Exploring & Shooting End The Week

 A wide selection of games today began with the continuation of
Tomb Raider Definitive Edition which saw four unlocks in an early session. First up was Big Game Hunter (10G) followed around an hour later by Unfinished Business (20G) for completing a challenge. 

The unlocking of Taste's Like Chicken! (15G) came up next with the session ending with Bookworm (10G). Both are included in the Warboats challenge and there was mixed success with a HIT and MISS. 

The afternoon session saw a quick play on the Xbox One version of Assassin's Creed Black Flag with a single unlock in the form of Excavator (10G) for finding a buried treasure and this was also part of the Warboats challenge though this time, the result was a MISS. 

Tomb Raider DE resumed with the unlocks of Down and Dirty (15G) for performing 15 finishers and Gunslinger (10G) for killing 35 enemies with the Pistol. The latter saw another MISS in the Warboats challenge. 

Ahead of and during the LIV/MU match, saw a session on Titanfall with a lot of effort needed for an unlock towards the Warboats challenge. In game progression saw three unlocks come along starting with Halfway There (25G) for reaching level 25 (Began the session on Level 19) followed by I Could Get Used To This (10G) for using five Titan Burn cards. 

Death From Above (25G) was next for killing five enemies via a Titan crush and then finally an hour later, Superior In Every Way (25G) popped for killing 1000 AI enemies and the joy soon doubled as it became a HIT on Warboats.

After an evening break, play moved on to the Xbox One version of Call of Duty Advanced Warfare with a haul of eight unlocks, three being part of the Warboats challenge. First up was Deadeye (10G) for scoring an 'excellent' in the Atlas shooting range with Grenadier (10G) popping after scoring an 'excellent' in the Grenade range. 

Completing that mission saw Welcome to Atlas (25G) pop and was one of the Warboats unlocks but sadly a MISS.

Next up was Life in the Fast Lane (25G) for completing the 'Traffic' mission. 

Riot Control (10G) popped next after killing 20 enemies via the Mobile Cover Drone and was swiftly followed by Fire and Forget (10G) for killing 10 enemies using the Mobile Turret. 

The final two unlocks of the session were both Warboats inclusions and also both sadly landing as a MISS.  They were Radioactive (20G) for completing the 'Fission' mission and Second Skin (10G) for spending 10 EXO upgrade points. 

The day ended with a rapid play on Polychromatic in order to tick One-Life Beginner (15G) for reaching 50,000 points in One-Life mode and brought the day's totals to 20 unlocks and 315G.

Aero Fighters Final Landing Ahead Of A Warboats Hit

The play session from Friday on ACA NeoGeo Aero Fighters continued with the last two unlocks of High Score 200,000 points (80G) and High Score 300,000 points (100G) reached meaning an eighth game completion of the year. Only the former was required on Warboats and sadly another MISS.

Next up was a quick play on Astroneer with the unlock of EXO Dynamics Outreach Participant (10G) for joining or hosting an online session which proved tough as the server isn't too reliable. The unlock proved its worth on Warboats with a first HIT.

Play moved on to Penarium with some work needed to reach the intended unlock, two levels were passed before the one needed was completed resulting in the pop of Cheer Up Kiddo! (20G). After the earlier Warboats success, this one followed in its path with another HIT and a good location of the first boat. 

The day's play ended with a move over to Tomb Raider Definitive Edition which has a total of six unlocks listed on the Warboats grid so will be played a fair amount in pursuit of some of the harder ones. Today saw just the unlock of One Smart Cookie (20G) for finding one optional tomb.

 

TA Warboats Challenge Sees Gaming Reunions

After a long time of many different post types, the daily returns with Friday 15 Jan with the gaming choices boosted by the announcement of True Achievements' Warboats challenge starting for a second year. 

The challenge as you will see in tomorrow's post is to a Battleship style challenge with five boats on an 8x8 grid. The game chosen to begin the challenge was Tiles with the unlock of choice being Making Progress (50G) for completing the second page of local levels. Sadly resulting in a MISS on Warboats.

Browsing the grid, I spotted two potential unlocks on ACA NeoGeo Aero Fighters so play focused on Caravan Mode 200,000 points (80G) which was followed by Caravan Mode 300,000 points (100G). The latter was the unlock needed on Warboats but again it was a MISS.

The other potential unlock on the game has been attempted at the time of writing and the result will feature in tomorrow's post. 

Completions Continue With Rewards Challenge Success

This week saw the Microsoft Rewards 10k Challenge continue with the starting of Lanternium.

Jan 8th saw 12 unlocks on the above for a total of 800 G. The last few levels of the colourful puzzler took more effort than the earlier ones and meant that the completion moved into the 9th. 

This day saw the last unlock for a total of 200 G and moved the total completions for the month up to five.

The next day saw another new start in the form of Without Escape which proved to be a fairly short completion with 12 unlocks for 1000 G. The game itself is a point and click but with a horror theme to it.

The final part of the 10k challenge saw the starting of Hardcube, a game that truly lived up to its name as some of the levels proved very difficult with some taking between 20-25 minutes to plan and complete successfully. The progress itself saw eight unlocks for a total of 570 G.

The following day saw the game completed with yet more difficult levels passed in the early morning for a total of five unlocks for 430 G. The day's progress saw the month's total completions move to seven with the goal of one per week in 2021 going strong with seven weeks done in that sense. 

The final game of the week was Doug Hates His Job which is one I have been looking at for a while and due to its being on sale recently, snapped up as its quite an interesting game. The first day of progress saw 11 unlocks for a total of 700 G. 

The week came to an end with the final three unlocks for a total of 300 G and brings the totals for the month to 182 unlocks for 13,045 G. Also as the new board layout makes it easier to produce the images, a return to the old way of daily posts should begin with tomorrow's progress on the 15th. 

 

Completions Aplenty Open 2021

 After falling massively behind with this blog, a decision to reboot for 2021 overruled trying to even try and catch up the backlog so here is Week One of 2021.The year began with play on Mushroom Savior.

The opening day of the year as mentioned above began Mushroom Savior with a good session resulting in seven unlocks for a total of 800 G. Playing saw the progress from the first to seventh level with ease. 

The next day saw Mushroom Savior continue with five further unlocks for a total of 900 G. 

The third day saw a change with play on the recent Game Pass addition in Tetris Effect Connected. Play involved entering 'The Zone' for a total of ten minutes with around 90 seconds possible per zone so this unlock for 15G took a fair amount of effort to achieve. 

After yesterday's play on Tetris Effect Connected, play resumed on Mushroom Savior with a single unlock of 200 G. 

Today's progression saw the completion of 20 of the games 30 playable levels meaning completion was within reach. 

The first completion of the year was accomplished on Jan 5th with the final two unlocks on Mushroom Savior totalling 200G.

This involved finishing all 30 playable levels and in doing so defeating the Evil Tree which took a number of attempts.

A new game for the year but one played a lot in previous years is World of Tanks which has had a number of name changes and updates with the latest making gameplay and the menu layouts a lot different and sadly worse than the previous iterations.  Play today saw three unlocks for a total of 30G.

The week ended in style with the Microsoft Rewards 10000G challenge in full swing with three starts and three completions. First up was Cold Silence which saw a total of 60 unlocks for a total of 1000 G. The game is a platformer and one of the Xitilion group as are todays other two games which are famous for being edited and re-edited after Microsoft issues. 

Next up was the duo of Castle of No Escape and its sequel Castle of No Escape 2. The original game saw 20 unlocks for 3000G. This one is a top down room explorer with play limited to a grid style.