Opinion: Forza Horizon 6 Has Changed My Mind About Quick Resume On Xbox Series X|S

Hmm, do you play online with friends in a convoy after quick resume? Never works for me. Either I will be offline or friends will be. Have to restart to game to get it to work.

It’s gotten better, but there’s always something.

Stopped used Quick Resume after I played Hellblade years ago and the achievements wouldn't unlock because of it. It's just not on the same level as PS5's rest mode, unless it has improved since then.

It would be cool if you guys would test out more games and see if Quick Resume actually is consistent across multiple games now, and not just this one.

I like it when it works. Think it’s a fantastic addition. There’s just too many games that don’t work on it.

QR never seems to let me down and being using it with FH6.

I jump from FH6 to Pragmata to Doom in seconds exactly where I left off.

And soon to be adding Halo and AC black flag remake.

Five games back and forth in seconds exactly where I left off.
Series X a feature for gamers and should be kept going forward with Helix.

Makes PS5 and Switch 2 look a bit old fashioned 🤣

@AI-Generation I dunno about that. When it works it's good. Too many games it doesn't work with though. I'll take share screen/play anyday over it. Way underrated feature for me.

One of the most overrated features imo. If quick resume had been a thing in the 32bit- era up to the start of this current gen, it would have been a godsend. But with all the current gen consoles (even the S) possessing blistering fast SSD’s and extremely minimal load times for 90% of games, quick resume is a solution to a problem that barely exists anymore.

Add to that the unreliability you mention in the article, the sometimes impaired accessory functions like Achievements not unlocking mentioned in a comment above and we’re left with what it really is: one feature rival platforms don’t have that has been latched onto and blown way out of proportion.

Personally, I never use it. I hated the ‘activity cards’ or whatever those awful things were on PlayStation too. Something about not booting into a game normally makes me feel uneasy. Another example would be how incompetently Sucker Punch handled loading in Ghost of Yotei—that game force loads your most recent save when you start the application and dumps you in-game without a choice, bypassing the main menu entirely. Bad design, that.

It works for me most of the times. One of the best features of the generation along FPS Boost.

Absolutely love quick resume. Always have four or five games in the mix and the vast majority of time it works perfectly. When I go to play my PS5, I immediately miss it. Sometimes forget it doesn’t have it and accidentally close a game to play another.

There are some games that have long distances between save points. I wouldn’t be able to switch games until I got to the next save point. Not an issue with quick resume.

Easily one of my favorite features of the Series generations IMHO!!!

One of the best features of this console generation. I love that I can swap between several games going within seconds
The only games which seem to not work with it as intended are the DS games and sometimes Elden Ring.

@LtSarge

It's just not on the same level as PS5's rest mode

I know, Quick Resume is a few levels above it😉😁.

Something Forza 6 doesn’t get any credit for it skipping over the Turn 10 and Playground Games idents on subsequent boot ups.

@LtSarge Completely disagree with your take. Quick Resume is FAR superior to Rest mode for the simple reason that it supports multiple games. As for its issues, best thing to do is to disable it for a particular game. The correct comparison is the Activity Cards which… hardly developer supports nowadays.

I’m a PlayStation guy, but I would absolutely take the online infrastructure and console features of Xbox over what PS5 has any day.

@MrStark I agree. I was thinking about Nintendo Switch 1&2 standby feature. It's for one game only and drains the battery massively if it's not docked, as if the game is running but the screen is off (basically, what PS5 does). What amazes me about the Xbox is that you can completely turn it off, take it to another room and Quick Resume still works.

I don’t know why it always is broken for me, whenever I’ve tried to use it with FH6 it gets me a no signal screen until I get out to home and restart the game again.

@MrStark The issue isn't whether Quick Resume is superior or not, the issue is that it's not a reliable feature because it doesn't work all the time. That's why I prefer rest mode on PS5, because it works all the time with all my games.

But like I said in my previous comment, my last experience with Quick Resume was years ago. I might give it another shot thanks to this article, but I'm not that eager as last time numerous achievements didn't unlock for me during Hellblade and I had to spend hours playing through the same areas just to get those achievements. So we'll just have to see!

Quick resume breaks convoys, at least in fh5, havent tested in 6 yet. you cant play in a convoy until you restart the game

@LtSarge If you are experiencing issues with Quick Resume for a particular game, disable it for that game.

Sure, Rest mode works more consistently but the catch is that it only works for one game.

Also, it depends on how many games you are going through at one time. If you play one game at a time then Rest mode is probably the better option otherwise Quick Resume is the better option.

@Kiltedhaggis
Well it seems to do it for me and the games I mentioned.

I use quick resume the odd time or when I forget to close a game it's a handy feature and I'd miss it if it was gone but not something I actively use.
But if it works well for Forza I could just use it for that??
Great article 🤙

I almost never use quick resume. I specifically close/exit every game when I'm done playing. I like to be greeted by the title screen, maybe go through the menus if needed, and load the game I want manually. The only time I intentially used it was in Sonic Superstars in a later pain-in-the-ass level that I didn't want to keep going through to get to the ridiculous boss. Turned out something happened to that quickplay data, it was lost, sending me right to the back of that level. I just gave up and quit at that point, never bothered trying to get back to that boss and never used quick play again.

Is there any to just disable that stupid feature? As in, not have to specifically delete the quick play data every time? Most pointless feature ever.

I seem to be in the minority here, but I adore QR, it works great far more often than not, for me.

@Odium
Same here. Almost always worked on most games I’ve tried it in.

Another reason why always online games suck especially if you just want to play single player.

I wonder why they can't fix it. I've noticed the issues too, with games that have their own in-game friends list.

