Tekken 7 Has an Impossible Achievement

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Tekken 7 was certainly objective focused as we went after nearly every single achievement, starting with having to face and defeat Devil Kazumi. Oddly enough the requirements to face her involved not getting a perfect round in any match.  My attention then turned to the Treasure Battles where I accomplished several achievements including getting promoted to Warrior as Kazuya. Exploiting some of the A.I.'s tendencies helped here

Now getting to fight in Special Matches in Treasure Battle involved a lot of 'luck', as every after 3-4 win either gimmick match (Turbo Speed or Double Damage) or a special boss fight appears, so it was literally just win and hope a match happens... plus hope it was someone I could beat. Thankfully the 'Special Matches' ended up being against Jin, which isn't as tough as the other possible opponents (Akuma, Devil Kazuya, Heihachi  and Devil Kazumi)

After intentionally going into Practice Mode to farm out the damage needed for one last achievement, I realized the only one left involved winning a battle in an online tournament. Problem is, good like finding 7 people to take part in a tournament, plus hoping you can beat one of them in the front round. So as it stands, I'm declaring the 'Okay! I'm Ready!' achievement as not being possible for me to obtain.  

That said, we did reach get the most out of Tekken 7. so we'll be moving on from it to focus on other things. We'll probably put another fighting game in it's place.

Tekken 7 Achievements

• Fear My Wrath: Beat Devil Kazumi in an Arcade Battle or a Special Match in Treasure Battle.
• Don't Hold Anything Back: Defeated 20 opponents of a higher rank.
• Roar! (Nice Moves!): Got promoted to Brawler.
• I've Finally Found You!: Obtained 50 treasure boxes.
• Hot-Blooded Fighter: Got promoted to Warrior.
• Wow, I'm Pretty Strong!: Won three special matches in Treasure Battle.
• No Pain, No Gain: Dealt 50,000 damage in Practice mode.

Twitch Clips

•  Achievement: Roar!
•  Achievement: Hot-Blooded Fighter
•  Achievement: Wow, I'm Pretty Strong!
•  Twisting Arrow Canon For The Win!
  

Big thank you to Kalenal for the raid as they started playing Trials of Mana last night over on twitch.tv/kalenal! 

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Magic: The Gathering over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!  

Also thank you to RedFoxUKCov for resubscribing to my Twitch channel for the 12th month in a row! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Front-Back Step Combo, Defensive Combo #2 and Triple Combo #2 for a duration of 28 minutes.

What did the little mountain say to the bigger mountain? Hi Cliff!

Why are there gates around cemeteries? Because people are dying to get in!

Song of the Day: The One That Got Away by Katy Perry

In the world of Fantasy Baseball, one of my teams won the 5th Place Playoff series, and the other didn't. So I have a 5th and 6th Place finish for two different teams. However in the world of Fantasy Football both of my teams lost this week.  

Got in some grinding on Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium last night using Savage Bees and the face you get 500,000 points when clearing stage 16. Managed to knock out 1,000,000 CAPSO, so only 69 Million to go.

Also played a bit of MultiVersus, mostly focused on doing daily quests to work on the battle pass grind. Thank goodness these things can be done via bot matches. 

Already know work is going to suck because of the assignment I'm going to be on. Can only hope I'll be able to switch to something else in order to get a chance to be productive.

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I'm moving some items around for my streaming line up this week, The Last of Us Remastered will be featured tonight, because hey if I start at 6:30 PM Eastern and go to 10:30 / 11 PM Eastern, we'll have a tolerable time spent trying to move forward in that game. I think I'll treat it as a 'floating game', moving it around the week based on my mood.

So if I'm playing The Last of Us Remastered tonight, will that mean I'll play it also on Friday? Nope, I plan to start up Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight on Friday because at the very least trying to beat a rhythm game will be a lot more fun than dealing with the awful controls of The Last of Us.

