I have now finished two games on Stadia: the main campaign for Destiny 2 and Tomb Raider. Loving this service.
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Stadia |OT| Talk About the Weather
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The tech is great, hopefully Google figures out how to work in this market
I played a lot of AC over the weekend... it's amazing how you can completely forget you are streaming the game. One thing this service needs for single player titles is a save state that you can instant load when you pop back in the service. Like a virtual suspend mode. It kinda sucks having to through Ubi's intro shit every time I want to play.
This seems so obvious, they have to be working on it, right?
Agree, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt at least till the free service is available for all. After that? I want to see some results, that's when this silence game they got going on won't cut it. For now, I'm a patient person, I knew what I was getting myself into (i love new tech)
I feel like this is something that would actually be much harder to do than it seems.
Since we're all technically streaming off the a large server, where does it save the game state? It can't just keep the game running on some server somewhere, since someone else might need that server.
Maybe once the games are newer and designed around this idea, they can figure out how to offload that state as a smaller file and store it somewhere?
I don't actually know how it all works, I'm just guessing that it would be harder than it seems.
I think save states were one of the things they talked about when they first announced the platform, so I assume it's coming at some point. But yeah, suspend mode is the only thing I miss from my PS4 when I'm playing Stadia.
Yeah, they were touting that they were capable of doing 10.7 Teraflops, but that we still end up with 1080p-1440p and Medium graphical settings makes me question the next gen consoles and if they are able to achieve 4K, 60fps, Ultra when they are clearly more powerful than Stadia. Hell, in the current gen, the main competitor Xbox One X easily outpaces Stadia with its native 4K output on certain games while Stadia was clearly advertising that players should get rid/no longer think of their high-end consoles to get the best graphical & playing experience.
Have you tried GeForce NOW? I've found it to be a far better looking service on PC with the option of using 50mbps+ streams.
Hasn't impacted me yet as I'm mostly playing Destiny which is just so much faster to load on Stadia, but can definitely see it being annoying on other games
Essentially it's "hibernation", where you're dumping the RAM (and other state components) of a machine to disk at save, and then restoring later. It's not as simple as that, of course, and I'm not saying it's easy by any measure, but it should not be a rocket science problem either.
Spill some beans bro! Enough with the next-gen consoles, give us some Stadia scoops. ;p
They need to push more stuff like this, emphasizes the portability of Stadia
Save states are basically the "play now" button they showed in the announcement that is shown on youtube to start playing the game in the video at the exact same position you are seeing.
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And this is not in? oh wow!
Gotcha. I just thought it would be more difficult than when it's on your own console, and you control everything that goes on.
I'm glad it's a solvable issue, and I hope it comes soon!
Eh, I don't think this is the best sign. Sorry if I come off wrong, but this makes it look like they're desperate for more players...
Um...it's a new platform in a sort of beta stage looking to get more players...soo...don't see how this is a "bad look" or sign.
This, but do you have any issue with queues? I keep reading about the diminishing populations but I literally never have to wait longer than a minute (gambit and the "popular" crucibles to get my emblems, Strikes are queued and loaded in in practically seconds)
Per the last few posts, you will be given another buddy pass to distribute.
It looks bad to me because they need players and it's likely not meeting expectations, hence the need for more players and giving away $130 buddy passes for free to founder's.
Three months at ten bucks a month is thirty bucks. They've given two away so far.
A buddy code would be amazing as well! I really want to see how this runs on my internet before committing. Much appreciated :)
I was at the Stadia GDC reveal and remember being super excited about it. Glad to see the positive reception here for the most part.
I was at the Stadia GDC reveal and remember being super excited about it. Glad to see the positive reception here for the most part.
I have trouble with queues. I play Crucible mostly as I haven't touched Gambit since I powered through to get a pinnacle weapon months ago. I want to do playlists other than 'Control' but that is the only one populated. In the week 'Momentum Control' was available I only matched into two games. Outside of 'Control', its a wasteland.
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The problem I have with GeForce Now is the most irritating thing. The streaming works great, but every time I try to launch it, it prompts me to type in my Steam password. Using the crappy Steam on-screen keyboard. This might sound like hyperbole, but that's a deal breaker for me. My Steam password is a nice, long, random string and it's a real pain to do this every time I want to use the service.
Pretty decent prices for borderlands and breakpoint. Want to check out stream connect, as that looks very interesting. Don't understand why they can't have a normal release schedule though. Could have put this in their weekly update on Friday and got positive feedback instead of the shitstorm they got.
Maybe I'm missing something but I don't get why Google can't just give people a 1-month free trial. Like I'm not plunking down $169 CAD on something that I don't know for sure will work well or not. Instead, I have to jump through hoops and scour the internet for an impossible-to-find buddy pass.
Yeah. Looked pretty neat in their stadia connect.
Just wait until the free version next year.
They probably just aren't ready.
Buddy passes allow them to control roughly how many people are accessing the service. At the very least they know the maximum number (current subscribers + number of buddy passes.)
Once they offer a one-month free trial to anyone on the internet they have a completely un-controllable amount of people accessing the service. They'll need way more hardware in place for that.
Yes exactly and it could be used to allow splitscreen for games like destiny 2 etc