All my Xbox controllers are fine and two of them get chucked around by my kids almost daily. To the point where the batteries fall out after the back comes off. They're still fine so maybe I'm just extremely lucky, but I sincerely doubt it's that! I find that they're very well built.
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All my Xbox controllers are fine and two of them get chucked around by my kids almost daily. To the point where the batteries fall out after the back comes off. They're still fine so maybe I'm just extremely lucky, but I sincerely doubt it's that! I find that they're very well built.
I think a lawsuit has been filed against them regarding this? I'm on my second Elite V2, it is such a shame as it feels
qreat and has some solid features. Just seems really cheap components that fail. For such a premium price the warranty should be longer.
My first V2 controller suffered from minor stick drift and poor response from the A and Y buttons. So shipped it back. Got it back, no stick drift but now one of the paddles 'feels' different (as in doesn't click and needs to be pressed in harder) and does not respond as well. Oh and it now powers off for no reason when it wants to mid game. I was lucky to buy this with a amazon gift voucher from a works birthday gift, otherwise would have been miffed. Defo would not bother buying another if one appears down the road. Peoples mileage varies from what I gather as we tend to focus on the negatives when reading reviews. But I do feel they are poorly made.
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I think you can tone it down in the accessories app? It is game specific, sometimes mine goes mental in AC Odyssey
Simplygames have Series X in stock although it’s a bundle for £639 not the best deal but something if anyone is desperate.
https://www.simplygames.com/p/xbox-...membership--revent-starter-pack-xbox-series-x
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The one thing they brought it which wasn’t needed is quick resume. Half the time the games don’t like it and need a forced restart.
Cold War always needs restarting as if you turn off Xbox after playing it then it loads with no sound the next day. It ends up taking more time to get back into it!
Cold War always needs restarting as if you turn off Xbox after playing it then it loads with no sound the next day. It ends up taking more time to get back into it!
I’d like to have the option to turn it off to get that 40GB of storage back, that would be a huge difference on the S.
As you say, it rarely works and even adds time to loading a game. It being unreliable also means I’m concerned that when I swap games I will lose progress.
Lol me too check every day zzz
I opened up the side today to have a look....
I cant actually believe they design them this way -
They have the thinnest little adhesive pad, which is obviously going to get damaged/moved with use and this controller is only a month or so old and the pad is wrecked (and therefore the adhesive is sticking to the trigger). Maybe it is because i play racing games a lot (which involve a lot of right and left trigger holds and movement)
I am shocked at how flimsy the design is here. Pretty shocking.
Seems to be a massive issue -
https://www.reddit.com/r/xbox/comments/jt8jw3/xbox_series_x_controller_sticking_trigger/
So, i decided to try cod cw on screen disabling all the nice goodies like vrr and allm and 120hz, to see how id feel going through receiver again.
Can absolutely feel the loss of those things. Likely only a problem for mp games.
But have receiver and 5.1 sound that is going to waste being connected to my pc only (used to have pc, xbox and ps4 connected)
Can absolutely feel the loss of those things. Likely only a problem for mp games.
But have receiver and 5.1 sound that is going to waste being connected to my pc only (used to have pc, xbox and ps4 connected)
Have to agree.
Warzone is the same.
Quick resume never works always crashes and have to reload
A few games, Warzone, Cold war, and Fora Horizon 4 was stuck in a crash loop the other day when i reopened it.
Depends on gaming habits, jumping from game to game i guess it makes sense but when i power down and come back to a game 3 days later then it doesnt offer any benefit, in fact the opposite
None of the Yakuza games support it, it causes glitches in Darksiders, and it crashes Halo on resume if you were in the multiplayer menus.
There are also at least 3 other games from Game Pass that I have tried that don’t support it.
You also have no notification when it deletes the save state of a game so you need to always manually save your games anyway.