NXE Official thread

eyetrip · 12 Dec 2008 at 10:17

Will have to look this weekend. Thanks

Herojuana · 12 Dec 2008 at 10:36

Yeah its a pretty cool theme for free!

Overall I like the new dash a lot more compared to the old one. Guide should be faster but overall i'm happy with it. My Xbox should be default though!

SiD the Turtle · 12 Dec 2008 at 15:35

AngeluiMorte said:
Been chatting to a mate of mine in America and he has this weird snowglobe feature on his dash which he can shake and people on your friends list appear in it and fall over and do crazy stuff.
I looked and can't see it anywhere has anyone here in the UK seen this or is it only availble to those with USA accounts.

Apparently it's under the spotlight section, but I can't see it:

http://kotaku.com/5108268/trapped-in-a-glass-ball-with-your-xbox-friends

rp2000 · 12 Dec 2008 at 16:21

majornelson.com said:
Earlier this week, we delivered the free Holiday Theme for Xbox LIVE members, If you missed go ahead and grab it but keep an eye out for the Xbox LIVE Holiday Snow Globe, which has just released in many regions. When you launch the snow globe, it will automatically populate with your friends avatars. You can shake the globe with A or press X to stir in another random set of friends. You don’t have to download it, it will just appear in the Spotlight channel* when you are connected to Xbox LIVE. With Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa just around the corner, this will give you a chance to enjoy a little Holiday spirit with your Xbox LIVE friends in very NXE way.

*When it will appear in each region is up to your local Xbox LIVE programming team.

I guess we just have to wait for the UK team to put it up on our servers.

rp2000

JUMPURS · 12 Dec 2008 at 19:48

Know how when you go to look at your friends and they all have diff backgrounds, can you pick what background appears when other folk look at yours??

AngeluiMorte · 12 Dec 2008 at 19:54

JUMPURS said:
Know how when you go to look at your friends and they all have diff backgrounds, can you pick what background appears when other folk look at yours??

Not as far as I know it done at random depending your theme.

rp2000 · 12 Dec 2008 at 20:29

AngeluiMorte said:
Not as far as I know it done at random depending your theme.

Since I installed the Winter theme everyone is standing in front of a xmas tree kind of area.

rp2000

ps3ud0 · 18 Dec 2008 at 17:12

Can anyone confirm how long it takes to do the whole NXE process - just getting a friend connected to the net with his X360 and just wondering how long it will take before he can play a game and such...

TIA

ps3ud0 :cool:

Wyrdo · 18 Dec 2008 at 17:19

Only a few minutes, depends how long you want to spend making an avatar

Hyper · 18 Dec 2008 at 18:30

And how fast his connection is to download the update,

It isnt too big though.

Buffman · 18 Dec 2008 at 19:34

simo182 said:
I love the features, the layout and most things about it. The speed however is shocking now. It was so fast in the preview program but since it went out to everybody mine is a pain to use now. Takes an age in the guide to to do most things, especially accessing messages during gameplay, I've generally got a 20 second wait in between screens. The friends page on the NXE itself usually works no problem for me but on occssion I have to wait for the avatars to load. The Marketplace seems ok, although I generally browse online at work now so haven't noticed it at home.

I dont have the message problem after I've booted up my xbox for ~2 minutes though at the very start it's horrifically slow with all the friends avatars being loaded up. I wish I could make it so I dont load friends avatars, I loved how fast the NXE was in pre-release.

willthepirate · 18 Dec 2008 at 23:59

i dont like it, the old interface was better

bieng able to install games is nice though!

dannyjo22 · 20 Dec 2008 at 10:52

Whats the deal with deleting a game from the HDD, does it delete all saves as well? Sold a few games and would like to removed them now but want to keep the saves in case I revisit.

SiD the Turtle · 20 Dec 2008 at 11:23

Not that I've noticed, I deleted my Fallout 3 install yesterday and the savegames are still there. It's just listed as another piece of game content in the memory, so delete it from the system tab if it makes you feel a bit safer.

dannyjo22 · 20 Dec 2008 at 11:37

Thanks

I might go back and finish WaW sometime didn't want to lose the save or that of Tomb Raider once I delete from HDD.

Kyle009 · 20 Dec 2008 at 12:41

I can confirm that it doesn't delete all the saves I've deleted several installs and then gone back to play them off the disc using the game save

Soulja · 22 Dec 2008 at 08:54

Wow it really is slow when viewing your friends list and comparing games.

dannyjo22 · 22 Dec 2008 at 08:59

Yep I hate it. I only ever use the guide button. It also gets on my **** that when I want to send a private chat to say soulja. I go to your gamertag select invite to private chat which then brings up another GT list which I scroll down to select your name to send the invite.

God knows why you have to do that twice!

It takes me twice as long to find anything due to the clutter.

Soulja · 22 Dec 2008 at 11:55

Is there anyway to check NAT?

Andybtsn · 22 Dec 2008 at 12:04

Soulja said:
Is there anyway to check NAT?

No, apparently it tells you if you have a strict/moderate NAT but I call BS as my two wireless 360's never got two open NAT's ever on the old dash, one was always moderate or strict. I go into Gears and it tells me I have a strict NAT yet the NXE dash doesn't...