Fallout 76's Steel Reign content is completed

Good morning everyone,

Well last night's stream of Fallout 76 saw us finally wrap up all the major story content that was associated with the Steele Reign expansion. The Catalyst as a quest certainly a nice ending point for it as we got a big boss fight, got rid of Knight Shin and got promoted. Of course now my big focus will be getting back to the other quest lines from the original release of the game, which we did by knocking off the Belly of the Beast quest, which sets up the final leg of the original story. 

So at some point I'm going to have all of the main story stuff finished, which I'll count after we make sure we do all the things associated with the Wasterlander's expansion, such as siding either with Crater of the Foundation. We're probably still several months away from that at the pace I'm going.

Big thanks to Iceman for joining in on some of the fun as we knocked out a bunch of the Daily and Weekly Challenges. Granted with how I only play Fallout 76 once a week, the Daily Challenges are Weekly. Trust me that made more sense in my head than it does when I look at it here on the blog.

 Fallout 76 Achievements

• Steel Brethren: Complete “The Catalyst”

Twitch Clips

• We got him, we got him!
• There was something glowing in the distance 
• He had famous last words
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Overwatch 2 over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!  

Speaking of BestiBunni, they invited me to be apart of an amateur e-sports team, but because  time zone differences and my normal work and Twitch schedules I couldn't make it work. Still it was awesome to be asked!

What does dad hate about Father's Day? Having to celebrate it.

Why can't you hear a Pterodactyl go to the bathroom? Because the pee is silent.

Song of the Day:  …And to Those I Love, Thanks for Sticking Around by $uicideboy$

The Phillies had a round day out in San Diego as the Padres lit up Aaron Nola, and to be fair Nola was probably due to get smacked around considering how good he's been in his last few starts. Now the series comes back to Philly for the next three games, so the Phillies could in theory win three straight at home and go the World Series.

Not surprised that the Yankees lost game one of the ALCS to the Astros considering the fiasco that surrounded Game 5 of the ALDS against the Guardians.

Work was solid yesterday, decent assignments and had little trouble completing interviews. I always take the positives where I can get them.

Got some writing done as it related to the latest commission request I received for a WWE Short Story, I'm going to try and finish it by Friday evening.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured only Uppercut Combo #2 and Defensive Combo #1 because I woke up late. Duration was only 20 minutes.

For tonight's stream we're back to Final Fantasy XIV as we'll be resuming our progress towards completing every single side quest in the game. I think I have only a handful more in the Stormblood areas before moving on into the Shadowbringer expansions.

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

First Impression of Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed

Good morning everyone

Last night we played Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed and it's really awesome, you get to play as either your own custom Ghostbuster or as a Ghost in a 4 vs 1 match. The objectives are to close the Ghost Rifts and to capture the Ghost, while also keeping civilians calm. The tutorials for both being a Ghostbuster and a Ghost are very descriptive to let you know what you can do. Finding a match was pretty easy with Cross-Play, and one can easily tell that some folks are really looking to play as the Ghost because I ran into dude who already had things ranked to level 30 and above.

In terms of presentation, there is a story that is gradually unlocked as you play, and I've seen the first three major cut scenes that involves Winston getting possessed because of something in a trap that Venkman sent to the firehouse so there is incentive to keep playing to see how the story plays out. Sound effects and music are really solid, voice overs are also decently done. There is also a 'ping' system so voice chat isn't needed but one has to hope folks are paying attention.

Now it may get 'old' seeing the same few maps over and over again, however, I think there is a lot of long term potential with GB:SU because more maps can easily be added down the road, and I can easily see maps being based on locations from the movies being added to make things really interesting down the road.

We'll do another stream of Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed next Tuesday!

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Achievements

• Stylish: Equip an unlocked cosmetic item to your Buster
• Vaporous Expansion: Unlock a Ghost class variant
• Discovery: Break open an artifact to reveal a Rift
• Swift Rift Removers: Destroy all Ghost rifts within 5 minutes of the match start
• Advancement: Equip an upgrade to a piece of gear
• Fully Upgraded: Equip an upgrade to every slot of a piece of gear

Twitch Clips

• Ghost Captured
• Just Being A Ghost 
• Knocked off the stairs!
  

