Persona 5 Tactica and other notes

We started Persona 5 Tactica today, and while it certainly takes a while to get going because of the long opening, this game continues all of the usual charm that I've come to expect from the Persona franchise, The fundamentals are clearly easy to learn but really tough to master, as I'm a complete novice when it comes to tactical based RPGs. The music and voice acting is top quality I fell.

Unlike everyone else, I elected not to the do the DLC story first because I wanted to understand how to play the game, because even on Safe Difficulty, I feel like I have to be very mindful of what moves I make.

We'll continue Persona 5 Tatcia on Monday's stream!

Our next stream will featured Horizon Zero Dawn as I decided not to continue playing Starfield, because at least with HZD I feel like I'm engaged with the content!

For the raid we dropped in on djparticle who was playing Splatoon 3

Persona 5 Tactica Achievements

• Lavenza's Aid: Gained the ability to fuse Personas.

Word was solid today, a few friendly folks to interview is always nice.

I'm currently working on a Resident Evil commission request, and that should be finish tomorrow... kind of over though out to use some elements of Resident Evil 3 and the chapter is turning out a bit lackluster.

Following it on a back to Back WWE related commissions requests, followed by Batman, Jimmy Neutron, Rooster Teeth, a 3rd WWE story and Star Wars tale. In a way I'm glad I'm off for Thanksgiving, and that some of these are concept that should only get around 2500 words, but of course I'll shoot for 3000 as always.

Good night!

Starfield and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Starfield saw me stick to to the quests I had and progressing storylines a bit, finding the second temple, dealing with some pirates, managing to completely survey and planet and so forth. 

But the biggest thing was successfully romancing Sarah. Now where exactly does that lead, I don't know, but I do know its clearly based on how much time you spend traveling with the companion.

Oddly enough we didn't earn any achievements tonight.

Our next sream will feature Overwatch, and since I did do some off-stream gaming this week, we won't be completely locked into playing Support roles.

For the raid we went over to Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV

Nearly finished the Arrow related commission story, I'll be working on that once this is posted.

Did a little grocery shopping, mostly stuff for the freezer as I'm pretty well stocked on pasta.

Found out the Panzarotti Spot on Marlton Pike is now doing door dash deliveries, but considering it is a popular local spot, best not to try to order from there last minute around dinner or lunch time.

Good night folks!

Horizon Zero Dawn and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Horizon Zero Dawn saw us focusing on finding all collectables and in the north west portion of the map, which meant finding vantage points, cups and metal flowers, plus one raider camp and oddly enough only one real side quests. We did put ourselves in a great spot to find the remaining of those items the next time we play this, but which day that might be is up in the air because of the pending release of Persona 5 Tactica next week.

Only got one trophy, but it came via a hunting trial, and I need to make sure to find the remaining cauldrons.

There is also the question of how many quests and activities will be rewarding skill points, or if there is a way to respec in game.  I don't believe there is a way to do that.

Our next stream on Saturday will feature Starfield.

For the raid, we dropped in on ElegantlySlays while they were playing Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Big thank you to Droggat for the raid during the stream!

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• Tore off 5 heavy weapons: Detached 5 heavy weapons from machines during combat.

On the writing front, I'm sort of caught up, just need to work on a Arrow commission request which centers around Thea Queen. Following it, I've commissions based on Resident Evil, Pro Wrestling and Ant-Man on the docket.

Bills are paid for this month, but we are entering the time of year where things ended up being really bad in the past, and this year has been so rough there is no way to count on partial unemployment if things go to shit.

On that note, good night!.

Starfield and other notes

Hi folks,

Well I wanted to focus on doing quests and we were successful in doing something related to the main story, finding a new companion and getting the first of a set of powers. I've basically given up on trying to explore, because apparently there are some quirks with finding flora and fauna that have been modded out of the PC version, but the console versions are start with. 

We did do a lot of space battles, which resulted in my first in game death. I'm not to keen on the space combat because my instinct to try and maneuver with the left analog stick makes me a sitting duck, Still I at least know that when I die in space it will re-spawn me at the beginning of the combat situation giving me a chance to get the fuck out dodge!

For the raid we went over to Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV 

My next stream will feature Overwatch, as we'll be grinding out matches due to the next K-Pop event crossover, and yes I did get the bundle for the new skins.

