Ghost of Tsushima and other notes

Tonight's stream of Ghost of Tsushima saw a major focus on exploration, knocking out Yuna's story arc, finding the remaining duels and basically just roaming around in general. Basically opened up a major area in the middle of the map to explore next Friday.

Also at this point I have about 44% of the trophies in the base game, so doing a fine job getting the most out of it. 

Tomorrow we're doing some achievement hunting in Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes, big focus will be on stud collecting

For tonight's raid we dropped in on annietalksshow who was playing Valorant

Had to work mid-day today because I committed to it... and still lost an hour of work. Of course rebounding from last night to work during the day was not easy.

Then next week I have to work mid-day Monday and Tuesday which is going to suck royallyin terms of getting any writing done.

Got a good start on the Fairy Tail commission request and I should be able to knock it out tomorrow

I'm over half way through  Becky Lynch's book, up to where she getting her first big push in NXT (teaming with Sasha Banks in Team BAE)

Ghost of Tsushima (PS4) Trophies

• The Headstrong Thief: Complete all of Yuna's Tales.

Am I becoming a Junker Queen / Junkrat Main?

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was pretty damn good, in terms of getting challenges done to level up the battle pass and in terms of just having fun. Big thanks to BangBangBang, BloodyClown and PandaSweet for joining on many of the matches over the course of the night.

In terms of who I used, where D.va, Orissa, Wrekcing Ball, Moira & Lucio were among the usual suspects but the MVPs of the night were Junker Queen and Junkrat. Between the two of them I picked up 7 Plays of the Game! I think maybe I had 8 but my Antivirus Software caused a slight freeze which prevented me from making note of it. Still 7 in one night is awesome.

But the big question is aim I becoming a Junker Queen and Junkrat main when it comes to the Tank and Damage roles while playing Overwatch 2? I don't think so, because when I'm playing the role as a tank I look at her as being a situational option one some maps. She certainly is a brawler in many aspects and if I can trust my team, I can cause a lot of havoc. With Junkrat, well it's really hit or miss because I can have very good games using him and very bad ones. as well.

Twitch Clips

• Panda!
• One by one by one! 
• Triple Kill with One Knief Throw
  

For the raid we dropped in on annietalksshow as they were playing Valorant over at twitch.tv/annietalksshow! 

My mom has the first of several appointments this week today, with today being for what is called a PET scan. I do like to continue thanking you for your support during this tough period. For anyone wanting to donate, you can do so over at https://gofund.me/6adf8354

I've said it once and I'll keep saying it... Elon Musk is a piece of shit and he can kiss my ass.

Finished writing the second Mass Effect short story commission I received, will be interesting to see if the client wants to go for a third entry straight away.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Weaving COmbo #2, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 28 minutes.

What sound does a nut make when it sneezes? Cashew!

Song of the Day: Viva La Vida by Coldplay

For tonight's stream we're playing Pokemon Violet, with our first objective being on the 3rd Gym... I'll probably focus on leveling to make sure we have an easy time with it.

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

We'll never know how The TellTale Games Of Thrones Series Will End

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream opened up with Game of Thrones: A Telltale series, with episode 5 and 6 being played back to back. But despite all the choices I made to give it the most dismal ending possibles as far as a cliffhanger goes... we'll never know how things play out because TellTale games, well the original version of that company, went out of business. Sure it was relaunched, but they don't have the license rights to do another Game of Thrones series (hence why you cannot buy it digitally, you have to find a physical copy).

Still, I did go with choice that lead to Mira losing her head so that Asher is the lone surviving Forrester and Tutle choosing to march back to Ironrath instead of defending the North Grove. Why did I have Mira lose her head, well I was playing up her 'pride' as a Forrester.  

On a side note, the achievement for Chapter 5 in Episode 6 is glitched, and didn't pop during my play through on stream, I replayed the chapter, that didn't pop it, and I  tried the delete the save method, and that did not work to fix the bug either. Will justify another play through down the road.

Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series Achievements

• Set Down Our Deeds: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 5
• Here We Stand: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 5
• We Light the Way: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 5
• We Do Not Sow: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 5
• As High as Honor: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 5
• Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken: Completed Chapter 6 of Episode 5
• Family, Duty, Honor: Completed Chapter 7 of Episode 5
• Grand Maester: You completed Episode 5.
• Ours is the Fury: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 6
• Our Blades are Sharp: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 6
• Growing Strong: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 6
• Hear Me Roar!: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 6
• Winter is Coming: Completed Chapter 6 of Episode 6
• Iron from Ice: Completed Chapter 7 of Episode 6
• Sentinel: Complete Episode 6.

We also played some Smite, winning 2 matches and losing 1 in Arena, which was a nice surprise. Always love how folks don't know how to deal with Athena, because her basic 1-2-3 combo gets stronger as the match goes on. In fact in the match I used Athena, I had 28 assists... in a match where my team had over 30 eliminations, meaning I was involved in every elimination!

Twitch Clips

• When in doubt headbutt!
• Hi Finn! 
• Not in the face
• I got my revenge! 
• Bringing the Wubs
• Incoming for Victory! 
  

For the raid we dropped in on annietalksshow as they were playing Valorant over at twitch.tv/annietalksshow! 

Work was surprisingly good yesterday, rather nice after last week.

Mom had a few tests done yesterday, hopefully we'll get some good news, but if anyone wants to contribute to her gofundme to cover these medical expenses, visit https://gofund.me/6adf8354

With the wrapping up of Game of Thrones, we're at 59 games finished on stream for the year... so we're going to do a short game on next Tuesday's stream called Abzu to give us an even 60. This will also give me plenty of time to put together the image to celebrate this year's gaming tour.

Not a fan with how the Winter Wonderland event is set up for Overwatch 2, basically forcing folks into playing game modes that weren't too popular in previous years 

Got some writing done last night on the WWE Short story commission, would've finished writing it too if it wasn't for realizing the glitched achievements for Game of Thrones.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive Combo #1, Uppercut Combo #2 and Front-Back Step Combo for 28 minutes

What concert costs only 45 cents? 50 Cent and Nickelback.

Song of the Day: Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men

For tonight's stream, we're opening with Fall Guys and then we'll play Fallout 76. It's a Falling Wednesday

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

We Got Achievements as Doomfist and Sombra?!

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch 2 was a bit shocking because I ended up getting three achievements for characters I normally don't play as. First was as Sombra where I got both of her character achievements in one match in the span of like 30 seconds. Sure someone was not happy that I was playing Sombra in multiple rounds... but they certainly weren't complaining when I came through in a big way in my greatest performance as her ever... in fact the screenshot is of the stats. Also got one of DoomFist's achievement by pure luck, but I feel his other one using his ultimate to hit four people at once is going to be very tough.

Now I did end up using a lot of different characters last night, and I think I used every tank at least once, I know had few matches as Hanzo, Junkrat, Moira, Ana, Brigitte... and also picked up a couple of Plays of the Game as well! All in all a good match.

Overwatch 2 Achievements

• Power Outage: Hack 5 enemies at once as Sombra in Quick or Competitive Play
• Hack the Planet: Hack 15 enemies without dying as Sombra in Quick or Competitive Play
• Power Punch: Slam 3 enemies into a wall with Doomfist's Empowered Rocket Punch in Quick or Competitive Play

 Twitch Clips

• Achievement: Hack The Planet
• A Raid And An Achievement (Power Punch) 
• Team Kill!
  

Big thank you to CallMeMsGalaxy for the raid following their stream of Valorant over at twitch.tv/callmemsgalaxy!  

For our raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz who was playing Vampire Survivors over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz!

Hoped into Fallout 76 to cheese out the grind for Becoming Allies With The Crater, and managed to pick up two more achievements as well. Here's how to do it:

1. Get Retirement Plan Daily Mission/Quest
2. Talk to Rocksy about the Raider.
3. Confront the Raider and Attack.
4. Report back/talk to Rocksy.
5. Select "Appalachia has a new corpse"
6. Quickly back out of the conversation after saying the dialog.
7. Repeat steps 4-6.

This can be a bit grindy but it is do-able. If you side with Crater over Foundation as it relates to the Treasure Vault Raid, it will save a lot of time.