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz who was playing Tom Clancy's The Division 2 over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz! 

Work was pretty solid yesterday, even though it was really focused on speaking to people in New York state, and man there are some real loons out in some of those boondocks.

The Phillies won game one of the NLCS against the Padres 2-0 behind two home runs from Harper and Schwarber. They only need to win three more games to make it to the World Series... I'm not getting my hopes up, because the Padres are a good team. In fact I saw stats that basically indicated the Padres and Phillies have basically the same win-loss record going back several years.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Front-Back Step Combo, Defensive Combo #2 and Triple Combo #2 for a duration of 28 minutes.

What did one dish say to the other? Dinner is on me!

What does a house wear? Address! 

Song of the Day: Self Esteem by The Offspring

Nabbed Doom, New Tales from The Borderlands, Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova and Them's Fightin' Herds: Deluxe Edition on the Xbox side of things. So you can beat we'll featuring them as soon as possible based on the currently line up of games we have already in place.

For tonight's stream we're back to Fallout 76 with the goal being focused on doing the final mission of the Steele Dawn story arc. Granted I still have not finished the story arcs for things that were part of the original release of Fallout 76.

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

First impressions of Dragon Ball FighterZ Story Mode

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was focused on the story mode of Dragon Ball FighterZ, and the first thing I have to point out is that the tutorial fights are ridiculous with how they are repeated constantly. Like why? Shouldn't there be more battles instead of running the gauntlet of seeing things I've already done over and over again?And of course there is the fact it has a 'game board' style approach similar to Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 which I haven't played in close to 20 year.. and I thought that was a neat call back. Then there is the difficulty or lack their of against the A,I. in normal fights, it's not really proving much of a challenge with how quickly I start out of the gate. In fact the loading screens are lasting longer than the fights in most cases.

Still all those complaints aside, I do have to say the story itself is rather good and whoever wrote it certainly played into the memes a bit with how much of an idiot Goku can be. Found a few 'special event' dialogs where rather humorous takes on things are presented, and the one where Goku is justifying why Yamcha should train with him because the later is not married had me shocked.Then there is Android 21 and... hot damn I see why she was everyone's favorite addition to the Dragon Ball lore from this game. Great design on all fronts in terms of both her lab coat and majin forms.  

So we didn't finish the first story arc tonight even after nearly 5 hours because I am doing every single fight, rotating characters to try and level everyone up equally, except Goku who I'm using in every fight. I know there is an easier way to level him up but to do that one needs to have the Zenii to get the Capsuls to get the Hercule Coins to nab the boost to level 100.

Also took a shot at getting an S Rank on Snake Way (the 3 fight arcade run), and got S ranks on the first two fights... but a C rank on the 3rd, which dropped the final grade to an A... so close. Maybe next time.

Dragon Ball FighterZ Achievements

• Conversationalist: Story - Trigger a special conversation sequence.
• Bye-Bye Buu: Story - Defeat Clone Kid Buu.

Twitch Clips

•  Goku's reasoning at work....
•  Yamcha can beat.... wait... what?!
•  I can't believe she's 21!
•  Kelfa vs Cell
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni was they were playing Magic The Gathering over at twitch.tv/bestibunni! 

So let me get this right, once again Major League Baseball dropped the ball when it came to rain in the forecast, and now the Yankees and Guardians have to play game five of their series this afternoon, then then winner has to go to Houston on Wednesday. This really screws both teams over.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Intermediate Combo #1, Difficult Challenge Combo #1 and Biceps Shape Focus Combo for 34 minutes.

Finished the Resident Evil commissioned short story and picked up one for what seems like will be a renouncing commission request based around some of the recent returns to the WWE Roster. Hey, it's extra cash for games and stuff while leaving my work earnings for savings and bills.

What's green, fuzzy, and would hurt if it fell on you out of a tree? A pool table.

