Overwatch 2 and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Overwatch was the usual nonsense, but we had PandaSweet along for the ride as we had some very good matches statistically while were were let down by people not pulling their weight on several occasions. I picked up five plays of the games this week, two as Junker Queen, one as Dva and one as Sombra.

Speaking of Sombra, who rework certainly fits my play style a bit more with a controller, and no longer having to worry about accidentally pressing L3 and destroy her transmitter to teleporter to a health pack. Of course now the challenge is figuring out the timing of all her cool downs to really be effective.

Anyway our next stream is slated for around 9:30 PM Eastern on Monday with the start of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

For tonight's raid we went over to twitch.tv/kalenal where Final Fantasy XIV was featured. Yes we raided Kalenal last night, but Kal is a great friend, and with my current schedule it's not always easy to catch her streams.

Got a fair bit of writing done finishing the WWE commission request we started yesterday and knocking out the one for The Flash. Next is a complicated commission story based around AEW, then we have a Dragon Ball commission as well.

Of course Monday morning I have that Zoom orientation as a Petite Jury at 8 AM in the morning... ugh. At least I don't have to go to the court house, that's a real pain in the ass.

Phillies and now need one more win to advance to the World Series for the second year in a row. Hopefully they can win on Monday night.

And with that... good night!

Starfield and other notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Starfield saw me mostly doing side quests as I came across them, some find of interesting, as we stuck mostly to one planet. I did find it really odds that my characters got roped into being recruited by two factions as I turn down one and then automatically got stuck with the other. Also learned there is no way to break down stuff from the inventory... which makes sense I guess because you are supposed to go out and search for resources, but at the same time inventory management is a fucking chore, not to mention finding vendors who will accept various items is a nightmare because trying to remember where shops are is quickly becoming a pain.

Now we did complete the first big mission for Constellation, so we now apparently have choices on how to proceed on the main story. Anyway, night time we play Starfield will be next Saturday night.

Out next stream on Sunday will feature Overwatch, with a start time of about 5 PM Eastern

Starfield Achievements

• Dust Off: Reach Level 5

For the raid we over to twitch.tv/kalenal for some Final Fantasy XIV

Didn't get as much writing done as I wanted to today for a WWE related commission, but it's nearly finsihed so after I post this blog I'll get write to that. Then I have two more story commission, one based on the Flash CW series and another one for AEW (thankfully the person who wants that included a nice big outline for me to follow)

I have been watching the Team Four Star commentaries on Dragon Ball Z Abridged, and it's become increasingly fascinating over what they do and don't remember.

At the time I'm writing this, the Phillies were up 6-1 on the Diamondback in game 5 of the NLCS... hopefully they can hold on and return to Philadelphia up 3 games to 2.

So with that, have a good night!

Horizon Zero Dawn and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Horizon Zero Dawn was the longest weeknight stream I've done in a while, guess having more than just one light on helped keeps me from feeling tired. Anyway, we got a lot done as we spent the entire night in the Frozen Wilds DLC area, finding everything we can find and doing all we could before advancing the plot. We found all the towers, all the animal statures and pigments, so we can pretty much focus on the DLC story next time we play it next week before getting back to the base game.Horizon Zero Dawn will be back next Friday night. 

Also on Monday we're going to start Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which will be featured Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

Saturday's stream will feature Starfield, with the stream starting around 5 PM Eastern.

Horizon Zero Dawn Trophies

• Reached level 40: Reached player level 40.
• Took the Shaman's Path: Survived the Shaman's Path and found Ourea's retreat.
• First Spear Modification: Applied a modification to your spear.
• All Pigments found: Found all of the Pigments in the Cut.
• All Animal Figurines found: Found all of the Animal Figurines in the Cut.
• All Control Towers disabled: Disabled all Control Towers by overriding or destroying them.