Starfield Achievements

• Home Sweet Home: Build an Outpost
• Into the Unknown: Complete "Into the Unknown" 

Didn't finish the WWE commission request I had planned for today, so once this blog is posted I'll be doing that after getting the stream and clips for tonight situated. 

Someone is asking my to do a story based on The Boys series and to feature the character of Love Sausage. Given my unfamiliarity with the show, that will be a challenge.

This week's line up looks like it's going to be about the same, and that will depend on when we finish Resident Evil, as the next big story point will be the decision to Trust Barry or not.

Added a few groceries today, milk, pot pies, oranges... minor stuff since I'm good on everything else. Also grabbed something from Wendys... forgot how good their Frosties are.

And on that note... good night!

Horizon Zero Dawn and other notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Horizon Zero Dawn saw us getting back to the main area of the game, and focusing on finding Metal Flowers, and side quests, scaling a tallneck and find figures. We did run across an entrance to ruins that apparently I cannot get to until a certain quest is done. We did pick up a couple of achievements related to doing things but not related to story progression.

Since we're doing all the side stuff without advancing the plot, next time we play Horizon Zero Dawn (which will be next Friday), we'll be continuing our exploration. 

Our next stream on Saturday will be Starfield, and hopefully I can figure out which quests are important to the story.

For the raid we went over to lilmoolah_ who was playing Baldur's Gate 3

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• 3 Strikes From Above: Killed 3 enemies using the Strike from Above skill.
• All Transport machines killed: Killed at least one of every type of Transport machine.

Read the Batman / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Crossover, which direct crossovers with the Batman Animated Series from the 1990s and the TMNT series that started in 2012, and tone wise, it works very well. In fact during the stream I put the comic over a lot because of how it really made good use of the Batman villains.

Knock out a Resident Evil story to fulfill a commission request, and I needed to pad it with some plot related stuff because using Mr. X in a prominent role limit what I could do, because unlike Nemesis, Mr. X doesn't talk.

Next commission story I'll be working on is WWE related, in fact the next two stories are WWE related so... ugh... but hey, getting paid for it.

Had a nice long chat with my good friend Kristi today, which was awesome. Was nice to touch base for an extended period of time

Good night folks!

Overwatch 2 and other notes

Hi everyone, 

Tonight's stream of Overwatch 2 got off to a rough start because we had to restart the stream due to a Stream Deck update, but once things go rolling we had a fun night. Of course I did have my Halloween costume on from what I was able to piece together, but it was too hot to keep on for the full stream and in the end it was down to the wig and goggles. Big thanks to PandaSweet for joining in a few matches as well!

Picked up one play of the game as Sombra and also the second of her character related achievements. I seriously do like her re-work. Also played as Kiriko, Junker Queen, Moira, D.va, Tracer, Echo and a few other characters

Overwatch 2 Achievements

• Power Outage: Hack 5 enemies at once as Sombra in Quick or Competitive Play.

On my next stream we're getting back to Resident Evil HD, hopefully I remember exactly where I left off when it comes to the guides I was using!

For the raid we went over to AnnieTalksShow as they were playing Valorant  

Now I'm not 100% sure of this week's stream start times as the way I submit my schedule to my job was different than normal, so streams may not start until 10 PM Eastern, I'll see about keeping the 9:30 scheduled time, but it may tough to do that.

Knocked off a WWE related commission requests which was a lot of fun to write since I was able to do something totally different with it. Next four commission stories I have on the docket involve two Spider-Man related ones, one for AEW and another WWE one. 

I need to find  the quest order list for Starfield's main story so we can totally focus on that since the scope of the game is too large, otherwise, I'll become tempted to stop playing it on Satudays!

And on that note, good night!

Starfield and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight we spent the night playing Starfield, and as I dedicated it to sticking to just one planet and exploring trying to see how long it would take to fully survey it, I discovered that the scope of the game is just way too damn huge. Now I have played open world games before, such as Fallout 76, Cyberpunk 2077 and the like, and I've sunk a time of time into massive MMOs like Final Fantasy XIV and Star Trek Online, but unlike those games, Starfield appears to have a massive scale problem when it comes to someone like me who does try to do everything I come across.

And what really compounds this issue is when trying to find all the critters and plant life, if I spend five hours playing a game and I feel like I could not accomplish something simple in that time frame, then there is something wrong. Of course I could simple just stick with the main story and get through that as quickly as possible, which seems like the smart way to do things.