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

Was that the last Sunday Overwatch stream before Overwatch 2?

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night was possible the last stream of Overwatch because the servers for it go off line this upcoming Sunday at an unspecified time in preparation for the launch of Overwatch 2 next Tuesday. I was thinking about when was the first time I saw someone playing Overwatch and I know for a fact it was sometime in 2017 when I randomly raided a stream named LordFluffyButt who used to do a lot of Overwatch streams. Of course at that time I was playing a lot of Paladins and I wouldn't start playing Overwatch until the end of that year, but starting in 2018, Overwatch has been a regular fixture on my channel.

Big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun last night. I picked up two Plays of the Game, both as D.va... who I realized was not apart of the original roster announced for Overwatch. Other characters I used were Reinhardt, Moira, Junkrat and Mei.

There was also a bit of a hilarious moment that is included in the clips, while waiting in a skirmish for a match, Panda and I ended up dancing on top of another player's head. It's the little things like that which makes video games awesome.

Twitch Clips

• Making things happen!
• Again making things happen! 
• Dancing on top of Mercy
  

For the raid we dropped in on Redneck_23 who was playing Framign Simulator 22 over at twitch.tv/redneck_23! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Intermediate Combo #1, Difficult Challenge Combo #1 and Biceps Shape Focus Combo for a duration of 34 minutes.

Song of the Day: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons

What do you call a man with a rubber toe? Roberto!

What do you give to a sick lemon? Lemon aid!

James Earl Jones has announced his retirement from the role of Darth Vader... and quite frankly I didn't think he was still doing voice work for the character. But the odd thing is, he signed the rights to voice away to Disney... which bothers me a bit, because it just means that instead of trying to evolves the Star Wars brand, it'll just lock things in even more for a more stagnated version of things possible by not letting certain characters change.  

Phillies blew a great opportunity to secure their play off spot by dropping their last two games against the Braves... and have all 9 of their remaining games on the road. I will not be surprised if they end up not making the Playoffs since the lats 3 games of the season will be against the Trash Can beating Astros.

If you're looking for tools to help with streaming or communicating from home with work, check out what Xsplit offers over at Xsplit.com, use the promo code CASDEN to save 10% on your order! If you're looking for just general stuff, of course you can swing over to Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3L8N1Yj.  

For tonight's stream we'll be putting a focus back on Tekken 7 to see about getting more achievements done, so there will be a focus on Treasure Battles to try and rank up to Warrior, plus trying to accomplish victories in Special Battles. 

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

MultiVersus and Arcade Games

Good afternoon everyone

Last night's stream marked the 7th consecutive stream without any internet issues, let that streak continue. And speaking of streak, we got off to a hot one in MultiVersus last night winning five matches in a row right off the bat. Of course I was lucky to get randomly teamed with some folks who clearly know how to play so as I was doing my thing of switching from character to character, I was basically being carried at times. I freely admit that. Also reached the point in the Battle Pass where I unlocked Harley Quinn's Task Force X attire, which is pretty cool looking.

Did get one achievement in MultiVersus last night, leaving only eight left to get, but they are mostly 'grind' related in terms of performing certain actions, winning and being in a 'party' a certain amount of times.

MultiVersus Achievements

• Catch This: Get 50 Ringouts with a Projectile

Now we didn't spend the entire night on MultiVersus, we switched over to Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium to mess around with a few different games... and to get my name on the ranked leader boards. Rather funning that my 1 hour plus time on Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo is 23rd overall... the time in 22nd place was 36 minutes. Talk about a huge gap in skill.

There was a weird game that we did play in CA2S called Pnickies which never saw a release outside of Japan back in 1994. It is a puzzle game where you have to link blobs together and they are only cleared when they have two 'star' shaped things in them. Took me a minute to realize exactly how the game worked, but I can see myself looking into trying to 'get good' at it.

Actually come to think of it... Pnickies plays a lot like Dr. Robotonik's Mean Bean Machine and Poyo Poyo.

