Xbox One April system update phase 2 out now

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Phase 2 of the April system update is currently live for members of the preview program. Phase one of the update came a couple days ago with party chat improvements, game hub links, and achievement notifications.

In this new update, voice messages are making a return. Voice messages can be exchanged between Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles.

Check out the full list detailed below.

  • Voice messages – Xbox One preview program members will be able to compose and playback voice messages in the messages app when snapped on Xbox One. Quickly and easily record audio to send to your friends or others through your snapped messages app accessed through a simple quick double tap of the Xbox button. Additionally, voice messages can be exchanged between Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles
  • Dedicated servers for party chat – We’re enhancing party chat with dedicated chat relay servers that will enable Xbox One owners that may have historically had NAT issues to party chat more reliably. Parties where players are unable to form direct peer-to-peer connections for party chat will automatically leverage dedicated server infrastructure to relay traffic. This service is only enabled for parties where one or more members are previewing the April system update
  • What’s On – The Xbox engineering team is continuing to experiment with the What’s On area, which highlights popular videos, movies, TV shows and game broadcasts. We’re continuing to test different experiences for preview members in the U.S. and this month, the preview of this feature is being expanded to Canada and the UK as well




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L33t-Ninja-MuchPosted:

this was a stupid updatelollololololololololololololololol

TotePosted:

Thank god we have voice messaging

NissanPosted:

The party update sounds nice.

WokzePosted:

Voice messages is a good feature, but don't see why it wasn't on there from the start, and good to see they're fixing parties, they were f**ked before hand.

DeluxeHazardPosted:

Microsoft is being very consistent with constantly rolling out updates.

DankStorm-Posted:

Very good improvements with the communication :D

GoosiePosted:

Voice messages is a must on the Xbox. Back when I switched from Xbox 360 to PS3 that's the one thing I couldn't get over was the lack of communication. This update will be fantastic, more kids to hear raging at me :)

RinPosted:

Voice messages should have been put in at launch. Shouldn't have taken this long. Dedicated servers seems pretty neat. It might reduce the problems that we had experienced on the 360.

SwiftPosted:

Great now I get to hear the 12 year olds voice as he asks me to join his gamebattles team.

XboxPosted:

Well this seems pretty good. ( :