Thoughts on every character in MultiVersus

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream was totally dedicated to MultiVersus, for well over four hours. I didn't just stick with one character, I rotated through everyone currently in the game.So here are my thoughts on the current roster. I had more losses than wins during the night, but I had a blast. In fact I was having so much fun I nearly forgot to take a break! Anyway here's my break down of the current cast of characters in the game.

Lebron James: The basketball gimmick is quite useful, but it's way to easy to eliminate yourself by trying to use a down ability to dunk someone who is trying to get back on the platform

The Iron Giant: Big and slow, does a lot of damage and hits like a brick. Hope you never get stuck with a random partner also playing the character because the match becomes a slog.

Taz: Played him before the nerf that is coming for his spin, I don't see what the issue was, I found him to be fairly solid.

Velma: As a support character, I couldn't figured her out, but using her as a brawler allowed me to spam her gimmicks.

Arya Stark: Getting behind opponents and attacking from behind is key, does have some nice recovery options.

Batman: His grapple hook is great to close in on enemies... but can also result in yeeting yourself off platforms.

Bugs Bunny: Fairly even kit, but apparently he's getting nerf. His air side special of a rocket is really useful to try and get a quick ring out.

Finn the Human: I really not sure what to make of FInn, when I fact him I get my ass kick, when I used him I couldn't quite understand how his skills worked.

Garnet: A close range bruiser, has rocket punches... other than that nothing stood out to me

Harley Quinn: My 'main', has a side special that should get you behind enemies to shoot them in the back.

Jake the Dog: Actually calls opponents bastards, has to be in close to be effective near as I can tell.

Rendog: has an ability to extend a shield around partnered players, total support character but can set up some traps.

Shaggy: The mascot of the game, total instinct Shaggy is one of two characters everyone gets to learn right off the bat. Not sure how to make him throw a huge sandwich.

Steven Universe: A support character that can set up a shield for a barrier, can also create a clone that if it gets ringed out makes you think he himself has been elininated.

Superman: Classic Big Blue, has some nice combos, I didn't get a good handle on how to have him fly.

Tom and Jerry: You're actually Tom with Jerry being your item. I find it funny they and Bugs are classified as Mages.

Wonder Woman: Like Shaggy, she is someone everyone gets to learn right from the jump. Has some great nature combos.

On a side note we did pick up a few achievements related to MultiVersus as well

MultiVersus Achievements

• Spike Specialist: Get 10 Ringouts using the bottom of the blastbox
• Bun-Puncher Supreme: Get 100 ringouts
• Signature Slammer: Get 10 low damage ringouts
• Toast Master: Give out 100 toasts to other players

Twitch Clips

• Get that stuff out of here!
• Achievement: Spike Specialist 
• We Win!
  

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

Now I had an Xfinity tech come out and what they checked was everything, with the key thing being replaced was a splitter that had three connectors to one that had two while making sure the internet is in the priority slot. Apparently Xfinity splitters divide up the signal a certain way with three connectors that was causing some issues, not to mention I learned exactly where the 'cut off' is for when power levels get to high (51) on the modem which causes intermittent issues. The stream itself had no issues what so ever which was good.

My copy of Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] arrived yesterday afternoon, and I'm excited to see it is an ArcSys game that has a story mode.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout included Hip Shape Focus Combo, Intermediate Combo #2 and Straight Combo #2 for 28 minutes. Excellent chance we'll knock out the Bernardo's Champion achievement tomorrow

Fitness Boxing 2 Stats for the Month of July 2022

• Punches Thrown: 36492
  
• Estimated Calories Burned:15125.22 kcal
  
• Bernardo's Champion Progress: 98% (49 out of 50 hours)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress:94%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Days In A Row: 597
• Total days in a row: 755
  

Figured out the intro for the Watch Dogs commission fic, so now it's all about writing the action that is set up. Probably won't finish writing it until tomorrow or Tuesday.

It's the start of a new week, so let's recap what we played over the last week which was Overwatch, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, Ghostbusters Sanctum of Slime, Fall Guys, Cultist Simulator, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Strikers and MultiVersus!

How do you catch a bra? With a booby trap.

How many tickles can an octopus take? Tentacles!

