I think Guardian is cool because it creates a lot of different, fun, strategic questions. Should I stay and protect our leader or should I hunt the other leader? If I'm the leader, should I hide or should I push the team towards the other leader...
PWAlessi wrote:Personally, I like Wingman mode.
What's Wingman?
skeletonframes wrote:Warzone is a best X out of X now. So, it’s pretty cool. I think it’s first 4 out of 7? We played some ranked last week when everyone was in Xbox Jail.
Something we discovered last week, you cannot play casual playlist with more than 3 people. Only ranked and arcade. That is stupid. That is very very stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.
Wasn't Warzone always best X out of Y? I thought it was.
Uhmmm....maybe? Haha. Memory might not be my strong suit.
Ahhh turns out my GFX card can't handle this game! NUTS
It was cool that we had 13 or 14 people on at one point this Friday. Just about enough for a second room.
It was also nice that we could do private matches with people on PC. But we may have to have ask PC players to use the honor system and restrict themselves to using a controller instead of keyboard and mouse.
My friends list must be borked, because I saw only 1-2 people online in Gears when I checked on Friday at 9:30 PM ET; I assumed it fizzled out again and left.
I was on around 8 and I only saw a couple of people on. What time do you usually start?
I was on around 8 and I only saw a couple of people on. What time do you usually start?
We usually start around 8PM Eastern. If you didn't see anyone yet, you were probably one of the first!
I would suggest joining the GWJ Gears Club. I had dropped out of the main GWJ club, which I helped start, because it really wasn't being used anymore, and I was tired of approving memberships for a club with zero activity.
But if Gears is going to get going, that will be a good place to find out who is on. At the very least, use the club to to friend up the guys that are playing a lot, so you see more of who is on.
It was also nice that we could do private matches with people on PC. But we may have to have ask PC players to use the honor system and restrict themselves to using a controller instead of keyboard and mouse.
I would be 100% controller on PC, but I can't for the life of me get the MS Store to function at all on a new Windows install. I think I fell into a literal Catch-22 of MS accounts that can not be communicated in any language less than eldritch.
I play on PC with a controller. Gears just doesn't feel right to me with m/k.
ChrisLTD wrote:It was also nice that we could do private matches with people on PC. But we may have to have ask PC players to use the honor system and restrict themselves to using a controller instead of keyboard and mouse.
I would be 100% controller on PC, but I can't for the life of me get the MS Store to function at all on a new Windows install. I think I fell into a literal Catch-22 of MS accounts that can not be communicated in any language less than eldritch.
So you can't play at all on your PC? Darn. It might be worth contacting MS support.
ChrisLTD wrote:It was also nice that we could do private matches with people on PC. But we may have to have ask PC players to use the honor system and restrict themselves to using a controller instead of keyboard and mouse.
I would be 100% controller on PC, but I can't for the life of me get the MS Store to function at all on a new Windows install. I think I fell into a literal Catch-22 of MS accounts that can not be communicated in any language less than eldritch.
check your install count.. Windows Store only allows authorization and paid downloads on 10 devices.. I have to prune mine every so often of old machines.
I was able to remove authorized devices on the website associated with the account, just as a troubleshooting measure, but I was only up to four anyways.
My ultimate solution was to cancel Gamepass. I'll check back in a year or so to see if they have their sh*t together.
So I spun this up even though I've largely ignored the franchise since the original, almost to the end of Act II in the campaign and have even jumped in and played a few rounds of versus and found myself enjoying things a lot more than I expected. Made a comment to that effect in a stream the other day and was met almost universally with "Versus? No-one plays versus, its just for trolling", so.... any suggestions for an aging beginner on what the great unwashed do play? Is it all about horde mode? Anything I should or should not be doing to get better and learn?
I love versus. They are catering to 'casuals' in this release. There are Arcade versus modes and unranked modes. The ranked modes have been working well for me because the mode that I like the best doesn't seem to appear in unranked. The ranking system seems pretty good. I've been getting in some fun, competitive games where I'm in the middle of the pack.
Ok, that's good to hear - will worry less about the streaming elites
I've done a horrible job making any of these. I have grand plans for running and gunning with folks then I get dinner done, get the kids in bed, and the gravity of the week just collapses me. I'm still trying!
I've done a horrible job making any of these. I have grand plans for running and gunning with folks then I get dinner done, get the kids in bed, and the gravity of the week just collapses me. I'm still trying!
I'm always super tuckered out on Friday evenings as well.
I was able to remove authorized devices on the website associated with the account, just as a troubleshooting measure, but I was only up to four anyways.
My ultimate solution was to cancel Gamepass. I'll check back in a year or so to see if they have their sh*t together.
You said Windows Store. Did you mean the Xbox Beta app? That’s the only way to access Game Pass. The Windows Store just gives you access to the old Xbox Play Anywhere games that happened to be in the Xbox Game Pass (like Sea of Thieves)
It was the Xbox App beta that was failing to install because MS somehow thinks making it easy to install to my ancient android phone is more important than making it easy to install on literally the machine I am clicking around on. The list of devices from the Store was empty, but the list of devices attached to the account settings was not.
I bet I have an overlapping set of MS accounts that all kind of look identical, but aren't really, each created from a different source - the original xbox back in the day, from a browser when I needed to install something, and from a windows install after they decided to risk another antitrust suit. I get the impression some aspects of a MS account think of the email address as the primary key that should be unique, but that certainly isn't enforced in other parts of the ecosystem. There's a DBA somewhere that knows how to fix it but the query would require a left join on a post-it-note.
It was the Xbox App beta that was failing to install because MS somehow thinks making it easy to install to my ancient android phone is more important than making it easy to install on literally the machine I am clicking around on. The list of devices from the Store was empty, but the list of devices attached to the account settings was not.
I bet I have an overlapping set of MS accounts that all kind of look identical, but aren't really, each created from a different source - the original xbox back in the day, from a browser when I needed to install something, and from a windows install after they decided to risk another antitrust suit. I get the impression some aspects of a MS account think of the email address as the primary key that should be unique, but that certainly isn't enforced in other parts of the ecosystem. There's a DBA somewhere that knows how to fix it but the query would require a left join on a post-it-note.
Sorry to hear.. yes.. Microsoft is really picky about making sure your Xbox account matches your other various accounts. I've been lucky for whatever reason the hotmail account I created back in the day on the OG Xbox I've carried through to this day for everything Microsoft as my Live account, my Zune Account, my Store Account so its survived all the consolidations and retirements and all my history is right there under that single login.
I'm in tonight if folks are playing. asphaltmonkee on xb1
Do I need to be in the gamers with jobs club on xb1? I've got a request in can someone accept it?
k, invite requested
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