Xbox Series X

[anonymous-user]

Siko said:

El stovey said:

Nobody using it for FS2020? I got mine just for that tbh.

Yep…me! I am a commercial pilot aswell (I recognise your username lol) although I fly rotary. I am playing it mainly using just a controller although I am probably going to get the Thrustmaster x thing. The main problem stopping me enjoying it more is the lack of head tracking - when I used to be a pc gamer I had a TrackIR and I get really frustrated using the sticks to look around. Well that and the fact living where we do the internet is mega slow and whilst the game looks ace anywhere outside a city, as soon as you try and fly over any major conurbation it looks really cruddy with blocky buildings. I’ve tried orbiting over areas to see if it improves but it’s so slowly better it’s not worth it, not the fault of the game per se but with better download I’d probably play it more tbh.

If it’s slow you might be able to improve the photogrammetry by increasing the rolling cache but that only really works if you’re staying in the one area.

Helicopters coming to the console in the big November 40th anniversary update

https://www.flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-s...

[Siko]

Unfortunately I had to decrease the size of the rolling cache to enable the updates to be down without crashing (there was a big thread on the MS forums about this). But as you say it’s best if you fly in one area and I mainly enjoy doing the landing challenges or the odd flight around an old haunt.

Looking forward to seeing helicopters but I suspect the flight models will be mediocre at best - I’m not criticising them per se, helicopters are the work of the devil Even our level B simulator at work gets stuff wrong on occasion. I think fixed-wing flight models are reasonably straightforward to replicate, but helicopters just aren’t although I guess that’s more of a problem for us rotary heroes than you mere mortals

Plus much of helicopter flying is seat of the pants stuff and constantly scanning to the side in the hover etc is a massive pita in the game without TrackIR. Bah humbug I’ll definitely try it anyway and might wipe the miserable grimace off my face too, you never know!

[anonymous-user]

Siko said:

Unfortunately I had to decrease the size of the rolling cache to enable the updates to be down without crashing (there was a big thread on the MS forums about this). But as you say it’s best if you fly in one area and I mainly enjoy doing the landing challenges or the odd flight around an old haunt.

Looking forward to seeing helicopters but I suspect the flight models will be mediocre at best - I’m not criticising them per se, helicopters are the work of the devil Even our level B simulator at work gets stuff wrong on occasion. I think fixed-wing flight models are reasonably straightforward to replicate, but helicopters just aren’t although I guess that’s more of a problem for us rotary heroes than you mere mortals

Plus much of helicopter flying is seat of the pants stuff and constantly scanning to the side in the hover etc is a massive pita in the game without TrackIR. Bah humbug I’ll definitely try it anyway and might wipe the miserable grimace off my face too, you never know!

I expect us real pilots will be able to master helicopters in a few minutes. Using our Xbox controllers and mad skillz.

Obviously you’ll be saying it’s “not realistic” but that’s just sour grapes.

[Siko]

Well naturally

[Sporky]

I'm replaying Saints Row The Third and can confirm that helicopters are, in fact, an absolute piece of cake to lark about in. You can even bounce them off buildings a couple of times without any real consequences.

[Narcisus]

El stovey said:

I expect us real pilots will be able to master helicopters in a few minutes. Using our Xbox controllers and mad skillz.

Obviously you’ll be saying it’s “not realistic” but that’s just sour grapes.

Do you have any interesting pics from the flight deck ? I think I would probably spend most of my time with the phone stuck on the window !

[Sonofabeesting]

I am keen to get an XBOX after years of Playstation. Timing wise do you think its best to wait for Black Friday? I assume it will be bundles that MAY go on sale only or is stock still so limited it will be mainly accessories and games?

[Wills2]

Sonofabeesting said:

I am keen to get an XBOX after years of Playstation. Timing wise do you think its best to wait for Black Friday? I assume it will be bundles that MAY go on sale only or is stock still so limited it will be mainly accessories and games?

I don't think you'll see stand alone support on the Series X but there may be added value bundles where they discount the accessories/software.

