019 - The Cost of Gamerscore? (So. Many. Toys)

This week we are covering an introduction to home mortgage refinance as it relates to trying to complete games in the Toys to Life genre.

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

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Opening/closing music: "Jive Bot" by Jake Kaufman from the game Mighty Switch Force! developed and published by WayForward Technologies

All audio production and podcast backend support provided by Tarragon Allen.

Show notes by Randy and Jo and Tarragon.

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Jo aka “angelsk” - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Damien aka “Spazpol” - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

• Achievement sponsor: “Healing Hero” - Valiant Hearts: the Great War
• Crandy’s Mug of the Week - Orange pekoe from David’s Tea (jasmine tea last week)
• Damien was at PAX
• Random to do list beta underway
• Zed to Zed quiz by Mclovin Legend
• Amazing record breaking week for downloads, more than 1,300 downloads last week!
• Now live on Google Play (US and Canada only [for now])
• Tarragon’s T-shirt: B Is For Blood Sugar

0:11:59 - Recap

• Crandy (week 2 post GRAW)
• • Hexic (sort of)
  • Guitar Hero Live
  • Universe at War
  • Killer Instinct
  • Gears of War 2
  • Ghostbusters: the Video Game
  • Bioshock Infinite
  • Party Hard
• Tarragon
• • Project Spark
  • Elite Dangerous (like project spark and/or drinking tea in space)
  • Mirror’s Edge Beta
• Brandon
• • Battleborn
  • DOOM
  • Spongebob Squarepants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge
  • Destiny
  • Project Spark
  • Nobody has time
  • Stikbold
  • Mirror’s Edge Beta

0:43:15 - Listener Feedback

• Thank you to: IXI Falcon IXI, SiNaCiDe IiI, Keith 271179, Mighty Mango, Big Ell, Facial Le Fleur, Daniel Proulx, Mclovin Legend, LordChabelo13, Arsenic 17, Daniel Tate, and everybody else that participated on our social media.
• SiNaCiDe IiI - Live shows in the future?
• Keith 271179 - What game from another platform would you like to play with achievements?
• Mighty Mango - What is your favourite non-Xbox/pc game?
• xxx420B1G 311420xxx - What are your favourite Xbox 360 and Xbox One launch titles?
• We can’t spell Facial Le Fleur or say Daniel Proulx
• Mclovin Legend - Elite Dangerous
• New 24 hour long Zed to Zed episode
• Daniel Tate - Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn (NOTE FROM JO: Seriously, does no-one read the show notes? I said this last week ;)
• • No-one has the Griffin as a national animal sadly :( - JC
• Facial Le Fleur - Various comments

1:19:08 - News

• Batman Arkham HD Collection
• Platinum Games Boss steps down
• Celebrating ten years of Xbox 360 - should still be able to grab one as needed
• Remedy working on new game?
• • Kyle Rowley (Lead Designer) - August 2015 - NOW is his "New Project"
  • Mikko Rautalahti (Narrative Lead) - "Last three months putting a story together"

1:27:40 - Talking Zeds - Toys 2 Life

• LEGO Dimensions
• Very important note: It is "LEGO" not "LEGOs" ;)
• • I DO WOT I WANT! :P -TA
  • It's a BRAND NAME - The LEGO company themselves have said DO NOT DO THIS :P - LEGO® - JC
  • LEGO doesn’t own the English language ;) I “google” things too. Google didn’t want that to be a verb, too bad. Language is used by people, not companies. RARAAARAAA! I have many legos. MANY. LEGOS. -TA
  • You have many LEGO® bricks! I have many LEGO® minifigs ;) - JC
  • Bah. Humbug. -TA
• LEGO Dimensions Tracker - figure out your minimum number of packs required for various 100%s
• • Only need Starter Pack and Level Packs for 100% achievements
• LEGO Portals:
• • Console specific for Xbox (one for 360, one for the One), but will be forwards compatible with new seasons
  • PS3/4 and Wii U are shareable
  • All level/ fun/ team packs are cross-platform - you only need to buy the starter pack multiple times
• Disney Infinity Series
• Disney Infinity Compatibility Guide - figures, bases, play sets, etc
• Can get 100% achievements with starter pack/ base game
• • Easier if you have extra characters as have more choices of feats. Feets?
  • Also XP bonus.
• 2016 is a year without a Disney Infinity release
• Best to get Disney characters with ranged abilities (primary)
• Windows 8 version can be done for free (as maps/etc cycle)
• Skylanders Series
• Portals (on the same platform) - newest game portal should work on the oldest game (backward compatible) - compatibility guide
• Character Compatibility
• Recommend: Teraffin and a giant
• Can 100% achievements with base game/packs
• • But easier with more characters as more characters = more lives! (That's a cool way of doing it)
• DI: Characters are locked out of content (in Story, not Toy Box), LD: You can have Gandalf in the TARDIS in the Portal universe, or Batman riding around on K-9 shooting the flying monkeys in Oz. *pew pew pew pew*
• Lots of Gamerscore in this genre
• Jo's full LEGO Dimensions Collection (some of collection with Portal)
• Player 2 achievements? Best to check the achievement tags on TA. Most seem to be Co-op+, DI levelling is linked to your account
• Use of the LD Portal is very cool
• Metal Gear Solid controller trick

