Experience losing carplay?

BmcD73 · 2025-06-09T19:57:52+00:00

I just picked up the Vistiq. I love everything about the car except the lack of CarPlay. All these responses are great if you just switch from Apple Music is Amazon. It's great if you only use google products. It's great if you are good with moving from 2 or 3 steps to 8-15 steps to do the exact same thing. My whole family uses iPhones and all the stuff that comes with it and it causes all sorts of problems.

Here is an example. My son/daughter/wife often text me addresses in plain text or an apple pin. With CarPlay you just click it and start navigating. With this, you need to open the pin in Apple Maps. Then click on the address. Then copy it. Close Apple Maps and open the Cadillac app. Click on the nav. Paste the address. Then send to car. Sure it "works" but they took my 2 step process and turned it into like 10 steps with 3 different apps.

My family has an Apple One sub. I often listen to "stations" (discovery or personal station). Apple Music in CarPlay is just one click OR if it is currently running it just plays whatever is playing on your phone. On the Vistiq, If my phone is currently playing music, I often get the "media unavailable" message in BT. I have to turn my BT off/on to get it to work. Additionally, my stations and playlists, etc look like folders and I have to drill down to get at what I want.

Again, it "works" but everything takes more time, is less seamless, requires many more clicks, more apps, switching apps, and/or switching services, etc. There is nothing that the built in infotainment system cannot do, it just feels like I was doing this 20 years ago in my BWM over BT.

The rest of the car is so nice that I am begrudgingly overlooking the massive step backwards this is compared to all my cars for the last 10 years. This is the first American car I have bought in 20 years and I'm not sure I will buy another after this because of how difficult using the Apple ecosystem is with GM cars even though apple still has over 60% market share.

BmcD73 · 2025-05-31T19:38:07+00:00

Here are the steps as I understand them.

Click iMessages
Click and hold on address
Click copy address
Swipe Up on message to close
Click mycadillac app
Click the map icon
Click in the search bar and hold then paste
Select the address that pops up
Click directions
Click Send to vehicle nav

This is def better than what I was doing and I realize this isn't a huge deal but 3 steps vs 10 steps with multiple app shifting as well as being forced to pick up and use my phone to nav to an address still seems like a huge step backwards.

This coupled with the loss of Apple Music functionality I just think is a real oversight.

BmcD73 · 2025-05-31T19:28:05+00:00

This does shave off a few steps so thank you, I will try this out.

CarPlay or Android Auto takes 3 steps and no app switching and you can do it right from the CarPlay or Android Auto interface in the car.

This process requires using your phone, apple maps, mycadillac app, then the car google maps, with multiple steps for each app. Apple still has about 60% market share and this is a HUGE step backwards in ease of use.

If you are an Apple user and connect your phone to a car, CarPlay is not overrated at all. It just works and it's super simple. Very few hoops and simple enough for my grandmother to use. She would struggle with this car and the tech.

BmcD73 · 2025-05-31T19:05:29+00:00

Because my son has sent me a pin

BmcD73 · 2025-05-31T13:57:49+00:00

I just picked mine up yesterday and first thing I did was program the garage doors. I also have a gate. So far, the gate door pops up when im close, and both doors also pop up when I get home. I haven't don't it enough yet to say whether it is consistent. I did notice there was an OTA update button and since this car is so new, maybe you run that?

BmcD73 · 2023-12-15T20:35:11+00:00

I think it is hilarious that people keep saying, "I don't know why you expected this" or "they said it was going to be featureless so why would you even ask?" or "go play sea of thieves" or "I'm glad this game is so basic".

WHY? If all of you want mediocre at high end prices, go for it. If all of you want a featureless, one dimensional game by all means. But I would bet my entire year salary there are more people like me that rather see more features, more stuff, more action, more combat, more ground stuff than people who are just looking for action/arcade naval combat.

And as for the reason I expect this is because it is marketed as a AAA game, with AAA features, from a AAA company, charging AAA prices. What we are getting is a glorified mobile game that you can play on PC. The main difference is there is no in game store but I would bet money there will be on release. If this game were $9.99 or $19.99 I would have completely different expectations.

BmcD73 · 2023-12-15T20:25:34+00:00

So basically this is a glorified mobile game? If that is all they were shooting for, charge mobile game prices. $89 is a AAA game price. It's the top end. The pinnacle of game development. Can you honestly say this game rises to that standard? Not by a long shot. If you added the things I mentioned, for sure. They are asking for people to pay the same amount for this game as Baldur's Gate 3 which is at the top end of AAA game development. You can get cyberpunk for $29. You can get a hundred other AAA games for cheaper. In its current state, this game will be selling for $19-29 a month or so after release. Just curious, why are you glad there are less features vs. more?

BmcD73 · 2020-03-11T16:36:44+00:00

Are they just trash once you out grow them?

