Got an SSD, and OMG!

@xultanis-dragon
Im playing on the one x, not the OG xbox. The difference is night and day. Yes the game loads in faster, you are right. Every blackscreen is also significantly faster. I dont need yourself or @muffinstuffingu telling me its been tested and im lying to the community. Every mermaid, ferry, and hideout blackscreen is WAYYY faster than a stock Xbox one x. The blackscreens have always been there since release, and now they basically dont exist for me :)

To test the difference, i reinstalled the game on the hdd, and guess what? The blackscreens went right back to 10, 20, 30 seconds. All of them. Guess what happened when i reinstalled to the ssd? Blackscreens of 5 seconds🤔

I agree with @SwimPlatypus7 its not even the same game anymore.

@Crimsonraziel LOL, im sure i've heard that line somewhere before...

@timboagogo said in Got an SSD, and OMG!:

It is sad that the people here who have this setup (X1X and SSD) all agree (the difference is night and day and black screens are like lightning now) and the only people arguing don't have it and haven't just done the upgrade themselves. Their inexperienced advice is the exact reason I didn't do the upgrade myself months ago! Anyone who says there is no significant benefit upgrading from a HDD to an SSD simply has never done it themselves. Anyone who is thinking of an upgrade to SSD, take it from someone who just did it and the other 2 or 3 people here who all agree the difference is remarkable and you will not regret your purchase.
I don't care about your PC specs and how good you think it is, I have just done this after 12 months of using a powered external HDD and it well and truly exceeded all of my expectations.
No need for videos as I have nothing to prove to anyone but I don't want people out there thinking of upgrading to SSD being misguided by people who haven't done it themselves. My only regret is listening to them in the past and not upgrading earlier!

No the people who are disagreeing are people who have it, have tested the differences, and have concluded that if your system is working, then you are fine.

Every PC player has an SSD at this point. "I don't care what your PC set up is." Really? Most PC set ups are better than your console.

My friends all have XboX One X's and S's. The only person in our crew who spent any significant amount of time in any load screen was the ONLY person who had an XboX One Original.

I have then tested my speed versus other people. I have a $2.5K rig with an Samsung SSD. I used my XboX and my roommates XboX. I have tested it over and over and over and over.

I take 2 seconds to load, sometimes 3 or 5 depending on whats going on. Even sometimes as long as 10 to 15seconds. My friends take the same amount of time as I do.

If you pay attention the beginning of the debate was the OP saying he was loading in from ferry in less than a second. Which is shenanigans. He says its not, but I call shenanigans.

The other guy who is talking about his XBoX One X taking 30 or more seconds to load probably had an overheating system or bad internet connection. Out of all the data I recieved the only system to have a significant disadvantage is the XBoX One ORIGINAL.

Also did you ask the right questions? Do you even realize what we are even talking about??

If you asked "hey should I get a SSD?"

We would have asked - what are your load times?

If you replied - "I load in about 2 to 3 seconds"

We would have said no, your load times are pretty optimal. The only change you would experience is load times into the start of the game in 10seconds instead of 30seconds to a 1min.

Adding an SSD is not going to drop your load in times from ferry or mermaid. 2 to 3 seconds is about as good as it gets. It can go up or down depending on whats going on in the game, or whatever is going on with your ship.

Don't try to make the people who gave you advice sound like the bad guys here.

SIDE NOTE I love how you also all believe the SSD will protect you from black screens. Again almost all PC players have SSD's at this point and we still get long black screens sometimes.

@timboagogo
Good on you, im glad you notice the difference, its amazing. Its hard to believe that you can see the difference yourself, but people are still here calling you a liar!

I reinstalled onto my hdd, and all the blackscreens went right back to the 15-20 second bad load time. Went back to the ssd and they are all less than 5 seconds again. Same internet, same xbox, local server, solo sloop, duo and gally.

My shipmates are running hdd. Two Xbox S, and one Xbox X. We all die from the same keg, and im back on the boat 5 to 10 seconds before them. We all mermaid together, im 5 to 10 seconds faster. We all go to the hideout, im 15 to 20 seconds faster.

Prior to my ssd, we all had the same load times, consistently across the board. I was considering installing on my external hdd just to test, but i really don't need to. I can see the difference every day.

@xultanis-dragon
Im the guy you mentioned with 30 second load times(sometimes).
Are you suggesting that purchasing an ssd fixed my internet connection? Or are you suggesting that my xbox was overheating straight out of the box? You are wrong both times.

