Windows 10: Play the Black Desert Beta Free until November 12 on Xbox One

Brink · Nov 10, 2018

The journey to bring the fantasy world contained within Black Desert to Xbox One has been a long time in the making. Our team has learned a lot in our own quest to bring this fully-fledged MMORPG to Xbox One, and we’re so excited to offer all our hard work for you to play, available starting today in the Black Desert open beta. Read on to reveal more about the adventure we’ve prepared for each player that steps into Black Desert!

Throughout the development of Black Desert, our team strived to make an experience that any player could enjoy and personalize with their own unique expression of themselves. The result is a world where every choice matter and you are allowed the freedom to be different than any other character because of your own path. The destiny you choose will include your prowess in combat, how you look to others, and your professions and skills.

At its core, Black Desert is known for delivering high-octane, real-time combat, and for our introduction to Xbox One, we’re delivering a system that is responsive to every weapon swing, spell cast, and shield block. There’s nothing quite like bringing down a heavily-armed foe without a scratch, and with that in mind, our team is presenting players with a combo-based combat system. React to your adversaries’ moves with well-timed inputs that use your character’s unique skills to win every battle.

To truly realize your own unique adventure within Black Desert, we made sure that character customization would allow players to assume their own identities in-game – or something else entirely. The in-depth character customization tool on Xbox One became a major challenge for us since it was incredibly difficult to incorporate all of the sliders and functions that allow each character to be special and different from one another.

In-game, you’ll see that we’ve assigned three special inputs on your Xbox One controller for each action in sculpting your character. By using the left or right thumbsticks, you can control the rotation, scale, and transformation of every part of your character as you see fit. We’re really proud to have been able to put this together for Black Desert and can’t wait to see what sort of colorful characters the community comes up with.

When all is said and done in Black Desert and your foes are laid to rest, there’s nothing like kicking back and relaxing. After all, Black Desert is a living, breathing world with a player-driven economy that allows you to interact with other real people in a shared, open landscape. Whether you’re interested in specializing in cooking, horse training, gathering resources, fishing and hunting (or all the above), life skills are a major part of bringing a sense of realism to your adventure. With an extensive trade mechanic, a worker management system, and a fully simulated weather system for farming, your character can be more than just a leader in battle.

We wish we had more time to explore other features within Black Desert, but we don’t want to ruin the surprise. With a central focus on combat, character customization tools, and expansive skills and professions to explore, Black Desert offers an entire world to unearth and make your own. This is at the heart of our guiding philosophy for the game: Become Your True Self. Discover and explore everything that Black Desert has to offer during our open beta, available now for free on the Microsoft Store until November 12!
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Source: Play the Black Desert Beta Free This Weekend on Xbox One - Xbox Wire

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Brink · Nov 10, 2018

Xbox Breaks Black Friday Records; Windows 10 Gaming Continues to Rise

A winning combination of the most critically acclaimed holiday lineup of exclusives in Xbox history,* the New Xbox One Experience complete with Backward Compatibility, and an extensive line-up of console bundles, drove record Xbox One sales in the U.S.** and Xbox Store sales worldwide, with record engagement from Xbox fans around the world*** over Black Friday week.

Xbox fans around the world spent a total of 325 million hours gaming on Xbox Live this past week. Hours spent playing games on Xbox One last week were up 196 percent compared to Black Friday week in 2014, and time spent using Xbox apps increased a whopping 321 percent.***

Worldwide Xbox Black Friday sales in the Xbox Store broke records with an increase of 57 percent across Xbox One and Xbox 360, global Xbox Live Gold subscriptions were up over 40 percent, and U.S. Xbox One console sales at retail were up 22 percent over the same period last year, making it the second biggest Black Friday week in 15 years of Xbox history in the U.S.

Total paid unique users in the Xbox Store also broke records with an increase of 55 percent across Xbox One and Xbox 360 compared to Black Friday week last year, with 88 percent growth on Xbox One alone.

Hardware is hot this holiday – the Xbox One 500GB Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Bundle was the best-selling Xbox console bundle. The Xbox Elite Wireless Controller has been met with high demand and was sold out at most major U.S. retailers since launch and we are working hard with retailers to replenish stock.

Gamers have logged more than 4 million hours playing Xbox 360 games on Xbox One since Backward Compatibility launched on Nov. 12.

We’ve also seen incredible Windows 10 gaming momentum heading into the holidays:

In November, hours spent gaming on Windows 10 exceeded Windows 8 for the first time ever.

Since Windows 10 launched in July, gamers have streamed over 5 million hours of Xbox One game content to Windows 10 PCs with Fallout 4 streamed the most frequently in November.

Last month, nearly 30 percent of all Steam players played on Windows 10; there were six times more gamers playing Steam on Windows 10 than OSX and Linux combined.****

Nearly 20 percent of all non-mobile devices are now running on Windows 10 — roughly double from just 3 month ago.*****

This is just the start to the holiday season. It’s an amazing holiday for Xbox fans, and we are thankful to the community for their passion for gaming on Xbox. Be sure to check out Microsoft’s 12 Days of Deals for special promotions and savings on select Xbox One console and games.
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Source: Xbox Breaks Black Friday Records; Windows 10 Gaming Continues to Rise - Xbox Wire

Brink · Nov 10, 2018

Xbox One Preview Beta System Update 1805.180510-1632 - May 12

Starting at 6:00 p.m. PDT today, members of the Xbox One Preview Beta Ring will begin receiving the latest Xbox One system update (1805.180510-1632). Read on for more about the fixes and known issues in the latest system update.

Fixes:

Localization

Various localization issues fixed in this build.

Messages

Fixed an issue in which some users were unable to read any Xbox Live messages.

System Performance

Misc. performance fixes in the platform.

Known Issues:

Pi-hole

Pi-hole users may encounter issues signing in, creating, or recovering accounts upon downloading the 1804 update. This is due to a new configuration file which is downloaded from a URL Pi-hole blocks by default.

Workaround: Add clientconfig.passport.net to the Pi-hole allowed IP address list.

Profile Color

Sometimes users may encounter an incorrect Profile color when powering on the console.

Networking

Work continues on the stability of the Wi-Fi connectivity. If you see any issues please report the problems for investigation.

YouTube

Some users are encountering an issue where their YouTube account is being signed out whenever they launch the app.

Workaround: Uninstall/re-install the app and sign in with your account again.

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Source: New Preview Beta 1805 System Update - 5/12/18 - Xbox Wire

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Androx · Nov 10, 2018

BSoD while playing black desert online

I have been having this crash happen for a while. I have replaced my harddrive as well as replaced my hdd. After replacing my hdd and my video card it seemed to work for a while with no problems playing games like world of warcraft, but the first time I tried to play black desert online again the BSoD happened again after playing for a short time.

When it happens I am usually streaming music and in a voice chat program like mumble or skype. The screen goes BSoD but I can still hear the voice chat as well as the music I am streaming. I then hard shutdown my system and repower up and everything usually works fine until next time i try to play black desert online.

Please help? i have fallen in love with having 2 monitors and would love to get this fixed.

Windows 10: Play the Black Desert Beta Free until November 12 on Xbox One

Play the Black Desert Beta Free until November 12 on Xbox One

Play the Black Desert Beta Free until November 12 on Xbox One

Play the Black Desert Beta Free until November 12 on Xbox One

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