Song of the Day: Say So by Doja Cat

For tonight's stream Overwatch is on deck, so we'll hope for a smooth night with no issues. 

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

We Finished Persona 5 Strikers... No Thanks To Xfinity

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream had a 40 minute delay, granted it was started at 6:30 PM Eastern, but a ton of connection issues thanks to Xfinity pissed me off to the point I called them and blistered them on stream for it. The Rep I spoke too certainly went out of their way to not diffuse the situation by patronizing me when I told them exactly what was going on and then denying transferring to a Supervisor, and refusing to ask for when I would be available for a tech visit. Which turns out will be for today between 2 PM and 4 PM... whiih I was not aware of until after I called them back at 2 AM last night.

That said... once we got the connection stable after I did a third reset of my modem yesterday, things went mostly smoothly for the night as we had a straight forward approach to finishing Persona 5 Strikers. In fact, the story arc is extremely straight forward. I did rather enjoy Sophia unlocking her Persona... and just knowing it's name is Pandora prompted me to yell "put her back in the box". Since I was also using a guide, we had a real good idea of how to plan for the final boss of the game... in fact I split the team into 3 groups for the phase two portion (Panther, Makoto and Yusuke for the first part ; Morn, Noir and Skull for the second ... leaving Joker, Wolf and Sophie for the final) 

I did enjoy how every major plot point was wrapped up nice and neat, but what's left is basically a ton of grinding and monster hunting... which would be kind of a pointless because the last one requires a second full play through.... so maybe we'll reinstalled Persona 5 Strikers down the road just for the purpose of trophy hunting and grinding.

Now with Persona 5 Strikers finished, the next PS4 game will be Stray, which recently game out, and will be featured next Friday night.

Big thank you to all the viewers who did hang out and for the 300 bits, your continued support was greatly appreciated.

Persona 5 Strikers Trophies

• A Newfound Heart: Sophia found strength of heart.
• Humanity's Companion: Completed the Jail of the Abyss.
• Walk Your Own Path: Completed the Tree of Knowledge.

Twitch Clips

• They really are Thor!
• Some Body Put Her Back In The Box! 
• The Fall Of The False God
• Like OMG 
  

For the raid we dropped in SheepFuzz who was playing Jackbox Party Packs over on twitch.tv/sheepfuzz!  

I have been struggling a bit with how I want to write the commission request for a Watch Dogs fic... I have an idea of how it should go, it's just questioning which details regarding an unneeded character that is holding things up. 

Song of the Day: When I Come Around by Green Day

I tried buying camouflage the other day but I couldn't find any.

What did one bean say to the other? "How you bean?"

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #2, Advanced Combo #1 and Sway Back Combo for 34 minutes. We did pass 49 hours training with Bernardo,  but the exact time is unknown, so we'll either compete his Champion EX Achievement tomorrow or on Monday

Fitness Boxing 2 Stats For Week of 7/24 to 7/30, 2022

• Punches Thrown: 8160
  
• Estimated Calorie Burn:3325.72 kcal
  
• Bernardo's Champion Progress: 98% (49/50 Hours)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 94%
  

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For tonight's stream, MultiVersus will be featured and it should be the only game we feature tonight, if all goes well. Hopefully the issues with Xfinity will be resolved or at least I'll have a better understanding of how to deal with them.

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

Xfinity Epically Fails Me Again

 Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was hampered with nearly a dozen instances of service issues thanks to Xfinity. While the stream didn't go down fully, the intermittent issues did see me actually getting booted out of FF14 twice... and thank goodness it wasn't in a raid, trial or some other group activity. Things were so weird last night that I even had frame drop issues indicating more of a problem than one would assume.

As for Final Fantasy XIV, I did manage to level up Dragoon just by picking up various quests I've skipped over because they were unrelated to the main story, just things to add flavor to the game... like a side-dish... hence why they are called side quests. Also did some fishing, and dedicated time to gaining a couple of levels on botanist to put it in striking distance of finishing it's story, which I mid do to open up next Thursday's stream.