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Ground Zero: Be at Ground Zero of a Nuclear Blast
• Scorched Earth: Win the "Scorched Earth" Event
• Friends in Low Places: Become allies with Crater

Also did some some off stream achievement in Dragon Ball FighterZ to get to 20 casual matches played... I got my ass kicked doing it, but hell I did win one match.

Dragon Ball FighterZ Achievements

• Lemme Play Too!: World Match - Play 20 Casual Matches.

Finished writing the commissioned short story based on Mia Yim's return to WWE and picked up another commission request based around Halo 4. I may not have played it, but I hope someone has the transcripts of its dialog or clips of its cut-scenes somewhere

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #1, Body Hook Combo and Weaving Combo #1 for 28 minutes.

When the two rabbit ears got married, it was a nice ceremony. But the reception was amazing.

Song of the Day: My Shit by A Boogie Wit da Hoodie

For tonight's stream we're playing Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova, we'll just how involved the game gets with having to switch between characters!

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

Geting Great Tune-Ups In Forza, Learning About The Lore In Gears

Good morning everyone,

Well yesterday was the first work day in a while as the usual nonsense of me seeing what I'm listed to be on only for it to be switched at the last second to something else. Still managed to have a productive first day back.

Last night's stream lead off with Forza Horizon 4 and making use of of a lot of Ultimate Spins to unlock many goodies and cars. Spent a lot of time just roaming around, doing speed traps, making epic jumps and other general nonsense. I did have one particular epic fail that I'm glad I was able to clip. Also one of my viewers let me know they do tune-ups for all the cars in the game, so I checked a few out. Was pretty awesome to see how set up a Datsun to push 175 MPH!

Half way through the stream, as has been the norm for Wednesdays, we switched over to Gears 5 and was joined by LvStrkR and Iceman as we wrapped up Act II, and did a fairly good job of finding  mostly everything. The lore regarding the creation of the Locust and how things relate to Kait really comes together, and the banter between Kait and Del is pretty awesome. 

There were some issues with some of the game's gimmicks that either cause havoc because of a lot of flashing (Iceman and LvStrkR both made notes of that), or mess with whoever is playing as Kait (which was me),That gimmick ties to whenever Kait has a vision which causes her to go rather loopy or just makes the screen all red

Still at this point we've roughly covered 50% of a lot of key objectives so now comes the question of what was missed in terms of collectable and components for Jack. Looking forward to seeing what Act III brings as we go from an Ice and Snow covered area to a desert.

Big thank you to Sheepfuzz for a big raid following their stream of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles! SheepFuzz broadcasts over at twitch.tv/sheepfuzz!

Also big thanks to Lorespade for another raid following their stream of Fallout 76! They stream over at twitch.tv/lorespade!

For last night's raid, we sent things over to GameWithLuna who was playing Valorant! They stream over at twitch.tv/gamewithluna!  

Forza Horizon 4 Achievements

• Horizon Fashion Week: Unlock 100 clothing items for your character.
  

Gears 5 Achievements

• Let's Get You Some Answers: Used the Comm Towers to locate the hidden facility
• We Need the Old Plan: Killed the Matriarch
  

Twitch Clip Links

1. An Epic Fail In A Race...
2. Geronimo! 
3. Hydroplaning!
4. I Was supposed to kill it! 
5. Funny... Also Funny
6. We Need The Old Plan! 
   

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive Combo #2, Double Combo #1 and Defensive Combo #1 for 28 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 434 kcal.

Messed around with Capcom Arcade Stadium after the stream last night... I'd like to 100% complete it... but the achievements are more focused on timed played and amount of time played. Still we got one done. Way I figure if I play it for a half hour a day we can gradually knock out various stuff... besides a half hour is about how long some of the bullet hell games in the collection take to get through with unlimited 'quarters'.

Capcom Arcade Stadium Achievements

• Newbie: Play for at least 10 hours.
  

For whatever reason Blogger was not saving my drafts last night when I was putting down different notes... so I lost quite a bit of this post. Which may have been a FireFox problem as I had to do a full restart when it wouldn't load anything... and before anyone points this out to me in a DM Microsoft Edge was working fine

For tonight's stream we'll be featuring Final Fantasy XIV and starting on the 5.4 main story content!

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