Cyberpunk 2077 and other notes

Hi everyone,

Today was just another weird day where I woke up at a reasonable time and then around noon I just crashed hard, not waking back up till about 4:30 PM Eastern.

Anyway,  tonight's stream of Cyberpunk 2077 got off to a rocking start because of that, since I didn't have dinner. Managed to order something from El Burger Bar (man their burgers are fucking huge!) which arrived about 30 minutes into the stream, which was perfect as we were doing the final quest associated with Kerry. We waited to see if any other quests popped up before doing the final mission, and we went with Johnny's plan of bringing Rogue along... and boy did the changes to how Quickhacks work make it more of a slog than it needed to be.

Now once we reached Alt, we went ahead and did one ending where Johnny crosses the bridge letting V keep her body and then reloaded and did the ending where Johnny keeps V's body. Neither ending is really satisfying, as V seems constantly on the edge taking any merc job that seems like the results will give her away to live, while Johnny seems to embrace having a second chance at life.

Of course we're not really done with Cyberpunk 2077 because there are still two more ending paths to take, one involves accepting the Arasaka proposal and the other is using the Nomads to raid the tower. There are alternate endings to both depending on final decisions. Plus there is also the Phantom Liberty content which we'll be diving into starting next Saturday.

Cyberpunk 2077 Achievements

• To Bad Decisions!: Complete Kerry Eurodyne's storyline.
• Daemon In The Shell: Kill or incapacitate 3 enemies with one "Detonate Grenade" quickhack.
• The World: Complete the main storyline.
• The Sun: Become a legend of the Afterlife.
• Temperance: Let Johnny Silverhand keep your body. 

Our next stream will be at 5 PM Eastern over on twitch.tv/fredcasden and will feature Overwatch 2, and the usual general nonsense of dealing with randoms teammates who constantly let me down.

For tonight's raid we went over to twitch.tv/reytac who was playing Warhammer 40,000: Darkside

Since we are returning to Cyberpunk 2077 on Saturday, that is going to free up the Monday, Tuesday and Thursday slot in week... and since it's been a running joke for so long since god mode can be used with it, I will start up The Evil Within 2 on Monday's stream. 

Did a fair bit of writing in the morning, finishing up the WWE commission request I meant to finish yesterday and getting started on another commission story based on Marvel's Spider-Man and to feature Screwball. Already that's at 3000 words, which is pretty fucking impressive by my standards.

Anyway, going to get back to work on that after I record my review of Cyberpunk 2077 for my YouTube channel

Have a good night folks!

Horizon Zero Dawn and other notes

Hi everyone,

We had another good night of work, as I reached the goal I was looking for which hopefully will mean a bit extra in next week's paycheck to set up for the next set of bills.

Tonight's stream of Horizon Zero Dawn started a bit late because I thought I hit the start stream button on OBS... but we covered a lot of ground, finding various first items for a series of collectables in addition to slowly covering every quest we come across. I'm pretty much resigned to not doing the Hunter Lodge Quest however. The Cauldrons certainly seem like they'll be fun to explore when I come across them.

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• First Vantage found: Found and accessed a Vantage datapoint.
• First Corrupted Zone cleared: Killed all the corrupted machines in a Corrupted Zone.
• First Banuk Figure found: Found a wooden effigy left by a Banuk traveler.
• 10 Vulnerable machine kills: Killed 10 machines weak to Fire while burning, or weak to
• Freeze while frozen.
• First Core Overridden: Reached the Core of a Cauldron and accessed its information.
• All Recon machines killed: Killed at least one of every type of Reconnaissance machine.

Our next stream will feature Cyberpunk 2077 and  will feature the awful new gameplay mechanics. I already tested it out a bit to see what changed and I'm not liking all the changes to my quick hack set up, and the fact that I know have to scramble to get components I need to craft and upgrade what I already had equipped. Anyway the stream will start about 5 PM Eastern over on twitch.tv/fredcasden and for sure we should be able to finish the game outright.

For the raid we dropped in on twitch.tv/zonesama who was doing a stream of F-Zero 99

Didn't finish the second of back to back WWE commission requests due to... passing out around noon, which was weird. I'm going to finish that, after I post this and take the opportunity to work on my Persona story.

Also discovered that The Last of Us Fandom community is more insane than I first thought after yesterday. I'm really tempted to really get under their skin, I mean what could be worse than Ellie verbally tearing down Joel? Answer: Joel helping Abby.

Phillies won tonight, and at this point unless something horrific happens they are a shoe-in at the top Wild Card team in the National League.

On a side note, my weight has been fluctuating a lot late going anywhere from 250 to 260.

And on that note, have a good night!