Shagger

I will be watching the Fomula1 and will finally get round to play Ghost of Tsushima tomorrow. I'm also no longer furloughed from work and will be back at it on Monday. Yay.......

I'm not completely sure, but I think it's your combined use of the DAC and Toslink output that may be causing the problem. As far as I can tell there're three ways to connect this thing. 1) Plug the headset straight into the controller using the 3.5 mm jack. Newer versions of the Xbox one controller (I assume your using an Xbox One) don't need the adapter, but older ones will, try and find out what model you using. 2) The 2 Male Y-splitter to connect the headphones to a dual audio output, but this really for PC users that would rather use that than the DAC, speaking of which. 3) Using the DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter). The DAC is used to connect to headphones to a device (In this case, you XBox) to create the 7.1 surround sound. The DAC connects to your console via USB, then one just plugs the 3.5mm jack on the headphones into the DAC. Yes, your Toslink converter may have adapter inputs and outputs on, it, but the DAC need to be connected through USB from the console/PC to work properly because it's not just audio, it's data as well. It just seems to me DAC and optical audio just aren't designed to work together. My advice would to try to use the DAC and plug the headset into your console through USB.

Agreed, this is more of a tech' thing, but if gamers were to use Linux (Personally, I wouldn't) this is relevant. Maybe Linux is the most secure, but nothing is invincible, if a hacker is determined and skilled enough, they'll find their way into anything.

I don't have full understanding of people who are loyal to certain platforms, publishers, developers, game franchises of whatever. I get fans of them, I am a fan of a number of them myself, but I'm not loyal to any then, I just love good games with little regard to who made them. So the concept of being "loyal" to games publisher is already a little odd to me, but when the publisher you're talking about is EA Sports, that is mind-blowing! It's literally pledging allegiance to the devil. 2K may have followed suit, but if they're Darth Vader, EA Sports is the Emperor. The greediest, most amoral games publisher in the world. They lazily rehash the same games year after and release them at full price with little to no changes. Updated team rosters and shirt designs, and that's about it. It's not like the games are quality, they're sub-par with glitchy gameplay and mediocre graphics. EA prays on impressionable children and vulnerable adults to bait and real them into gambling. I don't are what defences people have for it, it's gambling. EA don't care about their customers, that's obvious, but EA doesn't't even care its own people. Lay off staff by the hundreds whilst giving the executives who buggered it up get multi-million dollar bonuses for buggering it up. The amount of studios they've bought over then shut down is an ever growing obituary that shows no signs of slowing in its growth. They're a cancer on the industry. EA in general, but EA Sports in particular, are a soulless, greedy, amoral tumour in the gaming that may care if you die tomorrow if they could somehow make money off that. Nobody should be loyal to any gaming company, it's our place as customers to demand the best from them, not buy their stuff because it's their stuff.

I despise i-stuff. Everything apple makes is trendy, overpriced trash. It's not just I-Phones and I-Pads either, in fact they represent better value than most of their products, but the point is that it's insane down to the littlest things. I'll take this chance of worldly advice; 1) Never accept a challenge for a violin duel against Satan. 2) Never play cards with a fellow wearing a black suit with white stripes. 3) Never buy anything for a company that charges $1,000 for monitor stand, without the monitor on it; By the way, it is from their official UK store page that I snipped this from and that's not my postcode, not even close. A technology company that can't even read an IP address properly.

Welcome to VGR. Nice to have you hear.

Honestly, I wouldn't be so excited. 2K are not the same company now as we knew back then, and this has shown most of all in their sport licences. The NBA games have pushed microtransactions to a point where even EA would feel shame and the WWE games have gone so far downhill that'll they are swimming in the lake at the bottom of the valley. More greed, less competence, that's the way of 2K today.

It's still downloading and I doubt I'll get to it until tomorrow, but I will be Ghost of Tsushima. I've heard a lot of great things about it and I like these kinds of open world action games.

A bit belated, but welcome to VGR.

First off, welcome to the forums. You said you work in the gaming industry, if you don't mind my asking what do you do?

It appears I can't send. My code is 161025478

We both know you'd do nothing about it even you could, like the cowardly keyboard warrior you are, so stop with the stupid threats and childish insults. You're not going to do well here, a forum where people behave like adults, so I would recommend you leave, but either way I'm done with you. You have no brains, no class and no respect. And if you genuinely have served, then you're bloody disgrace as well, although I doubt it. EDIT: Just so you know, I've hit the ignore button on you. I'm not interested in hearing from a petulant child anymore

You're not military or law enforcement least, or least I hope not. You're a petulant child throwing a hissy fit because someone criticized you grammar. It's absolutely pathetic. Someone with military discipline takes it like man and listens to the advice given him.

Sorry you had to go through all that. I can't even pretend to imagine what that must have been like, but I admire your strength and resolve. Just know you have friends here.

Social media, YouTube as well as, of course, websites like VGR. I'm not big on the major commercial video games media because their success, or even survival, is tied directly the success of the video games industry, so it's hard to put full trust in anything they say.

By games of eBay is pretty much like buying anything else off eBay. There's always a risk of the game not being in as good condition as described.

I'm not going to be told what to do by some immature bully. Like I already said, in a type style that I know can actually be read, I can't comment on the topic when I don't know what is you said because I can't read gibberish. I'll happily give my thoughts if you translate it into English.

How can I say something relevant or insightful in response what I can't even read the garbled mess you wrote? Even If could I wouldn't because you're being little asshole, and that isn't worth my time.

No reason to rude, now. It's not my fault that trying to read your post was like rubbing my eyes with sandpaper, that's on you.

The Last of Us games certainly had that effect, as did some of the Metal Gear Solid titles, God of War, Final Fantasy 10, Tales of Berseria and Hellblade. A great single player gaming experience just isn't the same without emotional investment from the player, it's borderline essential.

I got that, I just decided to be an ass post and 123 in hex'code as a joke. Now here's 124 in binary. 1111100

7B (if we're gonna do this, we may as well go all the way and use hexadecimal)

I know absolutely nothing about Warhammer 40K, so I'll take this. The trailer was fun, though.

What's your favourite way to eat potato? (I ask weird questions, it makes people notice me. Don't judge)

This response here was not in jest. Just by putting some silly disclaimer at the beginning asking for it not to be read seriously does not make it joke. Not only did I read and understand your post, I read an understood all three of them. Don't insult me by suggesting I don't get it, especially when it's this simple. You have a twitch channel you want to promote, and like I said, that is totally fine ( @DCmaybe we should have a section for SSP?). My issue was with how you did. With barely 20 posts your name at the time of posting them you feel you have the right to not only push your social media, but also question people for you obviously flawed methods in doing so? After such a small contribution, you feel so entitled that you not only do this in the first place, but you actually call me out for questioning you? There are more words in my TLOU2 review on this forum than there is in your entire post history. I was never gonna watch your twitch channel anyway, and that is genuinely is nothing against you. Watching people play games on stream just isn't my thing, but throwing it in everyone's face the way you did was disrespectful, selfish and blatant. I don't have the right to say you can't promote your twitch channel, and I confess I may have been a little strong worded in original response, but that doesn't take right away my right to advise you did it wrong, which is clearly true. You can take advice or leave it. But whatever, don't heed my advice. Go on other gaming forums and communities spamming multiple threads after barely making a contribution pushing your twitch channel, see how it works out.