Please use this thread to ask questions or post general comments about the Xbox One.
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Please use this thread to ask questions or post general comments about the Xbox One.
Feel free to post links to videos, live streams, articles, etc. from around the web here.
Sweet, with this now open, I'll ask this here instead of asking it in the PS4 thread like I was going to.
With all the talk about the standby mode and the potential to FUBAR your console if it gets unplugged while in Standby, does the Xbox One have the same feature? I haven't kept up too closely with the articles and talk about ALL of the features in the Xbox One, so not sure if it has Standby or not. Just want to make sure and be ready tomorrow since I have to go into work from 6-10pm, so I'm gonna be turning it off sometime between 5 and 6, and want to make sure it is completely off and not have to worry about accidentally putting it into Standby instead.
Doing a quick search, it sounds like the XB1 has "standby" as well.
The Xbox One is generally less power hungry than the PS4, running a good 20 to 30 Watts lower whether sitting idle on menus, displaying streaming video, or running at maximum gaming performance. The PS4 wins out in standby mode, though, saving seven or eight Watts when the systems are "off" but still awake enough to download content or start up quickly (both systems can be turned off completely to avoid almost all power draw).
Ugh. I was afraid of that. Alright, I'll have to pay attention tomorrow and make damn sure that I'm turning it 100% off and not just putting it in standby.
Super quick impressions:
1. It is fucking HUGE. The camera is alone is huge and heavy as well. The console isn't heavy, but it's pretty big.
2. I hate LB and RB. Absolutely hate them. The inside of them don't actually click, and guess where my fingers naturally go when reaching up from the triggers. I'm basically going to have to hold the controller a different way otherwise I'm not going to be able to get the shoulder buttons to click when I move up to hit them. What a boneheaded design decision. It may not be a problem for people with smaller hands than myself, but for me, it's pretty disappointing.
Getting it hooked up now. Just picked up the console and Dead Rising 3.
Got everything set up. Kinect is borderline freaky. I've been installing Dead Rising 3 for 15 minutes now and it's 1% done. Uh...
Freaky how?Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Sent from my DROID RAZR Maxx since I'm too lazy to get to the CPU using Tapatalk 4
And now the waiting game starts. My Xbox One and games arrived in town at 2:58 AM. I could go down to the customer center at the UPS warehouse, but that place is a damn madhouse with trucks returning and leaving during the day, plus my window to go pick it up is only 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM. So I'll just wait for it to get dropped off. Maybe I'll get lucky and it'll get dropped off at 11:30. Doubt it, but it's happened once before with a UPS package.
How's the Xbox one so far guys? Are you having muhc issues setting it up and running games ? Also how are the graphics compared to the 360? Is the 720p really that noticeable or are people being picky ?
Do you have to set that up in advance? Or does that mean they aren't even going to put your stuff out for delivery until after 1:30?Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
No, if I changed where/how I wanted it delivered before 3 AM this morning, I could have had them hold it at the Customer Center and gone out and picked it up myself. So it never would have been put on a truck. But, the only hours that you can go out to pick it up, at least here in my town, are between 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stan HAMsen
That would be a disaster trying to fight the traffic from hell in this town during the lunch hour and then trying to get into and out of their parking lot with dozens of UPS trucks coming in and out constantly. Just too much aggravation to have the Xbox one or two hours earlier than if they delivered it to my front door.
But yeah, in the future you can change that. If you would rather go pick the package up yourself instead of waiting for them to deliver it to you, as long as you change how you want it delivered before 3 AM the day of the delivery, you can change it for free and go pick it up yourself. Most all of my packages come sometime around 1:30 PM (only on few occasions, in the last year or two at least, do they come after 2:30 PM or later), so I'm fine with waiting until then.
Traffic? Don't you live in a town with <17,000 people? :D
The optical port doesn't provide surround sound at launch. Are you serious?
Yes, but you've never seen what a fucking train wreck the traffic in this town becomes during the lunch hours or at rush hour. It's even worse when you add in the constant shit ton of trucks, since 4 or 5 different State or US routes all converge right in the middle of downtown.Quote:
Originally Posted by steelerfan
However, it matters not! The UPS truck just arrived and my box is sitting next to me as I type this. So I ended up getting it at least 15 minutes earlier than if I had gone to pick it up myself anyways. I'm honestly surprised they put us on the early, early route, delivering in the morning, though I was sort of hoping they had since the tracking online showed it being on the truck and out for delivery clear back at 5:35 AM instead of the usual 7:30-8 AM. Now to start un-boxing and hooking this baby up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQ_Ja02gTYQuote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
When you download the update and it finishes, it'll sit on the green Xbox One logo screen for a good 5-10 minutes. Don't turn it off. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Some people turned it off after awhile and bricked their system.
