Xbox One General Discussion - Part 2 (Please Read 1st Post)

Pushtrak

Yeah, I went from 'show me the games at E3' which is what was the stated message before the reveal. The E3 conference, I was happy with, it was the post show nonsense that annoyed me a lot. I went from really wanting the One to no way of getting one (with those policies) in hours.

Limerick Dude

Details on the June Update for X1

Larry Hryb ‏@majornelson 14m
External storage, real name display, Smartglass updates and more coming to Xbox One in June http://mjr.mn/1neuZ9Y

FAILSAFE 00

Limerick Dude wrote: »

Details on the June Update for X1

Larry Hryb ‏@majornelson 14m
External storage, real name display, Smartglass updates and more coming to Xbox One in June http://mjr.mn/1neuZ9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rITT7GaTtP0

Stone Deaf 4evr

awww yeah, oneguide finally coming to europe. be interesting to see how this plays out. Also, real name support! Hopefully you can turn that off though. I'd be mortified if anyone found out that my real name is Jack Enhoff.

maximoose

Most importantly, we heard your feedback that to make this most useful you need full control. You’ll be able to share with all your friends, a subset of your choosing, friends of friends or none at all. The choice is yours. Also, your name doesn’t show up in games, and you can change your settings any time from your profile and when adding new friends.

You're safe for now :pac:

calex71

Only supporting USB 3.0 enabled drives, makes sense and expense

Edit: Oh what a surprise Ireland is not on the list for One Guide availability in Europe

Kerplunk124

Gotta give props to MS for these monthly updates!

Stone Deaf 4evr

calex71 wrote: »

Only supporting USB 3.0 enabled drives, makes sense and expense

http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-4tb-d3-station-usb-3-0-desktop-hard-drive-997Y.html?refs=47210000&src=2

139€ for 4TB

hardly a deal breaker IMO.

calex71

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-4tb-d3-station-usb-3-0-desktop-hard-drive-997Y.html?refs=47210000&src=2

139€ for 4TB

hardly a deal breaker IMO.

Ah I know they aren't expensive I'm just sat looking at several TB's of them in front of me here ..... all 2.0

An expense as opposed to expensive

Stone Deaf 4evr

calex71 wrote: »

Ah I know they aren't expensive I'm just sat looking at several TB's of them in front of me here ..... all 2.0

An expense as opposed to expensive

gotcha.

I'm forever putting off buying another drive as I'm a mean git. watching the prices go down and the capacities go up. :rolleyes:

Also - seeing as the drive has to be formatted to work with the xbox one, I'm assuming that you cant use it for storing your general media as well - i.e. load up a few movies from your laptop, then plug them in and play them.

calex71

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

gotcha.

I'm forever putting off buying another drive as I'm a mean git. watching the prices go down and the capacities go up. :rolleyes:

Also - seeing as the drive has to be formatted to work with the xbox one, I'm assuming that you cant use it for storing your general media as well - i.e. load up a few movies from your laptop, then plug them in and play them.

Hmmm that remains to be seen alright, maybe it will ignore an existing partition or maybe it will look to seize the whole drive, wasn't an issue with the 360 because of the partition size limit of fat32

Myrddin

calex71 wrote: »

Edit: Oh what a surprise Ireland is not on the list for One Guide availability in Europe

Jeez, we really get left behind don't we. Have voice controls even been added for Ireland yet?

calex71

Myrddin wrote: »

Jeez, we really get left behind don't we. Have voice controls even been added for Ireland yet?

No so might as well go all in and leave it sat to UK permanently, actually might get some functionality with a sky box / saorview box that way maybe I'll test it when we get the update.

Stone Deaf 4evr

calex71 wrote: »

No so might as well go all in and leave it sat to UK permanently, actually might get some functionality with a sky box / saorview box that way maybe I'll test it when we get the update.

It always seemed odd to me that they didnt just lump ireland and the UK in together from the start. I've about €40 in credit left on my irish account and once thats gone, I'll be switching to UK or USA for the foreseeable future.

Blazer

If you're planning on getting an external drive for your xbox do yourself a favour and avoid all the headaches.
Stick with Western Digital and make sure to get one with power management features so it's not running constantly while plugged into your xbox.
The 2.5inch usb ones are ok as they will power down with the xbox but the 3.5inch ones with their own power supply won't.

