Xbox Live

[Darksin68]

I was playing Call of Duty 4, and I got an invite from my friend to join his party. I accepted, but nothing special happened. I wanted to go in a game with him and play, but I just got hooked up with some random (very good people:p)

 

 

 

Can someone tell me how I can get in games with my friends? Thanks a lot,

 

 

 

Darksin68

 

 

 

PS: Post anything which you think will help me understand and use Live, I just got it today.

[Mamong]

Moved to Video Games and Consoles :)

[Darksin68]

OO, thanks.

[limpbizkit]

Basicly party is used for group chat. You can invite people from party to join your game the normal way or if you are leader you can invite party to game.

[aquariusman]

How did you accept the invite. Did you press 'A', did you press the Xbox guide button and then press 'A', or did you think and hope the Xbox would pick up on your brain waves and realize you want to accept that invite. Yeah, I think I watched a bit too much House today, the sarcasm's rubbing off a bit.

 

 

 

I'm not all that familiar with NXE (The newly-updated dashboard and interface for the Xbox), but your friend could have invited you, then as you were joining his game, left, so that you still got connected to the game, but he had left without telling you. Or you could have seen the invite notification pop up, and just press 'A', which would start a new game, depending on what lobby you were in, and what option you had highlighted when the notification popped up.

 

 

 

 

 

For an explanation of the Xbox Live guide:

 

 

 

The Xbox Live guide is an in-game interface that lets you do a lot of things. You press the Xbox Guide button (That big glowing button inbetween Start and Select/Back) and the interface will pop up. From this are more menus, such as private messages, chat, a friends list, your Gamercard, and other options. The friends list gives you a list of your friends, sorted by online/offline status, and gives you access to friends' gamercards, form which you can invite them to a party, private chat, or send them a private message (Among other options of course). The private messages menu is just that, and in box of your private messages. You can delete them, read&reply, and create new messages. Going to your Gamercard lets you mess around with some settings, view your games played and achievements earned, and just look at your pretty gamercard (Or avatar, since it probably changed). Chat gives you options involving MSN messenger and private/party/game chat.

 

 

 

Since this is based off the original Xbox Live Dashboard, I decided to throw in information about NXE in relevent areas. This is not guaranteed to be accurate at all, so take it with a grain or salt.