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Steverulez · Mar 21, 2015

First Wave of Xbox One April System Updates Now in Preview

This month, we’re rolling out updates to our Xbox One Preview program members in two waves, with the first set coming today and more to come next week. Check out the list below for features in this first April system update preview that is starting to roll out this afternoon:

Party chat improvements – Party chat is being improved with troubleshooting guidance for Xbox One owners. The Party App will help you get your microphone enabled and show you when privacy settings or networking issues are blocking communication with particular party members.

Game hub links – Members can more easily discover game hub content from activity feed items. You’ll see activity feed items when any of your friends follow a game, and you’ll also be able to get back to a game’s hub from activity feed posts related to the game – including feed items about the game’s achievements, game clips and screenshots. Finally, we’ve added a link to game hubs from the game’s page in the achievements app.

Achievement notifications – With this preview release, you’ll also see the achievement’s description in the notification so you know what you did to earn this achievement without having to open the achievements app. If you do choose to open up the notification to see the achievement details, we’ve also made some performance improvements to make loading the achievements app from a notification faster.

Stay tuned next week for the second wave with even more great features coming to Xbox One Preview program members. As always, thanks for your feedback.

Major Nelson

jbug617 · Mar 21, 2015

Hopefully the 2nd Wave will have something bigger.

R3TRODYCE · Mar 21, 2015

Not much going on there.

iMax · Mar 21, 2015

Steverulez said:
Major Nelson

Bit light but I can hardly complain with these regular updates. Achievement descriptors is pretty awesome.

paxromana · Mar 21, 2015

Hmm no major feature in first wave, but it gets me excited for second wave!

Pudge · Mar 21, 2015

I don't know guys, knowing what I did to earn an achievement without having to Snap anything is pretty great.

link1201 · Mar 21, 2015

Steverulez said:
Major Nelson

Sweet was wondering where this was.
I like the achievement deal was kinda annoying before.

BananasWithGuns · Mar 21, 2015

Hope the performance improvements for loading the achievements app are rather significant. It takes far, far too long to load it right now.

Welfare · Mar 21, 2015

2nd wave gotta be something big.

Achievement update is great.

Gestault · Mar 21, 2015

Achievement notifications With this preview release, youll also see the achievements description in the notification so you know what you did to earn this achievement without having to open the achievements app.

This was actually pretty annoying to me, I'm glad others noticed it.

JaggedSac · Mar 21, 2015

Not much here, but I'm all for more achievement details in that notification though. Wonder why they have two waves this time.

Kerm 1 · Mar 21, 2015

Downloading now.

Reluctant-Hero · Mar 21, 2015

PS4 goes months without significant updates. So I'll take whatever monthly updates XBO will offer. These details look good to me.

BTM · Mar 21, 2015

Pudge said:
I don't know guys, knowing what I did to earn an achievement without having to Snap anything is pretty great.

Yep

Doffen · Mar 21, 2015

Achievement notifications With this preview release, youll also see the achievements description in the notification so you know what you did to earn this achievement without having to open the achievements app. If you do choose to open up the notification to see the achievement details, weve also made some performance improvements to make loading the achievements app from a notification faster.

Sweet!

link1201 · Mar 21, 2015

JaggedSac said:
Not much here, but I'm all for more achievement details in that notification though. Wonder why they have two waves this time.

I believe they have done this before. In the past the build was somewhat buggy and they wanted to use a smaller sample size.

infinit777 · Mar 21, 2015

I love the new notification changes, I always go to the achievements app to see what I dI'd.

jesu · Mar 21, 2015

Gestault said:
This was actually pretty annoying to me, I'm glad others noticed it.

Yep, I'm pleased about that too

Steverulez · Mar 21, 2015

link1201 said:
I believe they have done this before. In the past the build was somewhat buggy and they wanted to use a smaller sample size.