2:11:49 - Shovelware Cemetery

• Featuring Damien (Spazpol)

2:37:00 - Knobs and Discos

• What are you laughing at Jo? :P

• Halo 4 challenge achievements are discontinued: challenges have not updated for months, 343 has not been responsive to the issue.
• • Unsure how/if this affects Halo:MCC
• Kinect Nat Geo TV series 1 and 2 discontinued
• Party Hard Vivian Clark achievement unobtainable at time of recording
• • Appears to be fixed at time of writing these notes
• Bike Mayhem 2
• • Score 50,000 Trick Combo is fixed
  • Translation: Crandy will play this now (nod to B1G 31I -TA)

2:40:34 - Backwards Compatibility and Game Delays

• Rayman: Origins
• Mirror’s Edge Catalyst delayed … 2 weeks
• Lumo delayed - thanks for the tip QuiCkz Ninja

2:42:44 - Zombie News Corner

• The Walking Dead: Michonne Episode 3 26th April 2016
• Dead Rising: Endgame movie details, release June 20 on Crackle

2:46:32 - Outro

• Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That

Glossary of Xbox Gamerscore and achievement jargon and terms: http://zedtozed.com/xbox-gamerscore-and-achievement-glossary

018 - Oh No… BETA!

This week's show is all about betas. We look to have a good fruitful discussion about alphas, betas, server tests and the like. Maybe it'll even turn into a "de-beta" *groan*.

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

Please give us a rating or review on iTunes and in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success, and is a free, easy way to support the show!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at contact@zedtozed.com, we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on TrueAchievements and zzUrbanSpaceman's blog.

Opening/closing music: "Jive Bot" by Jake Kaufman from the game Mighty Switch Force! developed and published by WayForward Technologies

Break music: "Game Cool Dubstep Mode Logo" by Sparximer

Gamerscore Boot Camp music: "Tally Screen" by Jake Kaufman from the game Mighty Switch Force! developed and published by WayForward Technologies

Jo’s Review music: "Dalmation Station (It Gets Better Mix)" by Jake Kaufman from the game Mighty Switch Force! developed and published by WayForward Technologies

All audio production and podcast backend support provided by Tarragon Allen.

Show notes by Jo and Damien and Jo and Tarragon…  

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Also featuring:

Jo aka "angelsk" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

• Achievement Sponsor: Perfect Beta Testing - Spy Chameleon
• Crandy's Mug of the Week: Comically Large Christmas Mug filled with 1 litre of tea
• S'mores and moose
• Beaver is the Canadian National Animal (also for Oregon)
• Unicorn is the National Animal of Scotland (no, *really*)
• Please clean out your microwave… that's gross

0:09:16 - Housekeeping

• What do you think makes more sense: 'Fream Early Access' or 'Tarragame Preview Program'?