A communist joke isn't funny unless everyone gets it.

Song of the Day: Blinding Lights by The Weeknd!

For tonight's stream we are playing Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed as it launches today, and that should be a lot of fun. 

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

Kicking Booty In Overwatch 2

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch 2 was awesome, as we were joined by PandaSweet for the full stream, so we had plenty of wins and losses. I picked up six plays of the game as Junker Queen (1), Mei (3) and Moira (2), and PandaSweet even picked one up as Moira in our last match of the night. 

I have found Junker Queen to be a lot of fun to play as, and found that her Ultimate combined with getting nano'ed by Ana means for a potential fun time of carnage. Did learn the hard way JQ's ultimate can be stopped by Junkrat's trap and she can be hooked by Roadhog as well during it.

OF course I have been keeping up with doing all the dailies. and I'm nearly done through 60 levels of the Battle Pass. With luck I should have it all banged out by the end of next week. Also learned that once level 80 of the Battle Pass is reached

Twitch Clips

• It's Time For The Reckoning!
• Epic Team Kill 
• Panda Sat That...
  

 Big thank you to RedFoxUKCov for resubscribing to my channel! It is great appreciated!

For the raid we dropped in Joliet4 as they were doing a music stream featuring their original tunes over at twitch.tv/joliet4!  

The Yankees managed to hold off the Guardians to force a game five in the ALCS, but whoever wins it will be at a major disadvantage 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficulty Challenge Combo #2, Difficulty Challenge Combo #2 and Block Combo for 34 minutes. We knocked off the Evan's Champion EX Achievement following the first exercise set. We'll now focus on training with Sophie to work on her Champion EX Achievement.

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise EX Achievements

• Evan's Champion: Train with Evan for over 50 hours
• King EX Fighter Progress: 97%
• Sophie's Champion Progress: 60% (30 out of 50 hours trained)
  

Rather surprised the Eagles are undefeated, as it did look like they were going to collapse in the 2nd half of their game against the Cowboys.

Why do you smear peanut butter on the road? To go with the traffic jam.

When is your door not actually a door? When it's ajar.

Song of the Day: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham!

A lot of folks are whining about complaining about the Frames Per Second for Gotham Knights when it comes to running on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles, which was confirmed by the developers to be at 30 Frames Per Second. I myself, cannot tell the difference between 30 FPS and 120 FPS because for me, there is no actually difference. I've looked at comparison video of different things and to me, there is never any difference that is meaningful. Anyone who says FPS matters is a fucking idiot

Comcast is pulling the plug on G4 less than a year after it's launch and I'm not surprised, because what was it doing that 90% of gaming associated YouTube channels wasn't doing? Answer: Nothing.

Loaded up Dragon Ball FighterZ after last night's stream to try and knock out some achievements and managed to get three. The try hard nature of those playing Ranked and the fact there the match making is just awful speaks volumes when it came to completing 20 Ranked matches. I can only imagine how long it'll take to do the achievements for Casual and Arena matches, which very few people have bothered with.

Dragon Ball FighterZ Achievements

• You Can't Win This...: World Match - Play 10 Ranked Matches.
• This Pain Will Make Me Stronger!: World Match - Play 20 Ranked Matches.
• Practice Makes Perfect: Practice - Perform a combo that deals 5000 or more damage in Training Mode.

And speaking of Dragon Ball FighterZ, For tonight's stream we'll be starting up its story mode, which may actually take us 2-3 streams to complete depending on how the difficulty curve adjusts.

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

First Impression Of Dragon Ball: The Breakers

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream opened up with Dragon Ball: The Breakers, where the premise is you're either part of a team of survivors looking to escape in a time machine from a power raiders (Kid Buu, Perfect Cell, Frieza). It is basically Dead by Daylight with the Dragon Ball premise attached to it, and let me stress that... 'Dragon Ball', as that era's version of Bulma and Oolong are optional characters to play as. Of course I created my own character, named it Beeri via a random name generator.