Starfield Achievements

• Traveler: Reach Level 10

Out next stream on Sunday will feature Overwatch 2!

For the raid we went over to Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV! 

Got two stories written on Saturday, well actually finished two stories that were in progress, the first was the commission story based on The Flash, which I meant to finish yesterday, and the other was the Persona story I started writing a few weeks ago... which didn't turn out as good as the previous five chapters.

Anyway, I have four commission stories lined up, two of which are through my SubscribeStar page, and the fandoms for these stories are two for WWE, one for Spider-Man and one for AEW. So three wrestling stories... ugh... oh well. 

Laundry, dishes and groceries were all done today, so I'm set up for the week.

Good night!

Horizon Zero Dawn and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream went way longer than I intended because I was hoping to knock out all the quest related achievements for Horizon Zero Dawn's Frozen Wilds content, and while we finished the main story, some things certainly tool longer than expected. Still outside of the Hunting lodge in the area we pretty much accomplished everything worth doing so next time we play HZD, which will be next Friday, we'll be back to the base games content in roaming around and finding stuff.

The plan for Saturday's stream is to feature Starfield, but at the moment I'm not to sure if that will be the game we'll play. The stream is scheduled to start around 5 PM Eastern.

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• Reached level 50: Reached player level 50.
• All Combat machines killed: Killed at least one of every type of Combat machine.
• Won the Werak Challenge: Challenged Aratak at the Frostfigures and won.
• Fully Improved Weapons: Acquired the improved versions of three weapons from Varga.
• Completed the Second Expedition: Successfully assaulted Thunder's Drum.
• Conquered the Mountain: Drove out the threat within the mountain.
• Killed 15 Scorchers: Killed 15 Scorcher machines.
• Killed 6 Fireclaws: Killed 6 Fireclaw machines.

For the raid we went over to djparticle who was playing Splatoon 3 

Had another good night of work, even if a part of it dragged a little, but got plenty of completes to make some of it fly by.

Did have a job interview, but they couldn't tell me where the office location was for their branch in Philadelphia, so I don't think I'll pursue it, even if the rate of pay would almost make it possible to get there fairly consistently. 

Worked on The Flash story commission but did not finished, it's about 60% complete so I'll work on it first thing in the morning, and probably work on the Persona story, while saving the WWE and Spider-Man commissions I have on deck for Sunday and Monday.

Good Night!

Starfield and other notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Starfield saw me mostly doing side quests as I came across them, some find of interesting, as we stuck mostly to one planet. I did find it really odds that my characters got roped into being recruited by two factions as I turn down one and then automatically got stuck with the other. Also learned there is no way to break down stuff from the inventory... which makes sense I guess because you are supposed to go out and search for resources, but at the same time inventory management is a fucking chore, not to mention finding vendors who will accept various items is a nightmare because trying to remember where shops are is quickly becoming a pain.

Now we did complete the first big mission for Constellation, so we now apparently have choices on how to proceed on the main story. Anyway, night time we play Starfield will be next Saturday night.

Out next stream on Sunday will feature Overwatch, with a start time of about 5 PM Eastern

Starfield Achievements

• Dust Off: Reach Level 5

For the raid we over to twitch.tv/kalenal for some Final Fantasy XIV

Didn't get as much writing done as I wanted to today for a WWE related commission, but it's nearly finsihed so after I post this blog I'll get write to that. Then I have two more story commission, one based on the Flash CW series and another one for AEW (thankfully the person who wants that included a nice big outline for me to follow)

I have been watching the Team Four Star commentaries on Dragon Ball Z Abridged, and it's become increasingly fascinating over what they do and don't remember.

At the time I'm writing this, the Phillies were up 6-1 on the Diamondback in game 5 of the NLCS... hopefully they can hold on and return to Philadelphia up 3 games to 2.

So with that, have a good night!

Horizon Zero Dawn and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Horizon Zero Dawn was the longest weeknight stream I've done in a while, guess having more than just one light on helped keeps me from feeling tired. Anyway, we got a lot done as we spent the entire night in the Frozen Wilds DLC area, finding everything we can find and doing all we could before advancing the plot. We found all the towers, all the animal statures and pigments, so we can pretty much focus on the DLC story next time we play it next week before getting back to the base game.Horizon Zero Dawn will be back next Friday night. 

