The Old XBOX Megathread

[Baddar]

How long would it have taken on the One?

[apsham]

39 minutes ago, Baddar said:

How long would it have taken on the One?

Hard call to pin down for sure since I don't have the old system around, I scoured a few videos on YouTube and I found some where the match loading graphic was already in place so they likely clipped from the front of it - but one I found was at LEAST 25 seconds.

[Baddar]

I remember during the PS4/Xbox One hype, load times were mentioned and I was under the impression they'd been pretty much eradicated, which obviously wasn't the case, but better than the previous gen of course. My hope now is that the impressive load times remain even when devs get ambitious with their stuff further down the road.

[apsham]

We have Assassin's Creed Valhalla which is one of the best looking things I've played and it's smooth with barely anything for load times. It's seriously impressive so far.

[Maxx]

I can tell you that if you install a game on to the SSD, while load times haven't been eradicated, they have been reduced to being under 10 seconds, generally.  My friend said he booted up GTA in about 15 seconds once he put it on the SSD.

[Your Mom]

I know every Watch Dogs loading screen used to be almost a minute for me and now they are like 10 seconds

[Maxx]

10 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

I know every Watch Dogs loading screen used to be almost a minute for me and now they are like 10 seconds

Please confirm for me that thanks to ray tracing everything looks so much more wonderfully reflective for you now as well.

[Your Mom]

22 minutes ago, Maxx said:

Please confirm for me that thanks to ray tracing everything looks so much more wonderfully reflective for you now as well.

I've noticed that but I honestly don't understand what ray tracing is

[RPS]

9 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

I've noticed that but I honestly don't understand what ray tracing is

Ray Tracing is my DJ name. 

[Your Mom]

The Basketball game costs $70?!? That's not cool

[Maxx]

19 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

I've noticed that but I honestly don't understand what ray tracing is

It makes light behave in a more true to life manner.  So reflections will actually mirror things like they do in real life, sunlight can wash things out with its brightness, things like that. 

 

[apsham]

It's really cool because of how hard it is to do. In a normal game, whenever you aren't looking at something it just flat out doesn't exist, so being able to do reflections like that and rays of light that look photorealistic is just one of those little things that adds so much.

[Your Mom]

Fucking Amazon still hasn't shipped my copy of AC: Valhalla yet  

[Maxx]

Watch Dogs is bugging on saves, and this is why you don’t make it so the only available save is a cloud one.  Ubisoft servers fuck up, and you lose hours of progress because there’s no way to manually save anything.  Stupid.

[Your Mom]

14 hours ago, Maxx said:

Watch Dogs is bugging on saves, and this is why you don’t make it so the only available save is a cloud one.  Ubisoft servers fuck up, and you lose hours of progress because there’s no way to manually save anything.  Stupid.

Fuck this happened to me. I had just finished a very long and annoying mission and now I'm back at the start of that mission again  

[Your Mom]

It just happened to me again. I might just stop playing Watch Dogs. It's annoying having to constantly redo these hard missions

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Just drop the difficulty.

[apsham]

I actually did a return on it today. Love the game, but I've lost progress on a string of missions three times in a row now - so I'll wait for them to get it sorted and then buy it on sale down the road since Ubisoft is ALWAYS doing sales.

[Maxx]

I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it.  I won't even consider buying Immortals at launch now, that's for sure. 

[LL!]

That's so crazy to me. Knock on wood scenario here, but it has not happened to me yet with Watch Dogs Legion. Is it a platform issue?