I can see that the life of an Xbox player is always intense.
Except that’s not what happened.
The PC release happens at around post 1057 in that thread, go back and have a look. There’s one mention of the game-ready driver release at that time, and then another message about drivers a few days (and 100 messages) later. Then it’s never brought up again. Additionally in the 260 posts after the PC release there seemed to be roughly 4 posts that mentioned in passing that the game was performing well.
In contrast, for the similar range of posts starting at the console release there’s a dozen messages about how to get the maximum number of Microsoft Points and Bing Points when buying Destiny 2, then a bunch of talk about some “Xbox Live Club” that’s totally orthogonal to the built-in clan system of the game, several posts on merits of physical vs. digital on Xbox with the funky disc-based DRM.
Sorry, no. You do not get to say that the console players were concentrating on pure gameplay while PC gamers were somehow derailing things with a discussion of the ecosystem.
Also in the two weeks(!!) before the PC release, the only significant activity in the thread was the “are we all done with Destiny 2?” discussion. The idea that PC players somehow killed the discussion and drove the console players away from the thread is just total bullshit. The thread was pretty much dead before the new players temporarily revitalized it.
+1
I was thinking the same thing, but thought it might seem defensive to say so, since I was the one who posted the driver link just before release.
Okay. I’ll admit it was a bad example. I didn’t go back and look for specific numbers, just what stood out recently in my head (and I did say it got back on track). I did a bad thing and mostly unfairly maligned the PC crowd in that thread.
Fwiw, I totally understand the appeal of having something that “just works”. There are also lots of games that I like, but don’t want to play sitting at my computer, preferring mobile/console
All right, everybody hug it out, we need to discuss the real tragedy here: my Xbox One X is still in friggin’ Kent.
Kent, as in England? How did it get there?
Naw man, Kent as in south of Seattle. So near and yet so far.
Heh. Driving in Seattle was so stressful when I lived there, I’d have happily waited an extra day instead of bearing the stress of driving through traffic to get down there near the airport and then drive all the way back to Bellevue. This was also true about the prospect of going to Sam’s Club from Bellevue, which involved crossing a couple of bridges and some messed up traffic areas.
True, I feel your pain (the only real pain in this thread). My 1.5 upgrade kit for the Kingdom Death boardgame drove around Seattle on various trucks for a week last month. I’m not kidding, even a little. Original delivery date was Wednesday, and it arrived in Everett on Friday according to tracking. Then it went to Seattle one day, down to Kent the next, back Seattle, sat there (never out for delivery) and then was handed off to the Post Office for delivery on Wed, changing the estimated delivery to Thursday. It was finally delivered Friday. Totally absurd.
Lol, I avoid going through Bellevue whenever possible. Place is nuts.
I’m going through Bellevue as I type this.
2 on the way. One for me, one for my middle son. Mine is the one that shows up first, since Amazon & Best Buy wouldn’t let me preorder 2 units. Made my credit card folks suspicious.
BTW, if you check your console, in the Games Store you’ll see a new collection below “Games coming soon” called “Xbox One X Enhanced games.” To fall in that list, the game has to have either released with support for Xbox One X enhancements, or the title update that adds them has to be available. So you can use this to see if the game you’re interested in has gotten its update yet.
About 15 more titles will be added late tonight, and you’ll see daily updates after that.
You can also check the games you already have to see which ones are enhanced by going to My Games and Apps and using the top right filter to show only Xbox One X Enhanced games.
So on Witcher 3 you’ll see the better load times and smoother frame rates, but the actual update isn’t available as of right this moment. (Can’t wait for that one, though – I’m going to play the complete edition, get those early Gwent achievements I missed, and completionist the side quests for all-new Gamerscore!)
In the meantime, you can use the Enhanced list (and the “download 4K content” setting in Settings) to get a head-start on updating your titles. Then just swap your external drive onto the X, or use the new file transfer feature to move them over the network.
At least it’s in Kent. Mine was last seen in Kent…ucky.
May want to hold off a bit on Titanfall 2 if you get an xBox X today/soon:
Well, at least be advised that it may get a lot better soon if they can resolve the funkiness.
Oh man, Gears 3, Mirror’s Edge, and Skate 3 will be back-compat-enhanced:
I will totally reinstall Mirror’s Edge, I love that game.
Gears 3 already looks so freaking good. I can’t imagine what they’ll do to make it better other than an up-res.
I just loaded it up right now thinking that it was already updated, and was about to say how impressed I was with it. But then I realized it was still the same 720p back compat version I played last year!
I guess that just reinforces what I said up-thread how little I care about resolution on my 1080p TV :-P
Does the regular Xbox One get the same enhancements? Is it anything beyond 4K?