Week of 25 Sep 2022
“USA! USA! Er- I mean, Allies! Allies!”
Achievements Earned In:
- Grey Skies: A War of the Worlds Story
- Fallout 76
- Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
- Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition
An achievement was needed on Sunday, and I figured I’d start chipping away at some of my other Bean Dive games. The next short game I’ll do, me thinks, is Grey Skies: A War of the Worlds Story, if only because I’m curious about it. From the little I played previously, it’s a very slow and methodical game, so far. And I didn’t have to dig much more into it this week since the next achievement was just for pushing a nearby soccer ball into a net. Took about 2 minutes!
Achievements unlocked: 2 (+1) | Completion: 18%
Speaking of quick stuff, jumping into Fallout 76 daily to find a misplaced magazine for a medic or listen to a disagreement between janitors took very little time, and I reached my tenth instance of such tasks on Monday and could again put this game away. I’m sure I’ll be back to Appalachia at some point. Sadly…
Achievements unlocked: 66 (+1) | Completed
My misadventures in Venezuela continued this week as I chipped away at the Mercenaries 2: World in Flames completion. And, while I already complained about the super weak vehicles and such last week, up to this point I’d had very little in the way of actual challenges in the game. This week, the ease peaked when, during an annoying cargo delivery race, the game glitched and the enemies refused to shoot any bullets at me. They’d still lob grenades and fire RPGs at me, but with most enemies not shooting it became no issue to complete any missions or HVT extractions. The latter was the funniest since I could run in, punch the HVT in the face, and carry them away from the grenades to a safe extraction spot. Sadly, this glitch fixed itself the following day and I found myself in a pretty frustrating point in the game. The various missions and challenges aren’t too bad, but it’s getting more obvious why the achievement for extracting the HVTs alive is the most difficult achievement; the minute I get near them either I get mowed down by a helicopter or they get blown up by errant explosives. I’m not sure why the enemy soldiers have rapid-fire RPGs that we can’t acquire, but so it is. I also went back to the beginning of the game while offline to unlock the glitched achievement from when ValakC and I first started. Speaking of, we paired up this week and I managed to unlock all the co-op achievements, too. By the end of the week I only had the Allies’ objectives to complete, so not much longer!
Achievements unlocked: 33 (+10) | Completion: 82%
Moooom, Zhāng won’t give me the grenade!
Leapt into Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition on Saturday (punny!) to quickly get an achievement before heading out for socializing all day/night. I simply had to complete a Twin Frogs rounds. Easy enough.
Achievements unlocked: 3 (+1) | Completion: 25%
Highest ratio: 16.76
Seeking Refuge (Fallout 76)
Lowest ratio: 1.04
Ride the Dragon (Mercenaries 2: World in Flames)
