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Yeah you can actually play Xbox and PC right now even though its not officially in there. I'm beat the first playthrough and am now in Adventure mode, where the difficulty def ramps up. I played all the original maps at 2.7x difficulty, and it was a decent challenge, but nothing too crazy. I look forward to getting to a higher level where I can start trying to finalize some builds. There is a decent amount of variety in loot, so I look forward to tinkering a bit. Been running solo so far as well.

Is no one playing this? I've actually been really loving it. While simple, it really does a good job of having a great loot system that makes finding new loot fun and meaningful. Also has a lot if pretty varied build potential depending on the loot u find. For whatever reason it's not a Play Anywhere title though which is bullshit since it lends itself perfectly for it.

I edited after I checked, I can't find a way to buy it either. Most games you can though, even with no price listed. So it has to be some kind of listing error or something, cause its showing the same way on the website.

Edit - I maybe wrong. Most of the time you can buy it off the Xbox One. I don't think its even showing on Xbox.com, so must be glitched out or somethig.

I'd say it's worth it. But you can also pay $5.00 at some point to try it out on EA Access, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it on a lot more sales in the future. I like a lot of the core mechanics and ideas in Anthem, they just completely fumbled on the end game and so many other aspects of what a Looter Shooter needs to do. With next gen consoles improved loading as well, they might be able to drastically improve the vision of the game.

I'm assuming you mean the Cloudy Floor?

Curious what does this mean... That using this type of rendering, or bringing in Megascans, isn't really feasible for real games? As I said, I'm not all that tech savy, so just wondering what this translates to.

Just did

I believe I still need that, i have armor and shoes!

So we are to believe that Epic didn't also develop this demo alongside various PC specs to see how it'd perform on different hardware?

It was maybe a joke, but the side by side comparisons of a competent PC vs a console at the time showed the difference in performance you could expect. It's just one of the first comparison vids that came to mind. Epic could have pretty easily demonstrated something like this showing what the Demo would look like with the "God Tier" SSD vs what it'd look like on a regular NVMe SSD. Just so we could see the actual real life application of the tech. Reading numbers about I/O doesn't mean a whole lot to me since I'm not the most tech savy, but seeing a side by side comparison to demonstrate it would do wonders.

When I see examples of Ray Tracing tech, I typically see the same scenes with ray tracing turned off so I can clearly see the difference and how the tech actually changes games. We used to see this as well with other new PC tech like PhysX, ect. I just think if you are going to try to highlight your new tech and how it's going to push everything beyond what's out there, run a side by side comparison to highlight those differences. Seems like it'd be pretty easy to do.

I don't think people are questioning if PS5s SSD tech is ahead of current PCs and the Xbox. All I've seen is people questioning the comments that the demo was only possible on a PS5 due to that tech. And I think it's perfectly fair to ask, how would a high end PC and XSX run the same demo, and what would it look like without the SSD tech. Because if a high end PC and XSX can run that demo identically then yeah it's a bit misleading to try to say it's only possible on PS5 due to the SSD.

In Xbox's Case, the Cloud Computing and "Power of the Cloud" was overpromising, as it never really came to any kind of actual benefit. Crackdown Multiplayer was a shell of what was originally promised.

I saw some Tweets going around that Epic China did a presentation about the demo, and stated the entire demo would run the same on a typical high speed SSD and 2080 Super on PC but with better performance. So again, until we ever see a side by side comparison to show what Sony's SSD actually does in real time vs a high end PC, it's hard to really know or believe any of this PR speak.

Thanks, I'll add you for future sharing, but tonight I was exhausted and got to relaxing earlier.

Any chance you'd be able to open your island or produce a Dodo code for a visitor so we can grab that DIY?

Yup especially when it's an obvious marketing deal with certain talking points

I will be swinging by

I wish they'd have shown a side by side with a high end PC playing the same Tech Demo, to try and highlight how that SSD Tech actually translates to in game improvements. Like if that ending sequence of the character flying, would the PC have more Pop in or something?

Series X is also going to add in a machine learned HDR into older back compat titles that don't have it. Also said they are experimenting in possibly upping framerates and resolutions on more titles that never received it on the X. Current Xbox One games being further enhanced for the Xbox Series X. You are of course right, PC gaming is the best way to keep an library that keeps moving forward with you, but I have to applaud Microsofts approach to backwards compatibility and how much they are doing to try to create a sense of cohesion within their ecosystem.

I have a high end PC, but I'll still get the new Xbox. As far as I know, my PC won't be back compat with my Xbox One library of games, or give them all the enhancements the Series X is stating it will provide. Majority of my friends are still Console gamers too, with 0 desire to invest or deal with PC gaming. With more and more games being cross platform multiplayer, this barrier is slowly going away, but for now ,it's still present for some games. I think the market is still pretty huge for consoles overall. Even the best exclusives on consoles sell what, 10 million or so. So if PS4 has sold 100 million consoles, and only 10 or so million care about their best exclusives, that's still a huge market for people that just prefer gaming on consoles. And as you said, even with my PC, I still go by my parents place and have an Xbox there, have an Xbox setup in my living room if friends come by and want to play, ect. My PC is still set up in a place that is really only effective for a single person to game on. $500 for whats supposed to be a pretty damn powerful console, it still an insanely good deal for the majority of gamers out there to play the vast majority of games. They have started releasing their games on Steam though, maybe they will have some kind of partnership with Steam. Have a Steam store on the Series X to play Steam titles on it.

Supposedly tomorrow is going to be a big Stream. Some anticipating maybe Sony unveiling the PS5?

Still available?

I have like 80% chance of Large Spike as well.