Persona 5 Tactica and other notes

Tonight's grind towards the final achievement of Persona 5 Tactica saw us clear through the second kingdom and fuse Magatsu-Izanagi, Athena, Tsukiyomi and Asterius, which leaves only three Personas left to fuse. The first of the remaining three requires being at level 63, but the final two require to be at levels 90 and 91, so some grinding might be in order, even with all the level boosting I have. 

With luck we'll be able to knock out the rest of this speedy playthrough between Thursday and Saturday's streams.

Tomorrow's stream is slated to feature Sea of Thieves with Iceman!

Big thanks to AnnieTalksShow for the raid!

For our raid we dropped in on psudonym who was playing Cyberpunk 2077!

There was no work today, even though we were told there would be work... and so it begins.

Picked up all three Daria related Funkos (Daria, Jane and Jodie), plus Linka from Captain Planet, and the giant Lilith from Diablo IV.

Finished the Dragon Ball related story commission, and currently in the middle of writing a Spider-Man related one, which combined with the last two stories I did would help cover for the lack of work.

Good night folks!

Persona 5 Tactica and other notes

A new year begins with a New Game Plus run of Persona 5 Tactica, and this play through we're pretty much focused on leveling up as quickly as we can chase down the remaining Personas to fill out the compendium in order to get the last achievement. We're at 96% on that, and with luck we'll be able to tear through the story battles and level up rapidly. Thankfully I do have some high-end Personas that grant an XP Boost which should make things quicker.

We'll continue this all out blitz on Tuesday's stream.

For the raid we went over to SweetLindir who was playing Hunt: Showdown.

With the day off, I mostly recovered from last night's New Year's Eve stream. I forgot how exhausting Overwatch can be if played for more than 5 hours.

Did knock out a major story commission based on the NFL, and next up is a Dragon Ball related commission involving Trunks. Had to do a lot of research in regards to the math to figure out character ages.

Hopefully we'll have work tomorrow!

Good night folks!

Overwatch 2 and other notes

Tonight's stream of Overwatch ran over eight hours, starting at 5 PM and ending after 1 AM, so that we could celebrate New Years with PandaSweet who is an hour behind (and as always big thanks to Panda for being apart of the stream!). So there were a lot of wins and losses over that span. Played as Junker Queen, Cassidy, Moira, Brigitte, D.va and numerous other characters. Also managed to pick up Ashe's second character achievement so that is the final one earned for 2023. 

Tomorrow night we're kicking things off with 2024 with the New Game Plus run of Persona 5 Tactica, cut scenes and such will be skipped over as we'll be looking to level up as quickly as possible. Not sure exactly when we'll start, I'm thinking early evening.

Overwatch 2 Achievements

• Served Up: Get a killing blow as Ashe on an enemy knocked into the air by B.O.B. in Quick or Competitive Play.

For the raid we went over to bangbangbang713 to watch them play The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me 

Had to take a trip to the bank today to make a deposit, which involved taking a bus there and then walking back home behind because the return bus wouldn't come for another two hours. Thankfully it was not snowing or raining and there was no traffic, so it was like direct one mile walk back.

Got two thirds of a commission story written based on the NFL in the late 90s, just have one more scene to write which I'll be working on when I wake up.

Two new Funkos added to the collection Slimer from Ghostbusters and Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas

Good night folks and happy new year!

Antstream Arcade and other notes

Tonight's broadcast featured random games that are avaliable via Antstream Arcade, so old things like Double Dragon, Burger Time, Earthworm Jim, Top Gear 2, Radical Rex and a bunch of other stuff. Now these games were not downloaded to the Xbox One, they were all played via streaming, and for the most part things went smoothly, but there were still some wonky issues with it as I was booting from a couple of games.

We'll keep the Anstream Arcade installed to throw to it when we have a night open between major games.

Tomorrow's night stream will feature Overwatch and it will be a long one folks as we might start around 5 PM or 6 PM and go straight on past midnight!

For the raid we went over to intergalacticpants who was play Baldur's Gate 3 

Had some family come over today who wanted to do a belated Birthday Celebration, which took up the afternoon. It was fun no complaints.

I do have to make a run to my bank to make a deposit this week. 

Didn't get any writing done today, so I'll be working on the NFL related commission before I go to bed and during the day tomorrow.

