Another month has passed for working on
the goals I made in May.
Since
Anniversary Update for Rocket League and
Title Update - v759 for ARK: Survival Evolved were released and I started
HAWKEN with
Dr Tinus NL and my wife started
Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan I had to update the goals, so 4 extra game completions, 59 extra achievements and 7.365 extra TA score (90% of the current value) have been added to the goals.
Like I said last month I would focus on completing games in July and I even surprised my self how many I did, found a lot of games that had less then 5 hours left in them to complete the final achievement(s). I managed to complete 19 games this month out of the 20 that were played, and that last completions didn't happen because of the currently unobtainable achievement in
ARK: Survival Evolved.
I made progress (at least 1 achievement) in the following games this month:
ARK: Survival Evolved :
Unlocked 14 achievements for 450 GS and 3.402 TA.A new title update was released with 15 new achievements. Luckily the console command is still in the game so I had my first 13 achievements within 1 hour since the collectables from the main game were counted here as well. The final achievement probably won't be obtainable until 8-8-2017 29-8-2017 (it just got delayed) when the game releases for real. Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers :
Unlocked 13 achievements for 340 GS and 420 TA completing the game.When I played it a couple years before I was having trouble with timing my swings so I gave up. So I tried it again but this time setting about 1,5 meters away from my tv instead of my normal distance of 5-6 meters, and it worked! I only had trouble with my first match but the further you get in the game the easier it becomes because of the players you unlock. So I managed to complete story mode in about 3 hours. Deadly Premonition (EU/JP) :
Unlocked 6 achievements for 700 GS and 1.643 TA completing the game.My wife managed to finish her first playthrough on normal while collection all trading cards. 10 days later she has also finished her hard play through. And to get if over with she finished her last play through on easy at the end of the month. Diablo III :
Unlocked 1 achievement for 25 GS and 79 TA completing the game.I only had the grind 5mil gold achievement left to do in this game. While starting I got about 150.000 gold per hour playing on inferno/easy. But after a while I reached max gold find on my gear and could focus more on DPS gear which allowed me to play on hard/master1 difficult getting about 275.000 gold an hour. Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer :
Unlocked 1 achievement for 160 GS and 282 TA completing the game.Only had a play through on the harders difficulty left to do in the game. So after 1 session of about 4 hours the game was complete. Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan :
Unlocked 26 achievements for 1.000 GS and 1.218 TA completing the game.After my wife completed Deadly Premonition (EU/JP) she wanted to play something fun so she started her play through on expert with only the hind from me that all the screens had 1 collectible. And after a couple of hours she finished her play through while getting all collectables. And the next day she finished the bonus chapter to complete the game. Guitar Hero Live (Xbox 360) :
Unlocked 1 achievement for 30 GS and 201 TA completing the game.I'm finally done with dual strumming both versions of the game! In time it took about 4,5 seasons of family guy going from about 250.000 to 1.000.000 strums in both games. Guitar Hero Live :
Unlocked 2 achievements for 30 GS and 333 TA completing the game.Same as above but here I got an extra 0 GS achievement for unlocking all other achievements. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary :
Unlocked 2 achievements for 35 GS and 88 TA.Never really tried the remaining 2 achievements because I was scared of them, but I managed to do both of them first try on 2 separate runs through “The Library” level. HAWKEN :
Unlocked 12 achievements for 1.000 GS and 2.755 TA completing the game.Dr Tinus NL came over to my place for some gaming (and hugging our new 12 week old kitten). First we completed Overcooked for him and then decided to complete this game in 1 session the next day. Only took about 4 hours. Minecraft :
Unlocked 1 achievement for 20 GS and 184 TA completing the game.Only needed 1 more achievement in the game and DARTH WINNERS had a achievement world set up for it for an easy unlock. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition :
Unlocked 5 achievements for 130 GS and 1.773 TA completing the game.I did all but 1 achievements by my self following the solutions on TA. And DARTH WINNERS managed to make a world on the 360 version for the same achievements a couple days later to help me out again. Resident Evil 5 :
Unlocked 5 achievements for 130 GS and 550 TA completing the game.Joined 2 boosting sessions for the 4 player online achievements. At least you only need half the wins that you needed on the 360 version so it goes way quicker. After that all that was left was completing desperate escape on professional. And since my wife was hosting a baby shower for her best friend in our place on a Sunday I decided this was a good day to stay away from home and go to my friends place to complete this achievement in co-op. Rocket League :
