Recently, Zipper unleashed another slew of tweaks and patches as well as a few sought after additions to their 256 player shooter. The most intriguing and questionably integrated feature however, came in the form of the ability to take in game screens in nice 720p quality. The issue herein lies in just exactly how you are supposed to take such a shot.
You must open the XMB and select "Take Screenshot" from under the "Photo" section. Now before I go on, when I first saw this I was bombarded with mixed feelings. First off, I began to wonder, if you have to access the XMB to activate the feature to be able to take the shot, does this mean that the whole ability to take the screen is merely a tool provided by Sony that's available for developers to use and Zipper felt like taking advantage of it? If so, does that mean that every other game can be launched or patched with this ability? If this is true then I could see this being useful in many other games, ones particularly that don't require you to completely stop what you're doing.
Which leads to the next part: once you have selected the "Take Screenshot" icon the XMB will close and an option to press "X" to take the shot will appear on the bottom right of your screen. Cool? Not exactly, because at the same time, your character is locked in place, you cannot move, turn, switch weapons, etc until you take the photo. Then once you take the shot, the system takes anywhere between 3 and 5 additional seconds to save the shot, all whilst you cannot move.
Now, this is a problem for me and I'd imagine most gamers as well because we want to be able to take some pretty amazing screens on the go. For example, you just lobbed a 'nade right into 4 guys and boom, "+20" pops up and you want to take a screenshot to capture the moment. Well unfortunately, depending on the PS3 and how it's feeling at the time, it could take up to as much as 5 to 15 seconds to go through the steps required to take the screen and get back in action. And even if you are fast enough you risk dieing and losing the take all together because you were standing still for so long.
Of course, we all shouldn't complain about free features, as Zipper has been quite generous in my opinion with their unrivaled community support, however we would like to be able to take full advantage of this feature. My suggestion would be to be able to move while setting up your shot whereas you can defend yourself and get the perfect screen. Change the "X" button that you have to press to save the shot to a combination of buttons whereas it won't interfere with gameplay, and if possible, have the screen save in the background.
I feel this is an overall welcome addition to MAG and hopefully it will be refined in the future. I'm sure it's something we can confide in as Zipper has also addressed the much needed MultiQueue feature in the update as well. So for now I see the screenshot feature well suited for taking a snap of your after game stats so you can finally brag about that 50-1 your friends weren't around to see.
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Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I also think it's a great feature, but that's some pretty shoddy execution. If anything, I think pressing Triangle and Circle is something like that on the face buttons because L1 and R1? That wouldn't work in a whole lot of games.
I think that the ability to take in game picture is a great idea. Sony has had this feature all along but few developers actually make use of it. The same thing with being able to play music in the background of the game. I wish that every game offered the ability to do that and that they refined it to make it easier to use. It would also be cool to be able to record video from the ps3 (without a capture card)
It's the screen capture tool from Qore. So, it is likely built into the firmware and they just enabled the code for MAG. Not really a good option for games like MAG, IMHO, but does allow you to line up a group of clan members and take a screenshot or similar.
Hopefully they improve on this implementation to use a specific combination of button pushes (why not L3+R3 or similar?).
What do you think will happen if you stop by with a camera trying to take a snap while actually engaged in a gun battle in the middle of a frikkin warzone?
Also give your poor PS3 a break its already stretched thin having to accomodate 256 players not to mention 3d grafix and 7.2 surround sound.