On a side note, I was awarded an Amazon gift card from my job, which we promptly used to pick up Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[Cl-R] for the PlayStation 4 which from what I understand, is the definitive version of Under Night In-Birth EXE:Late. I do hope it has some sort of story mode to help flesh out the characters because when I played the vanilla version via Steam a few years ago, I did like  the concepts they were featuring

On a side note, a bit of personal trivia was corrected, when it came to the ate of when I got a  'visor' I from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA. It was during a Star Trek exhibit, and I knew the year was 1994... but I thought it was February, but in reality, it was November of that year. The exhibit itself ran from October through December that year.

Twitch Clips

• Another day another trial...
• Poor life decision made poorly 
• Answering Trivia About Myself... 
  

No raid last night, but we did host Starvexia who was playing Synth Riders over on twitch.tv/starvexia! 

Was great to see DaemonsW0lf getting in a stream as they were playing Layers of Fear yesterday afternoon over on twitch.tv/DaemonsW0lf. It was out right hilarious!

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

Rumor is saying that Sasha Banks and Naomi could end up returning to the WWE... and I ask why? Why bring them back... in particular, why bring Sasha Banks back to only once again reward her for having a hissy fit for not getting her way.  

Put in some more practice with MultiVersus after the stream, and I did more than just use Harley Quinn, as I tried out Wonder Woman and Finn in a couple of matches. I'll say this when there are two or more of the same character on screen it gets really hard to keep track of whose who, specifically if there are duplicates on the same team and the only way to tell which one I am is by a yellow outline.

MultiVersus Achievements

• Rightie Specialist: Get 10 Ringouts using the right-side of the blastbox
• Southpaw Specialist: Get 10 Ringouts using the left-side of the blastbox
• You're Getting Pretty Good At This!: Get 50 ringouts

Why does Waldo only wear stripes? Because he doesn't want to be spotted.

I witnessed an attempted murder earlier—fortunately only one crow showed up!

Song of the Day: Ex's & Oh's by Elle King

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For tonight's stream the plan is to play Persona 5 Strikers, but we also have a Thunderstorm expected to hit my area as well... so we may do a little switch around just in case, because heavy knows the PS4's are temperamental machines when it comes to sudden power outages.

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

I'm leaning Raider in Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 saw some heavy story progress done as it relates to getting into Vault 79... and considering all the trauma I went through finding Lou and Ra-Ra on the Raiders side of the story I'm heavily leaning towards siding with the Raiders just for the simple fact I used a ton of ammo to reach them, so one could say I'm invested in seeing how the story progresses. Got so bad at one point I was facing the 'boss', a multi-star Legendary sentry bot with only a revolver and a short rifle... which left me running around ducking for cover and trying to do sneaky ranged attacks.

We were of course joined by Iceman for some leavling up on the scoreboard side of things, using his Fallout 1st. It is always great to have him join in on the fun! Also at this point Fallout 76 has 63 achievements, and I have 49% of them, so slowly but surely I'm getting things done in this game.

We did have a couple of instances of stream lag, thankfully none of it fully effected the game play... I think But good news is that the stream didn't go fully down so everything stays in one VOD. 

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Gold Rush: Gain 300 gold bullion

Twitch Clips

• It's Murder Time Alright! 
• A Box of 9... 
• This took forever 

For the raid we dropped in on Oldish22 who was playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/oldish22! 

I didn't notice until after the stream that the latest Logitech update really screwed with my mic settings as it pertained to things like mic gain. I sweat every time Logitech updates something it breaks one thing or another and takes forever to figure out what went wrong.

So the trailer for a movie on Hulu called Prey... it looks lame as hell.

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

Messed around some more with MultiVersus and discovered that the game does have a similiar unlock system for different builds and perks to what Paladins had early in its life and that each character can unlock the abilities from other characters. Actually this is probably closer to Dead by Daylight now that I think about it. Still I have continued playing as Harley Quinn because why the hell not. 

MultiVersus Achievements

• Aerial Specialist: Get 10 Ringouts using the top of the blastbox
• Credit Where It's Due: Give out 5 toasts to other players
• Nice Speech: Give out 10 toasts to other players
• Stepping Out: Win 10 Matchmade games
• You Mean Business: Get 30 ringouts

You hear about the man who sells dynamite? Business is booming.

I gave my seat on the bust to a blind man. They fired me as driver.

What's big, gray and doesn't matter? An irrelephant.

Why did the snowman pick through a bag of carrots? Because he was picking his nose.