• Great Random To-Do List (beta) - need some testers - sign up on the Leaderboard (exclusive): Zed to Zed Presents: The Random To Do List (Beta)
• Dark Souls Fream-cast - April 23rd 10PM Central Time (Zed to Zed Twitch Channel)
• Achievement Hound Community Show #100 featuring Fream - available to download now (Tarragon was on episode #98)
• Game Trials you can earn achievements (incomplete, via Sinacide), also thanks to griffey95. Send the Z2Z crew your messages.
• PSA: Dirt 3 VIP Pass is currently free (was GwG)
• Donations of game codes from WaterDrip37 and BuckMarley155, thank you
• Lots of codes to give away, keep eyes peeled on our Twitter feed

0:17:24 - Backlog and Recap

• Tarragon
• Elite: Dangerous
• ZHEROS (local co-op) - non-stacking achievements, *boo*
• Threes!
• Tachyon Project
• Whispering Willows
• Elite: Dangerous!
• Blast 'Em Bunnies
• Project Spark
• Elite: Dangerous (GRAW in space, Destiny with Spaceships)
• Crandy
• Not GRAW
• Killer Instinct (Ranked matches)
• Red Faction Guerilla (completion)
• Perfect Dark Zero
• Universe at War: Earth Assault
• Pool Pro Online 3
• Fream
• Destiny (new patch) - you need to sleep!
• Ben 10: Rise Of Hex (speed run walkthrough?)
• Project Spark
• Quantum Break
• Stikbold (only the first player gets achievements, *boo*)

0:45:11 - Listener Feedback

• Thanks to MattQuin89, KaibaChaos, angelsk, Supernova x360a, NBA Kirkland, Big Ell, KinectKid333, Planting42, Lucky32468, Seb/The Nyghty, McLovin Legend, Spazpol, Facial la Fleur, HandyDarkness, 1updan, James Vexed, SaucySlingo, smrnov
• Appropriate age to start on TA?

• Catch the achievement hunter bug when first visit TA.
• 100k nice milestone, top 10% (ish) on TA
• Community banter is good!
• You know you're addicted to gamerscore when you play out your living room to fit Kinect when you move house :)
• Runescape in space
• Crandy has a problem. 365 days of play time on Runescape
• *tongue-face*
• This makes no sense. I am too old to have played Runescape.
• Crandy's 99s
• Attack
• Constitution
• Strength
• Smithing
• Defense
• Herb Law
• Ranged
• Thieving
• Cooking
• Prayer
• Crafting
• Fire Making
• Magic
• Fletching
• Wood Cutting
• Farming
• Construction
• Summoning
• Threes Solver - you need to build it - watch this space
• Quantum Break - approach, start it on Hard, no guides (collectibles are easy)
• KinectKid333 - Crandy, how do you make the MIDI Macros?
• To be discussed in detail in a later episode.
• Lucky34268 - How to clean up 0GS games like on the xbox 360?
• No, but you can request feature on the feedback for xbox https://t.co/pbSVKDwcug.
• MattQuin89 - Finally heard my shout-out.  What are your favorite ID@Xbox title? Mine is http://www.trueachievements.com/Stick-it-To-The-Man/achievements.htm
• Tarragon:
• http://www.trueachievements.com/Layers-of-Fear/achievements.htm
• http://www.trueachievements.com/Elite-Dangerous/achievements.htm
• Randy:
• http://www.trueachievements.com/Oddworld-New-n-Tasty/achievements.htm
• Brandon:
• http://www.trueachievements.com/Guacamelee-Super-Turbo-Championship-Edition/achievements.htm
• http://www.trueachievements.com/Lovers-in-a-Dangerous-Spacetime/achievements.htm
• Seb/The Nyghty: Cross-play concerns
• Some games (FPS) PC may be unfair against console gamers.
• Concerns about mods.
• Real time strategy (RTS) are just bad on console (Tarragon + Randy agree)
• Christian Allen feedback:
• McLovin Legend: Best interview so far. Been waiting to see which one of you would swear first :) [It was Brandon]
• Spazpol: listening to the Christian Allen interview podcast at 15,000 feet!  Awesome in flight entertainment. [Don’t die on your race BTW]
• Facial: Takedown: Red Sabre game on the grounds that he seems like a likable dude.
• HandyDarkness: Wife is home and OK.  Suggests having a 4th person on standby to avoid 2 host shows.
• Seb/The Nyghty: Facebook vs Twitter users [Randy needs to ask his mom to take off the parental controls]
• Daniel Proulx @1updan: 3 hour show length is good.
• SaucySlingo & Smrnov: Ducks vs horses.  The debate continues.
• McLovin Legend: Randy needs a rant section

1:53:49 - News

• Fable Legends is officially dead.
• Red Dead Redemption 2: Leaked map?
• http://www.allgamesdelta.net/2016/04/techradar-leaked-red-dead-sequel-map-is.html
• Announcement at E3?  May possibly be a prequel.
• Leaked map

