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Mission Accomplished Topple a dictator. |
5  |
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Coalition of the Willing Crash a castle. |
20 |
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Oceans No Longer Protect Us Protect a city. |
20 |
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A House Divided Defend your leaders. |
20 |
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If You’re Not With Us Choose a side. |
10 |
Marvel at these Ultimate Alliance 2 Achievements!
Leaderboards Return to Service Temporarily
I’ve re-enabled all of the processes that handle the Leaderboard functionality, and you can now see Global and local Leaderboards for your country.
This is ‘Temporary’, because there is a hardware issue with the server that handles this functionality, and I’m unable to identify if it’s actual hard-drive failure, or the RAID controller that manages the drives. This means that it will likely fail again at some point, hopefully leading to more concrete data.
In the meantime, while it doesn’t seem many changes have taken place on the Global Leaderboards, perhaps there are new faces in your home country! Visit the MGC GamerScore Leaderboard to find out!
GamerCard Service Status
Since more and more people are asking questions, it sounds like it’s time to make a post about the MGC GamerCard service.
First, let me apologize for not posting about this sooner, but my attention has been mostly focused on testing and attempting to resolve the issues.
Over the weekend, a number of upgrades had taken place to the existing servers. It seems that all of them have been impacted in some way, but none moreso than the ‘primary’ GamerCard server, which has taken on some very odd issues. Most of the up-and-down nature of the servers have been due to me attempting to dive into what the deal is.
Just be aware that I am absolutely on top of it, and actively attempting to solve it. Most of my waking hours have been devoted to investigation and testing, and I haven’t had more than 4 - 5 hours of sleep any night this week. Since any changes I make require at least 30 - 60 minutes of ‘warm-up’ time to gauge the effects, it’s been fairly slow-going. One large downside to being the creator of many of the technologies that make much of MGC possible is that there are often no resources to consult when things go wrong!
In the interim, I’ve brought up one of the older servers to help deal with the load. This will also give me an opportunity to study how it holds up versus the current machines, once it starts serving a decent number of requests. Right now I don’t know if it’s Operating System-related, webserver-related, interpreter-related, etc. Once I get more data, I can potentially fix the problem once and for all.
I deeply thank you for your patience. Things will likely be bumpy for the next few days, but be assured that I’ll do everything in my power to get things running as smoothly as you’re used to.
-Morgon
Shake These IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Achievements Off Your Six!
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Defender of Britain Complete the “Battle of Britain” chapter. |
5 |
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Defender of Stalingrad Complete the “Battle of Stalingrad” chapter. |
10 |
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Liberator of Sicily Complete the “Invasion of Sicily” chapter. |
10 |
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Liberator of Korsun Complete the “Korsun Pocket” chapter. |
10 |
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Defender of the Ardennes Complete the “Battle of The Bulge” chapter. |
10 |
These Shadow Complex Achievements Set Up Us the Bomba
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Let’s Get Punchy Melee 5 soldiers |
15 |
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Bomba Punter Punt 20 Bombas |
20 |
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My Head A-splode Get 50 headshots |
20 |
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Make ‘Em Scream Get 100 soldiers to scream |
20 |
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To Kill a Blackbird Destroy the helicopter attacking the vice president |
15 |
Wherever There’s Trouble, These G.I. Joe Achievements Are There!
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Baroness Defeat Baroness (P1 only) |
25 |
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Destro Defeat Destro (P1 only) |
25 |
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Firefly Defeat Firefly (P1 only) |
25 |
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Storm Shattered Defeat Storm Shadow in all three secret arenas (P1 only) |
25 |
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Strike Commander Defeat every wave in all Satellite Strike mini-games (P1 only) |
50 |
Pedal Through These Tour de France 2009 Achievements!
