Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and other notes

Tonight's stream started a half hour late since work got cancelled at the last minute, so I took a nap... and yeah...

Anyway, we got off to a great start with Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, and I can safely say the game play is very similar to Agents of Mayhem in terms of being able to get around the city on foot and with the combat mechanics. Of the four characters, I think I favor Harley Quinn the most because she isn't as gimmicky with her travel options and can close distance with enemies fairly well. I've also liking the banter and just the complete tone of the game.

So basically, in my opinion, this is a good game, and I often have good vibes about the stuff I play after a few hours of casual playing. Looking forward to sinking in quite a bit of time into it!

Wednesday's night stream will feature Smite as Iceman won't be available for Sea of Thieves. 

Also happy birthday to Iceman!

For tonight's raid we dropped in on MissCammi316 who was playing Smite!

Was able to knock out a commission story based on The Flash today. Next commission request is based on Dragon Ball... and I think I have complete free-reign over the direction outside of a couple of plot points. 

Got my hands on the strategy guides for Resident Evil 4 (classic) and Resident Evil Code Veronica X, as those are games on my check list of things to play this year.

 Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Achievements

• Trial By Fire: What the hell just happened?
• Cleaning Out the Closet: Steal something useful from the Hall of Justice
• Hitting The Fan: Survive the Batman Experience
• History Repeats: Begin the Batman Experience
• Fowl Play: Recruit your first Support Squad member

Dead or Alive 4 and other notes

Tonight we started playing Dead or Alive 4, and safe to say, the A.I. on Normal difficulty was giving me fits. In fact it took me nearly 30 minutes to clear a simple time attack! So odds are that I'm not going to get many achievements in this game, but at the very least we'll get through the story mode for every character... because that is the classic Arcade ladder format. We all ready did three tonight, so I figure we'll get quite a few streams out of DOA4 in the coming weeks. So basically Mondays will be about the jiggles and the juggles

Tomorrow night we're starting up Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, which should be exciting! 

For the raid we dropped in on swashbucklet who was playing Final Fantasy XIII-2

We had work today and we closed out the assignment that we had rolling from last week, and apparently we have something tomorrow so here's hoping we're in a hot stretch!

Finished writing the Dragon Ball commission which ended up being about 4500 words. Next story on the docket will involve The Flash.

Xbox had some weird bugs that resulted in my wish list of games to be erased. So now I need to remember what was on it!

Need to remember to make some more Ice  Tea tomorrow.

Dead or Alive 4 Achievements

• Completed Story Mode: Completed Story Mode once.

Mass Effect and other notes

Tonight we started up another Mass Effect run where we're playing as an Adept class and will be limited to using Garrus and Liara for the vast majority of the game, and I one thing I forgot to do was to give Shepard an additional weapon trait, so I basically made this run a lot harder than it probably needs to be. We did pretty much everything possible on the Citadel along with rescuing Liara in a stream that lasted about six hours.

Mass Effect will return on Monday as we'll focus on doing side missions before focusing on Noveria or Ferros.

Sunday's stream will feature Overwatch 2

For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal playing Final Fantasy XIV 

Got a fair bit of writing done, knocking out a commission request based on The Flash, next story on the commission docket is based on AEW. I'll be starting on that in a bit

The new animated emotes are now available for Tier 1 subscribers over on my Twitch channel!

And that's about it for today!

Good night!

Alan Wake Remastered and other notes

Tonight's stream of Alan Wake was a bit odd with as we only knocked out Episode Three , which oddly took me longer than I would have thought as I was looking to knock out two chapters on tonight's stream. That said, we got a lot of achievements done which were related to combat, which was nice, I do want to make sure Alan Wake to be the last game we finished this year so we have an even total of 52.

Tomorrow night, we're starting up the Biotic run of Mass Effect (360), of course we're doing a FemShep run, and will go full renegade because I want to call it the Bitching Biotic saga.