1:57:34 - Talking Zeds: Beta Season

• Oh No... BETA!!
• Beta Release Schedule from MajorNelson
• If it's broken, it's a Beta.
• Usually; beta = Software that is feature complete but known to be buggy (beta to iron out the rest of the bugs). With games it's more of a stress test
• Beta = a good way to cancel pre-orders :)
• Rainbow 6 Siege beta
• Gears of War Ultimate edition
• Evolve
• Homefront Revolution
• DOOM - plays like Quake, not old Doom.
• Leaderboard achievements like Quake 4? Hopefully not.
• Season Pass - Crandy rant
• Exclusivity from a beta? e.g Sonic 2 Beta cartridge (this is a promo copy, not a beta)
• Mega Hype Train *choo choo*
• "Betas are the problem of the people who play them" - Crandy
• DOOM - If the game is coming out in 2 weeks, it's already printed…. So the demo isn't really going to change any features.  This is where the stress test comes in, it's tweaking the servers pre-launch. And hopefully any game-breaking bugs.
• Destiny beta - balancing exercise in multiplayer
• Halo 5 - missing some very key user interface pieces… this is more of an alpha
• Huge response from the community on betas
• McLovin Legend: Achievements? No, some demos do (as discussed) - but not betas.
• Limits play time because no achievements :)  
• We, as a community, do have bad habits when it comes to games that don't have achievements.
• Preview program: Elite Dangerous, Arc, Solus Project
• "We" are backlog junkies
• Sometimes you can get perks in the preview/ beta releases
• LordChabelo13: Waste of time for Achievement Hunters
• AHP TheNyghty: Preview program, still in active development (Arc, DayZ)
• Dev state not a bad thing
• Minecraft - for years was essentially an alpha/ beta
• More involved when in active development
• 3 years is not long for a large game (e.g: Elite Dangerous) - you are seeing more of the development time than with triple As
• People yelling at clouds
• Kez001: Avoid betas…. Or maybe keep playing if they convince you not to buy games. Only play betas for games you are interested in.
• Decoy1982: Wizards who come from the moon
• spankyNspronkle: Battleborn
• MightyMango: Why bother doing a beta if retail release is borked?
• Facial la Fleur has a good response here.
• Where do you go to report bugs? Sometimes not obvious…. Or they're not looking for you to find bugs.
• PvZ:GW2 beta had a really good forum for reporting bugs (Jo)
• Time commitment
• Dead Rising Demo
• Term "Beta" is a marketing tool (open vs closed beta)
• Different expectations
• Tons of people bought Crackdown for Halo 3 beta - balance testing and marketing… something has to be exclusive
• Abundant codes are annoying
• Bungie good with communication and betas
• Big Ell: Betamax and LaserDisc

2:52:33 - Bootcamp: GRAW

• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
• Not for completionists!
• Cheats do not void single player achievements
• 550 GamerScore available fairly easily
• Avoid the multiplayer if you don’t like odd-achievement values
• Multiplayer can mostly be done split-screen

2:55:16 - Jo’s Reviews: Final Fantasy XV

• FemHype article
• Final Fantasy XV Platinum Demo
• Final Fantasy Type-0 HD (for the other demo)
• What Jo's Been Playing:
• Quantum Break

3:02:28 - Knobs and Discos

• FIFA Street (2012): Friendly Publicity fixed
• Project Spark (both versions):
• Conker and Seph level 10 and level 20 achievements were broken for ages but have been modified by the developer - new criteria is based on number of times played through Crossroads, e.g. level 10 = play through Crossroads 10 times.
• Rumours the Freamer (log in each day) achievements are buggy and not unlocking or updating progress - unconfirmed at this stage
• Project Spark developer appears to be winding down, if you want to get the most of out Spark now is the time to do it!
• Pure Pool: Maximum Break is fixed
• Rise of the Tomb Raider (360): Witch Trials - currently unobtainable
• Total Conquest (both versions) - level 30 achievement popped for someone at level 100, speculation is that the level 100 achievement may unlock at a higher level again. Huge grind to get there though.
• Panzer Geekz: We Hear You was buggy but now fixed - thanks to Montana97 for the tip and a shout out to the #forgottengladiators of the Potentially Endless Bean Dive

3:13:16 - Game Delays and Backwards Compatibility

• New to BC:
• Garou: Mark Of The Wolves
• Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
• Sonic: The Fighters
• DOOM 3
• Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
• (sort of new) Lego Batman JP
• Lego Batman JP - a confirmed sighting of the non-working version in Japanese consoles? Thanks Sinacide for the tip.

