Xbox 360 System Update Preview

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Grand Master

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So the only people that should get bricks are people that shouldn't have the disc anyway right? Also, is it actually "bricked" or just cannot connect to XBL?

They can't connect to XBL until the update is released to general public. Limited bricks if you will :p

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I don't see any difference, does anyone can confirm that the update was on the disk. And just for curiosity what did the update do??

I didn't notice anything either. The Beta tab is still there but is just info nothing else. Plus... Halo:Reach... for the 30 minutes I played it, kind of sucks. :pinch:

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You don't get banned, you just won't be able to connect to Xbox Live until the update goes public.

Yeah, seems to me they have a backend authentication when connecting to XBL and unless your console is on the approved list, XBL can't connect with the newer software.

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I don't see any difference, does anyone can confirm that the update was on the disk. And just for curiosity what did the update do??

Yes the update was on the disc. You won't notice anything as its a firmware update to allow the Xbox to read the new format. That's all we're testing.

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I don't see any difference, does anyone can confirm that the update was on the disk. And just for curiosity what did the update do??

If you were a disc tester, then you would have gotten a full system update when you put in the disc, and it would be very noticeable. It doesn't change anything about the look and feel of the system other than the beta tile, but you would certainly know that it had installed because it would take several minutes to update, as well as restart your Xbox.

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Yes the update was on the disc. You won't notice anything as its a firmware update to allow the Xbox to read the new format. That's all we're testing.

Well, we don't really know for sure... we could end up testing more, but it's doubtful.

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I didn't notice anything either. The Beta tab is still there but is just info nothing else. Plus... Halo:Reach... for the 30 minutes I played it, kind of sucks. :pinch:

yup.

last helo I played was ODST and it seemed better than this...

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So the "all we're tseting is this" part isn't quite true. There's two differences off the bad that I've already noticed.

1. The Recover Gamertag option now requires that you enter both your gamertag and your email address, whereas before it was only email address (and password, obviously)

2. Progress bars are now charcoal gray rather than the old flat green that they were before.

Not sure what else there might be that I haven't noticed, but yeah. Just those so far.

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1. The Recover Gamertag option now requires that you enter both your gamertag and your email address, whereas before it was only email address (and password, obviously)

That used to always be the case, I think they changed it to just email / password when the dash was updated for Kinect.

I did like it better been just been email / password, I see no reason why you would need to enter the gamertag as you can only associate one per email address.

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spenser.d

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I still have not gotten anything from microsoft and I'm in the program. Which department of Microsoft would I contact about this? XBL or connect?

Neither.

If you have not received the disc, please be patient. Distribution dates will be provided as part of the program announcements.

That's in the FAQ - Console Management on MS Connect

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Is it just me, or does Reach seem to now take an incredibly, incredibly, super long time to load. I had never finished the SP campaign, so I put the disk in and went to play it, and it literally took over 2 minutes to create the SP game? That one screen where it shows the lobby, game type, and basically creates the SP game for you. I am wondering if it has something to do with the new disk format, or if it is just an isolated incident on my end and no one elses?

And FTR, I thought maybe it was just a first time thing, so I quit the game completely, restarted the 360, fired up the game, and same deal. Took over 2 minutes to create the SP campaign game.

I also noticed I still had the same issue I always had, which was just specific to reach. Sound cuts out completely for a second or two randomly. Does not seem to be any specific sound that causes it to happen, just now and then sound cuts out completely. No rhyme or reason either. Can go 10 minutes without it happening, then it will happen 4 times in a minute, then 20 minutes without it happening, then 1 time in 10 minutes. Just weird. I will pay more attention, maybe it is a specific sound.

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Is it just me, or does Reach seem to now take an incredibly, incredibly, super long time to load. I had never finished the SP campaign, so I put the disk in and went to play it, and it literally took over 2 minutes to create the SP game? That one screen where it shows the lobby, game type, and basically creates the SP game for you. I am wondering if it has something to do with the new disk format, or if it is just an isolated incident on my end and no one elses?

And FTR, I thought maybe it was just a first time thing, so I quit the game completely, restarted the 360, fired up the game, and same deal. Took over 2 minutes to create the SP campaign game.

I also noticed I still had the same issue I always had, which was just specific to reach. Sound cuts out completely for a second or two randomly. Does not seem to be any specific sound that causes it to happen, just now and then sound cuts out completely. No rhyme or reason either. Can go 10 minutes without it happening, then it will happen 4 times in a minute, then 20 minutes without it happening, then 1 time in 10 minutes. Just weird. I will pay more attention, maybe it is a specific sound.

SP always took quite a while to load for me. Dunno what to say about your sound issue.

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