Also on Monday we're going to start Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which will be featured Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

Saturday's stream will feature Starfield, with the stream starting around 5 PM Eastern.

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• Reached level 40: Reached player level 40.
• Took the Shaman's Path: Survived the Shaman's Path and found Ourea's retreat.
• First Spear Modification: Applied a modification to your spear.
• All Pigments found: Found all of the Pigments in the Cut.
• All Animal Figurines found: Found all of the Animal Figurines in the Cut.
• All Control Towers disabled: Disabled all Control Towers by overriding or destroying them.

 For the raid we went to https://www.twitch.tv/misscammi316 where Overwatch was being featured

The Phillies lost tonight as Craig Kimbrel blew a lead in the 8th inning in what turned out to be a battle of the bullpens with the Diamondbacks. So now the Phillies need to win two of the next three games to go to the World Series. It's not looking good folks.

Work was meh, got a couple of interviews but it was real dull

So Jury Duty on Monday involves having to take part in a 90 minute webinar at 8 AM... and then apparently staying on call for the rest of the week? I'm rather confused about that 

Knocked out an story commission based on Arrow, and I have two more in the queue, one based on WWE programing (ugh...) and other based on The Flash which should be interesting to write.

Good night folks!

Starfield and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Starfield was interesting, as the game is very detailed and massive, and I can tell already I'm going to mostly keep it on Saturday nights since that is the largest night of the week for streaming. I certainly spent a lot of time looking around for loot and stuff which is probably going to turn my play-though into a slog. Since we're playing it via Game Pass, I'm going to give it the direct casual approach approach. It is a gorgeous game, and the sound mixing seems spot on.

Our next stream slated for 9:30 PM Eastern on Thursday will feature RetroMania, and we'll see if we like that game enough to want to dedicate serious time to it

Starfield Achievements

• For All, Into the Starfield: Enter Space for the First Time
• One Small Step: Join Constellation

For the raid we went to twitch.tv/zonesama for some retro TV watching 

Work was solid, we had a fairly interesting assigned focused on things in New Jersey even if my patience was really tested.

Got a commission story based on Arrow done, and it didn't turn out as well as the previous one, but i got bogged down with some few other things that cropped up. On the plus side, I'm fully caught up on commissions, so I can probably work on the Persona story unless something pops up

Recorded  two videos for my YouTube channel, one being my casual review of Day of the Tentacle while will premier in January, and the other thoughts on the RWBY / Justice League crossovers.

And that will do it for today's notes!

Good night!

Day of the Tentacle, Smite and other Notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream opened with Day of the Tentacle and it was pretty much a sprint to the finish, even as I was taking my time and making sure I got nearly every achievement in the game, missing two that are not very obvious. I have a lot of positive things to say about the console port of this game, and it makes me wonder why Lucas Arts and Disney has not done remasters of other games from the Point and Click era of the 90s. Obviously I'll be doing a review of this game for my YouTube channel. Question of what will replace it in the weekly line up is up in the air at the moment.

Now Day of the Tentacle didn't fill the entire stream, as we loaded things up with Smite for the first time in a while, winning a couple of matches and losing a couple, playing as Athena, Baset, Discordia and Cupid. We will not talk about the Assault match which was a 3 versus 5 waste of time and downer to end the stream on.

Wednesday's stream over on twitch.tv/fredcasden will start around 9:30 PM Eastern, but Journey to the Savage Planet will be on hold as Iceman needs to work late, so we'll either start Starfield or RetroMania

Day of the Tentacle Remastered Achievements

• Voiding the Warranty: Try to put something metal in the microwave
• Master Plumber: Flush 50 objects through time
• Energy Conscious: Turn off the television
• Rap Sheet: Forger: Try to sign the contract yourself with the quill pen
• Behind Every Great Man Is a Quality Roadie: Red makes a super battery with only a little help from Hoagie
• Rap Sheet: Adventure Gamer: Pick up 45 things that don't belong to you
• Flush: Acquire a diamond
• That Should Have Worked: Hoagie uses battery with Chron-O-John instead of plug
• Number One: Power Hoagie's Chron-o-John
• Music Appreciation Award: Reach yesterday without turning the stereo off
• Yesterday's News: Defeat Purple Tentacle yesterday
• Mental Patience: Play the whole game without skipping a cutscene
• ...Take on the Words!: Sit through the end credits

SMITE Achievements

• Objective Stealer: Deliver the killing blow on a map objective where enemies did more damage in a qualifying match.

