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majornelson on Twitter: Starting today, we're beginning a limited Project xCloud iOS TestFlight preview
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Nothing but lag lag lag for me. Unplayable.
this is on an iPhone XR. My wifi speed test shows about 30-35mbps.
not sure what the issue is. Not a good first impression. Had better performance with stadia
this is on an iPhone XR. My wifi speed test shows about 30-35mbps.
not sure what the issue is. Not a good first impression. Had better performance with stadia
I'm sort of blown away by this... firing up Halo 3 in 60fps with fairly minimal input lag on my phone really blew me away. (this is my first cloud gaming experience)
The input lag is there, but your brain definitely adapts after some time. The quality of the stream was great in my home. I travel a fair amount so having access to something like this is damn cool. I can't wait for the full xCloud product to be out, and I hope they add more games to the preview soon.
The input lag is there, but your brain definitely adapts after some time. The quality of the stream was great in my home. I travel a fair amount so having access to something like this is damn cool. I can't wait for the full xCloud product to be out, and I hope they add more games to the preview soon.
Damn, that was good! It's got low enough latency to be playable comfortably unlike PSNow and isn't unstable as hell like Geforce Now. I could see this being my main way to play Gamepass stuff since I don't play as much on there as I should due to not wanting to wait for it to download. I just wish it wasn't as blurry (played on iPhone) because it'd suck to play a really beautiful game that wasn't old as hell like Halo CE and not be able to see the finer details.
Same, it's freaking me out how cool it is. I've been sitting here playing BTB for an hour, going positive with 10-15 kills a game and I almost forgot I was streaming the damn game to my iPad.
My network provider and internet must just fucking suck or something
There are moments where it's great but the input delay was very noticeable, and perhaps more of a problem, it was inconsistent.
I'll have to test it out at a McDonalds or some other public place with free WiFi, that's where I see it being the most useful for myself personally
my device is iPhone XR
There are moments where it's great but the input delay was very noticeable, and perhaps more of a problem, it was inconsistent.
I'll have to test it out at a McDonalds or some other public place with free WiFi, that's where I see it being the most useful for myself personally
my device is iPhone XR
I got in!! Got on to try mcc for a couple min to compare it to stadia (i played destiny for about an hour at my brother's house. Input was not very good.) and I ended up playing over an hour! Played a big team battle match, a couple swat matches, and the opening fight in the first earth mission in halo 2.
super impressed with the input lag. Playing destiny 2 on stadia I thought maybe if I got used to it it would be fine, but i'd never take it into pvp. 5 min into halo 2 and I thought it was good enough for swat online. Couldnt play as well as on tv but it was far from my worst matches. Very impressed with the experience as a whole and playing halo 2 anniversary on my phone through a stream felt like I was playing in the future lol very interested to see more.
super impressed with the input lag. Playing destiny 2 on stadia I thought maybe if I got used to it it would be fine, but i'd never take it into pvp. 5 min into halo 2 and I thought it was good enough for swat online. Couldnt play as well as on tv but it was far from my worst matches. Very impressed with the experience as a whole and playing halo 2 anniversary on my phone through a stream felt like I was playing in the future lol very interested to see more.
I tried on both my iPhone Xs and my iPad (7g) and experienced terrible performance. When trying to hold down the trigger to shoot an assault rifle, it would sometimes only register it as one shot.
Plus the lag in visuals was bad. I tested my speeds on my WiFi and it's 117 down, and 11.9 up.
Plus the lag in visuals was bad. I tested my speeds on my WiFi and it's 117 down, and 11.9 up.
I played campaign.
It all works very well. Microsoft is definitely leading the quest to be the Netflix of video games.
Im not going to lie, I was semi skeptical about how well this would work, but I am honestly blown away with Xcloud!! I expected it to work ok, but I can honestly say, its damn near flawless(at least where I played using wifi). I fired up MCC, played some Halo 2 anniversary, and I was shocked that there was barely any noticeable lag. I figured I would give it a real test a try out MP, well let me tell you, I played some matches of Halo 2 online and had absolutely no problem competing. I was getting kills like I was playing on my console. I never expected MP to play so well, the future is bright for this product, I am offically a beliver!! WOW!!
Well after installing it in my iPad, this is incredible. I tried it via Wi-Fi at home for now, but I'll take it around some hotspots and see how it does. Consider me very impressed for this. If they get 2K on the stream list then my addiction can be played on the go haha.
Lag has more to do with latency than bandwidth (i.e. "ping").
Check your actual Microsoft account tied to your Live ID. It won't land in your Apple ID account.
I only played campaign, CE first, the 2 to see how much the graphics would affect things. The answer, not at all (at least at home). Going to try at UCF using their wifi tonight.
Put into pair mode by holding down the button on top, the Xbox button will start to pulse. Then pair it in your iPad's Bluetooth settings.
Down/Up speeds really only account for the visual quality of the stream. Your Network latency will account for game latency, which has a million variables. Anyway, even if you have a gb up and down, you could still have a bad experience.
It's apparently 720p only for now. It should get better when they up the resolution with Series x hardware.
