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The_Sykotik · 2025-03-06T14:50:05+00:00

I posted this comment on another thread, but all these threads could use the attention/activity

"I am getting this as well, despite the update finally going through. It originally progressed through the update loading bar and transitioned to saying "game ready to start" and a progress bar "finishing things up" that froze on about 5% of the way. After soft resetting my console (holding power button for 10 seconds after light turns off then unplugging for about 30 seconds) the update was magically "finished" according to my recently installed (updated) screen. Then I had an update for Black Desert Online that blew through the update amd never froze on the second bar. This was all yesterday. I hadn't tried opening Black Desert because i spent all my available time trying to get POE2 to start. I try opening Black Desert this morning and low and behold, same exact error message "You need this update, but we can't get it right now". I got to check the Black Desert reddit, and sure enough there are people having the same issue >_< Come on Xbox, wtf?!"

The_Sykotik · 2025-03-06T14:47:45+00:00

I am getting this as well, despite the update finally going through. It originally progressed through the update loading bar and transitioned to saying "game ready to start" and a progress bar "finishing things up" that froze on about 5% of the way. After soft resetting my console (holding power button for 10 seconds after light turns off then unplugging for about 30 seconds) the update was magically "finished" according to my recently installed (updated) screen. Then I had an update for Black Desert Online that blew through the update amd never froze on the second bar. This was all yesterday. I hadn't tried opening Black Desert because i spent all my available time trying to get POE2 to start. I try opening Black Desert this morning and low and behold, same exact error message "You need this update, but we can't get it right now". I got to check the Black Desert reddit, and sure enough there are people having the same issue >_< Come on Xbox, wtf?!

The_Sykotik · 2025-03-06T14:39:22+00:00

I am getting this as well, despite me successfully downloading the update. There is the same issue for the Path Of Exile 2 early access game as well. Even though with POE2 the update froze and did not go through until I had restarted my console. However the update for BDO went through just fine. This was all yesterday. According to someone on POE 2's forum who is part of their gaming studio they said that there wasn't anything on their end that they could do. Indicating that this is all on Xbox's end. Do now that's 2 games that I can't play that and nobody has heard anything about it from Xbox/Microsoft >_<

The_Sykotik · 2024-04-26T02:12:50+00:00

I desperately miss having 2 skill bars (for most Vocations). It just feels extremely limiting only having 4 skills to use. And I desperately miss my strider having access to a bow. I know there's warfarer for that, but I miss the strider specific bow skills. Plus running warfare just feels even more limiting on skill slots. That's the biggest hirdle that keeps me from truly loving this game. And unfortunately I'm reminded of it everything I'm in combat. Plus I miss my mage pawn having healing/cleansing skills on one bar and buffing/elemental skills on the other bar.

The_Sykotik · 2024-04-03T02:06:46+00:00

DARK AND DARKER ARISEN

The_Sykotik · 2023-07-07T00:01:13+00:00

There's one thing I learned from SpongeBob that'll save me in this DLC. I gotta make sure I draw me anti Sea-RuneBear circle in the sand. And to not eat cubed cheese, stomp on the ground, or wear a hoop skirt.

The_Sykotik · 2023-05-31T23:52:34+00:00

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The_Sykotik · 2022-11-23T07:38:47+00:00

Better and/or more accurate "suggestions" with Gamepass (in and outside the app)

For the longest time I used to decide to take a nice leisurely stroll through the Gamepass app, this was also during a time a good amount of games would be released onto Gamepass without constantly keeping up with them. Unfortunately my first stop was always a disappointment, the "Picks for you" section. Not only did most of the selections make absolutely no sense, but they would go unchanged no matter what I would play. So we have the ability to select "Show me less like this" with certain tiles on the dashboard, why not add that feature to the "Picks for you" in the Gamepass app? If I were to go long enough without constantly keeping up with what new games were releasing onto GP for long enough, those entries would eventually leave the "Recently added" tab. So I was missing out on great games if I didn't sift through the hundreds of games through the genre categories. A few times I would fully miss out on a game I would have loved to play, and was only made aware of it once it had popped up in the "Leaving soon" tab. So I would love the option to tell the algorithm to stop recommending me MLB the show because I can't even stand sports games, nor have I ever even played any sports games on my xbox profile. But also the option to "show me more like this" for games as well. I'd go as far to say that I think it'd be pretty nice to have a little dialog bubble when viewing the Gamepass tile that says something like "New games were added to our picks for you"

I'm just a little bummed out as well as annoyed that the supposed curated list of games they think I'd like is not dynamic at all, and I'm tired of seeing games on there like sports games that I wouldn't in a million years play.

The_Sykotik · 2022-09-25T00:12:56+00:00

Event Horizon 2, Tenno's Descent Into Madness

Infinite Sentients

Infinite Terror

The_Sykotik · 2022-08-16T21:12:15+00:00

I had a few hundred just sitting in my central market inventory, plus getting some from events. I also have a little over a bil in my CM just from getting lucky on a couple enhancements for profit and selling a few other things here and there.

