I'm hardly the biggest Project Aces fan in this thread I would've thought (or for that matter, Bandai Namco more broadly), but thank you for bringing it to my attention.
I would have to assume they have other projects in mind going down the road, but as it stands, it's hard to picture that Project Aces themselves warrant their own technical separate entity even as successful as Ace Combat7 was. It's not bad news, of course--this probably strongly guarantees an Ace Combat 8 down the line if not already in the works (I just haven't heard anything); it's less likely to be a platform exclusive either, which is a disappointing past tendency over at Namco. Years ago we had some fun jokes at the news that Project Aces had widely considered various Strangereal spin-offs that never happened ("Detective story set in the Osean capital, Oured."), so maybe this is them finally acting on that.
Honestly, I'd just settle for some partnership content for Flight Simulator. But since that game won't be coming to Playstation 5, I guess it's not in the cards.
In streaming app questions does anybody have issues with live streams on the ESPN app on a Series? I get all sorts of jitter on games, particularly when the camera pans
In streaming app questions does anybody have issues with live streams on the ESPN app on a Series? I get all sorts of jitter on games, particularly when the camera pans
This sounds like either a source issue (anything from the live feed up to the delivered stream to your device) or something horrific in their video decoder implementation.
My guess is it's "the stream went fucky", as the live-feed re-encode->propagate loop is the most ridiculously nightmarish mire of complexity and "no ask them". (Nobody, nobody has all the widgets. Everyone's ingesting from someone else.) Jitter in live feeds is a real common complaint.
NB I do not work for ESPN, but I have spent a very very long time with streaming video as a whole.
In streaming app questions does anybody have issues with live streams on the ESPN app on a Series? I get all sorts of jitter on games, particularly when the camera pans
This sounds like either a source issue (anything from the live feed up to the delivered stream to your device) or something horrific in their video decoder implementation.
My guess is it's "the stream went fucky", as the live-feed re-encode->propagate loop is the most ridiculously nightmarish mire of complexity and "no ask them". (Nobody, nobody has all the widgets. Everyone's ingesting from someone else.) Jitter in live feeds is a real common complaint.
NB I do not work for ESPN, but I have spent a very very long time with streaming video as a whole.
Encoding issue was my thought as well given that it's most apparent on pans when a bunch of pixels would be changing but the feed is fine on the phone app. Granted they could be doing something different on mobile but given how shit most of ESPNs tech offerings are I'd be more than a little surprised if they nailed a different stack on mobile
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
New Cuphead DLC, does the Steve parry feel off now? And it feels like the spread weapon got a nerf. I can't help but feel like they want you to play Chalice in the new area and are making the bosses tuned to her abilities and not Cuphead's.
In streaming app questions does anybody have issues with live streams on the ESPN app on a Series? I get all sorts of jitter on games, particularly when the camera pans
This sounds like either a source issue (anything from the live feed up to the delivered stream to your device) or something horrific in their video decoder implementation.
My guess is it's "the stream went fucky", as the live-feed re-encode->propagate loop is the most ridiculously nightmarish mire of complexity and "no ask them". (Nobody, nobody has all the widgets. Everyone's ingesting from someone else.) Jitter in live feeds is a real common complaint.
NB I do not work for ESPN, but I have spent a very very long time with streaming video as a whole.
Encoding issue was my thought as well given that it's most apparent on pans when a bunch of pixels would be changing but the feed is fine on the phone app. Granted they could be doing something different on mobile but given how shit most of ESPNs tech offerings are I'd be more than a little surprised if they nailed a different stack on mobile
Likely are, you just don't see it, as it's on the codec level. (iPhones almost always end up with HLS feeds, Android can use HLS or other things, etc.) That, plus your TV is a much, much bigger screen, so they're probably trying to stuff a higher resolution/frame rate down to it, as opposed to your phone, which in most cases can have 1080p and be indistinguishable from anything else.
There's also stuff like HDR/60FPS/you name it where the "mobile" aspect of support is different than what's available on your average entertainment center/fixed location device.
My timing was pretty good, Children of Morta goes off Gamepass on July 15th. Should be enough time to clear it, yet. Also, Carrion is worth a short playthrough if you never tried it, likewise going away on July 15.
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Played through the Cuphead DLC: The Delicious Last Course. After some time to re-accustom ourselves to the flow and rhythm of gameplay (and completely redo our controls, I have no idea what happened there), our skills (me and my co-op partner) came right back. It's hard to say anything is "worth" a 5 year wait, but the animation in all of this DLC is just incredible beyond words. They added three new weapons and an extremely tempting new charm (parries produce new health points at certain milestones), in addition to the new playable Chalice character who has completely different skills. Some of the new weapons feel flatly superior, so my old stand by arsenal did depreciate. I feel like replaying the entire game as Chalice would be worthwhile, she's super interesting, but in the interest of getting right to it, we did beat the DLC as the OG characters (you can't both play Chalice at once, which I think sucks). One thing that's a bit odd with the boss fights in this DLC, it often seemed as if phase 1 was wildly the hardest part of the whole battle, for several of them. That almost never happened in the original game fights.
