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Honestly I'm just going to buy suicide squad for $5. Besides Indiana Jones there is nothing on gamepass this month for me so at least that will give me something else to play.

This is beginning to be bullsh*t. 4 games for ultimate members and two of them are small indie games, one of them also early access. If it wasn't for Indiana Jones this would be terrible

Based on Microsoft's history with December, there will not be another drop this month. Last year there was only one batch of games announced at the start of the month. These are your games for December, enjoy.

At this rate you're better off subscribing to Standard and just waiting for games to be moved over from Ultimate at least that way you get like 7 games.

@DennisReynolds 100%.

Some people have become far to accustomed to broken game launches that they simply accept it as the new norm. That's absolute bullsh*t, it wasn't okay before and it's not okay now. I can't help but to feel like gamepass is responsible for alot of this sentiment because people don't need to buy these games so if it's broken, "oh well I didn't pay for it". Completely ignoring the people who did pay $70+ for it and downplaying their issues and concerns.

MSFS 2024 launch was cringe as all hell. People literally dropped hundreds of dollars for the premium editions and couldn't play it at all launch day or even the next day but yet you still saw the usual "thats okay I'll wait for it to be fixed, plenty else on gamepass to play".

Please don't be broken at launch.

Excited to try out Marvel Rivals. I said months ago that it was going to outshine Hypercharged Unboxed but that game has already fallen into obscurity. Why they thought releasing a Xbox port without the backing of gamepass was a good idea I'll never understand. Initial sales were good but since then it's playerbase has fallen off steeply just like it did on PC and Switch because there isn't enough substance there to keep people engaged.

Unfortunately enemies are still spawning out of nowhere behind you. I am still experiencing a black screen bug when I try to open my pda, I can still move and shoot my gun but my screen is black as if stuck between switching to the map screen. npcs are randomly dieing when they try to walk through doorways in both Zalissya and the Slag Heap now. Stealth is so inconsistent that it's not even worth trying when enemies spot you as soon as they spawn in the only places I have been able to stealthily take out some bandits is during certain quests where they are stationed and guarding an area but even then it's a real gamble whether you're spotted or not.

These patches needed more time just like the game. Why they released this game so broken is beyond me, it could have done with another delay or two.

I was initially excited for Stalker 2 but unfortunately it launched in such a broken state on the verge of being unplayable and the update yesterday and today has only been like applying a bandaid. For every fix there seems to be a new bug added to the game like getting black screen when you try to open your pda / map and npcs are now randomly dieing in Zalissya when they try walking through a doorway.

So Spyro takes the crown for November's gamepass additions.

A new update was released today.

Unfortunately I am still experiencing the black screen bug sometimes when I open my pda. npcs in Zalissya are still dropping dead in the same door way. Looks like it was mostly to fix some quest progression issues this time.

Oh well time to move the game back onto my external drive and wait for this buggy mess to finally be fixed.

@MetalGear_Yoshi I have noticed the same. Ever since the price increase and the the introduction of gamepass standard, Ultimate members have been recieving less games than in the past. The coming to gamepass announcements at first glance look normal until you look closer and see most of the games announced are already on gamepass and just being moved over to gamepass standard.

Lol...

Loaded up my save and almost instantly hit softlock on my game requiring me to reload my save not once, not twice but three times before the bug would stop repeating. All I did was try to bring up my pda to look at the map after accepting a side quest and my screen went black but I could still move around and shoot, just couldn't see anything.

Fix 300 bugs, introduce new ones i guess.

Edit: Now npcs in my game are randomly dieing whenever they try walking through a doorway in Zalissya. Lmao this update needed more time to cook just like the game.

@Kraven A Life 2.0 is currently completely broken in the game (surprising I know)

Theres an excellent explanation of the current system in place on the Stalker subreddit. The gist of it is that currently A Life 2.0 is experiencing issues that roll over onto other issues with the system bringing the whole thing down. The current system only spawns npcs in on a rather small radius around the player as well causing npcs to simply disappear when they are outside that radius instead of dynamically populating the world and taking over parts of the map for their faction etc like seen in the previous Stalker game.

