Mr.Mumbles: If you value being able to make even minor fixes yourself, let alone mod anything. I learned the hard way that whatever files one will get from Microsoft are secured tighter than a virgin's asshole.

So I thought I'd give it a go for a buck to try Metro Exodus about a month ago. Well, that turned out to be a fucking buck and 15-20 playtime completely wasted. Apparently, the game has a stupid bug that wants to reset config settings to DX12, which in itself is buggy in how it displays the game off-center. Eventually I ended up with a black screen on startup. Is there a workaround for that? Yes! But not for this version since one can't ever get to the config files due to lacking privilege access. Hell, I wasn't even able to make a backup of the save files for a potential re-installation of the game because they're equally tucked away behind MS's BS.

The reason I just mention it now is because I was kind of eyeing The Outer Worlds, but knowing Obsidian for their bugs and not having any ability to fix or work around such in the MS store versions, it ended up being a hard pass for me.

Just wanted to make people aware before they end up wasting their time and/or money.

Mr.Mumbles: If you value being able to make even minor fixes yourself, let alone mod anything. I learned the hard way that whatever files one will get from Microsoft are secured tighter than a virgin's asshole.

So I thought I'd give it a go for a buck to try Metro Exodus about a month ago. Well, that turned out to be a fucking buck and 15-20 playtime completely wasted. Apparently, the game has a stupid bug that wants to reset config settings to DX12, which in itself is buggy in how it displays the game off-center. Eventually I ended up with a black screen on startup. Is there a workaround for that? Yes! But not for this version since one can't ever get to the config files due to lacking privilege access. Hell, I wasn't even able to make a backup of the save files for a potential re-installation of the game because they're equally tucked away behind MS's BS.

The reason I just mention it now is because I was kind of eyeing The Outer Worlds, but knowing Obsidian for their bugs and not having any ability to fix or work around such in the MS store versions, it ended up being a hard pass for me.

Just wanted to make people aware before they end up wasting their time and/or money.

Deadmarye: Hello all,

I see a lot of people being attracted to the Xbox Game pass due to its low price and the promise of many new games being added and, I must say, I am too.

And so was I with the Playstation Now, which I tried for one month free-trial both on PS4 and PC. While this service is mostly Streaming, it ran well until I, too, encoutered bugs I couldn't fix. A bit different, however since those are console games you can play on PC, and not PC version of games.

I still want to try the Game pass one day, but as someone else said, if it's on GoG, even at a higher price, I probably go for it on GoG instead of renting it elsewhere (in that case : The game pass). I'm not an avid mod users, but for some game it's almost mandatory.

Mr.Mumbles: secured tighter than a virgin's asshole.

Mr.Mumbles: Is there a workaround for that? Yes! But not for this version since one can't ever get to the config files due to lacking privilege access.

Themken: Windows 10 needed for it, right?

HunchBluntley: Until the last paragraph, I was unsure if this was going to turn out to be a spambot post (despite your registration date & forum rep). =D