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Xevioso
Founder
Founder

What is the "Restricted Scene" message about?

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Recently, whenever I start sooner if my games, like AC Odyssey or Fenyx Rising (maybe it's a Ubisoft issue?), I get a pop-up message that says "Restricted Scene" then "End of restricted scene". It only happens when the games first launch. It doesn't seem to cause any problems, but it's just kind of annoying.

Anyone else experiencing this, and does anyone know why it happens?

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Grovelhog
Founder
Founder

No, he's got it right. It's an Stadia tool that allows developers to prevent screenshots or videos being captured. The message comes up on screen to let you know that it's in effect, it's not an error message or a response to something you've done.

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User5060
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It means you can't take screenshots sure it says that or how would I know.

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Xevioso
Founder
Founder

Thanks. I don't see anything that says that, just the error and it's literally when I launch the game so it's not like I'm trying to take a screenshot, I'm not doing anything with the controller at that time, so that's weird. Maybe if it happened just once I would think maybe I pressed a button accidentally or something. But it happens everytime I launch AC ODYSSEY or Phenyx. I haven't noticed yet if it happened with my other games though. If it keeps happening I'll reach out to support in the app.

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Grovelhog
Founder
Founder

No, he's got it right. It's an Stadia tool that allows developers to prevent screenshots or videos being captured. The message comes up on screen to let you know that it's in effect, it's not an error message or a response to something you've done.

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StarHeart
Founder
Founder

There's no way this is expected behavior. This just started happening. I don't need to be told proactively that I can't take a capture when  not even trying to take a capture. 

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TheWelshIdiot
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@StarHeart 

Have you activated YouTube streaming?

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User5060
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It's not that it's because consoles and stadia is always recording so you can capture last 30 seconds this notification let you know feature is not active we just need way to turn notifications off.

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StarHeart
Founder
Founder

no

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User5060
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It happens on PlayStation maybe Xbox too but can turn the notifications off there the problem with stadia as seen in headset is on loud notification is that we have no way to stop us seeing them.

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Whito
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

seems to be the microphone notification

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NonDescriptUser
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I also get a Restricted Scene and End of Restricted Scene when the Immortals: Fenyx Rising home screen first loads. It's about 3-5 seconds between the first notification and the second notification. I do not believe this is a microphone issue. I use an Xbox One controller (no microphone) on my PC to play Stadia Games and I do not have a microphone attached to my PC. Additionally, I have the microphone setting turned off in the OS. I do not have a YouTube channel linked and I am not live streaming. Plus, I am not trying to take a screenshot. It just simply notifies Restricted Scene --> End of Restricted Scene, as the game first loads. These notifications are not problematic, but seem to be caused on the Stadia side or Ubisoft side, not the user. They are definitely annoying.

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colonelpanic
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

The "Restricted scene" and "End of restriction scene" notifications are so annoying. They're loud and attract your attention to the screen when the game is still loading. This makes loading feel even longer. Why demand my attention when there's nothing for me to do? This is a bad user experience. Let me read the newspaper in peace while the game loads, then notify me when the game is ready to play.

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