Abandoned point of interests are really abandoned until the player visits it, where as in the previous game that site would likely be taken over by some kind of npc faction well before you showed up which lead to fights over territory between the different factions as well.

This game really should have been delayed again there is / was so much broken. So many people have said they've un-installed which is not something the devs want to see at all especially when your game is on gamepass where everyone moves on to the next big release within a matter of weeks, Indiana Jones being the next big game.

Hoping for some nice additions to gamepass next month. Indiana could be good but I'm hoping Microsoft hasn't put all their egg in one basket banking on the game to be a big hit that will carry the month.
What I would like to see:

Teardown
Trepang 2
Terminator Resistance
Elden Ring
MGS collection

I don't believe we are going to see mods for Stalker 2 on Xbox for a very long time.

I seen a post on X from the art director of Avowed admitting they have added pro nouns and other nonsense into the game just to make people mad. Not a great look for the game if you ask me when developers lash out, insult and make their goal to make people mad with their game.

Could have just stayed silent and not antagonize the crowd that has issues with this stuff, I don't. But how this self described "art daddie" has handled the situation puts me off of the game when it sounds like someone's personal agenda is being pushed with the sole intent of antagonizing people.

@OldGamer999 It is strange isn't it? Previous CoD games Activision was quick to boast about sales or reaching milestones like crossing $1B in sales the fastest in series history, like what happened with 2022's MW2. Now the metric is engagement.

This game must be an absolute nightmare to optimize for the series S. Really wish Microsoft would have made a digital series X instead of that accursed little white box.

Microsoft just can't catch a break. They were planning to enter the handheld market because they just can't compete with Sony in the home console space, being outsold 6:1 in Europe alone last month. Now comes Sony with a handheld PS5 right behind them.

After the recent changes to gamepass that have made it so Ultimate members get less games each month I'm not expecting much else other than Indi next month. We got 9 games on gamepass last year in December, this year I bet you we get 3 for ultimate, the rest will be games already on gamepass being moved over to gamepass standard.

I agree 100% with the PureXbox review giving the game 4/10. It's in a really rough state perfoamnce wise with lots of pop in with the vegetation. Enemies don't populate the world; they spawn in behind you over and over again. Every single point of interest looks abandoned until you enter which triggers something to start spawning either dogs or bandits etc. It's simply not a very fun game in it's current state the world feels so empty and devoid of life compared to the previous game.

So despite the game being on gamepass more people opted to buy the game for PC & Playstation.

Looks like the gamepass effect everyone was hoping for isn't coming to fruition. PC and Playstation gamers don't care about gamepass and it is not changing or affecting their purchase behavior, unlike on Xbox where sales dropped.

The comments about the game being "perfectly fine", "no bugs at all" are always hilarious to see. Literally every, single , review complains about performance and bugs. Everyone that doesn't have green tinted glasses stuck on their face are talking about bugs and performance and lack of A Life 2.0 but you must have gotten a completely different version of the game than everyone else, right? 🤣🤣

Might want to update the article with the bit of information you omitted from this story. It wasn't just these 7 games, a total of 115524 other games recieved updates on Steam. In other words, this article and news is a giant nothingburger.

The original post has also been marked as false over on /GamingLeaksAndRumours

Microsoft dropped the ball big time this week. Two disastrous game launches back to back between MSFS 2024 and now Stalker 2.

Translation: We didn't bother to have a new Fallout game ready because Fallout 76 and Fallout Shelters is filled with microtransactions we want to sell.

This looks terrible. The exact same takedown animation over and over again during that stealth gameplay was hilarious to watch this game is going to be janky like no tomorrow.

Maybe these devs should focus on the gameplay instead of graphics, not that these are exactly cutting edge, there are last gen games that look much better than this.

Wow look how extensive that list is of games we got last December. With the recent changes to gamepass I bet you we won't see nearly as many additions next month, we will be lucky to get 3 games on Ultimate.

