The xCloud website/app will remind you to switch the TV/monitor to Game mode in the future

👨‍🔬 Beta testers needed

- Browser: install this version https://github.com/redphx/better-xcloud/raw/typescript/dist/better-xcloud.user.js
- Android app: Settings > Update Better xCloud script

New:
- Add Game bar feature with Screenshot & Show/hide touch controller buttons.
- Click on the bottom-left corner of the screen to show the bar
- Works on all devices
- More features will be added in later updates (Mute/unmute mic…)


Thanks!

👨‍🔬 Beta testers needed

- Browser: install this version https://github.com/redphx/better-xcloud/raw/typescript/dist/better-xcloud.user.js
- Android app: Settings > Update Better xCloud script

Update for the Game Bar feature in the previous post and some other functions.

- New:
- Mute/unmute function. This button only becomes visible after you turn the mic in xCloud’s settings first. Help me making sure the voice chat really works.
- Option to disable Game Bar feature in the Settings
- Show animation when taking screenshot

- Changes:
- Using User-Agent profiles likes TV or VR will also disable touch features in Better xCloud.
- ⚠️ The User-Agent setting will be reset. You’ll need to set it again.

Thanks.

🚀 New release

Script version 4.3.0 is available: https://github.com/redphx/better-xcloud/releases/tag/v4.3.0

✨ A lot of new features: Game Bar, video bitrate limitter…

If your device (Android TV) is struggling with high bitrate stream, try to limit the bitrate.

Thanks everyone for testing the beta version.

☕️ Buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/redphx

What's next for Better xCloud:
- I *think* it might be possible to implement the stream recording feature into both the script & app. Not sure how much it will affect the performance.
- But before that I want to go back to update the Android app. It has been a while.

New feature in xCloud website: ability to sort achievements

✨ New on xCloud: Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons

This is a co-op puzzle game that 2 players play on just 1 controller.

If anyone here speaks French or Korean please help translating Better xCloud: https://crowdin.com/project/better-xcloud

Otherwise I’m gonna remove these languages in the next updates since they have a lot of untranslated texts.

This is a screenshot of the next version of Android app.

Do you see anything special? 🤔

New xCloud feature: context menu for games in the Jump back in section has been added.

- Desktop: click on the … button when hovering on the game card
- Mobile: press and hold the game card

Previously it was impossible to view info of any game in the Jump back in section.

✨ New on xCloud: Chants of Sennaar

I also created a custom touch layout for the game.

The native Mouse & Keyboard feature is being rolled out for everyone (not a Preview feature anymore): https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/05/15/xbox-may-update-2024/

I want to give a shoutout to all the translators who helped translate Better xCloud to other languages 🙏 Your work is also very important for bringing this project to more people.

If you contributed to the translations but I missed your name, please tell me: https://better-xcloud.github.io/translators/

Thanks again.

👀 In the next episode of the Android app

- No more top bar.
- Add pull-to-refresh feature.
- The “App settings” & “Create shortcut” buttons are now at the bottom right of the screen. They are only visible when you are at the beginning of the page.
- Add an option to disable Better xCloud script when using the app (custom userscript still works).

✨ New on xCloud: Immortals of Aveum™