3:16:03 - Zombie News

• Zombie World News

3:18:07 - Giveaway Time!

• Congratulations! Alan Wake: American Nightmare code winners:
• Facial La Fleur
• @ShelbyGT5252

3:19:32 - Outro

• Elite Dangerous
• Thanks for all of your feedback! Sorry if we missed you.
• Freamwhole is now a member of the Community Events Team on TrueAchievements. Sell out.

• New giveaways!
• Quantum Break Windows 10 x3
• Soda Drinker Pro

Glossary of Xbox Gamerscore and achievement jargon and terms: http://zedtozed.com/xbox-gamerscore-and-achievement-glossary

017 - The GRAW Special with Christian Allen

Christian Allen, CEO of Serellan LLC and lead designer for Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (amongst many other things) joins us for a chat about GRAW, achievements, game development, and lots more. Oh, and Crandy finishes GRAW (spoiler alert!).

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

Please give us a rating or review on iTunes and in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success, and is a free, easy way to support the show!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at contact@zedtozed.com, we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on TrueAchievements and zzUrbanSpaceman's blog.

Opening/closing music: "Jive Bot" by Jake Kaufman from the game Mighty Switch Force! developed and published by WayForward Technologies

Break music: "Game Cool Dubstep Mode Logo" by Sparximer

All audio production and podcast backend support provided by Tarragon Allen.

Show notes by everyone!

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Guest:

Christian Allen of Serellan LLC

0:00:00 - Intro

• GRAW!
• Sponsored Achievements: World Champion, Solo Champion and Team Champion from GRAW

0:02:52 - Talking Zeds: Guest Christian Allen

• 9+ years in the making - Crandy finishing GRAW
• Christian Allen - CEO Serellan LLC, worked on Halo: Reach (Bungie), Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Warner Bros), GR:AW and sequel
• Veteran of US Marine Corps (mid-late 90s)
• Making mods for Rainbow 6 - started with Rogue Spear (sequel)
• Started career at RedStorm (5 years) with military shooters
• WarGamer.com - Mario Kroll
• Ulus (Alaska)
• Bungie - Halo: Reach - cut two characters (team of 7 originally)
• Warner Bros - Mad Max and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
• Something about the Forerunners…. I have no idea what is going on ;) (Halo ODST) - multiplayer maps on disc… originally 2.5 expansion pack?
• Epsilon
• Takedown vs Battlefield - Trying to price things appropriately is hard!
• Hotel Blind
• BIG MAPS - 60% of GRAW played on Boneyard (boosting map/smallest map)
• Killstreaks
• Rewards for stats… hit percentage, achievements - alter the way people play
• Full Metal Jacket
• How do I fly this thing?
• Takedown sprint speed based on fastest recorded human movement in history (gamers thought it was slow!)
• Trying to base accuracy on real life…. The most epic “Realistic” Ghost Recon mission never released!
• Desert Bus: Unreleased Penn and Teller game

0:51:27 - Talking Zeds: Achievements Suck

• GRAW Terminology - Cycle: Moving up and down four levels (In ranked matches)
• Invisible XP points
• Based on ELO system, not TrueSkill
• Designed before Xbox and Microsoft knew what achievements were going to be - Gary Stelmack driving the show on achievements
• Originally layered achievements for the leaderboard - before 50 achievement limit
• Seriously?
• Shipped with 890GS
• First time doing a ranking system in Ghost Recon
• Set up like Chess (LINK)
• GRAW Terminology – Blocking: Intentionally trying to prevent others from climbing a leaderboard and preventing others from earning the achievement.
• Kane & Lynch Blocking Clan
• BAFTA Game Of The Year Win and Worst Achievement Awards

1:07:15 - How Have You Seen Achievements Change and How Much Do You Hate Them?

• Combat Medic
• Buggy GRAW 2 Achievement: Untouchable
• Halo: Reach: Banshees Fast and Low
• Halo: Reach – Kodiak
• Christian yelling at a bear
• Fream’s White Whale: If They Came to Hear Me Beg

1:14:10 - Are You Surprised At The Lengths People Go Through For Achievements?