This isn't a wave of people getting the features though, its features being split up but available to everyone... different to what they did before

Chris1 · Mar 21, 2015

Achievement update sounds sweet. looking forward to seeing whats in batch 2

muzzymate · Mar 21, 2015

Can someone "snap" a picture of the new achievement popup? It'll be nice to know why I got an achieve the without having to snap the app.

RBK · Mar 21, 2015

paxromana said:
Hmm no major feature in first wave, but it gets me excited for second wave!

Am I misreading something, why are some under the impression the 2nd wave is going to be different from the 1st?

Nori Chan · Mar 21, 2015

weve also made some performance improvements to make loading the achievements app from a notification faster.

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Steverulez · Mar 21, 2015

RBK said:
Am I misreading something, why are some under the impression the 2nd wave is going to be different from the 1st?

Because it says so twice in the OP.

ThoseDeafMutes · Mar 21, 2015

The achievement thing is neat. Can't think of any outstanding issues I have with the OS. What is everyone hoping for now that the major stuff is out of the way?

Bessy67 · Mar 21, 2015

ThoseDeafMutes said:
The achievement thing is neat. Can't think of any outstanding issues I have with the OS. What is everyone hoping for now that the major stuff is out of the way?

Background music. How is that still not a thing?

Rembrandt · Mar 21, 2015

RBK said:
Am I misreading something, why are some under the impression the 2nd wave is going to be different from the 1st?

Check out the list below for features in this first April system update preview that is starting to roll out this afternoon:

Bessy67 said:
Background music. How is that still not a thing?

Yup the sooner the better and hopefully it was like how some games were on the 360 and cuts out when cutscenes and stuff happened.

Spectromixer · Mar 21, 2015

Cool achievement update at least.

link1201 · Mar 21, 2015

Steverulez said:
This isn't a wave of people getting the features though, its features being split up but available to everyone... different to what they did before

Oh I see. Hmmm, that is interesting.

Spasm · Mar 21, 2015

Bessy67 said:
Background music. How is that still not a thing?

And voice messages.

MrMatt555 · Mar 21, 2015

+1 for cheevo update.

Steverulez · Mar 21, 2015

ThoseDeafMutes said:
The achievement thing is neat. Can't think of any outstanding issues I have with the OS. What is everyone hoping for now that the major stuff is out of the way?

Patch notes
A completely re-done store, its so terrible for visibility that i can't even bring myself to detail it except for: every pre-load has at least two slots on the coming soon/release section
Fix that crappy notifications bar, I don't want or need achievements or game clip recorded in it
Pins viewable offline, I don't need a cloud to let me access a shortcut to a game on my hard drive
Background music without needing snap
Some general optimisation would be nice, a Frontier Development guy told me the OS team are planning a big optimisation update at some point

Im pretty sure they're giving it a facelift in time for Windows 10 anyway

kittens · Mar 21, 2015

Stoked about the achievements thing.

RBK · Mar 21, 2015

Steverulez said:
Because it says so twice in the OP.

Rembrandt said:
Check out the list below for features in this first April system update preview that is starting to roll out this afternoon:

Took it as one group of members would get the update before the other, makes sense now.

Thanks.

Nori Chan · Mar 21, 2015

When you look for new add-ons on the store it shows the same 50 dlc items for the past two months. Got to scroll twice in order to actually get to the new stuff

Gamezone · Mar 21, 2015

This is way more than stability. I love it.

Ebolarama · Mar 21, 2015

Great update for people who like achievements. In regards to the litany of "nothing to see here" posts. What major update is left besides the streaming music that is oft requested?

Montresor · Mar 21, 2015

ThoseDeafMutes said:
The achievement thing is neat. Can't think of any outstanding issues I have with the OS. What is everyone hoping for now that the major stuff is out of the way?

They need to fix some little things. Performance improvements are welcome. They also need to fix the bug that says "You must install the game or app" occasionally when you launch Snap. They also need to fix the problem with achievements sometimes not popping at all or staying at Done Unlocking... and then suddenly popping 48 hours later. I also have some audio sync issues whenever I edit videos in Upload Studio.

One big thing that I hope they fix is install times.

