Xbox One Black Screen Bug

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Xbox One Patch Introduces a New Bug

      With the most recent patch, Xbox One received a few, much needed, quality-of-life patch. This update introduced battery-life of the controller, which is displayed on the home screen, the % amount of storage taken up as well as the exact number of GB remaining within the hard drive, and several others that only improve the Xbox One experience even further. However, this patch not only improved upon the Xbox One features, but also introduced a rather annoying bug alongside it.

            Black screen. Oh, Sh#@! F#$%! F#$%! F#$% you, Microsoft. This is probably what you’re thinking, right about now, if this happened to you. There’s absolutely no need to over-react. These kinds of things happen.

 Let’s go into the details.

            This issue can happen at any given moment during gameplay, or, in my experience, when I minimize during active gameplay to the home screen to check a message, or send a friend an invite to Xbox party chat. The uncertainty of it can really make a gamer (like myself) fearful of playing any competitive multiplayer. This is due to the fact that, when the opacity blackens, you cannot see nor do anything. However, the game, as well as your applications, is still active in the background. You can still hear and issue commands via your controller and connect, but it will make no difference.

            My first instinct was to unplug the power supply, wait 30 seconds, plug the power supply back in, and turn on my Xbox One. This method indeed works, and saved me an unwanted trip to GameStop. Microsoft has reported that this bug has only affected a small group of Xbox One users; therefore, it’s not widespread, nor a major issue. It’s just unfortunate that users, including myself, have to deal with this kind of software issue, however, there is a fair bit of good news. Microsoft is well aware of the current issue due to the dedicated Xbox forum posters, and there is a hotfix in the works.

            Yay! No more black screen! I just hope it’s fixed before TitanFall’s release on March 11^th… if not, I’ll be a very unhappy gamer indeed.

More info will be released as the issues are further addressed.

-Brian

TitanFall needs to come out… like now!

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