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Race (Normal) Finish a Standard Race in Normal mode with one of your riders being at the First Place |
10 |
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Race (Difficult) Finish a Standard Race in Difficult mode with one of your riders being at the First Place |
10 |
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Time trial (Normal) Finish a Time-Trial in Normal mode with one of your riders being at the First Place |
10 |
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Time trial (Difficult) Finish a Time-Trial in Difficult mode with one of your riders being at the First Place |
10 |
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White Jersey (Normal) Finish the Tour de France in Normal mode with one of your riders being the best Young Rider |
10 |
Team Up In These Sonic & Knuckles Achievements!
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Sonic Finale Complete the game as Sonic. |
25 |
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Knuckles Finale Complete the game as Knuckles. |
25 |
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Please Continue Earn a Continue in either a Bonus or Special Stage. |
25 |
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Gettin’ Super Collect all seven Chaos Emeralds. |
25 |
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Chaos Emerald Collect a Chaos Emerald. |
15 |
Take Flight With These Battlefield 1943 Achievements!
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Attacker Capture five flags |
10 |
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Best Squad Be in the best squad on all three maps |
20 |
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Tour of Duty II Play one hundred matches |
30 |
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Defender Defend five flags |
10 |
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Master of your domain Get one kill playing as each class |
20 |
Swab The Decks With These Yo-Ho Kablammo Achievements!
If you’re into development and this game sounds familiar, it was the winner of the Gamefest 2007 Dream-Build-Play contest.
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Cabin boy Complete the tutorial. |
5 |
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Sailing Pretty Win 7 stars in challenge mode. |
10 |
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Master and Commander Win 15 gold stars in challenge mode. |
20 |
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Hoarder Win every championship. |
10 |
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Big Booty Unlock all the secret ships. |
30 |
‘Save The World’ With These Sam & Max Achievements!
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Culture Shock Complete Episode 1 - “Culture Shock”. |
20 |
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Situation: Comedy Complete Episode 2 - “Situation: Comedy”. |
20 |
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The Mole, Mob, and the Meatball Complete Episode 3 - “The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball”. |
20 |
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Abe Lincoln Must Die! Complete Episode 4 - “Abe Lincoln Must Die!”. |
20 |
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Reality 2.0 Complete Episode 5 - “Reality 2.0″. |
20 |
Guten Tag! Wolfenstein 3D Achievements Revealed!
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Escaped from Wolfenstein Complete episode one on Don’t Hurt Me or harder |
15 |
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Operation: Eisenfaust Complete Complete episode two on Don’t Hurt Me or harder |
15 |
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One Fewer Fuhrer Complete episode three on Don’t Hurt Me or harder |
15 |
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A Dark Secret Revealed Complete episode four on Don’t Hurt Me or harder |
15 |
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Sentenced the Madman Complete episode five on Don’t Hurt Me or harder |
15 |
Tap Into These Magic: The Gathering Achievements, Tim!
I hold a special place in my heart for this game - and if you understand either of the two references in the title, I’m guessing you do, too.
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The Spark Win a game |
20 |
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Life Preserver Increase your life total to 30 or more in single player, or 60 or more in Two-Headed Giant |
10 |
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Magic: The Puzzling Complete a challenge |
10 |
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Devastator Deal 20 combat damage to a player in a single turn in a game |
10 |
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Defender of Foriys Win a Two-Headed Giant game |
20 |
Release Some Ninja Magic With These Shinobi Achievements
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Complete The Game Finish the game. |
25 |
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Often Say Die Play through 20 player deaths, with difficulty set to Hardest. |
25 |
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Points III Score 300,000 points. |
25 |
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Perfect Challenge Complete a perfect bonus round. |
25 |
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Chopper Stopper Defeat the Black Turtle helicopter in Mission 2… with difficulty on Hardest. |
15 |
Comix Zone Achievements Will Have Your Speech Bubble Saying ‘Zzzzzz’
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Complete The Game Rescue Alissa and complete the game. |
25 |
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Choice is Good Receive both endings. |
25 |
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Points III Score 50,000 points. |
25 |
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3rd Grade Use a paper airplane. |
15 |
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Points II Score 30,000 points. |
15 |
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