Xbox Game Pass

CatInABox

August 19

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (PC only)
Devil May Cry 5 (Console Only)
Stellaris (Console Only, but PC is coming later apparently)

August 22

Ape Out (PC only)
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Console + PC)

August 27

Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut (Console + PC)

August 30

Blair Witch (Console + PC)

CatInABox

Deleted User wrote: »

I find that odd though. I thought gamepass was supposed to be even across platforms if a title existed for both systems?

I don't think they ever said that, but I can't be sure.

CatInABox

DMC5 is live now, I'd assume the rest are as well.

CatInABox

Missed this in the announcement, but Dead Cells is coming on September 5 as well.

quarryman

Stellaris not showing up for me in the Xbox store. Anybody else?

CatInABox

quarryman wrote: »

Stellaris not showing up for me in the Xbox store. Anybody else?

Try here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/p/stellaris-console-edition/bwl72gr7z7gk?activetab=pivot%3Aoverviewtab

DaveNoCheese

Downloaded Age of Empires last night, goodbye life

DaveNoCheese

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

Downloaded Age of Empires last night, goodbye life

I found it doesn't hold up well at all
The campaign is weak

Stone Deaf 4evr

CatInABox wrote: »

Missed this in the announcement, but Dead Cells is coming on September 5 as well.

dead cells is great, hard as nails though, I've still yet to beat it, its the kind of game where a great run can go spectacularly wrong in the space of 10 seconds.

Started Just Cause 4 tonight, wish I'd remembered it was an Avalanche Studios game :mad:

ShadowHearth

Thanks feck for game pass... Again...

Tried DMC5 as I was kind of looking forward to it, but after playing two missions I just gave up. I am not sure why, but combat feels very week. I don't even feel like making tactical decisions, just spamming buttons.

Then I tried Stelaris, I played very little on pc and it's always one of those games I really want to learn how to play. Well... It's 3.30 right now and had to force myself to go to bed. It's very good and works very well with controller. Very pleasant surprise.

Started Vampyr too. Really liking it. The concept as a whole is very interesting.

MiskyBoyy

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Then I tried Stelaris, I played very little on pc and it's always one of those games I really want to learn how to play. Well... It's 3.30 right now and had to force myself to go to bed. It's very good and works very well with controller. Very pleasant surprise.

Jesus Christ, you gave me a fright. I seen you said "It's 3:30 right now" then looked at your post time and it said "Today 03:32" :eek: I had a mini heart attack until I realised it's really only 11:55 and it was last night but today you posted :pac:

ShadowHearth

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Jesus Christ, you gave me a fright. I seen you said "It's 3:30 right now" then looked at your post time and it said "Today 03:32" :eek: I had a mini heart attack until I realised it's really only 11:55 and it was last night but today you posted :pac:

Bah, pussy! :pac:

I actually played it until 4ish last night. Still on holidays. So I am enjoying my gaming time while I can.

During the day: PC Satisfactory
After misses comes back home: Make Dinner, spend time with Family
When misses passes out: Xbox Stellaris

Good times.

ShadowHearth

So... Stellaris.... Last night a conducted a war against 3 empires to humiliate and make one of those empires my contributor. It went for a bit too long then I expected had to do some political crap too. Next thing I see it's 4:00 in the morning and I have work today. This game is really not good for your health!
Seriously, if anyone wants to play a good game CIV style then this is it. It's very well ported to console and I even prefer it to play it like that.
Debating to myself now if I just buy deluxe upgrade and hope it stays for long on game pass or just buy deluxe pack with all dlcs at discount while it's on game pass.

BadCharlie

ShadowHearth wrote: »

So... Stellaris.... Last night a conducted a war against 3 empires to humiliate and make one of those empires my contributor. It went for a bit too long then I expected had to do some political crap too. Next thing I see it's 4:00 in the morning and I have work today. This game is really not good for your health!
Seriously, if anyone wants to play a good game CIV style then this is it. It's very well ported to console and I even prefer it to play it like that.
Debating to myself now if I just buy deluxe upgrade and hope it stays for long on game pass or just buy deluxe pack with all dlcs at discount while it's on game pass.

Playing this game for over a year now but on pc. It’s the only game I play on pc have all the dlc. So much to this game no game is the same. Play with 3 friends each Friday night on line and it’s great fun. Put it on the Xbox but still to try it out. Just worried it will not be as good as pc. When your fleets get to 100k and stronger you can have some epic battles.
My current game I have about 150 planets which I control all by my self and about 400k in fleets. It’s around the year 2450 so I think game is set to end in 59 years. At this stage the game goes very slowly the power it takes for the game to run and my pc would be a mid range pc.

But ya it’s a great game and if you play it online with friends it’s even better.