• Fallout 3
• Fallout Shelter
• Citizen Kane
• Bomberman Act Zero
• Takedown: Red Sabre
• Assassin – First Viral Achievement

1:30:02 - Microtransactions according to Christian

• Zynga
• Atari Crash
• Rovio Layoffs
• Halo Pelican

1:43:40 - Voice Acting in Epsilon

1:47:45 - Talking Zeds: The GRAW Journal

• Starflight
• 5.25” Floppy Disk
• The GRAW Journal
• Boosting
• ~300 traditional cycles for for team/solo leaderboards
• Yes GRAW is still possible! (just extremely time consuming)
• Time to complete GRAW ~five months playing eight hours a day
• Christian Allen thought "achievements are stupid" on original pitch from Microsoft
• GRAW consistently winning worst achievements ever
• Committed (Multiplayer) was not supposed to be eight consecutive hours
• What achievements have become
• Christian Allen on gaming habits of a game designer
• Arcade games
• The Division
• Fallout 3/NV/4
• Dead Rising 1/2/3
• Ryse

• "I'll get to it after GRAW"

• Crandy's post GRAW ratio dive
• My Horse and Me 2
• Hannah Montana
• Monster High
• Barbie and Her Sisters Puppy Rescue
• Even more!
• Christian Allen on Takedown: Red Sabre and Kickstarter
• Gaming nostalgia
• Social media harassment
• Rainbow Six Siege
• Ubisoft corporate training
• "you-be-soft" not "oo-be-soft"
• Toilet logo
• Ad nostalgia in GRAW
• Dodge® cars are good cover in GRAW 2

2:37:25 - Talking Zeds: Zombie Interlude

• Zombie books
• Threat matrix (includes zombie apocalypse planning)

2:40:46 - GRAW IS COMPLETED

• 3389 days 21 hours 29 minutes later

2:43:40 - Shovelware Cemetery: Hotel Blind

• Hotel Blind
• Inspired by This American Life podcast episode and helping others get into indie development
• Development recorded and posted online from start to finish
• Big Rig Truck'n
• Possible future Goat Simulator episode
• Origin of "Serellan"

3:10:10 - Shovelware Cemetery: GRAW

• Too Brown
• Looks like a ten year old game
• Those achievements, wtf
• Too many big maps
• Can’t use rockets akimbo
• Gunplay, damage and movement is “unrealistic”, unlike COD

3:15:43 - Talking Zeds: Wrap up

• Brandon offering guided tours thru Destiny
• Randy offering to play GRAW 2 (More Drinking!)

3:17:01 - Housekeeping and Recap

• Mug of the week: Starbucks Canada with Sencha Fuji Green Tea
• PM from Wise Yorick: Will there be a new great random to do list?
• Stay Tuned
• Join the ZedtoZed leaderboard to get in the closed beta
• PM from O NexusPlexus O: Will support Brandon quitting Dark Souls
• Catch Brandon play live on Twitch for 2 hours on April 23rd @ 22:00 CST (UTC -5)
• Tarragon was on Episode 98 of Achievement Hounds Community Show
• Brandon will be on Episode 100

• Brandon’s April Goals
• 6180 the moon Completed during a conference call (Multitasking FTW).
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge
• Kinect Fun Labs: Mars Rover Landing
• Magic 2014 - Duels of the Planeswalkers
• Ben 10 Alien Force: The Rise of Hex
• Tales from the Borderlands
• Destiny