I would love if it if a QOL update happened at some point in the future for the game. What I'd like to see (but do not actually EXPECT to see):
-online co-op, even crossplay online
-assist options beyond the Simple mode (which I think is bad, honestly)
-allow picking the same characters in co-op (with color change to avoid confusion), maybe make Mugman a bit different than Cuphead if they go through with it?
Started up SRIV past the opening mission. And, it's okay.
The only significant complaint I have is that accessing the gateway menu does not pause the outside world.
Saints Row IV has co-op and I think that once you set it to offline mode pausing works as if you were in true single player mode, iirc? It's been a while.
“I used to draw, hard to admit that I used to draw...”
It's just...okay. Saints Row 2 is the pinnacle for me. Once the series went all-in on the crazy, it left a little something to be desired.
Conversely, for me the inclusion of Roddy Piper and Keith David led to a moment where I had to stop playing and retrieve the controller because I'd fallen off my couch from laughing. Also, the continual skewering of Mass Effect helped.
I feel like if after the first mission you're not like "okay. Okay that's what we're doing? Okay I'm here for this." then yeah, just bail on 4. I lost my shit on that mission when the music kicked in, and it was a perfect beginning to one of my favorite games.
Xbox 360 games are sold via the legacy part of the Xbox Marketplace (and thus, once you have a license, there's no way to revoke it short of removing the product from the storefront). Accordingly, you'll still be able to download said titles; they just won't be giving out more of them as part of GWG.
Only August and September left for them to add Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, then. I guess they could cheat and do the XB1 Ezio Collection instead. (I'm saying this because nearly the entire series, notably not including Ass Bro, has been given out over time on GWG).
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Played through the Cuphead DLC: The Delicious Last Course. After some time to re-accustom ourselves to the flow and rhythm of gameplay (and completely redo our controls, I have no idea what happened there), our skills (me and my co-op partner) came right back. It's hard to say anything is "worth" a 5 year wait, but the animation in all of this DLC is just incredible beyond words. They added three new weapons and an extremely tempting new charm (parries produce new health points at certain milestones), in addition to the new playable Chalice character who has completely different skills. Some of the new weapons feel flatly superior, so my old stand by arsenal did depreciate. I feel like replaying the entire game as Chalice would be worthwhile, she's super interesting, but in the interest of getting right to it, we did beat the DLC as the OG characters (you can't both play Chalice at once, which I think sucks). One thing that's a bit odd with the boss fights in this DLC, it often seemed as if phase 1 was wildly the hardest part of the whole battle, for several of them. That almost never happened in the original game fights.
I would love if it if a QOL update happened at some point in the future for the game. What I'd like to see (but do not actually EXPECT to see):
-online co-op, even crossplay online
-assist options beyond the Simple mode (which I think is bad, honestly)
-allow picking the same characters in co-op (with color change to avoid confusion), maybe make Mugman a bit different than Cuphead if they go through with it?
Did you beat the Horse Knight with Cuphead? He has one move that can only be countered with Chalice's parry dash.
Played through the Cuphead DLC: The Delicious Last Course. After some time to re-accustom ourselves to the flow and rhythm of gameplay (and completely redo our controls, I have no idea what happened there), our skills (me and my co-op partner) came right back. It's hard to say anything is "worth" a 5 year wait, but the animation in all of this DLC is just incredible beyond words. They added three new weapons and an extremely tempting new charm (parries produce new health points at certain milestones), in addition to the new playable Chalice character who has completely different skills. Some of the new weapons feel flatly superior, so my old stand by arsenal did depreciate. I feel like replaying the entire game as Chalice would be worthwhile, she's super interesting, but in the interest of getting right to it, we did beat the DLC as the OG characters (you can't both play Chalice at once, which I think sucks). One thing that's a bit odd with the boss fights in this DLC, it often seemed as if phase 1 was wildly the hardest part of the whole battle, for several of them. That almost never happened in the original game fights.
I would love if it if a QOL update happened at some point in the future for the game. What I'd like to see (but do not actually EXPECT to see):
-online co-op, even crossplay online
-assist options beyond the Simple mode (which I think is bad, honestly)
-allow picking the same characters in co-op (with color change to avoid confusion), maybe make Mugman a bit different than Cuphead if they go through with it?
Did you beat the Horse Knight with Cuphead? He has one move that can only be countered with Chalice's parry dash.
Which move do you mean? You can parry every move with the proper timing and spacing. And if you're not feeling it, you can also just wait a move out, there's no penalty for doing so. Something to keep in mind, Chalice's dash parry is not that different from dashing and then immediately parrying as the other two.
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I'm hardly the biggest Project Aces fan in this thread I would've thought (or for that matter, Bandai Namco more broadly), but thank you for bringing it to my attention.
