001 The Challenges of Challenges

001 - The Challenges of Challenges

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

Our first episode! We introduce ourselves and the podcast, discuss the ins and outs of the Xbox One challenges system, some news, our first "Knobs and Discos" (unobtainable and discontinued achievements) report, and more.

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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.

Hosts:

Brandon Fream aka "Freamwhole" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Tarragon Allen aka "zzUrbanSpaceman" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

Randy aka "Crandy" - TrueAchievements - Xbox

0:00:00 - Intro 

• Game: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (aka "GRAW")
• True Achievements aka "TA", the best Xbox stat tracking website out there
• The "Bean Dive" event
• The "Great TrueAchievement Score Challenge 2015

0:17:51 - Recap

• Extra Life 2015 World Record Attempt
• Great Random To Do List Challenge 2015
• Achievement: "Seriously ..." from Gears of War
• Achievement: "7 Day Survivor" from Dead Rising
• Achievement: "Frank the Pimp" from Dead Rising
• Achievement: "A Little Help From My Friend" in Project Spark
• Achievement: "Hit Maker" in Project Spark
• Glitch to unlock all achievements at once in 2006 FIFA World Cup
• Achievement: "Beat the Host Nation" from 2006 FIFA World Cup

0:44:15 - Talking Zeds: The Challenges of Challenges

• Mike Ybarra discusses challenges on The Inner Circle (TIC) podcast 20th November 2015
• smrnov's thoughts on challenges
• Game: Condemned: Criminal Origins - only 960 gamerscore
• Game: The Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle-Earth II - 705 GS - only 705 gamerscore
• Achievement: "Gen 10" from Titanfall - zero gamerscore
• Achievement: "Seraphic Gatekeeper" achievement from Infinite Undiscovery - 1 gamerscore
• Achievement: "Celebrity" achievement from Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - zero gamerscore
• Achievement: "True Elite" achievement from Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - zero gamerscore
• Challenge: "A day long remembered" challenge from Star Wars Battlefront

1:19:24 - News, Knobs and Discos

Glitches and bugs:

• Fallout 4 Bottle Caps Glitch has been patched at time of writing
• Achievement: "The First Step" achievement from Fallout 4 - doesn't unlock for some
• Achievement: "Compulsive" achievement from Rise of the Tomb Raider - unlocks early for some
• Game: Spectra - resume trick to pass all races

Knobs (unobtainable achievements):

• Achievement: Better Together achievement from Don Bradman Cricket
• Achievement: Challenger achievement from Toy Soldiers: War Chest
• Achievement: Epic achievement from Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition
• Achievement: BFA achievement from Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition

Discos (discontinued achievements):

• Watchlist for Potential Discontinued Achievements list maintained by matdan12
• Achievement: World of Contraptions achievement from Amazing Alex (WP)
• Achievement: Hired Gun achievement from Halo 2 (PC) - thought to be discontinued but can be unlocked solo

Games with Gold:

• CastleStorm (Xbox 360)
• Sacred 3
• Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
• The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
• THIEF

Other news:

• True Achievement's My First Achievement page
• Twitter #My1stAchievement

Game delays:

• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Backwards compatibility:

• Ms. Pac-Man - possible leak of future BC title

1:41:41 - Wrap up and outro

Shoutouts:

• TrueAchievements
• The Achievement Hounds Community and Podcast
• Xbox Achievements

Jargon:

• "1K" - Complete the base gamerscore in a game, typically 1000 points, thus 1K. Sometimes used to refer to a completion in general.
• "TA" - True Achievements, either the score type or the website
• "Knobs" - Unobtainable achievements - achievements that have never been unlockable
• "Discos" - Discontinued achievements - achievements that are no longer unlockable, probably due to online server shutdowns
• "Bean Dive" - Yearly challenge on True Achievements aiming to earn at least one achievement in every game in your backlog, coined by it's creator, Beanpotter