The Gamer Thread Vol. 5 (General Gaming News & Discussion)

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I've seen people on reddit saying to buy the gift cards for subscriptions since those are static prices until they are physically replaced. Might be worth trying.

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Interesting. I checked out the price to continue this afternoon and they only had the option to get 1 month for $10 or 3 for $25. I'll see if it's fixed later.

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Decided to try my luck just now on a heroic bounty in Division 2. Thanks to some luck and my skill build, I managed to complete it. Boss room had all three of the bastards together in a fairly small area and the one boss (who carried a shield and pistol, mind you!) started sending out suicide bomber drones that nearly ended me. I was stunned that he could do that; apparently Massive has given out several skills previously limited to either players or particular enemies to more named enemies so as to shake up the combat.

I still intend to get through the remaining heroic bounties, but it's a shame that they don't seem to refresh (especially with alternating sets of challenging/heroic bounties) each week, unless I need to clear all before that happens (fat chance, probably is just the former being the case).

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Reddit users on the r/wallstreetbets page have been taking the actual Wall Street to task, specifically by buying and holding stock in GameStop. By preventing hedge fund managers from buying stock and then betting that invested companies fail (which is "shorting" basically) the new investors have cost managers roughly 5 billion dollars in loss. Stephen Colbert explains this via Beanie Babies in his "Dumb Money" monologue.

Personally I would still rather see the company permanently collapse but it looks like the sharp rise in value via this act of Internet revenge means they have a measure of success and will not be collapsing anytime soon. But seriously, fuck GameStop.

I'm watching Aztecross's coverage on the latest weekly blog from Bungie and yeah, looks like I'm not going to be playing for significantly longer. I'm going to finish a handful of tasks and this weekend and see what awaits me next season (aka next week) and I'll gradually only touch the game once a week on Tuesdays to see if this one ornament I like is for sale. Maybe I'll find the time to get a raid or ten done so I can buy a couple weapons from the exotic kiosk but I'm getting the feeling that'll basically be the end of it for me until I finish a bunch of other games and then eventually return to Destiny 2 once I've purchased Beyond Light (not paying more than $20 for it).

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Well, I finally completed all available heroic bounties in Division 2. The one challenging bounty is still bugged (just completed it again but it still doesn't clear from the map) but I'm calling this personal project complete, thanks to my skill build.

I decided to get back into Hitman 2 since 3 is now out and I did the beach house mission a couple times. Was fun to find the different items and kill options but I have a long ways to go (and I still haven't played the first one).

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...I decided to get back into Hitman 2 since 3 is now out and I did the beach house mission a couple times. Was fun to find the different items and kill options but I have a long ways to go (and I still haven't played the first one).

They’re both good. I played them to death—Silent Assassin, Suit Only on all difficulties plus every achievement. Lots of fun stuff in those games. If you haven’t used the aquarium in the beach house to take out a guard, that’s a fun (but not easy) one.

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Yeah, I'm still replaying that level a bunch to complete more challenges. I tried drowning the boyfriend in the toilet but that didn't count, nor did giving him the rat poison (has to be the lethal). Tomorrow I'll try some more, thinking I might be able to use the remote explosive in the panic room so that when I poison the dude and the woman sees him she'll flee there while I'm on the roof, but this plan might not work entirely so I might need to modify it (I could fatally poison the vent in there but there's only one lethal poison so I'm going to have to get creative in how to force her into the room). Gonna have to also figure out how to knock her out and drop her off the roof or into the pool without anyone noticing.

I don't even want to think about trying the shotgun rampage one. The katana/shuriken challenge should be interesting.

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If you get more into it, I’ll make a contract for you.

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I forgot to mention, the game glitched when I was playing the mission again. Target was doing her best Sigourney Weaver impression and floating above the bed like in Ghostbusters. Took a screenshot for the priceless memory.

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^I've had glitches, but never remember to catch a screen grab. If you still have my tag, send that. I'd be interested to see it.

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I'm playing on PS4, so I doubt I can send it to you. It's nothing overly special, just Reyland floating above the bed while in her sleeping pose. I was just surprised and made a pop culture connection.

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Oh, true.

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Tried the Reanimation event for Division 2, it's fairly fun. There's also a tie-in event with the Resident Evil franchise because it's RE's anniversary (25th I think) and there are a number of sweet rewards (weapon skins, little backpack trophies, costumes). Going to have plenty of fun with these.

Done with a number of the beach house challenges in Hitman 2. Just drowned Reynard in the toilet, now I need to focus on the aquarium, pushing someone into the pool, and the shotgun rampage challenges. After those I'll probably move on since a bunch of the others are Master difficulty or require weapons I don't have yet (like the sniper).

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If you get stuck, I recommend Mr. Freeze's videos on Youtube. But, yeah, I'd focus (usually do, anyway) on completing each level before getting all the challenges.