Thanks for the warning! I just started downloading the update a minute ago, currently 20% in.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Also, I must have gotten lucky. While there was only one or two inflated bubble wraps (and one flat one) in my box, the box for the most part was pretty tight. It was a snug fit between the Xbox and box itself. So as long as the box didn't get banged all over the goddamn place, it was pretty decently packaged, at least with the proper size box.
So far, everything seems to be working. I thought I could squeeze it onto the shelf with my cable box/DVR, but that was one hell of a tight squeeze. The two were pretty much going to be right up against each other and even then that would just barely leave any room for discs since the front of the shelf has a inside protruding edge. So I put my Xbox One where I had my 360, my 360 will easily fit on that shelf with my cable box with loads of room to spare. For now though, the 360 is completely unplugged, I'm gonna have to spend an afternoon completely moving the entertainment center out a foot or two so I can rework the 360 cables into the center from the other side of it. Not something I feel like doing right now. So for at least the next day or two, my 360 gaming is permanently on hold until I can get that shit pulled out and organized.
And in a quick 8-9 minutes, the update is done downloading and the console is restarting right now. At least in terms of actually downloading the update, that wasn't too shabby.
Do you feel like an ape trying to naturally hit the shoulder buttons, or is that just me? :D
And as of 12 noon, I am officially on the Xbox Home page and ready to rock and roll. Took all of 17 minutes to fire up the system, download the update, and go through the set up to calibrate the Kinect and get my account signed in.
Just a bit. :D That would definitely rate as a miss by Microsoft on that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
What XBLA games are out there now?
Lococycle, Crimson Dragon, Powerstar Golf, and Zoo Tycoon($60, WTF) are the only ones I see right now. It's kind of hard to find because they took away categories.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Wonder if WSOP is going to be on XB1 too.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Alright, got a slew of apps downloading. Netflix, XBox Music, Xbox Video, Blu-ray Player, SkyDrive, NFL Network, Twitch, ESPN, Upload Studio, Fox Now, FX Now, Amazon Instant Video and Upload Studio.
And as for QR codes, not sure about phones and tablets, Beatn, I think it was you who mentioned that, but on shiny cards or on paper, it works fast and simple. One or two seconds held up to the camera and it pops right up with a command prompt.
I decided for apps, I'm just going to use the PS3 since I have a bluetooth remote for it.
Nice. I put Forza 5 into my Xbox, and it instantly started installing on its own, I didn't have to prompt anything. It also popped up that there was an update for the game that needed to be downloaded without even starting the game. That will make things quicker and easier.
Can you pause updates? PS4 does them automatically too, but you can't pause yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
That's a good question. You can pause installations. Not sure about updates.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Ugh. I'm going through the same thing with Forza 5 at the moment. It's been installing for probably half an hour, 45 minutes and it's only 54% done. It's gonna take a good hour to install games. However, at least you can start playing them after only 12-15%. I've already run a couple races in Forza 5. Once Forza is done, I'll probably install Dead Rising 3 next, and let that go while I take a nap. Woke up at 6am yesterday, never got to sleep until 2am this morning because of heartburn, and had to be up by 5am for work. So I'm going on 3 hours of sleep over the last 31 1/2 hours. Doze for a couple hours and then get in an hour or so of zombie killing before going into work for basketball. Come home, and maybe start installing Ryse while I watch some TV.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Definitely looking forward to dealing with mostly digital games in the future. I'd love to give Dead Rising 3 and Ryse a whirl right now, but with Forza in the middle of installing, I can't play them. After today, with the day one editions of DR3, Forza 5 and Ryse, other than games that have the rarely very enticing pre-order offers, I may just stick to buying them off of the Xbox Live store digitally.
Yeah same goes for PS4. 2K wasn't that slow of an install for 46GB, but Battlefield was HORRIBLE in getting the whole thing installed. I wonder if you get a game digitally it's worse? Because 2K I have on disc, Battlefield 4 was the digital upgrade from PS3.
God, and I used to think the installs on the 360 were bad. :D Well, even if it takes longer digitally, at least then I can still play multiple games instead of being stuck with just which one is in the disc tray.
One thing I'll say, I'm enjoying the Kinect so far.
I never cared for it on 360, just seemed like a waste of space used for nothing but crappy games. But so far in my very limited time with it on the Xbox One, it certainly has made things easy. Watching a movie on Netflix and had to piss, simply said "Xbox Pause", got up and pissed, came back and said "Xbox Resume" and sat back down where I left off without ever raising a finger or lifting my controller.
While laying here on the couch, wanted to see how far along Forza was at installing, just said Xbox go to home", looked at where the installation was at while the movie continued playing in a panel, then said "Xbox resume Netflix" and back to watching the movie in full screen. And never a single finger lifted nor the controller moved.
I may not really care about the games they make/release exclusively for Kinect, but I think I'll enjoy it when it comes to how quick and easy it is to use to jump around from this to that and jump between different things just by saying two or three words instead of having to make 5 or 10 button clicks just to get to the same place.
