2013-12-11 - Wheelman managed to piss me off again

I just "love" those achievements when you have to use a map and search for X amount of things in the open map. Those achievements would be pain in the ass if you have to do them on your own, luckily there are usually tutorials and maps available for the secret locations in the internet.

Wheelman is quite old game and some of the online tutorials have unfortunately vanished - the game is 4 and half years old by now. I found some forum posts with some map images (and some images missing from the imageshack host. I found some other images with no descriptions. Putting 2+2 together gives more or less complete picture of the locations. Unfortunately at the end of getting near 100 locations discovered I see that I seem to have 2 missing. Now I am not sure if to start game again and search for the damn cat statues again to be 100% sure I have got all ... or revisit every location where the cat is supposed to be, but as the instructions are not very exact, no way of telling is the missing few cats supposed to be there or are they collected already.

When I was bored with cat hunting, I did some hot potato side-missions and got 1 achievement.

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2013-12-10 - Wheelman day

Did some side-missions in Wheelman and then decided to go out and hunt down all the cat statues. It took more time than I expected so I decided 50 is enough for now and I do the other 50 tomorrow.

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2013-12-09 - Side mission day

Was busy today with studying so had little time to play. Still ... I managed get in Wheelman some of them side missions behind me and get 3 minor achievements, worth total 25G.

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2013-12-08 - Damn offline behaviour

I don't understand Microsoft. How hard it would be to program their sites in a way that "if achievement X was not recorded in MS server yesterday and if MS sees it is achieved today, USE TODAYS DATE with the server, but noooo. MS lists such achievements with no date. :(

Anyway, I got 3 achievements in Wheelman today, for some reason Xbox Live connection was dropped while I was playing and 2 achievements I got when there was no connection. And like I ranted before, xbox.com shows them as obtained who-knows-when. Bad Microsoft, BAD!!! :(

The good thing is that I finished Wheelman main story and got the "Real Wheelman" 50G achievement. Now all I need to do is the side-missions.

 

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2013-12-07 - Big day with Wheelman

Another day with bunch of Wheelman game-time. Did one story mission and then had to do some trickery to get the 3 boss defeating achievements.

The trick was that you need to make 3 separate save games and then in every save-game kill one of the fraction bosses (as killing one makes other 2 missions to disappear from the map, and auto-save makes it impossible to "go back" unless you save game to 3 different slots).

The missions were relatively hard, but did get them all done in few attempts.

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2013-12-06 - Even More Wheel Man

Another day, when played a bit Wheelman and got 1 achievement in it. Just did some side missions, and this Airjack achievement unlocked itself. +25G.

https://live.xbox.com/en-IE/Activity/Details?titleId=1297549270&compareTo=Ex6

Also played a little Assassins Creed III 3 online, gained 2 online levels, but got no achievements.

On a side note, spent several hours today playing on PC game that I installed about 6 months ago but never even launched it once: Star Wars - The Old Republic. Check it out - it is free to play (but if you do pay, you get some bonuses in the game) - http://www.swtor.com

2013-12-05 - More Wheel Man

Another day, when playing only one game, Wheelman. Decided to follow one forum post with description and location of all cinematic stunt jumps. Took some time and little head scratching with some locations, but after few hour - all 50 stunt jumps discovered and another 75G added to my score.

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2013-12-04 - The Wheel Man

Today played mostly Wheelman, and attempted to get closer to 100% in Lego Star Wars II with no success at all.

In Wheelman got whopping 4 achievements. One for finishing one contract side mission. 2 for completing 2 story missions and one after I had driven in all of the districts in Barcelona. Total gain - 75G.

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2013-12-01 - New month starts with achievements in 3 games

Today got achievements in 3 games. +135G

I got 2 hard ones in Lego Star Wars II. Those are the ones where you have to fly around and you cannot use a "ghost" character to make it super-easy for you. You actually have to do it without getting killed. Hard stuff, took multiple tries.

https://live.xbox.com/en-GB/Activity/Details?titleId=1279330257&compareTo=Ex6

Then I went and got 2 relatively easy ones in Lego Star Wars TCS. To get the "Arcade master" I went the easy route - fired up the arcade battle with 2 controllers, and used controller 2 to jump off the ledge 100 times - meaning the controller 1 got 100 "kills" and the achievement unlocked. "Cash in" was also easy when you know, in what mission and where to do it. :)

https://live.xbox.com/en-IE/Activity/Details?titleId=1279330263&compareTo=Ex6

In the end of day played Wheelman and got 4 achievements during normal game progression - no grinding involved.

 

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