My Windows 10 account is a Microsoft account, the same one that’s my Xbox Live account.
Noman
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I have a local W10/W11 account, and I log in to various Microsoft applications (lXBox App, Store etc.) separately.
By the way, one of the best features of XBox App (whether it’s intentional or not) is that once you acquire a game either by directly buying it or through Gamepass, you can then switch account to another user, who can still play that game. This makes it very easy to have multiple profiles for the same game (primarily for save games) on the same PC. No other online store allows that.
Well, I had set up another account (with my first name spelled Jose, without the accent) on this machine and associated it with my Microsoft account, which I created under that profile. I went ahead and just now deleted that “dummy user” from my machine, since all I’d done under that account is install the Xbox app and confirm that Cloud gaming and streaming worked fine under that account.
Once I’d done that, I signed into my Microsoft account from this account at the system level (which it wouldn’t let me before) and now when I lock the screen it shows my Microsoft account login and I use my PIN instead of my old password, yet all my stuff is still here. Now I haven’t rebooted Windows since I did all that but just now I confirmed that even though I seem to be logged into my Microsoft account it makes no difference–I still can’t play cloud games or stream. So maybe it is down to the special character in the User folder path that’s the stupid problem. GRRRRRR.
Someone told me you can basically move all your User folder stuff to a whole different user folder (once you create the user) but I’m not so sure how that would work without having to muck with the registry and all that BS.
I’m gonna try a repair install of Windows and see if that changes anything. So sick of this BS.
Interesting, so you’ve never set up a central “one ring to rule them all” Microsoft account? You actually have different passwords for all those things?
Stand on the pressure plate to open the door and then stop time to pass through it. The game has a lot of time puzzles, also hint for a later one, you can slow time too which comes in handy for like one puzzle but you can’t solve it without it.
I noticed Total War: Warhammer 3 is out on Game Pass.
Is this a good entry point for someone who hasn’t played a Total War game before, or a Warhammer game before?
Free is always a good entry point
wisefool
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Just don’t play Daemon princes despite being recommended as for beginners. it is probably the hardest.
Tim_N
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Yes, but do yourself a favour and play the prologue first and then maybe a first campaign as khorne. Don’t follow the games recommendations for “first campaigns” as they can be quite hard.
The first website I found recommended chaos undivided or Kislev, so opinions on what is easy seem to differ.
No, those recommendations are what CA said. CA is wrong.
Kislev reportedly suffers from intense pressure from enemies. The custom demon prince also suffers from many enemies, as well as needing to understand four different demonic rosters to figure out which is a good army.
A recommendation from Eurogamer for Far: Changing Tides, which launches next week (including on Game Pass).
RPS also recommends it. I never played the previous game.
i played the previous game but there was too much pathos for me. It’s something i feel in a lot of indie games from the past couple of years, so maybe it’s just my perception of it that changed. A lot of games give me the feeling they are"gratuitous".
I wasn’t willing to forgive it because it had pretty much no gameplay. Thankfully it was also super short.
Inside is a much better game on a similar genre. Probably not as beautiful, but esthetics are overrated in gaming I tell you!
I’ll give the dissenting opinion. I think Inside is overrated. The climax is an incredible technical achievement and a unique experience, and I guess the rest of the game sets you up for it. But otherwise I think it tries to get too much mileage from being brutal for brutality’s sake. Which… we already had Limbo if we wanted to play a catalog of 100 vicious ways for a child to die?
Far: Lone Sails is, first, a game about learning how the game works. You get this vehicle, but no instructions on how to use it or keep it running, so you learn by experimentation. Then it drives you through an evocative, but unexplained world in ruins. And then you encounter puzzle-obstacles, just as contrived as those in Inside–arguably a little less interesting, if I’m being fair, but mostly just because you don’t get your face chewed off by a dog if you lose. To me, a big difference is the tone, which is wistful and melancholy, but satisfying in the end. Too many indie games try to have a similar tone, but don’t earn it; I think Far does.
I’m glad you compared the two, because I do think the similarities and differences are interesting. Both are aesthetics-first, they just take pains to employ gameplay as a vector for aesthetics, not just sound and visuals. In both, everything is in service of a holistic tone or atmosphere. I happen to like the tone of Far better than Inside, but I think both are pretty successful at that.
Personal expectations are so important: I expected to dislike Inside (I was forced, literally, to play it by a friend, while I really disliked Limbo, for the reason you described amongst others) and to love Far: Lone Sails. Of course in the end the results was the opposite. It also maybe helped that I sort of established a connection to Inside’s narrative despite what it tries to show, but that’d venture into spoilers territory, and what’s worse than spoilering a 2 hours game!
I should just learn to discipline myself with gaming: in real life I learned to not expect anything, why can’t I do it with games!
Inside is also on topic since it’s also on Game Pass. I really should finish my game. I can’t remember where I got stuck in that one, but I did get stuck long enough that I stopped playing it.
LMN8R
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Inside is so dang good. Every time someone mentioned it I want to go back and replay the whole thing.
I had no idea that the FAR games are anything like Limbo and Inside. Never really paid any attention to them. Anyone else have experience playing FAR: Lone Sails? I wonder if it’s worth playing ahead of Changing Tides. Thanks to those who already shared their experiences above!
DoubleG
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To put it unfairly, Far: Lone Sails is like a walking simulator for platformers. I liked it a lot! It’s just more of a mood than a challenge.
Matt_W
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My son and I played the first Far game trading the controller back and forth like the old days and it was awesome. So looking forward to the next one, although he cried for like an hour when the train died.
And yeah, similar to Limbo and Inside, which I love so we should play those together too.
