Recent content by Gerry

It depends. Not everything is staggered. Fallout for example is having all 8 episodes released on the same day.

I normally don't get on that well with soulslike games (I own Elden RIng and plan to go back to it but playing it made me feel a bit sick). Have to admit this is really good though. Still feels like at times there's perhaps too many systems to keep track of and things aren't always explained...

Well a patch has finally dropped for Redfall. 19.5GB of it. Had a little play with it and the streaming issues seem a lot better now. You can still get a bit of a delay as textures load but I haven't encountered any examples of really fugly low-res textures hanging around for 30s or so. Can't...

Disappointed not to see anything from State of Decay 3. Three years with nothing to show doesn't look promising.

Is there any sign of a patch coming soon? I'm not going back until they fix some of the more egregious issues like the texture streaming, but I've not seen anything that indicates that they're actually fixing the mulititude of problems.

The beginning section on the ferry is a terrible introduction graphically speaking. The "wave" effect is rubbish and they really should have spent a little time making that look better. The vampires that appear in the short cut-scene at the start don't exactly make you think this is going to be...

Oh, I like the game. I've played a metric shit-ton of SoD and SoD2 on various Xboxes. It's just never been anything other than super shonky tech-wise. Just seems an odd choice for a spin-off team.

Really? State of Decay was an absolute mess from a tech point of view. Keep on meaning to boot SOD2 up again on the Series X just to see if it's any better on that. The terrible textures in Redfall were a texture streaming bug/issue of some kind. Some of the textures just take an age to load...

Played for an hour or so on the Series X. I think the game itself will be fun enough although the things you hear about the AI are a bit concerning. But man, some of the graphics are rough. There are textures that are so low-res that I foresee a bunch of memes on the horizon. I know it's their...

Another delightful exchange from Musk... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64871183

Errrm. Are you sure about that?

Indeed. I'm playing through Tunic now and whilst there's a bunch of stuff I'd love to find out what it does, there's very little I care about why it does it.

It's been suggested in a few places that background download only works in Energy Saver mode when downloading game and system updates i.e full downloads don't work. Not sure whether people are simply guessing here or whether it's true. It's a bit more difficult to explicity test so I'll just...

I just did this and didn't get the option of the $1/£1 upgrade. Has to fork out for the 1st month. Definitely the way to do it though unless MS change their policy regarding the Gold=Ultimate conversion in the next few months.

It's the opposite - "When Xbox is off, turn off storage" (unchecked for me). Only available for standby mode, not energy saver mode. I assume it's only applicable to external storage as well and I don't have any on this Xbox. I wondered whether it may be a wifi thing - dropping the connection...