Hades Does Not Support Quick Resume On Xbox Series X|S

GameByte writes: "Hades doesn't have Quick Resume on Xbox Series X|S but it's not the end of the world."

[roadkillers]

I hope I enjoy this game. Not a fan of the color pallets from the images and videos I've seen. It's been given such good reviews tho, hoping it changes my opinion.

[galgor]

Watch some twitch streams, you'll soon know if you'd enjoy it or not.

[roadkillers]

Nah, I'll try for myself. Bought God of War without knowing anything and the dude became my avatar.

[Deathdeliverer]

Interesting. I can’t imagine this game takes too long to load so I’m sure it’s a non factor . I preordered and will be playing tonight.

[Teflon02]

Loading isn't the issue I think. If it's a rougelike in the same sense as returnal, which I swear it was. As ppl were saying returnal was similar to games like hades. If that's the case, a quick resume would have been beneficial, because it definitely would be in returnal, where you can end the game mid run and continue later

[TorpeAlex]

Returnal is definitely not the norm for roguelikes. With Hades you can save and quit the game without losing your run, if I recall correctly it just drops you into the last room you cleared.

[S2Killinit]

You can stop mid run in Returnal if im not mistaken. I think you just cant play something else in between. Might be wrong.

Gotta get back into that game as I stopped in a good place after a major breakthrough. Was showing my brother the gameplay and now im Excited to see what new areas are open to me now.

[JEECE]

Well. That's annoying. Quick Resume would be particularly useful for this type of game. Oh well.

[NotoriousWhiz]

Quick resume is really unneeded for this game. It loads quickly and you can save after any room. Sure, it would be nice to have but not nearly as beneficial as it is for other games.

[luckytrouble]

If you're going to complete a run, it won't be more than maybe 40 minutes. If you're going to fail a run, it will be much less. As someone that has put 100+ hours into this game on PC, trust me, it doesn't need any feature clearly directed towards more linear or generally longer gaming experiences or sessions. Even the most indecisive gamer that insists on needing quick resume can boot up the game and resume a run or start a new one within at most a minute anyways.

[TheDoomedGuy]

So...I'm not one to switch between games at all. 1 game at a time for me but do other people have issues with quick resume?

Does it always work?

[Battlestar23]

It rarely works on my XSX even after all the updates released for the console using quick resume still causes it to crash. But like you i don't switch between games that often anyway so it doesn't really matter to me.

[Lexreborn2]

I’ve had issues with it too, I don’t rely on it at all. When I was playing Nier I left it idle for several days started it up and it crashed. I was using QR because I don’t play games as frequently as I used too. But due to it being unreliable for me I just play one game at a time when I boot it up

[Pickledpepper]

I've not had any issues with quick resume at all, I put gta5 in my xsx after not playing for 2 months and it put me straight back to where I left off.

[Lexreborn2]

@pickledepper your lack of issues with 1 game doesn’t mean there isn’t issues with QR with other games. I have zero reason to lie about QR not working for me, as I have been using it since I got the system back in March.

Because it crashed and didn’t save my states after leaving it is why I don’t rely on it. I’m pretty sure they are aware of its inconsistency from app to app. And it would be a better overall experience for me and others if they addressed the issue.

Not talk solely about the times it does work and ignore the other times it doesn’t.

[InUrFoxHole]

I haven't had an issue with it yet.

[Tacoboto]

I find it works very inconsistently.

Ninja Gaiden 2 - played that entirely through Quick Resume states. No issues.
Yakuza 0 - 19 hours in, been in Quick Resume for multiple weeks/full reboots/a power outage. No issues.

Flight Sim didn't seem to work at first, but now has been for a couple days.

Skyrim with FPS Boost - after a day in QR, the framerate tanks. After several hours in QR, framerate is unstable and returns to 60 after pausing/going into the Guide.

Halo 5 refuses to reconnect to online services after a day or more in QR.
Halo MCC refuses to reconnect to the transport service after about a day (refreshing in the network tab of settings doesn't refresh).

[Smok91]

It works great. I typically don’t switch around too much but going back to a story game a week later and after a few seconds being in game right where I left off is great. Online experiences it doesn’t work for obvious reasons. I’ve had one game that didn’t work that probably should’ve but no complaints.

[Tacoboto]

"obvious reasons"

Developers have had enough time with the new SDKs to account for this, especially the first-party studios that continue actively updating their games (looking at you 343 - both of your games do this!) - after X time has passed, refresh the network stack.

It is not hard, refreshing authentication credentials is Software Engineering 101. If the reasons for faulty functionality are so obvious and unfixable, MS should disable those titles from Quick Resume.