Twitch Clips

• Smacking WW Off To he Side
• Achievement: Catch This!
• Dunking LeBron 
• Just Making Our Way Through
• The situation was tense! 
• Understanding the game
  

For the raid we dropped in on TracyDoll while they were playing Friday the 13th: The Game over at twitch.tv/tracydoll! 

Managed to finish the left-over commission request that I received for a story that has a MLB tie-in too it. Believe me when I say, it was a struggle to get it to at least 1500 words.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Diffuclty Challenge Combo #1, Block Combo and Difficulty Challenge Combo #2 for a duration of 34 minutes.

What do you call a hippie's wife? A Mississippi!

What did the duck say when she bought a lipstick? Put it on my bill!

Song of the Day: Georgia by Vance Joy

It's the start of a new week so lets recap what we did over the previous seven days which included Overwatch, Tekken 7, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, The Last of Us Remastered, MultiVersus and Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium!   

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For tonight's stream, we're playing Overwatch and it's possibly the last time we'll feature it on stream depending on when the servers shut down next Sunday!

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

The Last of Us Remastered... For Me It Isn't Fun

Good afternoon everyone,

So last night we played The Last of Us Remastered... and I'll be honest, I'm not too keen on the game play... in fact the game play itself just sucks, the combat is mediocre at best, the puzzles I've seen are generic... and everything just seems to be just 'breaks between cut scenes'.  In fact, the more I think about it, the the actual 'game' part of The Last of Us serves more as a 'break' between the gorgeous cut scenes and dialog. The controls are cumbersome, with even the most mundane things needing button presses which makes stuff like getting into and out of cover a chore.

I'll straight up say, if I wasn't playing this on its easiest setting I would have switched games probably in the trenches when escaping the city.

Now how far did we get, well we found Bill in Bill's town and wrapped up just before leaving 'the bar' which had a lot of supplies. So I saw basically all the set up, saw Joel and Tess's relationship, and had my first encounters with the Clickers and Runners. 

The game does sound great, but visually... depending on the lighting, things either look awesome, or they look off to where I have a hard time seeing. The swimming section I saw when going into an area that has spores really was tough to see things.

Something that really bugs me is the lack of trophies to give an idea of progress, I thought that it was something done with the Remastered version, but the PS3 version was also lacking in actual story related achievements.

So against my better judgement we will play The Last of Us Remastered again next week, maybe things will improve as we get into the meat and potatoes of the game.

Twitch Clips

• Brawling Joel
• What he says goes 
• Well... fuuuuu
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni as they were playing Crusader Kings III over on twitch.tv/bestibunni!  They also reached affiliate status!

Yesterday I realized I had clips from 2017, 2018 and 2019 over on my personal Facebook page, so I downloaded them with the idea of putting compilations for those three years. Problem is, Facebook compressed the hell out of those clips, and they were like at 480p and below because of the hardware I was using at the time.

Also, the first half of work sucked.. but thankfully things picked up when we had an assignment switch. So it was a 50% good shift.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Intermediate Combo #2 and Hip Shape Focus Combo for a total time of 28 minutes. I've actually put in 400 hours in on Fitness Boxing 2

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 9/18 to 9/24/22

• Punches Thrown: 8162
• Estimated Calories Burned:3306.04 kcal
  
• Evan's Champion Progress:76% (38 out of 50 hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 96%
  
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 652
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 810

 Before the invention of the wheel… everything was a drag!

What do you call it when Dwayne Johnson buys a cutting tool? Rock pay-for scissors.

Song of the Day: Layla by Derek & The Dominos

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For tonight's stream we'll mess around with a few things, probably lead off with MultiVersus. I will need to remember to turn off the music for that game to avoid a lot of issues from a few weeks ago.

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

So how does a Moogle slay a dragon?