[Don Roque]

KaraK said:

I've just started ME1 myself - played it a bit in the 360 days but never got around to getting very far. So far I'm quite impressed with Legendary Edition on the XSX

ME1 is the game you slog through so you can play ME2 and ME3. They are absolutely amazing.

[KaraK]

Don Roque said:

ME1 is the game you slog through so you can play ME2 and ME3. They are absolutely amazing.

Yeah I'd heard that ME2 in particular is supposed to be phenomenal - but I've never wanted to jump in there without completing ME1 first. That said I'm greatly enjoying ME1 this time around, possibly the tweaks for Legendary Edition are responsible. Notably the fact that they got rid of the irritating XP penalty for kills made from the Mako means levelling is a great deal easier.

[Vanden Crash]

ME?

[Mannginger]

Mass Effect

[Driveeasy]

Having squeezed what I could out of the Xbox one we finally got a series x yesterday and have started to download some of the old games. What has impressed me is the increased download speeds, we have virgin 1gb internet and on the Xbox one the downloads would be between 10mbps and 180mbps

The x has topped out at 668mbps download speeds.

Anyway, off to restart GTA5 after the one deleted my entire game to make room for one of the kids installing Minecraft dungeons.

[Slow]

Thats the hard drive speed allowing the data to be written to the Xbox that much faster 🙂

I recommend an external ssd at the minimum to avoid deleting games when it’s full, just move them about. You can’t play them off the ssd (old games work) but quick to move them.

Saying that at those internet speeds I’m not sure it matters!

[Driveeasy]

Slow said:

Thats the hard drive speed allowing the data to be written to the Xbox that much faster ??

I recommend an external ssd at the minimum to avoid deleting games when it’s full, just move them about. You can’t play them off the ssd (old games work) but quick to move them.

Saying that at those internet speeds I’m not sure it matters!

I figured that or combination of that and maybe a better Wi-Fi standard?

Always open to suggestions of good games. At the moment the tv is an 8 year old Sony that refuses to die. Saw a couple of Sony 4k 120hz hdmi 2.1 yesterday that are tempting but it will have to wait for a few months I think.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Driveeasy said:

I figured that or combination of that and maybe a better Wi-Fi standard?

Always open to suggestions of good games. At the moment the tv is an 8 year old Sony that refuses to die. Saw a couple of Sony 4k 120hz hdmi 2.1 yesterday that are tempting but it will have to wait for a few months I think.

Won't be anything to do with wifi unless you have a router/AP that supports wifi 6

[Driveeasy]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Driveeasy said:

I figured that or combination of that and maybe a better Wi-Fi standard?

Always open to suggestions of good games. At the moment the tv is an 8 year old Sony that refuses to die. Saw a couple of Sony 4k 120hz hdmi 2.1 yesterday that are tempting but it will have to wait for a few months I think.

Won't be anything to do with wifi unless you have a router/AP that supports wifi 6

Just read that the series x doesn’t have Wi-Fi 6. Either way, it’s much quicker than the old one which should have surprised me but it did!

[Sporky]

I second the HDD thing - even the One X could only write at about 160Mbps.

[Ruskie]

Sonofabeesting said:

I am keen to get an XBOX after years of Playstation. Timing wise do you think its best to wait for Black Friday? I assume it will be bundles that MAY go on sale only or is stock still so limited it will be mainly accessories and games?

I did same but sold Xbox after it sat collecting dust for 6 months. I just couldn’t get on with the UI.

[BaronVonVaderham]

BaronVonVaderham said:

Just a heads up that the seagate internal SSDs and controllers are quite well discounted on Amazon at the moment, just got the 512gb ssd for £86 (half rrp) and a carbon black controller for £40 instead of £55.

Deal of the day: Seagate STORAGE EXPANSION CARD 512GB NVME-SSD PCIE FOR XBOX S/X https://amzn.eu/d/9amEBoF

Slightly annoying that the 512gb card only offers 460gb of space? I get that a bit needs to be used for other purposes, but 50 odd gb? That’s a whole game!

At least I can now keep Flight Sim installed which was most of the reason I got my series S.