CatInABox

This months games:

https://twitter.com/XboxGamePass/status/1169238526681960448

September 5

Dead Cells

Metal Gear Solid HD Edition: 2 & 3

September 6

Creature in the Well

Gears 5 Ultimate Edition (September 6 for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members; standard edition available September 10 for Xbox Game Pass members)

September 12

Enter the Gungeon

Gonner Blüeberry Edition

Games Leaving Xbox Game Pass for Console

Onrush (September 4)
LEGO Batman 2 (September 6)
Joy Ride Turbo (September 6)
Splosion Man (September 6)
The Maw (September 6)
LEGO Indiana Jones (September 30)
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (September 30)
Split/Second (September 30)
Ninja Gaiden Black (September 30)
theHunter: Call of the Wild (September 30)

A note on Gears 5

Gears 5 early access will begin at 9pm on September 5th in your local time zone. For countries with multiple time zones, the earliest time zone will determine when you can play. For example, North American early access will begin at simultaneously at 9pm ET, 8pm CT and 6pm PT

Posting this here also guys;

If you switch your region on the PC or Xbox you can play Gears 5 now!
Change it to New Zealand

Graphically I would argue it's one of the best looking games this generation

Gears 5 is going to keep me busy for a while. Only early into it but it's shaping up to be a pretty good game.

Tij da feen

Deleted User wrote: »

Gears 5 is going to keep me busy for a while. Only early into it but it's shaping up to be a pretty good game.

Agreed, played the campaign for a couple of hours last night.

If anyone is looking for Campaign / Horde partners hit me up. I'd say versus too but I'm quite ****e at it:
Dark Sup3rn0va

FAILSAFE 00

Is there actually no Gears of War 5 thread or have I missed it.

tony1980

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

Is there actually no Gears of War 5 thread or have I missed it.

Don’t think so

fifth

Gears 5 is fantastic! Has caught me off guard a bit. I always enjoyed the series but this one didn't really excite me much looking at the trailers, and I was hoping to play as Marcus.

But it's really good. The lighting is phenomenal, story is engaging, character development is much more fleshed out than Gears 4. The open world parts make it feel fresh too.

It's not total overkill either. It's open world segments are really well done. It's about exploring as opposed to a check list bolox system like an Ubisoft game or something.

I'm on Chapter 3 first act. Loads of little pieces of detail I'm finding in the sub missions and the main ones.

sniper_samurai

More stuff for Game Pass.

https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/1174308314131267585?s=19

Tomorrow
Jump Force
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

September 26th
Bad North
Dirt Rally 2.0
Lego Worlds.

Bloodstained, that's brilliant!!

Mickeroo

Yeah have had my eye on that too though I feel like I'd rather play it on the switch but it costs a bomb on there!

Mickeroo

Mickeroo wrote: »

Yeah have had my eye on that too though I feel like I'd rather play it on the switch but it costs a bomb on there!

It looks great. I was tempted to get it on the Switch also but there apparently is some issues with that version.

I'm hoping this is cross compatible with PC and Xbox.

TitianGerm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It looks great. I was tempted to get it on the Switch also but there apparently is some issues with that version.

I'm hoping this is cross compatible with PC and Xbox.

Looks like those ones are just console unfortunately.

fifth

Typical! I just bought bloodstained..

fifth

fifth wrote: »

Typical! I just bought bloodstained..

Put in a Microsoft refund if you haven't played it yet.

skerry

Think Game Pass has actually saved me money at this point. Got the upgrade to GPU on the cheap and it's really put a stop to most of the potential bargains I used to pick up in the weekly sales and never play. Even games like Bloodstained, I would've liked to have played but unless I think I can get around to playing a game immediately then I don't buy it cos anything could pop up on Game Pass by the time I get around to playing it.

That and the fact that it's hard to justify buying another game with so much on offer there. Mostly only buy Switch games now. Best service ever.

CatInABox

For those that participate in the Game Pass quests for microsoft rewards, there's a new quest out that's pretty interesting. Every Gamerscore you get over the next ten days will also count as a microsoft reward point, up to a max of 10,000.

See here, it's the top quest.

Mickeroo

CatInABox wrote: »

For those that participate in the Game Pass quests for microsoft rewards, there's a new quest out that's pretty interesting. Every Gamerscore you get over the next ten days will also count as a microsoft reward point, up to a max of 10,000.

See here, it's the top quest.

Cant find that on the console at all.

DaveNoCheese

CatInABox wrote: »

For those that participate in the Game Pass quests for microsoft rewards, there's a new quest out that's pretty interesting. Every Gamerscore you get over the next ten days will also count as a microsoft reward point, up to a max of 10,000.

See here, it's the top quest.

Do we need to do anything particular to trigger this or just play away and earn the rewards?

CatInABox

Deleted User wrote: »

It looks great. I was tempted to get it on the Switch also but there apparently is some issues with that version.