We have two new Funkos in the Collection, Ranger Slayer from Power Rangers and Bulma from Dragon Ball.

And on that note good night!

Alan Wake and other notes

Tonight we wrapped up Alan Wake, finishing on the lowest possible difficulty setting, and I was right about the sixth chapter taking about 90-ish minutes to finish, which was spot on given the number of times I died, either by getting cornered or falling off of high places. I'm not really inclined to the DLC content as I did mess around around with those before on the Steam version and didn't care for them.

We also tossed in some Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight, managing to beat my previous scores on a few songs on hard difficulty (and with the note speed turned up).

Tomorrow night we're going to dive into Antstream Arcade and check out what old school games are there. So it's going to be a retro night of gaming with no real plan, as we'll save starting up the New Game Plus run of  Persona 5 Tactica for Monday

Replacing Alan Wake in the Friday night slot will be Catherine Fullbody, which is only available on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch

For the raid we dropped in on zonesama where Cecilia Littlewing was hosting a retro telelvision stream

 Alan Wake Remastered (PS4) Trophies

• Right of Way: You have peeled 15 Taken off your bumper.
• Taken Season: You have dropped 50 Taken with the hunting rifle.
• Tornado Wrangler: You calmed the fury of the storm.
• Departure: You completed the game on Easy difficulty. 

 Added two Funko Pops to the collection today, Sorsha and Madmartigan from Willow!

With the a four day weekend I got some writing done, knocking off the Spider-Man commission early in the morning and then jumping into a three-screne NFL related commission that will take me a couple of days to write. It's about 30% finished already but tomorrow I'm having family visit, so I'm losing the day of writing.

And on that note, good night!

Mass Effect and other notes

Well tonight we wrapped up Mass Effect, our third run for the Xbox 360, and in our fastest time of 26 hours. We of course skipped Pinnacle Station, if we did that, it may have taken 28 hours, but it wasn't necessary. Now the question comes to if and or when I do another run to go after two of the remaining three of Achievements (Hardcore and Level 60), which I probably won't do until sometime in mid to late 2024.

Now the game that will replace Mass Effect in the lineup will be Persona 5 Tactica in order to chase down the last achievement we need, which is to complete the Compendium... which will involve leveling up to the mid-90s to for the remaining dozen.

Friday's night's stream will see us wrapping up Alan Wake Remastered, we just have episode six to finish and there are a couple of trophies I'm hoping to get that are combat related. Since I don't envision it taking longer than two hours, we might do either Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight or Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight.

For the raid we dropped in on lilmoolah_ as they were playing 7 Days To Die

I'm currently on a four day weekend, was hoping we'd had work on Friday but oh well.

The current story commission in progress is another Spider-Man one, but it's based on Marvel's Spider-Man 2 for the PS5... which I have not played, so trying to craft something around that is proving to be unique without looking up spoilers.

Redid arranged by Funko collection so you can see it behind me during my streams. I have quite a few!

Good night folks!

Mass Effect and other notes

Tonight's stream of Mass Effect saw us wrap up everything on Ferros, keeping all the colonists alive in addition to 'borrowing' the Normandy. Did discover there were a couple of side missions we haven't done, so instead of finishing the game outright we'll be able to extended it for one more stream, which will be tomorrows, as we have the Listen Post trio of missions to do before heading to Illos for the final leg.

Also got the Liara's achievement for using her for the majority of the game, so I'm not locked in to using her for the final missions, because as a Biotic, the best duo to bring along will be Tali and Ashley in order to balance things out.

So yes, we're finishing Mass Effect tomorrow, making it the first game we've finished twice in the same calendar year in quite some time!

I've also increased the color saturation on OBS so that colors of the games I play pop a bit more. Realized that when I was adjusting some settings on the new TV. 

For the raid we dropped in on rumhamshmah who was playing South Park: The Stick of Truth

Mass Effect Achievements

• Asari Ally: Complete the majority of the game with the asari squad member

 Work was okay, a lot of dead air tonight which made things drag.

I'm rethinking my Funk display at the moment, as I think I might use a couple of crates and work plant I have to really make it look neat.

Didn't finish the Spider-Man commission story I had on tap for today, in part because I needed to double check some details about the character of Gloria Davila to make sure I was portraying her correctly. So I'll be working on that before I go to bed!

Good night folks!