From A Wedding In Hell To Dropped Frames

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was certainly plagued with some issues as we lost connection half way through... but oddly enough my internet did not go down at all. We did drop a lot of frames, but near as I tell, the issue may have been on Twitch's end, but Comcast Xfinity gave an indication something may have been wrong on my end. But I know there was scheduled maintenance at 1 AM last night so hopefully that resolved things for tonight.

Anyway, we finished up Ugly Americans Apocalypsegeddon, , and since I was playing so much of it off-stream to level up Callie to max status, it was a breeze with a few dangerous spots if I got a little too cocky. I did enjoy the story, everything being resolved in a 'sitcom like fashion', with a nice little epilogue. Now I was a little peeved because I couldn't find the last secret file to get the final weapon to earn a third achievement during the stream for the game... but it drops randomly, so re-running levels  until it pop up was the best solution as I knocked it out as well as a run of all the games' original 11 stages without using a special attack to get two more achievements. 

The remaining achievements for Ugly Americans Apocalypsegeddon both involve co-op play, one for doing a complete run of the original 11 stages with other players, and the other is getting 50 revives. I might be able to do that second one solo with the use of a second controller. On a side note, among all those who have played it, I'm ranked 540th overall, which is in the top 5% of 10,800 players. Also the game does have an actual episode that is unclockable, 'G.I. Twayne' which aired in season two.

The Gears of War Ultimate Edition half of the steam was really plagued by the drop frames and lost connection issue I mentioned earlier. Still Iceman and I got a lot done with Acts III and most of Act IV done, so next week we should be able to finish it out right while also looking for the COG tags. There were a few silly moments thankfully that were mostly issue free with the clips I segmented out. 

Still with the issues that hampered the stream, that actually does end up resulting in the schedule of VODs being ported over to my YouTube channel getting back to being seven days from initial broadcast.

 Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon

• Demons, The Bane Of My Existence: Locate and collect all of the Demon Babies.
• See You In Hell: Complete the game using any character.
• It's the Collector!: Collect all the projectiles.
• We Don't Need No Magic!: Complete all levels without using special attacks
  

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Achievements

• Smell Good Too...: Reunited with Baird and Cole inside the Imulsion Factory
• Go Time, Show Time: Delta descended into the mines
• Honor-Bound: Recovered 22 COG tags
• Broken Fingers: Killed a Corpser
• Lethal Acoustics: Deployed the Sonic Resonator
• Raven Down: Delta found downed chopper
• Fry Up With a Side of Greens: Killed a Berserker in the Conservatory

Twitch Clip Links

1. Defeating Bethesda
2. Finishing off Desdemona
3. Sweet! 
4. It ran just past Iceman 
5. The Charm of Bender No Longer Applies To Baird 

For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal as they were working on their Blue Mage over on in Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal! 

Side note: My Xbox achievement streak is continued through today thanks to the fourth and fifth achievements I listed earlier for Ugly Americans Apocalypsegeddon! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Sway back Combo and Hip Shape Focus Combo! I woke up late and did not do anything extra.

For tonight's stream we'll be doing some raids, fishing and maybe some blue mage stuff in Final Fantasy XIV! 

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