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April Xbox One Preview "Wave 1" details
- Thread starter Steverulez
- Start date
Windows 10 update and everything after will be the huge performance updates.
Maybe a month eariler max. Doubt anything earlier.
HighResTomato
Member
1080p60 Avatars pls Phil.
Alx
Member
Speech to text option with the system keyboard.
Barcode scanning, and maybe OCR too. QR code scanning is brilliant, but the cards you buy for credit don't use those.
Better offline support (pins,...)
Possibility to pin game hubs rather than accessing a menu.
Possibility to switch selected game when in game hub
New avatars with the KSR design
I love the environment and its evolutions though. But there's so much potential for more.
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Party system is still total trash (performance and features) compared to the 360. Just bring back the guide already.
Folders as pins
Voice messages
Background music
Avatars
Beacons
Faster snapping
No language region lock
More codecs for media player (DTS, ...)
And many other small and big things still missing.
feedback.xbox.com gives you a pretty good list. Of course around 50% of the suggestions are nonsense like (make everything 1080/60, or "buy Sony" and stuff) but you see there, that they could carry on with their montly updates for a VERY long time.
Vinterbird
Member
I want better segmenting of what notifications I get. I don't want achievement notifications, nor when friends are online. But I want to know when a game has finished downloading.
Also support for the USB tv dongle in my country and HDMI CEC support.
At this point I've given up on them fixing the black crush issue.
HDMI passthrough for TV. I like the TV features and being able to watch while gaming, but sometimes I just want to watch TV without having to turn the console on.
My AV receiver does this, but my only worry is if it's something that has to be done in hardware.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Speaking of Folders, it might be good if Folders had a "directional snap" component where the first four items corresponded to d-pad/stick directions and you could double tap A and hit a direction to autoselect one of the sub options. Or something to that effect. Maybe extra option on "A/Y/X" with "B" remaining free to cancel.
Alternate method might just be X/Y/L/R/LB/RB as instant select buttons when mousing over a folder for its sub components. A brings up the menu.
Alternate method might just be X/Y/L/R/LB/RB as instant select buttons when mousing over a folder for its sub components. A brings up the menu.
justsomeguy
Member
Yeah this is a good thing imo
justsomeguy
Member
I sincerely hope so, cant abide how slow it is to snap party when a game is running. Should be baked into the OS even if it makes updates more difficult for ms.
aygomyownroad
Member
I would love Google Play Music. I know there is no chance of that happening but would like to see it with the chance of your own music while playing a game
cheers for that, much more like the XB360 style, a lot smoother.
justsomeguy
Member
Windows 10.
Instant snap for party/friends.
RagingAvatar
Member
A small thing I still want: system wide vibration/rumble disable. It hurts my hands.
They fixed the spacing, as well? I thought they'd never bother.
Anyway, I hope next week's update is more substantial.
add system wide change button/control configuration, and custom game soundtracks and Im good.
also put a better version of internet explorer if you expect me to use that instead of laptop/tablet for net browse
Not just as pins, but folders in my games & apps, ready to install too.. Those sections get really messy when you've played a lot of games. Let me put demos in a folder, or free gwg's in a folder, or completed games in a folder.. Having them all in one place just looks messy.
Some other things i'd like to see added/updated:
- The media player app, it's incredible barebones and is in need of an update of some basic functions (resuming where you left off), and fix the crashes that happen on it all the time
- Fully remappable controller buttons
- Updating the game hub page even more to be more like steams pages, where users who have played the game can rate/post a review
- Option to disable game recordings on a game by game basis
- Better way to manage friends lists, let me add certain friends under certain groups instead of having them all lumped in the same group
- Achievement rarity
On top of all the already posted features like a complete store rework etc.
There's a lot MS can do for at least the upcoming year, and I'm sure they have some ideas that we haven't thought of yet.
BananasWithGuns
Member
I'm liking the new achievement notifications but I wouldn't mind if they stuck around a little bit longer. Feels like the text blows by too fast.
Exactly. Some achievement texts are longer than others and I was only able to get a glimpse of the first words before the notification disappeared. A second longer would be great.
+They put up a survey to help them launching game streaming to Windows. This looks like the feature could arrive sooner than expected.
Broman1978
Junior Member
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
Agreed. Or at least let me pin the code area to my home screen.
Also, do you have Kinect? "Xbox, use a code". That's what I personally do
For me:
- Background music
- Activity feed optimization - let me filter what updates I want to see, who I want to see them from
- New app/feature experiences - the rumored Game Arena
- Game release calendar
- Game award showcase - let me show people thta I got the full 1000/1000 on a game by giving me a ribbon, or an award. Let me show people that I won the Halo 4 championship (even though i didnt), ect
- Twitter integration into OneGuide/TV like they showed off last E3
- Store update - Stop listing all the different bundles seperately
- Store update - DLC should be grouped by game, not just thrown out there. For example, there's like 200 items from Dead or Alive 5 which muddy up the store and make finding other game DLC difficult/painful
- Store Update - Let me filter games/DLC alphebetically, by price, genre, ect
- Voice Messages
- General OS issues with slow loading store, my games & apps, ect
Then, of course they will need a pretty significant update to enable everything with Windows 10, including the new universal storefront, Game streaming to Windows 10, ect
I'm guessing the rest of April's update won't have much, but May's and June's will be more significant as they will want to test out Windows 10 streaming at least prior to the summer release of Windows 10, which I'm guessing will be July/August for public release (MS already confirmed it would be summer release).
Mad Season
Banned
good achievement fix
Hans.Gruber
Banned
Another issue I am getting now is that the media player does not like big amounts of Data.
I have a 1TB Drive that is 90% full now and I get crashes all the time . When the drive was pretty empty everything was allright with avis, mp4s etc. mkv's are a crapshoot: some play some don't. But a resume function would really be nice....
I only think that is never gonna happen. There needs to be an advantage in ease of use for Xbox Video, Netflix etc compared to the Media Player.
I think its intentional that the Media Player isn't as good as it should be.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
This preview is fucking buggy mess man. Snap is god damn slow as shit, achievements wont load like 80% of time. And online notification have grayed out image.
Microsoft really need to step back and work on snap feature and making it fluid. This is bullshit and annoying.
Microsoft really need to step back and work on snap feature and making it fluid. This is bullshit and annoying.
Backfoggen
Banned
Still too long. Give me an option to make these only have the title and get rid of the "hold the home button" crap. I don't have to see that every single time.
360 achievement notifications were so much better.
dancrane212
Member
Finally!
LukasTaves
Member
samurai1226
Member
Still waiting for listening to my music without having that snap-in app open...
Hans.Gruber
Banned
In what instance would that be useful?
Wouldn't it be hard to hit the right button in QTE'S when the screen displays the default buttons?
Alx
Member
If it's done at system level the game could be able to display the remapped button and not the default one... But I think remapping can only be useful if it's done per game (even if centralized by the system), otherwise I don't think there would be a remap that would work for all games and you would spend your time reconfiguring it when switching from one game to another. For example if you prefer shooting with a face button you could remap the right trigger to A, but then in all car games you would accelerate with A.
Agree 100%.
They made the 360 guide smooth as anything with a fraction of resources. I hope W10 fixes it.
I'd love if the second wave of this update was W10, there's a new W10 insider build and there's a lot of WP10 builds floating around. It'd be awesome if they introduced it to us now.
