NorthernZoot 🍁🎮

Today, @Xbox closed the door on the #XboxMVP program; a program with some of the most amazing, driven and talented people I know. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of it since 2015. Though the program is retired, I know that the spirit of the program lives on in us all. 💚

Waiting on car to be serviced. Time for some more @COTEGGame on @XBOXGamePass #XBOXAlly

@MrKrisSteel Kind of a stretch to claim the game is dead because of an obvious joke post. But why would Canada be a "terrible" setting? Travel around Canada. We got gorgeous landscapes, forests, mountains, arctic tundra, prairies, beautiful lakes... Could make a gorgeous setting.

Is #ForzaHorizon6 is already dead because dudes are using AI to make Forza Horizon 7 covers? Also, Canada would be a terrible setting for FH7.

@GillinghamNoah @ForzaHorizon Meh, AI isn't flawless. Lol

@NorthernZoot @ForzaHorizon Ah yes, the believed hurontario street road

I think Canada would be a great location for the next @ForzaHorizon game... just avoid highway 401.

@ThorForce @ForzaHorizon Moose?

@NorthernZoot @ForzaHorizon What am I racing in the showcase that tells me yeah this is Canada

@FixedKarma @BushMasterFlex6 @ForzaHorizon I do think you'd have to travel around Canada to get the full effect. No one location would be enough.

@BushMasterFlex6 @NorthernZoot @ForzaHorizon That or also maybe like the Quebec City area to have some of that old world feeling. The other option is to just kinda do Canada™ and just take influence from everywhere.

And I know it's a minor thing, but I never had the issue before the switch. Definitely a downgrade.

So recently they replaced the voice command on @Android Auto with Gemini AI. Absolute garbage. I tell it to put on a song. It hears me clearly, and even says it's putting on the song I asked for, but then puts on something else, or says the song doesn't exist at all. Brutal.

I started the game Forza Horizon 6, via @TrueAchievement trueachievements.com/game/Forza-Hor…

@1GodlessHeathen @Subnautica Haven't started it yet. Hesitant to pour too much energy into a "preview". Currently, no achievements, bunch of fixes and improvements already scheduled for the next few months. No info on when it's leaving "Game Preview" as far as I've seen.

@NorthernZoot @Subnautica Is that bare bones atm?

SO MUCH HYPE for @Subnautica 2, talking about how many sales it's made in such a short time... But it's not even a finished game? It's a demo that they're calling "Early Access". Disappointed. Maybe I'll give it a try when they ACTUALLY release it in ~3 years.

@DjDATZ @CallofDuty Haha I appreciate the help.

@NorthernZoot @CallofDuty No idea, just throwing out a guess as to what it might be. I don't play COD 🤣

Anyone have an idea why SOME people in my @CallofDuty BO7 lobbies are muted and cannot be heard? Settings all look right, and they aren't muted for everyone. Seems to be a bug, everything I've tried doesn't seem to fix it. Thoughts?

I started the game Call of the Elder Gods, via @TrueAchievement trueachievements.com/game/Call-of-t…

@DjDATZ @CallofDuty Is that new? Because this all seemed to come out of absolutely nowhere. Like it just seems weird that SUDDENLY so many people in my lobbies (EVERY lobby) can't be heard by me.

@NorthernZoot @CallofDuty My thinking is "tiers" of comms quality and your tier may be too high (or theirs is too low) to be heard by you? 🤷

@DjDATZ @CallofDuty As far as I can tell, all voice, chat and audio settings are normal. I've even reset them and toggle them off/on. It was suggested that the people are chat banned in game, but I've confirmed that at least some of the muted people can be heard by others in the lobby.

@NorthernZoot @CallofDuty Could it be voice comms limiting or banning for certain players? Maybe you can't hear players below your voice standing, or something like that? Is there an option in the menus to limit offensive players or something?

Spending my nightshift lunch break checking out #CallOfTheElderGods on my #XboxAlly! Really enjoyed #CallOfTheSea, so can't wait to really get into this one. @COTEGGame @Xbox @XboxGamePass

@CallofDuty Anyone know why partial lobbies are "muted" to me? All my settings look good, and I've tried toggling settings off/on, restarting game. I've confirmed that while they are muted to me, they aren't muted to the rest of the lobby. Thoughts?

@aka_Scratch @asha_shar @steinekin Ecksbawkz

@asha_shar @steinekin What a missed trolling opportunity and have an option for X-Box 😂😂😂

Xbox or XBOX?

@aceattorney @Xbox I often wish, when I'm doing game review surveys, that the questions would allow me to properly reflect this. Is it something I'd enjoy playing myself? Possibly not, but it may still be a great game that others would enjoy.

@Xbox Games (like all artwork) are not objectively good or bad. They are good or bad based on the subjective experience of the gamer.

Reminder: just because you're not personally into a game, doesn't mean it's a bad game