Ridah
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Backwards compatibility is only available to people with the beta dashboard, right?
Editer
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I spent about 2 hours last night playing my Xbox One save of The Witcher III on my Surface Pro 3 via the Windows 10 Xbox app’s streaming. I was shocked at how well it worked. No perceivable lag in combat. A couple of visual glitches when I was galloping at high speeds and the entire screen kept changing every frame, but those went away almost completely when I switched my SP3 over to the 5GHz 802.11n network from the 2.4GHz spectrum, which is super-crowded in my neighborhood.
Obviously, I’d prefer to play on the 65-inch screen, but it’s nice for long RPGs like this where the family starts complaining about wanting the TV back but DON’T THEY KNOW CIRI AND YEN AND TRISS NEED ME AND OMG WHAT HAS DANDELION GOTTEN INTO NOW?
RE: The New Vegas post… I’m guessing he’s playing on a real 360 via HDMI pass-through into the Xbox One?
ElGuapo
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DennyA guessed it. Perfect backwards compatibility now! You can even snap stuff to it, and you get full features. You just switch controllers when you want to play either system. It works brilliant.
stusser
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From some of the videos I’ve seen (I don’t run win10 yet and don’t own a current-gen console) the XBone–>Win10 streaming works extremely well but the image quality is severely impacted. This was obvious even on youtube. Is that still the case?
Sure, but that sort of defeats the purpose of true backwards compatibility. You have to own and use the older console at the same time as the newer one.
I heard the delay/lag with the HDMI input made using the 360 as input to the One not very usable. Is that incorrect? Not that I’ll remove the cable box anyway.
JoshV
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Man, I was the opposite! I felt so vulnerable on foot with all these guys doing crazy wall running, double jumping insane acrobatics, all while cloaked to get to places that I couldn’t, or to snipe me from super far away.
But get me in a Titan, and the playing field is a bit more even. No wonky wall jumping, just some good boosting, sub power usage and a primary and secondary weapon. Oh and the physical attack, which, let me tell you, it’s really satisfying to grab a guy out of the air and crush them in your hands. Or rip the arm off a crippled titan and beat them to death with it. (though melee is not as satisfying as Destiny, which has a masterful amount of auto-aim, leap forward, and controller vibration to make melee really fun) They’re especially fun in Attrition, as I can kill grunts en masse, and swing the tide, and take down other Titans trying to do the same.
Of course, I liked Last Titan Standing a lot too, which has me not doing much running around as a pilot, so I ended up not getting any better at the parkour…
I only just bought Titanfall so if any of you jokers are up for playing a bit and can tolerate a noob, look me up (divedivedive). From what I’ve seen, looks like a blast.
Editer
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Depends on bandwidth, as the streaming quality adapts to the available bandwidth. On the 2.4GHz network, which has a ton of interference in my neighborhood, I occasionally saw some artifacting or (rarely) image glitches. (Didn’t affect gameplay, since response was never interrupted.) Once I swapped the Surface Pro 3 over to the 5GHz network, it was solid, and the image quality was really good. (Xbox One is hardwired to the network.) There might have been some level of detail loss compared to the original, but it wasn’t evident on the 12.5-inch screen. I would guess your quality will depend on your actual in-home bandwidth, and whether you’re running 100% wireless or have one or more of the devices wired.
YouTube makes judging quality problematic, as the compression they throw on top of things makes any video look bad compared to the original, and if there are any compression artifacts at all in an original, YouTube just accentuates the hell out of them. And I know improvement were made throughout the beta process, so things might be better now than when the YT videos were made.
I was just blown away by the gameplay responsiveness. I see why the technology limits you to the local network, because you really can get a good experience there. Having tried Onlive, PS Now, etc. having to stream for a remote server just adds too much lag for any kind of timing-sensitive games.
True, it kind of defeats the true BC thing. But I just put the xbox 360 on my component shelf and forget about it.
There doesn’t seem to be any lag at all on the HDMI input (labelled by them as the “TV” app. I’ll let you know if it effects multiplayer.
Pogue, I’ll add you right now. Always down for some Titanfall! I switch between that and GTA online for my multi fix.
All right cool, Guapo. I actually own GTAV on Xbone, I just haven’t popped it in yet. Only had the console 6 months and already a backlog, sheesh.
The Online portion of GTA V is far superior to the single player. It’s like they added all the features like car delivery, ad hoc missions, helicopter drops, gunship support, mercenary hiring, and all that stuff later on in the process and it didn’t make it to single player. The only drawback is no animals, but unless you are playing quietly and peacefully everything runs off at gunshots. You hardly notice it.
Single player is still worth it, but the multi especially with the new heists is great. On public servers be warned its still crazy unstable with everyone dropping aometimes.
I think the MP of GTA V is a different beast altogether, so it really depends on what you’re looking for. For example, in GTA V SP I’ve never once run into hacking issues, griefing, or wait times to get into a mission. SP also has characters that you can grow to care about.
That said, GTA V MP is all about the off-the-wall craziness that happens.
True on both counts. I also really enjoyed a lot of the mission in Sp.
I’ll play with ya dude. I haven’t played in like forever.
— Alan
Anyone else in here want to play Titanfall? I think we can go up to 12. If there is any interest maybe we can bring back Friday night fights, starting tomorrow night with Titanfall.
Definitely in. What time do we think? 7pm pacific?
— Alan
I probably won’t be on until later, maybe 9 or 10 pacific. But I can catch up to whatever you guys are doing if you’re still on.
I’m pretty much available any time. Was just thinking about east coast folks but… really, who cares about them? haha
— Alan
Well, you have a point, if any east coasters want to play then by all means go ahead and get started. I just can’t really get on until a) I get my kids to bed and b) I convince my wife to stop watching the Kardashians long enough to let me play. So, probably 9 or 10 pm.