Song of the Day: Hungry Like The World by Duran Duran

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For tonight's stream we'll be playing Final Fantasy XIV, most likely a bit of leveling and dailies will be done. So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden! 

Well That Attempt In Cultist Simulator Was Epic

Good morning everyone

Last night's stream of Cultist Simulator was unexpected in the fact I did the entire stream without dying until the very end when I just had no clue of what to do. We finally found 'The Woods' which unlocked a lot of possibilities to see how deep the game can get, and also found another called 'The White Door'. I think I found a pretty solid balance of balancing various things, so I'm guessing a possible plan would be to quickly build up painting as a 'job' and building up the funds to do expeditions. Also I really need to stop sending my followers off on dangerous assignment.

Not totally sure when we'll play it again, but at least I feel like I learned enough to not have totally botched attempts as were the case with my first attempts last week.

Cultist Simulator Achievements

• In the Midst of my Life, in a Dark Wood: The Wood grows around the walls of the Mansus. As any student of Histories knows, the Mansus has no walls.
• Speechless at Sunset: Speech may not pass the White Door, but I may.

Twitch Clips

• We dropped Ed!
• Lets see how that works out... 
• More progress made
  

For the raid we dropped in on Hawleigh who was playing Stray over at twitch.tv/Hawleigh!   

As seen as the start of the stream, we finally added the 5th volume of the Life is Strange comic series to offically complete the set. I actually through I had it already. We also added a new Funko figure of Ed and Ein from Cowboy Bebop, giving me 25 Funko figures total.

Oddly enough I had more issues with my internet connection during the afternoon, and not during the stream. Did seem like a total service issues as I saw the blue light of the main cable box flashing.  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double COmbo #2, Body Hook Combo and Weaving Combo #1 for 31 minutes.

Work was kind of bleh yesterday, mostly due to switching from assignment to another with the second assignment just being really dull when it came to the few number of interview attempts.

Song of the Day: Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood

How much does the heaviest skeleton weigh? A skeleton.

What did the drummer name her twin daughters? Anna One, Anna Two. 

Messed around a bit with MultiVersus last night following the stream to get a handle on it in anticipation for streaming it, and it's solid, it's probably a little easier to follow than Super Smash Battles, and has a higher quality to it than Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl. So I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl on stream. Also... early on, I'm a Harley Quinn main.

MultiVersus Achievements

• Matchmaker: Play 1 matchmade game

People are shocked that with the start of training season that all the attention on Philadelphia sports is now on the Eagles and not the Phillies. Folks, that's basically how it goes year after year, even when the Phillies had that stretch of success from 2007 to 2011, the Eagles were always the priority. 

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For tonight's stream, we're playing Fallout 76 with the intention of advancing some story lines, doing daily / weekly challenges and just having fun. We may be joined by Iceman for some fun as well!

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

A Triple Header on A Monday

Good evening everyone, 

I actually had this written at 11:30 AM this morning but forgot to hit publish!

Last night's stream ended up featuring three different games, leading off with Disney's Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse... and it took me five less hours to finish it than it did originally (my original attempts of the Steam version took a combine 7 hours spread between 2014 and 2018.) One thing that stood out to me was how much I actually remembered in terms of patterns with some of the big bosses,the same can't be said about some of the platforming as I certainly was missing jumps at various points. It was a fine game to revisit, but knocking it out in 2 hours meant extra stuff.

So I took the opportunity to tackle a bit of Ghostbusters Sanctum of Slime, and showed the fact that the game does detect someone else is looking to have a lobby, except it's been the same person every time I've checked. We managed to cover the first two levels and a good portion of the third, which I believe is as far as I've ever gotten with the PS3 or Steam versions of the game. It was nice to get some footage of it.

Lastly we kicked things over to Fall Guys to close things out, mostly knocking out daily challenges... and actually game in first with in Squads... and had a good shot at finishing in first as a Solo and a Duo. So a real positive night on all fronts.

Minus the small stream interrupt that occurred during the Castle of Illusion portion, but the stream was not split so we'll take that as a win. Also we got achievements in all three games, so that's going to be a bit of a list here. 

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Achievements

• Pretty Picture:  Unlocked a Castle Painting.
• Disillusioned: Broke the illusion of 75 enemies
• Illusion Breaker: Broke the illusion of 25 enemies with projectiles.
• Fortune Hunter: Found 50% of all Magic Diamonds.
• Masters of Illusions: Defeated Mizrabel and rescued Minnie.