 For the raid we went to https://www.twitch.tv/misscammi316 where Overwatch was being featured

The Phillies lost tonight as Craig Kimbrel blew a lead in the 8th inning in what turned out to be a battle of the bullpens with the Diamondbacks. So now the Phillies need to win two of the next three games to go to the World Series. It's not looking good folks.

Work was meh, got a couple of interviews but it was real dull

So Jury Duty on Monday involves having to take part in a 90 minute webinar at 8 AM... and then apparently staying on call for the rest of the week? I'm rather confused about that 

Knocked out an story commission based on Arrow, and I have two more in the queue, one based on WWE programing (ugh...) and other based on The Flash which should be interesting to write.

Good night folks!

RetroMania Wrestling & Other Notes

 Hi everyone,

On tonight's stream we played RetroMania Wrestling, the much hyped up throw back to the days of WWF WrestleFest, with a roster of 17 mostly known (not exactly) well wrestlers featuring the likes of Austin Idol, Nick Aldis, the Road Warrirors, and the Blue World Order. Game is pretty much pick up and play, the story mode does have a nice little tutorial to get you used to things, but since it's modeled after WrestleFest, it can be a bit button mashy, yet there is such a thing a being able to time stuff to make cool stuff happened. 

The story mode has a bit of a choose your own adventure vibe to it at time, tag team and six man tags are a lot of fun, but the real chaos is the Retro Rumble with eight characters on the screen at once, making it hard to see where you're at.The 10 pounds of gold is basically your standard arcade ladder, but it's a bit repeative as you go through 5 matches to get the NWA title, then 5 matches defending it, with matches following a pattern where there will be a 3-way Elimination, Fatal Four Way and 2 out of 3 fall cage matches taking place.

Plenty of achievements, and we got about half of them, several of which are character related and tied to doing certain things, Good news is several can be combined and done in a single match. 

Since we covered the story mode and explored the game thoroughly I will count it as a finished game for this year's tour.

Next stream is slated for 9:30 PM Eastern, and will feature Horizon Zero Dawn

RetroMania Wrestling Achievements

• Big Debut!: Complete Your First Match
• Learn the Ropes, Kid: Complete The Basic Tutorial in Story Mode
• The Real Star of the Show: Win a match as Johnny Retro
• I Hope The Ref Didn't See That: Hit Your Opponent With a Steel Chair
• I Don't Need The Ring!: Win a Falls Count Anywhere Match Outside the Ring
• Nowhere To Run: Win a Cage Match inside the "Chain Link" cage
• Bonesaw is Ready!: Defeat Your Opponent Within 3 minutes Inside a Steel Cage
• The Best-ler, Better Than All the Rest-ler: Complete the Story mode
• No One Gets Up From That: Land 3 Finishing Moves in One Match
• Skinning the Cat: Win a Retro Rumble
• Innovator of Violence: Win a match as Tommy Dreamer
• What a Rush!: Win a Tag Team match as Hawk & Animal
• Established Talent: Win 20 matches
• That's Why They Call It High Risk: Miss an Attack from the Top of the Cage
• Unforgiving Steel: Win a Cage Match inside the "Big Blue" cage
• Generation Clash: Win a match as Nick Aldis against Austin Idol in the NWA Power arena
• National Treasure: Win a match as Nick Aldis
• Alwayz Ready: Win a match as Matt Cardona
• And Then There Was One: Win a 4 Way Elimination Match
• The Real World's Champion: Complete 10 Pounds of Gold Mode 

For the raid we found someone playing Marvel's Spider-Man 2 over at https://www.twitch.tv/chronick17

Work was okay, couple of interviews, but it was solid to make me feel good.

Knocked out a commission request for a Resident Evil related story and tried to explain some things in the continuity that I've established. I believe the next commission request is for something based on Arrow.

Phillies lost a game tough one, so now they lead the Diamondbacks 2 games to 1, so with luck they win one of the next two games and come back to Philly up 3 games to 2. Preferably we want the Phillies to win the next two games but when it comes to baseball I think logically.