I'm hoping this is cross compatible with PC and Xbox.

TitianGerm wrote: »

Looks like those ones are just console unfortunately.

https://twitter.com/XboxGamePass/status/1174718583764598785

Shadow Warrior 2 and Bloodstained on PC

Games pass is on another level at the moment
Excellent news

marcbrophy

10k over 10 days? :eek:

I might get 50 :P

CatInABox

Mickeroo wrote: »

Cant find that on the console at all.

It's on there now.

I don't know if it's worded weirdly, but it reads to me like you've got to get 500 gamerscore, then click a punchcard, and from then on it'll count? It's weird, I don't know if that's correct.

There's also a list of eligible games that are.... not great..... Well, some are. There's only twenty games on it.

skerry

Anyone tried Bloodstained yet? Playing it there and I'm only about 30 minutes in and must have had at least 4 or 5 crashes now. Generally happens when I go into pause menu, her head disappears and game stalls then. Enjoying it up to now but it's borderline unplayable at the moment. Thought they'd have this stuff well patched out by now.

sniper_samurai

skerry wrote: »

Anyone tried Bloodstained yet? Playing it there and I'm only about 30 minutes in and must have had at least 4 or 5 crashes now. Generally happens when I go into pause menu, her head disappears and game stalls then. Enjoying it up to now but it's borderline unplayable at the moment. Thought they'd have this stuff well patched out by now.

Usually runs fine for me, only time it potentially crashes for me is when I pick up a book. One of the final bosses tanks the fps too.

skerry

sniper_samurai wrote: »

Usually runs fine for me, only time it potentially crashes for me is when I pick up a book. One of the final bosses tanks the fps too.

Maybe I've just had bad luck so. Are you playing on One or One X. On One X here and it generally happens when I go into a menu after picking up a new weapon, which you kind of need to do quite a bit.

sniper_samurai

skerry wrote: »

Maybe I've just had bad luck so. Are you playing on One or One X. On One X here and it generally happens when I go into a menu after picking up a new weapon, which you kind of need to do quite a bit.

I've been playing it on an X and an S. Unfortunately it is known to be an unstable game on all platforms.

skerry

sniper_samurai wrote: »

I've been playing it on an X and an S. Unfortunately it is known to be an unstable game on all platforms.

That's a pity, was enjoying what I played if it. Just on the first boss. Will try again later and see how it fares.

Max Mafioso

CatInABox wrote: »

For those that participate in the Game Pass quests for microsoft rewards, there's a new quest out that's pretty interesting. Every Gamerscore you get over the next ten days will also count as a microsoft reward point, up to a max of 10,000.

See here, it's the top quest.

So I am having a problem with this, I have gotten about 20 achievements between Minecraft, Gears 5, Dead Rising 4 and some other games but none of the points are registering on the rewards, it still says 0/500
I also have a punch card activated for Gears 5 for 250 points once I get any achievement, got 4 of them and it still hasnt registered

marcbrophy

Max Mafioso wrote: »

So I am having a problem with this, I have gotten about 20 achievements between Minecraft, Gears 5, Dead Rising 4 and some other games but none of the points are registering on the rewards, it still says 0/500
I also have a punch card activated for Gears 5 for 250 points once I get any achievement, got 4 of them and it still hasnt registered

The gears 5 one states that it many take a few days before the achievements register!

As for the points one, it may not total until the end of the event? That's just a guess though

CatInABox

Here's the ID@GamePass games coming soon, some classics in there as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3f7Npv9R0M

Console/PC
Munchkin
Lonely Mountains: Downhill
Demon’s Tilt
Genesis Noir
Minit
The Talos Principle
Vambrace: Cold Soul

Console Only
Yooka Laylee
The Escapists 2

PC Only
Cities: Skyline (Windows 10 Edition)
Dead by Daylight
The Red Strings Club
State of Mind

Ones that I've played:
Minit is just a great little game.

The Talos Principle is just brilliant, loved it to bits when I went through it. Superb puzzle game from the Serious Sam folks, very interesting story line as well, so long as you can find it!

Ones that I think look good:

Lonely Mountains: Downhill looks great, seems rock hard.

marcbrophy

CatInABox wrote: »

Lonely Mountains: Downhill looks great, seems rock hard.

:pac:

What's that Minit one about? That the 60 second repeating thingy?
It's going free on EGS next Thursday too!

CatInABox

marcbrophy wrote: »

:pac:

What's that Minit one about? That the 60 second repeating thingy?
It's going free on EGS next Thursday too!

Yeah, that's the one. I loved it, it was a great palette cleanser after RDR2

Lord Spence

For anyone wondering if the deal for the free upgrade to ultimate game pass is still available, It is. I just upgraded 2 years of gold to 2 years and 2 months of gamepass ultimate for €2 for my daughter Microsoft are nuts lol