Persona 5 Tactica and other notes

 Got a very late invite to go over to my brother's mother-in-law's place for Thanksgiving dinner and I didn't see the message until like 6 hours after he sent it. He was kind enough to bring me a plate, and I was able to give my niece her present for her birthday last month.

We started the stream early and ran for 5 hours, as we got a lot done in Persona 5 Tactica (as proven by the achievement list for tonight. Near as I can tell we are close to finishing the the second kingdom arc, and what is impressing me about this story overall is that it seems to have the same vibe as Labrys's story in Persona 4 Arena, which only makes sense to me with how everything revolves around Toshiro coming to terms with things the way Labrys did.

Next time we play P5T will be on Saturday, as we'll start early-ish on Friday night to continue and knock out a lot of stuff in Horizon Zero Dawn

For the way we found someone else playing P5T in the form of neperrati, they were still in the First Kingdom portion of the story

Persona 5 Tactica Achievements

• Take That Treasure, Kidd!: Inflicted Shock on enemies with Ryuji 20 times.
• Dance, Carmen!: Inflicted Burn on enemies with Ann 20 times.
• Close-Quarters Offensive: Performed 100 melee attacks.
• Bewitch Them, Milady!: Hypnotized enemies with Haru 20 times.
• Novice Craftsman: Fused weapons 10 times. 

 Currently working on a commission request based around Rooster Teeth... and it's really paper thin in terms of plot because there's really not much I can do based on the characters I'm tasked to use.

I did take advantage of sales to nab a few things dirt cheap on the gaming side, including  the upgrade to the complete edition of Terminator: Resistance, the DLC for TMNT_ Shredder's Revenge, the upgrade to the Special Edition for Dragon Ball The Breakers, as well as Resident Evil 3 (Remake), XIII, Flashback and the 360 version of Alan Wake

Also did some grocery shopping, getting more fruits and vegetables... too bad the instacart shopper picked some things that were expired.

Good night!

Journey to the Savage Planet and other notes

Tonight, Iceman and I were focused on finding all the collectable items in the Landing Area of Journey to the Savage Planet, being rather successful, in addition to finding a teleporter we missed. In general we have covered well over 70% of what can be found in the game (if I did my math right). We still have more orange goop, alloys and other goodies to find in the remaining areas, but we have narrowed things down considerably!

Currently Joruney to the Savage Planet is scheduled for next Wednesday!

Tomorrow's stream will feature Persona 5 Tactica and we'll be starting fairly early to take advantage of the multiple day weekend

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

• Cannibals: Bait 5 creatures into attacking each other. Divide and conquer: Classic strat.

For the raid we went over to Zonesama for some retro television!

Currently working on a commission story based around Jimmy Neutron, finding a continuity point to age up the characters was interesting for a franchise that stayed static. Was asked to get it between 4000 and 5000 words, and it's going to be a stretch to reach that range.

Set up the Christmas Tree in the basement, it's exactly how mom left it when she set up in the living room last year.

Have a good night!

Persona 5 Tactica and other notes

During tonight's stream of Persona 5 Tactica, we wrapped up the First Kingdom, and it was pretty straight forward, we had one big side quest and several battle in a row including the big boss fight against Lady Marie, which I believe would be a nightmare on a harder difficulty.

Now the first Kingdom was clearly based on revolutionary France, the 2nd kingdom seems to be taking inspiration from feudal Japan. Going to be interesting to see how that theme is applied to the game's story.

Next time we play Persona 5 Tactica will be on Thursday.

Wednesday's stream is currently scheduled to feature Journey to the Savage Planet

For the raid we went over to calyria who was playing Coral Island

Persona 5 Tactica Achievements

• No Mercy!: Inflicted Forget with Erina 20 times.
• Come, Arsène!: Inflicted Despair on enemies with Joker 20 times.
• Manifest Your Will: Used Persona skills 100 times.
• Savior of the Land: Defeated the first Kingdom's boss.

I already know for sure I'm off from work on both Thursday and Friday, so we might do extended streams on both days.

The current story commission I'm working is related to the Batman Arkham games... and I only just recently learned in Arkham Origins that The Joker impersonates Black Mask. I should be able to finish it straight away.

I'm giving serious consideration to setting up the Christmas tree my mom use to have down in my basement.

Good night!

Persona 5 Tactica and other notes

We got a fair bit done during tonight's stream of Persona 5 Tactica, rescuing Fox and Queen to get all the Phantom Thieves reunited, along with seeing Toshiro is the center to the actual plot and not Erina. 

Finally saw the Accident variant for fusing Personas and it's hilarious, in addition to knocking out some side quests with the help of guides.

We're going to continue Persona 5 Tactica on Tuesday night's stream.

