The Verge (Chaim Gartenberg)
“We found that we needed a connection of at least 25 Mbps in order to have a consistently playable stream… The best performance (of course) came from a PC with a wired Ethernet connection and controller… Playing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on that solid of a connection was virtually indistinguishable from the game running natively… Metro: Exodus, one of the most graphically intensive games available to stream, looked and played decidedly worse streamed to a web browser than it does on a capable gaming PC. Honestly, it doesn’t look great in either Luna or Stadia, but at least Stadia could keep up with a mouse and keyboard. Luna’s mouse was extremely laggy… Regardless of how well they play, these games load fast.”
Gaming Nexus (Eric Hauter)
“I don’t have Fire TV, so for today my options were to play over Chrome, or to download the tiny 80mb app file. I tried both (fairly quickly), and found the experience and interface to be nearly identical… The current library has a healthy number of indies, with a couple of big-budget bangers creeping in around the sides… My first choice was Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. The first time I started the game, it crapped out and crashed almost immediately, which I took as a bad sign. This turned out to be a fluke, however, as for the rest of my time experimenting with Luna, the signal was clear and clean… So far, I’m very impressed with what I’m seeing with Luna.”
Reddit (ylexot007)
“Overall, streaming games seemed to work pretty well for me… Luna controller not available yet. Just got an email saying 29 October. Apparently, there’s no online multiplayer? That seems odd for a cloud service… Compared to the Stadia launch, Stadia may have had a smaller library, but they were generally better games. Luna=quantity, Stadia=quality.”
Reddit (dragonchasers)
“Playing on a PC, wired Ethernet, using the app. Gameplay was fine. I didn’t notice any stutters or pixelation. No audio issues. I could swear a couple of button presses got dropped but generally input lag felt OK… Beyond actually playing games, though, the service is still really bare bones.”
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