Good morning everyone
Last night we started up the Xbox 360 version of Mass Effect 2, which I'm referring to as 'Classic' because we have to make sure folks are aware I'm not playing the Legendary Edition version. That said, the controls do feel a little sluggish in comparison to Legendary Edition, but beyond that it was a good experience as I got to make all the usual jokes such as Shepard's death being Joker's fault, calling the Illusive Man 'Tim', in addition to getting some things out of the way early.
Now there was an issue with the DLC of Mass Effect 2 in that I know I had a lot of it, but apparently not everything was installed before had... I had to go into the game and confirm I wanted what I knew I had and then install it. That really is a clunky interface by any and all measures. Still we'll be able to go through all the DLC content gradually.
For the story, we ended up recruiting Garrus off Omega first, because I really hate that mission, I always die in the large garage portion of the mission because of how quickly the enemies spawn in before the shutters are closed. I also screwed up and forgot to talk to the Blue Suns leader, so I missed some a few things in that mission as well.
I think in terms of pacing we're going to feature Mass Effect 2 twice a week, the way we normally would, on Mondays and Tuesdays. This way Wednesdays can be a variety day with potential team up options with Iceman. Also in case I have to make a tough judgement call regarding my work schedule, it'll be easy to have Mass Effect 2 be the early feature.
By the way, in case you're wondering how I'm getting the screen shots, it's through OBS, which has a way to set a hot-key to screen shot a specific source.
Mass Effect 2 Achievements
- Missing in Action: Save your crew from an overwhelming attack
- Fashionista: Personalize your armor in your quarters on the Normandy
- Very Elusive: Return to active duty
- Highly Trained: View all advanced combat training videos at Shepard's private terminal.
- Prospector: Retrieve mineral resources by scanning and probing a planet in the galaxy map
- Operative: Complete a mission discovered by scanning an unexplored world
- Explorer: Visit 100% of the planets in an unexplored cluster
- Scholar: Unlock 15 new Mass Effect 2 codex entries
- The Archangel: Successfully recruit Archangel
Twitch Clip Links
For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal who was playing Pokemon: Brilliant Diamond over on twitch.tv/kalenal!
Let me say this, setting up the Id.Me stuff which is mandatory for dealing with any government sits (like irs.gov for example) is such a fucking pain in the ass!
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficulty Challenge Combo #3, Difficult Challenge Combo #2 and Difficult Challenge Combo #1.
Messed around with Smite after the stream last night to play a couple of matches, it went about as well as expected as I just played at a few different characters.
Knocked out another achievement in Aaero last night, and the levels in that are getting harder in terms of recognizing what obstacles are coming and keeping the ship on the light beams, not to mention getting weapons to lock onto enemy ships when they appear.
Aaero Achievements
- Gone fission: Complete 'Split the Atom' on Normal
As far as my off-stream progress in WWE 2K15 goes, well I unlocked William Regal in the MyCareer mode, but beyond that, no achievements were unlocked. There are a couple associated with this particular mode
For tonight's stream we're going to do another night of Mass Effect 2 as indicated earlier on today's post, and we're not going to go after Mordin right away, instead we'll go around to pick up Jack, Kasumi, Grunt and get other things done!
There's a great video of YouTube as Eric Bischoff and Jeff Jarrett break down Will Smith's attack on Chris Rock, with the suspicion that it's all a work, and that it was pre-planned as if was a wrestling angle.
So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!
