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ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
PC game pass is $5 a month, or included in game pass ultimate

https://www.trueachievements.com/n37943/xbox-game-pass-for-pc-available-now

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ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

hcreight posted:

I signed up for PC game pass, and can't download Void Bastards because it's not recognizing my PC as an available active device. Lovely.

You need to have the windows 10 1903 update, which just started rolling out to everyone yesterday

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
Welp, they just announced a new set of backwards compatible games, but also that these are the last games they doing backwards compatibility for:

Original Xbox
Armed and Dangerous
Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent
Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict

Xbox 360
Asura’s Wrath
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
Enchanted Arms
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Far Cry Classic
Far Cry Instincts Predator
Infinite Undiscovery
Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands
Skate
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Syndicate
Too Human (free for everyone)
Unreal Tournament III

Already back compat but now in 4k for the X
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts
Banjo-Tooie
Kameo Elements of Power
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark Zero
Viva Piñata
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise

https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/1138220345108787201?s=20

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
https://twitter.com/xboxgamepass/status/1141329112276992000?s=21

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
https://twitter.com/xboxgamepass/status/1146404224697171975?s=21

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
More game pass games this month

https://twitter.com/xboxgamepass/status/1151170659122204673?s=21

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

twistedmentat posted:

Is there any way to see if a game has updated to the latest patch? I'm trying to play Ark, but no servers are showing which is an issue with it not being updated, but i cannot figure out if its updated or not. I really wish "details" gave you more than "hey here's the game, and here's people on twitch playing it!"

From the my games & apps screen, if you highlight a game and press back + X simultaneously, it will pop up a dialog with technical details about the game, including the last date it was updated.

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

A Sometimes Food posted:

Also is there any way to check achievements in the Xbox beta app on pc?

I don’t think you can, you still need to use the “console companion” app which is what they renamed the old Xbox app to

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

I said come in! posted:

Would really love for Apple TV to be on Xbox One, but my digital movie collection is entirely on Amazon right now and so it would be a difficult sell to switch over.

Link your accounts on movies anywhere and it will transfer your purchased movies onto each platform so you can watch them wherever

https://moviesanywhere.com/welcome

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

Malcolm Turnbeug posted:

There’s not a hitman game on game pass is there? I’m dumb as gently caress so I’ve never paid money for one but I’d absolutely want to play it if it shot out of Microsoft’s content udder

Not currently, no. The 2016 game was on there for a while but got pulled from it back in July.

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
If you have a 360 multiplayer character you can migrate that over, unless they discontinued that at some point

edit: I guess they did in fact turn that off back in 2017

ixnay fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jan 3, 2020

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

TenTwelveTwelve posted:

Whats leaving GamePass this month?

Just Cause 3 and Lego City Undercover are the only 2 announced as leaving soon

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

BisterdDave posted:

Hmmm, does 4's DLC (or expansion pass) ever go on sale?

The $50 ultimate DLC bundle that gives you all the expansions and cars was half off during the holiday sales last year. The individual DLC has been on sale before too, but not as recently.

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
https://twitter.com/xboxgamepass/status/1252718826547904512?s=21

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
It was "FastStart" that they announced in 2018 as that system for downloading important files first.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/faststart

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

Twerk from Home posted:

They did this with Forza Horizon 2 also. I’m curious if the same happens to 3.

They've done this on a regular 4-year cycle with every Forza game since Forza 3 on the 360, and since the first Forza Horizon they've given away the game on GWG in September before it gets delisted. When they removed Forza 6 last fall, they also slashed the "all the DLC in one package" bundle from $100 to $5 before they removed it.

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

Ineffiable posted:

I do get the GP logo on the splash screen but not on the square icons when you browse your library. Are you in a preview update mode? Maybe I need to update or restart my Xbox.

It's part of the June dashboard update that is in the process of rolling out. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/06/16/xbox-june-2020-update-details/

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
RIP mixer

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21299032/microsoft-mixer-closing-facebook-gaming-partnership-xcloud-features

:rip:

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

Ham posted:

Seems Microsoft is stealth-confirming this now....? No public beta testing before the game launches, and: “this process doesn’t stop with launch. In fact, in many ways, feedback and community flighting will be even more important after launch as we partner together to continually evolve and update the game into the future."

They'll be having beta-testing after launch?

https://www.ign.com/articles/halo-infinite-beta-public-flighting-cancelled-altered

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

MarcusSA posted:

This is the first time a console manufacturer actually stopped producing consoles before the next gen was even out isn’t it?

On top of not announcing the price for the new console.

No, just recently Nintendo stopped Wii U production a couple months before the switch released. Microsoft did the same thing for the original Xbox a few months before the 360 came out.

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1292601706895769600?s=21

Looks like Lockhart is officially gonna be the “Series S”

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

Rinkles posted:

Just for fun, another quote from that interview



ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

Evil Badman posted:

And buying the DLC for the GamePass games. And buying games. Hrm, on closer inspection, I think their strategy may be just "give us money."


Maybe :thejoke: but that image is tiny.



ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

ubisoft decided to change the name of their online platform and how the rewards system works, but only updating it for very recent and upcoming titles. the rest are being left to rot, so odds are the games will work on the consoles same as pc but all the extras will be given out (and presumably the mtx shops stopped)

no, they specifically call out those games as ones that won't be playable on ps5 on this blog post: https://ubisoftconnect.com/en-US/news/ignt.23726

quote:

* on Xbox Series X|S, all our Xbox One games will be backward compatible. On PlayStation®5, all games will be backward compatible except the following ones: Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles Trilogy Pack, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles India, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles China, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles Russia, Risk, Star Trek Bridge Crew, Werewolves Within, Space Junkies.

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
It’s still there being used for first party games, some indie games, plus some titles from a handful of third party publishers (capcom and sqsure mostly)

https://www.trueachievements.com/xbox-play-anywhere/games

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

El_Elegante posted:

Do I have to own the Metal Gear Solid HD collection digitally to play it on an Xbox one? Any reason it won’t read the discs?

Any game that is supported in the back compat library will let you play off the disc (technically, the disc is only used to verify your ownership; it downloads the backwards compatible version and runs that).

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

sarcastx posted:

Hey - what is the method to play XSX games on a PC via streaming?
All I can find is instructions to play on my phone - and while that is working, it kinda sucks.

e: I have the XBOX app installed on my PC but I don't see any obvious options there

You can't right now, unfortunately - the old "console companion" app which did the streaming from xbones has been deprecated and can't stream from XSX, and the current xbox app doesn't have that functionality yet.

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

FunOne posted:

Dumb question, but my kiddo is now playing enough that I think he should have his own Xbox Live persona. How do I do that and still have him linked to the GP Ultimate and everything else?

Is there a child profile or similar?

I know other services, like Google, support kid accounts but those then gently caress up a bunch of stuff because they are poorly implemented.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/family-online-safety/child-accounts/add-family-member-on-xbox-one

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
https://twitter.com/xbox/status/1337190050317025283?s=21

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
halo infortnite

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

jabro posted:

Does this work for current Ultimate customers or is it for new customers only?

New customers only, if you already have ultimate and try to redeem a code for gold or basic game pass it will convert it to a shorter amount of ultimate time

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

butt dickus posted:

omg i'm dumb as poo poo i knew it would be something like that. does it ever come to a point where i can pick them from a list?

You eventually get the ability to fast travel to anywhere on the map so you can jump around to events like that

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

Kevyn posted:

How do you download the free 10 hour trials of new EA games? I can find them in the mobile Game Pass app but it says they can’t be remotely installed. I can’t find them in the Game Pass app on my XSX at all.

There’s a separate EA Play app available on the Xbox, they’re probably in there

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!
There was a leaked Amazon listing from a few months ago that suggested they were going to release a current-gen remaster of gta4 this year so you might just want to wait and see if that pans out

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

univbee posted:

It's actually looking like the $10 upgrade option might not exist on Xbox at all, so that solves that. It'll be $50 in that case if you didn't already get the Digital Deluxe edition.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/02/23/tony-hawk-pro-skater-1-and-2-gets-optimized-xbox-series-x/

Says the $10 upgrade is there for the digital version, nothing about the physical game though.

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

GigaPeon posted:

I was able to order an All Access bundle from WalMart. I'm a current PC Gamepass guy. Is there a list of games that'll have my saves carry over?

Most important are my Yakuzas and Dragon Quest, I guess.

Here's a list: https://www.trueachievements.com/xbox-play-anywhere/games

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

pthighs posted:

I'm looking to get PC Game pass for 3 friends of mine so we can play stuff like Golf With Friends together. I'm going with PC Game pass because they each have Windows 10 PC that can handle the more indie games, but I think only one has a console. But they need Gold as well, right, to make sure we can play multiplayer on PC with games that use XBL as their multiplayer implementation?

Does that conversion thing still work? I think the one with the console might have Gold, so I thought I would look into that. Also, I'm assuming the ones with no prior XBL account should sign up for the $1 trial first, before I give them a redeem code.

This is all probably more complicated than it should be.

You don't need gold if you're only playing on PC (even for play anywhere games that are also on consoles). Only console players need it for multiplayer.

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

joylessdivision posted:

Wait. there was a toggle for god drat tank mode!? Son of a bitch.

There was but you couldn't turn it on until after you did the tutorial section for tank stuff because that was never updated to take the toggle into account haha

ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

Doctor Nutt posted:

Was Enter Sandman in rock band at all? I have three Metallica songs but I don't remember Enter Sandman ever being playable in rock band.

I couldn't believe how much dlc they are still putting out. Also in some kind of cross promotion hell you can play danger zone as Sterling Archer while rocking a mass effect branded guitar or bass

It was an on disc song in the first game but was one of the songs that never exported off the disc. Same with Battery in RB2.

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ixnay
Jun 11, 2002

rainbow dash why are you making such a cool face?!

RCarr posted:

Can you link it please? It’s impossible to find.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3917201

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