Waiting Xbox Series P (Portable)

Already available, with PLENTY of compromises. Was considering this setup at one time, until Z13 came into my life.

i mean not now la. maybe in far future. As MS with cloud, sony with PSN, google with Stadia, amazon with Luna, Nvidia with GeForce, even switch have cloud title for their switch.

laptop format always win if compare to that portable PC. the spec is better, but still need to tether to plug.

meanwhile, console in front of TV still serve me well.

FH5 on Z13 running on battery, 900p Low settings with dynamic resolution scaling, headset plugged in, brightness 50%, Xbox controller either wired or BT. I get close to 4hrs runtime.

Imperfections of Low settings are less noticeable on smaller screens like Z13's. The same trick Steam Deck uses with Low settings on its 7" 800p screen.

Experience with these devices makes you appreciate running games at poor man's specs on portable and then switching to full power 4K 120fps at home on desktop PC. Two opposite ends of the graphics whore spectrum.

Since we are on the topic of cloud gaming. I decided to give Xbox cloud gaming another try and to my surprise it has improved a lot. I mean miles better compared to last year when I first tried it.

Previously I would say it's totally not playable. Input lag was crazy bad. But today I tried again using South Korea, Australia and US server. US is still considered laggy, South Korea and Australia is good.

First I tried TMNT and there were no pixelation and no lag. I am using DS4 over bluetooth to my Mac and using Safari. Really no perceptible input lag.

So I thought maybe TMNT don't require much processing power so I changed to FH5. Previously when I tried, it was very pixelated and driving game cannot tolerate any input lags.

But look at the video below. (Sorry for the bad quality) Taken using my phone. I m going left and right on purpose. See the thumb stick movement against the car. It's really playable.

Skip to the end when I do small adjustments on the thumb stick, can see the input lag is really acceptable. Can't wait for cloud gaming to reach SG. it will definitely be better.

how can you accept the low res and low frame, when you already experience 4K120?


nice video. input lag improvement mean a lot for future cloud gaming. any news if cloud gonna come to SG soon?

in the mean time, i only try remote play to android phone and chromebook a few time, work well.
it even work when i am 500km away from home via mobile internet.

When you have no choice, and you're either determined not to be bored waiting for things to happen in public, planned or otherwise, and when technology still hasn't catch up with what you can enjoy at home versus what you can enjoy outside of your home. Inb4 "you're outside, do outside things", have you seen how shitty things has turn out post-pandemic, outside of your home? Both in human behavior and services/options for enjoyment available outside in this third world country?

understand that. but still, when you experience ultra quality 4K @ 60fps above then somehow experience the same game, but super low resolution with sub par 30fps... gonna have inner screaming

All the pics and vids with PS controllers are triggering me lol

Low res low settings on small size screen, you can get away with lots of ugliness. Ignore the numbers (res, fps), just drink in the small screen visuals.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Jul 13 2022, 03:02 PM

maybe you can try deck and another device that remote play from XSX.
compare the view of small screen quality.
as my tv is not OLED, when remote play to OLED phone, can feel the true black quality

Did that with the Fold 2. Not to fond with the latency and the way games feel on that, gave up on that.

OLED phone wont be able to hide macroblocking and pixelating when bandwidth gets restricted, especially in public, then have to start yelling "Get off the network!" to random people.

The problem with game streaming, you're never in control of the quality, you're at the mercy of the quality of the network where the stream occurs. Trust me, I was the biggest proponent of game streaming once, got the Shield Portable (still have it in storage) just to try Geforce Now in its heydays. I'm sure things are better now, but I prefer native over anything streamed.

Even my TV shows I cancelled all of them, Disney+/HBO Max/Netflix, I get my shows sailing the high seas only because I get to enjoy them natively. Kills the excitement when stream cuts off half way through an episode or movie. And everyone here saw how excited I was at first with the prospect of streaming shows and movies the second they're available. Other thing, I'm a "give me everything or dont give me anything at all" kinda person. Nothing halfway or half measures. I guess I'm a Sith, I deal in absolutes.

always the day one user yeah?
yeah, it all still depend on the network quality.
usually i stream xbox locally (home network), just to feel not restricted to TV.
so the quality is good enough and so far no major input lag.
but if using mobile data outside, pray the connection will not buffer or suddenly 4G LTE become 2G.

i tot you subs to all? now become yarrr again?
but yeah, nothing beat native. This is the way.

I'm glad, I'm happy, nay..... I'm RELIEVED Stray is reviewed as a good game. After the disappointing July offerings on GPU, was hoping Stray erases that disappointment. not to mention, still on sale -10% on Steam at only RM48! Feasting on Deck!



Bring Sifu next to Steam please. Shame for being jailed,......I mean exclusived/moneyhatted in EGS.

Clock struck midnight, and got Stray and Tetris Effect Connected.

Stray RM48 at 10% discount.
Tetris Effect Connected (been waiting for sale for this, today is the day as VR Fest sale hits Steam with this game part of that sale!) RM42 at 35% discount. A no-brainer buy, since the game has permanently stayed on my XSX since the day 1. Perfect chill game........... until the blocks starts ramping up its drop speed.



This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Jul 19 2022, 01:19 AM

Free on ps plus extra starting today. I can't wait to play it tonight. Will see if it lives up to the hype

This post has been edited by Kahlamx: Jul 19 2022, 01:52 PM

This and Stray unlocking in less than 4 hours at midnight, should keep me busy. Playing across all platform sizes (desktop PC, Z13 and Deck).

EDIT: Wow, Stray PC review copies must've been shitty when they were complaining of low fps and stutter. I'm getting 141fps max settings uncapped framerate on desktop 3080Ti, and 71fps on Z13's 3050. Drops to 91fps on desktop 3080Ti/43fps on Z13's 3050 on cutscenes, and Stray ain't some fast pace game, nor does cutscene story expositions requires blistering 120fps.

No signs of FH5's HotWheels expansion yet though. Steam Deck Stray test tomorrow after wake up. Meow!
EDIT EDIT: Woke up and somebody beat me to it. Another feast on Deck. Purrfect!

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Jul 20 2022, 09:56 AM

FH5 HotWheels expansion DLC out, ready for consumption. Reports showing weird download behaviours on different platforms.

On Xbox consoles, the game queues massive GBs of download packages almost same size of main game, despite being DLC. C'mon Playground Games, you're not turning your game into COD are you?

on PC, Steam version points to and downloads MS Store version, prompting Playground Games to issue separate link to Steam version on the Steam support forum. No auto update download yet.

What la these Brits, a little bit of 40C heatwave already headless chicken like this.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Jul 20 2022, 09:26 AM

Very useful Game Pass companion app and library tracker . Love the forum there too, lively conversations in there as well.

Feels blasphemous to have this ready for preorder, unlocking in 3 weeks. Didn't bother to play this even in its previous-gen iteration on next-door neighbor slanty last-gen box.



This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Jul 21 2022, 01:03 AM

As Dusk Falls

Finished Chapter 1 last night, pretty good story and art direction

you're given some pretty tough choice, and I'm super glad they gave you the option to simplify or dumb down the QTE scenarios

gonna continue tonight, hopefully can complete all the path over this holiday weekend