Short Pause: "My friend Frankie and I spent some time with the Homefront: The Revolution Beta this weekend on the Xbox One and, while I've always been big fan of the original Homefront, both Frankie and I came away from our time with this latest iteration with more concerns than anything else."
Xbox Series X's FPS Boost is game-changing when it works and disappointing when it doesn't. While frame rates are often consistent, many titles make concerning sacrifices. This lost compiles 20 FPS Boost games that make major sacrifices, detailing their drawbacks.
As someone with the Series S, it makes more of an impact there than on the X. From what i have seen, if the game already supported One X enhancements, then its best to just let it be on the Series X.
Great to have options I’ve gone back to playing dragon age inquisition and it runs superbly. Good article though detailing differences.
Wow, these downplaying articles are rife this week in the lead up to E3.
Funny how it is only this week these articles are surfacing, even though we knew about Series X not running upgrades from Xbox One X BC games months ago. As per article :-
"If a game doesn't run at a stable performance level, the Microsoft backwards-compatibility team can't adjust game settings or resolution to best reach the target frame rate."
Well yeah, you can not change some other developers game code, only they can enhance their own game via next-gen patches.
There is even one now on how Gamepass for PC is "broken".
Wonder what we will see next? We have had Xbox not making any money on any console ever, gamepass for PC is broken, FPS boost has lackluster upgrades, xbox division is being ran in the red at a consistent loss, gamepass has never been profitable, all in the lead up to Xbox and Bethesda's E3 showing.
Funny times, roll on E3 for me, can't wait.
In short :-
All 20 games on the list, are running at Xbox One resolution with FPS boost enabled, instead of the Xbox One X enhanced versions resolution.
This is a known issue, even when running the same games through the BC program.
A secret Timesplitters 2 port was hidden in Homefront: The Revolution and a team of people have finally worked out how to unlock it.
Still have my PS2 copy, and a multi-tap with my PS2 for 4 player split-screen.
"Unfortunately, there's no info on how these codes might work on the PC version of the game, although it wouldn't be surprising for someone to figure it out in the near future." I wonder if the same codes would work if you plugged a controller to the PC.
We've known for years that Homefront: The Revolution hides an arcade cabinet where you can play a couple of levels from TimeSplitters 2. Now, evidence has come to light that the entirety of TimeSplitters 2's campaign was designed to be fully playable in native 4K.
This game doesn't seem to be near ready, and that's a bummer because I actually enjoyed the campaign of the first Homefront, and thought the multiplayer was criminally underrated. This just doesn't look very good or very fun. Still 3 months to go, but my expectations have been tempered greatly.
I've been apart of many betas, and I can't remember any that upgraded their visuals in a manner that this game will need if it hopes to meet the expectations of gamers, especially now that were 2 years into this generation of new consoles. It's even more baffling that it doesn't run at 60fps on console despite its low-grade visuals.
I played it at PAX Prime and it was so awful I stopped after a couple of minutes. The controls were a mess, it was not fun, and I had better things to do. Sorry to hear it has not improved.
"When Does "It's Just A Beta" No Longer Apply?"
In my experience...never. Just like with The Division Beta and how a ton of people were all "It's just a beta the final game will look better!"...yeah...not really. I can say that for me and all the beta's I've been in not once has the final game been some major, or even minor, difference.
When the game is outright atrocious like this one.
Played it for about 30 min on Xbox One and god damn this game is horrible, dont buy this game. No wonder crytek sold that.