It's a good thing Microsoft raised the price of gamepass, with the games we are being offered Microsoft made more money this month from gamepass than any month before. 10+ titles including multiple AAA games are leaving the service while only a single indie game is joining it for the next 2 weeks on console. Microsoft has taken our money and straight pocketed it this month.

Thanks Microsoft.

The consensus online about this is that Microsoft wants the launch player numbers to be as high as possible instead of a staggered launched where alot of people that only want to play campaign play it early and then don't come back when the multiplayer launches.

They should have a beta for Zombies too honestly.

Free to play? Good thing Microsoft paid a bunch of money to have a free to play game on gamepass.

Microsoft will make it happen alright, a cease & desist coming right up.

Sea of thieves also lost over 60% of it's playerbase on PS5 within a month. I wonder how pleased they are about that.

Didn't Xbox give this developer a bunch of money for not only gamepass releases of Ark and it's remaster but also invested in the development of their next game? You would think they would have taken the time to optimize the Xbox version a bit better.

Dedicated servers should have been there from day one for Xbox & PC gamepass players, not six months later.

Definitely worth subscribing to Ubisoft+ for a month to play.

@Sol4ris You're ignoring the part where Microsoft acquired two major publishers and slew of developers and IPs over just the last what, 5 years? Not very hard to make "your" games sought after when they are established franchises that exist already on Playstation.

Will play it when it inevitably releases on gamepass. After watching gameplay and overviews of what the game has to offer I wouldn't spend $30 on it, maybe $10.

Anyways I just bought the Endwalker + Shadowbringers expansion for ffxiv online for $20 so I will be busy with that for a few months now.

@y2jarmyofficial wrong. It's #31 after being at #24 earlier this week. Both of Xbox's most played games for both Canada and USA have Hellblade at #31 you can check each region simply by changing part of the url. en_ca for Canada's list and en_us for the usa list. You can also check the UK list by changing it to en_gb, which it's currently sitting at #27 there. Anyone can check this, i don't know why you are trying to lie.

Zenimax Asia is being shut down at the end of June. This sounds like a bunch of hyperbole to me.

Should have delivered a fun game, now you're out of a job.

Great, so when gamepass gets a price hike everyone will be paying extra whether they play CoD or not. Wonderful.

Looks like it's going to be a lot of fun to play. You almost feel bad for indie games like Hypercharge Unboxed when they've got to go up against games like this, and they think people will pay $30 for it when this is free. Lol

It's a shame Hellblade 2 never found it's audience. The game debuted at #23 on Xbox's most played games list and only managed a peak of around 4000 players on Steam. I thought there was more hype surrounding this title but apparently not.

Guess the pre orders weren't very good if the game is already on sale. Not very surprising given the game is dead on PC & Switch. Why they thought porting it to Xbox would help without it being on gamepass is a mystery to me.

Now you've got Marvel Rivals on the horizon, a free to play shooter that will outshine Hypercharge Unboxed.

Hypecharge unboxed is available today! 51 player in-game lmao

This game has been dead on PC and presumably Switch for a long time now. Steam shows they never amassed much of a playerbase, peaking at 1,600 concurrent players. I'll check it out when it inevitably comes to gamepass because nobody bought it on Xbox either.

I love how this game has been out for years on Steam and the most players they amassed at one time was 1,641 players and there is only 50 people online playing it right now.

Why they spent the time making a Xbox port is beyond me. Why they didn't get their game onto gamepass to actually give it a chance at life is also a huge mystery.

The game has been out for how long on Steam and their best concurrent player count is just above 1k players.

Yeah, dead on arrival without gamepass and the spotlight that would have shined on the game.

I basically played nothing but GTA V for months after it came out and have sunk literally thousands of hours into the online and I can't wait to do it all over again in GTA VI and it's online.

I highly advise against claiming the starter edition of FFXIV until you have sunk a decent amount of time into the free trial. Once you claim that starter edition you will have 30 days to play before you have to pay for the FFXIV online subscription aswell as gamepass.

I truly hope Microsoft and Square can work something out to make this playable without needing any tier of gamepass.