For the raid we dropped in on misscammi316 who was playing Smite 

Alan Wake Remastered (PS4) Trophies

• Sound and Fury: You blasted four Taken into ashes with a single flashbang.
• Damn Good Cup of Coffee: You have found 25 coffee thermoses.
• Back! Back, I Say!: You bought yourself some breathing time with a flare.
• Heavy Metal: You destroyed the bulldozer.
• Thunder and Lightning: 50 Taken have felt your fury. Also, your flashbangs.
• Two For the Price of One: You took out two Taken with a single barrel.
• The Six-Gun Scribe: You capped 100 Taken with the revolver.
• They're Heeeeeere!: You have destroyed 20 poltergeist objects.
• Iron Horse: You made the train engine run out of steam.
• Wheels Within Wheels: You found the kidnapper, but what he had to say wasn't what you wanted to hear.

Work was brutal, the assingment I'm on had people interested in doing it, but the amount of probing and clarifications needed made what should be a 25 minute survey take nearly double that.

Currently in the process of writing commission story based on the Flash, the goal is to finish it on Saturday, but I'll work on it before going to bed.

Did pick up a couple of things cheap on the end of year Xbox Sale.

The new animated emotes certainly should be added to the Twitch channel on Sunday at the latest. If they are delivered to me early, I'll try to have them up for tomorrow's stream

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!

Resident Evil and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream featured Resident Evil HD, we had an interesting night, making sure that my Capcom ID linked to the game and then using a guide to try and do all the stuff we've came across. The guide we're using (located at https://www.ign.com/wikis/resident-evil/Jill%20Mansion) and managing to do things mostly exactly up to getting the Wind Crest, without any dying, but having to save a a few more times than I would've liked. 

And yes, I was aware of the trick of how to select the easiest difficult (Labeled Talking A Walk) and my playthrough will be focusing on Jill's side of it, because I quickly discovered, aiming is a problem for me. And that's not saying anything about the trouble I have remembering where different rooms are.

Next time we'll be playing this will be on Monday's stream.

Our next stream on Friday night will feature Horizon Zero Dawn

Resident Evil Achievements

• First Kills Are Special: Defeat a zombie.
• What a Great Guy: Save Jill using Barry.
• Not Taking Any Chances: Burn up a zombie.
• Seeing Red: Defeat a Crimson Head.

For the raid we dropped in on captainchar who was also playing Resident Evil!

Work was really good, I do like it when we have certain surveys can say who we are and explain who the research is being done for. Too bad the intro is wordy as all hell.

Getting back to the subject of Resident Evil, knocked out a commission short story, so the next one I'll be working on will be based on The Flash, followed by a WWE related one.

Lot of folks are wondering when I'll play Spider-Man 2 for the PS5... and the answer will be when I get a PS5! It's not a priority for me at the moment.

I do need to do a little groceries on Friday, nothing major.

And on that note, good night!

Overwatch 2 and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Overwatch was the usual nonsense, but we had PandaSweet along for the ride as we had some very good matches statistically while were were let down by people not pulling their weight on several occasions. I picked up five plays of the games this week, two as Junker Queen, one as Dva and one as Sombra.

Speaking of Sombra, who rework certainly fits my play style a bit more with a controller, and no longer having to worry about accidentally pressing L3 and destroy her transmitter to teleporter to a health pack. Of course now the challenge is figuring out the timing of all her cool downs to really be effective.

Anyway our next stream is slated for around 9:30 PM Eastern on Monday with the start of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

For tonight's raid we went over to twitch.tv/kalenal where Final Fantasy XIV was featured. Yes we raided Kalenal last night, but Kal is a great friend, and with my current schedule it's not always easy to catch her streams.

Got a fair bit of writing done finishing the WWE commission request we started yesterday and knocking out the one for The Flash. Next is a complicated commission story based around AEW, then we have a Dragon Ball commission as well.

Of course Monday morning I have that Zoom orientation as a Petite Jury at 8 AM in the morning... ugh. At least I don't have to go to the court house, that's a real pain in the ass.

