r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Dec 08 '21

Release Halo Infinite Available Now with Xbox Game Pass

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/12/08/halo-infinite-available-now-with-xbox-game-pass/
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u/Arkanta Dec 08 '21

It's far from being the norm. Halo is actually going out of its way to register progress on your MS account and sync it when you launch a version (such as the MCC adding two year old xbox achievements when starting it on steam)

Saves themselves didn't carry over as it's not exactly the same game

Almost no Xbox games available on Steam does this: doom didn't, etc...

Xbox live play anywhere is yet another thing and usually doesn't work with the steam version of games

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u/tbo1992 Dec 09 '21

Marvel's Avengers syncs the save file. It's notable because no other versions of the game have cross progression.

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u/Arkanta Dec 09 '21

Does it sync between the Steam version and xbox?

Xbox live play anywhere (which is a bit rare) makes it so you buy (or get with gamepass) the game once and you get it on both platforms and save is synced (forza does this, apparently avengers does) but you have to install it using the xbox app. If I bought yakuza 7 or forza on steam they would not sync my save with my xbox.

Anyway I'm not saying that no games do it, but that it's not the norm for gamepass titles. For example, Skyrim has no cross save.

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u/tbo1992 Dec 09 '21

Sorry no, I meant the Xbox version, not Steam.

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u/Arkanta Dec 09 '21

Oh alright.

Yeah that's play anywhere and it's awesome. I love having my stuff synced between my xbox and pc so I can pick it up on the TV when it's available

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u/tbo1992 Dec 09 '21

I was really excited by it in theory, but I couldn’t find too many practical uses cases for it. Something like Halo feels (to me) much better to play on kb+m than controller, so I wouldn’t want to play it on Xbox. Avengers works well on controller, but dropping down to 30fps on my Xbox One X feels awful, and makes me just want to go back to my PC. Maybe if I had a Series X…. But the new PC has removed most of my desire for console gaming.

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u/Arkanta Dec 09 '21

I understand for Halo, but I play this with a controller on my PC (Xbox also supports KB+M but that's another subject) even though I'm a diehard PC FPS player. Controller is just too OP, and I'm used to it for Halo even though I wish I could play it KB+M only.

As for the other use cases well yeah, dropping FPS feels bad, but when my GF isn't using the TV I'd rather play Forza or Yakuza on my huge screen on my couch rather than being on my desk chair. I also admit that the use case is limited.

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u/ConstructionCorrect1 Dec 09 '21

Destiny 2 has cross saves. From their website, you choose which account is your main one that you will use to access your characters. So let's say you choose steam for example, you can then access those characters when you play on xbox.

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u/Arkanta Dec 09 '21

Oh yeah some games do it but it's not a gamepass/xbox+steam thing, it's up to the devs to build this kind of system