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Hitcher

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BUT, they've got rid of the little row of recently used icons under the live tile, instead you have to scroll down through each one. So it's not all there in one row on one screen for you to easily see.

Probably because everyone complained it was confusing.

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Mine updated this morning - it prompted me when I turned the system on, was no need to force it.

Took about an hour to download (that's my crappy Internet speeds tho as it was only something like 1.4Gb). When installing it did something I hadn't seen before in that it updated to around 50% and then reset before saying `Preparing System` though the bar was at the same place.

All in all took something like 10-15 minutes to install and I'm sat looking at the new dash now.

edit: bit churlish to complain about bugs in a Beta but this thing is very hit and miss. Had problems in that it wouldn't see my controller at all (but I could turn on the system with it), then it couldn't see my external hard drive content.

There's phantom inputs on the dash and even the Preview app keeps crashing and locking up. No doubt they'll get these fixed before it rolls out to everyone.

Overall I think it's a massive improvement and does seem a hell of a lot faster / quicker to navigate. I like that little side tab that allows you to access the basic functionality.

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Scribblor

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Just because you can work out what it's for doesn't excuse it for being crap design. Which it is.

Why is it? Genuine question.

It's always seemed fine to me, I've never been confused by it. It seems like a decent, handy system to me. But if they're getting rid of it because of volume of complaints, then I'm obviously 'wrong', which is fair enough. I can't see how it's bad design though.

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Pausing a game tends to be the main puzzle these days. Oh look it's gone to the dash, wait oh, options panel uh..oh shit some crap is now pinned to the side of the screen that wont go away now. Arrggghh

I look forward to critic'ing the new dash.

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Why is it? Genuine question.

It's always seemed fine to me, I've never been confused by it. It seems like a decent, handy system to me. But if they're getting rid of it because of volume of complaints, then I'm obviously 'wrong', which is fair enough. I can't see how it's bad design though.

You've got a grouping of tiles and there's 3 different types of thing in there. Your current app, the recent apps, then your standard options that don't change. Apart from the current app tile, there's nothing to set any of them apart. It's not broken to the point that it's unusable, but it's adding complication where none is needed. A standard Wii/iOS screen would be much better.
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Pausing a game tends to be the main puzzle these days. Oh look it's gone to the dash, wait oh, options panel uh..oh shit some crap is now pinned to the side of the screen that wont go away now. Arrggghh

I look forward to critic'ing the new dash.

Are you pressing the illuminated Xbox button to pause?
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Scribblor

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You've got a grouping of tiles and there's 3 different types of thing in there. Your current app, the recent apps, then your standard options that don't change. Apart from the current app tile, there's nothing to set any of them apart. It's not broken to the point that it's unusable, but it's adding complication where none is needed. A standard Wii/iOS screen would be much better.

Huh. It's always seemed perfectly logical and simple to me.

I guess I'm the target audience for the bone's original dash. Except for pinning, which is something I've never done on purpose and which I detest when I do it by accident.

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Why is it? Genuine question.

It's always seemed fine to me, I've never been confused by it. It seems like a decent, handy system to me. But if they're getting rid of it because of volume of complaints, then I'm obviously 'wrong', which is fair enough. I can't see how it's bad design though.

It's definitely confusing because of how bad the rest of the UI is. At first I honestly couldn't figure out how to get into stuff like Games and Apps or Settings easily. Sometimes they were there and I thought, hey, they probably just always stay there because you would always want to be able to access them, but then they disappear. Of course it become a lot more tolerable when you realise they want you to pin literally everything you may want to use on a semi regular basis.

And it does silly things like keep recent disc games in there even if you've got the game disc in, so at the moment I've got two Sunset Overdrive tabs in the same row.

It's not awful, but it's not great.

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Pausing a game tends to be the main puzzle these days. Oh look it's gone to the dash, wait oh, options panel uh..oh shit some crap is now pinned to the side of the screen that wont go away now. Arrggghh

I look forward to critic'ing the new dash.

For those stuck in mega drive days the three buttons in centre of controller work as follows

The illuminated Xbox button goes to dash/os same as on 360

The right hand hand button is pause in game same as on 360

The left hand button is context sensitive but can be options or something else same as on 360

The only way you "pin some crap" to right hand side is if you double press the illuminated button land if you do that by accident then I apologise for not acknowledging your disability earlier

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I'd understand if he was saying some games don't support pause due to being online only or something.. But saying accidentally snapping stuff?

Double press the centre button, then press right on the dpad to select snap an app...

That takes a special type of ignorance.

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Chow

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To be fair on the 360 pressing the guide button automatically paused what was happening on the screen. On the bone it takes you to the home screen and your game keeps playing.

Yeah, on the 360, the guide button was a 'hard pause'. Would even pause a lot of cutscenes as well.

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P3DZ

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Some games pause on the bone when you use the dash button some don't. When playing The Walking Dead, I would regularly use the dash button when achievements would pop up and cover the choices you could make so I had to pause it to then know what the he'll I was picking.

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Is there a way to opt out? I registered for the new dashboard but after hearing about all the bugs and crashes, I would rather stay with the current. Please don't tell me I'm locked into getting this now that I've registered? : /

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