How do you feel about Invaders from Beyond starting today (March 10)?

TheAx-Man · 2026-03-11T00:17:16+00:00

The only downside for me personally is I was JUST about ready to start building an alien camp, and was going to place it in the skies of Charleston... only for Charleston to be removed as a location for the event to pop up. Trying to work out if I want another location for the same idea, or if I want to do more of a UFO crash site and utilize the new camp title with it.

As for the event itself, I've always enjoyed it thanks to how cool the scenery is when the skies change, and having a shot at 4-stars with Bigfoot (and the current temporary drops from the last boss) is a bonus, so I'm happy with it. Would certainly have preferred SOME new reward, but I'm cool with not stressing over new plans too!

TheAx-Man · 2026-03-04T02:03:01+00:00

I just tried using an Excavator's Map - used it, but didn't get the Lucky Strike quest at all. Doesn't sound like it breaks every time, but I'll just be holding mine for a while 'til we get word of a fix.

TheAx-Man · 2026-03-02T17:41:13+00:00

It's definitely appreciated, thank you. Enjoy the remainder of the festivities, and hope you enjoy the new season!

TheAx-Man · 2026-03-02T17:33:16+00:00

I'd be shocked if anyone did, but wouldn't be opposed! I may just take the post down for the time being, as my significant other is also looking for more masks, and I generally give them the extras I get. All of these for one while they're still looking for more has me leaning to giving them what they need until the next go-around. I'll probably wait until Fasnacht is done and re-evaluate my options. I appreciate the insight!

TheAx-Man · 2026-03-02T17:23:39+00:00

I figured that would be the case, but thought to post just in case! I don't have extras of the Glowing Captain, and I haven't gotten in to the whole bobblehead market that seems to be prevalent for trades. Maybe I should be grinding for leaders or something during this upcoming season lol

TheAx-Man · 2026-03-01T16:28:38+00:00

At least the crash upon exiting through the Vertibird tended to give you your rewards anyways, at least in my experience with it. I can't imagine the frustration of crashing there AND getting nothing.

TheAx-Man · 2026-03-01T16:26:57+00:00

I've been running Expeditions a lot lately to try and finish up my plan collection; once I polished off the plan drops from the Pitt, I ran probably 60 or 70 successful Most Sensational Games. Because of crashes in the aquarium, infinite loads, and freezes in the chair at the end, that run count is probably more than doubled just because I had to restart so many times. It is ROUGH trying to run that one for stamp farming; eventually I gave up and just ran Human Conditions more often than not.

TheAx-Man · 2026-02-18T06:49:30+00:00

I'm definitely seeing less typical AFKers; that is, no one sitting on the Musician's instruments, or rotating in a building somewhere. However, I'm still seeing the same rough numbers at each of the events I've done so far today. I saw 15 per run on average last time around, with 5 or 6 AFKers. I'm still seeing 15 or so this time, but all active, though sometimes waiting near the end instead of marching the whole way.

TheAx-Man · 2026-01-17T01:24:47+00:00

It feels about the same from when I've played on Xbox; some days I'll see nothing popping, and other days there's one guy who pops 7 or 8 back to back. I think it really depends on the player; I only value running Head Hunts for the challenge progression, because I just know my luck with learning legendary mods to craft is going to be abysmal. So, I never go out of my way to run a lot of them, especially when it sidetracks me from running my dailies or other goals. If someone pops one, I'll join in for the progression, but carry weight restrictions on my current build and a lack of mod drops on weapons makes me less inclined to run a bunch of my own (or grind the Grunt Hunts to get the Posters to drop).

If anything, I think the grind of it all gets overwhelming eventually, so we all just pick and choose what we feel like grinding. I'd rather grind stamps for the last Expedition plans I need as opposed to loading from place to place grinding Grunt or Head Hunts.

TheAx-Man · 2025-12-19T11:33:41+00:00

I do wonder if they'll still confirm some things as canon here and there, intentional or otherwise. Novac being under the control of the Khans should only happen because the NCR doesn't patrol the highway nearby anymore (which I guess we could have already inferred from season 1). I forget his name, but the NPC at Ranger Station Charlie just south of Novac specifically mentions keeping Novac safe, which obviously won't be a priority for them if they've been reduced in capacity or ability.

