You should read this quote of one of my post that goes into more detail as to what I've been going through and addresses some of the arguments made against my complaints. It includes video and screenshots as evidence.
I know the Xbox One UI is known for being slow since forever (that shouldn't be the case, but it sadly is) but I've hit peak frustration and it's seemingly now more slow than ever. So many times of spamming the living hell out of the d-pads and bumpers to get to where I want to go and the length of time I have to wait is absurd. It's taking more than 10 seconds before it finally spazzes out of its frozen state and fly over to some other page I didn't want to go to and then it takes another 5 seconds to respond when I'm trying to go backwards to where I need to go. It's a nightmare.
And the slow part is not even the end of it, but everything else just doesn't work well at all either. I was trying to find this player I had played recently with because we were having a grand ole time in For Honor and when I checked the Recent Players list it showed players from the past all the way back to 17 hours ago, 1 day ago, 2 days ago, a week ago, 6 weeks ago, but not RECENT PLAYERS. Players I recently met minutes ago. I waited and waited, and they never appeared. Why are you showing me players from over a month ago? That is not relevant information! I don't need to find someone from a month ago! So long cool player I had met. I guess we will never be friends.
It gets worse. I'm also someone who likes to record clips of my gameplay. I just do. I like recording me an intense boss fight in Dark Souls and looking back on it and thinking how great it was. But even the video editing application for the Xbox, Upload, is not that good either. Trimming videos can sometimes lead to some random stuttering when a video is cut to start or end at a certain point and it actually appears in the final upload. Not to mention the inconveniences in recording clips in the first place in that I have to drag the stick all the way to where I want to trim a clip, rather than navigating it through multiples of seconds like on PlayStation precisely. Also, why can the Xbox only record up to 5 minutes of gameplay? I can record up to 15 minutes on the PlayStation. 5 minutes is hardly enough time to record the harder boss fights in Dark Souls. And why is it when I select record the last 5 minutes, it only ends up recording 4 or even 3 and a half minutes? Why, oh why?
All of these issues I am facing at a constant rate are starting to build up and become detrimental to my user experience with this damn thing. Issues that have persisted for years. Years. So many redesigns and reworks of the Xbox One UI and with every one its still terrible. It's a constant pattern of terribleness. I can't imagine what the guinea pig users in their beta program go through.
I know the rest of you experience the painfully slow UI, I don't need you to answer that question, but why is it still happening? Why do these issues persist? Does anyone else experience them? Are you experiencing something terrible as well that I am lucky enough not to experience?
EDIT: These experiences are based off of my use of the original Xbox One. I don't know if other versions are any better.
I've been reading most posts in here and I should thank those who gave feedback on how to improve my experience. I couple of things I'm going to address from those who made assumptions without reading what I've already said:
1. I've owned an Xbox One for 3 years. I'm not some new guy who just bought an X for Christmas. I'm not some guy who is used to the PlayStation 4 dashboard, I'm not some guy wanting Xbox to be more like PlayStation. I only just got a PS4 last year. I consider myself quite familiar with the Xbox One system.
2. I do not have any significant issue with the UI design itself. If you read my OP, none of the issues stated were in regards to its design. I said in another posts that I am actually quick to adapt to every new iteration of the Xbox's UI. This was no different. The design could always be better, but it's not what's driving me crazy. I realize the title of the thread is pretty general and I welcomed everyone else to share their opinion on the Xbox UI as a whole, but I would have thought reading the OP was enough to realize what my issues were. Unless you're directly quoting someone else, I assume posts are responding to me, not speaking generally.
With that out of the way, I can update y'all on my current experience. I did the hard reset as suggested and the UI is faster now. If you want to see what I was dealing with before, I have a video to show. My internet is 29mbps download, 6mbps upload. I'm not a gizmo in this area, so I'm not sure if that's the information needed to determine whether my internet is good or not. From what I gathered, that's in the 'good, not great' area.
Video:
The clicking you hear in the background is me pressing the d-pad trying to navigate the menus. I was not exaggerating how bad it was.