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Achievements

• SPEED DEMON: Get 100% score with the trap.

Fall Guys Achievements

• Head Turner: Equip a legendary Body Colour, Pattern, Upper and Lower Costume piece
• Show Off: Win an Episode with a custom Punchline equipped

Twitch Clips

• Let's Go... JUMP!
• Speed Demon Achievement 
• We won! We Did it!
  

For the raid we dropped in on xTragedy who was playing Grand Theft Auto V over at twitch.tv/xTragedy! 

Sad to hear that David Warner has passed away, as he was one of those actors that seemed to pop up in so many different movies. I did enjoy him as the Klingon Chancellor Gorken in Star Trek VI.   

Song of the Day: White Wedding Part 1 by Billy Idol

What do you call a deer with no eyes? No eyed deer.

Why are groups of fish so smart? Because they travel in schools.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Left-Right Step Combo, Beginner Combo #1 and Hook Comb #2 for 28 minutes

Played some Smite following the stream, and actually had a match as Nike where I had 12 kills 11 assists and no-deaths. It was pretty damn cool... if it was streamed I would've segmented out the entire match!. 

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For tonight's stream we're going to give Cultist Simulator another look to see if I can actually figure anything out. The decision for tonight's stream was very easy considering how we quickly we got through Castle of Illusion last night and I said last week Cultist Simulator is a 'throw to' game.

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

Getting Things Started For The Week

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was fairly good, we had two minor instances of network issues but the stream didn't split into multiple parts like Saturday night's did. Big thanks to PandasSweet for being apart of several matches, Characters that I used for this week's Overwatch session included D.va, Reinhardt, Wrecking Ball, Orissa, Moira, Tracer,Ashe, Junkrat, Torbjourn, Cassidy and Mei. Managed to squeeze out an epic Play of the Game as Mei, getting credited for a a quarda-kill with her Blizzard ultimate. So super fun times in that regard.

Also yes, I did break out Wakko's America during last night's stream as well for a bit of singing nonsense.

I was also unaware that the 2nd Beta phase for Overwatch 2 ended this past week, I was not expecting it to be shorter than the first one. Oh well.

Twitch Clips

• A Bit Of Wakko's America
• You already had some! 
• I followed the Widowmaker a little too closely
• Quadrakill With Mei! 
  

For the raid we dropped in on andrewshaman who was doing a Just Chatting stream over at twitch.tv/andrewshaman. The raid was guided by BangBangBang713 who redeemed a channels points reward.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Uppercit Cobmo, Body Straight Combo and Advanced Combo #2 for 31 minutes.

Finished the commissioned fic request based around Star Wars: The Force Unleashed before last night's stream, and I think I did a fairly decent job adjusting Shaak Ti's fate to having her survive her jump into the Sarlacc Pit. Also picked up another requests for a commissioned fic based around the game Watch Dogs... which will be a challenge because I have not played that! 

Now of course me saying I haven't played something comes across as odd when you figure that I have played so many games over the years, but there are more things that I haven't gotten to for one reason or another. 

Messed around a bit with Fallguys and Ghostbusters Sanctum of Slime following the stream to  try and bang out a few achievements, and was successful at my intended goals.

Fall Guys Achievements

• Shopping Spree: Unlock 10 cosmetic items from the store
• Down to the Wire: Qualify after a round goes to overtime
• Bargain Bucket: Equip an uncommon or better Body Colour, Pattern, Upper and Lower Costume piece

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Achievements

• ROCKSTAR: Destroy all the expensive LCD televisions in the hotel.

Why did the toilet paper roll downhill? To get to the bottom.

What's the best name for a man who can't stand? Neil. 

Song of the Day: The Bones by Maren Morris

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For tonight's stream, there is going to be a bit of a toss up depending on the weather, as we're expecting a thunderstorm. If it isn't too bad we'll start up Castle of Illusion, but if I feel it's going to be rough, we'll mess around with Cultist Simulator.

Of course considering the heatwave that has been pounding South Jersey as of late, the thunderstorm will do a great job of breaking up the heat... so on that unsure bombshell we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!