For the raid we went over to 13babybear13 who was also playing Persona 5 Tactica

Persona 5 Tactica Achievements

• Show Them Your Might, Zorro!: Swept away enemies with Morgana 20 times.
• Novice Dismantler: Broke down weapons 10 times.
• Perfect Aim: Performed 100 shooting attacks.
• The Battle Begins: Reunited the Phantom Thieves.
• Big Spender: Purchased 10 weapons.
• Accidents Happen: Witnessed a fusion accident.

Work was solid, even with a couple of technical difficulties picking up three interviews

I'm questioning the Phillies giving Aaron Nola a 7 year contract, but on the other hand he's going to end up being one of the longest tenured Phillies ever.

Didn't finish the WWE related story commission  I had on today's agenda but I'll be finishing it before I go to bed since it's about 85% finished.

Good night!

Overwatch 2 and other notes

Tonight's stream of Overwatch was overall solid, as always big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of a lot of the matches. The great thing about having Panda in a match is that if I'm playing as a tank and they are on Support, it means I have one less thing to worry about.

Of course the random teammates were driving me up the wall tonight, as I feel we could've won three more matches just based on the statistics alones.

Picked up three Plays of the Game all as Junker Queen, also played as D.va, Orissa, Reinhardt, Junkrat, Torbjourn, Soldier 76, Moira, Brigitte and a few others.

Our next stream will feature Persona 5 Tatica, which will for sure be on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday this week, and either Friday or Saturday, depends on what day I want to play Horizon Zero Dawn on

Big thanks to PatDesolate for the raid following their stream

We raided DatShadowWolf who was playing Genshin Impact

Felt extreme sore all day and did not get done the WWE related story commission I had listed for today, I'll be working on that once this is posted.

Speaking of story commissions, I currently have 10 in the queue, and it's really cool that people are coming to see if I can make something work with their ideas.

Good night!

Horizon Zero Dawn and other Notes

Tonight we banged out a bunch of trophies tied to exploration and side activities in Horizon Zero Dawn, plus several side quests, including the big one tied to the Thunderjaw known as Redmaw. If everything plays out right, we should be able to get enough skill points via the main story quests, since at this point that is the main things we have to focus on. At the moment, Horizon Zero Dawn is slated for Friday night, but I might put it on Saturdays to finish it out, with Persona 5 Tatica in four of the dive weekday slots.

Out next stream will feature Overwatch, haven't played it at all this week due to getting a bit sick and sleep getting thrown out of whack because of it.

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

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• Cleared all the Bandit Camps: Took back all settlements from the bandit clans.
• All Corrupted Zones cleared: Killed all the corrupted machines in every Corrupted Zone.
• All Ancient Vessels found: Found all the Ancient Vessels.
• All Banuk Figures found: Found all of Arnak's figures.
• All Metal Flowers found: Found all of the Metal Flowers.
• All Vantages found: Found and accessed all of the Vantage datapoints.
• All Acquisition machines killed: Killed at least one of every type of Acquisition machine.
• Hunted Redmaw with Talanah: Rose through the ranks of the Hunters Lodge and helped Talanah defeat Redmaw.

 Had a hard time knocking out a Resident Evil related commission, basically having to rewrite everything that was slated for it and take things in a different direction.

I know have back to back WWE related commissions and will be getting started on the first one shortly, as the queue is now up to nine stories. Depending on how wonky work gets this week with the Thanksgiving Holiday I might be knocking out a couple on in a day (or at least the ones that do not involve more than two characters)

Good night!

 

Persona 5 Tactica and other notes

We started Persona 5 Tactica today, and while it certainly takes a while to get going because of the long opening, this game continues all of the usual charm that I've come to expect from the Persona franchise, The fundamentals are clearly easy to learn but really tough to master, as I'm a complete novice when it comes to tactical based RPGs. The music and voice acting is top quality I fell.

Unlike everyone else, I elected not to the do the DLC story first because I wanted to understand how to play the game, because even on Safe Difficulty, I feel like I have to be very mindful of what moves I make.

We'll continue Persona 5 Tatcia on Monday's stream!

Our next stream will featured Horizon Zero Dawn as I decided not to continue playing Starfield, because at least with HZD I feel like I'm engaged with the content!

For the raid we dropped in on djparticle who was playing Splatoon 3

Persona 5 Tactica Achievements

• Lavenza's Aid: Gained the ability to fuse Personas.

Word was solid today, a few friendly folks to interview is always nice.

I'm currently working on a Resident Evil commission request, and that should be finish tomorrow... kind of over though out to use some elements of Resident Evil 3 and the chapter is turning out a bit lackluster.

Following it on a back to Back WWE related commissions requests, followed by Batman, Jimmy Neutron, Rooster Teeth, a 3rd WWE story and Star Wars tale. In a way I'm glad I'm off for Thanksgiving, and that some of these are concept that should only get around 2500 words, but of course I'll shoot for 3000 as always.

Good night!