I would have to assume they have other projects in mind going down the road, but as it stands, it's hard to picture that Project Aces themselves warrant their own technical separate entity even as successful as Ace Combat7 was. It's not bad news, of course--this probably strongly guarantees an Ace Combat 8 down the line if not already in the works (I just haven't heard anything); it's less likely to be a platform exclusive either, which is a disappointing past tendency over at Namco. Years ago we had some fun jokes at the news that Project Aces had widely considered various Strangereal spin-offs that never happened ("Detective story set in the Osean capital, Oured."), so maybe this is them finally acting on that.
Honestly, I'd just settle for some partnership content for Flight Simulator.
You'll need to buy enough MS stock to ask the question at a shareholders meeting
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This sounds like either a source issue (anything from the live feed up to the delivered stream to your device) or something horrific in their video decoder implementation.
My guess is it's "the stream went fucky", as the live-feed re-encode->propagate loop is the most ridiculously nightmarish mire of complexity and "no ask them". (Nobody, nobody has all the widgets. Everyone's ingesting from someone else.) Jitter in live feeds is a real common complaint.
NB I do not work for ESPN, but I have spent a very very long time with streaming video as a whole.
*cough* Crimsons Skies 3 *cough*
Encoding issue was my thought as well given that it's most apparent on pans when a bunch of pixels would be changing but the feed is fine on the phone app. Granted they could be doing something different on mobile but given how shit most of ESPNs tech offerings are I'd be more than a little surprised if they nailed a different stack on mobile
Likely are, you just don't see it, as it's on the codec level. (iPhones almost always end up with HLS feeds, Android can use HLS or other things, etc.) That, plus your TV is a much, much bigger screen, so they're probably trying to stuff a higher resolution/frame rate down to it, as opposed to your phone, which in most cases can have 1080p and be indistinguishable from anything else.
There's also stuff like HDR/60FPS/you name it where the "mobile" aspect of support is different than what's available on your average entertainment center/fixed location device.
Um… do you REALLY want that question asked at the meeting?
Because, uh, that can be arranged. No guarantee they’ll answer, but if you REALLY want…
twitch.tv/Taramoor
@TaramoorPlays
Taramoor on Youtube
What if we get John Cena to ask?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e7fQtLSdgkQ
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Honestly, $40,000 in Nintendo is probably not a terrible investment, all things considered.
Xbox: SRIV looks corrupt. You should re-download the 12GB.
All Digital Future: I don't understand your complaint about bandwidth caps. Everybody has gigabit throughput!
:bro:
Edit: when did British brofist break?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/gameswithgold/xbox
The Games with Gold web page is gone.
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https://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/gold?xr=shellnav#gameswithgold
Well that's way less use friendly
Steam ID: Good Life
I said the same thing when I played it. Twice. "Alien meat balls don't have maps," is not a damn excuse.
Why? Did something Xbox related happen?
Okay, maybe lead off with that next time?
I mean, if it bothers you so much just report my post?
I think I wasn't clear enough about my tone, which has lead to a misunderstanding. Here, let me fix that.
ah, that makes all the difference!
but they ran out of digital codes, or at least the free ones I guess... so nevermind if someone is there.
edit: oh, there's also a JoJo fighting game coming out if you're into that.
I would love if it if a QOL update happened at some point in the future for the game. What I'd like to see (but do not actually EXPECT to see):
-online co-op, even crossplay online
-assist options beyond the Simple mode (which I think is bad, honestly)
-allow picking the same characters in co-op (with color change to avoid confusion), maybe make Mugman a bit different than Cuphead if they go through with it?
The only significant complaint I have is that accessing the gateway menu does not pause the outside world.
Saints Row IV has co-op and I think that once you set it to offline mode pausing works as if you were in true single player mode, iirc? It's been a while.
But if you have Keith David then I'm all in.
Conversely, for me the inclusion of Roddy Piper and Keith David led to a moment where I had to stop playing and retrieve the controller because I'd fallen off my couch from laughing. Also, the continual skewering of Mass Effect helped.
I feel like if after the first mission you're not like "okay. Okay that's what we're doing? Okay I'm here for this." then yeah, just bail on 4. I lost my shit on that mission when the music kicked in, and it was a perfect beginning to one of my favorite games.
Xbox 360 games are sold via the legacy part of the Xbox Marketplace (and thus, once you have a license, there's no way to revoke it short of removing the product from the storefront). Accordingly, you'll still be able to download said titles; they just won't be giving out more of them as part of GWG.
Did you beat the Horse Knight with Cuphead? He has one move that can only be countered with Chalice's parry dash.
Which move do you mean? You can parry every move with the proper timing and spacing. And if you're not feeling it, you can also just wait a move out, there's no penalty for doing so. Something to keep in mind, Chalice's dash parry is not that different from dashing and then immediately parrying as the other two.