Saturday, September 10, 2022

A Troublesome Start To The Quarry Thanks To Xfinity

 Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of The Quarry got off to a real bad start, as we ended up having two stream interruptions that reset the broadcast thanks to Xfinity. There was an upstream power level at 55.8... and funny enough, these issues occurred between 7 PM and 7:30 PM... exactly as Thursday night. Of course there were 2 times during the afternoon that saw the internet fully going down.

As far the Quarry goes, we had a rough moment after the Prologue where we were stuck on a loading screen for quite a while. Apparently that is an issue that goes back to the original release of the game regardless of which console people were using. That said, unlike Until Dawn, the majority of the cast is actually likeable... outside of Jacob.who comes across as super unlikable. There is also the issue with the faces of the characters where the motion capture worked too well because a lot of the expressions the characters makes just look creepy.

Now we did cover all the way through to the end of Chapter 5, and so far I've kept everyone alive once things went crazy.. I will admit I admit I adjust the controls to be a little fairer to me because I remember some of the gimmicks from Until Dawn just didn't make sense on how they were executed. On the other hand, I do find the writing and overall dynamic of characters of Emma, Kaitlyn, Dylan and Ryan to be rather solid, with Abigail and Nick being 2nd tier. 

Also... have to comment on the aspect ratio... apparently it's for a 21:9 monitor and TVs... and there is no way to change that... which makes screen shots and stuff rather awkward. Why did the developers do that makes no sense.And if the screenshots look dark as hell... well the game is also very dark based on default settings.

The Quarry (PS4) Trophies

  • What's This?: Collected first clue
  • Forewarned is Forearmed: Got a Tarot reading
  • Prologue: Completed Prologue
  • The Truth is Out There: Collected first piece of evidence
  • Chapter 1: Completed Chapter 1
  • It's All Coming Together: Found a matching clue
  • Chapter 2: Completed Chapter 2
  • Nick of Time: Successfully took the fastest route to Nick
  • Chapter 3: Completed Chapter 3
  • Reactionist: Activated 15 Interrupts
  • Chapter 4: Completed Chapter 4
  • Just a Flesh Wound: Saved a friend from infection

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on Glorifiedthief who was playing AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative over at twitch.tv/Glorifiedthief

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Triple Combo #1, Straight Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #2 for 28 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 9/4 to 9/10/22

  • Punches Thrown:8207
  • Estimated Calories Burned:3394.32 kcal
  • Evan's Champion Progress:62% (31 out of 50 Hours)
  • King EX Fight Progress: 96% 
  • Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 638
  • Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 796

How did the hipster burn his mouth? He sipped his coffee before it was cool
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What did the over-excited gardener do when spring came? She wet her plants.

Song of the Day:Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind 

By the way, in case you can't tell... the Song of the Days in my blogs have all been the solutions to the daily Heardle puzzles over at heardle.app.

Finished the commission request for a story based around the PlayStation 4 Spider-Man game. Basically had to rework an early scene to make it work because I have not (yet) played that game. It's on the list of things to do. Also may be getting another commission request to do something based around WWE 2K20. Haven't confirmed that yet. But in the mean time, another commission request came for a standard WWE story

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For tonight's stream we're more than likely are going to open with MultiVersus, and we're probably will mess around with Fall Guys and deal with other things.

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

 

 

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