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sales2099 on 22 November 2020
Ryuu96 said:

“We have agreed to a purchase price with ZeniMax. ZeniMax is not owned by Xbox or Microsoft currently. We’re still working through the completely standard - happens every time for an acquisition of this size - regulatory bodies, working through all the details, making sure that everything is by the book and meets whatever rules individual parties have. What happens after that point, I’m not going to comment on that, because we’re going to have to wait for the actual transaction to be done. What I will say is what Phil [Spencer, Microsoft’s executive VP of Gaming – TASS] said - that we will make this decision on a case by case basis, but what I will say is: look, our goal is to get as many people into the Xbox community, to get as many people playing our games as possible, that’s what’s going to guide us.”

Ben Decker, Head of Gaming Services at Xbox

https://tass.com/economy/1221629

An interview on launch but essentially saying what Phil said so can we chill a little now?

They seem aware the constant interviews are doing more harm then good. I am sufficiently chilled :)



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

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Baddman on 22 November 2020

Beat Ori and the blind forest last night and wow it might be my favorite metroidvania of all time. Also i guess I'll ask again. Did I misunderstood the details of Batista Marcus in gears 5? I can use him in multiplayer fine but I thought they said we would be able to have Batista Marcus replace regular Marcus in the campaign



KiigelHeart on 22 November 2020
Baddman said:

Beat Ori and the blind forest last night and wow it might be my favorite metroidvania of all time. Also i guess I'll ask again. Did I misunderstood the details of Batista Marcus in gears 5? I can use him in multiplayer fine but I thought they said we would be able to have Batista Marcus replace regular Marcus in the campaign

I played Act I with Batista as Marcus. I started New Game+ and then you can add mutators and customize your experience in various ways such as using Batista. I put on Gears 2 look, forgot I put it and then spent embarassingly long time trying to fix colours on my TV lol.

I'm not sure if you have to complete campaign once before you can use customization.



Baddman on 22 November 2020
Ryuu96 said:
Baddman said:

Beat Ori and the blind forest last night and wow it might be my favorite metroidvania of all time. Also i guess I'll ask again. Did I misunderstood the details of Batista Marcus in gears 5? I can use him in multiplayer fine but I thought they said we would be able to have Batista Marcus replace regular Marcus in the campaign

Is this it?

thanks found it

KiigelHeart said:
Baddman said:

Beat Ori and the blind forest last night and wow it might be my favorite metroidvania of all time. Also i guess I'll ask again. Did I misunderstood the details of Batista Marcus in gears 5? I can use him in multiplayer fine but I thought they said we would be able to have Batista Marcus replace regular Marcus in the campaign

I played Act I with Batista as Marcus. I started New Game+ and then you can add mutators and customize your experience in various ways such as using Batista. I put on Gears 2 look, forgot I put it and then spent embarassingly long time trying to fix colours on my TV lol.

I'm not sure if you have to complete campaign once before you can use customization.

Yeh I think it's with new game + as that's where I found it



InkIt on 22 November 2020
coolbeans said:

3.) With the same, comfortable UI still comes annoyances I've with Xbox One's for years. I understand and appreciate their focus on universalizing Xbox as one cohesive thing, but you do wonder what new wrinkles they *could* do to it while maintaining compatibility.

Xbox UI changed a lot over they years, the current one only exists for about 1 month so I bet it will keep changing again and again. 

And I'm not talking about small changes for the most part, I'm talking about changes bigger than ps4 -> ps5.



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derpysquirtle64 on 22 November 2020

About DF and SDK stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if PS5 will always take tech win in comparison throughout the gen as it does right now. Microsoft's new SDK from what I understand allows devs to port games from PC to Xbox with ease, but of course this method will probably negatively impact the optimization because not many developers will take their time to optimize the games to get the best possible graphics and performance on Xbox if they can just take an easy route to make it work by putting PC version with some settings there. I believe that in some cases (like, Bright Memory for example which already uses this new SDK and as a result can't run on Xbox One consoles), you even have the same PC settings and toggles in Xbox version of the game because it's simply the PC game running on Xbox.

But, having said all that, I wouldn't really worry about Xbox not having the advantage over PS5 in these comparisons. Series X seems to be running games fine enough, at least for now. I hardly can find anything to complain about from technical perspective, so this is fine. If this helps to bring more games to the platform at the expense of worse looking multiplats compared to PS5, I'm all for it. I just hope that devs won't be as lazy as Bright Memory devs who didn't even optimize the control scheme for Xbox port.



 

InkIt on 22 November 2020
derpysquirtle64 said:

I just hope that devs won't be as lazy as Bright Memory devs who didn't even optimize the control scheme for Xbox port.

He's only 1. 



derpysquirtle64 on 22 November 2020
InkIt said:
derpysquirtle64 said:

I just hope that devs won't be as lazy as Bright Memory devs who didn't even optimize the control scheme for Xbox port.

He's only 1. 

Well, I know that. But I personally don't believe this. Especially now, this guy definitely has some support team for the project.



 

Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 23 November 2020

This is actually nuts!!!



                  

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EspadaGrim on 23 November 2020
shikamaru317 said:
Ryuu96 said:

They seem to be expanding for the new IP they've been working on for the past 2 years. They are already quite large, probably would be the 4th largest Xbox studio currently, if the sale was already approved, and they might be the 3rd largest Xbox studio by the time the acquisition is actually approved. Have 380 devs on LinkedIn currently, which is ahead of Bethesda Game Studios on LinkedIn, though BGS seems to be underrepresented on LinkedIn, much like The Coalition. 

Their official web page says Multiple unannounced projects https://www.zenimaxonline.com/careers

so more than one? We already know of the new AAA Ip that is using the new Engine.