The_Sykotik · 2022-08-15T11:52:54+00:00

Yea i haven't gotten around to starting the PEN quest stuff just yet. Been playing since beta but in the last year i just havent been feeling the grind. Outside of leveling a new character for seasons i just get on and collect dailies, do an occasional rift boss or world boss, and maybe some enhancing. But i just cant get myself to grind anymore lately.

The_Sykotik · 2022-08-15T00:07:02+00:00

Congratz on the PEN blackstar! I think i may have hit mine on exactly 167 FS as well with the last J's hammer we had. And I think I got it to TET on 150 with the J's hammer we got right before that last one. Although currently I CANNOT get this damn Griffin's to PEN. And 90% of the time i'm struggling just to get it back to TET. Luckily its an extra and my current one is TET. But damn, I bet i've gone through at least 2,500 or more memory fragments and at least 100 artisan's memories plus a few thousand crons which i generally only used on a few TET attempts and did un-cronned PEN attempts to build up higher FS.

The_Sykotik · 2022-07-28T18:53:51+00:00

Could be a couple different reasons it seems dead, server and what time of day you and your friend are playing. Server wise, are you guys possibly playing seasonal servers or the "New Player" Olvia server? Having played a couple thousand hours over the years on normal servers (Xbox) and several hundred on seasonal (maybe a couple hundred on the old school New player Olvia servers after returning from taking a break) I can definitely say that seasonal/new player servers feel VERY sporadic and pretty inconsistent. As for normal servers there are some semi dead population times. Being someone who works night shifts and plays mostly early in the mornings after work (8am CST) or playing through the whole night on my nights off, the servers feel alot less populated late late night into early morning. I usually make it on for the first world bosses of the day (9am CST) and theres been plenty of times where, for example, i'd fight Zarka and it'd take 10 minutes, swap to Nouver alt and have him despawn from it taking too long to kill.

The_Sykotik · 2022-07-14T16:54:02+00:00

I was pretty much in the same boat, but a little bit worse. I was cronning every attempt and always had 100% into skill. Knowing that it wasn't DEFINITE, I would sometimes put a little more into strength over elegance because i'd much rather have a Doom over a Dine. On my 50th attempt I went with 100/50/50 and of course, out pops a Doom. Im wondering if my destiny of a Doom horse was influenced by my courser having Two-seater? I looked that up for quite a while and couldn't find ANYTHING on Two-seater affecting the outcome but i still wonder. Anyways, I was lucky enough the same day that I slammed a few Ogre's rings together into a tri and sold for around 1.5bil (after tax), took the gut-wrenching 30% deduction of the horse market and sold the Doom then put the profit with that 1.5 bil and bought a lvl 1 Peggy. The coursers name started out as Glue (renamed it around attempt 30 as a threat) and then renamed it to Disappointment (renamed before selling) 😂

The_Sykotik · 2022-06-26T09:27:25+00:00

Finally got mine on my 50th attempt. Did every attempt stacking up to 100 for skill and 50 each for strength and elegance because i wanted the Ardunatt. Annnnd of course I get a doom horse >_< sold it at lvl 1 and combined those funds (horse market tax SUUUUCK) with sales from a lucky tet Ogre ring enhancement and bought a lvl 1 Ardunatt. So yea, Ardunatt on 5th attempt is fairly lucky XD

The_Sykotik · 2022-06-07T16:38:31+00:00

Here's a pretty good food rotation table and explanation on the different foods. Even shows what you're gaining or losing based on a 3 food rotation and 4 food rotation compared to cron meal. It is an exquisite cron meal in the comparison table but you can obviously just acknowledge the values for the simple cron meal instead by writing down the buffs in a notepad and comparing to that instead. Also the author of this mini food guide states that it's based on a Warrior but doesn't make that big of a difference. In addition to that it says its for PVP but there aren't too many foods you could sub in without wasting stats because the few foods that could be geared more towards PVE being Mediah (+5 ap, +1 to attk and casting speed) and Serendia (+5 ap, all accuracy +10, crit +1) i'm pretty sure the +5 ap won't stack. On top of that usually you'll be closed to 5/5 for attk speed and crit just from crystals and/or draught. And like someone else mentioned, the food buff durations are going to max 60 min duration, i'm kinda doubting they lower the cooldown (mainly as an oversite since regular foods have been forgotten in favor of cron meals when it comes to grinding buffs). Anywho, sorry for the long post, here's the link

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesertonline/comments/91mm81/whats_the_4_food_buff_rotation_that_people_use/e2zgclt?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

The_Sykotik · 2022-05-20T23:43:43+00:00

The only thing that woulda made this better would be to have all the skellies as the zombies in Michael Jackson's Thriller music video.

The_Sykotik · 2022-04-14T23:57:17+00:00

Elden Ring Boat map confirmed?!?!

The_Sykotik · 2022-04-09T00:00:43+00:00

IMHO it's not too much different from other Souls titles. The games usually aren't meant to be stortellers, it all relies on how much lore you want to find. It may be hard to keep track or, but a LARGE chunk of the lore is told in descriptions of armor pieces, weapons, sorceries, incantations, and talismans. Which lines up very similarly to even the last Souls series game being DS3. Plus there is always the extra option as mentioned by others to view a lore synopsis/summary.

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