Unlocked 6 achievements for 250 GS and 761 TA completing the game.A new title update appeared with 6 new achievements. Just played 10 ranked placement matches and then 2 more matches to get my 30 online goals. Later on some one was kind enough to trade me a very rare item for the final 2 achievements. Superman Returns :
Unlocked 17 achievements for 970 GS and 1.795 TA completing the game.Well that was a game without a story... Kill some random bad guys that show up some were on the map until you fill a bar to get to the next chapter. And that for 16 chapters in a row with only about 4 bosses. After 8,5 hours I had all achievements except for the 12 hour and flying 10.000 miles one, so I left it on during the night while he was flying all the time, and 10 hours later all achievements popped. X-Men: The Official Game :
Unlocked 14 achievements for 1.000 GS and 1.627 TA completing the game.I first completed the game on easy getting all collectables and a almost halve of the upgrades to make the highest difficulty a breeze when I played it after that. Zeit² :
Unlocked 4 achievements for 120 GS and 204 TA completing the game.Only had 50% of Arcade Mode left to do and 2 more silver achievements in other modes before I had to grind out the 30 minutes traveling through time achievement. Took about 3 hours total. Zombie Army Trilogy :
Unlocked 8 achievements for 120 GS and 338 TA completing the game.Dr Tinus NL and evil terrorr helped us out with the 4 player achievement and the last horde map. After that I only needed to grind limbs for a while to finish the game. So after 3 month the goals should be at least at 37,5% if I want to stay on schedule and now they are at:
All goals are above the 37,5% needed so with this pace I should make all of them before the end of the year. All goals already even passed the 50% mark needed for August. But since we are going on vacation to Vietnam almost all of October I should be a month in front of all goals if I don't want to mess it up at the end. For now the ratio goal of 2.0 over the score unlocked in 2017 is complete but I need to make sure it doesn't drop below it again. Although all those title updates from the last couple of months didn't really help for most goals it did really helped with the ratio goal. For July I'm going to focus on the Kinect games goal since that's the lowest one and I should be able to knock that one out in a month.
For the 5 grindy achievements I should now be on an average of 50% to be in line for my end goal. Currently I'm on 94,44% so that means I'm 44,44% above where I should be and almost done.
From the grind list I first played
Guitar Hero Live (Xbox 360) and
Guitar Hero Live again playing with a guitar in both hands. Last month I still needed a total of 555.140 across both games. So since I'm right handed I always play the version with the least amount of strums with that hand and the other in my left hand because I strum about 10%-20% less with my left hand. Finally finished them both! Later on in the month I decided to do
Boom Ball for Kinect and it took less then 2 hours so not much of a grind after all. About a week later I started with
Diablo III , I first managed to get 300% gold pick up from gear so that's the max that you can get from gear on Inferno/easy and slowly getting more DPS gear after that while maintain the max gold find gear. At about the 3.5 mil point I managed to get good enough DPS (from 50k when I first hit 300% gold find to 120k DPS) to play at Hell/master1 until I got the achievement. Since it was getting boring real fast I wanted to get it over with so the final session was 8 hours of constantly playing the same level over and over. Only
Rocksmith was left over from the grind list at this point. So I first managed to Master (so you can play the songs without seeing the notes and getting 2x as much score from them) 3 songs so I could use them over and over for every set list. The songs that I mastered are Song 2 (Blur), Go With the Flow (Queens of the Stone Age) and Next Girl (the Black Keys) making a total set list of 9.01 minutes + an encore, loading times, tuning the guitar and making the set list that would take about 15 minutes for each set. I would get about 650.000 RSP each time, so to get 20.000.000 I would need to play the set list about 31 times. I first played the songs with at the same time as a YouTube video so I could see what to play. After 1 time I memorised Song 2 because it was really easy, 2 set lists later I could play Next Girl without a video and 2 more set lists later I was able to play them all without videos making the process a bit quicker so I didn't need to sync them up. Only 9 sets left to play to finish the game.
Starting overall stats per 6-5-2017:Achievements 25.155 / 26.773 (1.618 remaining)
Gamerscore 659.137 / 702.875 (43.738 remaining)
TrueAchievement score 1.193.601 / 1.360.111 (166.510 remaining)
Games completed 729 / 856 (127 remaining)Current stats:Achievements 25.587 / 26.925 (1.338 remaining)
Gamerscore 671.521 / 707.165 (35.644 remaining)
TrueAchievement score 1.226.563 / 1.373.333 (146.770 remaining)
Games completed 752 / 859 (107 remaining)Monthly stats:Achievements 141
Gamerscore 6.590
TrueAchievement score 18.040
Games completed 19