Phillies and now need one more win to advance to the World Series for the second year in a row. Hopefully they can win on Monday night.

And with that... 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!

More Forced Jumps And Gears Warred

Good morning everyone,

The grind for glory is real, but some times it's about the journey and not the destination... right?

Last night's stream lead off with Jump Force as my quests to grind out various achievements added another one to the list of things I accomplished in that game, so at this point the biggest challenge is going to be mostly focused on getting S Ranked on Free Missions on the Hard, Very Hard and Expert Difficulties. We did clear the complete 100 missions achievement

Around the half way point of the stream, the fun switched over to Gears of War 4, where Iceman joined in so that we could finish the Co-Op campaign, something that turned out to be a very rare accomplishment. It was certainly a lot more fun with a friend than my original play-through when it came to knowing someone had my back. 

The fifth Act of Gears 4 did strike a cord with me in regard to just how bland a main character JD is, and since I am aware that Kait becomes the lead in Gears 5, that's probably for the best considering its her lineage that is at the heart of the story.

Iceman and I also messed around with the horde mode, clearing 9 waves before we got overwhelmed by the enemies. Managed to some achievements out of it, and much like the other Gears of War games, it does give some heavy consideration to revisit them... for things other than just getting the collectables.! 

Following the stream we sent the fun over to PradoxGamerAU who was playing Final Fantasy XIV over on twitch.tv/pradoxgamerau!

Jump Force Achievements

1. Prospectus: Cleared 100 or more different Free Missions.
   

Gears of War 4 Achievements

1. The Sound Of Silence: Carried the Customized Lancer Marcus gave you to the end of Act V Chapter 2
2. Brothers Till The End: Completed all Campaign Acts in Co-op (any difficulty)
3. Level Up! : Reached level 2 in one Horde class
4. Ribbonator: Earned 5 Ribbons
5. Level 10: Reached level 10
6. Level 5: Reached Level 5
7. Level 15: Reached Level 15
   

Twitch Clip Links

• 5 Seconds left on the clock!
• The Phyiscs Make Very Little Sense 
• Slice it!
• Overkill! 
  

Now I know I didn't post the usual screen shots of the results of yesterday's Fitness Boxing 2 session, it was because i had the Twitch graphic to show. And I like to only use about 4 images at most in a blog post. That said, today's daily work out session featured Intermediate Combo #2, Advanced Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #1 for a duration of 31 minutes and a estimated calorie burn of 493 kcal.

I'm pleased that the DC character known as Powerhouse is getting their own series on the CW, titled 'Namoi'. The reason being is that Powerhouse is not a forced re-work, change for the sake of change legacy character (Example The Flash's Iris West-Allen & Wally West)... Powerhouse was created in 2018, and in that span of time was able to garner enough credibility with the comic book reading audience to give the character a bigger platform. 

My Final Fantasy XIV adventures saw a lot of time spent with the dwarfs and seeing the whole point of the Lali-Ho greeting. There are some little comedic moments sprinkled around the featured side quests. The main story plot was advanced up to That None Shall Ever Again, and there is the theme of uniting the entire world of the First, which kind of is a smaller version of basically a condensed version of everything done with Eorzea in uniting various city states to face the empire. 

Messed around a little with Pac-Man Championship Edition 2... I forgot how overly complicated the ghost trains can get in it when it comes to the score attack mode.  

Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Achievements

1. SCORE ATTACK > EXTREME 3: Obtain Rank A or higher in SCORE ATTACK > EXTREME.
   

Every time Bret 'Hitman' Hart is interviewed about his career, the most delusional he becomes. Hey, I was big fan of the guy, but his recent claims that he inspired every Canadian wrestler is pretty damn silly. 

Found out my younger brother and his family caught Covid, hopefully they have a quick recovery.

For tonight's stream I'm not completely sure yet of what we're going to feature, I have a couple of ideas, but we'll see what shakes out!

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