As for the other issues, I stated, I believe a few are still valid. My recent players list when I checked still only had a handful of players that did not match the amount of people I had played. Here is an image. Image was taken earlier today. xSugarMonkeyx I remember vividly playing with on Friday (I cannot forget such a bad player). I played For Honor both that Friday and Saturday and this is all the recent players list has to show. The point has already been brought up that some player's privacy settings are preventing them from showing up on recent players. I thought about this myself, but I played with a lot of people in the past two days. Do only these few people have their settings set the public, which is the default setting? Do that many people have their settings set to private? I would no longer consider this complaint valid since there are too many unknowns. If there is one thing they can fix however with recent players, it's having them placed in earliest to latest in order. It's completely scattered in its current state.
However, I would consider my recording complaint quite valid. Again, my initial complaint was that the "Record That" feature could only record up to 5 minutes of what happened after the fact. The set to capture is only done before anything actually happens, as if I am anticipating something to happen. Most of the time, I am recording my gameplay using the later, as I only record something when it actually happens, not keep it set to recording waiting for something to happen. Also, I just checked and I can only set to capture for 10 minutes, not the 1 hour shown in the image on the first page. I've looked through the Broadcast and Capture settings and they're are not options to adjust the set to capture from what I can see. Here is a screenshot I took for proof. Overall, my complaint still stands. I can only record 5 minutes of gameplay after the fact, and a lot of the time it doesn't even capture the full 5 minutes.
This isn't exactly a complaint with the UI, but when I made the complaint it went hand in hand with the terrible Upload Studios complaint, which is part of the Xbox UI.
To everyone who actually chose to read what I had to say and gave good feedback, thank you. You solved some of my problems. I hope you read this post as well to further understand what I've been going through. So many people are just doing drive-by posts who aren't reading for further context. This has definitely given me a new perspective on what it's like to be the OP.
I know the Xbox One UI is known for being slow since forever (that shouldn't be the case, but it sadly is) but I've hit peak frustration and it's seemingly now more slow than ever. So many times of spamming the living hell out of the d-pads and bumpers to get to where I want to go and the length of time I have to wait is absurd. It's taking more than 10 seconds before it finally spazzes out of its frozen state and fly over to some other page I didn't want to go to and then it takes another 5 seconds to respond when I'm trying to go backwards to where I need to go. It's a nightmare.
And the slow part is not even the end of it, but everything else just doesn't work well at all either. I was trying to find this player I had played recently with because we were having a grand ole time in For Honor and when I checked the Recent Players list it showed players from the past all the way back to 17 hours ago, 1 day ago, 2 days ago, a week ago, 6 weeks ago, but not RECENT PLAYERS. Players I recently met minutes ago. I waited and waited, and they never appeared. Why are you showing me players from over a month ago? That is not relevant information! I don't need to find someone from a month ago! So long cool player I had met. I guess we will never be friends.
It gets worse. I'm also someone who likes to record clips of my gameplay. I just do. I like recording me an intense boss fight in Dark Souls and looking back on it and thinking how great it was. But even the video editing application for the Xbox, Upload, is not that good either. Trimming videos can sometimes lead to some random stuttering when a video is cut to start or end at a certain point and it actually appears in the final upload. Not to mention the inconveniences in recording clips in the first place in that I have to drag the stick all the way to where I want to trim a clip, rather than navigating it through multiples of seconds like on PlayStation precisely. Also, why can the Xbox only record up to 5 minutes of gameplay? I can record up to 15 minutes on the PlayStation. 5 minutes is hardly enough time to record the harder boss fights in Dark Souls. And why is it when I select record the last 5 minutes, it only ends up recording 4 or even 3 and a half minutes? Why, oh why?
All of these issues I am facing at a constant rate are starting to build up and become detrimental to my user experience with this damn thing. Issues that have persisted for years. Years. So many redesigns and reworks of the Xbox One UI and with every one its still terrible. It's a constant pattern of terribleness. I can't imagine what the guinea pig users in their beta program go through.
I know the rest of you experience the painfully slow UI, I don't need you to answer that question, but why is it still happening? Why do these issues persist? Does anyone else experience them? Are you experiencing something terrible as well that I am lucky enough not to experience?
EDIT: These experiences are based off of my use of the original Xbox One. I don't know if other versions are any better.
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