We Brought The Shadow

Good afternoon everyone,

Well last night's stream had an aborted ending, thanks to a random power outage that lasted a few minutes... sorry to those who were watching!

Anyway, the stream itself featured Final Fantasy XIV, namely the final main story quest of the 5.0 Shadowbringers expansion, which was the quest called Shadowbringers. It mostly consisted of a dungeon and a trial, Amaurot and The Dying Gasp. Both were rather epic in terms of scale and bringing an epic conclusion to the story arc.Of course I would have more trouble with the Dungeon than with the Trial, but hey, it's all good in my opinion as we saw an epic ending... and the set up for what comes next.

Of course the big reveal that we're going to go to the Moon for Endwalker was obvious, and there is the matter of getting the Scions home from the World of the First, which basically will cover the mini expansions before the new stuff came out this month.

But I didn't really advance the story beyond that, since I have a feeling there is going to be a lot of cut scenes and test, so we knocked out one of the weekly journals, soloing a few trials on Extreme, doing two huge alliance raids and running a quick dungeon.

Also in regards to the log-in queue, I didn't start logging into Final Fantasy XIV till about 10 minutes before stream, and it was about 380 people waiting, so it wasn't as bad as it was last week.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Kalenal who was also playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal! 

Twitch Clip Links

•  The Finish to Amaurot
•  Got A Lot Of Love Between Us
•  The Finish To The Dying Gasp

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hip Shape Focus Combo, Straight Combo #2 and Sway Back Combo for a duration of 31 minutes and an estimated calorie burn of 466 kcal.

Played some Jump Force yesterday afternoon, and knocked off another achievement, 'Aim For the Top', and once I realized how I could easily exploit the A.I. with beam attacks, it was a cake walk. The next one I want to target is the achievement for getting 10 Support characters to level 70.... that's going to be bit tougher, as there isn't much that gives shared XP in the free missions, and I'm running out of Key missions to do.

Jump Force Achievements

1. Aim for the Top: Raised an avatar above level 70 through battle.

I also messed around with the Horde mode with Gears of War 4 into the early hours of this morning and actually was able to complete an entire 50 stage run! Did it as a Scout which amazed me. I can safely say that game mode will teach bladder control!

Gears of War 4 Achievements

1. Classy Move: Reached level 10 in one Horde class
2. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.: Upgraded Fabricator to maximum level
3. Bilford Bogin!: Completed 50 consecutive waves of Horde in a squad
4. Craftsman: Crafted a card
5. Scrap Happy: Destroyed a card
6. New Horizons: Completed 50 consecutive waves of Horde in a squad on any Post Launch map
7. Mine!: You collected 10 Cards from Series 3!
8. Know Your Role: Scout: You used the Scout's talents to maximize your power gain for your team.

It's a new week, which means let's look back at my favorite moments from the past one! This week we played Overwatch, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Gears of War 4, Jump Force, First of the North Star: Lost Paradise, Pokemon Shining Pearl and Final Fantasy XIV!

For tonight's stream we will be playing Overwatch, and I will be making sure I get the weekly challenge skin for Tracer!

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!