3:27:11 - Listener Feedback

• iTunes Canada feedback from TheNyghty
• AB0MINAT10N: Clarify power brick tangent from Randy
• In short, throw out the power brick not from your region on your import console, and just use an in-country power adapter.
• Randy & Brandon explain how not to fix a RROD…
• Sinicide IiI
• Brandon apologizes for butchering the name.
• When do you release the show?
• Wednesday night Australia / Wednesday morning US.
• Saucy Slingo: Tarragon makes a guest appearance in OXENFREE
• Griffey95: Comprehensive list of demo games with achievements?
• Tron Runner
• Kung Fu Panda: Legend of the Legendary Legends
• Dead or Alive 5
• Killer Instinct
• Make a ZedtoZed list?
• Montana97: Do I need to eject external HDD before disconnecting them?
• Unknown if you pull it while in use.  Maybe turn off the console before you remove. Editor’s note: generally it’s probably fine to pull it whenever, but you may cause some hiccups if it’s saving a game at the time. Note that game saves are always stored on the internal drive and the cloud though.
• GRAW (Drink!) Questions
• Facial: Favorite game in the GRAW series? Excited for Wild lands?
• Brandon has never played a GRAW game
• Randy has only played the original GRAW (No substitutes)
• Jury is still out for Wild lands, but skeptical.
• Don’t give a company money in advance for 2 years in the future.  Finance 101.
• xXxB1G311xXx: That guy?
• Please stop mentioning GRAW? (Drink)… Doubtful.
• GRAW has uneven Gamerscore (So you have to do the leaderboard to be even)
• Salsbar: How can I get the leaderboard achievements to even up my gamerscore?
• Anno Mundi: Would you recommend I try for the leaderboard achievements at this point? How much did it cost you for the gold subs?
• Randy says “No”. Cost of 8 accounts with Gold. So apx $80 a month.
• jjaldana: The leaderboard achievements takes about 6 months of playing all day everyday. This account for 8 hours of sleep days.
• YODA12320: Yes what other than graw do you talk about..
• Listen to past Podcast episodes.  ;-)
• IXI B1G3L1 IXI: Since GRAW is rated T for Teen, when does your mom say you will be allowed to play games that are rated M?
• Randy’s mom will allow him to play rated M games if he chooses, since he is such a big boy.
• People are still pulling a Fream! (Marknocturnal, Damien, WebChimp UK: did it in Roblox and Project Spark)

3:50:51 - News

• Guitar Hero Live Freestyle laying off staff
• Xbox neXt? Sure, whatever
• Killer Instinct’s Shadow Jago will be permanently available now
• DOOM open beta 15-17 April
• BattleBorn open beta 13-18 April

3:59:03 - Game Delays and Backwards Compatibility

• Long Dark Delayed Again
• Outland and Gunstar Heroes are Backwards Compatible

4:00:50 - Zombie News

• Telltale Games publishing 7 Days to Die

4:02:52 - Outro

• A timely generation

Glossary of Xbox Gamerscore and achievement jargon and terms: http://zedtozed.com/xbox-gamerscore-and-achievement-glossary

016 - O GamerScore, Wherefore Art Thou

What exactly is a good GamerScore? We discuss statistics, life/gaming balance, TA leaderboard movements, and much more.

Show notes are available on http://www.zedtozed.com/

Please give us a rating or review on iTunes and in your favourite podcast application, it will really help us spread the word and make the show a success, and is a free, easy way to support the show!

Contact us on Twitter @zedtozed or email us at contact@zedtozed.com, we'd love to hear from you! Also check out the Zed to Zed Podcast Leaderboard on TrueAchievements and zzUrbanSpaceman's blog.

Opening/closing music: "Jive Bot" by Jake Kaufman from the game Mighty Switch Force! developed and published by WayForward Technologies

Gamerscore Boot Camp music: "Tally Screen" by Jake Kaufman from the game Mighty Switch Force 2! developed and published by WayForward Technologies

All audio production and podcast backend support provided by Tarragon Allen.

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro

• Achievement Sponsors
• Worst Job in the Kingdom and Fizzie says April Fools! from Sunset Overdrive
• Crystal Pepsi on Ebay
• Sodium Bezoate
• Denatured alcohol
• Zed to Zed Science Corner
• Send Crandy a 20yo Crystal Pepsi and he will drink it!
• Crandy's Mug
• Crandy's tea house might be dealing drugs
• Breaking Zed
• Fream will be playing Dark Souls for the first time on April 23rd on Zed to Zed Twitch channel
• Crandy might be attempting Syndicate playthrough on co-op, solo
• GRAW (DRINK!)
• Syndicate Club Music Final Version
• AHP Community show finishing on episode 100, Fream will be featuring - April 17th
• Tarragon's 300k still pending, Easy as One Two Three front runner, thanks Th34lb1n0k1d, MclovinLegend and angelsk for suggestions
• Site Leaderboard Proposal: Weighted GS/TA
• Giveaway: Alan Wake American Nightmare - on our Twitter soon (via Gleam)

0:19:33 - Recap

• Fream
• Destiny
• 0 GamerScore!
• Tarragon
• Monopoly Plus
• Threes!
• Threes! solver
• "zzUrbanSpaceman won 3 Achievements in Threes! for 1337 points"
• Tachyon Project
• Crandy
• Kane and Lynch JP
• Perfect Dark Zero
• GH Live
• Killer Instinct
• Shadow Jago is back
• GRAW (DRINK!) - next week is a special GRAW show
• IBM Model M keyboard
• 2 stick joystick

