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!

Ghostbuster Spirits Unleashed and other notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream was supposed to feature Journey to the Savage Planet, but the part of Canada where Iceman lives got hit with a massive outage so we had to switching things up.

So the back up game ended up being Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, and it's a good thing we did switch to it because it had a massive update with new features like a bounty system, and new story line elements with Samhain, and the tease of additional content in the future. 

We certainly had a lot of fun, as I had a fun night returning to Ghostbusting, even capturing a ghost three times in one match. I really like the idea of the bounty system because that becomes you and your A.I. companions versus the A.I. (or you and three buddies versus the A.I.) with different difficulties. Also you can customize your A.I. team, who will roam around the fire house! 

Now our next stream will feature the start of Resident Evil HD, and I hope I can find a decent guide for it to try and get through it without too much trouble.

For the raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing Green Hell

Work tonight was okay, nothing major although the system our client wants us to use has such a delay in logging things that I tend not to pay attention to what automatic messages are saying

Knocked out a 3000+ word story commission based on Spider-Man, and now I have a Resident Evil story to do, followed by a (sigh) WWE / Wrestling related one. We were on a good streak there for a while.

I don't have to (in theory) worry about Jury Duty for another three years... woo hoo!

You know when playing ranked matches in Overwatch on PC, there is always the concern of people leaving matches, it seems to be doubly concerning on the console side of the spectrum

And on that note good night!

Star Wars The Force Unleashed and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream ran long because we went ahead and finished Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and I have to say, this was a fun game. Sure we did it on the easiest difficulty, but what instantly stood out to me was how much of a pain in the ass this game could be and probably is on harder difficulty settings with trying to get around and some very questionable hit-stuns and cheap attacks from enemies.Story wise it does lead into the event of the original trilogy quite nicely in regards to doing the Light Side ending, which was clearly canon. Would I play it again? Mostly to grind out achievements that require defeating enemies different ways, finding the collectables and do the Dark Side ending.

So with this game finished, we are going to pivot and start up Resident Evil on Thursday's stream, and we will use a guide for it.

Out next stream on Wednesday will featured Journey to the Savage Planet, as Iceman and I continue our silly adventures

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Achievements

•     Empirical: Complete Level - Empirical, act 2
•     Vapor Room: Complete Level - Cloud City, act 2
•     Cannon Fodder: Defeat 150 Stormtroopers
•     Skyhook: Complete Level - Kashyyyk, act 2
•     The Bigger They Are: Defeat 6 Rancors
•     Infestation: Complete Level - Felucia, act 2
•     Impaled: Defeat 100 enemies with Saber Throw
•     Expert: Earn 500,000 Force Points on a single level
•     Repulsed: Defeat 100 enemies with Force Repulse
•     Destroyer: Complete Level - Raxus Prime, act 2
•     The Harder They Fall: Defeat 10 AT-STs or AT-KTs
•     Legend: Earn 600,000 Force Points on a single level
•     Redemption: Complete Game - Light Side
•     Apprentice: Complete Game - Apprentice difficulty. Do not change the difficulty after the game has started.

For tonight's raid we went dropped in on Calyria who was playing Cyberpunk 2077

Big thank you to Joliet4 for the raid following their World of Warcraft stream!

Work was okay, just another grind, but we got the hours and that's what counts.

Phillies choked big time and last game 7 to the Diamondbacks, and will miss out of the World Series.

Knocked out a Dragon Ball commission request during the day, and it turned out real good I think in regards to figuring out Chi Chi would be involved in the Future Trunks timeline. Next commission story is based on Spider-Man, in fact I already started writing it.

And those will be all of our notes, have a good night!

Star Wars The Forced Unleashed and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream saw us starting up Star Wars The Forced Unleashed, and for a 15 year old game, it's visuals certainly hold up as do most of it's controls... the jumping is kind of wonky. The seemingly endless waves of enemies certains gives me the vibe that a lot of the grindy achievements were meant to be done in a single play through. Did find some of the placement for hidden items to be weird, but not too far out of the way..The plot of the game of Darth Vader wanting to take down the Emperor is a bit of a stretch because there is no fucking way Anakin Skywalker would have the balls to do that after what he did to the Padawans.Overall, I do find elements of the game to be rather silly and over the top.

We knocked out all of Act 1 tonight, and we'll continue the game on Tuesday's stream starting around 9:30 PM Eastern or as soon as I finish work.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Achievements

• Frenzy: Get a Frenzy x4 bonus
• Sith Frenzy: Get a Frenzy x8 bonus
• Invasion: Complete Level - Prologue
• Skilled: Earn 250,000 Force Points on a single level
• Insurrection: Complete Level - TIE Factory, act 1
• Pushed: Defeat 100 enemies with Force Push
• Bully: Defeat 25 Ugnaughts or Jawas
• Junkyard: Complete Level - Raxus Prime, act 1
• Shocked: Defeat 100 enemies with Force Lightning
• Jedi Hunt: Complete Level - Felucia, act 1 

Tonight's raid went to lilmoolah_ who was playing Cyberpunk 2077

Jury Duty in New Jersey is a fucking pain, as now I have to check every day at 4 PM this week to see if I have to go to the court house. I can't see how the hell this is even feasible for more people because it becomes a massive inconvenience since it's completely last minute.

Work today was alright if a little blah, did have concerns about a chance in my hours starting next week which would mean stream would start after 10 PM Eastern

Did get a call from a family member who is more or less trying to pressure me to move to Philadelphia, which is many ways isn't possible, and not something I would want to do because since my house is completely paid off. On top of that it would basically be like starting over from scratch with nothing.

Knocked out a massive commission story during the day based around AEW, the client gave me an outline that allowed me to just write the story without having to do too much research to understand how some chracters are. Next commission story will be basedo n Dragon Ball, followed by one based on Spider-Man, then one on Resident Evil

I really need to take a day to finish the 6th chapter of my Persona story... but the commission stories take priority.

Phillies lost tonight to the Diamondbacks backs and now for the first time in the teams history, and now they are forced to play a game 7 tomorrow. It's do or die for the Phillies... 

But hey, congrats to the Rangers for eliminating the Astros.

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!