I tried again to see if it's improved but it's much like yesterday. Probably fine on a phone screen but being blown up on a 12.9 inch iPad really does it no favours. Is this what other people are seeing too, or am I just unlucky?
One day later And I'm still stuck on this screen
Any idea how to solve it ? I have been accepted and have received all 3 emails so I'm really lost. When I click learn more it takes me to the normal xcloud page. I have logged in on same account I signed up on..
the only thing I haven't tried is buy gold since I don't have a active member ship in this account.. I have it on my second account with gamepass ultimate.
any idea if gold/gamepass is required ?
Any idea how to solve it ? I have been accepted and have received all 3 emails so I'm really lost. When I click learn more it takes me to the normal xcloud page. I have logged in on same account I signed up on..
the only thing I haven't tried is buy gold since I don't have a active member ship in this account.. I have it on my second account with gamepass ultimate.
any idea if gold/gamepass is required ?
I installed this yesterday but didn't get to try it. May try it when I get in the office today. Very excited to see it for myself.
That doesnt seem right.I tried again to see if it's improved but it's much like yesterday. Probably fine on a phone screen but being blown up on a 12.9 inch iPad really does it no favours. Is this what other people are seeing too, or am I just unlucky?
How does it redeem? My live email address isn't the same as my iTunes email address so will I have to make a temp iTunes account so I can redeem in TestFlight, or will it let me enter my TestFlight email address?
edit: ah it emails you a link which opens in TestFlight so it assigns to whatever App Store you're signed in to. installed now on my phone and will try ipad tomorrow
edit: ah it emails you a link which opens in TestFlight so it assigns to whatever App Store you're signed in to. installed now on my phone and will try ipad tomorrow
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I'm slightly upset about this because I saw right away when the registration is up but my iPhone would just not load the pages correctly to register. Now it's full. Damn I've been waiting for this for awhile. Looks like it will be longer now...
The Series 2 should work with this without any problems, as it has Bluetooth. The original Elite does not, however.
Finally got to try it today with MCC - on home wifi with 150+ down and 6 up.
Loading MCC was fast. faster than i remember when i played it on my xbox one years ago.
Played a random mission in Reach for a couple minutes. While the menu's input was almost instant, playing was a different story. I had a bit of input lag, because i notice these things, and i dont think i'd recommend anyone playing on higher difficulties.
Now i went and tried some Slayer and well .. you can imagine how that went LOL. what was interesting is that the default sensitivity was set to 1 ... yes 1. When i put it up, that is when i could really notice the input lag as i'd try to strafe and shoot the BR. Nope, not going to happen.
Overall i am impressed on how EASY and fast it was to load up a game. the only thing i will keep my eye on with each play is the input lag and to see if i mess around with the settings will help. MCC has too many settings to choose from with my impatient self lol
good luck to all who gets in!
Loading MCC was fast. faster than i remember when i played it on my xbox one years ago.
Played a random mission in Reach for a couple minutes. While the menu's input was almost instant, playing was a different story. I had a bit of input lag, because i notice these things, and i dont think i'd recommend anyone playing on higher difficulties.
Now i went and tried some Slayer and well .. you can imagine how that went LOL. what was interesting is that the default sensitivity was set to 1 ... yes 1. When i put it up, that is when i could really notice the input lag as i'd try to strafe and shoot the BR. Nope, not going to happen.
Overall i am impressed on how EASY and fast it was to load up a game. the only thing i will keep my eye on with each play is the input lag and to see if i mess around with the settings will help. MCC has too many settings to choose from with my impatient self lol
good luck to all who gets in!
Same on my iphone 8+. This is on 175 Mbps download internet with a strong 5ghz wifi connection. Streaming artifacts were a bigger problem for me than input lag (which IMO was pretty good).I tried again to see if it's improved but it's much like yesterday. Probably fine on a phone screen but being blown up on a 12.9 inch iPad really does it no favours. Is this what other people are seeing too, or am I just unlucky?
Still waiting. Got the IOS invite. followed link. Got caught in the android loop. Updated on the registration page (it was already IOS) , still no corrected ios invite.
Halo 1 you mean?
I tried Halo Reach for now and that was 30 frames on xCloud.
I know on my Xbox One console it is 60 frames.
But so Halo 1 is 60 frames on xCloud as well? Sweeeet. Going to try it late tonight again.
Still utterly floored by how cool this is. And I feel pretty good about the fact that I can get used to the latency on Halo, which is probably the highest bar for games I want a fast response time for. I can't wait to play SP games on the road. (RDR2 a great example)
Is it possible to play split screen via xCloud? Two controllers connected to an iPad...
Is it possible to play split screen via xCloud? Two controllers connected to an iPad...
Played the first mission of Halo 3 campaign. Same impression as I got yesterday trying Halo 4. Looks really good. Slight input lag and the framerate can be a bit uneven at times, but totally playable. I'm still impressed. I'm playing on iPhone 7 Plus and I wonder how it would look on a bigger screen (like an iPad), but I'm not going to go buy one just to test this out...
