €32 I get a massive performance boost. Storage would be lower storage than the S with 1TB expansion pass, but with 800GB available shoudnt be an issue.

Anyone ever had their Xbox One just lose sync with all their controllers? My son's One S keeps losing sync. We unplug the Xbox from power for a couple of minutes then it's all good again for another day or two, then same happens again. Everything is up to date, controllers have new batteries or the Elite is fully charged.

Can GPU be shared with family playing via cloud streaming on Samsung tv? Can’t find any definitive info on this situation, I know can be shared between two consoles.

I am wondering will cloud streaming only setups backfire for MS ? People will see janky performance and buy a PS instead.

Not a great experience for me even though it's a wired 100 MBps connection. Handy for checking a game out before downloading.

But, my point is that people won't know this or won't buy a console. People have no way of knowing if they are getting the right framerate or response times.

I've a series x, I download games only. I've a wired connection to it. 100mbps and it's a yuck experience if I stream.

A previous poster was querying about TV access.

Good advice re: ports on TVs.

MS definitely need some way to indicate if your gaming experience is optimal while streaming otherwise people will think, this looks **** compared to x,y,z.

I played that crossfire x earlier, to get an achievement for a rewards card.

I played it on cloud and despite being awful at FPS's in general, was able to get 4 kills in my first ever match.

Cloud gaming is almost asynchronous for me on a wired 1gig connection!

It's a pity Stadia had to fail, but Google's mismanagement of the technology should not take away from how good it's going to get!

All the major players are still involved in cloud.

There is going to be some bad too, no doubt! I was playing Torment the other day on cloud too and the video stream just crapped out and started tiling and glitching. I had to restart the session, but it was fine after that.

I'm optimistic for the future anyway :)

Xcloud sucks on my connection too. 1 gb wired to my series x. It’s poor compared to stadia. On the whole though series x is awesome.

Yeah nothing like getting a pre roll ad then getting more 1 minute in. They're also getting more aggressive with unskippable ads.

Youtube premium in India lads. €2ish a month, can be shared with 6 accounts.

Got FarCry5, Fallout4 and Mass Effect Legendary Edition cheap from CEX.

One if the advantages of physical games and being new to a platform.

I've tried them already on GamePass so I know I'll complete them (the main games anyway) eventually and I don't need GamePass to complete them, as they are all huge games.

But mostly I like getting video games in the post, like I'm 12 again 🤣🤣🤣

We have the series S and it’s hidden underneath the desk with no access needed to insert games so for us it’s perfect, along with game pass and buying games and dlc from the Microsoft store when they are on sale we never had any issues but we are getting a switch off santy this year so will probably be back to cex regularly buying and selling again!

With the soon to be gone Levels in GameStop, I got NFS Unbound for €13 with GoW Ragnarok traded in. Level 4. Without it, on fhe new "Pro" thingy, it would have cost €20. That was good value imo. Not sure how much it would have been without the Level 4.

GameStop had a big sign up saying 10% off Atrix accessories but when I got to the till they told me it dosnt apply any more, i have a level 3 card and was expecting some kind of benefit from it

And all those other offer codes that were given were on a UK site and only available to UK residents.

They have done other things with Pro though. They recently sold MW2 for €40 and the Series X for €450 with a free Atrix pad for Pro members. You do lose 5% of the trade boost of level 4 though.