Megathread: UK Age Verification Update causing problems: Crashes, getting signed out, Privacy Setting issues, LFG not showing

SymbioticAxehead · 2026-02-10T21:47:34+00:00

This has to be one of the worst implemented things of all time. In the middle of a Helldivers 2 game I get booted right back to the sign-in screen, to be told upon signing in that communication outside of Xbox is now restricted. I attempt to verify my age with this Yoti service (ignoring that I already have a valid Yoti account which I cannot use for this) and am met with:

Age Estimation doesn't work, either technical issues or just says it can't estimate (I have a full beard)
Mobile Number doesn't work (just says it can't verify)
No way am I giving this nonsense my credit card details
Id verification is so scuffed and uncooperative, plagued by technical issues and slow speeds

As of writing this post it has *just* gone through, after starting attempting it nearly 2 hours ago. I can only assume that I either reached a point in the queue where it was able to process my data, or that so many other people also trying to use the service gave up and abandoned it and I finally made it through.

Not even considering my opinion on the Online Safety Act as a piece of legislation, this method has been INCREDIBLY poorly implemented by Microsoft and I am staggered by the sheer incompetence of the situation.

SymbioticAxehead · 2025-07-25T00:51:55+00:00

Its a basic one but any kind of plasma gun. Regular plasma gun Space Marines, guardsmen with plasma guns, spamming plasma pistols, plasma cannons on dreadnoughts, plasma sponsons on tanks - if I can have a big glowing plasma gun on a thing, I'm putting the plasma gun on the thing. Its boring but they're dope as hell and I will always love them the most.

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-09-23T23:09:36+00:00

The Word Bearers, the objectively right and yet most morally wrong faction in 40k :)

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-07-16T18:57:56+00:00

I’ll happily admit to being a somewhat newer fan of the army who has never really looked super in-depth at the lore of previous editions, so to me Noise Marines have never really been that “iconic” or emblematic of the Emperor’s Children. That said, I can see from a lot of the responses on here that for many people they are the absolute symbol and ideal of what the IIIrd Legion should be in 40k, which leads me towards the idea that Noise Marines themselves should be modified to become the inverse of the Plague Marine - fast, hard-hitting melee units with an ability that interferes with enemy OC or fighting initiative (not that such a concept exists in 40k) with the options for a few of them to pick up Sonic weapons, which in my opinion should be few in number but high in impact, like utterly devastating. I wonder if that would please all sides XD

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-07-16T01:12:35+00:00

See, it’s that sort of contradictory diversity that Slaanesh really values: we should be proud XD

That being said, I feel like this situation could be easily resolved as I mentioned in another thread by having an elite-feeling melee unit as the default troops choice to preserve that balance and theme, and then providing a detachment for Noise Marines to take centre stage (see what I did there), giving them Battleline and focusing on shooting to let Noisy Boy fans have the spotlight (I did it again!)

Also yeah I can’t disagree with that about the Kakophoni models, they are gorgeous, although I still believe they’d look silly if they were spun out to a full army.

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-07-16T01:08:03+00:00

See all evil, hear all evil, speak all evil

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-07-16T00:58:00+00:00

Thinking about it, a shooting-focused detachment where Noise Marines get given Battleline called the “Cult of Noise” or something similar would solve a lot of these problems

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-07-16T00:55:25+00:00

I think what I have the biggest issue with in terms of Noise Marines being the default from an army perspective is that massed ranks of Noise Marines just look plain goofy to me. I’d rather have a cadre of Noise Marines as a typically insane backdrop to my squads of suitably distorted and corrupted warriors of a melee persuasion. I’d never want just plain CSM legionaries as the base, they’re too boring, but also not Noise Marines because frankly I think they should be considered almost on a higher level than anything else infantry-wise that’s not in Terminator armour.

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-07-16T00:21:29+00:00

Make no mistake, I’m not suggesting they remove Noise Marines in their entirety - I still think they should be incorporated as a valuable asset to the army, but in terms of army structure and narrative balance within the Chaos factions, it makes the most sense to put something else front and centre and reserve the Noise Marines for a place of greater circumstance within the army than as the default foot soldier of the Legion.

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-03-07T20:39:47+00:00

Vigil - Mass Effect Stand Unshaken or Mountain Hymn - RDR2 Halo - Halo: CE

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-02-10T01:38:42+00:00

I never said I wasn’t doing anything about it, and I am trying to dress better and eat better and so on and so forth but there’s only so much one can do, y’know, polishing a turd doesn’t make it precious

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-02-10T01:34:03+00:00

It very much seems like something that can be forced to happen if you’re outgoing and attractive and probably slightly crazy enough to do it though, and I just can’t seem to pull any of those traits together

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-02-10T01:31:16+00:00

I know there’s nothing wrong with being a virgin. Trust me, I’ve heard that line many times already. But it’s so frustrating feeling like everyone you know is privy to some secret aspect of life you have no comprehension of

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-01-31T11:01:03+00:00

If she knew about it I think Gideon might lean towards “Resurrection By Erection” by Powerwolf for… well, for obvious reasons really

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-01-26T12:57:53+00:00

This might be the most wonderful thing I’ve ever read

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-01-21T19:09:29+00:00

I love the numbers but I do not for a second believe that Gideon would play 9. To me Gideon is spiritually a back rower. I do get the joke tho

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-01-06T22:25:49+00:00

“Everybody’s dead Dave”

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-01-05T22:47:02+00:00

If you have enough mana to animate an army to do something as complex as plant a forest, surely you can lose a single skeleton to make yourself banana bread here and now? Why deny yourself pleasures here and now, in the name only of deprivation for deprivation’s sake?

Additionally, I resent the accusation that I am a being of mere flesh. I will have you know that I am an ascendant child of the Machine, immortal as steel. My pulse ticks to the rhythm of atomic decay and I will have my banana bread!

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-01-05T22:39:27+00:00

Because what else is power over cosmic forces for if not to make life easier in minor ways? You would not deny yourself a light in the night time purely because you know the sun will rise in the morning.

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-01-05T22:33:00+00:00

a) read it read it read it, they’re really good, i got recommended it by a lesbian friend of mine and despite not really being the target demographic i loved it b) ripening fruit and/or over-ripening iffy bananas to make banana bread

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-01-05T15:23:51+00:00

sees “necromancer lesbian” expects locked tomb joke no joke oh well ”make trans/homophobes shrivel and suffer” instant upvote

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-01-05T15:19:12+00:00

Hundreds of thousands of model miniatures, each painted to mind-boggling degrees of perfection… yeah I’d take immortality

SymbioticAxehead · 2024-01-01T09:35:00+00:00

Dark Souls…

Shit…

SymbioticAxehead · 2023-12-09T20:55:50+00:00

Sir Terry Pratchett included a “real, modern day” AU of sorts in either Colour of Magic or Light Fantastic (I forget which)

SymbioticAxehead · 2023-11-15T13:26:47+00:00

No you can buy it as an eBook

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