SECURITY RESEARCH AND DATA PRIVACY
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Observations,mistrust chronicles and exploits
After 20+ hours of grinding away and failing, I finally extracted from The Division’s Survival DLC today. Good thing it was released for free but I’ll probably buy it in September ($14.99).
This mode has an excellent game cycle to keep you playing as well as the constant intensity of running around New York in a snowstorm scavenging for meds, food, water and guns….loot, loot, loot.
Of course, it meant hiding from real life stuff. Tomorrow, just Global Event stuff, all part of the road to D2.
Not feeling much about anything lately….
Hiding online is a task nowadays but achievable if you can bring yourself to the point of disabling your gadgets. The problem is your connections’ social media ramblings.
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.
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 |
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.
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
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.
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.
