This week we talk about some strange stuff, but I guess in the grand scheme that is par for the course. This was the birthday week of our very own Tam, and we wish him a happy belated birthday. Grace on the other hand had a week full of travel, and while she showed up to give it the good college try…. sounded like just about the tiredest human being I have ever heard. As such we shuffled her off to bed and said we would be ready to talk about Wildstar next week. As far as what we actually did talk about this week…
I had a productive evening in WildStar last night, even though I didn’t do many of my usual activities. My server was quite laggy, so combat was difficult. It felt very strange experiencing launch day woes like over-taxed servers for a game I’ve been playing steadily for over a year. On the flip side, I am thrilled to see all the excitement about the game on social media right now, and crowded servers mean lots of people eager to play. I trust the devs to sort out the technical issues.
Looking pretty good for only using vendor dyes!
Unfortunately the lag was bad enough that after getting bronze on one vet shiphand expedition (and dying a lot) I decided to do more peaceful activities. I poked around at my house for a while, then decided to get a status update on some of my alts. It turns out that several of them were wearing mostly crafted gear. This meant that they were now wandering around partially naked at best, and at worst, well, take a look at my Granok lady here.
At least she still has her boots.
So I spent the rest of the night at the crafting station and in the holo-wardrobe, trying to make things right. My Aurin turned out cute at least. The Granok lady? Still a work in progress.
Right now the bulk of my social infrastructure is on fire with people returning to Wildstar. September 28th at Midnight EST was the official launch of the Wildstar Reloaded free to play experience. They are going through the same sort of growing pains that everyone goes through when they launch a game, or in this case relaunch it. When I got in last night, and managed to fight my way through the queue, I was greeted with a “server going down in 15 minutes” message as they were needing to do some sort of emergency maintenance. This is absolutely par for the course for an event like this, but nonetheless disheartening. I absolutely get why they were bringing the server down however because the tiny bit of time I was able to play the lag was horrific.
I did however manage to do what I had intended to do this morning, which was rifle through my bags… dump everything that was not needed in my bank, and start to clean out my mailbox. With the change to the way the crafting system works, a lot of the old crafted items were consumed and instead we were mailed a stack full of equivalent materials. I had seven or eight of these messages from Protostar, all containing things I have no clue what to do with them. Thankfully however pretty much everything seemed to fit just fine in my tradeskill bag so I don’t have to care for this very moment. I was able to consume all of the perks that I got through the whole cosmic points system. I am one step away from tier 6, and as of last night I got some perk that causes me to gain omnibits faster which is kinda cool. With new toys comes a new outfit, which I cobbled together this morning before sitting down to right a blog post. For the time being… I think I am going to stay off the servers until things calm down a bit.
Daily Bounties
One of the things I am still enjoying quite a bit is my daily routine of logging into Destiny and getting new bounties. I am not sure how a game goes from feeling oppressive and grindy, to fun an exciting in a single patch… but whatever the case Destiny did just that. I think more than anything it is the increased drop rates that make things feel interesting, because when I know it is highly likely that I will get something for my time spent, I don’t mind spending time doing something. I love the random chance of finding something cool, and maybe once I am geared enough to no longer care about drops… it will feel different. However every single engram that I see glowing in the distance is a chance at finding something to increase my overall light and as such make me more formidable. Largely my key goal this week however has been to try and stock pile strange coins again in the hopes that on Friday Xur will bring me something awesome and exotic.
I still have so much story that I have yet to complete, and I have barely scratched the surface of the strikes that are available to me. For the time being however I seem to get the most enjoyment from grabbing my bounties and going to some planet to whittle them down. There is just something relaxing about this process, and in many ways it reminds me of the way I felt about the daily hunts in Final Fantasy XIV… that is until I no longer really needed the currency to improve my gear. There is something calming about having a routine and right now popping into Destiny is pretty much the first thing I do each night. In the above video I decided to record a bit of me working my way through my daily quests, and that is actually my second attempt given that I had been recording for a bit only to realize that it was not picking up my mic. Essentially I changed the way I am recording so that I could pull my boom mic out and be able to capture audio while I am playing on the PS4 easily. The video itself was recorded through my Elgato HD, which I have hooked to a switch so that I can record any of my consoles. The end product just looks better than the default video recording options on the PS4.
This week we had Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra and Thalen. Tam was jet setting around the country but should be back next week. It seems pretty insane that this is already our 75th show. Being our Diamond Jubilee of a sort I am swapping up our introduction a bit in an effort to make it easier to see precisely what games we happen to talk about on a given show. Without further delay here are the games we discussed this week on AggroChat.
