Good morning everyone,
Last night's stream focused fully on Gears of War 3 for the entire stream because I wanted to dive deep into one of it's non-campaign modes, the horde mode.
We sampled it last week, but this go round we dedicated the two plus hours to it, playing with random players, and actually doing fairly well. Granted my reaction time and ability to realize where enemies are at any given moment leave a lot to be desired, but I had a few bright spots as we made it all the way to like level 37 before having to take a break. The big thing we learned about Horde mode is that every 10 levels it gets tougher and it basically is a 'trainer' for Insanity mode.
Once Iceman was able to join in, focused switched to the campaign of Gears of War 3 as we tackled Act 4. Ice-T's little cameo was cute, and we managed to find 7 out of the 8 collectables during it. There were a couple of times I got a bit too brave and got myself wrecked, but there were other times things went peanut buttery smooth.
There was one down side to the stream, and this was my own fault in that I wasn't grabbing the minute long clips during the campaign... and accidentally deleted a lot of the Twitch Clips that I was sorting through... so the Twitch Clip links you see below are out of order as I tried to remember what happened when.
Following the stream we sent the fun over to Kalenal at twitch.tv/kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV! Kal will be streaming again on Saturday, but they have not decided what they'll be up to as of yet!
Gears of War 3 Achievement
- Level 15: Reached level 15.
- Welcome to Horde Mode: Survived the first 10 waves of Horde.
- Award Winning Tactics: Earned an Onyx medal.
- Socialite: Earned the Onyx "War Supporter" medal.
- Level 25: Reached level 25.
- Respect for the Dead: Your respect for the dead earned you access to Griffin's special weapons stash.
- Think You Can Handle That?: Found enough fuel to get to Endeavor naval base.
- Baird's Favorite Kind of Toy: Launched the sub.
- Welcome To -redacted-: Passed under the Maelstrom and found Azura.
Twitch Clip Links
- They are standing on Top of Each other!!!!
- We cut it with Marcus' forearm!
- Just keep coming down there!
- How about I come over here?
- Torque Bow
I will admit I'm rather interested in the Rolling Stones Fisher-Price Little People set just for the sure novelty of it. Clearly it was made for collectors in mind, because I can't imagine parents giving the set to their young ones.
Think I'm going back to not playing any ranked Overwatch matches, too many times as D.va am I having all the key match gold medals for eliminations, objective kills, objective time and damage dealt without any help from those queuing up for the damage role, that if I wanted to deal with that horse shit I'd just play Quick Play matches.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out lasted 31 minutes and featured the following exercises: Intermediate Combo #2, Advanced Comb #1 and Weaving Combo #1. The estimated calorie burn was 483 kcal. I had one miss and I believe any miss counts at a 7 kcal penalty as before the session started I noticed the game said the calorie burn should be 490 kcal.
Stepped on the scale yesterday, weight holding steady in the mid-240s, and I'm pleased with that, as I am hoping to break the 240 lb barrier by the end of the year.
Already announced on Twitter yesterday, but on Friday night Life is Strange True Colors returns with the Wavelengths bonus episode, and Until Dawn is slated for Saturday night.
For tonight's stream the goal is to finish Detroit: Become Human which we started on Tuesday night. There are 32 Chapters and we already covered 17 of them, so we should be able to achieve our objective.