JaggedSac · Mar 21, 2015

Steverulez said:
This isn't a wave of people getting the features though, its features being split up but available to everyone... different to what they did before

Yeah. Sounds like one or more of the features needed more time in the oven.

Jessie.Bristol · Mar 21, 2015

Bessy67 said:
Background music. How is that still not a thing?

I believe that is coming in May (at least according to The Verge).

Doukou · Mar 21, 2015

Achievement update is good.

Nori Chan said:
When you look for new add-ons on the store it shows the same 50 dlc items for the past two months. Got to scroll twice in order to actually get to the new stuff

Yah this needs to be fixed. Really annoying and makes half the add on marketplace worthless.

Ebolarama · Mar 21, 2015

Steverulez said:
Patch notes

A completely re-done store, its so terrible for visibility that i can't even bring myself to detail it except for: every pre-load has at least two slots on the coming soon/release section

Fix that crappy notifications bar, I don't want or need achievements or game clip recorded in it

Pins viewable offline, I don't need a cloud to let me access a shortcut to a game on my hard drive

Background music without needing snap

Some general optimisation would be nice, a Frontier Development guy told me the OS team are planning a big optimisation update at some point

Im pretty sure they're giving it a facelift in time for Windows 10 anyway

While I agree with every other bullet point on your list, what in God's name would you want in the notifications bar? Xbox has a note bar light years ahead of the sloppy What's new section on PS4 which is essentially an ad feed.

JaggedSac · Mar 21, 2015

Doukou said:
Achievement update is good.

Yah this needs to be fixed. Really annoying and makes half the add on marketplace worthless.

The way they handle add-ons and various skus needs to be fixed in general. Store is a mess in that regard.

Also, this download is taking forever, anyone else seeing slow speeds?

JaggedSac · Mar 21, 2015

Steverulez said:
Patch notes

A completely re-done store, its so terrible for visibility that i can't even bring myself to detail it except for: every pre-load has at least two slots on the coming soon/release section

Fix that crappy notifications bar, I don't want or need achievements or game clip recorded in it

Pins viewable offline, I don't need a cloud to let me access a shortcut to a game on my hard drive

Background music without needing snap

Some general optimisation would be nice, a Frontier Development guy told me the OS team are planning a big optimisation update at some point

Im pretty sure they're giving it a facelift in time for Windows 10 anyway

Good list, agree with all of it. I'd throw in that I would like filters to be added to the feed so you can choose what kind of stuff gets shown on there. I really don't care that someone went on a friend adding spree. Good to hear about the optimizations stuff.

link1201 · Mar 21, 2015

JaggedSac said:
The way they handle add-ons and various skus needs to be fixed in general. Store is a mess in that regard.

Also, this download is taking forever, anyone else seeing slow speeds?

No, it was pretty quick for me.

Ebolarama · Mar 21, 2015

JaggedSac said:
Good list, agree with all of it. I'd throw in that I would like filters to be added to the feed so you can choose what kind of stuff gets shown on there. I really don't care that someone went on a friend adding spree. Good to hear about the optimizations stuff.

Except for point 3. I really think the xbox does a good job keeping you aware of your friends' actions. Other things need attention but your feeds are pretty much optimized.

Edit: good point about the friends added notifications, I stand partiality corrected.

...Scatter... · Mar 21, 2015

Am I the only one stoked about Party Chat updates? It was annoying in Destiny when 1 or 2 in the party had communication issues. Need to talk in the raids man.

What I want now:

- Store update.
- Gold discount list update.
- A better laid out friends list and the ability to send voice messages to someone and for them to be able to launch the voice message without leaving their game.

JaggedSac · Mar 21, 2015

link1201 said:
No, it was pretty quick for me.

malfcn · Mar 21, 2015

Didn't they have to do something similar with 360 achievements? Especially multiples.

airborn · Mar 21, 2015

ThoseDeafMutes said:
What is everyone hoping for now that the major stuff is out of the way?

They could finally fix their language settings, maybe?

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