Category: Gaming

Observations,mistrust chronicles and exploits

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Budget tweeking

So are all games going to be survival, PvP and Battle Royal?  FallOut 76 goes online for the first time, FarCry 5 co-op was excellent but PvP was terrible.  Size, however, is everything as we will see in The Divison 2 with its 1:1 scale map of D.C.

We know some much but so little

FallOut 76 is tagged to be 4 times the size of FallOut 4 (took me a year to complete the main campaign).  The move to online gaming surely signals the end of single-player campaigns with offline physical media and puts even more critical pressure on the gamer to have a stable and fast dedicated Internet connection.

It’s time to adjust my budget opting to get the PS4 Plus in 2019 instead.  Thankfully, this keeps my annual budget way under $1000.

Software / Hardware  Notes  Cost
PS4 Plus  $60.00
Overkill’s The Walking Dead November 2018
FarCry 5
 Platinum completed  $60.00
Last of Us 2 No release date  $60.00
Death Stranding 2019 release  $60.00
Days Gone Feb 2019  $60.00
Detroit – Become Human Available now  $60.00
Indie titles x 5  $100.00
FallOut 76 November 2018  $60.00
Total  $520

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Finding the space to think

The time for winter planning is perfect as the European heatwave sends most of us into a flurry seeking shade and coolness.  It’s like trying to find the perfect Snipers nest in midst of a massive battle or trying to filter out the social media noise to find the data you actually need.

Important but not urgent

For me, these are the toughest things to work on

Last Will and and Testament
Winter preparation during the Summer
Summer preparation during the Winter
Credential management (passwords and log-ins)
Log reviews
Back-up testing
Blue Sky Thinking – 15 minutes from my house
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The Closer I get to You – Unforgiving and Brutal

I condensed my usual pace of gameplay over 3 weeks into 3 days of The Division because of the Global Event.  I didn’t come across many players who hadn’t played the game before and It’s clear that The Division 2 will break sales records with millions of players jumping around DC for loot and kills.

Enough is enough already, so I fell back to my cut-off strategy of removing the disk and deleting the game to simply stop playing it.  I haven’t even looked at others title for the past few weeks.

Tom Clancy’s The Division – knowing when to quit playing

August gameplay

This month’s line up looks great with Mafia III (single player) and Dead by Daylight (PvP) free for PS Plus folk.  I nearly bought Mafia III a few months ago when it went on sale but figured it would be free at some point for this 2-year-old title.  Dead by Daylights format of 4 verses 1 has not been as popular as the all-out 100 player format or 4 versus 4 formats.

Anyhow for me, August is a PvP free month but I’ll certainly view my favourite streamers escapades and will be missing the past few days ShotGun onslaught up close and personal.

Tom Clancy’s The Division – Be back in September folks
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Cheesing it

Minimum effort for maximum gain is the basic formula for any investor.  Specialist areas like Dark Web, Cryptocurrency and The Division attract mavericks running routines that do just that.  At the moment, I’m investing a fair amount of time running easy missions (rinse and repeat cycles) on The Division Global Event to earn points to buy classified gear and it’s paying off nicely.

Tom Clancy’s The Division – rinse and repeat

Cryptocurrency efforts have been thinned by real-life challenges and Dark Web is basically ignored for now.  IRL the 90+°F daily heat wave is messing up my balance but I’m still going to focus on a Christmas escape to Florida this year, nuff planning needed.

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Re-inventing yourself

The serious business of Gaming has not gone unnoticed by the global powerhouses like Microsoft.  Gaming is one of the six massive investment areas that the tech giant is focusing on and it makes me laugh when individuals jab at my lifelong indulgence on this “not so niche” area of computing.

Source: Microsoft

In the meantime, this weekend I took some time to level up my 3rd character in readiness for the next Global Event in The Division. It’s always fun starting from scratch and it gives me a good excuse to opt-out of real life.  I was joined by a few friends along the way and avoided toxic or youth gamers.

Tom Clancy’s The Division – Ready for the Global Event

In a way, I guess we re-invent ourselves in real life to suit the situation and our personal goals all the time.