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In fairness I don't think Microsoft designed them to work in space. Maybe it's their internet connection?
Telemetry was not designed for such pings, which messes up everything else.
Houston offered to remote into the computer to fix lt
Gonna be some serious ping times.
They're still in low earth orbit so not really
Imagine trying to play Multiplayer games! I wonder if they would work at all?
The moon is about 1.3 light seconds away.
2600 ping is a lot, but people have likely played with worse. Just not very well.
Yeah that makes sense that they have a workaround to fix it but I guess people gotta use a clickbait title to hate on MS.
No, i mean then they must have internet