Game play is pretty straight forward from the survivor point of a view, you find power keys to power a time machine or wait long enough for Trunks to send one that only allows for a few people to escape. During each match you can also find people to rescue and get some rewards, and you do have the option to fight the 'raider', but it's not advisable unless everyone is ganging up on it at the same time. If you are downed, other players can come to your aid and vice versa. 

Much like the Killers in Dead by Daylight, the Raiders have special ways of 'killing' survivors, in addition to transformation animations if they get strong enough to reach various forms, which is a great nod to the show.

Now something I also want to point out is that Dragon Ball: The Breakers does take place in the same continuity of the Dragon Ball Xenoverse games, in fact your 'hub' in between matches is literally a safe harbor located right next to Conton City. So from a fan fic perspective I could write a story where my OCs from both Xenoverse games and it would make sense. 

In terms of Recommending the game, I would say wait till it's on sale, but at the same time it's only $20 US for the base version, so it's worth checking out.

Dragon Ball: The Breakers Achievements

• We'll Survive If We Work Together!: Complete the prologue.
• Time for a Makeover!: Change your costume.
• Heya!: Send an emote.
• Am I a Genius or What?: Find two super time machine power keys in one match.
• Find the Power Keys!: Open five red item boxes in one match.
• First-Time Customer: Buy something in the shop.
• My First Skill: Use an active skill as a survivor.
• Thanks a Bunch!: Rescue five civilians in one match.
• A-Time-Travelin' We Will Go: Escape in the time machine with three or more allies.
• Here's a Senzu Bean!: Revive three downed allies in one match.

Now we did get in some MultiVersus and spent time playing as Stripe who originates from Gremlins. He's an 'assassin-hybrid', and while he can do a fair amount of damage outright, his big gimmick is a diving chainsaw attack that can also unintentionally be a 'dive to death'  which I proved several times. That said Stripe is a little easier to learn than Gizmo was.

We also played Fall Guys, and actually won a show as part of a Squad which was epic! There was the usual silliness involved with me falling to my doom repeatedly.

Twitch Clips

• Well we tried
• We made it! 
• We tried to run
• That Spike! 
• Victory!
• Double Eliminations... But Watch What SuperMan does... 
• Those Move Though!
• We're Still Here! 
• My Best Attempt At That Ever
  

For the raid last night we dropped in DaemonsW0lf as they were playing Resident Evil Village over at twitch.tv/daemonsw0lf! 

For The Phillies ended up winning yesterday, and because of it I was rocking one of my two jerseys on stream. Now they 'll be facing the Padress in the NLCS starting on Tuesday. Speaking of Baseball, we had the Guardians vs Yankees game on and ended the stream right when Cleveland completed a bottom of the ninth comeback.

What don't ants get sick? They have anty-bodies.

What do you call a fish with no eye? Fsh.

Song of the Day: Loser by Beck

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hip Shpae FOcus Combo, Straight Combo #2, and Intermediate Combo #2 for 28 minutes

Its the start of a new week, so lets recap what we played last weeks which included: Overwatch 2, The Last of Us: Remastered, Streer Fighter V, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, Dragon Ball: The Breakers, MultiVersus & Fall Guys!

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Overwatch 2, we'll work on the daily challenges of course and just have a good time! 

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

Platinumed Dancing In Starlight

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight was everything I was aiming for it to be, we focused on doing the songs on Normal difficultly, managing to get quite a few done rated at Brilliant. We even had to go to the Hard and All Night Difficulty at one point to get one particular trophy to put a perfect bow on this game.

In terms of the Social Links, I found Ryuji's to be the most difficult one to completed because I'm not exactly sure how it was being calculated for a cumulative score, was it based on combos? The score for finishing each song? It wasn't really clear.

Now we did go into quite a few of the DLC songs, which meant hearing music associated with other games in the Persona franchise. I was surprised with how long some songs ended up being, because some tracks were the opening sequence for some games, while others were long as hell.

I will have to make mind up on which Dancing game is going to be next, the one for Persona 3 or Persona 4? Technically speaking Persona 3's Dancing game does tie in directly to everything involving the plot of Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight.

