Playing Destiny on the Xbone... (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Sunday, May 10, 2015, 04:26 (3282 days ago) @ Xenos
edited by Korny, Sunday, May 10, 2015, 04:32

I think your Xbone is broken... never had any of those problems. Might try doing a hard reset (hold down power button until it powers down completely and then unplug power for 10 seconds or so), but if you still have problems like any of the ones you described I would send a support ticket into Microsoft.

Maybe. I've been having annoyances with it out of the box. I'll double click the Guide, and sometimes it will come up, sometimes it opens the dash (automatically wiping my recorded clip for some reason), sometimes there will be a long delay before the menu finally pops up, and sometimes it just wont do anything at all. Also, I can't play the Master Chief Collection unless the controller is connected through USB, but since it's only that game, it might be an issue with the MCC itself.

Other than that, the games that I try to play have a habit of simply crashing, or bugging out, but maybe that's just the games (through sheer coincidence) and not the console... But who knows...

As far as the DVR recording more than 30 seconds, that is my one major complaint about the Game DVR compared to the PS4's. You have to snap the Game DVR app and then choose "capture previous x minutes." Meaning you double tap the xbox button, hit up on the stick and then choose Game DVR. The one thing I'm hoping for is there are rumors that they are going to increase it to 30 minutes in the future so you don't have to worry about doing it quickly if you want to catch something fast (or if you want to capture a whole multiplayer match for example).

Thirty minutes seems a bit excessive for gameplay captures, especially when you take into account that each capture is automatically uploaded, whether you want the clip or not. That's some serious bandwidth. It would be better if you could assign a default clip length. I tried trimming a clip through the Upload app, and the video quality got butchered. I dunno, I guess I've just been spoiled, but how hard is it for them to let you set the default at one minute?

I normally wouldn't give them any credit at all, but I do know there is supposed to be an update to the live TV functionality of the XB1, so an increased buffer size for the DVR would make sense.

I've heard of an upgrade to the DVR capabilities (of course they gotta appeal to that Shports and TV crowd), and I really hope capturing benefits from that, because it's way more complicated than it needs to be right now (and to think that I scoffed at the "Share" button on the DS4 when they revealed it)...

And for how I personally use the XB1: the Kinect. It's actually awesome with the XB1 and I love it. It annoys me when an XB1 I'm using doesn't have it. And they of course designed the interface to use the Kinect because it used to be required to at least get one when you bought the XB1.

That is a darn shame, friend. Unless they come out with a Kinect 3.0 that's cheaper than the current one AND doubles as a home security system, I'm not going to waste my money just because MS worked hard to make things inconvenient without it (I remember at the LANboree when I found out that you couldn't record a gameplay clip without Kinect. The sheer stupidity of it gave me a headache)...