No Gaming

I'm off on a 3 day trip so no gaming for a few days.

Well I guess that's not fully true.   I will be playing on my ipad or phone.

At least plants vs zombies is done.

I finished off my first run through in gow3 and got all the collectibles done thanks to Robert.  Arcade co-op on all levels is done as well.

Need to get back to some dead island again.

Was supposed to start operation flashpoint red river but john never showed so that killed that.

Need to focus on the puzzle arcade again so I can finish it off.   Realized I was half way through the 3 layer fractal puzzle so that's good to know.

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Plants vs Zombies Update

I've been down to two achievements in Plants vs Zombies for almost 2 weeks now.  I've been playing when I can.  That endless wave is a little rough.  I was trying to use a strategy on TA but it only got me 24 flags the 2 times I tried it, so I gave up on it.  You've got to have stuff to stop the bungee zombies.  If not, they will take your stuff and mess you up.

At the bottom of the post, he posted another picture of what someone else said was a better setup.  Plus it easier on cost to make happen.  I've been rolling through with it and I'm almost to that point where I hit 24 flags again.  It has been working pretty good and the cost to set it up was a lot lower than the other method.  So getting it fully setup early on helps out.  Definitely can't wait to see how much crazier it'll get after 24 flags and it's crazy enough already.

One thing I've been doing that wasn't in the picture was putting the spikes down to help stop the zombies on wheels.  When they come in, you have one laying down ice that also flattens everything it runs over and the other is throwing stuff to take your guys out at the back.  I put it on the 2nd row in from where the zombies come in but I'll probably add it to the front 2 rows when they come in as it will take them out quicker that way.  Plus it hurts the other zombies.  Only bad part is the gargantuan zombie that comes out will smash it with his club until it breaks.  At least it does help slow him down while everything else is taking him out.  Plus the spikes hurt all the zombies, so nothing like spending money to help me out more and not just setting there gaining and not spending anything outside of the ice plants to freeze the zombies.

Since I'm almost half way to where I usually get my brains eaten, I've been constantly using the ice plant to freeze all the zombies on the screen.  I'm glad to have that duplicate plant so I can put 2 down of the same plant as it helps being able to regenerate it faster.

The other achievement involves the tree of life.  I just sold my 2nd set of plants in my zen garden and used it all to buy fertilizer for the tree of life.  I got it up to 81 feet before I ran out of money.  I figured if I could make through endless mode and then sell everything else at that point, I should have enough to finish it off.

So maybe if I'm lucky, I'll finish this game off this weekend at some point if I can make it through 40 waves of zombies.

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Wasteland Empires Update

Well, I'm still chugging along on Wasteland Empires.  I'm fixing to start researching Tier 8 and they just released Tier 9 not to long ago.  So closing in on catching up with everyone.  I did catch up and pass my friend.  Not by much as he's just a few steps behind me on researching but he has more buildings down than I do.  Just a different way to play but I'm slowly building that up.  Big difference is I keep upgrading my stuff to get more people and he just put more buildings down upgrading a little for each.

One of main things I want to bring up is that now that I'm on higher tiers in the game, the amount of time and special parts slow you down in the game.  It's weird how I can get a bunch of one thing but my friend doesn't get any.  The game is random and you have to fight and hope to get the part you want.  I tried and tried to get a part and finally gave up and just bought the part I needed.  If not, there is no telling when or if I would have ever gotten the part I needed.  Sometimes buildings don't even drop anything.  All higher tier buildings in the game should drop some item and not just the resources.  I can understand the smaller more abundant buildings not dropping stuff all the time as you can take out a bunch during your fight.  But there is only 1 primary well, hall, barracks, and so forth.  Those should drop an item every time.  I go more times of nothing than anything, so that part can get you frustrated in the game.

I really hope they put more into the clan stuff here soon so we can see what all this will be about.  It might add a ton more to do in the game and it can already suck you in.  I know the game is beta but seeing the coming soon doesn't mean in 2 weeks.  It could be months and has been already.  I also wish the items in the world you can't scavenge would be opened up as well.  Having to build your town around those items, which some are pretty big (gas station for example), messes up any design you might have in mind or come up with.

They made a huge blunder recently on one of the updates though.  They made it where you couldn't train your troops if you actually in the game.  I'm sorry but I don't have time to set there and keep the screen active to build units to fight.  I could have been doing fights all day and yet I didn't get to fight any because they wouldn't train while I didn't have the game loaded.  I'm glad they fixed that as I probably would have stopped playing being forced to have the window open in the game.

Wasteland Empires

Still playing this game.  They had made a change a few days ago where they forced you to be in the game to build your army to fight.  Well, that really blows as I'm not going to set there waiting on that.  My fighting time went down and I spent less time in the game than I did before.  Last night the game updated again and they fixed it so it does it offline from what I can tell.

The game is horrible about giving you what you need.  You might destroy the building you need but it might not drop anything out.  Yet that's the only building in the game that will drop that item and only 1 exist in each town.  This part of the game is the most annoying part.  Running out resources is rough and you are forced to fight and yet you can't get what you need.  So you get stuck waiting unless you want to spend money to buy it but if you keep that routine up, you'll sink money into the game.

I've expanded out a little bit more and there are more bigger items that you can't scavenge that say coming soon.  You are stuck building around them and if you have a layout for a town, it's going to mess you up.  I seriously need them to start opening that stuff up in the game or take them off the map.  They started small with a dune buggy and a tank.  Now it's gas stations and the top of a tall glass building from what I unlocked.  I know the game is beta but you can't leave that stuff locked like that forever.  They need to do something with those items.

They also need to get to turning the clan stuff on.  Most people have made clans yet there is only 1 person in them.  Need to open this game up and see what that has to offer so people will want to fight more.  Would help make the game more interesting and add even more to it.  That part needs to hurry up.