Found a nice little list of, so far, known commands for use with Xbox One/Kinect.
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/1251...ur-new-console
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Starting at the top, these are the commands that will get you going:
Xbox on - Wakes up Xbox One, can turn on television and cable/satellite set-top box.
Xbox turn off - Puts Xbox One to sleep/off, can turn off television and cable/satellite set-top box. You'll then have to confirm you want to turn it off with a "yes".
Xbox select - Shows voice command options for everything on the screen that is supported, highlighting relevant commands.
Stop listening - Stops Kinect from listening or cancels voice commands if Kinect is triggered during casual conversation.
Xbox help - Shows help menu with available options.
Xbox sign in/out or Xbox sign in as [person] - Signs in/out an Xbox Live member.
Xbox show notification - Shows on-screen notification(s).
Xbox One is making a heavy play for TV and to do so, you'll need TV controls. Here's what you get:
Xbox watch TV - Launches cable or satellite TV from set-top box. We've used this a lot, it works really well.
Xbox show guide or Xbox OneGuide - Launches OneGuide for cable or satellite TV subscribers. Less useful at the moment, as it's not coming to the UK until 2014.
Xbox volume up/down Xbox mute/unmute - Controls volume of TV set or AV receiver, if enabled in the settings.
Next you'll be wanting to get around the Xbox One interface, without using your controller. Here's what you need to drift from place to place:
Xbox go Home or Xbox show my stuff - Returns to Home. This is the command you'll probably use the most.
Xbox Snap [app] - Launches activity in Snap mode. This is great fun and works well.
Xbox unsnap - Unsnaps activity in Snap mode.
Xbox switch - Switches focus of the activities in Snap mode and Fill mode.
Xbox go to [activity] - Launches specific games, TV shows, apps, notifications and sections of the dash. This is a hugely important command, you'll use it a lot.
Xbox show menu - In full screen: shows menu for whatever is on the screen. At Home: shows menu for whatever is in the current window.
Xbox go back - Returns to previous screen or menu option.
In games you'll probably use less commands, and more controller, although games like Zoo Tycoon offer plenty of voice control too. But the big ones relating to gaming are:
Xbox record that - Records the previous 30 seconds of gameplay, which is a great trick for catching those.
Xbox start a party - Launches the Party app in Snap mode, although you can start the party at any time.
Xbox use a code - Triggers Kinect code scanning for QR codes for game downloads, etc.
Xbox pause/Xbox play - Pauses gameplay or resumes gameplay, meaning no more scrabbling for buttons when the phone rings.
The Xbox one fancies itself as a complete media solution for your living room, so you'll be wanting to control your videos and music too. Here's what you need:
Xbox play [music/video] - Launches video and music playback.
Xbox play/stop/pause/fast forward/rewind/faster/ slower/skip forward/skip backward/next song/ previous song - Controls for media playback, works on both music and video.
Then you have Skype as a fully integrated feature. Here's what you need to say to get talking:
Xbox Skype [person] or Xbox call [person] - Launches Skype call to a person from your Skype favorites list on your Xbox One.
Xbox answer/answer without video - Answers incoming Skype call.
Xbox hang up - Ends Skype call.
Xbox send message - Sends message to your Xbox Live friends.
Then there are universal commands to help you search and use Internet Explorer:
Xbox Bing pause [item(s)] - Launches Bing, then searches for the game, movie, TV show, game add-on or app using conversational voice. We've found it to be a bit hit and miss.
browse to [website] - Browses to a specific website when already in Internet Explorer.
While on the topic of Internet Explorer, the browser actually contains a lot of dedicated commands for navigation which only apply when it's open - here's a couple of useful ones:
Scroll up/Scroll down - scrolls the page up or down.
Click on [link] - clicks a link on the webpage.
Different apps require different voice commands that are specific to that app. We've listed most of the system commands here that you'll get to learn, but there's plenty more once you're in an app. We mentioned Zoo Tycoon, where you'll be able to talk instead of using buttons in some cases. Then in Snap you'll get highlighted options you can say instead of click. But if you get stuck, you can get a list of voice commands like this:
Xbox - Shows menu of voice command options and begins listening for the next command.
Installations on PS4 are much, much quicker. I really don't know why, either. That's the first thing I noticed when installing Dead Rising. No biggie, really.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Have you triedQuote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
XBOX, blowjob?
XBOX Play a game from a disc. Sorry we cannot do that.....
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/...dware-problems
Yep, as I said somewhere before, Sony and Microsoft should be ashamed of rushing these out. It's asinine the amount of problems both systems have had and the amount of common sense features both seem to be missing.Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
A 2 month delay for these systems could've really helped. But honestly, not many regular people know about all these errors and problems.
I don't seem any of the things with PS4 as a problem. I'm perfectly content with the system right now. There are a couple of things I wish the system could do, but in no way is it taking away from my enjoyment of the system; nor would I classify it as a major problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn