What did you do today in any other game out there

Mostly just annoying and time consuming and the rewards I have gotten so far are not very good. There is one to rescue a salvage crew in a tunnel that does get you a lot of Greenshine as you explore. Where the blue icon is bottom centre.

Finish all salvage contracts and the end reward is a legendary armour. There are 15 contracts in total given by four contractors.

There isn't any request for components from the Shelllsnapper or tortoise machine but you may run into one. Three of the salvage contractors have four contracts each, the last has three which are the easiest imo. The one that's annoying is diving in the ocean for the parts and having to evade Snapmaws or crocodiles. 

NHL 22

So yes despite things I've continued to play off and on. Sometimes not too much then when I do play its a situation where I get like 10 games in a row in or something, ok bit of an exageration but not much. But the idea was at least with the current franchise with the Bruins I just might push it through to the end of this season. We will definitley see. But the idea since I started playing GR with the wife I don't really feel like playing anything else on the PS5 per se, I actually am tempted to do either another AC7 run or an Andromeda run...but both of those are games that don't have dual sense compatability which I like using so here we are kind of. Also I must say if there is one thing this generation has just been bizarre. Think I've mentioned it before to so hope I don't sound too much like a broken record but this console is a technoligcal marvel. The Dual Sense is a technological marvel. But I still feel like the amount of games and the desire to play it has not been as comesierate. I guess though the big thing that makes it such a marvel is the backwards compatability does contradict it being such a good marvel in other ways. Of course I'm not saying that the games are bad quite enjoyed Far Cry and Vahalla and Mirage and God of War, just keep running into weird backups like this. So yeah here we are. Still playing through hockey...

Which the reason these posts tend to be inconsistent is that they are very casual games sports games, I honestly do these reports becuase way back I read you should keep like an entertainment journal if you want to be a writer and since these games are something I do every day figure I should inflict them on you...and as things go also really hard to remember the details that I want to put in since I like writing a lot of text for these posts and get into the gritty details. Maybe I should not care as much and keeping things vague is OK. Or maybe I should just continue to only post when things get interesting like I do now.

Like I don't even remember the number of games I played last night. Just that I am up to like 54 wins of the year. And also think I traded for Joe Thorton since the last time I posted. Probably. Even thinking of turning up the difficulty but I do hesitate because I am not doing as good with certain players like they are doing IRL...but others are even doing way better so...*shrugs*.

Main things though and the inpsiration for this post is I did discover an interesting niggle in the gameplay recently. See when you are editing lines in the franchise menu the PK and Power play lines are all on the same menu so I always thought the game treated them as 'one.' But always thought it was weird where the game would just swap out the 'D' part of the Power Player/ PK and have seperate forwards. It was odd. Well I finally confirmed it, think more or less by accident. Because when you want to change lines in an actual game 'circle' changes out the forwards and 'square' changes out the D groupings. Well I pressed the square button and it mentioned 'PPD' So like a powerplay D group. So that explains that and well something to keep in mind because I do like having Pasta getting out for the PP a lot when I have one. He has not scored a lot of goals for me in those situations...still annoying and a point of hesitancy for me not wanting to turn up the difficulty that I haven't figured out how to do so many hockey like things but especially a lot of those classic Pastranak one timer slap shots or his Snipe ability. Anyways he does not get a lot of PP goals but he does get a lot of Assists while on the PP so I do want him out there more soaking up minutes something to keep in mind.

Speaking of the PP this was a little while ago but James Van Rymsdik actually had a hat trick in the first period all on the Power Play. He is also up to 30 goals now on the season.

Last night general commentary and themes...after two years with this team thinking about tweaking and changing the lines more. Something I haven't really done a lot in this franchise because do love this Bruins team. But two things I have noticed that has led to this idea to change it. First off Debrusk has really been struggling this year especially given how well the team is playing on the diffculty he only has like 15 goals. I think this was also dragging down the third line a lot and meanwhile my fourth line also seems to go through bits where they just dissapear. So a recent injury happened and usually when this happened Fredric gets promoted to the 3rd line and just starts really scoring, he did so again and Debrusk had issues though he also got said 15th or 16th goal on the season. But when Krecji came back in a game last night I did decide to leave Fredric on the third line and put Debrusk down to line four. Debrusk hasn't really produced too well but Fredric as continued to prove my faith in him as he has gotten up to 20 goals with a few on the third line even in the wake of KRecji's return and a three assist night. So not only is he doing well but he seems to reinjected energy into the rest of the third line which was really stuggling as again Van Rimsdyk got up to his 30th and Coyle has 33 now. Secondly felt a little bad with Thornton... some buyers remorse, when I tried getting him in the off season his rating was just in the 80s so oooh good but when I got him his rating was only 79 which is worse then pretty much every one on the entire fourth line/ team except it ties Nosek. Yet I love Thornton and I feel bad for trading for the guy then not playing him so tempted to trade out someone on line four and put him in full time especially since depsite his rating a lot of the time he has seemingly added an extra jump to line 4. Like he only had 1 goal when joining me and now has 4 and really is playing well with Nosek. Given his age though and rating it does make sense just keeping him as a depth playing so he can 'rest' and only bringing him on an injury so so far am gonna stick with a 4th line of Foligno-Nosek-Debrusk...but then Foligno got hurt so Thornton is back in.

For milestone and goal stories. Still find it fun about the first quarter of the season Bergeron just wasn't scoring and I don't care since Bergeron is more of a defensive assist focused player so it wasn't a big deal to me so he had a player meeting with me telling me how dissapointed he was in his play and I was like 'dude your fine.' And even happened again where he had a morale decrease because of his performance...well when this started he had 4 goals. He is up to 38 now. Its funny IRL Marchand is on career goal 399 for like the last few games and just keep waiting. Well in my franchsie he scored goal 400 on like his 32nd of the season...this is last year. Pastranak meanwhile has been up and done this season but still finds himself amongst the league leaders in goals and his 39th of the season is 300 on his career the game after Marchand got his 400th...Pasta has 346 goals on his career but I am still roughly a year behind.

Ghost Recon Wildlands

So last night was deeply frustrating at least for the wife though for me too. She really hates Unidad. And really people diss Breakpoint all the live long day but this is the reason I prefer it to Wildlands. Just constant waves of reinforcements especially when dealing with UNidad and their little bounty star system just kept getting us as we had to kill someone in the middle of a unidad base then take a pic of him. Sure Santa Blanca is there but that wasn't giving us a lot of help. Just constant waves of Unidad and us running out of reinforcements. Since this is the first time I have really had it this high I was curious about something, we actually got the Unidad rating to max, all four stars. And just my question was 'what would happen?' because like in Mirage if you get the wanted state up to max an immortal will come after you you kill the immortal and it goes back down. Great system. Obviously something didn't exist this far back but still curious what would happen and my theory ended up being correct. While the wanted status didn't go away unfortunatley they did actually run out of forces. So in the end wifey killed the guy with a mortar strike but we couldn't get close enough to take a pic and on the second wanted level party wiped which was the second time it happened...we voted to put this mission on the back burner.

So started to go looking for those really cool scope/ red dot flip sight thingies that you see and that the Ghost ACR automatically had equipped but the base one doesen't...and also the extended 30 round mag for the ACR. Found that in La Cruz in the middle of nowhere and onto Monte Puncu for the EXPS & G3 I believe its called.

Far Cry 6

Finished FC 6. Just continue to like this game a lot despite all my complaints...but it did strike me as something. FC seems to be a franchise with really cool story and villain beats but not that good gameplay design always or some bad gameplay level set pieces. The penultimate level of the game does not make sense. You have to infiltrate Castillo's island and get in there without being detected or Clara dies. The game then remvoes your inventory, your gadgets, and your amigo. Sure in some ways this might be the game's way of holding the players hand and the justification is that you can't take the equipment in on Juan's small boat. Except the game then gives youa access to all your stuff after the steatlth section including the SUpremo. *sigh*. Would have been really nice that you could swap out your loud supremo for the stealth one, wouldn't probably helped you. But then you just get access to everything later which invaldiates any potential reason for taking it away from you. This stinks. Then you do a massive battle where you lead the assault on Castillo's headquarters to neutralize him and of cours ehe kills Dieog then himself.

So yeah this game is really good though from a story perspective and there is a lot subtext and stuff going on here. Namely again the whole truth or lies thing, Castillo's nature, and the nature of revolution and Clara. On the one hand you have Castillo and he betrays a parlay essentially to capture Clara. So a lie? Again probably but a certain point of view thing because we find him sitting and having dinner sort of thing and actually having a parlay...but then he also basically uses the situation to make Dani is general, at least that is the offer. Lot of interesting stuff going on. Then on Dani there is almost an informed character trait versus what is going on which could be bad writing but I do give it some credit because there is a kernal of truth in it and I think it might be some intention behind it. Juan, who is a dispicable SOB at times who makes deals, works with smugglers, offers to let McKay go for his own deal, and threatens to shoot Diego and has no remorse when he dies. This is a character who says that Dani is just like him and is, well ine ffect, a guerilla junky and a violence junky and does not actually have moral objections to what he is doing but just does not want the violence to end. And Castillo calls Dani monster, dictator, all those other things. But yet Dani when she is doing things is pretty consistently portrayed as having a consience, not wanting to kill Diego, not just being in it purely for the violence, and is trying to worry about some of the same stuff Clara is about the long term ramifications of what happens when the revolution ends. And of course Castillo also seems to respect and acknolwedge Dani as being a descent person to at least make the offer to help protect Diego and the reason he kills him probably has more to do with Dani's friends then Dani herself. And well Dani also does like the violence and also gets along with Juan despite how much of a dick he is...and well also she gives Yara over to the rest of her people and does not take it for herself. Lots of little momemts in this game.

FW

San Francisco. A hilarious jaunt in some ways. An extremely annoying one in other ways, regards a NPC. I'll call him the Chief Executive Officer although the people around him don't know what it means. Some of them are not above worshipping Sobeck but won't bat an eye to killing Aloy despite her link with Sobeck. All in the name of ambition and greed.

SPOILER!!!!


Does anyone have this strange phenomenon of Aloy veering to the left when she climb? Or the camera that somehow ended on right?

Yo useem t ob ethe furthes tahead o fan yof us I'm still onl yhal fdone. Must admit Las Vegas was a sight once I got the lights turned on.

Forbidden West

Decided to do the salvag econtracts so ma ycontinu ethose toda yand the last of the rebel camps down south befoer returning with Poseidon t oGaia but that is my main plan for today after that I only have Demeter left to retrieve so will likely start moving further westwards in tha tdirection an dmaybe complete Talanah's quest. Making good progress though even if it's slow.

Had to put WotR on hold for now. I think I hit a point where mods are conflicting and causing issues. And unfortunately they get baked into the saves so I'd have to start from scratch...so I'm just gonna wait for the last dlc to hit at this point.

So I started up Banishers for now. It seems like its going to be good. I like the atmosphere and characters so far, so here's hoping it stays interesting.

Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Reactivated HK-47 and forgot how talkative HK droids are. The HK-50 droid on Peragus talked my ear off. It's funny if you read the data pads and watched all of the holo vids everyone speaks about how much the Hk-50 droid talks, and their predecessor HK-47 is no different. We had a long conversation and his sense of humor seemed to be intact. That's all i did yesterday by the time HK-47 stopped talking I was sleepy and went to bed lol.

Wow I am 72+ and don't think I am anywhere near done. 

I think my fiddling around with the console version a year ago may have something to do with my speed because I know the sequence of the main story and almost all of the other quests. Too, I'm on story mode and most of the machine fights are not too difficult. If I were playing on hard or ultra hard, I think I'll take longer to uncover the entire map.

I for the love of god cannot get the Transmog to work.

I have an outfit equipped, go to another in the inventory and hit "F" to apply look and it does nothing. What am I doing wrong? Do you have to do it at the Workbench I don't think I saw the option for that.