The Official Xbox One Thread

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Bman123

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I ended up swapping bf4 for cod on craigslist since all my buddies play it online together. My girlfriend bought dead rising 3 for my birthday gift yesterday at best buy and it was on sale for $39.99 I'm really glad I picked up dead rising 3 we had a blast playing it last night. Put in about 3 good hours of playing it and I don't regret getting that game at all. To each his own I suppose, I really like dead rising 3. I'm going to go pick up another game today when I cash my check after work
 

Bacstar

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Anyone get BF4 Companion working on their Smart Glass enabled devices? Mine just sits at the loading map screen. I'm using a Surface Pro 2.
 
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Anyone get BF4 Companion working on their Smart Glass enabled devices? Mine just sits at the loading map screen. I'm using a Surface Pro 2.

I've seen that once. Had to swipe down to close the Smartglass app and then relaunch/reconnect. The app itself seems to sometimes have issues when you leave it running in the background.
 

Bacstar

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Major issues tonight playing BF4. I was level 15 last night. This evening i'm level 0 with noob gear and weapons.
 

EightySix Four

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Major issues tonight playing BF4. I was level 15 last night. This evening i'm level 0 with noob gear and weapons.

Today I couldn't get into a single game. Tried for a solid 10 minutes using matchmaking and the server browser. Ridiculous. I debated trying to get a refund from my credit card but it isn't the retailers fault.
 

ronbo613

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I gave up on the BF4 in-game server menu. Never works. I select multiplayer games via Battlelog on my computer, that seems to work better.
 

Bman123

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I gave up on that game, as nice looking as it is the shit just isn't reliable enough for me to bother with it
 

cmdrdredd

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Today I couldn't get into a single game. Tried for a solid 10 minutes using matchmaking and the server browser. Ridiculous. I debated trying to get a refund from my credit card but it isn't the retailers fault.

On the same note I was going to show my buddy crysis 3 on my tv from pc and it couldn't log in to origin. My ISP (comcast) has been having issues with their gateways in my area. Traceroutes show high ping times and failed pings. I was able to get on most sites and could even log into steam and download a game(just not as fast as normal). Just not ea.
 
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purbeast0

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Today I couldn't get into a single game. Tried for a solid 10 minutes using matchmaking and the server browser. Ridiculous. I debated trying to get a refund from my credit card but it isn't the retailers fault.

this could be 100% unrelated, but last night i was having some issues getting into killer instinct matches as well. ranked kept saying 'unable to start game' after searching longer than normal, and the exhibition matches just kept searching and searching. then i finally connected to someone and we selected our characters, and it said that we disconnected. but right after that i searched and it took a while, but i found someone and we played like 10 matches just fine.

so apparently there was a patch for ki that started rolling out last night, so that probably explains some of the shottyness of the online last night.
 
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KentState

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There are wide spread DDoS attacks against games and sites like Steam and BF4 going on right now. Google @Derp DDoS and you will find plenty of articles. I'm a member over at ADK and the data center for our BF4 servers is getting hammered right now causing a lot of issues.
 

sze5003

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I played some bf4 on ps4 last night. I got in to 3 games, the fourth time I had to close the app and restart it because it just hangs. Previously connecting was an issue now it seems the game will randomly hang at times. But no huge issues finding a server at least.
 

cmdrdredd

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There are wide spread DDoS attacks against games and sites like Steam and BF4 going on right now. Google @Derp DDoS and you will find plenty of articles. I'm a member over at ADK and the data center for our BF4 servers is getting hammered right now causing a lot of issues.

This could account for some slower than usual speeds all around for me too. I am sure some of the same nodes are being hit that I have to hop through along the line.
 

cmdrdredd

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Also posted in the official KI thread. Relevant here and maybe some of you who have not tried Killer Instinct or did not like the free character jago will be interested.

Killer Instinct got an update and the free character has changed. You can play as Saberwolf for free now instead of Jago.
 

purbeast0

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so microsoft must be doing some quiet behind the scenes updates or something. i was getting very annoyed with hearing people talk in the kinect so i went and looked in the settings again, and the privacy settings are TOTALLY different now. they now have a setting to allow who can communicate with you, and it's defaulted to everyone. i just flipped it to friends only but haven't tested it out yet, so man oh man i'm going to be one happy camper if i can't hear people's kinects now when playing!
 

smackababy

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so microsoft must be doing some quiet behind the scenes updates or something. i was getting very annoyed with hearing people talk in the kinect so i went and looked in the settings again, and the privacy settings are TOTALLY different now. they now have a setting to allow who can communicate with you, and it's defaulted to everyone. i just flipped it to friends only but haven't tested it out yet, so man oh man i'm going to be one happy camper if i can't hear people's kinects now when playing!

It is strange they didn't have that option in the release build, as it has been in the 360 for a long time (possibly launch).
 

Wingznut

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Microsoft Incorporating Feedback into New Xbox One Features - IGN.com

Drawing comparisons to the Xbox 360, Xbox Live director of programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb said Microsoft is listening to feedback and plans to improve its newly released console.

“If you look back at the Xbox 360’s launch, what it was in 2006 when it launched is completely different from what it is now,” Hryb said in an interview with Canada.com. “We didn’t even have things like the party system or the ability to support external storage when we launched the Xbox 360. So we are absolutely committed to adding new features to the Xbox One over the course of its life span.”

Hryb said the team working on the Xbox One “are gamers themselves,” so they want to shape the system into something gamers can enjoy.

“We’re going to continue to refine the system and make it what the Xbox fans are expecting and what they want,” he said. “We’re listening to the feedback every single day. I’ve already seen some changes in the operating system internally with what we’re building.”

The improvements aren’t just limited to the box. Hryb said “refining” the Kinect is a priority moving forward, as it’s part of Microsoft’s overall system approach.
 
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cmdrdredd

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Sometimes I wonder if they leave features out so they have something to add later and say to everyone "hey we are updating the console and will continue to add features". Especially in regards to features that were standardized on the 360 experience. Things like the friend list and party chat etc. That to me don't seem to work as well on the XB1.

I know it's a new OS and new hardware and I've used that in their defense as well as the PS4's defense. However, there are things that in my opinion were integral to the online experience that simply aren't done in a way that makes it easy or obvious. I just wonder who decided to make the friend list an app, who decided to default all voices through your speakers, and who thought it was a good idea to disable any auto log in to XBL without Kinect.
 

Bman123

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I agree with you cmdrdredd. I'm sure they do that on purpose. Like when you join a party and you have to turn on party chat, that is juat stupid
 

Anteaus

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I'm in agreement. They probably do leave things out but I'm sure it was done out of necessity. I think it's more of a situation of bad time/money management and oversight. These projects (XB1 OS in this case) likely start ambitious but human error, blatant oversight, and bad project management probably all contribute. I'm not excusing them for it though. At the end of the day a decision had to be made whether the console was ready to ship, and once they decided the hardware was solid and the OS was adequate they were committed. Too much money on the line to delay the console over small things. I'm sure all those small things will be dealt with over a few large patches in 2014.

One good example is not allowing auto-login for non-Kinect users. It's obvious that this was a decision made before the Kinect was made optional, but they either didn't think to adjust it or simply considered in non-essential as a prerelease priority.
 
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