Journey to the Savage Planet and other notes

 Hi everyone, 

Tonight, Iceman and I wrapped up the main story of Journey to the Savage Planet, and it was certainly interesting and lot of fun when it came to figuring out how to navigate the puzzles while using limited items to get to higher platforms. I'm not sure how exactly some things would be possible to do solo, but we figured it out! I honestly think this is a great game to play co-op because the discovery of realizing what is possible and sharing that experience adds a lot of charm to a game like this

Of course we're not completely done with it, as we'll be keeping Journey to the Savage Planet around on Wednesdays to do the DLC content along with seeing if we can pick up more achievements. 

And yeah, Iceman and I did an extended chat after the gaming,  talking about the best players to wear every jersey number for Philadelphia and Toronto. 

Thursday night's stream will see Resident Evil return. On Tuesday night the last thing we did was get all Red and Yellow crystals... so it'll be off the East side of the Mansion. Hopefully we can avoid hunters!

Journey to the Savage Planet: Employee of the Month Edition Achievements

• It's Not In The Game: Collect every obnoxious video ad on your computer.
• It's Me. But Not Me. But Still Me.: Scan your own corpse. Best not to think about it too much...
• Open Sesame: Enter The Spire. I've got a bad feeling about this...
• Teratomo Defeated: Teratomo is no mo'. Now go take a shower. You smell bad. Very bad.
• Teratomo? Teratomo!: Re-emerged onto AR-Y 26 after killing Teratomo. Back to work, I suppose!

For the raid we went over to ZoneSama where Cecilia Littlewing was hosting some retro TV watching featuring Bravestar and Jem & The Holograms!

Knocked out a WWE related commission, which turned out pretty well I think while playing into using references to the Miz & Mrs reality show.

Next story commission on the docket involves Spider-Man, and since I'm not sure about the MCU version of Liz Allen, it might be a challenge because I haven't seen those movies.

I really like the new skins for the crossover event in Overwatch. 

And on that note, good night!

Resident Evil and other notes

 Hi everyone,

We're in November... and it's nearly been a year since mom passed away...

Tonight's stream of Resident Evil saw us cover all of the residence portion, and we maybe could've done more if the guide I was using was less cryptic about certain things. We did do everything such as dealing with the Neptune shark, Plant 42 and making our way back to the mansion to officially reach the middle portion of the game, with the last puzzle we did being the one involving getting the yellow and red gems. That will served as a great reminder of where we'll pick up next time we play Resident Evil which is scheduled for Thursday.

Wednesday's night stream is slated to feature Journey to the Savage Planet, and hopefully Iceman and I will be able resume our adventures in that silly game! If we can't then I'll continue Resident Evil.

For tonight's raid we dropped in on Calyria who was playing Resident Evil 5!

Resident Evil Achievements

• Deep Sixed: Defeat mother Neptune.
• The Key Master: Obtain the Helmet Key using Jill.
• Who's the Hunter Now?: Defeat a Hunter.

Knocked out the AEW story commission, which turned out alright I think, about 2700 words or so.

Next story commission is WWE related, which I'll start working on before I go to bed tonight in order to knock it out straight away during the day.

Following that, I have commission request in the queue for Spider-Man, based around the Tom Holland films, then Resident Evil, followed by two WWE related ones. 

Saw a good deal on the omnibus collecting the Batman / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle crossover, so going to add that to collection. Mostly means I'll be cooking my meals this week instead of doing takeout, but I think that's a good trade-off.

And on that note, good night!

Resident Evil and other notes

Happy Halloween!

Tonight's stream featured Resident Evil HD, as we continued our guided play through on the easiest possible difficulty, making it all the way to the Residence save room, which puts on a path to deal with Plant 42 and a big fucking shark! Still I continue to have trouble with aiming, as I went through more ammo and used more healing items than probably necessary.

Also because I didn't save Richard, I didn't get his combat shotgun, and also had to fight to Yawn on my own... which was very unpleasant. 

I do have to say in terms of some of static camera angles, they make for great screenshots of Jill, so I'm pretty pleased with how a bunch of have turned out, some of which you'll be able to see on my tumblr page (https://www.tumblr.com/fredcasden).

Of course our next stream will also feature Resident Evil HD, scheduled for around 9:30 PM Eastern

For the raid we went over to x9abenonymous9x who was playing Resident Evil: Director's Cut, which was the version I played 20 years ago. I do wish I knew where my copy of it was, maybe I traded it in, but I could've sworn I still had it.  

Resident Evil Achievements

• Not Waiting to Exhale: Survive your first encounter with Yawn.
• Grave Digger: Defeat a Crimson Head prototype1 using Jill.

Added a bunch of short (about 1000 word) long stories to my Ao3 page.

Knocked out a Spider-Man related commission today, featuring Miles Morales, which turned out to be more of a challenge.

Next commission request is related to All-Elite Wrestling / Pro Wrestling, then behind that there are commission requests for WWE, Spider-Man and Resident Evil.

Good night folks!

Overwatch 2 and other notes

Hi everyone, 

Tonight's stream of Overwatch 2 got off to a rough start because we had to restart the stream due to a Stream Deck update, but once things go rolling we had a fun night. Of course I did have my Halloween costume on from what I was able to piece together, but it was too hot to keep on for the full stream and in the end it was down to the wig and goggles. Big thanks to PandaSweet for joining in a few matches as well!

Picked up one play of the game as Sombra and also the second of her character related achievements. I seriously do like her re-work. Also played as Kiriko, Junker Queen, Moira, D.va, Tracer, Echo and a few other characters

Overwatch 2 Achievements

• Power Outage: Hack 5 enemies at once as Sombra in Quick or Competitive Play.

On my next stream we're getting back to Resident Evil HD, hopefully I remember exactly where I left off when it comes to the guides I was using!

For the raid we went over to AnnieTalksShow as they were playing Valorant  

Now I'm not 100% sure of this week's stream start times as the way I submit my schedule to my job was different than normal, so streams may not start until 10 PM Eastern, I'll see about keeping the 9:30 scheduled time, but it may tough to do that.

Knocked off a WWE related commission requests which was a lot of fun to write since I was able to do something totally different with it. Next four commission stories I have on the docket involve two Spider-Man related ones, one for AEW and another WWE one. 

I need to find  the quest order list for Starfield's main story so we can totally focus on that since the scope of the game is too large, otherwise, I'll become tempted to stop playing it on Satudays!

And on that note, 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!