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was a nice easy night as I covered all the side quests in the remaining areas that were apart of the Heavansward expansion, so we ended up spending a few hours just going all over the place fetching items, defeating enemies and so fourth.

Now a big part of the night was once we started covering the side quests in Sea of Clouds where every quest involved Moogles giving the quests. There was one major reoccuring one involving a Moogle named Mogleo who wanted to join the Pomguard... and by the end of that little story I was wondering how a Moogle could slay a dragon let alone two! 

Now of course I'll continue these side quests journeys as the next areas will be all related to the Stormblood expansion. Should have an easy time with that as all the quests should be between levels 60 and 70.

Twitch Clips

• We almost have him defeated
• We saved him! 
• He's getting his opportunity!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal who was also playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #2, Advanced Combo #1 and Sway Back Combo for 34 minutes.

Work was solid yesterday, no complaints about the assignment that I was on... well maybe one when it comes to trying to complete interviews that were already started by other people. That is never easy to do since apparently one method of doing so is no longer being utilized.Unfortunately, I already know the assignment I'm on for today is going to cause the day to fucking drag

Before 1 AM last night i had two short story commission requests in the queue, and managed to knock out the first one, which was the WWE one I mentioned yesterday. The second one involves baseball, or at least some of the elements related to that game.

What kind of car runs on leaves? An autumn-mobile!

I tried to organize a professional Hide-and-Seek tournament, but it was a complete failure. Good players are hard to find.

There was an OBS update yesterday... I look forward to seeing what it breaks this time. 

Speaking of updates there was a System update for the PlayStation 4 which we installed last night when installing the game we're going to feature next.

Song of the Day: Let Me Down Slowly by Alec Benjamin.

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For tonight's stream we're going to start up The Last of Us: Remastered.  I shall play it on its easiest difficulty setting, so we'll see if this will be something I try to finish or just say 'to hell with it'.

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

Thoughts On The Pitt in Fallout 76: Its Awful

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 saw me focused on knocking on the Mayor for a Day quest line, as well as the Woman That Feel To Earth, which was more important because it lead to an achievement. That later quest ended up taking me to the building where the grief incident happened several months ago . I am glad to get that story arc done, because we went all in on the Romance portion so in my Fallout 76 story, my Vault Dweller and Sofia are a couple. Also we set Athena up with a body, so I wonder if they will pop up again somewhere.

Now... The Pitt.... is just awful, not only was the daily just to unlock the opportunity to get to that new area was a pain in the ass, but The Pitt itself just is a brutal mess, with incredibly tough enemies and little to no sense of direction or markers. We got into the catacombs, but we couldn't figure out where the hell to toss some things into nests because we had no clue what the nests look liked. You really won't see me doing that on stream again any time soon.

Big thanks to Iceman for joining in, too bad we didn't get to finish Mayor for a Day for him, it seems like we missed getting him an item when were covering that quest line, but he was with me as we explored The Pitt. He also had the same reaction I did to the Pitt as well.

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Wish Upon A Star: Complete Sofia's story

Twitch Clips

• Mayor For A Day Completed
• Strength+4 is the Best Choice 
• First Time In The Pitt
  

For the raid we dropped in on Bestibunni as they were playing Magic The Gathering and Crusader Kings III over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #1, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo  for 31 minutes.

Work was incredibly bleh yesterday, not as engaging as it was on Tuesday. Here's hoping for a more engaging day today

Did watch a bunch of episodes of Dragon Ball Heroes, and for being a series of shorts to promote a card game, they are not bad in terms of a quick Dragon Ball fix. Do like the fact that it is giving Radtiz a chance to shine a bit as well as other short lived characters.

Will Saraya (formally Paige in the WWE) showing up in AEW make me want to pay more attention to that shit-show of a wrestling promotion? Not really, with her neck issues I really can't see her having a match there.

Song of the Day: Come As You Are by Nirvana.

The guy that invented the umbrella was gonna call it the brella. But he hesitated.