[Smok91]

Tacobito,

Yes, obvious reason. It’s obvious online support hasn’t been addressed yet. Shit they had to update it early on just to get it working on offline titles. Good job kid, gold star ;) just curious, what did you think I was talking about lmao

[Petebloodyonion]

For me, it works well with single-player games that support the feature, but it rarely works with games that require an internet connection because it will ask you to reconnect and you will end up restarting the game.

[Hikoran]

I'm betting around only 20% of players use the quick resume function. Plus, bit cheaty having stuff like that in a rougelike.

[Tacoboto]

Quick Resume is automatically applied, so if you've played 2 games on a Series console, there's a 99% chance you've used it.

[Lostbytes]

Not if your console is in power saving mode......and you quit every game , every time. Like some of us.

[TheDoomedGuy]

Cheaty? Why? What's the difference between that and just putting the game down and playing on a different console?

[JEECE]

How is it "cheaty"? It's literally pausing the game, which you can do anyway, it just gives you the added option of being able to play other games while it is paused. It's not "cheaty" if you pause a roguelike/lite on one system and play a different game on another system, so how would this be different. And since it isn't actually creating a save file, all the stupid arguments about "save scumming" that everyone said about Returnal do not apply here.

[HankHill]

Where are you getting these numbers from and how is using quick resume cheaty? That doesn't even make any sense.

[Hikoran]

Clearly I was wrong. My bad. I mainly had Returnal style 'saves/runs' in mind. Definitely looking forward to playing it tomorrow though!

[Teflon02]

Something makes me wonder if you understand what quick resume is. It's a savestate that immediately erases once you resume. Not a savestate you can load over and over lol

[CaptainHenry916]

All games won't support quick resume. TBH do you really need quick resume? As a PC gamer the M2 SSD is fast enough to load a game

[jukins]

Think its more continuing exactly where you left off more than a loading issue

[Tacoboto]

SSDs make load screens a thing of the past.

Quick Resume attempts making reloading a thing of the past. When it works, it's amazing. As a PC gamer I would love a Windows-level feature enabling this

[CaptainHenry916]

"As a PC gamer I would love a Windows-level feature enabling this"

The SSD works well for that too. I just click on the game on my desktop and I'm there in a matter of seconds. I guess it also depends on your CPU (AMD Zen 5950X) and speed of your SSD drive. None of the consoles is faster than my PC. A matter of fact I think the PS5 and Series X are slower to load a game than my PC

[Orchard]

"All games won't support quick resume."

Except there are already games that support quick resume...

Also typically developers don't have to do extra work to make quick resume work, it's the same work they do to support suspend/resume. There are obviously a few exceptions where bugs/issues occur, and this is likely one of them.

[Teflon02]

There's cases where it wouldn't matter sure. Like example, with ps5. Decent amount of games let you start from activity cards and can get you right back to where you were within a few seconds black screen like Final Fantasy and Spiderman. But then there's cases like returnal where a savestate would actually be really convenient in allowing you to get off the game and continue without being penalized

[dbcoops]

Its not so much about the speed of loading as much as its about the type of game, its a Rougelike game in the same vein as Returnal, that game caught massive amounts of flack for not having a way to hold progress in the form of a save point so this rates right up there with that and shouldn't go over well.

[dbcoops]

Not a good look for this type of game.

[badz149]

not supporting a function only the smallest install base on the market has = doesn't look good for the game? what?

[dbcoops]

What does the install base size have to do with anything here? Absolutely nothing that's what.

[JayRyu]

Oh well!
Not really a big deal. I'm looking forward to playing this game tomorrow.

[Ryuk_2007]

But you can actually save and exit... And the game will pick up right back where you left off. Unlike that other game where you had to put your whole ass console in sleep mode if you wanted to take a break.

[TheColbertinator]

They should have used all 12 of the TFLOPS

[Harryvok]

I don't even use quick resume and generally completely exit my games. Games load quick enough as it is.

[Bronbron92]

I feel like I really wouldn’t use quick resume when I get a series x/s I’m just so use to just closing out a game and starting up a new one, I feel like this feature is easily forgotten unless you literally set up the games you want to play or think you might play that day lol just seems a bit extra

[CrimsonReLLiK]

They've now activated Quick Resume on Hades. So it works now.

[vikingland1]

It works for me, hit pause and it goes to quick resume.
So this report is wrong.

[Elit3Nick]

They updated it since then. The post now says that too

[darkrider]

It wasnt never a problem. This consoles got fast drives. Not like last gen.