The headline function for this replace is the brand new keyboard mapping for Xbox controllers. Microsoft says that customers can now “map controller buttons on your Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 and the Xbox Adaptive Controller to your keyboard.” According to Microsoft, this function has been a request featured amongst PC gaming and accessibility communities, and it helps “broaden controller enter capabilities in video games which have many instructions, have restricted remapping capabilities, or don’t help controllers.”
Beginning this week, the Xbox Accessories app will help controller-to-keyboard enter on PC and Xbox consoles. “Choose any button in your Elite Series 2 or port in your Xbox Adaptive Controller and remap it to your required keyboard key,” Microsoft says. “For occasion, Sea of Thieves can take keyboard enter for one thing like fast choose of a software or weapon, whereas utilizing a controller for many different actions.”
Elsewhere, you’ll now have the ability to “simply import” your recreation captures from the Xbox community straight into Microsoft Clipchamp for simple enhancing. In Clipchamp, you will note a brand new ‘Xbox’ possibility within the import panel, and as soon as signed in to the community, it is possible for you to to import your recreation captures instantly for enhancing.
With this replace, Xbox can be altering its optionally available diagnostic information controls to be account-based. According to Microsoft, as soon as you have chosen your preferences on a gaming machine, akin to an Xbox console or PC, you will not must do it on one other gaming machine. To view your optionally available diagnostic information settings at any time, press the Xbox button after which go to Settings > Account > Privacy & on-line security > Data assortment.
Microsoft can be working an experiment with this replace. For some Xbox customers, Microsoft is “making it simple to see what your folks are taking part in and soar right into a recreation collectively.” From your profile web page, you’ll invite your folks to a celebration and be a part of a recreation. This function will solely be coming to a random subset of customers who will have the ability to try it out.
