Daily Thoughts
The daily thoughts, wisdoms, and realizations of Bruno
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Top 3 Plays: Battlefield Hardline
The Battlefield franchise has seemingly stepped up the pace of their gameplay with Hardline. You be the judge for yourself.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
Destiny: Xur's Offers For This Weekend (January 16th)
Xur has arrived in the Hall of Guardians. This is just down the stairs on the left on the way to the Vanguard representatives. He brought a real gift this time,
(SPOILER ALERT)
Ice Breaker for 17 Strange Coins
- Solar Damage
- Attack: 302/331
- No Backpack: Regenerates ammo, but you can’t have more than one magazine and never have to reload.
- Mulligan: If you miss your target their is a chance to return ammunition back directly to the magazine.
- Ice Breaker: Killing enemies causes them to explode, dealing damage to others around them. It also looks cool.
Titan: Helmet: The Glass House for 13 Strange Coins
- Must have The Dark Below expansion pack installed.
- Defense: 407/447
- Light: 30/36
- Rain Blows: Increases the attack speed of your melee.
- Quintessence Transfer: Super Energy regenerates when you kill an enemy with a grenade.
- Bathed in Light: The abilities Blessing of Light and Weapons of Light will last longer.
Hunter: Helmet: Achlyophage Symbiote for 13 Strange Coins
- Defense: 407/447
- Light: 30/36
- Fastball: Increases the distance you throw grenades.
- Ashes to Asset: Super Energy regenerates when you kill an enemy with a grenade.
- Last Man Standing: Gain an additional bullet for the Golden Gun ability.
Warlock: Helmet: Obsidian Mind for 13 Strange Coins
- Must have The Dark Below expansion pack installed.
- Defense: 407/447
- Light: 30/36
- Energy Projection: Increases the distance you throw grenades.
- Inverse Shadow: Super Energy regenerates when you kill an enemy.
- Insatiable: Kills with your Nova Bomb reduces the time before your next Nova Bomb.
Exotic Shard for 1 Strange Coin
Urn of Sacrifice for 1 Strange Coin
Sparrow Upgrades for 23 Strange Coins
Scout Rifle Telemetry for 1 Strange Coin
Shotgun Telemetry for 1 Strange Coin
Hand Cannon Telemetry for 1 Strange Coin
Upgrades:
- Achlyophage Symbiote (Hunter helmet)
- Lucky Raspberry (Hunter chest)
- Crest of Alpha Lupi (Titan chest)
- No Backup Plans (Titan arms)
- Skull of Dire Ahamkara (Warlock helmet)
- Light Beyond Nemesis (Warlock helmet)
- Bad Juju (pulse rifle)
- The Last Word (hand cannon)
- Plan C (fusion rifle)
- Pocket Infinity (fusion rifle)
- Thunderlord (machine gun)
- Gjallarhorn (rocket launcher)
Hope it is everything you wanted. See you again next week.
Destiny: Xur's Offers For This Weekend (January 16th)
Friday, December 26, 2014
The Bruno Family Christmas 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
GTA Online Heists Trailer
According to Rockstar Games the much anticipated (for 1.5 years) Heists DLC will be coming in early 2015. The end title card for the trailer listed GTA5 as for PC as well as all the other platforms its currently released. This provides speculation that Heists will release with the PC version. The trailer depicts the four player co-op mode for Grand Theft Auto Online. Expect to plan, prepare, and execute multiple different heists all over Los Santos and Blaine County.
Unlike Destiny, which wants every player in its raid to do every job during the raid, Rockstar has leaned up against tactics for it’s heists. Each player will need to take care of specific jobs during the heists in order for the robbery to be a success. This DLC will bring new vehicles, weapons, clothing and more.
Imran Sarwar answered many questions about the upcoming Heists DLC without spoiling the exact release date.
He said, “To be honest, (Heists) just turned out to be alot more difficult than we originally thought. After many months of designing, testing, rewriting, and re-testing, we settled on the four player structure that you will experience in the game. It took a ton of work from our programmers and mission designers to make it work at the level we were happy with.”
He continued, “As it turns out, creating missions of that complexity for multiple players at the same time was much more difficult than we anticipated and every time we thought we were close, something would send us back to square one. Having already let players know of our intentions with Heists, every setback only increased the pressure to make sure we got them right.”
I think we can give a nod to Rockstar for making sure all the I’s were dotted and T’s were crossed. We have seen multiple failures this year already and we are sort of tired of buying those. I realize that this is just a DLC but it is almost a game with in a game. One thing I can say as a consumer is that Destiny and Rockstar are stepping up the game for Downloadable Content. Each DLC is actually an ordeal, not just some new items and trinkets.
Imran Sarwar went on to say, “Even as we were working to solve this, the entire team was also throwing everything we could into creating the PS4, Xbox One, and PC versions of Grand Theft Auto V – adding First Person Mode, building the new replay editor for PC – as well as constantly working to improve the GTA Online experience. All of these projects are linked and require the attention of our core team at all times, so despite our best efforts, we simply wound up needing more time to make sure every one of these projects was as good as it could possibly be.”
Things we know about the heist and how it works:
- It is 4 player co-op and all players must be rank 12 or above.
- 1 player will be designated as the heist leader.
- To be leader you need to own a high-end apartment with a planning board room.
- Leader will invite players to the heist, assign positions, pick outfits, and allocate each player’s cut.
- Leader will have to front the set-up costs in order to successfully pull off the heist.
- Leaders will not receive a cash payout until the finale is complete.
- Crew members a cash payout for each part of the mission.
- At launch there will be 5 heists comprised of over 20 missions. (Around 20 hrs of gameplay)
- Bonus rewards for playing all 5 heists in order with the same set of players.’
- Bonus reward for playing all of them in first person mode.
Where does this leave you as a player? Does this information make you excited for the update? Does it make you more forgiving for the amount of time this promise took to become reality?
Here are some images from the heists that were shared by Rockstar Games:
GTA Online Heists Trailer
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Trending Topics - Pope vs Pewdiepie
For the last 90 Days, according to Google’s Trends information, this is the graph rated 0% to 100% of trend attention between the Pope and Pewdiepie.
What does this make you feel?
Trending Topics - Pope vs Pewdiepie
Thursday, December 11, 2014
EA Sports' UFC Will Be Free
EA Sports’ UFC Will Be Free After 18th of December for EA Access Members
- Battlefield 4
- FIFA 14
- Madden NFL 25
- Need For Speed Rivals
- Peggle 2
- Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare
Now, I can add EA Sports UFC to that list on December 18th thanks to EA adding the game to the Vault. This is perfect timing to try the game out for the first time or to return to a game you had forgotten about, because EA Canada just released the fifth free content update (or DLC) for EA Sports UFC.
EA Access is only available on the Xbox One and costs $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year. Also, In addition to The Vault, members receive limited trials of certain EA titles from up to five days before release. Members also receive a 10 percent discount on all digital purchases made through the Xbox Store on EA Content.
SOURCE: EA Access
EA Sports' UFC Will Be Free