Snake Plisken

calex71 wrote: »

Ah I know they aren't expensive I'm just sat looking at several TB's of them in front of me here ..... all 2.0

An expense as opposed to expensive

You could always rip the harddrive out of them and buy a couple of USB 3.0 enclosures memory c have them
http://www.memoryc.com/storage/hdd-enclosures.html#PC_Interface=USB3.0&page=0
Cheaper then buying new external drives

CombatCow

Powerstar Golf seems to be free at the moment, not sure if it's a glitch or not: http://store.xbox.com/en-ie/xbox-one/games/powerstar-golf/19ebfc97-9d8d-4cd7-8493-4ec727e8de46?7246746=1

Myrddin

A thread where we can interact with each other in a less on topic fashion. Talk about anything really, within the rules though! And any chat that we've threads better suited to, will be moved accordingly.

For total clarity, this off-topic thread can be used for users of the Xbox forum to discuss mostly anything, in a not so detailed manner. What that means is if you want to comment on a football match here, go for it. But don't forget we have actual Football forums, so turning this thread into a 10 page debate about inter-team politics isn't ideal & would be better suited elsewhere So anything that regular users of this forum want to talk about, go for it. Threads like this have proven very successful & popular in other forums as it allows users who are used to interacting together, to talk about other subjects too, & so is good for the forum community.

Further, if there's no better suited thread for a post here, & it is Xbox related, that's fine too. The one year prizes MS are offering for example, seem to fit here better. As always, pm myself or FutureGuy is you don't understand or have any suggestions etc.

maximoose

"Purchased" it there too, hope it works - good find!

Kerplunk124

Installing here too. Great find CC!

CombatCow

Has anyone tried playing it yet, maybe they have made it free to play now? I bought it about 2 months ago for €20

MiskyBoyy

CombatCow wrote: »

Powerstar Golf seems to be free at the moment, not sure if it's a glitch or not: http://store.xbox.com/en-ie/xbox-one/games/powerstar-golf/19ebfc97-9d8d-4cd7-8493-4ec727e8de46?7246746=1

You absolute beauty!

MiskyBoyy

CombatCow wrote: »

Has anyone tried playing it yet, maybe they have made it free to play now? I bought it about 2 months ago for €20

http://www.xboxachievements.com/news/news-18173-Powerstar-Golf-Now-Free-to-Play-on-Xbox-One;-Coyote-Canyon-Available-Now.html

miju

Its F2P lads. Something like 10 holes in total free.

MiskyBoyy

miju wrote: »

Its F2P lads. Something like 10 holes in total free.

That's what that link above your post says ^ :P

Snake Plisken

CombatCow wrote: »

Has anyone tried playing it yet, maybe they have made it free to play now? I bought it about 2 months ago for €20

You and me both bollox lol! Still trying to beat some of your rounds lol

Ah just read the post above, it will work out more expensive if you buy all the courses, nice little golf game for anyone interested!

calex71

Snake Plisken wrote: »

You and me both bollox lol! Still trying to beat some of your rounds lol

Ah just read the post above, it will work out more expensive if you buy all the courses, nice little golf game for anyone interested!

CombatCow wrote: »

Has anyone tried playing it yet, maybe they have made it free to play now? I bought it about 2 months ago for €20

Don't feel mugged lads, it will actually cost more now it's free to play to access the same content you paid the €20 for. Each of the 4 courses and golfers are 5.99 each.

Fingleberries

calex71 wrote: »

Don't feel mugged lads, it will actually cost more now it's free to play to access the same content you paid the €20 for. Each of the 4 courses and golfers are 5.99 each.

I don't mind if this makes the game little more than a glorified demo (like Killer Instinct). It'll be good just to have something else to play for a bit until the new games really start to roll in

So far, only EA Sports and Lego games have any sort of demos available.

calex71

Fingleberries wrote: »

I don't mind if this makes the game little more than a glorified demo (like Killer Instinct). It'll be good just to have something else to play for a bit until the new games really start to roll in

So far, only EA Sports and Lego games have any sort of demos available.

I thought (now only vaguely recall this and am likely wrong) that MS all games would have launch day demos Obviously this hasn't happened.

Fingleberries

calex71 wrote: »

I thought (now only vaguely recall this and am likely wrong) that MS all games would have launch day demos Obviously this hasn't happened.

I think demos were optional this time around, but full games would be available launch day.