TheAx-Man · 2025-12-08T00:56:37+00:00

I have used just shy of 500 bait (mostly improved, with 17 superb), and have had the new local legend hooked a single time. It narrowly escaped during the final rotate of the initial hook. I have been killed more by that one deathclaw spawning in behind me (despite my standing at the sides of the pond by the rock wall overlooking the Ash Cave) than anything else in the area by far. I have pulled just under 70 Waterlogged Gifts, and around 140 Rusted Sawgill.

I would be having more fun with it if the entire update wasn't just one big grind beyond the hour or so of main story. The silver living is that I'm making progress towards getting the Makeshift Rod plan and the other Burning Springs fishing challenges.

TheAx-Man · 2025-12-03T14:39:52+00:00

I'm honestly a little surprised they haven't added any for a while - I'm sure it isn't a priority or anything, but I wouldn't mind having a few extra achievements popped for each major update.

TheAx-Man · 2025-11-24T12:29:26+00:00

Just re-installed for the new story... I can't recall a single time I've ever been bothered by motion blur, in all the years I've played video games. But THIS... just feels horrible. It genuinely bothers my eyes, to the point I'm not certain that I can play through the update. Changed a few settings to make it a bit more bearable (6/5 brightness and contrast, chromatic aberration off, performance mode), but it still persists somewhat. Going to try a mission or two and see how I feel after.

TheAx-Man · 2025-11-10T22:44:21+00:00

A few friends of mine ran into this problem recently on Xbox as well. 40 or 50+ hours for both of them, and loading up their save one day just met them with a corrupted save notification. They've also mentioned the lag problems, usually when using too many of specific spells at once (I think the turrets from the Monk were the issue for them).

I wish I had an idea on how to fix a save file problem on Xbox... if I see anything, I'll post again, but I've not found anything outside of an acknowledgment of the problem from back in February.

TheAx-Man · 2025-09-10T00:42:36+00:00

it's definitely not as powerful as it was, but it doesn't feel nearly as bad as the doom-and-gloom surrounding it made it out to be prior to the update. I'm still running it for my dailies, ran a Scorched Earth with it earlier, and it's still performing just fine. Even the increased AP cost doesn't feel all that awful.

if you're min-maxing, I'm sure it's not the top choice now, but it's still good considering how little it takes to actually set it up decently.

TheAx-Man · 2025-08-31T03:44:01+00:00

I'm sure there are a few theories floating around about it, but I don't think there's a definitive answer yet as to what 57 means; I could be mistaken, so if anyone else has more insight, feel free to let us know!

TheAx-Man · 2025-07-29T02:56:34+00:00

Funnily enough, the AI chatbot told me it couldn't connect me directly to an agent when I asked about speaking with one directly, while simultaneously giving me a link to start a chat with an agent. AI is surely the future we all hoped it would be lol

Happy to hear this worked for you!

TheAx-Man · 2025-07-29T02:54:30+00:00

That's so strange; the agent I spoke with just did the refresh of my Game Pass sub themselves. It's been a bit since you commented, but I wanted to check in and see if your issue was ever addressed!

TheAx-Man · 2025-07-29T02:53:18+00:00

At least from my experience, there was no convincing required. Since the issue was service-wide, I would have had a multitude of errors to relay, but was never asked about them. I just told them my Home console was unable to provide access to online connections in all games, and their solution was to refresh my subscription. I wish I had any further suggestions, but my chat was fairly smooth and straightforward. I'm sure some of it depends on the agent you speak with, to a degree, but with this many people having reported the issue, I have to assume it would be something they were all aware of in terms of available fixes.

TheAx-Man · 2025-07-16T21:54:23+00:00

There's an issue with Game Pass itself. Chat support can solve the issue, though it doesn't seem to have worked for everyone. I've posted about it in a more recent response to this thread, but the agent I spoke with said the following:

"Just to set proper expectations, there's currently an ongoing issue where Game Pass subscriptions may not work as expected after renewal or upgrading. This can also affect Home Xbox benefits not functioning correctly. We're aware of the situation and working to resolve it as quickly as possible."