So what's the plan for next Friday night? Well we're going to start another run of Until Dawn and the plan is play it over the course of the next two Friday nights since it's a 'horror' game

Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight Trophies

• Phantom Thief in Full Bloom: Obtained all the costumes.
• Prince of the Phantom Thieves: Obtained all rewards from the Twins' card hunt.
• Fully Tuned Up and Ready to Go: Unlocked all Custom modifiers.
• The Best Reward: Obtained an invaluable treasure upon the stage.
• Follow My Lead, Inmate!: Had the Twins join the grand ball.
• Beyond the Dream: Watched all Social events.
• Legendary Treasure Cache: Obtained all the accessories.
• The Ultimate Guide for Tricksters: Watched every possible dance for the P5 Protagonist (Ren Amamiya).
• Dancing in Starlight: Obtained all trophies.. 

Twitch Clips

• Futaba & Yusuke
• Praise Futaba! 
• Joker and the Twins 
  

For the raid we dropped in on DaemonsW0lf as they were playing Resident Evil Village over at twitch.tv/daemonsw0lf!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Swap Back Combo, Beginner Combo #1 and Advanced Combo #1 for 34 minutes. Certainly looking like we'll wrap up the Evan's Champion Achievement on on Monday.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 10/09 to 10/15/22

• Punches Thrown: 8166
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3381.39 kcal
  
• Evan's Champion Progress:  92% (49 out of 50 hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 96%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 673
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 831
  

The Phillies lit up the Braves yesterday, so they are now in position to advance to the NLCS with a win today. In fact when I turned on the game JT Realmuto hit an inside the park home run making the score 4-1 in the 3rd inning. At the time I'm posting this, The Phillies were leading the Braves 4-2 after 5 innings.

Song of the Day:Little Dark Age by MGMT.

I was sitting in traffic the other day.  Probably why I got run over.

What's red and shaped like a bucket? A blue bucket painted red.

Finished writing the Arrow short story and thankfully I was able to end it where it leaves things open so the client could come back later for future installments. Also picked up a commission request for a story based on Resident Evil 2: Remake.

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Dragon Ball: The Breakers, there is a chance we might include other things as well, so we'll play that by ear.

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

Side Questing In The Azim Stepp

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Final Fantasy XIV was really productive in getting all of my desire of getting all the Side Quests done, as I cleared out everything I had left in the Ruby Sea and also focused on clearly out a large chunk of the ones in The Azim Steppe. Perhaps the big highlight was unlocking the tribal quests for the Namazu, which was hilarious considering it starts by finding one being a literal 'nearly' dead fish in the desert. 

Not much in the way of combat done during the stream beyond anything associated with all the side quests. It was basically cool just to cover all the side things that basically establishes just how important the Warrior of Light is in their role as an Adventurer, particularly when some NPCs are seen later on to further tie things together.

Also managed to find Alpha hanging out with some Sheep in the Azim Steppe which was pretty cool, as he does appear randomly throughout the game world. Oddly enough Omega was not with him.

Twitch Clips

• They were dealt with
• Hell of an entrance for a Namazu 
• Group Up On Girimehkala
  

Thank you to the chat for kicking in 10 Bits during the stream, much appreciated! Also thank you to new followers Manzanaverde22 and Mecha222. Was pretty cool to chat with folks from Argentina.

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

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #1, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for a duration of 31 minutes.

Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field.

What did the buffalo say when his son left? Bison!

Song of the Day: Love Me Now by John Legend

Kept track of the Flyers versus Devils game last night, and I was surprised with how the Flyers just rolled them over. Maybe they'll be interesting this year.

Work was 'alright' yesterday beyond the newbies trying to be know-it-alls when it came to dealing with a situation when we ran out of contacts towards the end of the shift.

Made some  progress in writing the short story commission based on Arrow, and I think because of how weird episode 4 of the first season was, I'll use the ending to really set up how this unexpected series of stories could really go off and away from the established cannon.

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, and working on the grind towards Makoto, Ryuji and Yusuke's social links.

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