Those are all my notes for today

Good night!

Starfield and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Starfield was interesting, as the game is very detailed and massive, and I can tell already I'm going to mostly keep it on Saturday nights since that is the largest night of the week for streaming. I certainly spent a lot of time looking around for loot and stuff which is probably going to turn my play-though into a slog. Since we're playing it via Game Pass, I'm going to give it the direct casual approach approach. It is a gorgeous game, and the sound mixing seems spot on.

Our next stream slated for 9:30 PM Eastern on Thursday will feature RetroMania, and we'll see if we like that game enough to want to dedicate serious time to it

Starfield Achievements

• For All, Into the Starfield: Enter Space for the First Time
• One Small Step: Join Constellation

For the raid we went to twitch.tv/zonesama for some retro TV watching 

Work was solid, we had a fairly interesting assigned focused on things in New Jersey even if my patience was really tested.

Got a commission story based on Arrow done, and it didn't turn out as well as the previous one, but i got bogged down with some few other things that cropped up. On the plus side, I'm fully caught up on commissions, so I can probably work on the Persona story unless something pops up

Recorded  two videos for my YouTube channel, one being my casual review of Day of the Tentacle while will premier in January, and the other thoughts on the RWBY / Justice League crossovers.

And that will do it for today's notes!

Good night!

Day of the Tentacle, Smite and other Notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream opened with Day of the Tentacle and it was pretty much a sprint to the finish, even as I was taking my time and making sure I got nearly every achievement in the game, missing two that are not very obvious. I have a lot of positive things to say about the console port of this game, and it makes me wonder why Lucas Arts and Disney has not done remasters of other games from the Point and Click era of the 90s. Obviously I'll be doing a review of this game for my YouTube channel. Question of what will replace it in the weekly line up is up in the air at the moment.

Now Day of the Tentacle didn't fill the entire stream, as we loaded things up with Smite for the first time in a while, winning a couple of matches and losing a couple, playing as Athena, Baset, Discordia and Cupid. We will not talk about the Assault match which was a 3 versus 5 waste of time and downer to end the stream on.

Wednesday's stream over on twitch.tv/fredcasden will start around 9:30 PM Eastern, but Journey to the Savage Planet will be on hold as Iceman needs to work late, so we'll either start Starfield or RetroMania

Day of the Tentacle Remastered Achievements

• Voiding the Warranty: Try to put something metal in the microwave
• Master Plumber: Flush 50 objects through time
• Energy Conscious: Turn off the television
• Rap Sheet: Forger: Try to sign the contract yourself with the quill pen
• Behind Every Great Man Is a Quality Roadie: Red makes a super battery with only a little help from Hoagie
• Rap Sheet: Adventure Gamer: Pick up 45 things that don't belong to you
• Flush: Acquire a diamond
• That Should Have Worked: Hoagie uses battery with Chron-O-John instead of plug
• Number One: Power Hoagie's Chron-o-John
• Music Appreciation Award: Reach yesterday without turning the stereo off
• Yesterday's News: Defeat Purple Tentacle yesterday
• Mental Patience: Play the whole game without skipping a cutscene
• ...Take on the Words!: Sit through the end credits

SMITE Achievements

• Objective Stealer: Deliver the killing blow on a map objective where enemies did more damage in a qualifying match.

 For the raid we went to www.twitch.tv/EcoNstinct where Fortnite was being featured

Watched Justice League X RWBY Part 2 today, and it was a fun continuation of the first film, but it certainly made quite a few references to things in the later seasons of RWBY I didn't know about, which means I'll have to watch and catch up. There was one minor bit of disappointment in that the second film didn't fully commit to Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Blake adapting things to the DC Universe as things ended up favoring them using their standard abilities in the films climax.

Knocked out an commission story based on the Arrowverse today, and got an instant request for a follow up, which is awesome.

I certainly got something in mind for Halloween, just need to get the pieces together for it.

And on that note, good night!

Day of the Tentacle and other notes

 Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Day of the Tentacle was a lot of fun, as I remembered quite a lot of the game considering I've played it a lot since the mid 1990s, not to mention remembering some of the achievements from the Steam version, so we were knocking Xbox achievements out in rapid succession, while also not skimping on any of the games content. We'll easily wrap up Day of the Tentacle on Tuesday night's stream (which is scheduled for 9:30 PM Eastern over on twitch.tv/fredcasden)

I am impressed with how well the Mouse and Keyboard controls were adapted for use with a game pad, which made doing a couple of repeated actions a hell of a lot quicker (such as ringing the bell 100 times), which makes me curious to see how other point and click games were adapted to console play

 Day of the Tentacle Remastered Achievements

• Most Annoying Guest Ever: Ring the front desk bell 100 times
• Rap Sheet: Trespasser: Find Fred's basement workshop
• And Then the Universe Explodes: Try to mix the decaf and caffeinated coffees
• Games History Major: Play Maniac Mansion
• I'm Sure He'd Never Notice: Try to swap the textbook with the stamp album
• And Then the Universe Implodes: Try to mix the disappearing ink with Booboo-B-Gone
• Rap Sheet: Thief: Pick up 15 things that don't belong to you
• Not Raised in a Barn: Close a door
• Novelty Enthusiast: Get all six novelty items
• Dude, It's Like, Cannibalism: Hoagie eats a Hoagie
• You Call That a Hint?: Try to wash the dirty car with the brush
• Rap Sheet: Kleptomaniac: Pick up 30 things that don't belong to you
• Moronic Drone: Get a job
• Obvious, Really...: Make it rain
• Only Hoagie Can Make a Tree: Create a cherry tree
• Only George Can Destroy a Tree: Destroy a cherry tree
• WWSCD?: Climb through the chimney with all three kids
• Of Course It Would Still Weigh the Same: Get a tiny sweater
• Windsock it to Me: Change the flag
• Missing Pink: Try to mix the red paint and the Booboo-B-Gone
• Rap Sheet: Yegg: Open the safe
• Olive Branch: Return the stamp album to Weird Ed
• Rap Sheet: Fraud: Try to alter the contract with Booboo-B-Gone
• Rap Sheet: Vandal: Deflate Oozo
• That Joke Never Gets Old: Squirt five different people with disappearing ink
• We're All Brothers: Ask the IRS agents if they're related
• Coffee Achiever: Wake up Dr. Fred
• Dialog Puzzles Are Hard: Get Fred to sign the contract
• Costume Quest: Clothe Laverne in the costume
• Oh Right, I'm Playing a Cartoon!: Make a skunk
• ESRB Violation: Laverne thinks about eating the cat
• Chateau Eau Neaux: Make vinegar
• Are You My Mummy?: Talk to Dead Cousin Ted with all three kids
• It's an Honor Just to Compete: Enter the human contest
• Rap Sheet: Cheat: Disqualify Harold
• Can't Win and Chew Gum at the Same Time: Laverne tries the chattering teeth on her human during the human show
• Winning Is Better: Win the human contest
• Don't Try This at Home: Microwave the frozen hamster
• Now You're Pushing It: Try to microwave the hamster again after he's thawed out
• You Suck: Vacuum up a hamster
• Number Two: Power Laverne's Chron-O-John

Tonight's raid was to twitch.tv/lilmoolah_ where Cyberpunk 2077 was being featured 

Word was alright today, picked one interview which made me feel productive and so we get to do it again tomorrow lol.

Knocked out a Resident Evil commission request, which I felt was a little lackluster, but at the same time it was introducing the character of Ada Wong to the nonsense that was established already. Picked up another commission request based on the TV series Arrow to try and feature China White, which is going to be though considering  I don't remember that character at all.

Phillies won tonight, going up 1-0 in the NLCS against the Diamondbacks, now they just need 3 more wins to make to the the World Series.

Good night folks