 For the raid we went to www.twitch.tv/EcoNstinct where Fortnite was being featured

Watched Justice League X RWBY Part 2 today, and it was a fun continuation of the first film, but it certainly made quite a few references to things in the later seasons of RWBY I didn't know about, which means I'll have to watch and catch up. There was one minor bit of disappointment in that the second film didn't fully commit to Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Blake adapting things to the DC Universe as things ended up favoring them using their standard abilities in the films climax.

Knocked out an commission story based on the Arrowverse today, and got an instant request for a follow up, which is awesome.

I certainly got something in mind for Halloween, just need to get the pieces together for it.

And on that note, good night!

Overwatch 2 and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Overwatch was kind of weird because the entire first hour was lost, I don't know why but the stream had a weird reset take place which basically removed a great back fill match I had as Moira plus our one look at the Trials of Sanctuary game mode. Can't think of the last time that happened. Big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun tonight.

We picked up three Plays of the Game, two as Junker Queen and one as Moira. Also played as Reinhardt, Tracer, Ana, Sombra, D.va and Bastion.

Our next scheduled stream is for 9:30 PM Eastern on Monday night, with the Xbox version of Day of the Tentacle, a game I'm very familiar with, but on the PC side of things. Going to be interesting playing it with a controller. 

For tonight's raid we went over to  twitch.tv/x_lumineee who was also playing Overwatch

Did some writing today, finished the Avatar the Last Airbender story commission, and with nothing in the queue I managed to some work on my own ideas for the Persona project I'm working on. Did ended up getting another Resident Evil commission which I worked on a bit as well, which takes priority over the Persona story.

We're finally going to take a look at RetroMania this week, and that's slated for Thursday Night's stream. Heard good things about it, and depending on how I feel, we might try and do it's story mode on stream.

Speaking of new things, we're also putting Starfield on Saturdays, there are other games I want to play during the weekday streams, and since we just finished a massive open world first person game in Cyberpunk 2077, I want to ease me way into Starfield.

Had some Chinese food for dinner today, just a simple change of pace.

All in all, those are out notes for today!

Good night!

Cyberpunk 2077 and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream went about 7 hours starting at 5 PM Eastern as we wrapped up our chosen path for the Phantom Liberty story in Cyberpunk 2077, choosing to send Songbird to the moon, and it certainly was an action packed route, complete with trying to sneak around the airport terminal. Did run into a few glitches in not being able to pull up menus without reloading saves and one side gig not completing but that's alright, it was secondary. Now the thing is we won't be able to do any of the other ending for Phantom Liberty because I don't know where the major branching paths are.

But we did get the final ending and achievement needed for the original game, doing to Nomad raid ending, which leads to V and Judy both leaving Night City, so combining that ending with sending Songbird to the moon makes for a pretty satisfying conclusion.

I am actually going to do a follow up review to my Cyberpunk 2077 that is coming out on my YouTube Channel in a few months.This way I can act like I reconsidered some things

Don't know what's taking over the Monday, Tuesday and Thursday slots of the week yet, but I do not Starfield will be placed on Saturdays starting next week.

Out next scheduled stream is for 5 PM Eastern on Sunday with Overwatch 2 on twitch.tv/fredcasden

Cyberpunk 2077 Achievements

• The Star: Leave Night City with the Aldecaldos.
• Dirty Deeds: Complete every Gig in Dogtown.
• Spin Doctor: Complete “Run This Town”.
• King of Wands: Take Songbird to the stars.

Tonight's Raid: twitch.tv/djparticle
Playing: Portal 2

Need to do the dishes when I wake up, also need to do a better job doing proper proportions with my meals.

Finished the WWE story commission, and started on the Avatar: Last Airbender related one. It'll be finished tomorrow for sure, and I know there is a Resident Evil one in the queue that'll be after it.

Nearly forgot that I potentially have jury duty coming up on the 23rd of October... ugh, hopefully I won't be needed or that I can talk my way out of it.

The people cleaning out my neighbors house broke the latch on the gate... and I know they did it because it was in one piece on Thursday when I went to the post office! Fucking jerks.

And on that note, good night everyone!