Fun fact: Australia's biggest export is boomerangs. It's also their biggest import.

Finished the commissioned short story based around Spider-Man for the PS4, and got another commission request for a story based around Evan Bourn during his WWE tenure. That should be tough...

Got a call from Executive Customer Relations team member that I've been dealing with at Xfinity for the past few months to see if I was satisfied now that everything seemed to be resolved after techs were doing maintenance in the entire area Friday, Saturday and Sunday in addition to the tech visit I got on Saturday afternoon. Basically laid into them for finally addressing the issues I've been pointing out to them for the past four months while also suggesting that since Xfinity bought the bullet and is upgrading its outdated coaxial style network to a fiber-optic one that they do that as quickly as possible.

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For tonight's stream we are playing Final Fantasy XIV, and we'll resume my quest to do all the side quests. So we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Completed All The Lore In Tekken 7 And Conquered Akuma

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Tekken 7 was certainly focused on the story, as we covered the entire story mode... and when everything is laid out... it's quite clear that every one associated with the Mishima clan is an asshole, but the only one who seems to have any justification in their actions is Heihachi, because when his wife ends up being possessed by the devil gene and tries to kill him and he basically acted in self defense... then had concerns about his son Kazuya inheriting his mother's 'gift'... sure he threw him off a fucking cliff, but all things considered, Heihachi is the 'good guy'. Sure he's evil as fuck, but justified to some degree.

Now let's talk about that 'Special' Akuma fight aka the 'Special Chapter.'... it took me three attempts, and I nearly pulled it off in the first attempt. What I ended up doing was basically waiting for Akuma to stop teleporting so that I could wail on him. So that certainly appealed to me.

In addition, we dedicated time to doing all the Character Episodes... and I was surprised to see how many were joke endings, so it raises the question is whose version of events is the true version, since quite a few endings are told from two different points of view. Not sure if I'm buying into Nina being Steve's mother are not.

We put in more time into the Treasure fights to push towards grinding towards various rank achievements and unlocking of items. Speaking of that, unlocked nearly everything in the gallery. I'm actually surprised at how much of this game I'm actually completing.

On a side note, I am counting Tekken 7 as being a game finished because we did do all the lore related stuff, but I do intend to feature it at least a couple of more times because I want to go after some achievements on stream.

Tekken 7 Achievements

• You Think You're Tougher Than Me?: Finished the prologue of the main story.
• Let's Do This: Finished Chapter 1 of the main story.
• You Challenge Me?!: Finished Chapter 8 of the main story.
• I Can't Accept This Fate: Finished Chapter 13 of the main story.
• It's Time For You To Meet Your End!: Watched the epilogue of the main story.
• Master Of Iron Fist: Finished the Special Chapter of the main story.
• I Demand To Know The Truth!: Finished three Character Episode stories.
• Lightning Of Fate: Finished 10 Character Episode stories.
• Stun Gun!: Snatched victory from the jaws of defeat 5 times with Rage Art. (Excluding offline VS Battle)
• Your Technique Is Impressive: Got promoted to Initiate.

Twitch Clips

•  Defeating Devil Kazuya
•  Defeating Akuma
•  Well that got close!
  

For the raid we dropped in on BaronVizkopa  who was playing Star Trek Online over at twitch.tv/BaronVizkopa!  

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

I'd like to go to Holland someday. Wooden shoe?

Why can't you trust an atom? Because they make up everything.

Song of the Day: Mine by Bazzi 

Woke up late this morning because I forgot to take my phone off of vibrate when I was done working yesterday...

Part of why I woke up late was that I got quite a bit of writing done on the latest Spider-Man commission request I received, as figuring out how to trade back and forth between him and Silver Sable has been quite a challenge.

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For tonight's stream, we're back to Fallout 76 with my first objective being to see how I can finish that damn quest that Iceman and I started two weeks ago!

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