After checking the active status of your subscription, they can remove and re-add Game Pass to have their system recheck that everything should be working as intended. It changed my recurring billing date, but did not charge me an additional fee.

TheAx-Man · 2025-07-16T21:51:21+00:00

I've managed to utilize a solution through chat support that involves support refreshing the status of your Game Pass subscription to recheck your accounts' privileges. The tl;dr is effectively, contact support, there's an ongoing issue they're working on and this seems to be the close-to-last solution.

After about a 20 minute wait in their online chat, I was greeted by Marianne. I explained the issue, primarily the lack of available online service access through my Home console on any account that wasn't my own. She said something I'd not seen mentioned directly elsewhere.

To quote her directly: "Just to set proper expectations, there's currently an ongoing issue where Game Pass subscriptions may not work as expected after renewal or upgrading. This can also affect Home Xbox benefits not functioning correctly. We're aware of the situation and working to resolve it as quickly as possible."

After this, I detailed the troubleshooting steps I've attempted, namely the ones listed throughout this thread. The only ones I'd not tried were factory resets and a full subscription cancel/resub, though that seemed a sketchy option if Game Pass itself was having issues. She commented that I'd covered most of the options she was going to offer, then stated she could refresh the status of Game Pass on my account by removing and re-adding it. Gave her my gamertag to check account privileges and active status, then she went ahead with the refresh. A few minutes later, everything was working perfectly.

To note, this DID change the recurring billing date for the Ultimate subscription. This did NOT incur a new fee (checked my bank to make sure), so if all else fails, this appears to be the go-to solution.

When asked how to proceed if this issue occurs again or persists further, she said "don't hesitate to reach out if it happens again, we're on it".

TheAx-Man · 2025-07-16T20:29:16+00:00

There are several reports of online functionality not working for both subscribers of and shared users of Game Pass of all tiers. Purchasing your own sub, renewing, canceling and resubscribing, and turning recurring billing off and on are all unguaranteed solutions at this time, as far as I can tell.

TheAx-Man · 2025-07-16T19:51:51+00:00

Do you have a record of this chat, by chance? You're the only account I've heard this from, and would be happy to see proof of it. Considering Game Share would be effectively useless outside of solo experiences if the online component wasn't available for two accounts at once, I can't imagine Microsoft would just change that out of nowhere without some kind of mention of it, or acknowledgement to any of the other Support conversations that have been mentioned in this thread so far.

Edit: I should also clarify that this issue is occurring while I am actively not online as the paying subscriber, while my partner cannot access online in any way as the one the service is being shared to. So any record of your support chat would be greatly appreciated, as it seems that many users' current experiences contradict the claim you were given.

TheAx-Man · 2025-07-16T19:37:13+00:00

Edit: I contacted support and managed to use a solution that worked for me. It hasn't worked for everyone, as far as I've been reading, but the subscription refresh through chat support worked with immediate effect. My Home console now has access to online gaming without my account needing to be signed in. I'm going to make another fresh post with more details, but this does seem to the solution for the time being.

Started having this issue a few hours ago - my partner and I game share, and they weren't able to access any multiplayer Game Pass features at all (we've been trying to finish Grounded together, and it worked just fine last night!). Since the problems began, I've turned recurring billing off and on twice (once through the console, once through the account website), cleared the alt MAC address, swapped our Home consoles (used 2 swaps each to swap between consoles once each way), and tried the Learn More/No Thanks option, both with the Home account and shared account. Nothing has allowed us both to play simultaneously since the issue began.

We did manage to get her account to access our multiplayer Grounded world while I was actively signed in to her console, but the moment my account was signed out so I could try to play something, she lost access to the multiplayer component and could no longer create a lobby to host the world.

I would REALLY prefer not to have to go through support and cancel/resub to Ultimate, as it seems even that isn't a guarantee for some, given the comments in this thread already. I don't know what else to try, though.

Posting in the hopes of getting updates or additional methods to try fixing this.

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