Ornament War Crystal Together

On 07/24/2020 at 09:40 PM by KnightDriver

First the promised video of my Hallmark arcade cabinet ornaments then Gears 5 and Farm Together.

These little replicas look really great. It's the reason I'm collecting them. They're so detailed and authentic to the originals as far as I can tell. I love that they light up and play a gameplay sound clip too. I'll be trying to get every one they put out, I imagine, one a year. I think I can handle that.

In Gears 5 I'm still trying to get that last part of the rewards challenge, getting any new achievement in the game. I played versus mode until I unlocked another one but nothing changed, and I still don't have the rewards. I looked for a way to send a message to MS on the Xbox One dashboard but couldn't find one. It seems strange you can't give feedback or report a problem. I guess I have to go to one of their forums, but I'd rather do it on the console. Anyway, it was fun playing versus mode. I don't know why they call it versus though because every time I was playing with 5 players against 5 AI players. Maybe there weren't enough people playing?.

It was still challenging. The AI plays like real players and one shot kills you and pulls funny moves like dive rolling followed by a shotgun to the face. I got into it after a while though and enjoyed it. The human team I was on won every time.

I downloaded the Dark Crystal Tactics game because it was on sale for $10. I hope I'll find the time to play it. Farm Together is eating up all my game time right now.

Speaking of which, I extended my farm into the neighboring areas and made some huge fields of crops. I finished the cheesecake and bought a more modern stove and am now cooking in both my houses at the same time. I unlocked the Farm House, but it costs ribbons which are precious and slow to earn, so I'm waiting on that. I bought a Marketing building instead. This allows you to add new quests. I was waiting on all my current quests, so I bought others to have something more to do. I chose short quests, but it kept giving me what I feel are medium or long quests. In one of them, I have to harvest 90 goats' milk which will take a long time. Each goat takes 1 1/2 hours in real time to be ready for milking, and they cost a lot to buy. So I'll get maybe ten of them and just wait and do other things while they lactate, or whatever you call it.

I'm building a lot of roads now too to get around faster. Soon I'll need that teleporter though. Buy a few new fields and the world gets pretty big.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

07/25/2020 at 07:59 AM

I really like how that farm game moves at real time, and keeps playing itself when you're not. Really cool.

KnightDriver

07/25/2020 at 08:07 AM

It's cool that my cows don't die if I stop feeding them, and my crops don't dry up if I stop watering them. They just wait patiently, not progressing, or in the case of crops, just grow right along, albiet a little slower.

Mark and I are both watching the clock near the end of our gaming session. When there is a half hour left or so, we're planting long term crops like crazy so that when we return to the game a day or more later we have a huge load of harvesting to do. After last night, I hope to have a million bucks when I harvest it all later today.

Cary Woodham

07/25/2020 at 08:37 AM

That's cool you got the Dark Crystal game on sale. As you know, I really liked it. If you get a chance, you should watch the series, too, if you have Netflix. It's very good.

07/25/2020 at 09:46 PM

I do have Netflix right now. It's been on my mind to check it out when I get a chance.

Ranger1

07/28/2020 at 05:58 PM

Lactation is the period while while milk is being produced, so that's probably the correct use. I'd ask my farmer friends, but they don't raise any dairy animals, just meat animals.

07/29/2020 at 06:37 PM

I want to get my farming terms right, even for a video game. Ha!

PixlBit