Your anecdotal evidence/personal tests are just as valid as everyone else's. There are plenty of people in this thread agreeing that the ssd makes a huge blackscreen difference compared to their own hdd experiences. You are basically calling them liars, thats not cool dude.

@pomalotacusmk3 @TimboAGoGo

Neither of you are actually reading what I'm writing are you?

If your XboX straight out of the box was giving you 30second load times from ferry to ship, then you had a bad box, don't know what to tell you man. Everyone I've talked to that had an XboX One X or even an S has loaded in just as quickly as I do.

You guys have REALLY got to read what I'm typing and really understand where my stance is and where my debate is going.

Also I call shenanigans where I see shenanigans. If I think someone is lying, I don't IMPLY it within my posts. I straight out call someone on it. Have I called anyone a liar? No. Have I called shenanigans on the OP. Yes. People like to over-exaggerate on stuff a LOT here.

People enjoy to over-exaggerate to over play their situation. Like someone getting on here and saying they got attacked by the Kraken once every 5mins, or saying that they get attacked by a player every single time they load into the game right at the port when they start the game. A console loading in under a second with an SSD. Someone suggesting they take 30seconds to load from the mermaid, then corrects themselves and says "sometimes" or that same person suggesting that they tested the difference and then in the very next post suggested that they didn't even bother to try and test it.

You get where I'm going with this?

sigh Honestly, you guys have REALLY got to read what is being said. REALLY.

Also I would like to see a video from OP with his mythical load times. I would then like to know exactly what brand of magical SSD he has bought.

@TimboAGoGo One last thing. If you told anyone "hey when I take the mermaid my load times are 20seconds would an SSD help me?" I doubt anyone here said "Nah man don't worry SSD won't help you at all." If you asked me if you should get an SSD when you had 20second load times ALL the time then I would have said yes get one and I doubt anyone else would have told you otherwise.

Again over-exaggeration and shenanigans. If things don't make sense I call it out.

@xultanis-dragon
I didnt 'correct' myself at all. The sentence included 10, 20, AND 30 seconds. If 10 and 20 seconds occur, then the 30 second loads HAVE to be 'sometimes'. If it was always 30 seconds, i wouldn't have typed 10 or 20. Comprehension please. Or perhaps take your own advice and actually read the post. What actually happened was this...i listed loading times up to and including 30 seconds, but when you mentioned that in your following post, you worded it in such a way as to imply 'always 30 seconds'. You deliberately took me out of context. The post is right there if you weren't sure

If you actually did read the posts, you would have understood that my tests were switching back and forth from internal hdd to ssd to time the blackscreens. The part where i said i couldnt be bothered was about installing to a third external hdd i own. Either you misunderstood what was written, or you deliberately took me out of context again.

Sigh Honestly,you have REALLY got to read what is being said. REALLY.

There is nothing wrong or broken with the hdd supplied with the xbox. If there was, everything would load slowly, not just SoT. This is not the case. If it makes you feel better, i installed the game onto my external SoT hdd. Bad blackscreen times. I guess that's broken too? Just like everyone else's hdd is broken thats posting here? Im currently installing onto my xbox s just to run some more tests. I bet that hdd is broken too, right?

Just because someone disagrees with you, doesnt mean they are wrong.

@crimsonraziel said in Got an SSD, and OMG!:

I think we need some opt-out. I don't want to play against SSD players. Those who are against this just want to maintain their unfair advantage.

Don't worry, that's coming right next to the secondary complaint of "I think we need an opt-out; I don't want to play against pirate legend players"

Just wait till they figure out what kind of an advantage the Elite controller is.. (I am informed they break often, so far mine is rock solid)

@pomalotacusmk3

Do you have the Elite controller yet? When you get one turn the sensitivity up too the moon.. It will take a little time to adapt, but once you do you're going to be killing it.

Make sure you use the bottom paddles in place of the D-pad buttons and map your jump and sprint to the bottom paddles..

That + the SSD and you're going to be destroying PC players on the regular, it's not even remotely fair when you battle another X-box player, they're trying to fight you while wading in molasses.

Unfortunately I hear the Xbox elite controller is not as durable as the factory unit, but I already have ordered the most frequently broken components (available on mouser electronics website)

Enjoy, it's the difference between night and day.

@swimplatypus7 yea, i heard that they were a bit fragile, but if they are that good, maybe i will. Cheers.