Although maybe installing games is the metagame? A lot of times I’ll download things and not actually open them (also in Steam) … Goodbye Gears Tactics, I downloaded you in hopes of giving you another shot but you’re gone because I feel I have more of a chance of trying out Dragon Quest… Although I also don’t feel as bad about doing things like uninstalling Wolfenstein Youngblood because it keeps crashing with Vulcan errors - too bad I needed an excuse anyways to move onto DOOM …
RickH
2046
If you have Ultimate, you could try out the cloud version on an Android device.
Murph
2047
I do! I may do that. Hopefully I’ll be able to get the damn game installed soon, though. Fingers crossed!
I just much prefer playing with mouse and keyboard.
Timex
2048
That’s super weird, given that the app on an Android phone seems to be perfectly snappy.
My opinion on Haven: one of the worst mouse implementation I’ve seen in years. First, “Invert y axis” works in normal gameplay but it doesn’t in the scenes inside your base, the game has some weird negative acceleration (moving fast the mouse turn me less than moving the mouse slowly!) and the combat UI is weird in how you have to hold keys or press buttons in specific moments, it was really designed for controllers.
And even forgetting that, I don’t like the jrpg style of combat AND the game already started to be repetitive, with the current quest of ‘collect 25 doodads’.
The couple is cute, but not enough to support the game. And apart from cuteness, I would care more of them if I knew their backstories more, but it seems the game is going to need a good number of hours to get to that.
Awe, that is too bad. My expectations were a lot higher for this game based on the interviews with the developers which seemed to exclusively focus on the relationship and interpersonal dynamics with the couple and didn’t talk much about the open world repetitiveness. Seems like this idea would have worked better without an open world tacked on.
Matt_W
2051
Turns out I had an update that needed to be installed for Gaming Services from the Microsoft Store. That update wouldn’t install correctly until I restarted the PC and tried again. Then the Doom Eternal install worked…
…and I played 10 minutes and decided it is both too retro and too fiddly for me. I really liked the Doom reboot from 2016, and I get the appeal of Eternal’s retro aesthetic, but it’s not for me at this point. (And I really hate the weapon customization. Why make old-school demon killing the center of your game and then throw a bunch of inventory and customization screens in my face when all I want to do is cut demons in half with my chainsaw?
Oh cool. I actually refunded it when I bought it, but this time it’s going a lot better.
I agree it seems fiddly early on. I’m assuming that goes away with familiarity.
I find if Game Pass is acting a little wonky there are several things that help (which you did)
- Make sure you have Windows up to date and check Settings->Updates for any additional things.
- In the Microsoft Store go to your library and click on the ‘Get Updates’ which will update Game Pass games, the Game Pass App, and other connected Services.
- Finally, do a restart.
Some combination of the above usually sorts out most issues.
To be fair to Microsoft, Steam had the same behavior for over a decade.
Is the EA Play with game pass ultimate live on PC yet? I can’t figure out a date or how to turn it on.
No, think it’s supposed to to be Dec 10th.
Yes, it is.
Soon after I got Game Pass, I added 2TB of storage just so I could install every single GP game I might want to try. Then I got into sorting and arranging and resizing and rearranging all the game icons on my Start menu because it’s fun to do and they look awesome.
So then wtf is up with Dragon Quest XI and Halo: Master Chief Collection not having a game icon for the Start menu?? They’re just blank, off-white, square tiles and they look like crap on my otherwise strikingly beautiful Game Pass library mosaic. Imagine a gorgeous model with a gap-toothed smile. That’s what I’m dealing with.
I tried repairs and re-installs and nothing worked. Apparently it’s a known problem with a handful of games, also including Don’t Starve and FTL. I have to mouse over the blank tiles to get a tool tip reminding me what game it is. BOLLOCKS, I say.
I know, I know, who gives a shit besides me and a handful of Start Menu freaks… it just seems like a stupidly careless oversight and an easy fix.
One way you know Game Pass is phenomenal is how much crap we happily put up with!
Razgon
2058
I actually think its December 15th.
I do think they have moved that date up a few times, though.
I have this problem with many gamepass games when creating their standard desktop shortcuts. The icon looks normal, then sometime later or upon reboot it is just blank. And it happens only with some games (but many). For example I just had it happen with Halo and Tetris Effect.
So I just create my own icons instead. It is kind of a ridiculous problem though. One would think desktop shortcuts are a solved problem. But as long as MS insists on this game file encryption nonsense, I guess we will see these issues.
Right, it’s Doom for me. It was fine at first.
You guys can actually see your desktop? I must be doing something wrong!
The disappearing icon bug is more a windows problem than something to do with gamepass and basically involves the icon cache being corrupted. The easiest fix used to be dropping your desktop colour depth to 16 bit then putting it back to 32 bit, but I don’t think that’s possible any more.
You’ll need to delete the icon cache files and restart instead.
They are. Don’t use them.
For me most (all?) of my GamePass game icons are the wrong size and surrounded by an ugly blue border. I’m usually at medium icons, and many are fixed if I go to “small icons” and it gets worse (the borders are bigger and the icons are smaller?!) when I go to small icons…
