Do Not Play Life is Strange Remastered Until Deck Nine Fixes It

Good morning everyone,

Well... we had to replay the entire last act of Episode 4 and the entire first half of Episode 5, but we finished and completed 100% Life is Strange Remastered, and boy was it a buggy mess, from missing audio cues, one of which we included in the clips section, to saves not actually saving, it was just a bad way to finish what is a great game. But you know what's a real kick in the teeth, because of the Save Game glitch, I couldn't go back to redo Max's choice to see what the Sacrifice Chloe ending looked like. Needless to say this was very disappointing.

I normally don't encourage people not to play something, but since Deck Nine, the developers behind the remastered version of Life is Strange, are aware of the issues, I'm saying wait until they release a patch update before playing it. Yes, I know, like you all, I was excited to see the adventure of Max and Chloe look better than ever, but with how many issues there are that break the experience of the game, it's better to wait. I feel bad in saying that, but considering it was delayed nearly five months, it's clear Deck Nine knew there would be issues.

So with saying this, what does this mean for the Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered play-through... well the achievements are only for the three episodes, so we could just do a marathon stream covering all three episodes in one night, which might be best for Saturday. I could start early and just roll through them back to back to back and (hopefully) not worry about any Saved progress issues while going for 100% completion.

Now we also played some Paladins last night as well, hell we played five matches, winning four of them! I was lucky to get grouped up with players who were objective focused, which was nice and kept the pressure off me. Characters I used were Ashe, Tyra and Skye... and I managed to get a quadrakill as Skye!

For the raid, we dropped in on Joliet4 while they were playing BioShock Remastered over at twitch.tv/joliet4!

Life is Strange Remastered Achievements

• Polarized: Finish Episode 5: Polarized
• Iris: Take optional photo #6 in Episode 5: Polarized
• Sensor: Take optional photo #7 in Episode 5: Polarized
• On Display: Take optional photo #8 in Episode 5: Polarized
• Light Meter: Take optional photo #9 in Episode 5: Polarized
• Silhouettes: Take optional photo #10 in Episode 5: Polarized
• Selfie Awareness: Take all optional photos in Episode 5: Polarized
• Polarized: Finish Episode 5: Polarized

Twitch Clip Links

1. Great Work Deck Nine You IDIOTS!
2. And Find Out Warren Is Complete Creep
3. Last Bottle, Final Photograph
4. This is our Victory!
5. C'mon let's fight!
6. Quadra Kill Rampage!!!!! 

My off-stream Final Fantasy XIV adventures continued in part thanks to Kalenal (twitch.tv/Kalenal) giving me a great tip on how to complete The Mothercrystral Trial with the Trust system, and that is to follow Y'shtola who can see in advance any major change in the aether, which worked like a charm. Sure I needed a couple of extreme attempts to make it work, but we got past it. From there it was the cut scene heavy Main Story quests of 'A Bold Decision' all the way up through 'You're Not Alone', which certainly was an ironic title considering what happens during that quest.

Needless to say the it was a little after 4 AM when I reached the point where after all of the Scions scarified themselves to forge a path ahead to reach the point of the final quest of Endwalker... and boy does it really tug on the strings. As you know, Alisaie is my favorite of the Scions, since she does seem the one to give the most care about the lead character. Not to say the others don't, but Alisaie is more often than not concerned about the player's well-being. That said I loved the grand appearance of Emet-Selch and Hythiodaeus to lend a hand. I look forward to tackling the actual quest Endwalker off-stream to avoid on stream spoilers... granted it's been out for two months at this point, but still.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured a 31 minute session with Weaving Combo #1, Intermediate Combo #2 and Advanced Combo #1 for an estimated calorie burn of 492 kcal.

For tonight's stream we'll be leading off with Forza Horizon 4 and then continuing Gears 5 Hivebusters with Striker and Iceman, and we more than likely will finish that this evening! 

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