Today, Stadia held a question and answer session on Reddit. Here’s a rundown of what they had to say.
- Stadia will gain new features weekly. Features such as State Play and Crowd Play won’t arrive until next year. But Google announced that Stream Connect, the split-screen feature, will be available before the end of this year.
- There will not be another Stadia Connect Video before launch on the 19th.
- Stadia will go live at 9:00 AM PST on November 19th.
- Stada Founder’s Edition and Premiere Edition orders will ship in the order in which they were received, starting on the 18th.
- Founder’s and Premieres will receive their invite code only after their order has shipped, which may be later than the 19th.
- They release two short videos demonstrating casting to a Chromecast from a phone.
- They also released a screenshot of streaming settings. Note that a “Balanced” connection will be capped at 1080p.
- Google Home and other Assistant-enabled devices will support the command to launch Stadia, with more voice features arriving over time.
- Google will be releasing a phone mount for their controller, called “the claw”. A helpful Redditor posted a screenshot from a recent Tested video.
- Achievements will be enabled at launch, but the UI for receiving a viewing Achievements will not be active until shortly following launch.
- Founders will be able to change their name after they’ve already selected one, and the new name will not have numbers appended.
- Speaking of Stadia names, they must be between 3 and 15 characters long and cannot include special characters.
- Founder’s won’t receive their Buddy Pass codes until two weeks following launch 🙁