In Overwatch, for example, if you use QR, when you launch the game back up it will show you a message saying you were disconnected from the server, as expected, then you can reconnect just fine, but a lot of the time the in-game friends list will then be bugged out, yet if you quit the game fully and start it up from scratch, it's fine.

It's obviously something that's not trivial to fix or they'd have done it by now, but I'd love to know the technical details.

@LtSarge
"It's just not on the same level as PS5's rest mode"

That mean having the console constantly powered to keep ONE game loaded?

Yeah, no thanks.

@MrStark Until a month or so ago, we COULDN’T disable it on a game by game basis. And I’d bet the majority of XBox owners don’t even know that’s an option now.

Quick resume was the bane of my existence when I played Horizon 5 on my series X, and I thank the XBox console OS devs for finally letting us exclude specific games from it, especially always-online games like the Horizon titles.

@Briarback glad I’m not alone, it’s very rare that I had issue with it.

I've been using QR since launch and never felt the need to disable it. The feature works well the overwhelming amount of time. Occasionally, a game gets booted out.

The issues stem from developers failing to code their games to gracefully handle loss of connection to servers. It is not a QR problem; any service interruption would have the same result. Despite being fully aware of QR, they often do nothing. EA UFC5 is one game I play regularly where the devs corrected the issue (although approx. two years after release).

@LtSarge The Xbox One has the equivalent of the PS5's rest mode. All that does is put the console into a low power state when you turn it off in order to keep the contents of the RAM intact, so when you turn it back on, you can carry on from where you left off.

Quick Resume saves a snapshot of the RAM to the SSD whenever you switch from one game to another, or you turn the console off. When you go to pick a game up, its snapshot is loaded back into RAM and you continue your game.

QR has a couple of big advantages. MS say it works with at least 3 games simultaneously, but I've had 7 or 8 on the go. You can then switch between any of them as fast as the PS5's rest mode works. QR snapshots are not lost if the console is unplugged, nor if the OS or a game is updated. Also, the feature works no matter which power mode you choose to use, so you can use the full "Shutdown" mode and still use QR.

The sole issue with QR is that it doesn't always play nicely with games that require a server connection and have their own in-game friends list, but you can disable it on a per-game basis now.

Forza horizon is one of the few titles I dont use quick resume much on. That is mostly because I have it installed on 4 different devices and have been splitting time pretty evenly between them.

Play anywhere and cloud saves are xboxs best features in my opinion. I love being able to pick up the save immediately on so many different devices. High end pc if I want to nerd out about specs, series x in the family room if I want to relax on the couch, series s with an xscreen in my bedroom, and a Rog Ally on the go. The exciting thing is that it should only get better with helix.

@Odium I agree. I had no idea there was even an option to turn it off because I would never think to, as I've had zero issues with it. The fact people dont like it is news to me.

@FatGuyInLilCoat It seems that it never works for and it's not liked... by PS users? 🤷🏼‍♂️

And very welcome it is too. That, and free fast travel? Spoiling us.

I happened to get FH5 on both Series X and PS5 and yes it was so much better on xbox with quick resume. It doesn't always work great with some games but it's an awesome feature when it does!

@LtSarge oh yeah, that PS5 mode that suspends only a single game and loses your progress and "rebuilds" your external storage with a power outage? Apples and oranges.

I think the online issues are why they updated the dashboard so you could disable it for certain games. And I can't believe that, with as many updates Turn 10 has had for Forza Motorsport, they still haven't fixed the quick resume bug where the intro cutscene for a new series will freeze the game if it came out of a quick resume...no other quick resume issues either except that.

Meanwhile on fh6 subreddits and fh6 facebook groups you find countless people claiming they lost 30+ hours, 20 hours, 10 hours of gameplay losing millions, cars, and xp

So this makes me question if this author actually used it more than a few times as he didn’t even mention potential issues….

So for anyone reading this: I was a day 1 starfield player, I was a day 1 cyberpunk 2077 player, a day 1 player of fh5, and a day -7 player on fh6. I’ve seen more issues reported by players with quick resume issues on fh6 than all the others COMBINED.

That said I used it nonstop prior to seeing literally hundreds of these fh6 player reports on losing progression without issue. But to me it’s just not worth the risk. I don’t want to even risk losing DAYS worth of progress because of some major flaw in the quick resume process.

So despite what this writer says, proceed with caution on fh6 with quick resume.

I’m using QR with Age of Empires 4 - it really helps if I’m in the middle of an epic skirmish only to find I have to go and do something else. Just pause & come back later to finish the battle - way better than starting all over.

@Banjo- I don't see anyone saying it never works? I don't see many saying they don't like it? It has issues with some games is all. I game on PS and Xbox. As I always have done. You saying I'm a liar? That I'm only here to cause trouble? Stop making everything a console war. People have issues with features or hardware. It happens to us all.

As some one who plays a lot of single player games, QR is brilliant. I have never had any issues with it

@Kiltedhaggis I only found if funny there's people here I've never seen before or are usually negative about Xbox saying that Quick Resume is the worst thing ever. There are users I do believe and I'm aware of the online disconnections that it might cause. Still, a much better feature than Sony and Nintendo's standby feature, a comparison I didn't start. I hope it's clear to you now.

@Banjo- Nothing at all. I just see you making it all about ps users and think it deserves to be called out. I've had progress wiped from single player games too. It's a great feature no doubt about it. This article is about the main man Fraser also having issues with QR over the years. He can't be in the same boat as these ps users you're talking about surely?

I use it all the time! I got a PS5 some months ago but still play most games on the Series X because of how Quick Resume supports my gaming habits.

I've had a few issues with Quick Resume but generally, it is bug-free. I absolutely love it and it makes the Xbox Series X the best console (along with some other customizations and features that it has, love that!).