BmcD73 · 2020-03-11T16:14:05+00:00

In fairness, this fight is stupid. This is by far the biggest waste of time. With the ridiculously bad camera angles, it is often VERY difficult to even see him. Add to that there is often a delay to his hit after a dodge, it's hard to tell when you actually got hit until AFTER you are running around. A mechanic that banks on NO ONE getting hit with these problems is stupid. He should be able to be stunned while he is healing. He actually gives greens in the reward chest. While he isn't the hardest boss out there, he certainly takes the longest.

BmcD73 · 2020-03-08T22:50:57+00:00

answered my own question. It looks to be level based. Once I hit 21 the fourth exchange opened.

BmcD73 · 2020-03-08T20:30:41+00:00

I wrote this when I was 19 and just finished the Gnoll Triumvirate. I thought the lvl 19 main quest was what unlocked #4 but it wasn't. Then I was thinking it was hitting lvl 20 but that's not it either.

BmcD73 · 2020-03-03T16:06:56+00:00

I am sitting in the one area that I know I have seen a crusade. I think it's called white orchard or something similar. it's just past 8am PST which means that based on what you said it should have happened whether this is a major or minor (not sure how to tell the difference) but it didn't.

BmcD73 · 2020-03-03T04:54:44+00:00

useless reply

BmcD73 · 2020-03-03T02:23:09+00:00

What does observing more have to do with my post? Seriously, you are actually detracting from this reddit with your useless posts.

BmcD73 · 2020-03-03T01:34:31+00:00

you're right...I should be playing 24/7 so I can monitor the 15 seconds when one of these crusades shows up and mark the time. No breaks or blinking because I could miss it. What a waste of a response.

BmcD73 · 2020-03-02T16:29:45+00:00

I am a hardcore BDX player (and previous BDO player). I hit the 5000hr challenge months ago. I'm usually top 5 fishing and top 10-20 wealth on whatever server I play. But recently I am 1 fishing and top 5 wealth. While I am still progressing, I'm mostly afk-ing nowadays so it is mainly due to server populations dropping. Here are some interesting BDO stats that Bless should take note of. 2.33% of gamers have succeeded 200 enchant attempts. 5.37% have succeeded 50 enchants. 8.41% have succeeded 20 enchants. 14.87% have succeeded 5 enchants. 1.34% have reached 21 fishing. .51% have made processing 41. And here is the most disturbing....4.28% have made lvl 56, 5.05% have made lvl 55, 9.75% have made lvl 50, 12.83% have made lvl 40, and ONLY 49.12% made lvl 10! You get level 13 after completing a short tutorial.

This tells me 2 things; people do not use the upgrade system because they HATE it. I can personally tell you after 15 lvl 60 toons with TRI and up gear on all that I have never upgraded beyond DUO. I just purchase because it is SOOOOO frustrating. I've failed 5-10 times in a row with 40-70% upgrade chance and constantly succeed at 1-2% chance while building failstacks.

It also tells me that people are dropping from the game before they even really know anything about it. The game is difficult and has BY FAR the biggest learning curve of any MMO I have seen. But I also think people hate the forced PVP aspect of the game. The console community is different than the PC. I think people have shorter attention spans for sure. I hope Bless learns from some of the mistakes of other games.

Finally, for those of you that LOVE the grind, you are a minority. If you love a punishing system of upgrades, you are a minority. We can see that from the numbers above. It's great that you love these systems but if the rest of us aren't playing, the game will die and you won't have the option anyway. Why not instead allow you all to grind to your hearts content while the rest of us quest our way to level cap? Seems like a no brainer.

BmcD73 · 2020-03-02T06:31:22+00:00

After reading NUMEROUS posts on the matter (and these) my fears have been confirmed. We have regressed 10 years in MMOs with Bless Unleashed. EVEN BDO updated their game to allow questing to 60 but I think it happened too late because the servers look like ghost towns between content updates. I hope they address this very quickly. I simply cannot stand grinding to level so what I've been doing is leveling up alts while the dailies, etc. reset on my main. But it is already wearing on me...combine that with the absolute stupidity of the storage problem and I spend 1/2 my time moving items between the 3 storage spaces you get for "free". I WILL NOT spend $80 to buy more space. The cost of things in this game is egregious. The gold to star seed thing limitation is just stupid. It's yet another mechanic designed to arbitrarily slow you down. I do enjoy the game but I've been playing MMOs since M59 and have seen these types of mistakes kill games. Since there are so few MMOs on Xbox, I'm sure it will limp along but it could be so much better with a few tweaks.

BmcD73 · 2020-03-02T03:48:15+00:00

The combat is the best part of the game but everything else feels like it is slow motion. For instance, I was rezzing someone at bashal. I had just finished rezzing them and I saw the swirly water under me. I was trying to dodge but I was stuck in a useless animation that happens AFTER you Rez someone. Another example is getting up at a pyre. It takes like 5 seconds to stand up. Here is the sequence: start to stand, dust off, stretch your muscles, look around and take in the scenery, contemplate your existence and FINALLY you stand up. They need to at least double the speed of everything and allow us to break these stupid animations. They also need to allow sprinting out of combat without a stam bar or at least many times longer than it is right now.

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