0:34:08 - Listener Feedback

• Zed Friends
• smrnov, TheTvirusTyrant, HandyDarkness, Kursed Souls, Spazpol
• Crandy would like to get Lorne Lanning on the show (Oddworld creator)
• John Schuller @CallSignIceMan would like some DragonMania Legends help
• montana97: Top 5 reality shows?
• The Bachelor(ette)
• Double Dare
• Air Crash Investigation?
• MythBusters?
• Bear Grylls
• Naked and Afraid
• Survivor
• Big Brother
• The Amazing Race
• Celebrity Apprentice
• So You Think You Can Dance
• Biggest Loser
• KaibaChaos is a one man DDOS
• Will stacks ever be cross play? Consensus: unlikely
• NBA Kirkland wants a competition that doesn't require so much free time!
• Scavenger hunt
• GTASC for 1 hour a week
• Achievement Hounds Achievement Hunt
• Gamerscoragories
• Who has the rarest game?
• Achievement Relay
• McLovin Legend and Big Ell are both hyped for WrestleMania
• Madeyepadeye: What is a healthy amount of gaming?
• Probably a feature topic
• Saucy Slingo asks a question that will plague mankind for centuries
• The Yiddler: what's that intro music. Look up! :)
• Fream's Friend Feed went to that weird place on the Internet (Big Ell, Facial La Fleur, NBA Kirkland, KaibaChaos, Weasel Pizza)
• Sinacide III wants Xbox 360 gamer pics to be upscaled for Xbox One: vote for it on User Voice
• FitBit again!
• Tim Blair @TimTum is a God among men
• MuddyAmoeba suggests that the TTK DLC for Destiny might be available from disc
• Ereaser NL - the UHH was great to prompt games to finish off
• UHH hotting up
• McLovin Legend is giving away some PAL games, check his blog
• Facial La Fleur and Big Ell: 3 hosts is better than 2
• angelsk hates timezones
• Blue Thunder 7398 has a lot of GS on Windows Phone. You monster.
• Big Ell aka Ell Gordo still thinks we should play games "properly" ;)
• Fream would kindly like to finish Bioshock
• iTunes Reviews
• Thanks so much: KaibaChaos, Chiznal and Quinny19898989 - get a longer commute! ;)

1:42:46 - Talking Zeds: What is a Good GamerScore?

• TA Leaderboard Movements
• GS/TA Percentiles
• Zed to Zed Leaderboard Tracking?

2:16:57 - News

• Deus Ex Go, Life Is Strange Go, Just Cause Go domains registered
• Major Nelson is a really nice guy
• Federal Court finds Valve made misleading representations about consumer guarantees
• Shadow of Mordor 2 in the works, thanks Nexus Plexus
• Lego Batman ... the movie?
• PSA: Play Xbox One Killer Instinct before starting Windows 10 version or lose your progress
• Takeaways from the MS Build conference:
• source, source, source
• Hololens:
• Holoportation
• Halo 5 streaming into Hololens

2:39:30 - Cemetery

• Guitar Hero Live - BURIED

2:53:56 - Knobs and Discos

• Big Ell asks about developer contacts - yes, but with caveats
• Project Spark:
• PSA: some achievements not unlocking due to server issues, particularly Conker and Seph DLC
• Developer Team Dakota appears to be treading water
• Latest title update has been on hold for months
• FIFA 12: EAS FC Youth Academy and EAS FC Starting 11 are available again
• Guitar Hero Live Xbox 360: Bling Of The Road fixed
• Pay It Forward in both versions of Darksiders 2 are broken again (thanks Weasel Pizza and KaibaChaos)
• Forza 3 online achievements all discontinued without notice

3:06:08 - Game Delays and BC

• BC: Halo Wars, King Of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match, SoulCalibur II HD Online, Left 4 Dead 2, Dead Space, Saints Row IV (AU version too)

3:09:02 - Zombie News Corner

• Rise of the Tomb Raider's Cold Darkness DLC

3:10:27 - Outro

Glossary of Xbox Gamerscore and achievement jargon and terms: http://zedtozed.com/xbox-gamerscore-and-achievement-glossary